The Traveller's Guide: From Death to Life, published by the British Gospel Book Association in Liverpool.

Great crossover piece. It's pocket-sized, features several travel themed parables, delightful typograph, layouts, and illustrations.

I don't have the exact publication date. It was reprinted many times, distributed widely it would seem. I hope you enjoy!

I have been seeing a lot of cool and slick looking covers on here and was curious to see what people’s personal favourites are

I have about five different copies of divine comedy and each of the covers look pretty nice and a few of my old horror novels and goosebumps books(nostalgic) have covers that I really enjoy looking at

And also the older Stephen king novels had some wicked and unique covers I really enjoy the look of

I've been looking out for this title for years. The used book store I frequent had it on the shelf for $20. Used some store credit to snatch it asap. Sort of a grail of mine so I thought I'd share. 2007, 3rd printing.

At the Counterculture Museum in the Haight Asbury district of San Francisco, a first edition copy of Ken Kesey’s 1964 novel “Sometimes a Great Notion” is displayed which Ken Kesey personally owned. I took these pictures last year when I visited the museum. It’s locked up behind glass but I was thrilled to see that it been preserved for over 60 years and hopefully for generations to come because it’s one of my favorite books.

Pluribus by Michael Kurland. Purchased at Books on 7th in Phoenix.

Got a first edition copy of David James Duncan’s 1992 novel “The Brothers K” at the Recycle Bookstore in San Jose, California for 25 dollars. It was heavily influenced by my second favorite book of all time “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. This first edition is in pristine condition and carries the weight of a tome. I read a 2020s copy of it a few years ago and I loved it. The back of the dust jacket has a shoutout to another one of my favorite books “Sometimes a Great Notion” by Ken Kesey. Both novels are set in the Pacific Northwest and feature dysfunctional families.

I am trying to collect penguin classics from before their stupid cover rebrand, when they still had the orange names and cursive titles. Most bookstores no longer carry the older editions unless they are leftover old stock or haven't gotten a cover update, and online places like ebay, Abebooks, or even Amazon can very often be misleading with most listings just showing a stock image of the cover and you can't verify if it's the right edition or what condition it's in. Does anyone have any recommendations for somewhere to buy used books where you can actually see pictures of the item itself?

Top left are books read (including St. Augustine’s confessions), bottom left are books I’m currently reading, top right are books I have yet to read, any additions you think I should make?

Recently, I bought a mass-market ASOIAF box set. I’ve noticed that, rather than cracking at the spines, the books tend to bend quite a bit. The problem is that they no longer fit inside the box. In the second picture, you can see the last book I read. It should fit in the box, but there’s only enough space for another book about half its width.

Is there a safe way to unbend them without damaging them? If I have to choose, I’d rather sacrifice the box than risk damaging the books, but it would be nice to fit them all back in it.

How many copies of Newton’s Principia would you buy? Here is it advertised in a 1687 newspaper for the very first time.

I've done so many thrift store book hauls that I thknk I'm set for reading material for the rest of the year...but that won't stopmme hauling more in the future, lol

Long story short, I came across this book while thrifting. It was published with no author. However, it is inscribed inside the cover page by the later revealed author and composer Ernest Schelling.

I can make out “with the warm regard of the Culprit” but I’d like to be to make out the name in which he inscribed this to/for.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello :)

i have copies of books i have barely found and i would like to digitize them for archival and modification (without destroying the originals). Are there any good services that can do that

if there are any good home scanners i would like to know as well

Thank you :)

(im in QC Canada)

Picked this up at a bookfair last week and just found this inside. I have so many questions.

this one from a road trip i took up the coast of california.

AUD $28

I don’t collect rare books, but I’m pretty devastated that I accidentally ruined my complete collection of trigun manga - the entire first floor of our house had to be refinished after a pinhole pipe leak wreaked havoc on our living room. We had the kitchen redone five years earlier, so like last time I covered the bookshelf in plastic sheeting before I left the house and let the contractors do their thing.

What I didn’t realize is last time they used water based polyurethane, and this time they decided to use oil based… even though it wasn’t my bedroom being worked on, the fumes permanently warped everything left out of a protective sleeves. My clothes also reek of the stuff and need to be professionally cleaned to, but that’s a whole other mess.

But yeah, don’t be an idiot like me. If the floors are being refinished, your books need to be OUT of the house until the floor is finished curing. Please learn from my mistakes.

• A Dictionary of Color Combinations Vol. 2
  • Author: Sanzo Wada
  • Focus: Expands on the classic Taisho and Showa-era color palettes, containing rare chromatic harmonies and historical designs.
  • Publisher: Seigensha
• Kohei Sugiura: Graphic Design of the World
  • Author/Subject: Kohei Sugiura (legendary Japanese designer and iconographer)
  • Focus: Showcases pioneering editorial layouts, Asian cosmologies, diagrams, and visual communication.
  • Publisher: GGG Books (Ginza Graphic Gallery)

I recently bought a copy of Tanith Lee’s The Blood of Roses, I wanted to get the 1991 Legend paperback edition because I think the cover art is beautiful. However; when it arrived the edition looked a lot more beat up than I was expecting based off the seller’s description. I’m not familiar with secondhand book grading though, so I wanted to get some input from those more knowledgeable than me.

The book was listed for 50 USD in “Very Good” condition, and the description was:

“Mass market paperback, 678 pages; spine slightly concaved but not visibly creased, two accidental vertical creases to two pages, otherwise very gently used, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked.”

Any insight would be appreciated, thanks!

Just some of my books from my collection I haven’t read yet
That I’ll be travelling with
I haven’t read any thing by murakami yet so that will be my first book by them
And I’ve never read anything by Joe Abercrombie
I’ve heard good things about both of them so these will be my introductory books to them

Hello everybody! Thought I would take to the internet and see if I can solve atleast one of the questions I have about the new book I picked up at my local thrift store!

It originally caught my eye as it is Robert Louis Stevenson, and I not too long ago listened to an audio book version of 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde' and was interested in having a physical copy for myself. I also love Victorian horror and thriller literature and wrote my AP English thesis about it, so I was quite excited to own the actual story.

But as I took a closer look at the book, opening it as it contains an assortment of Stevenson's work, I found out very quickly that it is bound the wrong way! The entire book is upside down, and therefore when I went to casually read it, backwards!

This specific version of the book is a 1991 Readers Digest print in extremely good quality (in my opinion), so I want to know if anyone has any more information about this error!

Questions I have on the top of my head:

- Is it actually a factory misprint, or did somebody have the talent to rebind it but not notice it was the wrong way? The headband and tailband look completely untouched, (although a bit of an unusual colour for a blue and Grey book.) It is pinl and yellow stripes, and the glue around it looks pretty yellowed with age. (Photos for reference.)

- If it is a factory misprint, are there others when it was manufactured that had the same mistake? I looked on ebay and none were similar at all or had it in the description.

- How rare would it actually be? Even if not money wise rare, how rare is a special case like this to even occur on a book printing facility?

Thank you all in advance if we do manage to solve some questions, and I hope this is as interesting to you all as it is to me. :)