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Secret book

Our term, though never formally used in catalog descriptions, for a book about which we know something that few others do. These secrets are usually only revealed by us in our catalogs or exclusively on our website. Care for an example? Well, that wouldn't make for a very good secret. Fortunately for you, secrets rarely stay secret for very long, particularly in the information age. So, it is no longer much of a secret that the classic holiday film It's a Wonderful Life was based on a little gift book entitled The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern. What is still a secret is how to tell the first trade printing of this book (this copy with a contemporary inscription was offered in our Catalog 72) from the many reprints that look almost identical. Cagey, aren't we?

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Cover Image: Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of Mark Twain by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

$25.00

Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of Mark Twain

A gift certificate redeemable for up to twenty-five U.S. dollars ($25) worth of merchandise from Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.... more>>

Cover Image: Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of Virginia Woolf by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

$50.00

Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of Virginia Woolf

A gift certificate redeemable for up to fifty U.S. dollars ($50) worth of merchandise from Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.... more>>

Cover Image: Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of James Joyce by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

$100.00

Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of James Joyce

A gift certificate redeemable for up to one hundred U.S. dollars ($100) worth of merchandise from Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.... more>>

Cover Image: Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

$250.00

Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of Edgar Allan Poe

A gift certificate redeemable for up to two hundred and fifty U.S. dollars ($250) worth of merchandise from Between the Covers Rare... more>>

Cover Image: Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of Ernest Hemingway by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

$500.00

Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of Ernest Hemingway

A gift certificate redeemable for up to five hundred U.S. dollars ($500) worth of merchandise from Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.... more>>

Cover Image: Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of William Faulkner by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

$1,000.00

Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of William Faulkner

A gift certificate redeemable for up to one thousand U.S. dollars ($1000) worth of merchandise from Between the Covers Rare Books,... more>>

Cover Image: Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of William Shakespeare by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

$5,000.00

Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. and Tom Bloom

Rare Books Gift Certificate bearing a portrait of William Shakespeare

A gift certificate redeemable for up to five thousand U.S. dollars ($5000) worth of merchandise from Between the Covers Rare Books,... more>>

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