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Paperback Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible Book

ISBN: 1957363983

ISBN13: 9781957363981

Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible

One hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world's greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in individual pages. This is the story of an Australian man's hunt for those fragments and his family's debt to an act of literary vandalism..

In 1921, Wells' audacity scandalized the rare-book world. The Gutenberg was the first substantial book in Europe...

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Releases Mar 4, 2025

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