Sentence examples for rare volume from inspiring English sources

It is a rare volume that can satisfy both.

They revised opinions concerning the binding of the rare volume by offering convincing evidence that the binding was original.

The flamboyant thief Raymond Scott has been found guilty of handling a stolen rare volume of Shakespeare's First Folio.

One critic, looking up an item in another rare volume, found an irate crisscross of pencil marks over the passage he was after, and, scribbled in the margin, the words "Nonsense!

Once, when the custodian of an immensely valuable collection of books on art he kept in the Ministry of Marine brought him a rare volume he wanted, he seized it and tore out of it the pages he was after, to free himself from the encumbrance of irrelevant text.

In 1955, the Post Office Department used an 1873 law to seize a rare volume of "Lysistrata," a play written 2,400 years before by Aristophanes in which Greek women withhold sex to force Spartan and Athenian warriors to abandon war.

This is one of those rare volumes that offers astonishing insights into the human spirit.

"The Noonday Demon" is one of those rare volumes that deserve the adjective "definitive".

It contains more than 4,000 rare volumes and 5,500 manuscripts and letters between Johnson and his acquaintances.

300 cartons of rare volumes from Morgan's Library were picked up for transportation to the sam place.

They worshiped books, and both had an encyclopedic knowledge that allowed them to discover rare volumes others had overlooked.