Hello: Time for me to part with some pulps from the 1940's this time around. All are good-vg science fiction pulps such as thrilling Wonder Stories,Planet Stories,Startling Stories,etc. also some large bedsheet sized Amazings and Wonders from the early 1930's drop me an e-mail and maybe i can fill...

hi Can anyone enlighten me as to what it means when it has PULP COPY..stamped inside the front of a book with the publishers name on it.. Many thanks

Early next year, I plan to establish a online bookselling business. I'm not looking for a primary income; I am attempting to help subsidize my personal book collections. Are their others who are dabbling or have had experience with this form of bookselling? What avenues have you found most...

I have a collection of books by W.A.Poucher. All are in perfect condition. If interested, e-mail me and I will send you a list of what is available.

I have a book The Poetical Works Of Oliver Goldsmith, 1845 Published by Harper & Brothers Publishing NY The interesting thing is it signed in the front: Mifs Lillie Lynde with compliments of John F. Harper Is this John Harper from harper publishing and is his signature worth anything?

Mention of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children in "the next Classics" thread got me thinking along slightly different but related lines. Suppose someone wanted to compile a collection of modern firsts that consisted of one book for every country. Which book would serve best as the representative...

With the recent threads on determining future classics, I thought this thread on recommending "old classic authors" to be somewhat timely. In The Book Collector's Journal, Vol. I, No. 6 June, 1936, William Targ published a list of 50 American writers he recommended as good collecting "bets" for...

I would like to cover several of my books that weren't purchased in Brodart book covers. I don't have many books to cover so I don't want to purchase rolls of Mylar. I have seen several companies that sell boxes of individual sheets, but don't know anything about any of them. Has anyone had any...

Stopped at an antique store last weekend and found a book labelled "Old Foreign Book" for $15. Although it is in old German script (fraktur, I think it is called), I recognized it as being 3 volumes in one (ostensibly) by Albertus Magnus, the alchemist that lived in the 1200's. "Sympathetic and...

For those of you who collect books, or just love fiction in general, I hope this may start an interesting new thread for discussion: Any book collector has a "what if" thought: what if I had been able to buy a first issue of "To Kill a Mockingbird" fresh off the press all those years ago. Or...

Had an hour or so to kill this morning, and thought I'd have a quick gander at the offerings of the Charing X Road lot - Quinto, Any Amount of Books, Henry Pordes and a couple of the Cecil Court'ers' - Red Snapper and Rees O'Neill. Always feel slightly intimidated by the Cecil Court shops, due to...

December 30, 2003 -- A bizarre book-loving pack rat tried to stack one tome too many in his tiny Bronx apartment Saturday - and wound up being buried alive in the buff for two days under heaps of fallen debris. "I was hollering for two days, 'Let me out! Let me out!' and nobody wanted to answer,"...

Could anyone give me an idae what this book is worth? AESOPS FABLES A new version chiefly from original sources By THE REV. THOMAS JAMES, M.A. with more than 100 illustrations designed by JOHN TENNEIL LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1848 Very tight bindings, Excellent Condition

"New" meaning in the last 3 months, as I haven't been doing much with books lately. Danielewski, Mark Z. House of Leaves 2000 Pantheon NY. Second printing of the first edition. Signed "Z" on the first blank sheet, and inscribed on the "This is not for you" page "August 4, 2003 / For Mike Berro, /...

After reading "Firsts" Magazine, I decided to check out David Meyer's book, "Memoirs of a Book Snake" from my local library. Whlile perusing the holdings, I also picked up copies of Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone's books on collecting. Then I noticed that all the books about book collecting were...

This article was posted on another group recently and may be worth heeding and having a structural survey done!! ..lol http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/14782.htm If some of our regular posters suddenly stop posting messages and go missing then maybe we should go dig!! Happy New Year to...

Hi all, I have a book that I cannot find any information on it anywhere. Title is Kitchen Garden or Object Lessons in Household Work Published by JW Schermerhorn Copyright 1878 By Emily Huntington It seems to be a book to teach children to become servants in New York City. I have had no luck...

In order to answer a lot of questions I get, I added a glossary of book collecting terms to my Hardy Boys site: http://users.arczip.com/fwdixon/bookterms.htm I got it off the Internet years ago and forget where. If anyone recognizes it, please let me know so that I may give the...

The following used book fairs are scheduled for January. For details about specific fairs, as well as fairs scheduled after January, please check the Used & Antiquarian Book Fair Calendar link at: http://www.bookhunterpress.com Note: If a fair lasts more than one day, only the first day is...

A bookbinding course is going to be offered by the ASUW Experimental College (in Seattle) by Bonnie Thompson Norman in March. Does anyone here have any experience with this course? Would you recommend it? = Eric