/lit/ - Literature

>>14016206
I wish, try trawling used bookstores in your town.

they come up on ebay for pretty cheap

>>14016206
My Collected Sherlock Holmes stories is pretty fancy looking with facsimiles of the old Strand Magazine pages where the stories were first published

>>14016206
I have a number of old first editions. The most valuable is either a 1st edition Huck Finn or a 1st edition of one of Lang's Fairy books (I think Yellow), depending on what antiquarian prices are doing at any moment. Now that I think of it I have a number of signed first edition Ishiguros, but I haven't bothered checking their price since he won the Nobel. Used to have a nice 1st of Hemingway's 5th Column, but I gave it to one of my employees as a gift on their retirement.

FWIW, Easton/Folio/Franklin/etc are rarely actually worth the price the press charges you for them, and if you're interested in monetary value or rareness they are not the way to go, though admittedly they often look OK on a shelf.

>>14016929
That's probably a decent direction although the chances are pretty low depending on the quality of the bookstore
>>14016992
Never used ebay before, but I'll check it out
>>14017023
That sounds really intriguing. That type of content is why I like the prospect of owning collectors items. For example, my copy of Dante's work contains prints of Gustave Dore's engravings interspersed throughout the pages.
>>14017334
Monetary turn over is of no interest to me, only acquiring them for my growing collection of books.

>>14016206
i have one of the collector's edition tales of beedle the bard that was released a few years ago after amazon bought the original one from jk rowling. they made 2000 copies i think.
it's still in the original amazon packaging

>>14016206
Yesterday I bought 12 Easton Press books for 27.330 yens. Are they limited?

>>14019480
That's pretty cool even though it is Harry Potter related.

>>14016206
Hard to find? Franklin Library editions are cheap and plentiful.

I have a first edition A Confederacy of Dunces that my mom purchased when it first came out, and a signed copy of the edition of In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen that the FBI had pulped after a libel lawsuit.

>>14020903
I’ve got a signed and numbered copy of Statecraft by Margaret Thatcher and a signed copy of Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

>>14021336
Two nice Centipede Press editions of Jekyll and Hyde and The Monk.

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>>14021341
I feel like these really need to be in a wood paneled room with some leather wing-back chairs to look good.

>>14021692
Yeah, having my collection on IKEA bookshelves definitely takes away from the look I’m going for.

ITT: clowns brag about their toys.

>>14021773
Philistine.

I have a signed copy of the Confessions

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>>14021341
Those books deserve better bookcases than those IKEA Billy cheapskate firewood planks.

>>14021827
Very true. I’m moving soon, I’ll upgrade then.

>>14022674
Boxing up all these books is going to fucking suuuuuck

>>14016206
Used book stores. You can find old Franklin's for 1 or 2 bucks apiece.

>>14022753
Decent shape, franklins fetch $ 25-40 CDN for full leather 1970-1985 copies.