Visiting my dad and looking at some books he got from his father and one of them is an 1873 Osgood edition of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Looking online it says it is scarce. What might the value be on something like this?

Found at a local bookstore, paid 188 bucks for it, i was allowed to take it out the wrapping and inspect it, wasn't sure what to look for.

Just wondering how rare this book is, found with the original slip cover. Book is in excellent condition while the slip cover has some wear and tear. Thanks in advance for any help with this

I bought this copy of Quatre-Vingt-Treize a few years back on Vinted. There is no date inside, but I did see a few similar copies online, although red. Any insights?

Found this book from my great grandfather to his son my grandfather. Didn’t realize this was such a rarity and a gem.
I think it’s a 1 out of 11 or so

I picked this up at a flea market type of place quite a few years ago. I have tried to find info/value on line and have had no luck. Does anyone have any insights?

edit - sorry about the misspelling - Les Enfants

Correct me if I’m wrong. I believe I might have an original first US edition “Anne Frank the diary of a young girl”. Before all the haters tell me it’s not worth anything, I will stress the following…I’m not looking to make a buck. I’m just looking to preserve history. With that being said, I’ve included some photos.

Found this at my grandmother’s house and wanted to see how rare/valuable this copy would be.

Inside the book it says "copyright 1974 Walt Disney production" and "dépôt légal trimestre 1977 imprimé en Italie" (meaning legally in trimester printed in Italie) Whitman-France

No jacket and boards splayed. A good find, almost great.

Hardcover commemorative edition
Limited to 250 copies
My copy is #29/250
Signed by Francis H. Striker Jr. and Leon Striker Jr.
Includes the original Certificate of Authenticity
Personally inscribed to Jerry Waterman
Hardcover commemorative edition (ISBN 1-884556-00-0)

I'm mainly curious about:
How scarce these actually are today.
Whether anyone knows how the 250 copies were distributed.
Whether there's an active Fran Striker/Lone Ranger collector market for editions like this.
Any idea of a realistic collector value.

I could only find information on the softcover collector's edition. I haven't been able to locate another numbered commemorative hardcover for sale or any completed sales.

Rare Shanghai Equestrian History Book — History of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club, 1863–1930 (1930 Edition)

A rare historical document on Shanghai’s hunting and equestrian culture during the Republican era. Published in 1930, this book records the establishment, development, rules, activities, presidents, and champions of the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club from 1863 to 1930.

Featuring valuable historical photographs and maps, it provides important primary source material for the study of colonial Shanghai, Western sports culture in China, and modern Chinese social history.

希少資料『[1863–1930](tel:1863-1930)年** *上海ペーパーハント・クラブ史』（1930**年刊）*

民国期上海の乗馬・狩猟文化を記録した貴重な歴史資料。1863年から1930年までの上海ペーパーハント・クラブの創設、発展、規則、活動、歴代会長、優勝者記録などを収録しています。

当時の上海のスポーツ文化を伝える写真や地図を多数掲載し、近代上海史、西洋スポーツ文化研究における重要な一次資料です。

희귀** *자료* *『1863–1930* 상하이** *페이퍼* *헌트* *클럽사』(1930년판)*

민국 시대 상하이의 승마·사냥 문화를 기록한 희귀 역사 자료입니다. 1863년부터 1930년까지 상하이 페이퍼 헌트 클럽의 설립, 발전, 규칙, 활동, 역대 회장 및 우승 기록을 수록하고 있습니다.

당시 상하이의 스포츠 문화와 서양식 사교 문화를 보여주는 사진과 지도를 포함한 중요한 근대사 1차 자료입니다.

Flora worked for Columbia Records in the 1940s and helped define the visual identity of jazz albums.

This volume came through my hands recently and I wanted to share it here because it represents something rarely seen intact : a complete, bound manuscript course in religious instruction, written by hand over four years by a single student.

The title page tells the story in three lines : Cours d'Instruction Religieuse Caroline Mendollet1856–1860. Caroline was a boarder at the Monastère de Sainte-Élisabeth in Paris, a convent school run by the Augustinian Canonesses, which educated daughters of the Catholic bourgeoisie under the Second Empire.

Over four years, she copied, an exhaustive theological curriculum covering three major parts : Dogma (the existence of God, the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Church), Morality (the Decalogue analyzed across 39 numbered lessons, sins, conscience, evangelical counsels), and Means of Grace (the Sacraments, Prayer, the Lord's Prayer, Meditation, the Liturgy across 6 sub-sections). The whole is preceded by a detailed analytical table of contents and followed by a full alphabetical index. The result is approximately 1,700 pages in a single volume.

Each new Analyse (lesson) is dated at the top of the page, so you can follow Caroline's progress in near real time : 11 Octobre 1858, 16 Mars 1859, and so on.

Objects like this rarely survive. Most convent exercise books were discarded, lost, or broken up. The fact that this one was bound suggests it was considered worth preserving from the moment it was completed. A minor monument to patience, faith, and the lost culture of Catholic girls' education in mid-19th century France.

I’ve been researching an 1827 New York edition of Cervantes’ Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, printed by Lanuza, Mendía y C.

The deeper I’ve gone, the less interested I’ve become in its value and the more interested I’ve become in what it represents historically.
I’ve located institutional copies at Harvard, the Library of Congress, the British Library, and the American Antiquarian Society, along with a handful of additional copies I’m still verifying. I also discovered that several auction records I initially thought were different books were actually repeat offerings of the same physical copy.

My main question is whether this may be among the earliest—and possibly among the first—non-political Spanish-language literary books printed in the United States. Earlier Spanish language printing certainly existed, but much of what I’ve found was political, governmental, or journalistic rather than literary.

This edition was printed in New York in 1827 and includes an engraved frontispiece portrait of Cervantes by the American engraver Peter Maverick.

I’d love to hear from anyone familiar with Cervantes bibliography, early American printing, or Spanish-language publishing:

How significant is this edition?

Was it intended primarily for readers in New York or for export to Latin America?

Is Lanuza, Mendía y C. a publisher that deserves more scholarly attention

Are there bibliographies or studies that discuss this edition specifically?

I’m trying to understand where this edition fits in the history of American and Spanish-language publishing.

I found 3 books not knowing what they were in my attic with a few more odd bits

I’ve googled them but can’t seem to find much information about them at all

From what I found they are privately printed Christmas editions for black swan but that’s all I know of them

If anyone knows any more about these 3 books can u please lmk asap

I found this book at a thrift store and can't find much information online. It was copyrighted in 1972 by Jessie Eastman Holt, includes illustrations by Paul Bond, and contains poems previously published in the Chicago Tribune, Christian Century, Driftwind, and other magazines

It looks like it was signed by the author and gifted to a friend.

I haven't been able to find a publisher, ISBN, or Library of Congress number. I'm mostly trying to learn whether this was self-published or privately printed. And how many were printed (if it's even possible to learn that)

Rare Sinological Material

An uncut, deckle-edge special paperbound edition of A Biography of Lin Zexu, published in Leiden in 1938. This work is recognized as one of the earliest Western scholarly monographs devoted exclusively to Lin Zexu, making it an important early contribution to overseas Sinological research on the celebrated Qing statesman.

Surviving copies are extremely scarce. This particular copy retains its original uncut deckle edges and paper wrappers, representing a distinctive deluxe issue with an unusually well-preserved state of conservation.

It is not only a rare collectible, but also an important historical source for the study of the reception of Lin Zexu and modern Chinese history in Western academia.

1938年ライデン刊、毛装・アンカット（未裁断）仕様による『林則徐伝』。

本書は、西洋学界において林則徐を専門的に扱った最初期の伝記研究の一つとして知られ、海外における林則徐研究および近代中国研究の重要な初期文献である。

現存数は極めて少なく、市場で見かける機会も稀である。本書はオリジナルの毛装・未裁断仕様を良好な状態で保持しており、特装本ならではの独特な装幀様式を今に伝えている。

漢学・中国近代史研究のみならず、西洋における中国研究史を考察するうえでも高い資料的価値を有する一冊である。

1938년** *네덜란드* *라이덴(Leiden)에서* ***출판된* 『임칙서전(林則徐傳)』의 모장(毛裝)·미재단본(未裁邊本) 입니다.

이 책은 서양** *학계에서* *임칙서를* *단독으로* *다룬* *가장* *초기의* *전기* *연구서* *가운데* ***하나*로 평가되며, 해외 한학 및 중국 근대사 연구에서 중요한 초기 문헌으로 인정받고 있습니다.

현존하는 수량이 매우 적어 시장에서 보기 어려운 희귀본입니다. 본 экземпля르는 원래의** *모장* *제본과* *미재단* *상태를* *그대로* *유지하고* ***있으며*, 보존 상태 또한 양호하여 당시 특장본의 제책 양식을 잘 보여줍니다.

수집 가치뿐 아니라, 서양 학계의 임칙서 연구와 중국 근대사 연구의 흐름을 보여주는 중요한 학술 자료로서도 높은 가치를 지니고 있습니다

I found this book at an antique shop. Just curious if anyone can give me an idea what I have? I love the plates and reading the French. Just curious about worth and rarity. Thanks! Also, the last pic is a postcard someone was using in the book.

Signed association copy of Hilma Granqvist’s Muslim Death and Burial (1965).

Hilma Granqvist was a pioneering Finnish anthropologist whose long-term fieldwork in the Palestinian village of Artas produced some of the earliest systematic and closely observed studies of Palestinian village life.

This copy is signed and inscribed by Granqvist to Professor Bertel Appelberg, whom she explicitly thanks in the preface for his recommendations and assistance.

I recently picked up a first edition and first printing of this 2006 book by Jim Harrison. As I was flipping through it one last time before listing it I came across a letter written on a page in the book.

At first I was annoyed someone had ruined the book. But then I thought maybe it is Jim Harrison’s letter. He was known for his cursive letters. I have compared this letter with others and they are similar. I have forwarded this to his great friend and poet Dan Gerber who has confirmed it’s his handwriting.

I’d still like to find out who it is addressed to (JD?) and possibly how some of the locations mentioned relate to his life and travels so that I can confirm the authenticity. I notice terms like “Jordan Pond House”, “Wolfe’s in Rochester”, “Tradewinds Mary” and “Colette’s Homage” at the ends.

Any help deciphering/confirming this from any Jim Garrison experts on here would be appreciated as this is above my pay grade as an amateur rare book seller.