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Title: Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions by Bill McBride ISBN: 0-930313-06-2 Publisher: McBride Pub Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good for beginners
Comment: I bought this after about 5 years as a bookdealer thinking it might help me out on the road. It did not. Most of first edition identification is common sense, and I just didn't find this booklet very useful. It is concise and accurate and comprehensive, so no taking away from the other reviewers. If you have never worked in the used book business, this would be a very good book. But if you are very serious, consider the Zemple guide from Spoon River Press.
Rating: 5
Summary: Easy basics on identifying firsts
Comment: The introduction gives a solid background on first editions in general. The bulk of the booklet -- and it is a booklet to carry with you -- is a 100-page list of about 3600 publishers, large and small, famous and obscure. For each publisher, the typical first edition clues are given. Indispensable and affordable.
For the details of well-known true firsts, itemized title by title, see the author's other book, Points of Issue.
Rating: 5
Summary: Searching For That Elusive First Printing
Comment: I owe quite a lot to Bill McBride and his A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions. When I started collecting books in earnest over a decade ago, I knew very little about first editions [more correctly 'first printings']. My first education in 'firsts' came from a 3rd Edition of this handy little book. I always carry it [now the 6th Revised Edition] when I'm doing the used bookstores somewhere [the urban counterpart to the rock collecting I do in the outback] and many times Mr. McBride's little book has saved me from buying a book misidentified as a 'first' and has helped me find a few bargains when a long sought 'first' was not identified as such. Before you challenge the used bookstore circuit [my favorites are in San Francisco, Berkeley, and the Los Angeles/Orange County area] or, braver yet, the yard sale/estate sale/swap meet/Goodwill circuit, make sure you have a copy of Mr. McBride's little book in your hip pocket.
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Title: Book Finds: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books by Ian C. Ellis ISBN: 0399526544 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 06 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Official Price Guide to Collecting Books, 4th Edition by Pat Goudey, Marie Tedford ISBN: 0609807692 Publisher: House of Collectibles Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites by Stephen Windwalker ISBN: 0971577838 Publisher: Harvard Perspectives Press Pub. Date: 05 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Collected Books: The Guide to Values 2002 (Collected Books, 2002) by Allen Ahearn, Patricia Ahearn ISBN: 0399147810 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 08 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: ABC for Book Collectors by John Carter, Nicolas Barker ISBN: 1884718051 Publisher: Oak Knoll Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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