"diane.walker" wrote in message ... Could someone tell me the difference between a full page handwritten inscription in a printed book, and a one page manuscript. Americans seem to view every single page of a...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, November 10, 2003 Email: BRANDON, FL -- HISTORIC NEW BOOK "HARVEY & LEE: HOW THE CIA FRAMED OSWALD" by John Armstrong Two young boys, AMERICAN-BORN Lee Oswald and an eastern European refugee who spoke Russian and was given the name

I am looking for a 1st edition Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, does anyone know where I might find one. General google searches have turned up false positives (on Powell's, Alibris etc..) Thanks

Six years ago, Jeff Armstrong posted the following list of points of comparison for a regular edition and a BCE. "I have a copy of the first edition and one of the BC's as well. I would be glad to give you as much as I can, but I'm afraid I have no idea what "detentions" are ... help me...

On Thursday, May 23, 2002 4:44:51 PM UTC-4, Christopher & Barbara Roden wrote: I wonder if anyone has come across a UK publication of SEVEN TREES by Lady Eleanor Smith. There was a US edition, published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1933, but I've so far not traced UK publication, and there is no...

I recently found a copy dated 1959....from the International Collectors Library. Now, I know that most of ICL's books aren't really worth anything. But, I'm just wondering if "A Separate Peace" might be worth a bit more than some of the others. I know that it is a sought after book...or so I have...

I have noticed a couple of mysterious people with handheld devices hunting through the stacks at our library's used book sale. They open selected books and then key some information into their handhelds. In most cases they return the book to the shelf. Sometimes they buy a book. What the heck...

Help! Melinda Metz's Roswell High Books Online.... Hi! I hope someone can help me out with this search. Can someone send me or does someone know where I can find the last 4 books from the Roswell High series by Melinda Metz online for free? I does not matter if it's pdf, word, html, txt,...

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In the early 1930s, a stock broker in NYC, having lost everything in the Crash, hopped a train to Wyoming and became a cowboy starting right at the bottom. Richmond Hobson, son of a Spanish American War hero and a mother with European nobility connections had had a good life up to the Crash. ...

It's the custom in my town for people to leave books they no longer want at our local recycling center. While dropping off my recycling yesterday, I found a first edition of "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, complete with a DJ in solid good condition.

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...

Aside from the first three Foundation books, which rare and Extremely Expensive, I've managed to acquire most of the Foundation universe books. 1. Triangle: Gutter Code C13 on page 516 of both the trade and SFBC issues. Both produced from the same print run, but the BCE was released as a May 1961...

The LIABDA Fall Fair, Saturday and Sunday, November 5-6, 2011, will be held at Hofstra University's Student Center. Saturday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. • Presented by the Antiquarian Book Dealers Association of Long Island (LIABDA). • This is the only Vintage Book & Ephemera Show...

I picked up a second impression (Nov. 1942) of this Faber & Faber publication today. What makes it interesting is the inscription on the ffep: at Bletchley, morne plaine, of fevrier 1944 A curious mix of English and French. The words "morne

Hi all, This is my first post here, just want to say hello! I'm not a professional collector of books, but have kept tons of books over the years, some are collectible/valuable and I am somewhat at my wit's end as to where to list them or put them out there. I've looked at lots of book forums and...

I am interesting in starting a serious of book collection and would like some names of books on book collecting. Preferably a few titles that would give a good over view of book collecting. Thanks in advance. -- J Jensen

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...

Francis A. Miniter wrote: On 5/8/2011 17:55 PM, HardyBoys.us wrote: "Francis A. wrote in message ... There are some beds that have bookshelves built into the headboards. Another possibility is taller bookcases...

The novel Black Robe by Brian Moore (and, yes, the movie, too) inspired me to do some research, from which I learned that the Jesuits in Canada were fanatical reporters, sending annual Relations back to their superiors in France, telling them everything that happened that year. While I have...