I was wondering if there was a serious guide out there that gives some indicator as to the value of rare books, perhaps a speculator publication? I am looking for something that goes beyond the simple value of first edition STephen King novels and explores the values of very old books, dating...

Two days ago, I went to a hearing in Waterbury, Connecticut, and exited from the highway to the city by a different route than usual. It led me past a bookstore that I had not known about before - The John Bales Book Company. So much later in the day, after the hearing was over, I went over...

Found this today, and am having some trouble researching it... RED PLANET - A Colonial Boy on Mars by Robert A. Heinlein. published by Scribners. .............................................................. Publisher's page info: Copyright 1949 by Robert A. Heinlein

Hello, I decided to create a website that would serve the purpose to assist people with info in one place to help them get started with selling on the online auctions. As well, I hoped to direct people to click on my auctions as well. I tried to come up with helpful hints, tips, links and more. ...

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Hello, I was hoping someone on this list may be able to help me out about a rare book. The book appears to be a self published history book, since the author refers to himself, but never by name and no author is listed. The book was poorly rebound at some point in the 20th century by the looks...

Hi All, Picked up a F/VG copy of "A is for Alibi" at my local used book store. Problem is, it has gray boards. The only references I can find tell of "red" boards. Can anyone tell me if this is a first/first, or a later printing? More detail: ------------------ Blurbs by Lucille Kallen and...

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...

Well, with three sales now under by belt, as it were, I have topped $10,000. The last - 22 books for $3000. It seems I have discovered a market, one that needs little tending. The total advertising for the three sales was six e-mails outbound. I think I'll keep this going for time. My...

Two years ago, I was studying religion at the Free Faculty of Theology in Oslo, Norway. The library at the faculty is very good, and they sell books they no longer care to have on their shelves in a somewhat hidden-away closet on the third floor of the building. Not many of the students are, as you...

It was about 15º C when I arose at 7.00 yesterday - already too hot to do more than amble around the local car boot sale. But by 7.45 it was hotting up a bit, as I found a 1st Fine/Fine Ian Fleming 'The Man with the Golden Gun' for 50p, a 3rd impression Near Fine/VG 'OHMSS' and a few other...

I am in shock. Today at a friends of the library book sale, I picked up volumes 2 and 3 of the first edition of Sir Walter Scott's _Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years After_. Edinburgh 1814, Printed by Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., brown marbled boards, quarter bound in calf,...

Saturday at a tag sale I picked up for $0.50 the first edition (which was a large trade paperback) of The Dune Encyclopedia (1984). I was flabbergasted when I checked the market on addall.com. I had no idea it was so scarce. I started reading the "article" on the Butlerian Jihad and...

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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...

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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I don't do Saturday shopping. Whenever I find something it is a red letter day. I came across a title not on my list. I do collect Canadian humor in my period if I can find it. This one, I never want listed. Anon. World Of Wit, A Complete Collection Of Pithy Morceaux, Arranged As Puns, Bon-mots,...

There is a new interactive book collectors site with forum, reviews, user polls and plenty of opportunity to link to your own book site/listing .. It is called BigBlueSigns.com, and can be found at http://www.BigBlueSigns.com/nuke/ It has many free user discussion facilities and is easily...

This weekend I had the good fortune to pick up a copy of William Prescott's two volume "The Conquest of Peru" (Harper & Brothers). Volume 1 is 1848, so presumably a second printing, but Volume 2 is dated 1847, and lacks a period on p. 467, l. 20, after the word "integrity", which is apparently...