|
SOME OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mrs. Rorer's Philadelphia Cook Book: A Manual of Home Economies by S. T. Rorer, hardback published by Arnold & Company in 1886. Hardcover in fair condition: light wear to binding, corners and spine ends bumped, hinges cracking, previous owner's name and year written on front free endpaper, first blank is missing, binding just starting to crack. $75
|
|
|
|
Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffman, illustrated by Maurice Sendak. First thus edition hardback published by Crown in 1984. Book and jacket both are in very good condition; signed by Sendak on tipped-in plate; minor edge wear to DJ; light sunning to binding edges, corners slightly bumped. $50
|
|
|
|
Trench Art: An Illustrated History by Jane A. Kimball. Hardback published by Silverpenny Press in 2004. Both book and jacket are in very good condition, with minor edge wear to jacket; minor wear to binding, and very light soiling to page edges. $100
|
|
|
|
|
Have you ever noticed the big safe full of books behind Iliad's front counter? We get asked about it frequently. "Is it really old?" is a common question (the answer: no, we bought it new just a few years ago). But most customers want to know what kind of books merit storage in a safe (we think of these as the rarest of our rare books), so in this column we'll pick one book every month and tell you about it. This month's book is...
|
|
|
|
|
On the Road by Jack Kerouac, first edition published by Viking Press in 1957. Hardback in good condition with a good dust jacket. DJ has price of $3,95, no statement of printing on DJ or copyright page; DJ lightly sunned, some edge wear with several 1" tears; binding is stained and rubbed, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, book has a slight spine slant, some foxing and soiling to endpapers, light soiling to page edges. $1,250
|
|
|
According to multiple sources like Open Culture, The Atlantic, and Duke University School of Law, a huge wave of novels, films, music and many other artworks from 1923 will enter the public domain on January 1, 2019. This is the first time in 20 years that such a large
amount of work will become public domain. This is because of the Sonny Bono extension (20 years) that was tacked onto the traditional life + 50 years for a work to achieve public domain status. What this means to readers is that we can expect to see a lot of new editions of some of these classics:
Novels
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Cane by Jean Toomer
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
- Whose Body?, the first Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Two of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and The Murder on the Links
- The Prisoner, volume 5 of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (note that English translations have their own copyrights)
- The complete works of Anthony Trollope
Non-fiction books:
- The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
- Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
Short stories by Christie, Woolf, H.P. Lovecraft, Katherine Mansfield, and Ernest Hemingway.
Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Sukumar Ray, and Pablo Neruda.
Works by Jane Austen, D.H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, Jorge Luis Borges, Mikhail Bulgakov, Jean Cocteau, Italo Svevo, Aldous Huxley, Winston Churchill, G.K. Chesterton, Maria Montessori, Lu Xun, Joseph Conrad, Zane Grey, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
in 2016, 87 new ABA member bookstores opened for business in 32 states and the District of Columbia. That is almost a 43 percent increase over the number of store openings in 2015.
in 2016, 87 new ABA member bookstores opened for business in 32 states and the District of Columbia. That is almost a 43 percent increase over the number of store openings in 2015.
in 2016, 87 new ABA member bookstores opened for business in 32 states and the District of Columbia. That is almost a 43 percent increase over the number of store openings in 2015.
in 2016, 87 new ABA member bookstores opened for business in 32 states and the District of Columbia. That is almost a 43 percent increase over the number of store openings in 2015.
|
|
|
|
There's no sneaking up on a cat.
|
|
We'd love to include your photos in our newsletter! Feel free to send to info@iliadbooks.com , let us know that it's okay to use the photo, and we'll include it in a future newsletter.
If you need more photos/videos of Zeus and Apollo, or any of Iliad's past felines, please visit our Pet Gallery.
|
|
|
|
