If only briefly, we were part of the history of this extremely rare book very early in our careers.
"The scale of the theft is quite extraordinary, " says Robert Harding, director of Maggs Bros, a London rare book dealer.
The school, which owns the American Vogue collection from 1952-present, is home to many other archival works as well (Mademoiselle Magazine, rare book collections, etc.).
The fact that these volumes were owned by such a famous man means they might fetch prices roughly double that of books lacking such a provenance, says Jonathan Hill, a rare-book dealer in New York.
In a popular book called Rare Earth, paleontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee laid out a pessimistic hypothesis.
And the Black Swan is a famous book about extremely rare events that most financial models cannot predict.
This is a rare treat: an authoritative business book that is also a rollicking good read.
"I wanted to produce a book that would be so rare, so cherished and so well received that 500 years from now it will be in museums and in private collections, " Cheers explained.
"We know little about the everyday lives of the nuns at Lacock Abbey that this one book gives us a remarkable rare glimpse, a short glance into how they might have lived their lives, " said Sonia Jones, house and collections manager.
Two rare bottles salvaged from the shipwreck that inspired the book and film Whisky Galore are being auctioned.
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Genzyme wrote the book on making a profit on incredibly rare genetic diseases like MPS I, which Aldurazyme treats.
Compared to being Fooled By Randomness, the title of his first book, The Black Swan, a rare but powerful event, presents much greater a challenge.
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