A thrift store find. A little costlier than the average book. But this is the book version of Frank King's comic strip Gasoline Alley, (Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1929), pictorial front board, intact, some light browning of pages. with all the cartoons taken from the Chicago Tribune. It...

For a mere $3 today I got a 1st printing of the 1st American edition of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (Knopf 1996), fine in fine condition. I think the most important thing in book collecting (outside of gaining the requisite knowledge of books) is hunting every day. And fortunately for...

Recently, I purchased an 1817 copy (1st printing was 1809) of *Reliques of Robert Burns* , which I had mentioned in an earlier post about the Scottish version of English. Today, I finally decided to shelve it without, for the time being, doing the repair work that is needed on the binding. ...

I recently bought a first edition Anthony Powell book in a second hand shop. On the inside of the dustjacket is printed " Book Society Choice" . What does this mean? Does it mean the book is not a first edition of the first printing but from a later print run? Any thoughts would be...

1. The Cook's Oracle, 1822 ed., by William Kitchiner. For less than 1/8th of what I would expect to pay at THE used book store in Boston. 2. The Brown Derby Cook Book. Not the relatively recent reprint. (And I was not pleased to see that the vast majority of hits on google are for...

Yesterday I found a copy of the Reliques of Robert Burns, Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical Observations on Scottish Song (ed. by R. H. Cromek) (Fourth Edition, 1817) with unfortunately a missing spine and detached front board, but otherwise in pretty good...

The book is Edward Connery Lathem (ed.), *Mark Twain's Four Weeks in England 1907* (Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford, CT, 2006), 10.5H x 8.1W, 226 p., in unread condition, paste on cartoon from Punch on the front cover. It chronicles Twain's trip in June and July 1907 to England to...

I was looking over this old, very ornate leather book and noticed how thick the gilding of the edges seemed. From my experience with gold leaf, it comes in the form of extremely thin sheets. It probably takes a very small amount to gild a book. But I realize that I don't know how book edges are...

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I have a valuable book. I'm not sure what the title is. I'm even less sure who the author is. I don't have a clue who published it. I haven't seen it in over 30 years. Can anyone tell me how much it's worth and where I might sell it? TIA

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In article , "Francis A. Miniter" wrote: This weekend I came upon a 2nd printing of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad (Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1870). The only problem is that it has no binding, not even at ...

Question for the group any help will be appreciated. How can you get the musty smell out of a book? I had a book given to me and it was not stored properly. Sam

I have SO many books plus booklets, some antique magazines and newspapers, etc. How does one organize such things? On one hand, I'd like to organize them logically, say, by author or subject. On the other, items seem to be happier when organized by size.... Relatedly, especially if organizing...

It is a nice day today, so I was meandering around Concord, Massachusetts, mostly looking for old and antique books and booklets. I wandered into a store I hadn't been in before and almost everything was decorated with snipped up old books and booklets. Indeed, the first thing I saw was what...

Hi, i bought this Stephen King book "Gerald's Game" and I was wondering if it's a Book Blub Edition, I saw on the Dustjacket and there's no price, this usually means it is...but what other things I have to know to tell if it's a BCE. I also notice that there's no Series of Number (ex: 98765) on...

None of these are particularly precious books - no first editions, but I am thrilled, nevertheless. Robert Graves, The Greek Myths (Penguin 1957], 2nd American printing in two volumes in slipcase. What truly appeals to me about this (aside from the fact that it is Graves) is that he...

Went to a local FOTL yesterday. Lots of books but very little collectible items. I did, however, get a box full of hardcover summer reading fiction plus some very nice art books with nice color plates for a mere $5.