Rinehart's News Agency

Rinehart's News Agency Established 1861. We deal in new-vintage-antique paperback & hardback books. Rinehart’s Music & Video - please see a full description under that on facebook.

We have 100,000+ books, 100,000+ comics; digest, literary, & art magazine back issues; antique engravings, lithos, & prints, ephemera, memorabilia, silver, crystal, fine art Begun in 1861 as a news stand, we became a full service news agency, printer, and bookstore by the 1880s and sole distributor of newspapers and magazines in Adair County by WWI. Today we continue to be a news service compiling

and disseminating local information. Provided are the following:

Purveyors of Fine Books- We maintain in our main showroom a stock of out-of-print, esoteric, leather-bound, and hard to fine books covering all genres and dating back to the late Middle Ages & Renaissance. You will also find a surprising selection of maps, illustrations, fine art prints & paintings, and heirloom silver and crystal as well as author related ephemera. As tobacconists - we have maintained a limited but high quality selection of specialty blended tobaccos, cigars, and gentlemen’s accessories since the U.S. Civil War. The News Agency, in addition to compiling data, does manuscript editing & typesetting and fact-checking & research. We have a large collection of images available on a fee basis. We provide estate services such as pre-auction walk-through and sorting; insurance appraisals; and probate cataloguing and valuations. You never know what interesting antique or collectable is waiting for you in our main showrooms display cases.

09/05/2026
09/05/2026

A new comic book, 80 years ago today.

This new portrait of Dr. Hildebrand commemorates his birthday this year and will be used as his book jacket and publicit...
09/03/2026

This new portrait of Dr. Hildebrand commemorates his birthday this year and will be used as his book jacket and publicity portrait going forward.

Born and educated in Missouri he went abroad to complete his education and has travelled world-wide. Starting out as a consultant he provided a wide range of personal management services generally centred on risk management, restructuring, and termination/liquidation of business and real estate entities. Based out of Kansas City this led him to become a principal in a several nightclubs and restaurants in the city and a regional bookstore chain straddling the Missouri-Kansas border.

By the early 90’s he was ready to move on and divested himself of his Kansas City holdings and relocated to Kirksville Missouri to work with FBN Press (an academic publishing house specializing Facsimile & Academic Reprints; Religious Tracts, Law Commentaries; Specialized Textbooks; & Ltd. Edition Fine Art Lithographs) working with material in classical Greek and Latin; Medieval Latin and French; Low, Middle, and High German; Anglo-Saxon; and Old English as well as related languages. There in his various roles of author, editor, and publisher he was responsible for producing almost 1000 translations, commentaries, and modern editions. FBN sold its digital catalog in January of 2026 and the company has moved on to new projects. During this time he merged his remaining bookstores and The Rinehart News Agency together and re-organized Rinehart’s Music. In 2004 he and Tucker Ramsay partnered in opening Grinning Fox Studios which produces fine art, jewelry, and bespoke furnishings.

He goes down to Rinehart’s Music & Video (America’s Oldest Record Store) most afternoons during the week, and to act as Trustee and Curator for The Karl Hildebrand Trust No. One Special Collections which include its World Heritage Collection of 250,000 images; the Northeast Missouri Heritage Collection of over 10,000 images; a collection of over 1000 paintings, objects d’art, drawings, lithographs, art prints and engravings; its Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection; The FBN Press Archives, and the Rinehart News Agency Morgue and Files.

He continues to lecture on topics such as History; Religion; The Arts; Land Tenancy and Agrarian Reforms; and how these areas can be used to promote Success in Business or Governing Strategies.

09/02/2026

A new character in comic books, 80 years ago today.

09/02/2026

A noteworthy change in a comic-book, 65 years ago today.

08/24/2026

On newsstands, 85 years ago this week.

08/20/2026

New from Edgar Rice Burroughs, 85 years ago today.

08/08/2026

Children's book published 75 years ago today.

08/08/2026

The long-lived superhero group debuted in their own comic book, 65 years ago today.

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112 S Franklin Street
Kirksville, MO
63501

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