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Found Lying On Its Side on a Bookcase at Home by
Francis A. Miniter[_2_]
I have no idea where the book came from. It might have been
my mother's and I may have simply overlooked it until now,
15 years after her death, but then again, I keep discovering
books she collected. This one was on a bookcase of cheap
detective novels.
The spine identifies it as "Keystone...
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December 29th 10 01:54 AM
by Jean B.
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Looking for book - please help. by
Godspeed
I have searched high and low for this book and can't seem to find it
anywhere. Any help is greatly appreciated.
The book:
I think the title of the book is something like "Stranger Than Fiction". If
I remember correctly it was a hardcover book. It was primarily red, with
some yellow & black and...
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Sale at Argosy Books, NYC by
J[_2_]
I happened to be in the neighborhood of Argosy Books this evening (E.
59th Street, Manhattan), and stuck my head in. I don't know how long
the sale is going on, but all books in the basement are 50% off.
That's all the fiction, the theatre stuff, etc. It could be worth your
while to pay them a...
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December 21st 10 02:16 AM
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Anyone know how to remove paper on cloth-bound cover? by
RS
There is a 19th Century cloth-bound book that
has a thin strip of paper stuck to the cover. It
doesn't look like there is glue on it, just water
adhered the paper to it over a long period of time.
Does anyone know a good way to remove this?
--
Robert Pearson
ParaMind Brainstorming Software...
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London by
J[_2_]
I just had a week in London, and of course, spent a good deal of time
looking for and at books. Despite the fact that the shops are nothing
like what they used to be, I came home with fifteen hardcover volumes!
I went to Maggs Bros, and was treated very nicely. (I'd heard that
they were not always...
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November 26th 10 01:47 PM
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Antique Books by
Prigioniero
I have for sale some antique books
http://www.marcosecchi.com/blog/2010/11/18/antique-books-for-sale/
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Wesleyan University Book Sale by
Francis A. Miniter[_2_]
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) held its
annual book sale yesterday. They never have a lot of books
(the ad for yesterday said about 3,500) but the quality is
always good and you can find things that you will simply
never find anywhere else. For instance, if you wanted an...
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Today's Finds by
Francis A. Miniter[_2_]
I had a very good day!
Staunton, The Chess-Players' Handbook, Second Edition
Revised, (Bohn, 1848). There is a chip out of the top half
inch of the spine but otherwise very good. The first
edition was 1847.
Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering (Boston: Samuel Parker,
1821), text rebound for an...
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September 27th 10 03:33 AM
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Frank King, Gasoline Alley (1929) by
Francis A. Miniter[_2_]
A thrift store find. A little costlier than the average
book. But this is the book version of Frank King's comic
strip Gasoline Alley, (Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1929),
pictorial front board, intact, some light browning of pages.
with all the cartoons taken from the Chicago Tribune. It...
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Pullman, The Golden Compass 1st American by
Francis A. Miniter[_2_]
For a mere $3 today I got a 1st printing of the 1st American
edition of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (Knopf 1996),
fine in fine condition. I think the most important thing in
book collecting (outside of gaining the requisite knowledge
of books) is hunting every day. And fortunately for...
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Another Coincidence by
Francis A. Miniter[_2_]
Recently, I purchased an 1817 copy (1st printing was 1809)
of *Reliques of Robert Burns* , which I had mentioned in an
earlier post about the Scottish version of English. Today,
I finally decided to shelve it without, for the time being,
doing the repair work that is needed on the binding. ...
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First Edition Books by
Jamie Stuart
I recently bought a first edition Anthony Powell book in a second hand
shop. On the inside of the dustjacket is printed " Book Society
Choice" . What does this mean? Does it mean the book is not a first
edition of the first printing but from a later print run? Any thoughts
would be...
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Recent pleasing finds by
Jean B.
1. The Cook's Oracle, 1822 ed., by William Kitchiner. For less
than 1/8th of what I would expect to pay at THE used book store in
Boston.
2. The Brown Derby Cook Book. Not the relatively recent reprint.
(And I was not pleased to see that the vast majority of hits on
google are for...
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Reliques of Robert Burns by
Francis A. Miniter[_2_]
Yesterday I found a copy of the Reliques of Robert Burns,
Consisting Chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical
Observations on Scottish Song (ed. by R. H. Cromek) (Fourth
Edition, 1817) with unfortunately a missing spine and
detached front board, but otherwise in pretty good...
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A Neat Find at Goodwill by
Francis A. Miniter[_2_]
The book is Edward Connery Lathem (ed.), *Mark Twain's Four
Weeks in England 1907* (Mark Twain House & Museum,
Hartford, CT, 2006), 10.5H x 8.1W, 226 p., in unread
condition, paste on cartoon from Punch on the front cover.
It chronicles Twain's trip in June and July 1907 to
England to...
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Thick gold content of old fine book edges by
RS
I was looking over this old, very ornate leather book
and noticed how thick the gilding of the edges seemed.
From my experience with gold leaf, it comes in the form
of extremely thin sheets. It probably takes a very small
amount to gild a book. But I realize that I don't know how book
edges are...
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July 23rd 10 09:45 PM
by RS
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