In the last year or so I found myself purchasing large format art and photography books. Many of those purchases have been made online and I'm discovering games that online sellers play. Many of these sellers list items in the wrong condition hoping that the buyer won't complain. Today I received...

A desired book had three listed sellers on Amazon. The first was unable to ship within Amazon's suggested time period and cancelled the order. (Probably needed it till the end of the semester.) The second did not respond at all. It turns out that the seller had no transactions within the past...

G'day A while ago I picked up a collected works of Rudyard Kipling, published by Macmillan & Co. between 1897 and 1927. The covers are red cloth with gilt titles, a pattern of lotus-shoots on the spines, and Kipling's badge (a roundel with a fylfot and an elephant eating a lotus) on the cover. The...

A week ago, I went to a book auction in New London, Connecticut. It was of the type they call a "pick auction". There were thousands of books, divided up onto separate tables for each source (estate, dealer, etc.) and the potential buyers put together lots of up to ten items per lot on which...

I just finished reading Mr. Bradley's latest book, "Flyboys", about the use of air power against the Japaneses in WWII. I expect this book will become a classic. However, it is likely there will be some negative feedback because of the discussion of American atrocities during the Pacific war. What...

I'm selling the following autographed mystery novels for sale on Ebay: * Signed Max Allan Collins Damned in Paradise * Signed Copy of James Lee Burke Bitteroot * Signed 1st Ed James Patterson Weasel * Signed Robert Crais The Monkey's Raincoat

Cleaning out basement and found my deceased father's complete set of a 1954 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Would like to know if there is any value to these books or not.

On 3/15/2013 12:08 AM, Francis A. Miniter wrote: One of the lots I put together and managed to win at the auction had in the group of books a thick trade paperback entitled _3 by Eastlake_ , a compilation of three early novels by Eastlake (Simon & Schuster 1970), who, aside from his...

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"Life of Picasso" Hardcover. The Jacket on my copy is clipped with the "A book of the month club selection" just to the left of the clip on the top of the front flap. half those selling this title are calling their copy BCE and half aren't. At the bottom of the rear board instead of a...

Hunter Thompson took the Hemingway option earlier today. Thompson.....**** poor writer. No great loss there.

The number of my books being sold and mailed through online book posting services have increased recently. Does anyone know a good supplier of padded mailing envelopes that I might purchase from?

I have a book that has rough cut pages on two edges (side and bottom). The tops of the pages are smoothly/uniformly cut. The real dilemma is a manufacturing error at the bottom of the pages. Nearly every other set of adjoining pages have never been separated/cut apart, so you can't pull them apart...

I have for sale some antique books http://www.marcosecchi.com/blog/2010/11/18/antique-books-for-sale/

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I am a radio collector by nature but in picking up a number of items from a house, I wound up with a complete set of Honore' de Balzac - Touraine Edition from 1901 It is a limited edition set, numbered 589 of 1250 and is printed by the Avil Publishing Company in Philadelphia. Any idea how I can...

A few months ago, I bought a box of books sight unseen for a small amount. It contained 15 - 20 Modern Library books along with a few others. I did not pay a lot of attention to those books, but put some on the shelves and set others aside to file away in the extras area. One of those that...

Orion Press, New York, 1959, first printing in English; vg in vg- dust jacket (one small tear). About a week ago, I bought this book at a used goods store. But I only checked it out online this evening. Was I surprised. Asking prices greatly exceeded expectations. Francis A. Miniter

Does anyone have a list of books Arkham House put out as a book club edition? I have one that doesn't have a price on the front flap. It does have the First Edition slug. In the Stone House by Barry Malzberg Would the lack of price be the only indicator or is there some sort of Book Club...

"diane.walker" wrote in message ... Could someone tell me the difference between a full page handwritten inscription in a printed book, and a one page manuscript. Americans seem to view every single page of a...