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SOME OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS
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A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter. Hardback first edition published by Paris Review Editions / Doubleday in 1967. Very good condition in good dust jacket; jacket is stained, light sunning to spine; binding edges lightly sunned, book has a musty smell. $200
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The Tick Omnibus by Ben Edlund, Robert Polio, and George Suarez. Limited edition trade paperback published by New England Comics Press, Inc. in 1990. Signed by Edlund with drawing of The Tick, also signed by Suarez and Polio, numbered 2971/3000; in very good condition, with minor wear to wraps, and corners slightly bent. $75
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Body Paint by Paul Roustan. Hardback without a dust jacket, published by the author in 2015. Very good condition; signed and dated by Roustan on front board; light scratches to binding, corners slightly bumped. $75
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The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923 by Ellic Howe, hardback first edition published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1972. Very good condition in very good jacket; light sunning and edge wear to jacket; light soiling and wear to binding, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, minor staining to rear free endpaper. $125
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Mystery Train: A Film by Jim Jarmusch by Jim Jarmusch, photographs by Masayoshi Sukita. Trade paperback published by Victor Musical Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) in 1989. Trade paperback in very good condition, signed and inscribed by Sukita; light sunning to wraps, corners very slightly bent. $100
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The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of the Supernatural by H. P. Lovecraft, mass market paperback published by Bartholomew House in 1944 (Bart House Novel 4). In good minus condition, with wraps creased, book has a spine slant, corners bent, rear cover pulling from block of book, binding cracking. $25
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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...
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Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing (with The Wonderland Postage-Stamp Case) by Lewis Carroll, first edition published by Emberlin and Son in 1890. "Eight or Nine Words... " is a 48mo booklet of 40 pages with very minor soiling to wraps; "Postage-Stamp Case" is about the same size, very good plus in very good inner envelope (minor staining to one corner), in fair outer envelope (edges very worn). $250
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Once upon a time, counterfeit copies of books were oddities that usually came out of China or Taiwan, and now may be very collectible (like the two volumes of uncollected J. D. Salinger short stories).
Then Amazon came along.
Now counterfeit books are everywhere. Print-on-demand technologies have made it easy for unethical sellers to copy and sell both public-domain classics and modern bestsellers. "Summaries" of bestsellers are positioned on Amazons pages to fool customers into buying what they think is the actual book.
Amazon's answers to these issues is...well, lax, claiming both that this rarely happens and that they've denied accounts to over one million "bad actors".
We've seen these counterfeits come in to the Iliad. It's a real problem. Here's hoping Amazon will shore up their policies so authors don't continue to lose out on sales thanks to counterfeiting.
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.
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Thanks to employee Eric for capturing this shot of the (Not So) New Arrivals.
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