From Wikipedia: Casino Royale is the first novel by the British author Ian Fleming. Published in 1953, it is the first James Bond book, and it paved the way for a further eleven novels and two short story collections by Fleming, followed by numerous continuation Bond novels by other authors.

Another Charles Dickens set from 1900, the Miller and Baker beaux arts edition with illustrations by Kyd. In ok shape, nothing remarkable but easily readable.

Hi! I'm an italian interested in religions in general.

While wandering through my city I found this pitoresque bookstore selling alchemic, esoteric and religious texts.

I liked this one so I decided to spend 20€ on it, but my questions are: was it worth? Did I overpayed it?

I'm also interested in any information about this book, so feel absolutely free to share infos.

-Pic. I: cover

"מחזור ליוד כפור"

-Pic. II: title page

The book was published by "Bloch Publishing Company" based in NYC originally in 1925. This one is dated 1928.

-Pic. III: index

-Pic. IV: layout (ex. from page 242)

NB: there are, inside this book, some handwritings that are pretty interesting, if you are into history, linguistics or just interested ans want to study them with me, I'll be very happy if you'll write me on DMs, then I'll share them there.

(Regardless its actual value I'm very happy I bought it. For my experience it's not easy to find this kind of books here in Italy, so it'll be worthy for my studies anyways)

Old school Epic. A Marvel Imprint. The forerunner of the graphic novel. Guess how much I paid.

It might not be that old, but it looks like it. I found this earlier today among my Grandparents old things. The title is "History of King's County, Including Brooklyn, N.Y." (full title: The Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History, and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N.Y., from 1683 to 1884).

The internet says it was published in 1884 and I initially thought it was simply an index but it reads like a (very long) story, and not entirely boring to be honest. Apparently some years very little happened, some years lots. You know how that goes. It's not worth much from a value perspective as the binding is going and all that but I just thought it might be an interesting historical find to share. Despite some stained pages, they seem to all be there and readable. The family photos were found with the book so I included them. The group photo has no date, the portrait of the man is dated on the back 1906.

• Copyright page: "Copyright, 1884. W.W. Munsell & Co." — confirming the publisher
• Printed by: C.A. Coffin & Rogers, 85-87 John St., N.Y.
• Bound by: A.S. Barnes & Company, New York and Brooklyn
• The seal on the discovery chapter page reads "SEAL OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN" with the date 1667 (Brooklyn's founding as a city)
• Chapter I begins with "Outline History of the State of New York," covering the 1524 Verrazzano voyage and 1609 Hudson exploration, before narrowing down to Long Island and Kings County
• The table of contents lists chapters like "General History of the Town of Flatlands," "History of the Town of Gravesend," "History of the Town of New Utrecht," and sections on banking, legislative officers, the bench and bar, ecclesiastical history, and travel/stages

so..that's all really. Just an old book possibly from 1884...

This is an artbook about Christo creating a fence art project in California. It’s signed and limited edition and comes with a portion of fabric from the art installation (ie fence).

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

No copyright page, no printers date behind table of contents, nothing on the last page of vol 1 or 6 showing printer info, dates. The plates used look near identical to the National Library Edition. The only noted difference I can see is this copy used "Inc" but this National Library version shows "INC".

www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=16841818755&ref_=vhr_1_rvi_v2

I can't find anything that uses this spine sticker. Under the sticker looks to be fabric so I don't think it was 3rd party applied. Gilt on the top edge, rough cut on the rest. My best guess is it's most likely to be a 1890-1900's printing? Found these for $60 bucks, so regardless of what they are, I am so happy. But would be thrilled if anyone else could come up with more info on them.

I am a local Redding, California collector who accidentally donated this limited-edition copy of Leonardo Sciascia's L'Affaire Moro to the Redding, California Goodwill in March 2026. It is in Italian and is roughly 6" x 8" and 1/2" thick. This book holds immense personal meaning, as I received it directly from the author in 1980.

If you happen to be the person who purchased it or if you have seen it, I would be deeply grateful for the opportunity to buy it back - l am prepared to pay a generous premium, no questions asked.

If you have purchased books from either the Redding or Red Bluff locations since March, can you please check you collection?

Please respond to this post or reach out to me directly via Facebook DM if you have it. Thank you for your time and help.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1940965689908422/?mibextid=dXMIcH

I found this as a happy accident in a book bin at an estate sale. The lot was just "books" and I saw a Michael Chricton in the pile I wanted and this gem was just mixed in. From my research it has all the hallmarks of the true first editions (color, $2.50 dust jacket, and 1-B on page).

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some insights on a unique production variant of Graham Saxby’s Practical Holography (1st Edition, 2nd Printing, Prentice Hall, 1988) that I recently came across.Instead of the standard David Pizzanelli "Cat's Whiskers" kitten hologram on the front glossy blue cover, my copy features an embossed Jabberwocky hologram.

The interior frontispiece is the standard Applied Holographics White Knight reflection hologram (art-directed by Saxby, model by Jim McIntyre). This creates a matching Lewis Carroll / Through the Looking-Glass theme across the entire book.Since Applied Holographics produced the White Knight plates, I suspect this Jabberwocky cover was a contemporary sheet substitution or a specific test run variant during the second printing's assembly.

Does anyone here recall Applied Holographics running a Jabberwocky embossed series around 1988? Has anyone else seen or owned a copy of the book with this specific dual-Alice configuration, or have details on how many of these variants might have slipped out of the bindery?

I’ve attached photos of the front cover and the frontispiece illuminated by a point-source light. Any history, context, or information on its scarcity would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Book was found at a library sale. For various reasons (stains on cover, worn binding, bribing the staff with a box of donuts), I received it practically for free. The postcard was found tucked between the pages, addressed to the same individual as the dedication, confirming the signature's authenticity.
Notice is dated roughly three years prior to the sculptor's passing. Censored information is the recipient's surname and, at the time, address.
Value is uncertain.

This book came to the U.S. with my mother when she immigrated from Germany in 1957. It had previously belonged to my great-aunt in Germany. My family was from the Görlitz area (former family property was allotted to Poland by the Allied forces)
I cannot find a publisher, city, printer, or publication date anywhere in the volume.
It appears to contain approximately 40 works, including:
Das Buch Jezira (Sefer Yetzirah)
Clavicula Salomonis
Danielis Caesaris Spiritus Familiaris
Der goldene Habermann
Numerous magical seals and diagrams
One title page states “Preis 25 Mark.”
I’m not looking for an appraisal—I’m trying to identify the edition and approximate publication date.

Very glad to have found this marked as a BCE. Amazing condition of a true second impression. Unread condition. All of my Dune first editions are unread. My Dune shelf is nearly complete. I have another first edition copy of Dune on the way.

I first read Ice a few years ago, and it's still one of the most memorable novels I've come across. Despite having been published later in Anna Kavan's career, the first edition had a modest print run since she had had little commercial success up to that point. It was only after her death that Ice gained critical attention, and an American edition appeared in 1970.

I don't usually buy this type of material, but I wanted to add this to my collection since it's a book I think about often. Plus, my friends over at Laureate Fine Books sold this to me at a good price.

Noob here :) I find it very special to touch something which is almost 400 years old. But while it’s amazing to see how they created such a book, I suppose that the subject is so universal that it’s not much rarer than a 400 year old bible. Am I wrong ?

One of my cool finds today.

The letter, shown in the post, was to a Mrs. Herrick S Roth, wife of Herrick S Roth. The Mr served in WWII, served terms in both the Colorado House and Senate, and was president of the Colorado Labor Council. He passed in 2008. I believe the Mrs was Marjorie Land Roth, as she was noted in Herrick’s obituary as his significant other, however I can’t confirm if he remarried or not. She passed in 2012.

The letter is personally signed by Muriel Humphrey, the former vice president’s wife, just seven years before Hubert’s death. Hubert ran for president in 1968 and lost to Richard Nixon… unfortunately. He sought the democratic nominations again in 1972 near the time of this letter.

The book itself is a hard one to find. I’ve seen photos of sold copies (price unknown), which carry similar inscriptions, most from Humphrey himself. I imagine, pure assumptions here, this book was privately printed and only handed out by either him or his wife. It features a note from Harry S Truman to Humphrey during the time of the latter’s vice presidential term. The correction in said note had a print error which Truman corrected, and at first I thought that meant this had a been a real Truman signature, however, from the photos of the other copies I saw the same note and signature/correction within the book, so it is indeed printed.

Truman and Humphrey have an interesting history together, and as I go learning more about that history, I urge others to do the same as it really is a fun piece of American History.

If more information specifically about this book or carried content arises, I will make a comment to this post. And if anyone has different information about it, please inform me. Thanks.

Handy guide for staying safe with arsenic on old books

Details: DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809-1882) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: John Murray, 1859.

First edition of 'the most important single work in science' (Dibner): an exceptionally bright example in unrestored condition. ‘What is marvellous about it is that anybody can read any page and it makes absolute sense to them. It’s not full of jargon, it’s full of argument and observation’ (David Attenborough)

Darwin's ideas about the beneficial mutation of species were initially inspired by his observations and findings during the voyage of the Beagle, but they did not cohere into the theory of evolution until his reading of Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population in the latter half of 1838. 

The gestation of the theory was slow, but following a conversation with Sir Charles Lyell about his hypothesis in 1856, Darwin was determined to bring it to a conclusion. Two years later he had composed an extended treatise entitled 'Natural Selection', some two thirds complete at 250,000 words. 

Then, in June 1858, Darwin received a letter about evolution from Alfred Russel Wallace, who had independently arrived at similar conclusions. The two scientists issued a joint paper on the subject at the Linnean Society on 1 July, but Darwin was now forced to publish his larger work, which was boiled down to an ‘abstract' of some 155,000 words

Finally published as On the Origin of Species on 24 November 1859 in a print run of 1250 copies, it expounded a theory of evolution that was recognisably superior and of infinitely greater impact than all previous hypotheses explaining biological diversity. 'The book, stripped of references and academic paraphernalia, was aimed not at the specialists, but directly at the reading public'.

 'It will live as long as the "Principia" of Newton ... Mr. Darwin has given the world a new science, and his name should in my opinion, stand above that of every philosopher of ancient and modern times’ (Alfred Russel Wallace, quoted by Janet Browne, Charles Darwin II, pp.139-140). Dibner Heralds of Science 199; Eimas Heirs 1724; Freeman 373; Garrison-Morton (1991) 220; Grolier, Science 23b; Norman 593; PMM 344b; Milestones of Science 49; Waller 10786. 

Octavo-in-12s (197 x 124mm). Half-title, folding lithographic diagram, 32pp. of publisher's adverts at end dated June 1859, partly unopened (text block cracking at pp.viii-ix, some spotting to preliminaries and early quires, this becoming lighter and more scattered throughout the text, some tiny marginal nicks and chips from rough opening). Original publisher's green cloth [Freeman's variant a], binder’s ticket on rear pastedown (corners and head- and tail caps very slightly pushed). Provenance: Lord Harris of Belmont House (presumably George Francis Robert Harris, 3rd Baron Harris GCSI, 1810-1872, who succeeded his father to the barony in 1845; bookplate, contemporary ink shelf numbering.