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Blue Book of Gun Values
Author: S.P. Fjestad
ISBN-10: 1886768676
ISBN-13: 9781886768673
Published: 2007-04-02
Publisher: Blue Book Publications, Inc.
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Book Description:
The newest 28th edition Blue Book of Gun Values has been extensively revised to include all the new 2007 makes/models, in addition to updating the rising values on both modern guns and antiques. Expanded to 2080 pages, this newest edition also has an enlarged color Photo Percentage Grading System featuring 80 pages of all firearms condition factors commonly encountered. The 28th edition contains over 325,000 firearms prices and one million words of text no other book even comes close! With over one million copies in print, the Blue Book of Gun Values has earned its reputation as the most complete and up-to-date reference work on both modern and antique firearms. Why guess when you can be sure?
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Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages
Author: Michael Popek
ISBN-10: 0399537015
ISBN-13: 9780399537011
Published: 2011-11-01
Publisher: Perigee Trade
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It's happened to all of us: we're reading a book, something interrupts us, and we grab the closest thing at hand to mark our spot. It could be a train ticket, a letter, an advertisement, a photograph, or a four-leaf clover. Eventually the book finds its way into the world-a library, a flea market, other people's bookshelves, or to a used bookstore. But what becomes of those forgotten bookmarks? What stories could they tell?By day, Michael Popek works in his family's used bookstore. By night, he's the voyeuristic force behind www.forgottenbookmarks.com, where he shares the weird objects he has found among the stacks at his store.Forgotten Bookmarks is a scrapbook of Popek's most interesting finds. Sure, there are actual bookmarks, but there are also pictures and ticket stubs, old recipes and notes, valentines, unsent letters, four-leaf clovers, and various sordid, heartbreaking, and bizarre keepsakes. Together this collection of lost treasures offers a glimpse into other readers' lives that they never intended for us to see.
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Harry Potter Collector's Handbook
Author: William Silvester
ISBN-10: 1440208972
ISBN-13: 9781440208973
Published: 2010-09-16
Publisher: Krause Publications
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Action Figures, Books, Ornaments, Costumes, Calendars, Art, Coins, Dolls, Jewelry, Lunch Boxes, Toys, MoviesHarry Potter Casts His Spell on CollectorsWelcome, Muggles, to the magic, mystery, and merchandise of the wonderful wizarding world of Harry Potter!Harry Potter Collector's Handbook will bewitch you with colorful images and current values of licensed products based on the famous boy wizard and his charming chums and nefarious foes. Just for you, we've conjured:1,000+ spellbinding listings, pictures, and secondary market values.Information arranged—magically!—in alphabetical order to make it easy to find what you're looking for.A diverse array of collectibles from rare first editions of books worth thousands of dollars to items worth slightly fewer galleons.If you're mesmerized by "Pottermania," you'll never want to depart the enchanting world of witchcraft and wizardry presented in Harry Potter Collector's Handbook.
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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
Author: Allison Hoover Bartlett
ISBN-10: 1594484813
ISBN-13: 9781594484810
Published: 2010-10-05
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
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Unrepentant book thief John Charles Gilkey has stolen a fortune in rare books from around the country. Yet unlike most thieves who steal for profit, Gilkey steals for love-the love of books. Perhaps equally obsessive is Ken Sanders, the self-appointed "bibliodick" who's driven to catch him. Following this eccentric cat-and-mouse chase with a mixture of suspense, insight and humor, Allison Hoover Bartlett plunges the reader deep into a rich world of fanatical book lust and considers what it is that makes some people stop at nothing to posses the titles they love.
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Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Unpacking My Library Series)
Author:
ISBN-10: 0300170920
ISBN-13: 9780300170924
Published: 2011-11-29
Publisher: Yale University Press
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As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object—whether pristine collectible or battered relic—is growing as well. Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books spotlights the personal libraries of thirteen favorite novelists who share their collections with readers. Stunning photographs provide full views of the libraries and close-ups of individual volumes: first editions, worn textbooks, pristine hardcovers, and childhood companions.In her introduction, Leah Price muses on the history and future of the bookshelf, asking what books can tell us about their owners and what readers can tell us about their collections. Supplementing the photographs are Price's interviews with each author, which probe the relation of writing to reading, collecting, and arranging books. Each writer provides a list of top ten favorite titles, offering unique personal histories along with suggestions for every bibliophile.Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books features the personal libraries of Alison Bechdel, Stephen Carter, Junot Díaz, Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker, Lev Grossman and Sophie Gee, Jonathan Lethem, Claire Messud and James Wood, Philip Pullman, Gary Shteyngart, and Edmund White.
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Bushido : Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo
Author: Takahiro Kitamura
ISBN-10: 0764312014
ISBN-13: 9780764312014
Published: 2001-01
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
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This gorgeous book delves into the elusive world of traditional Japanese tattooing. The Samurai spirit, Bushido, is an integral component of Japanese tattooing that is traced through the imagery and interpersonal dynamics of this veiled subculture. The eloquent text is based largely on Takahiro Kitamuras experiences as client and student of the famed Japanese tattoo master, Horiyoshi III. Over 200 beautiful photos by Jai Tanju capture the breathtaking tattoo artistry of Horiyoshi III. Five original, unpublished prints by Horiyoshi III, like those in his acclaimed book, 100 Demons of Horiyoshi III, are included here. Bushido: Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo is certain to fascinate everyone with an interest in tattoo culture.
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Author: Aaron Lansky
ISBN-10: 1565125134
ISBN-13: 9781565125131
Published: 2005-09-02
Publisher: Algonquin Books
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In 1980, a twenty-three-year-old student named Aaron Lansky set out to rescue the world’s abandoned Yiddish books before it was too late. Twenty-five years and one and a half million books later, he’s still in the midst of a great adventure. Filled with poignant and often laugh-out-loud tales from Lansky’s travels across the country as he collected books from older Jewish immigrants—books their own children had no use for—Outwitting History also explores brilliant Yiddish writers and enables us to see how an almost-lost culture is the bridge between the Old World and the future.
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Sixpence House
Author: Paul Collins
ISBN-10: 1582342849
ISBN-13: 9781582342849
Published: 2003-04-03
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
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A bibliophile's pilgrimage to where book lovers go when they die-Hay-on-Wye. Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the little cobblestone village of Hay-on-Wye, the 'Town of Books' that boasts fifteen hundress inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Antiquarian bookstores, no less. Hay's newest citizens accordingly take up residence in a sixteenth-century apartment over a bookstore, meeting the village's large population of misfits and bibliomaniacs by working for world-class eccentric Richard Booth-the self-declared King of Hay, owner of the local castle, and proprietor of the world's largest and most chaotic used book warren. A useless clerk, Paul delights in shifting dusty stacks of books around and sifting them for ancient gems like Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable, Confessions of an Author's Wife, and I Was Hitler's Maid. He also duly fulfills his new duty as a citizen by simultaneously applying to be a Peer in the House of Lords and attempting to buy Sixpence House, a beautiful and neglected old tumbledown pub for sale in the town's center. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of his own book, Sixpence House becomes a meditation on what books means to us, and how their meaning can still resonate long after they have been abandoned by their public. Even as he's writing, the knowledge of where his work will eventually end up-rubbing bindings with the rest of the books that time forgot-is a curious kind of comfort.
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Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005
Author: Phil Baines
ISBN-10: 0141024232
ISBN-13: 9780141024233
Published: 2006-03-28
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Ever since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of Anglo-American culture and design history. By looking back at seventy years of Penguin paperbacks, graphic designer Phil Baines charts the development of British publishing, the ever-changing currents of cover art and style, and the role of artists and designers in creating and designing the Penguin look—including Penguins, Pelicans, Penguin Classics, and more. Rich with stunning illustrations and filled with details about individual titles, designers, and even the changing size and shape of the Penguin logo itself, Penguin by Design shows how covers become design classics.
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Decorating with Books (House Beautiful)
Author: Marie Proeller Hueston
ISBN-10: 1588164934
ISBN-13: 9781588164933
Published: 2006-06-28
Publisher: Hearst
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From House Beautiful comes a worthy addition to any decorator's library--a stylish guide on making books a part of your home décor. Opening the pages of a book can instantly carry you off to another world. But did you realize that, open or closed, books can also make your real world--your home--more fabulous? As legendary designer Billy Baldwin pointed out, they're “the best decoration,” capable of bringing incredible warmth, color, and character to a room. From grand bookcases in home libraries to casual stacks artfully arrayed on chairs, House Beautiful presents countless eye-catching ideas for displaying and arranging your hardcovers, paperbacks, encyclopedias, and even valuable first editions. Useful tips shed light on how to organize a large collection; situate bookcases in the room for the best effect; and make the most of books' appealing visual and tactile qualities. From traditional interpretations to contemporary visions--such as putting a book on a pedestal as an objet d'art--these concepts write a new page in design.A Selection of the Homestyle Book Club.
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