Who uses bookplates, as a means of identifying their books? Do you use them ? Do you apply them to all your books, or just a few ? Where did you get them ? Buy them or make them ? Did you have them printed to your own design, or overprinted with your own name ? Plain or coloured ? Are they...

Hello I have a question ragrding the "design" of some OUP dictionaries. Perhaps someone here knows more about this: If i look at some older Oxford-dictionaries including the OED they have these blue "sprinkled" edges. Newer dictionaries don`t have this desing. My question: what sense has this...

I've got a couple of not-very-valuable books where the end papers have separated from the text block. It looks like a simple repair...I'm thinking that I can scrape off the excess glue left on the text block portion and just re-glue the free end paper at the joint. I found this at...

We're planning on opening a used bookstore in town here sometime early in 2006 and have been collecting a decent inventory of used books for a few weeks now. We're currently around 5k and growing, and ready to begin processing them. About a third of our stock pre-dates bar coding. We plan to...

Is anybody else outraged at this? ------ Arizona woman selling Mormon scripture, page by page By BETH DEFALCO ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER PHOENIX -- Retired bookstore owner Helen Schlie can see a higher

Has anyone recently had to ship a large number of books (or anything else) overseas? I'm interested to hear any experiences, recommendations, sob-stories or dire warnings. Thanks. G.S.

We have a complete set of Washington Irving's works -- dated about 1850. Not in perfect shape (at least one book has a partly separated binding) but quite readable. We're looking for a home for these. Is there a place that would want them? Otherwise we'll drop them by the local used bookstore,...

Sorry for not being able to do this sooner, but I wanted to say thank you to all those who replied regarding A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus,etc. The posts were most helpful and interesting, and you were most kind. Regards, Judith

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I have two questions that I am hoping someone can help answer: (1) recently I received a copy of a new book from the publisher as a readng copy for purposes of writing a book review. This copy was billed as "Advanced Reader Copy." However, when I received the book, there is nothing on the book to...

Dear Rec.Books.Collecting Denizens, I can appreciate that staying on-topic is somewhat stifling to creative conversation and the free exchange of ideas, but the current traffic here is anything if entertaining. To to remedy this, I would like to make the following request: Could those of you who...

I never realized this until about six months ago, but the ink that college book stores use for their price stamps are completely eraseable with a gum eraser. It barely takes any effort. It is some kind of eraseable ink. I used to look at them and think, "Isn't that a shame?" -- Robert...

In a recent thread, Allison Turner answered the following question: To what field is 100 year old information on drugs relevant? Allison replied: Botanical medicine. In the US, at least, a large part of our medicine from the 1600s through the very early 1900s was based on plants. After 1920 or...

I have been reading the rec.collecting.books FAQ in search of a good method to kill off moulds that cause foxing (foxing by iron contents of paper do not bother me as they don't produce spores and are not transmissible to other books/pages). I have agood understandingin chemistry, due to my...

After using his wife's shooting to plug more books, John Pelan ignored the household chores that she needed help with during her convalescence to post this absurd claim: "You started challenging people to fights on Ramsey Campbell's message board." The world awaits with baited breath Pelan's...

John A. Stovall notes: Well, I see the group has once more returned it's internal bickering. I guess we are just one big dysfunctional family!

Michael Adams has been plaguing a UK TV Media group with his usual brand of obnoxious argument, but has just stooped to making very insulting comments about my wife. If anyone can supply me with his UK land address I would be extremely grateful. Please email me at...

I've spent hours and hours trying to find out with no luck, so I thought I'd ask the experts. What is a "Bk&Acces edition"? Thanks for any info.

I recently acquired a full set of the 24 volume Martin Luther's Samtliche Schriften compiled by J. G. Walch in the 1740's in Halle, Germany. I bought the books for their beauty - I liked the vellum and handlettered binding, but now I'm curious about the significance of the books and their...

Hi. Just picked up a copy of David Quammen's The Soul of Viktor Tronko (Doubleday 1987 Stated First Edition hardcover.) I was aware of his Song of the Dodo nonfiction book and wanted to do some research on his other titles as this particular one seemed odd as it's fiction. I checked the author...