Cormac McCarthy First Editions

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Is this mold?

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I found this book in a used book store. It’s from 1931. Why does it have a swastika on it?

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Had a Good day at an Estate Sale!

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I just inherited my great-uncle's collection of Limited Editions Clubs books

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A few of my illustrated books from the Golden age.

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I, too, am a book collector. An unabashed literature miser.

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Mold or foxing?

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My Modern Library collection. Pre 1940

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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury- First Edition, Inscribed

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My Modern Library Giants

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My Sumerian cuneiform tablet, one of the earliest forms of written word

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Inherited my grandpa's collection of Charles Dickens books

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Largest book I’ve ever owned arrived this week...

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Opinions on value

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I'm sure a modest collection compared to some of you, but I've been wanting to achieve a personal dream of having either a page or full book from every century I could find (or afford!) for a while now, and recently accomplished that feat with some lucky auction wins!

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The Wheel of Time series in first edition/first printing. The Great Hunt is signed.

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Dune, JRR Tolkien, and GRRM Collecting

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I’m gonna need another room. Most of these cubes are double stacked and there’s two more bookshelves.

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So happy with my beautiful first printing.

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A velvet bound Missale Romanum, dated 1709, and bearing some truly beautiful silver fittings. I've been trying to acquire a binding like this for a few years now. Thought it would be nice to finally put a face to my posts as well.

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Just snagged these for 2$ a book, not sure what I’ve got but figured you could all appreciate the collection.

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The start of my Roman history collection.

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Drawback to book collecting. Moving houses...

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My 12 book anti-war collection. All 1st/1st and with original jackets except The Good Soldier Schweik, which has a facsimile. Several are signed. Seemed like apropos time to display them...

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Part of my small collection of medieval and renaissance manuscripts

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My library keeps growing!

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Finally got a bookshelf to display my collection :)

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Finally filled our shelves! Nearly every book is a first edition. The top row in the middle is my bibliography and large books collection.

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Winnie the Pooh, 1926. First edition, first printing. I don't dabble in 20th century acquisitions that often, but I do make exceptions.

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White Whales: Here was one I finally landed. It only took me 25 years to acquire this. (Backstory in comments)

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Dumas collection

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At an antiquarian bookstore in Philadelphia, I came across this beautiful late 16th century edition of Reusner's Summorum Regum, with a beautiful blind-stamped hand painted portrait of August of Saxony to the front cover

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My collection of modern firsts.

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My Primary Bookshelf

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JG Ballard collection

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This months Folio Society pick ups.

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My little collection I know it has no value and that's okay I think each book is interesting in its own way.

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Ursula Le Guin (primarily 1st edition, 1st printing, signed)

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Do personal collectors have ordinary books custom-covered to give this aesthetic?

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Part of my Palahniuk collection. All of them are signed first edition first prints. Missing few.

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MoLd oR fOxInG?!??;?;??!!

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My Easton Press/B&N leather-bound book collection is coming along nicely.

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I was going to go with an old set of Dante’s Divine Comedy. But I found this 1948 first edition by John Sinclair delightful and in rare excellent condition. Old isn’t always better.

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13th Printing, May 1976 Anarchist Cookbook

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Started My Collection!

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Anyone else like the Very Short Introduction series?

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First time poster. Am i going to get crucified for collecting books just because i think they are pretty ?

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The works of Jules Verne 1911

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The Princess Bride - William Goldman (Ballantine Books, 1975) The Two Week edition

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Just wanted to share a pic of my newly organized wall in my office.

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Yard sale grab!

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Found a 1951 BCE of “The Catcher In The Rye” for only $5 in a thrift shop!

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Fahrenheit 451, first printing, D binding (no priority), with Joseph Mugnaini’s preliminary watercolor sketch for the iconic Man on Fire cover art!!! Sketch from Ray Bradbury’s personal collection/estate.

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Some of the new books I acquired in the last couple months, all neatly placed on one bookcase. Early printed books, manuscripts, pigskin or fine bindings, illuminated works, and more. The dates range between 1493 to 1936. Personal favorites include a 1564 Dante, and a modern illuminated manuscript.

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I loved these as a kid

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My antiquarian book collections. Titles span the 16th through 19th century.

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MoLd oR fOxInG?!??;?;??!!

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So I found a thing...

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questions about these kinds of books, which i can't seem to find the answers to anywhere online

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I hate books.

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Busy month this year, but not too busy to share a bookcase of recent arrivals I finished collating for Fall. Dates range from 1518-1714.

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Found these two books on back-to-back days about a month ago: Dune 1st edition/4th printing and Ender's Game 1st edition/1st printing. It was the most thrilling two days of collecting I've had to date.

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Is this mold or foxing?

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My Science Fiction Collection

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Black Sparrow Press Collection.

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In the middle of unpacking my library, and I thought I'd show an in-progress view of part of a bookcase. Mainly 17th century, some 16th and 18th century stuff. Still not sure how to organize all the books quite yet.

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reorganized my modest but fairly selective collection

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WHY do publishers do this?

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Every copy of Dune that I own. Yup, I really like Dune. See my comment below for more info on each copy's edition/printing order.

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What's your most interesting cook book?

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Some of the books I entered into a book-collecting competition!

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Reorganizing by height...

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My classic science fiction shelf. A mix of first editions and SF Book Club editions.

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Most expensive books I’ve purchased. Need to dial back lol.

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Found this today at a local book fair 🫢

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My collection is coming along nice! I really need to complete The International Science Library set. I’m missing 4 books unfortunately!

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Latest Modern Library Haul

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My collection of signed first editions

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Flyleaf Inscriptions Make Me Sad

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Found a mostly complete set at an antique store, for a total of $35.

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Does anyone know if this Ernest Hemingway signature is real?

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A selection of some of the books and manuscripts I've acquired the last few months. Illuminated manuscripts, embroidered bindings, illustrated works and more, it's a varying collection of materials from 1450 to the mid 19th century.

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Thinking about used bookstores (and related thrift shopping) while on lock down.

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Almost halfway through my first collection.

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Bought a used copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude yesterday and found the original receipt from 1993.

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New Shelf unit! What do you think?

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Should I buy 100 EP books for $3K?

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unpacking my fiction books after moving and was reminded of this travesty...

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My Latest addition! 1947 Avon books “The Lurking Fear and Other Stories” by H.P Lovecraft

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Got this bad boy at a thrift shop for $4 yesterday 1st/1st

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My Pandemic impulse buys. Post Victorian, Edwardian Leatherette novels. Published by Boni & Liveright. H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Swinburne and more.

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Got a super deal at the library on these great books! All for $60!

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I’m yet to own any book but he’s the only reason I want to start collecting. Where should I start?

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Anyone else collect DAW books?

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Faceouts mostly bought at appx fair value, but 2 I got for $3 each at an estate sale and 1 I got for free in a Little Free Library. CARE TO GUESS? ::nerd chuckle::

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My bookshelf. It is now full to the brim. I also love antiques.

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The story of my life as a thrift-store book collector

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My little leather-bound collection

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My current book collection! Any feedback or suggestions?

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Shelved repost of my haul from today, plus some others.

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Bought a stock image listing on ebay for $13 and found this in the shrinkwrap.

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Another year's worth of pretty boooks

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Picked up this 15 volume 1864 Bell and Daldy Hume - History of England, extended by Smollet and Hughes, for $30 at a local charity sale

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Books in Boxes

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Didn't think too much could surprise me from this finely bound early 19th century work of French poetry when it arrived, but what I wasn't told was that it was chock full of watercolor illustrations added by hand, throughout the book, and overlapping text as well!

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Just started collecting and my family got me these for my birthday.

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Appropriate placement

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Got a Rihal to support older books last year - one of the most useful tools in my collection

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To read or not to read a sealed Easton Press book?

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Linnet's trial by Menella Bute Smedley.

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My complete (as of today) set of the Harvard Classics!

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I've spent the past few months gathering up 19th century French cartonnage romantique bindings, as they're a personal favorite of mine. Here's a look at the 82 new arrivals to the shelves!

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My “Easton Press” collection is coming along quite nicely...

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Was very lucky to find this in an estate lot - Pathology and Therapy of Skin Diseases, Kaposi, 1887. Its a custom binding done locally, pre-1914, and owned by my towns 19th century doctor and mayor.

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What Is This Called?

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The signed copy of The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein that I found at a thrift store came back as authentic!

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At the risk of trying your patience, here’s the rest of the science fiction section of my collection. It’s been so refreshing to engage in enthusiastic discussions about book collecting. My family has become inured to my hobby.

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My Shelf or mostly Victorian publishers bindings

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My collection of Lucy Maud Montgomery first Canadian and American editions. All are first printings except for The Blue Castle (third printing- VERY difficult to find in a first printing form) and Jane of Lantern Hill (the second printing is indicated by the black letters on the spine).

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My collection of John Bellairs books with Edward Gorey-illustrated covers, and a few that are sadly not.

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My Arthur Rackham's collection

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Here is my american history collection

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Finally getting some books unboxed after moving. All my Folios in one place! (except the Durant, and my kid's books trying to suffocate the Wodehouse)

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Pretty solid day.

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My collection of first edition John Irving books. Most of them signed

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Just rearranged my books and put all my Stephen King books together. The bottom shelf are non-King horror books.

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My little fantasy paradise (suffered humidity damage last month but still rocking)

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Dean Koontz Collection

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My growing library. Nearly every book is a first edition. The question is- should I eventually upgrade every first for a copy with its dust jacket or should I grow my collection instead?

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Is it alright to store books with the edges facing up? Like the ones on the bottom right. They're in a plastic box.

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I missed this listing by one day. One. Day. I’m physically ill.

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My Tolkien Book Collection and Display

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A Dream of Red Mansions, 1978 English First Edition translation of the famous Chinese novel in three volumes.

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Math collection in progress!

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Found some classic sci-fi paperbacks in very nice condition at a garage sale this weekend.

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I acquired an unofficial edition of the two towers. So excited for my first valuable book. little bit of damage but still means a lot toe

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For Christmas, was gifted an awesome new bookshelf/cabinet. Exactly what I needed, now I can display some of my collection properly!

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new to collecting! my favourite thrift/used finds this month

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Got a bunch of Discworld novels for free, but they all smell of tobacco. Any good tips and tricks for getting rid of that?

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I inherited collectibles and don’t know what to do

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My birthday present to myself- Dune 1st/5th

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From ABC For Book Collectors 8th How many of you have that wild look?

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Light of my life...

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I can't find anything about this online. Is it a misprint?

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Quarantine cleaning #2

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Lo and behold, the most grim and macabre of illustrated title pages I've flipped open to all year. I came across this image in a 17th century religious work I recently acquired, which is profusely illustrated by Christoffel van Sichem II throughout.

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Once you start, you can't stop... obsessed with the ancients

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