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Further to Kathleen’s post about the rare Edgar Allan Poe book up for auction, here’s some more news from the bidding block: Sotheby’s is planning to auction a scarce first-run edition of the Canadian classic Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery on December 11th. A copy ...
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Anne of Green Gables
Top 10 most expensive sales on all AbeBooks sites from November 2009
1. Works of Charles Dickens and a Signed Letter - $12,500
Complete set, 22 volumes, of Dickens works published by Chapman and Hall. The set included a note from Dickens on his Tavistock House note paper dated Nov. 10, 1859 ...
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Charles Dickens
Presenting our bestselling books from November 2009
Top 10 bestsellers for AbeBooks.com
1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
2. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
3. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
4. Watership Down by Richard Adams
5. ...
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Edgar Allan Poe's First Book Tamerlane and Other Poems - Image Released by Christie's
Experts at Christie’s say that Edgar Allan Poe’s first book Tamerlane and Other Poems could reach a record sales price at auction on Friday. The book is expected to fetch between ...
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Agatha Christie
A photo from Tiger Woods’ infamous crash reveals there was a book in the golfer’s car. Get a Grip on Physics by John Gribbin is pictured on the floor among the broken glass. It’s an interesting book to be reading. Gribbin is a prolific science writer from the UK, who has ...
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John Gribbin
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
Anna Karenina
Gustave Flaubert
If you’re experiencing vulgar chattering at your birdfeeder, have a constipated snake, or want to experience another realm of existence through a mole, then you’ll want to check out the books we’ve added to the Weird Book Room this week.
Our featured book asks, What’s ...
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The U.S. Congress recognized Frank McCourt yesterday for his many contributions to American literature, education, and culture.
Rep. Michael McMahon (D-Staten Island/Brooklyn) made the following statement to Congress:
Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H. Res. 743 which honors the life ...
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Frank McCourt
Politics
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Here’s a feel good story for today. Philip
Pullman , author of the Northern Lights trilogy has...
created a special edition book to benefit children in Africa living with HIV and Aids. À Outrance - an old French term for a fight to the death - ...
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Philip Pullman Creates Special Edition of Northern ...
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Uber wealthy horror magnate Stephen King wants his readers to help him out do the thinking for him. He currently has two new re-hashed story ideas and wants you to help him decide which literary masterpiece potboiler will make a bigger contribution to the art him more money. The Shining sequel ...
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Stephen King
The Shining
The JoongAng Daily takes a look at the the dwindling number of bookstores around Korea that sell old and rare books.
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Under the Dome Collector's Set by Stephen King
If you haven’t visited the AbeBooks Holiday Bookshop in awhile, I’d like to suggest that you “stop by” and check out the new books that have been added.
To keep you in fresh ideas for gifts, we’ve been adding ...
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The Collector
Stephen King
The Phantom of the Opera
Swing!
I was quite excited when I heard the details about Sarah Palin’s book tour. Not because I wanted to line up to the meet the lady, but because I thought lots of signed copies of her book, Going Rogue , would end up for sale on AbeBooks and we’d be selling them by the truckload.
It ...
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Frank Belknap Long
Sarah Waters
When I saw the headline - Julie & Julia author takes job in butcher shop - I was thrilled. Excellent, I thought, now we won’t have to suffer through any more ridiculous books about trying to cook an over-complicated French recipe every day. Sadly, we are going to have to suffer ...
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The Butcher
Nicci French
An author who works in a bookshop, called Review, in Peckham has won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize with her debut novel. It’s only worth £5,000 prize - I wouldn’t get out of bed for that kind of money - but I’m sure it’s well appreciated by Evie Wyld. Her book, After the ...
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Jean Rhys
A first edition copy of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables is going under the hammer at a New York auction next week. The sales price is expected to reach $25,000 exceeding the $24,000 price paid for a comparable book in 2005.
“First-edition copies of this book are rare on ...
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Anne of Green Gables
Cormac McCarthy looks like a typewriter sort of author - I just can’t see him updating his Twitter account from his iPhone some how. His old manual typewriter, a much-used Olivetti that he bought in a Tennesssee pawnshop around 1963, is up for auction on Friday . This antique is ...
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Cormac McCarthy
Agatha Christie
The Guardian is quick to report the winner of the annual Bad Sex Award, which was handed out in London this evening. The gong goes to Jonathan Littell for The Kindly Ones . The novel was first published in French and won France’s Prix Goncourt, that country’s highest literary ...
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Nicci French
Jonathan Franzen
I’ve always loved the red phone boxes of Britain. They are bright and cheerful and one of the most recognizable icons of the British Isles. It’s no wonder that the threat of the loss of such a phone box could send villagers into somewhat of a panic.
Rather than just panic, ...
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Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo , admits that she has created a monster (in the sense that it has taken over her life), according to an interview in The Independent . I’m sure the creator of The Teletubbies has the same problem.
She sighs, slowly and evenly. “This is all ...
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The monster looks a bit like the rubbery squid from the Bud Light advert. Jane Austen must be turning in her grave.
