Top products from r/rarebooks
We found 11 product mentions on r/rarebooks. We ranked the 11 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
2. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
The Invention of Nature
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
CHILDREN FOR FUN AND EDUCATION BOOK
4. Bitten by Witch Fever: Wallpaper & Arsenic in the Nineteenth-Century Home
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Thames & Hudson
5. Science Fiction Tales: Invaders, Creatures and Alien Worlds
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
6. A model water code,: With commentary (University of Florida. Water Resources Research Center. Publication no. 8)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
7. First Editions: A Guide to Identification
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Still looking? Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/model-water-code-commentary-Publication/dp/0813003199 has it for $20 from external vendor. Same ISBN.
Edit: thank you for the Gold, and it is especially awesome that it was regarding a book! Thanks!
Humboldt was easily one of the most, if not the most, accomplished scientist of the early 19th century. His detailed travels to South America yielded a massive trove of knowledge about the natural world.
His most famous work, Cosmos: A Sketch of the Universe, was forgotten for many years, until recently experiencing a resurgence of interest due in large part to the best selling book The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf.
This set here is the first American edition, published by Harper & Brothers in 1850, complete in two volumes. Bound in light brown calf with black and red titles. Not easily found in this condition.
This is the best I could find in the moment
https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Sacred-Story-Louis-Albert/dp/B000VRA4DU
OMG. Dude. You have to read this as well as their other books (but start with that one). It's a couple who accidentally stumble into the high-end rare book World. They're great.
It's not a first, that's not the first edition cover. My guess would be mid 20s reprint based on the style.
http://www.ebay.com/gds/Oz-Book-First-Editions-How-to-Identify-/10000000000999013/g.html
Oz books are one of those things that have enough value in early copies even thought they wouldn't normally be collectible just because they're so popular. You could probably get $20-40 each on Ebay/etsy/amazon maybe even locally.
Hello. I've found this book and was wondering the worth. The New Orleans Homemaker https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XB6FVL9/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_g7IKDb6MGN57V
The only text which is readable in that picture is the title which you have already mentioned. Without author names and publishing information it is almost an impossible task to find out any information about a book with such a generic title.
Edit: Nvm, reverse image search was able to identify it. You can buy it on amazon for $5.
It's chronicled in the Ipsum in messem famelicus Eruca
Bitten By Witch-Fever is a book published in 2016 that details arsenic wallpapers. It’s been on my to-read list for a while.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BBGPI3G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_wjE2BbEA9RG6G
This is the book (not me posting about it on amazon)
Also, this book is an essential guide to identifying edition and printing practices of different publishers. No serious bookseller or collectors library should be without it.
It contains way more information than you can find online, particularly about smaller publishing houses.