First Edition | for.theloveofbooks.com

Bibliophiles

Archives

Recent Posts

Tags

abaa asheville Biblio Biblio.com bibliopolis biblio unbound BiblioWorks book fairs book reviews books booksellers Bookselling books into film bookstores brick and mortar childrens books copyright corporate greed cpsia e-books ebooks economy first edition independent book stores independent bookstores kindle libraries literacy Marketing new york times Nobel Prize pci compliance piracy publishers rare books Reading sales sci-fi small business social responsibility textbooks twitter used books web 2.0 wnc

Authors

Search

Categories

Bibliophile's Toolbox

Blogroll

Most Rated

Biblio.com to open second used book factory - 14 votes
Why should I care about e-books? Lessons learned the hard way from the newspaper biz - 10 votes
Where can I donate books? - 7 votes
What I really think of the Kindle… - 6 votes
Book Review : Breach the Wall by Michael Tracey and Celestina Adams - 5 votes

What I really think of the Kindle…

Friday, October 9th, 2009

It’s time to confess: I’ve been “playing nice” during the recent explosion in e-reader popularity. It stops now.

Rare Book of the Day: The Hobbit (first American ed.)

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

The 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 cloth with [...]