Rare Book Picks
Get Your Rare Book Fix in Boston
Friday, October 16th, 2009One of the oldest and largest book fairs in the country, the 2009 Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair is sure to be a crowd-pleaser. Browsers and buyers will have the chance to see several incredibly rare books, such as a signed, first edition of Amelia Earhart’s 20 Hrs. 40 Min., the book that chronicled her [...]
Join the Biblio Book Hunt
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009We like to play games. But only ones where our customers win something big–like a $200 BiblioBucks gift certificate. And what better game to play than a treasure hunt? So welcome to the Biblio Book Hunt, a treasure hunt exclusively for our Twitter fans! Here’s how to play: Join Twitter if you haven’t done so [...]
New ABAA website goes live
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA) has a new look online! Created in 1949, the ABAA has built a strong professional network of booksellers carrying high-quality books. They are the oldest antiquarian bookseller association in the United States, and continue to remain a cornerstone of the rare book market. Although the ABAA has maintained [...]
Introducing Biblio UK
Monday, May 4th, 2009We’re very pleased to announce that we have quietly snuck the new Biblio UK site out the back door of our skunkworks! The new site is focused largely on serving European customers who are looking to source second hand and antiquarian books “locally” from the UK or other parts of Europe. While a few other [...]
See you at the NY Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend!
Monday, March 30th, 2009We’ll be attending the New York Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend, and hope to see you there! This is a great opportunity for booksellers, avid collectors, or readers who just simply want to feast their eyes on some beautiful books. Here’s the official info, courtesy of Sarah Donnell from Sanford L. Smith & Associates” “The [...]
Rare Book of the Day: The Hobbit (first American ed.)
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien While I’m waiting for The Hobbit movie adaptation (slated for release in 2012), I’ll save up my pennies for this gem. As described: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First American edition, third state, in a new, facsimile first edition dust jacket. Hardcover, size: octavo. Buff [...]
Very rare and expensive books – eye-candy for Bibliophiles
Friday, January 30th, 2009Stumbling around this afternoon, I came up with an interesting search, revealing a pretty fascinating gallery of very rare and expensive books on Biblio.com. Shown to the left isn’t actually a book, though it was found in the search above. Its a portrait of e e cummings mother – by e e cummings – which [...]
Rare book of the day – Tender is the Night – First Edition
Monday, January 12th, 2009Oddly, although its one of my favorite early twentieth century books and I’ve spent 12 years working in the book world, I don’t remember ever having seen a first of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night in a dust jacket – until this morning. This beauty offered for sale by Joshua and Sunday over [...]
Rare book of the day – Signed Albert Einstein
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009A gorgeous, signed copy of Einstein’s canonical book, Relativity! One of the more interesting books that passed through my wife and my hands when we owned a bookstore was a first edition of The Evolution of Physics by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, signed by both authors on the ffep. That was probably one of [...]
Rare book pick of the day
Monday, January 5th, 2009Found in Rare Maps and Atlases on Biblio.com: The English Atlas by Pitt, Moses, published in 4 volumes in 1680 with colored plates (as you can see below). Make sure and check out the detailed zoom on this image: addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Ffor.theloveofbooks.com%2F2009%2F01%2Frare-book-pick-of-the-day%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Rare+book+pick+of+the+day’; addthis_pub = ‘sherar’;