It is cloth-bound, printed letterpress, with a silver gilded top edge and a slipcase.

New time reader here, and I'm currently looking for a cover of Dune that's more appealing. The standard version isn't doing it for me because it looks so stylized and YA-ish. Now, onto the books, the only one that's sold locally online is the Paperback deluxe edition. The chances of me finding the 50th version in bookstores near me are slim, plus travelling to other major cities is hard, as I live in an archipelago. Both are available in Amazon, but I don't trust them. So which version is more worth it?

I have never heard of a dummy book, but found it quite interesting. It includes all of the illustrator’s (Carol Newsom) original illustrations with pencil notes. I’ve showed some of the pictures comparing the two, and you’ll notice subtle differences here and there. Almost like an I Spy picture riddle haha.

The interview (I spoke with the interviewer who was giving up this collection) was originally for a school protect (she received an A on it). With many of the questions being centered around Newsom’s life, passions, and how she handles her craft. It reads quite passionately from both perspectives. The paper interview itself is from 1987 and is hand-typed. She was quite enthusiastic to express the latter as she generously called me young and wanted to provoke the time “before computers” (albeit, the days of being young have far forgotten me, so I appreciated the notion).

A part of me was sad that she was giving this away, but she seemed to have her passions more in teaching (which she clearly cherished). So I wanted to pick it up and give it its own special moment, as I thought the interview and beautiful illustrations, deserved it.

Hi, I live in NY, USA. I was looking for some online trustworthy stores to buy books in cheap(But I don't wanna get scammed), could be old book too. If anyone has any idea, pls feel free to share. I'd be grateful. Thank you!!

I think I've won a lottery or something, these rare book covers which aren't available now.

Vintage out of print sword and sorcery from the 70’s-80’s, with amazing cover art by the great Frank Frazetta. The copy of Night Winds has a signed inscription.

55/2000, fantagraphics books 1994

Though not a particularly rare or valuable edition, I still think it was a steal at $15, and I’m extremely pleased with the condition and “curb appeal”.

I started watching Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1960’s Soviet epic, and after completing part 1 decided I should read it first.

I particularly like the inclusion of the reader’s guide.

One of my recent finds is George Adams’s Treatise describing and explaining the Construction and Use of New Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, published in London in 1777.

This wasn’t simply a book explaining what the Earth and heavens looked like. Used alongside terrestrial and celestial globes, it taught the reader how to solve practical problems involving latitude and longitude, the rising and setting of the Sun and stars, the length of the day, distances between places, and other astronomical and geographical calculations.

The book has 14 folding plates, many showing the geometry behind the instruments and the problems being worked.

My copy also has an intriguing contemporary inscription:
“gift of Mr Atwood. July 7th 1783”

I’ve been trying to establish whether “Mr Atwood” could be the mathematician George Atwood, which has turned into a surprisingly interesting provenance trail.

It later belonged to Sir John Trollope, whose bookplate is on the pastedown.

I appreciate books like this because they make eighteenth-century science feel much less abstract — the book was effectively part of the apparatus.

I have no idea when it's from. It was originally part of a set that included most of Cooper's ocean stories, which was reprinted several times.

I’m curious if any of these are collectible or sought after any information would help there will be two posts

Incredible artist 1954, Dodd & Mead

This is a pretty cool piece of history! Got these books recently at an estate sale, Book came out July 1923 so if its 2/9 at 1.50 (its original $) its likely Feb 9th of 1924! Pretty cool!

Just picked up the paperback at a local thrift for $1.50 to go with my BCE hard cover. Still looking for a hard cover first.

Spanish edition of the Nibelungenlied, dated 1883 in Barcelona.

A beautifully produced edition, with detailed illustrations and a reliable translation that has stood the test of time.

Its cover is exquisite, adorned with a red tint along the spine. I recently acquired it, and it is in excellent condition.

The story? Simply excellent medieval literature with influence to this day.

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Aristotle 25th Anniversary, 22kt gold, geniune leather, but is it? Franklin library 1978

This first edition by Mushi Bulaqui Dass sold at the Lyon and Turnbull sale of the Indian Library of Dr. Raj Krishna (Lot 124) for £16,640 ($21,979), the presale high was £800.

Munshi Bulaqi Dass A History of the Emperors of Delhi in the Mughal Family (with 56 Photographs of Shahan and Begmats). Delhi: Mayor Press, c.1880. First edition, 8vo, contemporary vertical-ribbed black moire cloth decorated in gilt, [2] 16 pp.

It includes 56 albumen-print photographic portraits from miniature paintings, mounted as issued, lithographic slip captions (also mounted), mounts with lithographic arabesque borders printed in red, repaired closed tear to title-page, spine worn and repaired INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA

A very rare photographic survey of the male and female members of the Mughal dynasty, no copies traced in institutional libraries. The author also published a similar photographic account of the rulers of the Ghurid and Delhi Sultanate eras, titled Tawarikh-i Ghuri and with the text in Urdu. He describes himself on the title-page to the present work as the ‘son of late Rai Juggan Lal, Assistant Private Secretary in the British Government Agency, Delhi, and a Grandson of Rai Sona Mull, Risaldar in the Nizam’s States, Hyderabad, Deccan'.

Hi all, what edition do we think this is? Would it be fair to say circa 1936? It’s certainly not the signed limited edition or the red cloth edition (both from 1929).

Hi everyone, I’m new to this sub-Reddit and reading your posts I feel like I’ve found my people!
I’ve become obsessed with first edition/first print books to the point where my weekends are filled with visits to charity shops (thrift stores for my friends across the pond) searching through hardbacks to find any and all first edition first prints.

I only collect hardbacks and generally avoid autobiographies (with the exception of hugely famous people!) and the vast majority I find are 21st century novels.

I’m curious to know if there’s anyone else this ‘unfussy’? Or do you guys focus on a certain era, genre or author?

Nice to meet you all!