May be as old as 1965, yet still not worth anything. Lots of copies from German dealers on Abebooks, many asking under $10, not looking like it's...
In the states these rosters, particularly from the Civil War, are sought after by genealogists & historians. They're often pretty beat up, so the...
Sagittarius Rising is an important memoir of a WWI pilot, and worth a bit if it's the first printing.
Ah, the proper title is very helpful. A quick check on Abebooks shows some 29 earlier editions:...
Never seen one before. I usually see the Bluejacket's Manual, which is the basic handbook for sailors, and then usually from World War Two. I...
This IS mysterious. My guess is that a couple of eBay newbs saw the 1901 date in the description and somehow thought that was relevant to this...
Almost certainly a repro. Here's a picture of genuine newspapers from 1861 (upper) and 1892 (lower). Notice that the 1861 paper is whiter: Ken is...
Donohue was what we call a "cheap reprinter" - they mostly published public domain - out of copyright - titles, classic literature, and reprints...
Your Dracula is published by Rider, some time after 1903. Not worth much in that shape. The publisher is determined by the ads in back, which you...
Yes, each blank page does have an illustration on the other side.
Okay. I am looking at Leslie Linder's A History of the Writings of Beatrix Potter, 1971, published by Warne, the original publisher of the Peter...
So if there is a printed dedication in the book, and the book is then inscribed to this person by the author, we call this the 'dedication copy'....
Many of these were printed around the time of the US centennial, through the early 1900s. In the 1880s, the Western Historical Company of Chicago...
In that listing, the frontispiece of the castle is a steel engraving, but the lake scenes are wood engravings. It was not uncommon to have both -...
These limp-leather decorative reprints were all the rage in the wake of Roycrofter's success, from 1895 through the 19-teens - I've got a Rubaiyat...
Wood engraving, probably hand-colored, any time since its publication. There's an outfit in California called Prints Old and Rare that colors old...
These MAY be examples for hand-colorists, so that each print colored would have the same color scheme, and the numbers, very maybe, something to...
Well, yes, I believe it because it's true. European chauvinism aside, Tauchnitz DID make most of their money selling books in English, as noted in...
The Continental practice, as opposed to American & English, was generally to issue books in paper wrappers, similar to but flimsier than modern...
Surely making a few pfennige each on 300 books is more profitable than making the same profit on each of 200 books? And obviously this Chilean...
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