I am seeing copies of the Abrams/Dorst puzzle book "S." advertised for sale as "first edition, first printing." Since the edition statement is inside the back cover of the slipcased book, which is closed with a paper seal (in addition to being shrink-wrapped), how can you tell? I was in Barnes &...

I bought a book today, John LeCarre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. I is in the original format that Knopf published in the USA when it came out. The problem is that it is sealed in plastic, never opened. It is the same size as both BCEs and regular printings (I compared it). It has a...

Yesterday I received a book I'd won on eBay. Nothing remarkable about that, of course, but this was the Pulphouse limited-&-signed hardcover collection by Damon Knight, _God's Nose_ from 1991. Still nothing *really* special - not the leatherbound, no original material, and at 300 copies not...

As usual, on Friday night, I had marked the tag sales mentioning books. Then, yesterday (Saturday), the first place I stopped had boxes and boxes of books - everyone of them a book club edition. And the majority of those were historical romances, most of which were of the medieval knight and...

Had an hour or so to kill this morning, and thought I'd have a quick gander at the offerings of the Charing X Road lot - Quinto, Any Amount of Books, Henry Pordes and a couple of the Cecil Court'ers' - Red Snapper and Rees O'Neill. Always feel slightly intimidated by the Cecil Court shops, due to...

At a tag sale today, for $3.50 I picked up the following copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: The Emperor Marcus Antoninus. His Conversation With Himself. Together With the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker. As Also, the Emperors Life, Written by Monsieur Dacier, and Supported by...

So, half term and another short holiday/visit to Devon. Sunday sees no bookshops open, and so I go to the antiques centres on the Exeter Quay. With an alright book selection with not altogether agreeable prices, I expected little. However found an ex reference library copy of 'The English Novel...

Usually when we refer to a book dealer as a price gouger, we mean that he tries to squeeze out every penny he can on every book he sells. Let me tell you about someone far worse than your garden variety price gouger-- a genial Jack the Ripper of paperbacks who has literally gouged out the prices...

The Holland Avenue Boys: A Success Story The Holland Avenue Boys' story has been called, "a revealing portrait with ups and downs, heartbreak and hardship, camaraderie and conflict, joy and passion, love and reverence for a bygone era and spanning more than (60) years." This is a different kind...

Hello Everybody, I am not an experienced collector (at least not yet), so, please, bear with me. I have a 1929 Scribner edition of "A farewell to arms" and trying to figure out if it is the first state or not. Black cloth with gold pastedown on front cover containing title and author's name...

Hello Everybody, I am not an experienced collector (at least not yet), so, please, bear with me. I have a 1929 Scribner edition of "A farewell to arms" and trying to figure out if it is the first state or not. Black cloth with gold pastedown on front cover containing title and author's name...

I went to three sales in all, starting Friday morning. I came away with two real finds; Dick Francis, Nerve (Harper & Row 1964) book club edition, near fine (bookplate of former owner) in a very good- jacket (two small tears). Alan Furst, Dark Star (Houghton Mifflin 1991) fine in a fine dust...

I am just beginning to get exciting about my Washington Trip, in early Feb and am lloking for a bit of advice. Hoping to get quite a few books due to the low dollar/high pound situation - new and secondhand. Most here know my interests are eclectic - Waugh, Greene, Auden, Orwell, T.E. Lawrence,...

Hi everyone. I have a copy that shows Harcourt, 1943, no refernce to which printing, but the code FF underneath the copyright block. Any idea what this means? I wondered if it meant sixth printing, but perhaps that's just wishful thinking? I don't recall seeing anything else on the page to indicate...

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Today, for a dollar each I found: Nicolas Freeling, Criminal Conversation, 1st ed., containing the signature of Louis Untermeyer on the verso of the ffep Rowling, Potter #2 (Chamber of Secrets), 1st printing, fine in fine W. H. Auden, The Shield of Achilles, 1st printing, fine Countee Cullen,...

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