Booksellers
cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Forum Posts

200 Books That Shaped 200 Years of Literature

200 Books That Shaped 200 Years of Literature - - "When The Center for Fiction opened its doors in 1821 as the Mercantile Library of New York, Percy Bysshe Shelley mourned his friend John Keats in his poem, “Adonais,” William Hazlitt released his col...

User avatar by Guide
  • 266 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 1 helpful

Map of American Literature’s Most Epic Road Trips

The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature’s Most Epic Road Trips - -"I am a freak for the American road trip. And I’m not alone, as some of this country’s best writers have taken a shot at describing that quintessentially American experienc...

User avatar by Guide
  • 382 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 1 helpful

How to price Uncle Tom's Cabin

Hi everyone, I have a 1886 copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin and don't understand how to price it. I see some for $20 and see some sold for $270-$300. The expensive ones do have a better looking cover than mine, but other than that, there aren't enough pictu...

DSC06106.JPG DSC06113.JPG DSC06111.JPG

Calls to Ban Teen Book Sees Increase in Sales

Calls to Ban Teen Book Sees Increase in Sales - - " A call to ban books deemed ‘inappropriate’ by conservative parents has actually prompted sales to increase. In Spotsylvania, Virginia USA, parents took to the county town hall meeting to discuss “ob...

User avatar by Guide
  • 348 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 1 helpful

Iceland's "Christmas Book Flood"

Iceland’s culture is that of a nation of bookaholics – a study conducted by Bifröst University in 2013 found that half the country’s population read at least eight books a year. "Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country in the w...

User avatar by Guide
  • 165 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 2 helpful

Scam

I sold a book and the buyer seemed fishy from the beggining but didnt gave it much thought, they paid for the item I shipped it and the money was on hold "waiting for arrival", once the item arrived money is still on hold and it keeps changing date o...

Typeface History - J is for

Typeface History - - J for Jim Crow "Three years ago, while on summer vacation, I was browsing the children’s book offerings in a used bookstore in Portland, ME. I had my toddler in tow, who at twenty months had approximately twenty words in his voca...

User avatar by Guide
  • 264 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 2 helpful

Resolved! Offensive Materials: please catch me up

I had a listing removed because it was considered "offensive material", and I was hoping some more experienced sellers could answer a few questions about this policy. The listing in question was a cigarette stamp book from the 40's and was clearly Na...

The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History

The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History - "First things first. What makes a book cover iconic? There are no hard and fast rules, of course—like anything else, you know it when you see it. But in order to compile this list, I looked for recognizabil...

User avatar by Guide
  • 325 Views
  • 4 replies
  • 3 helpful

Most Expensive Sales Of All Time

Lincoln published their most expensive sales of all time a couple of months ago. Any surprises? "The most expensive sale in AbeBooks' history occurred in February 2015 when a rare ornithology book printed in 1765 sold for $191,000. This remarkable sa...

What Accounts for the Lasting Appeal of Dune?

What Accounts for the Lasting Appeal of Dune?. . . "Even now, half a century since it first appeared in 1965, Dune is certainly still “the one”—it continues to top readers’ polls as the greatest science-fiction novel of modern times. Many would say o...

User avatar by Guide
  • 194 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 0 helpful

The 10 Books That Defined the 1990s

The 10 Books That Defined the 1990s "Some books are flashes in the pan, read for entertainment and then left on a bus seat for the next lucky person to pick up and enjoy, forgotten by most after their season has passed. Others stick around, are read ...

Labels
Most Marked as Helpful Authors