Continue VISIT WEBSITE LIFETIME MEMBER Crossroads Books OWNER: Diane Black Member since: 2020 Between the World Books (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): DealerSale use code at checkout and orders over $50 free media mail for domestic orders diane@crossroadsbooks.org 775-530-0307 PO Box 60661 1050 N. Hills Blvd, Reno, NV, 89506, United States More about this bookseller Occult, Metaphysical, and Spirituality books from rare to contemporary and expensive to inexpensive. Buy, sell and search for your reading pleasure. A new line of extensive Geology books with new listing added almost daily. Have always been interested in origins and other dimension or ways of being. By exploring the occult, it allows exploration of contemporary as well as historical means of achieving states of otherness. 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale Book or books will ship upon receipt of payment. Layaway is offered through agreed upon terms. Returns valid up to 30 days for a full refund and return label will be sent with refund issued upon return of the book.

DING < Back to Terminology List DING Defect A small bump or dent leaving an impression, sometimes caused by careless handling or storage. Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Herland Books OWNER: Joanne Weiss Member since: 2023 Modernist With an Antiquarian Sensibility (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 15 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): herlandbooks@gmail.com 3037225489 Denver, CO, 80223, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale PayPal or checks accepted.

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Continue VISIT WEBSITE Code Enhancement Studio OWNER: Quentin Plomteux Member since: 2025 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: % COUPON CODE (if applicable): More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items The Phantom Coach, Amelia B. Edwards VIEW DETAILS Terms of Sale

SOPHISTICATED < Back to Terminology List SOPHISTICATED Defect Books that have had repairs that involve making additions to the original (e.g.: chips filled in and tinted to match the missing portion, replaced page corners, etc.). In the trade, an “honest” book description should disclose all “sophistications.” In other words, if a bookseller has commissioned repairs of a book, all such repairs should be disclosed to prospective buyers in the description. It is possible for “sophistications” to have been executed on a book long before a given bookseller has bought a particular copy. Whether or not the bookseller was responsible for any such sophistication, not disclosing such repairs in a description are valid grounds for a buyer to return the copy to the seller. Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE First Place Books OWNER: Kevin Kinley Member since: 2012 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: % COUPON CODE (if applicable): firstplacebooks@aol.com 301-845-1248 301-845-1248 P.O. Box 561, Walkersville, MD, 21793, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

OUT-OF-PRINT < Back to Terminology List OUT-OF-PRINT General A book no longer available from the publisher. It is no longer being printed and no new copies remain available for sale. Also OP or OOP. Previous Next

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SELF-WRAPPERS / SELF-WRAPS < Back to Terminology List SELF-WRAPPERS / SELF-WRAPS Feature A booklet or pamphlet is said to have self-wrappers, or self-wraps, if the first and last leaves of its signatures are used as the wrappers and no additional, outer wrapper is used. The first example image shows two copies of the same keepsake printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press, San Francisco. The left-hand copy consists of the text block in self-wrappers. In the right-hand copy, the same text block has been bound with a flyleaf and card covers. The second example image shows a publisher's keepsake by Christopher Morley, the left-hand copy bound in stiff wrappers and the right-hand copy being the same text block in self-wrappers. Previous Next

EDGES < Back to Terminology List EDGES Feature The three outer sides of the text block when a book is closed: fore-edge, top edge or head, and bottom edge or foot. Previous Next

General tools and information for bookselling, clip worthy. THE STANDARD The IOBA Standard is the journal of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and covers the book world, with a special focus on the online used, out-of-print, and collectible bookselling markets. FROM THE EDITOR FEATURES PROFILES INTERVIEWS TOOLBOX BOOK REVIEWS LITERARY TRAVELS ADDENDA ANNOUNCEMENTS BOOK FAIRS More THE STANDARD | TOPIC: TOOLBOX General tools and information for bookselling, clip worthy Book Selling at Genre Conventions The first SF convention was held in 1936 in the United States (New York City), or in 1937 in England (Leeds) – a matter of debate that hinges on the definition of “convention”. At any rate, more than seventy-five years later, SF conventions are Big Business, with events held every weekend of the year around the globe. Nearly every convention has a Dealer’s (Huckster’s) Room. Typical merchandise for sale includes jewelry, artwork, clothing, toys, games, weapons … and books. Fo icc568 Jun 19, 2013 So You Want to Be a Bookseller: Ten Questions…Some Answers 1. Are you sure? We’re living the dream. Three-hour working days surrounded by our beloved books, more money than we can shake a stick at – I can’t help but feel sorry for all those non-booksellers out there. Oh wait, it’s not always like that though is it? The conventional wisdom is thabookselling is getting harder every year, and as with most such pearls there’s definitely an element of truth to that and it’s easy to see why. The devt elopment of new technologies – like dig Justin Woolley Aug 11, 2012 How to Buy Books Online The aim of this article is to offer you, the buyer, some insights from a bookdealer on how to avoid these unpleasant experiences and to make buying a book online feel more like shopping in your favorite book store. The first thing to do before making a purchase is to define what kind of book you want. I’ve broken this down to two broad categories: a reading copy (meaning a recent, common book), or a first/special edition. Determining what kind of book you’re looking for will icc568 Aug 10, 2012 Turnover: An Introduction for Booksellers When I began my bookselling career, I worked not in used bookshops but in new (ie. independent bookstores selling new books only). And in that context managers, section buyers (of which I was one), and owners were always watching the store’s “turn” or turn-rate. It is an eminently useful business concept I brought with me when I started my own used and rare book business. But despite its utility, in my experience far too few book dealers understand the idea or importance of t Brian Cassidy Sep 17, 2011 How to Get a Trade Discount, in Six Easy Lessons [Editor’s note: For more on trade discounts, see our related article Trade Discounts: Good For One and All.] NOTE: These are pitched to the “first-time askers” — those of you who would like to request a dealer discount from a fellow bookseller who you’ve never bought from before, and who is a complete stranger to you. Lesson 1. Ask directly. Take the time to seek out the seller’s email address, and send a direct message. (It’s acceptable, for the sake of convenience, to make Howard Prouty Sep 10, 2011 BEST OF: Overlooked and Undervalued, The Bookseller’s Inventory Database Most booksellers when evaluating their business assets will consider the cost and potential market value of their inventory, the cost of computer equipment, and maybe even the replacement cost of their reference library, but it seems that the value of their book-selling database is often overlooked. A database is far more than just a listing of books which you have for sale and the price you are asking for them. If that is all you need, you can simply input listings directly Chris Volk Jun 8, 2011 BEST OF: “What’s this Book Worth?” “Is it a first?” “What are the points of…?” “I can’t find a price guide for…?” “No copy on the net, and need to know the value of…?” Such are the daily, ubiquitous questions found on the various bookish listservs to which many booksellers & collectors subscribe. Most such queries are asked by novice booksellers, or the o.p./used bookseller who has what is thought to be a [potentially] valuable book. And in fact, upon examination, all these questions have in common this last a Vic Zoschak Jun 7, 2011 BEST OF: Appraising for Booksellers All of you have gotten the phone call. The person on the other end has inherited or been given or found at a garage sale a book/books which he believes may be the next record breaker at a Sotheby’s auction. “What’s it worth?” he wants to know. That is not the type of appraisal this article is going to address. Those appraisals can be handled with a few simple sentences such as, “That copy of Tarzan’s Revenge published in 1952 missing the front cover and the last three pages i Shirley Dyess Jun 6, 2011 BEST OF: How, when and why to write a press release and what to expect if you do How A press release has a standard format and should be as brief and to the point as possible. Think of how long it takes you to decide whether to read an e-mail or not. That’s about how long an editor will give your press release before deciding what to do with it. Your press release should be written on your company letterhead if it is typed and should be double-spaced. The sentences should be short, and the word count should be no more than 300-500. At the top of the page Sally Spooner Jun 5, 2011 Books About Bookselling: The Bookseller’s Apprentice As the publisher’s foreword points out, “Anyone who has gone to Boston to look for rare books in this century will have memories of Goodspeed’s Book Shop.” The history of this establishment, founded in 1898, was recorded by Charles Eliot Goodspeed in his 1937 Yankee Bookseller, and here son George takes up pen to bring the narrative forward in a limited edition of 750 copies. As George worked his way up at Goodspeed’s from 1924 until the shop’s closing in 1995, it appears tha Shawn Purcell Jul 23, 2008 Adventures with a Binder I recently journeyed to the Charles Matthews Bindery in Los Angeles to participate in a basic book repair class followed by some tips on restoration. It turned out to be a book autopsy, however, followed by major reconstructive surgery. Incredibly informative, very helpful and a lot of fun. With piles and boxes of books in need of varying levels of attention, I thought it a good, practical idea. But lurking in the back of my mind I had dreams of creating beautiful volumes wit Sharon Heimann Jul 21, 2008 The Hard Way There is a package on my desk, unopened. I know what’s in it. It weighs slightly more than a pound, and its cold, metallic heart holds my merchant’s life blood as surely as did that pound of flesh from another merchant so long ago. It’s my hard drive, still encased in the static-free, plastic sleeve the technicians used when they returned it to me. Through the lightly tinted plastic, I can read the “Seagate Recovery Services” sticker. I have finally learned the hard way what Alice Voith Apr 26, 2008 1 2 3 4 5