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Clark Middleton

He also played a recurring character known as Edward Markham, a rare book dealer, in the science fiction series Fringe.


L. Brooks Leavitt

Among the manuscripts owned and collected by Leavitt, who turned to book collecting after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, was an original Shakespeare First Folio, as well as the original manuscript of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, written in Lawrence's own hand.


see also

James Sturm

--attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1988, one year after graduating, he--> self-published Down and Out Dawg, a book collecting his college newspaper strips, and Commix, an anthology that featured some of the first works of Chris Ware and Scott Dikkers.

The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved

It was later reprinted in Tom Wolfe's anthology The New Journalism (1973) and also in one of Thompson's own books The Great Shark Hunt (1979), a book collecting several of his earlier works.