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Lily King works in the AbeBooks’ Customer Support department as our communications specialist. She has been an AbeBooks employee for seven years, and a voracious reader all her life. More a fan of reading than collecting, Lily loves the freedom that books offer, as well as the ability they give her to see parts of [...]

March’s most expensive sales on AbeBooks reveals the broad scope of collectible books. The list of top 10 sales includes a guest book but it’s no ordinary guest book. The book belonged to the Castello Bar from the Castle Schloss Mondsee near Salzburg in Austria, and it sold for £7,900. Castle Schloss Mondsee, now an [...]

Take a look at this. A wooden cookie box partially decorated by Maurice Sendak for his friend, collaborator and fellow children’s book author Arthur Yorinks. The animal characters on the box (two pigs and a wolf) are from James Marshall’s 1999 book Swine Lake, which was illustrated by Sendak. According to the bookseller, James Cummins [...]

Over at Publishers Weekly, the trade magazine for the American side of the publishing industry, you will find an article on book collecting penned by moi. It’s aimed at people who are thinking of starting a collection and are looking for tips to get going.

Henri Matisse’s stunning interpretation of a Greek myth was AbeBooks’ most expensive sale in December and the book, a signed limited edition from 1944, sold for a pretty penny too.  Our top 10 list also includes Rudyard Kipling, some Salvador Dali, poetry from Shelley, a history of a landlocked English county, a book from a [...]

Our friends at BookFinder compile one of the most interesting lists in the book business – the top 100 most searched for out-of-print books in the United States. Sadly, books fall out-of-print when publishers decide that there isn’t enough demand. That’s when the used book market becomes important for ensuring that these hard-to-find titles can [...]

Lakin & Marley Rare Books, located in Mill Valley, California, has listed 26 Erle Stanley Gardner novels for sale on AbeBooks – all inscribed by the mystery author to a single mystery lady, Tee Rose. The seller writes that little is known of Tee Rose’s identity “other than she did write a story for Argosy [...]

Above you can see The Golden Hours Library box set from 1967 – this lovely 12-volume set of children’s literature is showcased in our box sets feature, which also includes sets from Roald Dahl, Bill Watterson, Charles Dickens and Toni Morrison.

A signed copy of the Madonna ‘Sex’ book has sold for £1,250 on AbeBooks. The book in question, a spiral-bound affair with aluminum covers, still had its pictorial outer wrapper. Sex was published in 1992 (a long-time before Lady Gaga and Katie Perry) and this was the Secker & Warburg edition. The book is filled [...]

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce was AbeBooks’ bestselling signed book during August – it’s a debut novel about a 600-mile journey written by a Shakespearean actress. In second place was Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand – a remarkable book of wartime endurance that just goes on and on