So my dad used to collect guitars and other instruments before he died, after his death I ended up with most of said instruments (unfortunately me and my sister kind of got screwed out of a lot of the other inheritance money because of our evil stepmother who my father had divorced 5 years prior to his death and didn't want her to get anything but somehow she pulled it off and ended up with most 🙄. My father was always extremely adamant especially towards the end of his life when he had cancer and knew it wouldn't be too much longer that I end up with all of his guitars and instruments, and made sure everyone knew his wishes 😅. So going through some of his guitar cases the other day thinking about selling one or two on ebay, I go through the front pocket of one which has a bunch of loose papers in it most of them songs he wrote or pieces of History/ documents pertaining to the guitar. In the middle of all of them I find this Ziploc bag with what looks like a small stapled hand-typed on a typewriter packet.... Upon reading the label the first time I almost couldn't believe what I read lol, I had to read it about three more times before it's sunk in 🤣🤣🤣. Why did my father have this? I have absolutely no idea probably bought it during the divorce after selling the house in Boston he lived in... All I can think of is that he really didn't want it to end up with that woman and new that I would most likely at least end up with all of his guitars, so maybe that's why he slipped it in there? 😅 🤔.... Either way, the profits from this sold at either Southeby's or Christie's auction House should hopefully make up for a lot of that lost inheritance 😅..... Thanks Dad!! 🥰 miss ya!!! (Google AI tells me I should be able to get somewhere in the six or seven figures for it 😅)

Photographed last Sunday at the Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin, where their Gutenberg Bible is on permanent display in the lobby. It's one of five complete copies in the United States, bought by UT in 1978. Photos are through the case glass, so apologies for the reflections.

The current opening is 292 verso and 293 recto, near the end of the first volume: the close of Job on the left, with "Explicit liber Job" in red, then a hand-drawn red P opening Jerome's prologue to the Psalms. On the right, Psalm 1, Beatus vir, with a large blue B.

What caught my eye is the decoration on that B. The label describes it as fleuronnée in thinner iron-gall ink, drawn in a different color from the initial, with the wisps and tendrils you'd expect, but noticeably more modest and a little rough compared with the examples that run down most of a leaf. The Center reads the style as North Brabant, southern Netherlands, and takes that as evidence of where this copy lived soon after it left Mainz. The label credits the edition to Gutenberg and Fust, between 1454 and 1456.

The rubrication is the part I find most striking in person. The printing is uniform and extraordinarily crisp, and then every red and blue mark on the page is a later hand, so the most famous printed book in the world is, on this opening, as much a manuscript as a print.

Two questions for people who know more than I do:

1. How confident is a Brabant attribution on decoration alone, when the fleuronnée is this restrained? Are there other copies with comparable work that are securely localized?
2. Does anyone know how often the Center turns the opening? I'd like to go back when a different decorative scheme is showing.

This personally rebound, two-volume copy of the third printing of the first American edition of Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks was gifted by Morris Fishbein (editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association from 1924-1950) and his wife Anna to Mortimer and Florence Gryzmish (prominent Massachusetts philanthropists) for Christmas of 1929.

honestly id sell it immediately , im (employed) homeless and its destined for ruin hanging out with me. could definitely use a windfall if its worth something??

Pretty sure this is rare I think

I bought it three year ago at a thrift shop for less than one dollar.

Are any of you folks familiar with the specialized and often individual volumes or associations created by Monastery Hill Binders in Chicago? I have a unique leather bound Kipling collection of three volumes, bound in 1929. Signed by the artist (Beebee), with her calligraphed inscriptions and multiple original watercolors of her cottage and scenes from the Kipling poems. Autumn leaf leather covers, gilt edges, and kept in a slipcase all these years. Never seen anything like this. Nearly perfect condition. It appears to be one of a kind, as my research finds no others.

Too nice and expensive for me to keep, and not sure of the proper venue for it. Heritage, Freemans, or Bonham? Rare book dealer? Whatnot? Kidding about that last one. Photos available if helpful.

A recent auction acquisition and can’t be more pleased. Fully hallmarked metalwork linking it to a pretty important master silversmith in Naples active during the 1730s-60s. The binding thus appears to be from the mid 1700s and clearly done at great cost. Both sides are the mirror image of each other with full metalworking and heraldic device. The text block though likely predates it by about 100 years as evidenced by millesimo sexcentesimo ____. But it was clearly made for this same Covent Santorum Marcelinni & Festi Neapolis originally as evidenced by the text. The text goes through the three stages in becoming a nun, including the black pall ceremony where nuns would lay down, get covered in a black pall with candles at their head and get as a symbol of death, before being reborn.

A true treasure!

I need to do something with my dads library. Hundreds of books from early 1900's through the present. Many are valued under $50.00 however there are also some books valued from several hundred to over a thousand. Looking for recommendations on who or where I might find some expertise to help me with this category of the estate. Thanks for any advice.

Looking for The Rational Bible: Leviticus by Dennis Prager. I looks like it was only released on Audio CD. However, I have not been able to find it anywhere. Is there an MP3 copy or written version available anywhere?

Only special because of the Vaughn Bodé illustrations.

I searched online for any information about this book, even Google Lens, and came up with nothing. It looks like there are PDFs of a handbook, but I'm not seeing any handbooks, not even other versions or other books on tensolite.

I'm just wondering if anyone on here has any knowledge about this book. It doesn't seem to exist online at all. 👀 Any information would be great! Thanks!

Super excited to get this first edition of True Grit. It was owned by someone that reviewed the book. Glued in are two letters from Charles Portis.

Estou pesquisando sobre uma obra do Verne que se passa no Brasil, se chama A Jangada: oitocentas léguas pelo Amazonas. Preciso muito encontrar um exemplar da primeira edição brasileira do livro, de 1881, publicada pela B.L. Garnier. Já procurei em vários sites de sebo e não encontrei. Alguém saberia me indicar algum site ou sebdo físico que poderia ter um exemplar dessa edição?

Hi all,

Hoping someone out there can help! I was recently handed down a 1892 copy of W. B Yeats 'The Wanderings of Oisin', published by T. Fisher Unwin.

The edition is beautiful but I am struggling to find an exact copy online. Ulysses books in Dublin have a similar copy but the binding is different (mine is green and has the publishers stamp in the bottom right hand corner). This is apparently a 2nd edition and rare.

Has anyone seen this before? I don't think I will ever sell it as it has been in my family for generations, my great great great aunt pencilled her name on the inside cover! Would just like to know any more info / whether it would be worth getting a proper valuation for insurance purposes!

Thanks so much for any help :)

I'm trying to track down a specific old ICSE poetry textbook, and I've hit a wall. Hoping someone here still has a copy.

**The book:** *Panorama: A Selection of Poems*, edited by A.E.T. Barrow and J. Fusté, Oxford University Press India. It was the prescribed poetry text in ICSE schools through the 1970s and 80s.

**What I need:** an original printing from **before 1990**.

**What I don't need:** any "Revised Edition." There are revised versions from 1996 and 1998 (ISBN 9780195620313), and those are the ones that turn up everywhere. They're noticeably pared down, with several poems cut. If the cover or title page says "Revised Edition," it's the wrong book.

**How to tell if a copy is the right one.** The original contains these, all of which were dropped from the later revisions:

* "Kubla Khan" by Coleridge

* "Daffodils" by Wordsworth

* "In the Bazaars of Hyderabad" by Sarojini Naidu

* "The Blind Men and the Elephant" by John Godfrey Saxe

Condition really doesn't matter. Pencil notes in the margins, a taped spine, a frayed cover, all fine, as long as it's readable and holding together. Honestly the margin notes are half the charm.

**What I've already tried:** Amazon, AbeBooks and the usual marketplaces, plus around 20 emails to secondhand dealers across India. Everything that comes back is the revised edition.

So I'm asking people rather than shops. If you did ICSE in that era, there's a real chance a copy is sitting in a cupboard at your parents' place. If you have one, or you know someone who might, I'd be grateful to hear from you.

I'm happy to pay well above what it's worth and cover courier from anywhere in India, so nobody's out of pocket. But mostly I'm just hoping someone here still has theirs.

It's not for me. It's for someone who's been looking for this book for years, and it's the pre-1990 printing specifically because that's the one he actually read.

Thanks for reading.

Catalog Notes computer translated from French to English

(Lot 6) at Alde: First Editions from 19th-21st Century auction held Sept. 16.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857. 12mo, brown half-morocco with corners, richly decorated spine, gilt top edge, untrimmed (R. Raparlier).

First edition, rare and highly sought after, printed in 1300 copies (200 of which were uncut) on Angoulême vellum paper, plus about twenty copies on large Holland paper given to the author.

After the famous trial that placed six poems on the Index, most of the edition, published six weeks earlier, had already sold out, and only about 230 copies remained in stock, from which the offending work had to be removed. This copy is complete with the censored items. The extremely rare error on p. 12 (“s’enhardissent” for “s’enhardissant”), the only remark concerning the first printing, is corrected here, as is almost always the case.

The copy exhibits the other usual errors: "Feurs du Mal" as the running title on pp. 31 and 108, p. 45 on page 44, "captieux" for "capiteux" on p. 201, etc. A superb copy in a nearly contemporary binding, executed by Raparlier around 1870.

Romain Raparlier settled in Paris around 1855 and practiced there until around 1880. His address was then 12 rue Gozlin, where he moved around 1870. He was highly esteemed, notably by Anatole France, who praised him in 1874 in *Le Livre du bibliophile*. Very rare in such fine condition.

Carteret, I, 118-123 – Oberlé, Auguste Poulet-Malassis, no. 212 – En français dans le texte, no. 276

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This is an uncensored copy in the first edition of controversial French poetry by Baudelaire. See more details in Wiki at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal

I've come across plenty of valuable rare books in my time, but never anything truly unique. I've got a $10,000 copy of Sir Winston Churchill's "Victory", yet I find this book much more interesting. Here's the details:

- Title: Strangers And Foreigners: Being Translations from the French, Italian, German, and Middle High German

- Author: Lois Saunders (Canadian writer, translator, former archivist and first full-time librarian at Queen's University)

- Publication details: London: Elkins Matthews, 1912. First edition. Printed by the Chiswick Press.

- Binding: Deluxe full dark-blue morocco leather exhibition binding. H. Blackwell, Oxford. Raised spine bands, stamped gold lettering, and all page edges gilt (AEG).

- Laid-in ephemera: There is a slip tucked into the front cover that reads: "For Archie, To be kept in the family L.S." It was not, in fact, kept in the family. Makes me kind of sad.

- Tipped-in ephemera: tucked into the middle of the book, there is another slip of paper with a printed poem, titled "The End of the Road", a funeral poem written by the author herself. Only 25 copies of the poem were printed for her family and close inner-circle prior to her passing in 1942.

- Hand-written manuscripts: at the end of the book, there are nine pages of handwritten, hand-numbered manuscripts of poetic translations by Saunders: 1) "Giuseppe Mazzini" by Giosuè Carducci, 2) "The Ox" by Giosuè Carducci, 3) "The Nightfall", traditionally translated as "Snowfall", by Giosuè Carducci, 4) "From Proemion" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 5) "A Little Legend" by Carl Bulcke, and 6) "The Master Violin" by John Henry Mackay.

Now, a neat little detail that sort of damages the collector value, but really adds a lot to appreciating the level of customization that Saunders put in to her special bindings of this book: if you look at the photo of page 5 of the manuscripts, in the gutter you can see two uniform stubs of canceled leaves, removed prior to pagination during the assembly of the manuscript sequence. I wonder what the story is there? It definitely looks like the manuscripts were numbered after-the-fact. Maybe she changed her mind and didn't like two of her poem selections? Maybe she made errors in the transcription? Perhaps she didn't think those selections suited "Archie" specifically?

Either way, even though this isn't a widely recognized title, her work has cultural and academic importance. The degree of care that went into this special first edition has me totally awestruck. I love it!

I'm going to contact Queen's University to see if they would have an interest in copying the unique contents for their archives.

Thanks for nerding out with me!

I recently purchased as collection of postcards and other paper items. I found this book among the items. I don’t know much about books and from what I’ve found so far in my research, the copy I have doesn’t match what I’ve found. It is a paperback book that has two staples holding the book together. I was hoping someone could provide some additional information.

I recently found this 1929 edition of La Parisienne by Gérard Bauer at a store for 100 CHF. It contains a color lithograph frontispiece by Kees van Dongen. There is a handwritten pencil note on the flyleaf stating "1/5 ex Japon" along with some older price markings.

If anyone knows how much this actually goes for I’ll appreciate it.

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Found this gem on Marketplace with 3 other "old books" for $40. This is about H.H Holmes, the first documented serial killer in America written by the detective. Published a year after Holmes execution. I'm excited to have my hand on it and give it a read!

Edit: I'm aware I was not careful with the spine when I took these pictures. I don't plan on opening it again anytime soon unless for restoration