What a very cool find! Outstanding research by the community. That would be a neat sub-collection: all the different titles where they used the...
Indeed Powell’s Books Chicago! Also on my list, have never been to Kurt Gippert Bookseller https://www.kurtgippert.com/ looks like he has some...
End of March I will be in Chicago and next month Las Vegas. What antiquarian bookstores are must visits? I am especially interested in Americana...
The Strand looks like a tremendous bookstore! On my future "Travel for Books" campaign. Thanks for sharing.
Love it… that’s TRUE treasure hunting!
Always a shame to see a dedicated bookstore close its doors. The first rush of Amazon closed most of them, now niche online is pushing the rest...
Interesting... I have had tremendous luck on eBay. Sometimes the seller doesn't even know what they have (books not being their expertise). But...
Why don’t the majority (a lot ) of abebook sellers include images in their listings? That’s why I tend to buy a lot more from eBay, even if the...
Interesting... these were on several people's list. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, $24,000 A complete set of British first editions -...
I worked in book publishing for 10 years and you are correct, generally you have a review mailing list for each title and create enough...
Review copy? True... "The majority of booksellers and collectors want the ‘true first edition’ – the edition of the book that supersedes all other...
With your Dad's connection, I hope you find this one. What a great bit of history and connection that would be to have!
https://www.amazon.com/LAURA-Vera-Caspary/dp/B0000BH2YJ
That is on my wife's list... or at least a first edition.
Looks like I found my people! What a tremendous place with fascinating discussions! Here’s a topic for discussion: What’s Your White Whale? What...
This is a pretty good explanation: https://www.abebooks.com/books/rarebooks/collecting-guide/what_books_collect/collecting-first-editions.shtml
Beautiful books and example. Anyone here ever have custom binding done?
Agree... fascinating book on books.
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