I wanted to post a reminder on this newsgroup about this show coming up in Chicago on the 22nd-24th. It has turned into one of the best book shows for collectors of genre fiction. Besides tons of pulps and paperbacks there are plenty of nice hardcover firsts. There will be over 100 tables full of...

Just a heads up on the Windy City pulp and book show this weekend in Chicago. This is great show for genre fiction collectors. http://www.windycitypulpandpaper.com/ 100 tables loaded with rare and scarce pulps, hardcovers and paperbacks.

Closing date: 7 July 2008 We're giving away a luxury wicker hamper stuffed full of fantastic PG Wodehouse re-issues! http://www.raisingkids.co.uk/comp/wodehouse.asp

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Just wanted to ask people to check out the various updates on my website. I've added 4 new pages today & re-named a few others. You all can do me the favor of double checking my spelling & grammar (because we all know I am an illustrator & not a writer...lol). I have checked to make sure all my...

Hi. I recently picked up a copy of On the Increase of Royal Power in France Under Philip Augustus 1179-1223 (a dissertation presented to the philosophical faculty of the University of Leipzig for a Docotorate Degree) by Williston Walker. The text was published by Gressner & Schram in Leipzig in...

A few years ago I acquired a four-volume American History set written by Reverend William Winterbotham. I am trying to find out something about him, other than he wrote the books while he was in a British prison (and this I learned from a listing of a similar set on ABE - and I take most things...

In his December 20, 1996, journal entry published in Last Words, Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs writes: "'I am Enraged'-(a column like Ed Anger's): The vile bestial settlers and sheep people wiped out the marsupial wolf." In reference to this entry, Last Words editor, James Grauerholz...

In his December 20, 1996, journal entry published in Last Words, Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs writes: "'I am Enraged'-(a column like Ed Anger's): The vile bestial settlers and sheep people wiped out the marsupial wolf." In reference to this entry, Last Words editor, James Grauerholz...

I have come across a book from my mother's book collection. It is by William Henry Frost and entitled "The Knights of the Round Table" (Scribners 1897). W.H. Frost appears to have written three other novels, all dealing with Arthurian and related legends and all illustrated by Sydney...

I recently found a copy of William Golding's "Lord of the Flies". I hope to establish that it is the first printing of the Coward-McCann 1962 re-issue, but there are two things "wrong" with my copy: there is no price on the DJ, and it is in Fine/Fine condition - in such good condition that when I...

I found a paperback copy of "A Frolic of His Own" by William Gaddis. I realized later that the spine of the book is printed incorrectly - it says "A Frolic of His of His Own". It's the first paperback edition, first printing. I've seen later copies with the correct spine, but I can't find...

Hello folks, with reference to the topic ...condition - price - rarity...British Sportsman book, I have managed to obtain all the missing prints and text, the artists and engravers are known, and I am now in the process of searching the history of the above Author? This gentleman would appear to...

Hi, I have seen the Amazon.com preorder page for HP6. It is #1 as of now - even not yet published. I have never encountered anything like this in the last decade or so. I have not ordered it because I see from abebooks andalibris that I can get a new or like new copy of previous HP books for a lot...

A few days ago, I visited the local COLES outlet up here. By chance, I noticed a book called DISSOLUTION by C.J.Sansom on the reduced rack, and a copy of DARK FIRE on another. A page or two of reading convinced me to buy both. American firsts, $6 each. In fact, you can still get a few from...

ISBN 0061011703 - Postcards from France Is this book really worth $200+ ? I can't seem to find it anywhere online for less than that. In other words, is this a genuine rare book or just a handful of sellers listing it for high prices and waiting for someone to bite?

I've just done a search for the paperback book "Someone else is on our Moon" by George Leonard, published in the 1970's by Sphere. It appears to me to be a fairly nondescript mass market paperback, which probably fitted in well with the Erich von Daniken's and Lyall Watson's of the day, but can...

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...

I started out collecting first edition mysteries, preferably signed. I still don't know why. But I had this empty bedroom I could put bookcases in, I've read mysteries since I can't remember when (seems to be a personal challenge to figure it out before the author spills the beans) so I began. At...

http://www.lulu.com/product/download/missing-terrorist/6310363 In the mankind history, there are many fantastic stories about mysterious disappearances. So many notorious terrorists and Nazis could flee out of sight unexpectedly. Some missing people appeared suddenly when the world forgot them. The...