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For hundreds of years hardbacks have been published as a first edition of a book. The items have been hailed by some as things of "great beauty" helping to financially keep the publishing industry ...

Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins in the 1964 film “My Fair Lady.” “As a working-class kid I daydreamed about owning Henry Higgins’s library,” Michael Dirda writes. “While I’ll never have that wonderful ...

Redesign? Relaunch? Regret? Take a look at the ways publishers aimed to seduce new audiences by changing up the covers of notable books. By Scott Heller and Miguel Salazar “You never get a second ...