 On this day in 1856, the Revue de Paris publishes the first segment of Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. Collectible copies starting from $1.00 to $20,000.00. |
 On this day in 1854, Oscar Wilde is born in Dublin, Ireland. The most collectible Oscar Wilde book on Abebooks - The Picture of Dorian Gray priced at $46283.31. |
 1950, Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts first appears, in nine newspapers. First editions from: $1.00 to $1250.00. |
 Arthur Miller, playwright of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible is born on this day in 1915. |
 On this day in 1900, Thomas Wolfe, author of Look Homeward Angel is born. Prices from: $1.00 to $25000.00. |
 On this day in 1967 Walt Disney's Jungle Book is released. |
 On this day in 1941, Anne Rice, best-selling author of the Vampire Chronicles and other novels about the occult, is born in New Orleans. |
 David Cornwell, later known as spy novelist John Le Carré, is born on this day in 1931 in Poole, England. |
 In 1978, on this day, Isaac Bashevis Singer wins the Nobel Prize for literature. |
On this day in 1853, Arthur Rimbaud is born in Charleville, France. Rimbaud a brilliant poet & wrote most of his work before the age of 20. |
 Jane Eyre is published on this day in 1847. Charlotte Brontë, the book's author, used the pseudonym Currer Bell. |
 Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born on this day in 1772 in the small town of Ottery St. Mary in Devonshire. |
 Famous poet, Edgar Allen Poe dies on this day in 1849. The most valuable book on our site by Poe - $15000.00. |
On this day in 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, which he declines. Prices from: $1.00 to $6500.00. |
 Frank Herbert science fiction writer and author of Dune, is born on this day in 1920. Prices from: $1.00 to $11107.99. |
 Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain and Rising Sun, was born on this day in 1942. |
 On this day in 1547, Miguel de Cervantes author of Don Quixote is born. Collectible first edition: $15000.00. |
 On October 24, 1788, Sarah Josepha Hale author of Mary Had A Little Lamb was born. |
 On this day in 1881, Charles Darwin published The Formation of Vegetable Mold Through the Action of Worms. He considered the work a more important accomplishment than his The Origin of Species. |
 Author of the Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler, is born on this day in 1941. First edition, signed copies of the Accidental Tourist from $19.95 to $300.00. |
 Novelist Elmore Leonard was born on this day in New Orleans in 1925. Leonard wrote 52 novels including Jackie Brown and Get Shorty. |
 On this day in 1900, writer Henry James first writes to Edith Wharton, whom he will finally meet in 1903. |
 In 1694 on this day, Matsuo Basho, considered by many to be the greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies. Prices from $3.71 to $130.00. |
Poet Sylvia Plath is born in Boston on this day in 1932. Plath married poet Ted Hughes in June 1956. |
On this day in 1943, 26-year-old poet Robert Lowell is sentenced to jail for a year for evading the draft. One of Lowell's most famous books, Lord Weary's Castle, won the Pulitzer Prize. |
 On this day, George Bernard Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession, which dealt frankly with prostitution, is performed at the Garrick Theater in New York. |
 On this day in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr wins the Nobel Peace Prize. |
 In 1740, James Boswell is born on this day. Boswell's greatest fame came from writing the biography of his friend Samuel Johnson, who had written A Dictionary of the English Languages in 1755. |
 1921, on this day, Mario Puzo, author of the Godfather is born. Prices from: $1.00 to $4000.00 |
 On this day in 1892, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, was published. |
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