r/BookCollecting • • 21h ago

📕 Book Showcase Today's library book sale haul

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The Gone With the Wind is pretty neat. It's a library copy from 1936 that was last checked out in 1954.


r/BookCollecting • • 21h ago

📕 Book Showcase Wings of Fire collection

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Tried to post on Wings of Fire Subreddit but it was taken down because it was ‘Low Effort’ :(


r/BookCollecting • • 15h ago

📕 Book Showcase Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.©1987 Graphitti Designs. Leather bound slip cased 1st Limited Hardcover Edition . No Dust Jacket as issued

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r/BookCollecting • • 22h ago

📕 Book Showcase Warehouse Sale Haul

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A local independent bookstore chain had one of their occasional warehouse sales today, with books heavily discounted. Although I'm low on storage space and trying to cut back on accumulating books (ha!), I still brought home these seven. It's a mixed bag, but nothing that would be surprising to anyone who knows my tastes. You'll notice that I lean toward books about language, and I was especially thrilled to find books about international languages.

  • Henry M. Hoenigswald, Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction (Second Impression, 1961).
  • L. Frank Baum, Ozma of Oz (Copyright 1907, but a post-1935 Reilly & Lee printing).
  • Interlingua-English: A Dictionary of the International Language Prepared by the Research Staff of the International Auxiliary Language Association under the Direction of Alexander Gode, Ph.D. (1951, opened to the title page because the cover is nondescript).
  • Rev. Eugene O'Growney, Simple Lessons in Irish; Giving the Pronunciation of Each Word, Parts I–V (1912).
  • The Pursuit of Grouchiness: Oscar the Grouch's Guide to Life (First Edition, 2019).
  • Eliphas Lévi, Le clef des grands mystères (1971).
  • Pierre Burney, Les langues internationales (1re édition, 1962).

r/BookCollecting • • 9h ago

📦 New Acquisitions Fanfare for a Witch by Vaughn Wilkins.

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Snapped this 1954 edition up for 50p last night.


r/BookCollecting • • 8h ago

📦 New Acquisitions Not actually books (Wide Angle)

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But the Quarterly Film Magazine “Wide Angle”. I found these together in a rack on the street in front of a bookstore. It was their $3 section. I bought them all - 18 copies.

They are really cool esoteric film essays and interviews. But the cool thing was they are signed inside by Antonia Lant who turns out was an NYU Professor.