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Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry Publisher Comments In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show; in collections of essays like In a Narrow Grave; and in the reinvention of the Western on a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books by Paul Collins Publisher Comments Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants and forty bookstores. Taking... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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ABC for Book Collectors 8th Edition by John Carter Publisher Comments Eighth edition, completely revised and re-set, with additional information and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is the book for you... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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A Guide to Collecting Cookbooks and Advertising Cookbooks: A History of People, Companies, and Cooking by Bob Allen Synopsis A well-researched guide for cookbook collectors, loaded with histories, dates, sizes, and values. Hundreds of examples of cookbooks and booklets from many years are photographed in full color and black and white. 2002 values.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Books 2002 (Collected Books: The Guide to Values) by Allen Ahearn Publisher Comments Here is the largest and most comprehensive single-volume guide to current market values of collectible books in America. Used by most book dealers and serious collectors in the country, this guide explains how to identify first editions of books and... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Dames, Dolls & Delinquents: A Collector's Guide to Sexy Pulp Fiction Paperbacks by Gary Lovisi Publisher Comments Its no secret the sexy and racy cover art of femme fatales from the golden age of paperbacks and magazines exalts the female form in all its sexy and sultry allure. Still today, these lustful, and sometimes lurid images are enticing and artistically... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $23.12 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Book collecting :a comprehensive guide by Allen Ahearn Book News Annotation The meat of this reference for amateur and professional book collectors is a list of thousands of books with suggested prices for the first editions, which can also be used to price later editions. Other sections suggest what books to collect, where... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Collecting Modern Books by Catherine Porter Publisher Comments Modern first editions and other books of the 20th century can reach surprisingly high prices. This superb guide to prices and quality takes a closer look at categories such as English and American Literature, Childrens Literature, Illustrated Books, and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Dames, Dolls & Delinquents: A Collector's Guide to Sexy Pulp Fiction Paperbacks by Gary Lovisi Publisher Comments It's no secret the sexy and racy cover art of femme fatales from the golden age of paperbacks and magazines exalts the female form in all its sexy and sultry allure. Still today, these lustful, passionate and sometimes lurid images are enticing and... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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CC Books Ident.Pg 1st Ed (Confident Collector Series) by Nancy Wright Publisher Comments The booklover's guide to collecting Here, for everyone who treasures books, is professional advice on how to recognize those that have become rare and valuable. Whether it's a century's old book of poetry you found in the attic, you great-grandmother's... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture by Nicholas A Basbanes Publisher Comments In 1995 Nicholas Basbanes introduced a resonant phrase to describe the obsessive passion people have had over the past twenty-five hundred years to possess books, a condition more commonly known as bibliomania, one he christened in his book A Gentle... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Breathless Homicidal Slime Mutants: The Art of the Paperback by Steven Brower Publisher Comments A visually dynamic homage to the paperback. In 1968, John Leonard, then editor of The New York Times Book Review, listed the many merits of mass-market paperbacks: "They can be stuffed in purses, left in buses, dropped in toilets, used as coasters, eaten... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Bookmarks (Giorgetti, Le Mostre) by Marco Ferreri Publisher Comments Each of these three books presents a fascinating history of the art and design of a particular object, detailing, with hundreds of painstakingly-collected examples and informative texts, the multitude of varieties of pencils, cutlery, and bookmarks... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Huxford's Old Book: Value Guide by Sharon Huxford Book News Annotation Primarily an aid for people with an attic full of old books trying to decide whether any would be worth trying to sell. Places a retail price--the dealer's selling price, not buying price--on nearly 25,000 specific editions, and lists scores of buyers... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Official Price Guide to Collecting Books, 4th Edition (Official Price Guide to Collecting Old Books) by Marie Tedford Publisher Comments This is an irreplaceable sourcebook to the current values of thousands of books, from the old and rare (Charles Dickens' The Chimes in a 1931 edition with illustrations by Arthur Rackham can sell for $500) to the more modern (Asimov, Clancy, King and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bad Girls Need Love Too by Gary Lovisi Publisher Comments A Lust for Life Anxious to undress, these dangerous dolls ply their womanly wares to get whatever they want: men, power and sex - lots of sex. Yet to quench their fiery desires they crave more, much more. See, even sultry sinners long for love. Bad Girls... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Little Book of Big Little Books by Bill Borden Publisher Comments In the thirties and forties a new breed of comic book hit the stands -- the wonderfully chunky little picture books known as Big Little Books. Spiffy miniature hardcovers that fit in the palm of your hand, they told thrilling adventure stories and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Hardcover
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Antique Trader Collectible Cookbooks Price Guide by Patricia Edwards Synopsis Whether your collection features a hefty helping of grandmas worn, but cherished cookbooks from years past, or a few recipe-rich treasures of your own, this fact and photo-filled guide will feed any cookbook fascination. This reference, written by the... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Antique Trader Book Collectors Price Guide (Antique Trader's Book Collector's Price Guide) by Richard Russell Publisher Comments *Strong presence in online auction market - - majority of auctions feature pre-1950s editions*Appeals to serious collectors by featuring a list of classic rarities in each collecting category*Only full color guide to book collectingBook collecting may... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bibles: An Illustrated History from Papyrus to Print by Christopher De Hamel Publisher Comments A unique visual history of the worlds best-selling book of all time, Bibles provides a rich snapshot of the biblical bookmaking tradition through images from fifty rare and important Bibles. As the captivating and colorful images collected here reveal... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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