People spent years hunting down rare copies.
These rare copies are selling for as much as $750 on some Web sites.
Much of the attraction of book collecting lies in the search and pursuit of rare copies.
Raices has 200 videos, including a tape of the last concert Mr. Puente and the vocalist Santos Colon performed together, and rare copies of Machito's orchestra performing in the 1940's.
Among them are rare copies of ancient manuscripts and books of five dynastic periods from the Song to the Qing, including a vast number of manuscript volumes on different subjects, copies of Buddhist sutras dating to the 6th century, old maps, diagrams, and rubbings from ancient inscriptions on metal and stone.
The texts of disputations were normally printed and distributed in advance of their oral presentation, and some rare copies of Regius' disputations survive.
Among the documents, adds archaeologist Kevin MacDonald of University College London's Institute of Archaeology, are some very rare copies of the Tarikh al-Sudan (History of the Sudan), a chronicle of the Islamic Songhai Empire, which ruled much of West Africa during the 15th and 16th centuries.
We watch funny videos and search for jobs, mates and rare copies of Ramones albums.
Or make sure it goes out of print, find all the rare copies, and then burn all of those.
The "knock-back" approach developed by [ 22] was adopted to reveal additional rare copies of the atp1 gene in heteroplasmic individuals, which might have been overlooked by PCR-RFLP screening.
The atp1 PCR fragment was produced if (1) genomic DNA contained rare copies of the atp1 gene different from the KovA haplotype, or if (2) genomic DNA of homoplasmic individual of the KovA haplotype was partially digested.
