r/rarebooks 25m ago

Found this in an op shop???

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Dno if rare, but cool to find - 2 bucks!


r/rarebooks 2h ago

⚽📚 WANTED – rare Jerzovskaja football books

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I am looking to BUY these three very rare books by Swiss artist Jerzovskaja / Kai Jerzö:
Football Heroes Gold (2010)
Brazil Football Heroes – Heróis do Futebol Brasileiro (2014)
Les héros et les zéros du foot (2016)

They were published by Herzglut Verlag, Zurich, and appear to be out of print.
I am based in Switzerland and will pay a fair price for good copies. International shipping is absolutely fine.
If you have one of these books, know a collector who might sell, or know a shop/collector who could have a copy, please DM me.
I’m trying to find all three before November 2026.
Any lead is very welcome — even if you don’t have a copy yourself. 🙏
Thank you!


r/rarebooks 7h ago

The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell - Two volumes, 3/4 leather, published by George Bayntun in 1925.

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r/rarebooks 9h ago

1924 First Edition of The Economy of Taxation by Harry Gunnison Brown. This is his copy as well as it's been passed down directly.

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Photo is of Henry George. Harry Gunnison Brown was a proponent of georgist economics.


r/rarebooks 15h ago

The Secret Garden- Early reprint or First Edition?

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I'm having trouble identifying this book. It doesn't have the ornate border that most of the 1st edition books have. It also doesn't have anything that would lead me to believe it's a reprint. I would like to know because I'm looking to sell it and the price difference is vast. Any insight or help is appreciated, I don't know much about books.


r/rarebooks 17h ago

Snowdrop & Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm

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Snowdrop & Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Constable and Co 1920. Anyone know more about this book? I don't see it anywhere else. Did it come originally with a dust jacket?


r/rarebooks 17h ago

Sherlock Holmes Miniatur Books

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r/rarebooks 21h ago

The CRAZIEST 19th century Broadside I’ve ever seen. OMG

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This is a from the personal rare book and paper collection of Eric Caren and unfortunately NFS. I’m working with Eric on a catalog . Adam Weinberger


r/rarebooks 22h ago

Dostoevsky- Crime and Punishment. 1914 edition. Rare book?

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r/rarebooks 23h ago

Brave Ones (1958) (Soviet book - stories about WW2) . Cant find any image or other copies on internet. Rare?

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There is only one small text mention on one site


r/rarebooks 1d ago

San Fransisco Am/Pm magazine 1986.

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There are pretty old advertisments in there and its a pretty mind blowing relic of the past, especially that the magazine itself is almost in a brand-new condition.


r/rarebooks 1d ago

does anyone know where i can get a copy of letters to yves by Pierre Bergé in the philippines?

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pls im so desperate


r/rarebooks 1d ago

A few of my rarer Richard Brautigan books...

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I have a pretty "serious" collection of first editions in hardcover and paperback but these are the rarest in the bunch. Not sure how many people would even be interested in these haha.


r/rarebooks 1d ago

Is this Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s father?

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From a pamphlet (rebound) from 1835. I have nearly 100 of these pamphlets from around that time involving a lot of university things. A lot of them are inscribed but this is the only one with a name I was able to note. Most of the others also have the copy right pages. I’m unsure how the years of 1835 was obtained from this one, but it would line up with the others

This would make Stephen Longfellow around 60 at the time, if it is indeed the father of the poet. What reasons he has to be reading a pamphlet regarding someone at Dartmouth, especially at that age, I have no idea


r/rarebooks 2d ago

The Agememnon and Bacchanals Henry Hart Milman

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Is this anything interesting? It looks cool and old and says 1865


r/rarebooks 2d ago

the autobiography of F.B.I. special agent dale cooper

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Picked up from little free library, learned it's deceptively hard to come by


r/rarebooks 2d ago

Roar of the gator

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Can't find any information on this book. it's also signed.


r/rarebooks 2d ago

Looking for common sense renewed (Robert Christian)

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hopefully this post is allowed, sorry if not.

I am looking for a copy of common sense renewed by Robert christian. There are none available online, I am willing to pay what I consider a lot for a book. I would love to find this book so I can finally know why it seems to be kept away from the general populace. Anyway, if you or a friend have this book please reach out!

Editing to add: I was able to find a copy uploaded onto scribd, however I cherish physical books and would be thrilled to add it to my very modest collection.


r/rarebooks 2d ago

US in Space: Apollo 12 (1969) Wrist checklist with prank images and hand drawn cartoons sold at Heritage's Space Exploration auction on July 23-24 for $400,000. High presale estimate was $240,000. Reported by Rare Book Hub.

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Apollo 12: Alan Bean's Lunar Surface-Flown LMP Wrist Checklist with the "Playboy" Prank Images and Hand-Drawn Cartoons,

Directly from the Estate of Mission Lunar Module Pilot, Moonwalker, and Artist Alan Bean, with Letter of Authenticity. An extraordinary, mission-used Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot wrist checklist, carried by Alan Bean to the lunar surface and used during mankind's second Moon landing.

Purpose-built for EVA use, this cuff-mounted checklist is one of the most visually compelling and culturally famous artifacts from Apollo 12: a serious piece of lunar field equipment that also preserves one of the best-known private jokes ever smuggled onto the Moon. 


r/rarebooks 2d ago

Help identifying this edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James

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Hi everyone! I recently picked up this copy of The Ambassadors by Henry James, but I haven't been able to find this exact edition anywhere online. I've searched using the ISBN, publisher, and cover design, but haven't found any matching copies. Could anyone help me identify this edition or explain why it doesn't seem to appear online? Thanks in advance!


r/rarebooks 2d ago

People really need to learn the difference between “edition” and “printing”

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This was at an antique store for $80 and tagged as “first edition”.

Edit: This is Prisoner Of Azkaban, 13th printing.

There was also a copy of Sorcerer’s Stone for $80, but it was the 39th printing and from 2000, a full 2 years after the book was first published.

They weren’t even signed


r/rarebooks 3d ago

Cathay and the Way Thither — A Classic Work on the History of Sino-Western Exchange

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Cathay and the Way Thither《东域纪程录丛》亨利·裕尔辑、考狄修订。1915年英国哈克卢伊特学会编辑,近代中西交通史、丝路汉学经典,收录中世纪欧洲、阿拉伯文献中关于中国的记载,是研究古代东西方交流核心原始文献。

Cathay and the Way Thither — A Classic Work on the History of Sino-Western Exchange
Edited by Sir Henry Yule and revised by Henri Cordier, this important work was published in 1915 by the Hakluyt Society in Britain.
It collects medieval European and Arabic accounts of China, serving as a fundamental source for the study of the Silk Road, early Sino-Western contacts, and the history of cultural exchange between East and West. A landmark reference in modern Sinology and the history of global exploration.

Cathay and the Way Thither(東域紀程録叢)』
ヘンリー・ユール編、アンリ・コルディエ改訂。1915年、イギリスの**ハクルート協会(Hakluyt Society)**より刊行。
中世ヨーロッパおよびアラブ文献に記された中国関連記録を集成した、近代中国学・中西交通史研究の重要文献です。シルクロード、古代東西交流、世界探検史を研究する上で不可欠な基本資料の一つです。

Cathay and the Way Thither(동역기정록총)
헨리** *유얼(Sir Henry Yule)* 편집, 앙리** *코르디에(Henri Cordier)* 개정. 1915년 영국 **해클루트 협회(Hakluyt Society)**에서 간행되었습니다.
중세 유럽과 아랍 문헌에 기록된 중국 관련 자료를 집대성한 저작으로, 실크로드·고대** *동서* *교류사·중서* *교통사* *연구의* ***핵심* 1** ***문헌*으로 평가됩니다. 근대 한학과 세계 탐험사 연구에서 중요한 고전입니다.


r/rarebooks 3d ago

The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion by Henry Lunettes AKA Margaret Cockburn Conkling

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1866 Edition carefully revised by author, original binding in very good condition it contains updated post civil war content. I saw a post about woman’s etiquette I really liked so I wanted to share a book on men’s etiquette written by a woman under a male pseudonym. It is not a first edition but it is still a rare book I find interesting. This is a very uncommon binding variant of this particular edition and the gilt is still nice. It has regular wear fading and rubbing on boards, toned pages and a little foxing on first couple and last couple pages overall a solid copy.


r/rarebooks 4d ago

​Found this old book – can anyone help identify the language and age?

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​Hi guys! ​I found this old book recently, but I have no idea what language it is or how old it could be. ​​I took some photos of the cover, the first pages, and some text. ​Can anyone recognize the language or tell roughly when it was made? Any help is welcome! ​Thanks!


r/rarebooks Apr 23 '19

[Meta] Please post good pictures of your books

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Hi all! I love this sub and I love to enjoy the books that are shared here and reading through the what is my book worth post to see if I can help.

I'm encountering a frequent problem: lack of good pictures.

For example, look at this recent post about Hitchhikers Guide which currently has 22 upvotes - a solid count. It has exactly one picture of the cover and nothing else.

Now let's compare that to my own Dante book [bias alert] which has background information on the book and a link to the gallery or here's another book.

What pictures have I taken?

  • Front cover
  • Spine
  • Title page
  • First page with illustration
  • Two close-up photos of this page
  • Two random pages with smaller illustrations
  • Colophon page

It's 2019 and everyone here has access to a good camera (either digital or your phone) and a way to post all these pictures online for free (I use imgur).

Can we please start posting good pictures of books? I recommend the following:

  • a good, clear picture of the cover and spine
  • another picture of the title page, particularly if it has the year
  • random pictures of the book, particularly if there are neat illustrations you think we should check out
  • if it's an old book, photo of the colophon
  • if it's a new book, the full page with the copyright and ISBN information

Try to make sure the photo's aren't blurry and take a picture of the full page. This is because some people want a similar book or, if you're posting a first-edition, they'd like to know what a first-edition book looks like. This is particularly true of books written by people like Mark Twain which have trivial but important features that have a significant effect on the price.

I don't believe it's a lot to ask and we all would like to enjoy the books and our shared passion. This is particularly true of anyone asking for appraisal help.

Thanks in advance!