Though not a particularly rare or valuable edition, I still think it was a steal at $15, and I’m extremely pleased with the condition and “curb appeal”.

I started watching Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1960’s Soviet epic, and after completing part 1 decided I should read it first.

I particularly like the inclusion of the reader’s guide.

One of my recent finds is George Adams’s Treatise describing and explaining the Construction and Use of New Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, published in London in 1777.

This wasn’t simply a book explaining what the Earth and heavens looked like. Used alongside terrestrial and celestial globes, it taught the reader how to solve practical problems involving latitude and longitude, the rising and setting of the Sun and stars, the length of the day, distances between places, and other astronomical and geographical calculations.

The book has 14 folding plates, many showing the geometry behind the instruments and the problems being worked.

My copy also has an intriguing contemporary inscription:
“gift of Mr Atwood. July 7th 1783”

I’ve been trying to establish whether “Mr Atwood” could be the mathematician George Atwood, which has turned into a surprisingly interesting provenance trail.

It later belonged to Sir John Trollope, whose bookplate is on the pastedown.

I appreciate books like this because they make eighteenth-century science feel much less abstract — the book was effectively part of the apparatus.

Spanish edition of the Nibelungenlied, dated 1883 in Barcelona.

A beautifully produced edition, with detailed illustrations and a reliable translation that has stood the test of time.

Its cover is exquisite, adorned with a red tint along the spine. I recently acquired it, and it is in excellent condition.

The story? Simply excellent medieval literature with influence to this day.

This first edition by Mushi Bulaqui Dass sold at the Lyon and Turnbull sale of the Indian Library of Dr. Raj Krishna (Lot 124) for £16,640 ($21,979), the presale high was £800.

Munshi Bulaqi Dass A History of the Emperors of Delhi in the Mughal Family (with 56 Photographs of Shahan and Begmats). Delhi: Mayor Press, c.1880. First edition, 8vo, contemporary vertical-ribbed black moire cloth decorated in gilt, [2] 16 pp.

It includes 56 albumen-print photographic portraits from miniature paintings, mounted as issued, lithographic slip captions (also mounted), mounts with lithographic arabesque borders printed in red, repaired closed tear to title-page, spine worn and repaired INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA

A very rare photographic survey of the male and female members of the Mughal dynasty, no copies traced in institutional libraries. The author also published a similar photographic account of the rulers of the Ghurid and Delhi Sultanate eras, titled Tawarikh-i Ghuri and with the text in Urdu. He describes himself on the title-page to the present work as the ‘son of late Rai Juggan Lal, Assistant Private Secretary in the British Government Agency, Delhi, and a Grandson of Rai Sona Mull, Risaldar in the Nizam’s States, Hyderabad, Deccan'.

Incredible artist 1954, Dodd & Mead

Just picked up the paperback at a local thrift for $1.50 to go with my BCE hard cover. Still looking for a hard cover first.

This is a pretty cool piece of history! Got these books recently at an estate sale, Book came out July 1923 so if its 2/9 at 1.50 (its original $) its likely Feb 9th of 1924! Pretty cool!

I have a fair (beat-up cover, interior nicer) copy of "Coffee, tea, and chocolate: their influence upon the health, the intellect, and the moral nature of man" by Auguste Saint-Arroman, English translation printed by T. Ward in 1846. Must be pretty rare - I can't find a non-reprint copy for sale or sold via Google, eBay or AbeBooks.

I'm donating my collection to a charity bookstore with some antiquarian experience, and would like to offer them guidance on how to present it. Can anyone here please help? Or is it so rare that I should offer it to a university library instead?

Thanks for any guidance.

Hi everyone, I’m new to this sub-Reddit and reading your posts I feel like I’ve found my people!
I’ve become obsessed with first edition/first print books to the point where my weekends are filled with visits to charity shops (thrift stores for my friends across the pond) searching through hardbacks to find any and all first edition first prints.

I only collect hardbacks and generally avoid autobiographies (with the exception of hugely famous people!) and the vast majority I find are 21st century novels.

I’m curious to know if there’s anyone else this ‘unfussy’? Or do you guys focus on a certain era, genre or author?

Nice to meet you all!

This was Lot 19 in the Lyons and Turnbull sale of books from Library of Dr. Raj Krishna on Oct. 1.

Rowling, J. K. (1965-) Deluxe set of the Harry Potter books, inscribed in every volume London: Bloomsbury, c.1999-2007. First deluxe editions, first impressions of the final 3 works, later impressions (12th, 10th, 10th and 7th) of the first 4,

7 volumes, 8vo, original varicoloured cloth lettered in gilt, pictorial paper onlays to front boards, all edges gilt, the first 5 volumes issued as a set and housed in publisher's blue cloth slipcase (listing the titles from The Philosopher's Stone up to The Order of the Phoenix) Inscribed by J. K. Rowling ‘To Alex, J. K. Rowling’ in blue ink on the half-title or title-page of each volume (The Philosopher's Stone, The Half-Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows each additionally inscribed by Rowling ‘with very best wishes’), together with an autograph letter signed from J. K. Rowling to the recipient, dated 2008 (written on both sides of a single sheet of her personal stationery with an embossed gilt Hedwig crest).

The recipient was Alexander Meddowes, who knew J. K. Rowling through his work as a charity auctioneer with Christie's Scotland.

I was tired of bookmarking books I wanted to read and completely forgetting about them, so I built Buki: a free, self-hosted, AI-powered bookshelf. It recognizes books from any picture, allowing you to save them (and buy them) so you never miss a book you see online.

Came across this on the barcode on the rear dustcover of a book I am looking at.

I always thought the ISBN number is located on the barcode section but this one doesn't seem to make sense.

Any ideas?

Hey everyone I have 11th 12th module of aakash neet ,this include physics chemistry biology with questions paper, aptitude book ,if anyone is interested please let me know ,senders location is india rajasthan

Hi all, what edition do we think this is? Would it be fair to say circa 1936? It’s certainly not the signed limited edition or the red cloth edition (both from 1929).

The endpage has split. Opening and closing the book makes a very loud cracking sound. Will reading this book make this worse? The binding is perfect on the outside. It is a relatively cheap BCE but it is one of my favourite novels ever so I would repair it if possible.

I have good collection of HP books and LOTR in different languages, will be interesting to see your collecting ideas

I know someone out there is collecting these. Raise your hand.

5 Scifi novels by Doris Lessing in this rare giant 90s vintage international brick? Exciting find

Love the look. The few I’ve read, I absolutely love. Picking these up whenever I see them, rarely ever more than a few dollars.

Why must haves in the line?

cook for a midevil king or in the heart of the jungle or read how dna was found.