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Collectible Childrens Books on eBay

As per cc's suggestion, a thread for relatively higher dollar children's books sold on eBay and the ensuing discussions.

A book that looks like nothing.

There are quite a few books that don't look like anything special. Here's one: Security Analysis

Day of Solidarity in the Publishing Industry

Day of Solidarity in the Publishing Industry"Yesterday [June 8], at least 1,300 publishing professionals started their workdays by informing their managers that they would be using their personal or vacation time in solidarity with protestors of raci...

Anyone out there in Philadelphia, Nova Scotia, Fort Saint Philip?

I think I may have rescued a trio of possibly important items. One is a map, by N. Scull and G. Heap, of 'Philadelphia and Parts Adjacent.' Another is a map, no maker noted, of 'The Harbour of Chebucto and Town of Halifax.' The third is a map of 'For...

Resolved! First Edition Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

We collectively know that the first edition Very Hungry Caterpillar was published in 1969 by World Publishing, with a Cleveland location (rather than New York). The first edition DJ price is at least $3.95, but uncertain if that is the exact price. T...

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Beverly Cleary One Hundred and Four On Easter

What language is this?

Found this in a disbound 18th century book. Not sure if the binding was original, so no clue really on the date of this thing from that. However, a good place to start would seem to be knowing what language it is. If anyone can translate it that woul...

The Oppermanns Book Value and Message signed in back

Hi Everyone! I purchased this book "the oppermanns" at an estate sale in upstate New York. I was wondering if anyone knows the person who signed the back of this book? It reads:"It is a danger to snatch the cub of a lion and it is just as dangerous t...

A Poem

When by John O’Donnell And when this ends we will emerge, shylyand then all at once, dazed, longhaired as we embraceloved ones the shadow spared, and weep for thoseit gathered in its shroud. A kind of rapture, this longed-forlaying on of hands, high ...

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Mary Oliver The Night Traveler

Any suggestions on what might be a reasonable price for a near fine Mary Oliver's Night Traveler? It's a first edition published by "Bits Chapbook" in 1978. Oliver won the Pulitzer Prize as well the National Book Award. She died this past January.

Photo Mystery #7,687 ... solved!

Way, way back on the BSB ... probably around 2011-2012 because it was when we still lived in Severna Park, Maryland ... I posted a photo mystery for my acclaimed BSB colleagues to help me solve: The question: What is that furry thing lying on the lit...

From the Collected Works of Bookseller Hints

From the Collected Works of Bookseller Hints . . . Most new bookdealers burn out within three years... [Satnrose]

Eye Candy

A thread for beautiful dust jacket collections on the web.

A Germanic mystery this time...

This has arrived. No binding, no preliminaries, just a couple of loose leaves and a stack of sewn sections. Looks sort of early 17th, possibly even 16th century. Small tome, maybe 2.5 x 4 inches (approx). There is what looks a bit like a contents lis...

eBay needs a Buy it Again button, convince me I am wrong.

Some commodity books just lend themselves to "choice" auctions.DVD/Blu-Ray for example. I have an unlimited supply of recent releases and it's way too much work for way too little return to bother with individual listings. Library culls.But taking a ...

Need help identifying ca 1910 German or Austrian bookbinder

I have a copy of Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra published in Leipzig in 1910. The book is not of any particular value but it is bound in an outstanding contemporary custom leather art nouveau or jugndstil style binding. I have not been able to i...