A much-desired item was listed by three private sellers on Amazon. The first canceled my order because she was unable to ship within the time represented by Amazon. The second failed to ship and did not respond to my e-mail sent through Amazon. I rechecked the seller's "storefront." No...

al owens to "Mark Wilden" wrote in message ... "Mark Wilden" wrote in message news:... What I get from you, John and Baker is a deep personal dislike of librarians as human beings. I apologize for...

This will probably be old hat to some people, but in the last couple of days I've had several spoof e-mails purporting to be from eBay. The spoofers are getting better at the game, so people new to this may be fooled. This is the text of one of the spoofs I received, accompanied with the eBay...

I went to HALF PRICE BOOKS today and picked up a copy of "Rosemary's Baby", i've always wanted to read it - and it was an impulse buy. I didn't realize till I got home the little pricetag had "FIRST EDITION" scribbled on it - which might explain the $9, but I like old copies of books - especially...

1853 copy of Bleak House appears to be first US... Harper with Dicken's sinature. I am with Friends of the Library in Ithaca, NY and we cannot find any information which would give us an idea of what to charge for this item during our October sale. Any help would be appreciated or if you could...

Saturday I went to my regular monthly book sale, though to call it that understates what it really is. It started four years ago this spring, and we regulars - a dozen or a few more - all get email notice (that was my contribution) of which Saturday the next one will be on and what the range...

At my local Goodwill the lady in charge of pricing books has promoted herself to "book expert" They have taken to the practice of looking books up on ABE taking the highest priced listing (and I think we all know how prices range on ABE), printing it out and placing it in the book and then...

I found at Savers, a used goods store, this evening on the way home, a first printing (1968) of the Grove Press edition of the Marquis de Sade's *Juliette* , 1205 pages, with dust jacket (with only minor defects) and light foxing to the top edges (otherwise fine) and the first complete...

If you were collecting books (fiction and non-fiction) about WWI (The Great War), where would you start? These would have to be printed or translated in english. Can you recommend dealers that specialize in WWI books? Art Layton Stamford, CT USA

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...

Greetings, I have a small collection of signed, first edition books that I've put together over the years. I started a google search to try and find some web sites where I could check the price of what the books might be worth, but was inundated with hundreds of links. I started going through...

While admitting that I have he (1) defended the proposition that book selling goes hand-in-hand with collecting--that there is probably no collector who has not sold (or bartered) books, if only to get a better copy (or some other advantage) for his own collection; and (2) even recently...

I am new to collecting so pardon my ignorance. I recently read that it may be more valuable in the long run to collect leather-bound collector book copies rather than 1st editions. I question this and ask for some statement by an authority about this. Thank you.

The item I have is an original copy (hardbound) of the 1899 "Regulations for the government of The Life-Saving Service of the United States". As far as I have been able to research, this was the last edition of the regulations before the USLSS was absorbed by the new US Coast Guard in 1917 Book...

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We had a lot of discussion on rcb about dust jackets a few months ago. A lot of people - especially Americans - insisted that, as long as it was the same issue as the book, it really was an academic point whether a particular dust jacket originally belonged to a particular book, i.e., it was fine...

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,...

Before leaving on vacation, I went to the shelf in my local library that has books about book-collecting. I picked up a copy of "Booking in the Heartland" by Jack Matthews. I have been rewarded by reading about Mr. Matthew's particular specialty in collecting and how he values books. I guess I knew...

For the benefit of book dealers and collectors alike, I thought you might like to know that David Anderson was reprimanded earlier this year for breaking ABE rules. Anderson was told to stop copying confidential bookseller-only discussions from ABE's bookseller forum onto the wider internet....

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