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• Autographed Uncle Toms Cabin Found

  
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  Found in a coal cellar. From a story in the Scotsman ... The copy of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, signed by the author, was authenticated after it was found in a vast cellar full of donations. The book, with a price tag of about £1,500, is expected to be one of the biggest draw at this ...
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• My Comic Book Picks: May 8th

  
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  My comic book picks for this week. You can see from the photos below I haven’t been to the comic book store in a couple of weeks at least. I fell behind with some home projects and other things and didn’t get a chance to make it to my local comic book store. At least this time though they saved all of the comics ...
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• Collecting Fore-Edge Paintings

  
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  ILAB gives a brief tutorial . From the piece... The Italian Renaissance is, as with many things, where it all really started (although medieval examples exist). Often quite simple, floral decorations, heraldic designs or motifs, these were generally painted directly onto the fore-edge rather than later ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Comic Speculator – New Comics Roundup 05/08/2013

  
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  Uncanny Avengers #8 (Milo Manara Variant Cover), 1:50, ($12-$15). All the Manara Marvel variants are getting very hard to find and some are selling as high as $60. Get in early on this one or pay too much later. The Comic Speculator is a blog written by Worthpoint Comic Book “Worthologist” Matt Baum that takes ...
  2 weeks ago

• Flush as May by P. M. Hubbard (Michael Joseph, 1963) Joins Beautiful British Book Jackets

  
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  This will be my last addition to Beautiful British Book Jacket Design of the 1950s and 1960s , at least for a little while; I do have some other wrappers Im still planning to add, but probably not till later in the year. Lets draw a (pencil) line under the page, then, with rather a suitable book given that its now ...
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• Book Collecting Heaven: First Editions Second Thoughts

  
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  Roald Dahls Matilda Extra-illustrated by Quentin Blake with eight pen and ink vignettes on front free endpaper (entitled The Reader of Books), signed and dated Quentin Blake 25.2.2013 First Editions Second Thoughts is a fundraising auction for English Pen curated by noted bookseller Rick Gekoski. ...
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• Book Collecting Heaven: First Editions Second Thoughts

  
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  Roald Dahls Matilda Extra-illustrated by Quentin Blake with eight pen and ink vignettes on front free endpaper (entitled The Reader of Books), signed and dated Quentin Blake 25.2.2013First Editions Second Thoughts is a fundraising auction fo...
  2 weeks ago

• The Comic Speculator Back Issue Report – Values of Current Ghost Variants

  
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  . The Comic Speculator is a blog written by WorthPoint Comic Book “Worthologist” Matt Baum that takes a look at each week’s hot new comics and back issues and the comic market place in general. Prices discussed here are taken from the Overstreet Guide to Comics (OVST ), Comicspriceguide.com (CPG) and ...
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• Dr Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (alias Doctor Who and the Daleks) by David Whitaker (Armada, 1965/Target, 1973)

  
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  NB: Linked in this weeks Fridays Forgotten Books , 3/5/13. A couple of years ago I posted a rambling essay on the Doctor Who Target novelisations – my memories of them, how they helped drive and shape my formative reading as a child, how they were my first and in some cases only exposure to many Doctor Who ...
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• Art Deco Dust Jackets

  
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  While perusing the New York Antiquarian Book Show, I came across a seller, Yesterday’s Gallery & Babylon Revisited, whose inventory almost exclusively deals in the period between the wars. The dust jackets of that span reflected the artistic craze now known as Art Deco. I’ve collected many books with the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Phoenix Books Rise Again

  
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  One of the publishers from crime fiction’s past, was a little name that tried to become a bigger power among heavy hitters. Not necessarily known for their quality, they did try hard. They signed up some known authors whose contracts perhaps expired with other publishers, and some names never heard of before or ...
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• The Comic Speculator – The Yearly Comic Shopping Apocalypse

  
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  An army of nerds, collectors and, of course cosplayers, have converged on McCormick Place, where hundreds of retailers for everything from comics to steampunk goggles and wooden mustaches have booths set up to sell their wares. The Comic Speculator is a blog written by Worthpoint Comic Book “Worthologist” Matt ...
  3 weeks ago

• Comic Book Collecting

  
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  The ducks of war - well actually the duck of war meets the enemy of head on in a confrontation so terrible that not even Battler Britton will be able to walk away grinning. Whoever Bob is hes left his mark on this Air Ace Picture Library. The idle doodle in the only white area on the cover is now locked into ...
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• Richard Starks Parker Series: The Allison & Busby Hardback Collection, feat. The Black Ice Score, 1986 (a Westlake Score)

  
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  Early in 2010, when my secondhand book collecting – an interest which had only really been kindled the year before – was gathering pace and Existential Ennui was drifting towards its eventual destination as – and stop me if youve heard this one before – an increasingly circumlocutory chronicle of what has ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Comic Speculator – New Comics Roundup 04/24/2013

  
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  Stjepan Sejic New York Comic-Con Triptych Signed Set The Comic Speculator is a blog written by Worthpoint Comic Book “Worthologist” Matt Baum that takes a look at each week’s hot new comics, back issues and the comic market place in general. Prices discussed here are taken from Comicspriceguide.com (CPG) ...
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• I’m A. N. L. Munby, I am . . .

  
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  By MICHAEL CAINES Talking of conferences and innovations in typography : heres an unusual view of a bibliophile and sometime TLS contributor, the ingenious A. N. L. Munby, holding court. (More book historians should dress like Henry VIII, I say, or some other monarch.) Im speaking at a centenary conference to be ...
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• Hayyim Nachman Bialik’s Gemara

  
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  Musings of a Jewish Bookseller has acquired what may be a Gemara volume that was used by Hayyim Nachman Bialik. Read about it here .
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