CLOSED TEAR < Back to Terminology List CLOSED TEAR Defect A tear with no material missing. It could also mean a tear repaired and closed with Japanese tissue or other such type of paper used for page repairs in the trade. Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Grayshelf Books OWNER: Bryan Young Member since: 2019 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): grayshelfbooks@gmail.com 2813796458 19111 Desert Eagle Dr., Tomball, TX, 77377, United States More about this bookseller Welcome to all the booklovers out there! We love being part of this community of booksellers and book collectors! Take a moment to browse our listings at AbeBooks, Biblio.com, and Ebay! Grayshelf Books is an online collectors library originating out of the love of collecting rare books. We specialize, but are not limited to, modern first editions in fiction from the 20th and 21st century. We also have inventory of rare works in Horror and Science Fiction. We guarantee all of our books in regards to the condition stated on the listing and all of our books are covered in archival protection jackets and shipped with the utmost care. Thanks for visiting! 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Gabriel Garcia Marquez/One Hundred Years of Solitude First UK Edition! Signed! Scarce! VIEW DETAILS Terms of Sale Bryan and Kelly Young dba Grayshelf Books, 19111 Desert Eagle Dr., Tomball, Tx 77377 Email - grayshelfbooks@gmail.com We accept payment by Paypal, Visa, Mastercard, checks, or money orders. Texas residents please add 8% sales tax. We guarantee all books to be as described. Additional scans of books will be provided upon request. Return policy: 30 day full money back guarantee to include shipping costs if an item arrives damaged or not as described in listing.

EX-LIBRIS < Back to Terminology List EX-LIBRIS Defect The term indicates a book or material from a private library, as opposed to a public library. Evidence of private ownership can be a signature, name, Bookplate , ink stamp, blind emboss, or blind deboss (blindstamp). Although being EX-LIBRIS is typically considered a defect that may reduce the value of a book, prior ownership by a famous person may increase the value. The first example image shows an EX-LIBRIS bookplate on the front fixed endpaper of a Czech book published in Prague, 1911. The second example shows a free endpaper blind embossed from ownership by actress Rosalind Russell. Previous Next

Reports on book fairs from members who participated or visited. 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: BOOK FAIRS Reports on book fairs from members who participated or visited On the Importance of Antiquarian Book Fairs I would like to take a moment to talk about antiquarian book fairs: what they are; who attends them; where they have been and where they are going; why they are important; and how I as a bookseller fit into all this. My hope is that this will provide a touchstone for various groups: those who are unfamiliar with book fairs should be able to read this, understand their purpose, and decide whether they are interested in visiting one; those who have shopped at book fairs before Jonathan Smalter Aug 25, 2016 My First Book Fair: A San Francisco Fairy Tale I thought I knew what to expect from my ‘first’ fair. From a visitor’s perspective, I had a visual and sensory expectation set, which went something like: heavy lifting, eight-hours standing, casual browsers, heavy hitters, high rollers, soft selling, gentle banter, brain teasing questions, booth memory game, occasional water breaks, invoice writing, rinse, repeat. All true. But I missed an important piece to the puzzle: it’s a love story. Some time ago, some century or decad Kara McLaughlin Aug 8, 2012 The 2011 Baltimore Summer Antiques Show What was the name, dates, and place of fair? Antiquarian Book Fair within the Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, August 25-28, 2011 (Thursday – Sunday) at the Baltimore Convention Center – Inner Harbor. Did you attend as a buyer or as an exhibitor? Buyer What seemed to be the mood among buyers? I was there on Thursday and Friday, under somewhat difficult circumstances; the week had begun with an earthquake, and was ending with Hurricane Irene headed for the area. Sandbags were b Karin Isgur Bergsagel Sep 8, 2011 Book Expo America 2007: “It’s About People and Books” BEA. To go, or not to go, that was the question. With my new baby, Perfect Pines Books and Gifts still in its infancy, I had to ask myself first if I could afford to go. That question had an easy answer, but only if I wanted to be completely honest with myself. “No.” So, I admitted that I couldn’t really afford the expense of attending Book Expo America in New York and ended the internal dialog. And then THEY started talking. You know them. Most people refer to them as the an Laura Jun 23, 2007 28th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, The 28th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair, November 19-21, 2004, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA On Saturday, November 20, 2004 I attended my first antiquarian book fair. As a voracious reader, compulsive collector, and fledgling online bookseller, with dreams of my own “Bricks and Mortar” store, I was excited to be attending. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I didn’t expect to become a 5-year-old again! I bought my ticket, entered the hall, and stopped Lynn Naylor Mar 31, 2005 15th NYC Collectable Paperback & Pulp Fiction Expo This show just keeps getting better and bigger. I’ve been exhibiting here for the past four years, and sporadically attending for a little longer than that, and it’s become one of my favorite bookselling and collecting venues. Not because it’s the most lucrative – but it is often far and away the most interesting. Impresario Gary Lovisi managed again to keep things lively on two fronts – the 35 dealers ranged from relative newcomers to longtime paperback specialists like Chri Bob Riedel Mar 7, 2004 31st Annual Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair The sighs of relief from organizers were palpable. The 2003 Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair was under new management, in a new location, and had a new sponsoring agency. But the fair exceeded expectations, drawing a significantly higher number of patrons than it did in 2002. You could almost hear the fingers uncrossing. The recently formed Rochester Area Booksellers Association had had its hands full. Following the 2002 fair, the Friends of the University of Rochester Library Bob Riedel Mar 6, 2004 New York Is Book Country Fair Over 18 used and antiquarian book dealers exhibited in this year’s 25th anniversary of New York is Book Country. It is definitely a long, hard day, but reaps many rewards. With over 250,000 people attending this daylong street event, it’s a great way to reach out, cultivate the masses and introduce them to the world of used books, prints and maps. There were over 200 exhibitors, including large publishing houses, small presses, libraries, cultural organizations and bookstores icc568 Mar 4, 2004 Seattle Fair Continues Success in a Tough Economy and Looks to Future Additions There are advantages to the move. The 2003 Fair was sold out in June, even after additional booths were added. However, the larger venue for 2004 has only 88 booths; six of which are designated premier booths as they directly face the front doors. In addition to the booths themselves being larger (10 foot by 10 foot), there are 26 corner booths. Furthermore, the producers will add a book arts show in conjunction with the 2004 Book Fair. The show is a unique opportunity for tw icc568 Mar 3, 2004 19th Annual Denver Book Fair The Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association sponsored its 19th Annual Book Fair August 1 and 2, 2003. With more than 80 dealers from across the country, the Fair is the biggest antiquarian book event in the Rocky Mountain west. This year’s event included celebrity limerick readings and panel discussions on children’s literature and Edward Abbey. Dates for the next fair are August 6 and 7, 2004. Scenes from the 19th Annual Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Book Fair August Julie Fauble Mar 2, 2004 Fall 2003 MARIAB Book Fair: Making a Regional Fair Work We used to do about three or four book fairs annually, years ago when we had shops first in Somerville and then in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Since our move to Deerfield in the western part of the state, however, the allure of fairs has somehow diminished — as we grow increasingly busy adding inventory to our own (now much larger) store’s shelves, managing our online sales, and taking care of all the other details of running a book business full-time, we find that book fairs, Judith Tingley Mar 1, 2004 Sacramento Book Fair September 20, 2003, the date of the 10th annual Sacramento Book Fair sponsored by the Central Valley Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association dawned bright, sunny and unseasonably hot – but inside the spacious Scottish Rite Temple, the location for the show, it was cool and comfortable – which might have contributed to the fact that the afternoon sales seemed to be just as brisk as the morning ones. This book show is consistently well produced and well attended. Bill Ewald of Arg Chris Volk Feb 29, 2004 1 2 3 4

Cormac McCarthy's Second Novel PRICE 2500 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile McCarthy, Cormac. Outer Dark. New York: Random House [1968]. First edition. 8vo. [9], 5-242, [6] pp. Quarter blue cloth over grey paper boards with gold and blue lettering on the spine, lettering in black on the front board and spine; black topstain. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Very near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. A small area of careful restoration to the reverse of the spine panel, with some mild discoloration to the rear fold; the jacket presents beautifully. Ahearn APG 002b. Ford & Pastore 102a. An exceptional copy of McCarthy's second novel. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Evening Star Books THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MIRTH AND MARVELS - BUMPUS BINDING See Item Keppel's Voyage to the Indian Archipelago See Item The First Complete Aeschylus See Item Baskerville's Milton See Item Cormac McCarthy's Second Novel See Item John Rawls' Magnum Opus See Item

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MARBLING < Back to Terminology List MARBLING Feature A process of decorating paper or fabric with the result resembling the veins of stone marble. Colors are floated on water, or another medium, and transferred to an absorbent surface by contact. Used in the West since the early seventeenth century, marbling is often performed by hand, but machine-marbled paper is common. The first and third example images show books that have marbled paper on boards and marbled page edges. The second example shows a sheet of Cockerell paper. Previous Next

Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management PRICE $325 AUD PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Beeton, Isabella. Mrs Beeton's Household Management: a complete cookery book. Ward Lock & Co: London, UK (nd) (c1928). Demy 8vo (215x140mm) HC Faux Morocco Qtr Bnd, tan bds xvi,1680,[10 ads]pp. VG/- minor rubbing on cnrs; some light foxing. A very good tight 'New' economy edition 'strongly bound' (incorporating over 4,000 recipes from Mr Charles Herman Senn) brought up to date to take account of the ongoing labour shortage and the economic circumstances in the UK in the late 1920s. 'A complete cookery book with sections on household work, servants' duties, labour saving, laundry work, etiquitete, marketing, carving & trussing, the art of 'using-up', table decoration, the home doctor, the nursery, the home lawyer etc...with 32 plates in colour and nearly 700 illustrations." Recipes originally attributed to the colonies are now described as being from the Dominions. [NLA 3297939] [Dated 1928 by reference to the new 1927 Valor-Perfection Oil Cooking Stove] PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Books for Cooks Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management See Item Mrs Maclurcan's Cookery Book See Item The Experienced English Housekeeper See Item Almanach des Gourmands See Item

Continue VISIT WEBSITE LIFETIME MEMBER Sequitur Books OWNER: Cameron Rittenhouse-Smith Member since: 2020 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 0 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): crs@sequiturbooks.com 2407510320 6033 Clevelandtown Road Boonsboro Boonsboro, BOONSBORO, MD, 21713-2726, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

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A Yiddish children's book by a shining star of Russian Jewish literature PRICE € 475 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Semen Grigo'revich Frug . Dos shteysel . Kishinev-Vilna, Ferlag Far Unzere Kinder, 1914. 17,5 x 12 cm. Stapled in publisher's pictorial wrappers. 32 pp. With portrait of the author and a lovely art nouveau headpiece. The wrappers damaged along the staples, but overall very well preserved. Second edition of a Yiddish children's book by Semen Grigo'revich (or Shimen Shmuel) Frug (1860-1916), recalling a childhood memory. Frug was a Russian and Yiddish poet and essayist, once "considered a shining star of Russian Jewish literature" (Horowitz). He grew up in Kherson Province (Ukraine). A native Russian speaker, he began publishing Russian poetry at the age of 19. In the late 1880s he started to write Yiddish poetry as well, although his attitude towards Yiddish was very ambivalent. He recognised that most Russian Jews spoke Yiddish, but he believed that as Jews progressed they would stop using it. Not surprisingly, Frug placed a higher value on his Russian works." Frug’s works can serve as a powerful refractive mirror of Russian Jewish life in the last decades of tsarist rule" (Horowitz). PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Black Dog Rare Books "Go and enjoy yourself!": Sex tourism in Paris See Item Collected poems by Jo Corsen, including poems in Papiamento See Item Marriage of Ludwig Gutmann and Rosette Pinkus: manuscript with 8 watercolours See Item First Russian translation of the first major theoretical treatise on cubism See Item A young girl's adventures in decadent Paris, illustrated with photographs See Item A Yiddish children's book by a shining star of Russian Jewish literature See Item A Chinese physician accidentally ending up in Amsterdam in 1861 See Item Book of Common Prayer, from the library of Liverpool slave trader Moses Benson See Item A religious tract on the Great Comet of 1811, printed in Boston See Item

Continue VISIT WEBSITE E. Ridge Fine Books OWNER: Sharon Heimann Member since: 2007 Books with a history (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 20 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): eridgebooks@gmail.com 951-265-4578 951-265-4578 33453 Adelfa St., Lake Elsinore, CA, 92530, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale Check or money orders are accepted. All books are guaranteed "As Listed." Returns are accepted up to 30 days from sale. Please contact us before returning the book via email with "Book Return" in the subject line, or call us at (951) 265-4578.