Can anyone recommend a good rare book restorer in the Dallas area? I have a first edition of Conrad's "The Secret agent"hich I want to restore in a manner that wil not impair its value. Ron Palmer

So, I was looking to pick up a copy of Isabelle Allende's latest in preparation for an upcoming NYC signing. Stopped in the B&N Chelsea to grab one. I went thru a stack of over twenty without finding a single copy that didn't have a spine crush top, bottom, or both. Disgusting. Next stop, my local...

(An oldie but a...well, it's old, anyway) On the 12th day of Christmas, My true love gave to me... "Twelve Dancing Princesses" by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Doran c.1920 ) "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" by Richard Yates (Little, Brown 1962)

I make special book boxes for individual books or collections. From Clamshells to slipcases; if interested contact me at Thanks, Tim

When I first started selling books many years ago I acted as a bookscout for other dealers. Every Saturday I'd head out to the garage sales, estate sales, thrift shops, library sales...anywhere cheap books could be found then drag my finds around to local used bookstores. I remember that it was a...

Michael, your e-mail address bounced. Can you contact me off-group?

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"Ex-library with usual markings, embossing, library card pocket, and Mylar protector on a perfect dust jacket. Otherwise mint condition." Dick Stephens

I have the following military history/aviation books and magazines for sale. Buyer pays postage costs from California, USA (Zip 90717).

Kris Baker wrote: wrote in message ... Very well done....now you can get that ferrari you've always wanted :) on behalf of everyone on agc

I'm trying to get the title to a story I read some years back. It was a science fiction story, I think in an anthology. I don't remember the author :( The story involves a painting that contains tiny hidden faces. These faces are in fact people's souls (demons, maybe?), and when the protagonist...

Two maps offered to good home. 1) Bartholomew's half-inch, sheet 31, North Lancashire, August 1952. Linen backed. Condition moderate, well folded, reasonably clean, minor tears at ends of some folds. 2) OS, 1 inch, Preston. Published 1947. Linen backed. Cover missing. Condition: well used and...

This book had a "story within a story". One of the characters told a story about a young man whose head was flattened (lollipop shape) and had a white wolf as a companion. The character in the man story told the flattened head story serial style. I can't find anyone who recalls this book. I'd...

Hi, I am a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras. I am very interested in building a library in my town, we have a population of about 2,000 children and the only library is this shelf sitting in the municipality filled with outdated material, most of which is unrelated to education. I was checking...

I have two copies of the same book (Outlander by Diana Gabaldon), both mint/mint or new/new. One is a 1st/1st, the other is a 1st/2nd flat signed & dated by the author. If you were to price these for sale which would you mark the highest? -- Remove "Z" to reply via email.

Could anybody tell me the first edition points on Budd Schulberg's "What makes Sammy run" - 1941 without d/w Thanks George Mandler

A number of dealers have exressed annoyance at a situation on Amazon which occurs something like this: Dealer A has a book he feels he can sell profitably for $14, which gives him the ALP, the Amazon Low Price. Dealer B, who had listed another copy at $15.50, re-lists the same item, not at...

Can anyone point me to a site which lists the various published editions of the Narnia books, preferably with images of the DJs and giving printing histories. I've thrashed around with Google but with little success, sadly. Matti

Can anyone suggest, from personal experience, some bookshops to search in the Naples, Florida area? I'm looking for collectable books in the areas of mystery/suspense and fine literature (Steinbeck, Hemingway, etc.). Thanks for your help. Les