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I’d like to start a new series here on The Hotch Potch entitled “Confessions of a Novice Bookseller”

 

Confession One – For seven months now I have been under the impression that these 29 copies of Jack Archer were a series akin to The Hardy Boys. Imagine my shock when Nick tells me they are all the exact same book by different publishers.

 

Confession Two- I once worked at an estate where we threw out an entire dumpster of books from their library. Distraught at the idea of trashing all of these perfectly good books, I went dumpster diving and the only books I saved were $10 Easton Press books because I thought they were extremely valuable.

 

Confession Three – Please don’t attack me for this one. I find Doves Press Books difficult to read. Impressive in their design, beautiful, but my poor little brain has to trace my finger word by word to not get lost.

 

These are but a few of my naive mistakes as a novice bookseller. Stay tuned.

 

Always learning,

Noah

 

299453
G. A. Henty. [CHILDREN] JACK ARCHER. [29 DIFFERENT EDITIONS OF THE SAME WORK.]. Price: $350.00  
299480
[Samuel Blodget, Jr.]. [AMERICANA] ECONOMICA: A STATISTICAL MANUAL FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Price: $650.00  
298559
JOHN WEBSTER. [RELIGION] BARTH’S ETHICS OF RECONCILIATION. Price: $70.00  
299466
Perfection Stove Company. [COOKBOOK] NEW PERFECTION FIRELESS OVEN (Erica’s shelf). Price: $75.00  
299450
John Daniel Petty. [TYPESCRIPT] CIVIL WAR LETTERS FROM JOHN DANIEL PETTY, 9th VIRGINIA CAVALRY. Price: $125.00  
299467
M. Singer & Sons. [INTERIOR DESIGN] [TRADE CATALOG] UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE. M. SINGER & SONS. Price: $100.00  
299454
Dictys Cretensis; Dares Phrygius. [ANCIENT WORLD] DICTYS CRETENSIS ET DARES PHRYGIUS, DE BELLO ET EXCIDIO TROJAE, IN USUM SERENISSIMI DELPHINI, CUM INTERPRETATIONE ANNAE DACERIAE. ACCEDUNT IN HAC NOVA EDITIONE NOTAE VARIORUM INTEGRAE; NEC NON JOSEPHUS ISCANUS, CUM NOTIS SAM DRESEMII. NUMISMATIBUS & GEMMIS, HISTORIAM ILLUSTRANTIBUS EXORNAVIT LUD. SMIDS, M. D. DISSERTATIONEM DE DICTYE CRETENSI PRAEFIXIT JAC. PERIZONIUS. Price: $250.00  
299468
John B. Connally, Sec’y of the Navy [Foreward]. [PROGRAM] COMMISSIONING THE USS ENTERPRISE CVAN-65. NOVEMBER 25, 1961. WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS. Price: $250.00  
299455
Sr. [Giovanni] Veneroni. [LINGUISTICS] DICTIONAIRE FRANCOIS ET ITALIEN, CONTENANT TOUT CE QUI SE TROUVE DANS LES MEILLEURS DICTIONAIRES, & PARTICULIEREMENT DANS CELUI DE LA CRUSCA (2 VOLUMES) (TOME PREMIER; TOME SECOND). Price: $125.00  
299470
Eastman Kodak. [PHOTOGRAPHY] [TRADE CATALOGUES] EASTMAN KODAK STORES (Kansas City, MO) ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS LENSES AND MATERIALS FOR ALL BRANCHES OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROFESSION (CATALOGUE NO. 29). Price: $100.00  
299456
Frances A. Yates. [PHILOSOPHY] THE OCCULT PHILOSOPHY IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE. Price: $50.00  
299471
Torquato Tasso | Victor Hammer [Designer]. [SPECIAL PRESS] VENTIQUATTRO SONNETI DI TORQUATO TASSO. Price: $300.00  
299457
Ian Waton. [SIGNED] [LITERATURE] MOKEYMEN. Price: $60.00  
299472
Virginia Polytechnic Institute | R. Stuart Royer (Editor). [VIRGINIA]THE BUGLE 1905; Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Price: $150.00  
299460
Rolls-Royce. [TRANSPORTATION] ROLLS-ROYCE : THE HANDBOOK FOR THE SILVER SHADOW FOUR DOOR SEDAN FROM CAR SERIAL NUMBER SRX 9001. Price: $75.00  
299479
Gamaliell Bradford. [CIVIL WAR] CONFEDERATE PORTRAITS. Price: $250.00  
299461
Edgar Allan Poe; Edmund Dulac (Illustrator). [ILLUSTRATED] THE BELLS AND OTHER POEMS. Price: $75.00  
299481
Harold Holzer | Gary Gallagher. [AMERICANA] LINCOLN ANTHOLOGY GREAT WRITERS ON HIS LIFE AND LEGACY FROM 1860 TO NOW. Price: $65.00  
299462
Walter Camp (Editor). [SPORTS] SPALDING’S ATHLETIC LIBRARY: HOW TO PLAY FOOT BALL. VOL. XXI, NO. 242. JULY, 1905. Price: $150.00  
299497
Christopher Looby | Gary W. Gallagher. [CIVIL WAR] THE COMPLETE CIVIL WAR JOURNAL AND SELECTED LETTERS OF THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON. Price: $65.00  
299463
[MILITARY] EVIDENCE IN CAMERA VOLUME 2 NUMBER 11 MARCH 15TH 1943. Price: $95.00  
299498
Gary W. Gallagher. [SIGNED] [CIVIL WAR] THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN OF 1862. Price: $150.00  
299464
Larry Townsend {Bud Bernhardt]. [SIGNED] [GAY HISTORY] [WITH TLS; ALS] THE LEATHERMAN’S HANDBOOK. Price: $250.00  
299502
Charles Royster | Gary W. Gallagher. [REVIEW COPY] [CIVIL WAR] THE DESTRUCTIVE WAR WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN, STONEWALL JACKSON, AND THE AMERICANS. Price: $100.00  
299465
[MILITARY] EVIDENCE IN CAMERA: VOL. 2 NO. 13 MARCH 29TH 1943. Price: $95.00  
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