I have an opportuinty to buy a fine used book store. It currently has no internet presence. I am trying to estimate how much it could bring in online. There are about 150,000 collectable quality books (hardbound with dust jacket in good or better condition), and maybe 50,000 paperback books. Could...

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If you don't know the fine historical maps called HISATLAS, you will discover here a really complete historical atlas covering with great accuracy the world history from 1789 on, to the present. These maps were drawn in .gif format with bright colors and they wear all the information about the new...

Does anyone know of a group specifically for collector's of First Edition Library books? I used to collect these, but I lost interest in them. They have been untouched on my shelves for over a decade, and I would rather see them go in a collection than off to our local library's book sale. Feel...

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I hope to have some time tomorrow afternoon to do some booking in San Francisco. What's your must-visit bookstore in San Francisco? (I'm more interested in nonfiction than fiction, more scholarly than popular, more antiquarian than modern.) William M. Klimon http://www.catholicbookcollector.com

I am looking for a book I thought it was called "The Egyptian Club". I read this book in 4th grade probably about 23 years ago. It was about a group of kids who create a little Egyptian city in an unused lot in the inner city. I would like to try and find this book but all I have to go on is a...

I have a collection of thousands of books and some are really, really EVIL. For example the Necronimicon ex mortis. A very evil book. Several possessed bibles with demons trapped inside. EVIL stuff. Don't forget all the voodoo books, it's really dangerous to open them. But the most evil book I...

I recently purchased a 3 copy set of the Lord of the Rings at a local bookstore. These were editions printed in 2004, cover art done by John Jude Palencar. They were not an expensive purchase, and I bought them merely to have a fairly nice copy to read. However, when I got to the chapter "The...

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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...

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I had been aware of Henry Heins' A Golden Anniversary Bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs (both Donald M. Grant editions) for quite some time, though I don't own copies of either edition. I've heard it described as "essential but badly organized." I recently became aware of Robert B. Zeuschner's...

CHARTER: rec.collecting.books rec.collecting.books is an unmoderated group for the discussion of all aspects of book collecting. A list of a few (and certainly not all) appropriate topic areas follows: * first edition points * detailed annotated bibliographies * tips on book preservation and...

Hi everyone. I'm considering opening a used book store and would like some insight/questions. I live in a city with 3 million people. Within a 20 mile range of me there are 3 used bookstores. I know the owner of one very well. He is retired and opened the store just to give him something to do....

I have several "Complete works of..." sets with uncut signatures. For instance all of my "Complete Works of Dickens" printed in 1902 have to have the front edges cut every 4 pages or so. At the end, the top edges need to be cut. The same is true of my fancy bound "...Thackeray". At first I...

Hi all, I have a (maybe) off-topic question. I'm the webmaster of a quit popular website in Belgium that covers popular books (SF, Thrillers and Fantasy : http://www.boekensite.net ) I know that many collectors are visiting my site to find the scans of the book covers I discuss, and as I'm a...

Hi, This is my first post on Google. I don't read latest books and all. But my friend likes to read a lot of novels like old monk who sold his Ferrari and novels from kushwent singh. He is going abroad this weekend. I want to gift him a nice book so that he can remember me there. But my poor...

Not that I've been beating the bushes (burning or otherwise), but I found my first uncorrected proof of the Bible: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3569064124 Still looking for the manuscript. ---Mike

Okay, I'm getting mixed answers, so I'm turning to the people to whom I should of have asked in the first damn place: you guys. 1. _Game of Thrones_ - is the US the first, or the UK? 2. Neal Stephenson. What are the points for _Cryptonomicon_ and _The Diamond Age_? Anything special, or do the...