A few day's ago someone in my apartment house threw out some books (as is usual, the books were left on top of a radiator cover next to the mailboxes.) Usually the books left there are junk. I found one gem, a coffee table size art book: Hadjisavvas, Sophocles. 2003. From Ishtar to Aphrodite:...

Is there anyone who doubts that the animated dungheap recently posting as seattle_bookseller is the same shoe-scraping that caused trouble here last year as texas_bookseller?

I recently purchased "The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayton, Gent" by Washington Irving. It is the University Edition published by Clarke, Given, and Hooper of NY. There is an "Introductory Note" by Frank Parsons and "Advertisement to the First American Edition" followed by same but "English"...

Here's a blurb for my exciting paperback novel Hollywood Sinners - Karin Panotchitch, raised on a sheep farm and then married off to a drunken loser, finds her way to 1939 Hollywood at the tender age of sixteen, determined to be a star. Along the way, she meets up with Ramon Classic, who with his...

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Hello All; Apologies for this possibly OT post. I have a small collection of mystery firsts that include a few high-points and also a few author complete items that I need to convert into some orthodontics for my son and a new large format camera for me. Is there a newsgroup or forum where one...

I have a copy of John Kendrick Bangs's HOUSE-BOAT ON THE STYX, and I can't figure out which edition I have. I'm hoping that this extremely knowledgable group might include someone who could clue me in. The publisher is Harper and Brothers, NY and London. The only date given is the copyright date...

Hi, I recently bought out the books from a store that was closing down. I've come across a few books that are kind of interesting and unusual and wondered if anyone here has heard of them. They are classics published by the Gregg Publishing Company and written in shorthand. One is A Christmas...

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My wife, associating with an ex-library director who volunteers time, told me of a library book sale that is intended to be of interest to booksellers and is not being publicized as the usual library book sales are. Apparently books of better than usual quality have been retained for this sale. ...

I bought more than 200 eBay items in the last several years with no problem until now. This eBay seller had a reserve. When I asked him about the item conditions, he told me the reserve was at, i.e. $300. I put in my maximum bid at $311, considering the item value. When the bidding closed, there...

Hi there, A very rare volume; http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=005&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=150102436187&rd=1&rd=1 ATB

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I purchased a book recently published in Hungary. The reverse of the title page lists both HU ISSN and ISBN. Any reason to have both on a book item? It was published by an established periodical. David Ames

Just a heads up, there's an amusing story about a first folio of shakespeare being damaged by a talkative aunt in Edmund Pearson's book, Books In Black Or Red, in a chapter called "The Lost First Folio". I've also seen the story in some anthology in the Books On Books section of the bookstore.

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I picked up a 1959 copy of "The Case of the Singing Skirt". The dust jacket said "Morrow" on spine and inner front flap and had the price of $2.95. But when I looked at the title page it said "Walter J. Black" and the copyright page said "Published by special arrangement with William Morrow &...

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