Hello all, I have just finished writing some new tools for rapid and accurate book entry. The tools are written to work specifically with HomeBase from Abebooks. I wrote these tools for a recent book buy that consisted of some 10k books in as new condition, unfortunately only about 1/2 had...

Haven't been in my favorite thrift shop for a few weeks, and dropped in yesterday. Came out with a six books.... *Honor Among Thieves* by Jeffrey Archer, 1st, As New/Near Fine *Rabin: Our Life, His Legacy* by Leah Rabin, 1st, As New/Fine *Roots: The Saga of an American Family* by Alex Haley, 1st...

There's an article on AE Monthly about the first footnoted electronic catalog. Interesting concept where a book's history in the form of bibliographical references, auction sales and catalog listings is attached to the listing. Check it out at http://www.americanaexchange.com/aemonthly/aemonthly.asp

I am looking for a book from Maxwell Sackhiem (I think that's how you spell the last name.)It is called My first 50/ 60 years in Marketing. If anyone has it please contact me.

I'm (somewhat) new to book collecting. First editions seem to be the creme of the crop - but how about first printings? In general, do most collectors care more about getting a f/e f/p than just a first edition? I found a f/e Hemmingway at a yard sale for 50 cents, but when I took it home I...

I picked up a numbered (1031 out of 1050) signed first printing of Sinclair Lewis' Kingsblood Royal in the original slipcase for $5.00 US off of eBay last week. It arrived today, in better condition than I expected. I am going to consider it a find and disregard the hours spent looking at...

Visted Chincoteague this weekend - for an island of 3,000 on the east coast of Virginia, it does pretty well to have 2 used bookstores. Neither are in the phone directory, I just spotted them while driving around. One is on Main St. in the downtown area, with ivy growing over the sign outside,...

l'art et l'automobile automobilia auction #12 is online now The June 2004 auction will have over 370 lots. Probably one of the best yet, with great examples of early sales literatu a 1937 Atalanta, 1907 Clement Bayard, 1904 Crestmobile, Porsche 550 Spyder, and many more. Of course, as always, a...

there's a new layout for the searchs and the results pages. personally i always hate it when things get moved around, eyes get used to moving to the same spot. all i see added on the search page is a spliting of publisher and date with a range allowed for date. that will be usefull sometimes,...

Did eBay do away with all of the subcategories under Books Nonfiction?!?! I guess I haven't sold anything there in a while and most of my searching is done by keywords and not categories. On second thought, though, I did used to search the Books on Books subcategory--and, I just checked, it...

Hello all, I had a question of how to price something, dont know if this should be done together or separate but here goes a long winded poorly typed question of sorts I was going through a box from a recent very large buy (well over 10k books) in as new unread condition from the 60's to 70's...

Before going to work today, I stopped in to a library book sale and found a beautiful copy of Faulkner's "The Reivers" Random House, 1962, which on the copyright page stated "First Printing". I tried to act calm and quietly grabbed the book. Later, checking on-line, I found, yes, red boards with...

Anyone know why the first edition of Stephen Baxter's first book, _Raft,_ seems to command such high prices? He's a notable author, and his first book was a UK edition, but $650-$750 seems a lot for a book published in the early 1990s. Perhaps it was a small print run, or copies were accidentally...

In the 1930's, was Sundial Press a Doubleday reprint-house? (Still trying to ID my copy of Brave New World). Thanks for any info, I didn't find anything useful on Google... PS

A 2004 study of the U.S. used book market has just been released by Book Hunter Press. The 60 page report, "A Portrait of the US Used Book Market," includes detailed profiles of open shop and online dealers in terms of size, experience, inventory, sales, etc, a ranking of online sites by dealer...

For some time now, I have been organizing (or trying to organize) my library. General categories now existing a History Literature English (language) American British Canadian

The Victor Hugo Website is updated with the May feature article In Other Words. Check it out at http://www.hugo-online.org /Peter

I currently have my book collection in a room with florescent lighting. It consists mostly of hardcover books printed around 1850-1950, only a few dustjackets, but the ones I have are in (or will be in) brodart archival dj covers. I am somewhat concerned that this will lead to the spines of...

Does anyone here own or have access to a copy of The Outsider #2, a literary magazine published out of New Orleans in 1962? If so, I'd like to ask a question about the Jack Kerouac poem in that issue. Thanks in advance. Dave Moore

I just bought a letter by author Janice Holt Giles-- (noted for her historical novels of Kentucky) written to a descendent of an early KY governor. Just the sort of thing I love finding with...sure I'd rather have a Faulkner letter talking about MS history, but that's not happening anytime...