DO YOU HAVE A BOOK QUESTION?

[manor_house_books]

Hi all, pippy_oak here, posting under my brand new user name. Hopefully, Richard will pin this thread, as it seems a nice tidy place to pose specific questions about a book (Is it a 1st edition, what's it worth, where to find it etc. etc.) Don't just come here with a question. If you think you have the answer, then let's hear it.

Or we could just mooch around and learn a few things.

Cheers

Paul

[booksbygones]

Everyman Question (books that is).
Does anyone know of a place where I can download a full list of Everyman Books. I've been collecting them for years, and rather than catalogue them all, I thought I might be able to get a MS or Excel list to tick them off with.
Thanks Pamela

[manor_house_books]

Hope this helps.

http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/classics/about.html

[manor_house_books]

And this

http://www.authorhouse.co.uk/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~28416.aspx

[annmad66]

Hi All,

I have a book which I would appreciate any help on approx value, if any. There are 2 copies in the British Library Catalogue but not found others anywhere.

The Life of Thoms Lord Lyttelton by Thomas Frost
Published 1876 by Tinsley Brothers. It is an ex library copy

Many thanks
Ann

[annmad66]

Thats thomas not thoms

[black-country-books]

Could someone please explain the corners snipped off on some dust wrappers. They are not price snipped - the price is still there, it is just the corner of the front flap.

Does this de-value the book?

[booksbygones]

manor_house_books
Thank you for the information. Sorry been in bed with flu so didn't get back to you sooner. Emailed Random House who sent me an email link same day with site for the almost complete list which had been compiled by another. Very much appreciate your assistance

ocristo
Normally corners snipped off dustwrappers are described as priceclipped (must have been something else they snipped off) and yes do devalue the book, especially to collectors who prefer perfect copies. However, if it is a rare book, it should not make too much difference.

Reminds me of a time when someone brought us some lovely cookery books. When going carefully throught them, we noticed that the front free end paper at the top had neat diagonal shapes cut from the top of each book. He explained oh yes I cut them off before I brought them out as it had a name written in them, and I didn't think you would take them like that. :_|:_|

I sadly had to tell him we would have bought them like that, but that he had now made them totally worthless to us.

[black-country-books]

Booksbygones, this isn't pricesnipped/priceclipped - price still there, so how do I describe it? I have had two today like this and can't think why they would have been snipped.

[black-country-books]

Oh, hope you are feeling better 🙂

[sparklies-uk]

Does anyone know how to remove crayon or felt tip from the boards of a hardback book?

It's on the front cover and the covers are the fabric-effect kind. I'm not sure if it's crayon or felt tip, I think it's the latter.

It's not too much of a problem, it's a book I plan on keeping, that I picked up for a few pence at the car boot sale, but other than the marks on the cover, it's in very good condition. It's the complete tales of Beatrix Potter.

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[booksbygones]

ocristo
Thanks I'm feeling much better today, bit washed out though.
I would describe the book/s as dustwrapper or dustjacket "clipped" you could add price still visible if you wanted.

[annmad66]

Anyone know anything about my Thomas Lyttelton???? Please?

[black-country-books]

Thanks very much for info. glad you are feeling better.

Ann, only information I have on the subject is that The Lyttelton Arms is just down the road from me:) being as we are not far from Hagley where he originated.

Sorry - completely useless bit of information 😞

[annmad66]

LOL Thanks any way Ocristo, made me chuckle anyway xxx

[mikeh1609]

Ocristo,

Are they books published by Jonathan Cape in the '60s or '70s? I was told that by a pretty knowledgable seller/collector that this was something that Cape did for a time, for reasons unknown.

I have five Cape first editions by my favourite author dating from 1965 to 1974, and all of them have the four corners slightly snipped but with the price intact. But by 1975 they seem to have stopped the practice.

[black-country-books]

That's interesting, mikeh.

No, one is Seeley, the other an Observers.

Wonder why they did that?

[mad-badger]

#1229 Sparklies.......I seem to remember something about covering with absorbent paper and running an iron over it to melt the wax. Check with someone who knows what they are talking about first though!!;-)

[mikeh1609]

Ocristo,

No idea why they did it!

At one point I thought it might be some form of remaindering mark, but then I realised that no publisher in their right mind would go to the bother of neatly snipping all four corners of books they couldn't sell. And the chap I spoke to was definite it was done on publication.

[sparklies-uk]

Thanks Badger, I had thought of that, but it's nice to know someone else has suggested it too. Of course that won't work if it's felt tip. Maybe someone else will have a suggestion for that.

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[oldbookshopnj]

ocristo:

Quite a few US publishers in the 1930's and 1940's put out books with jackets that had all four corners slightly clipped. You can find jackets in this style in regular trade editions with the publisher's price still there and in book club editions with no price.

There are some books where one corner of the dust jacket had a price in pounds and the other corner had a price in dollars, and a corner was clipped according to the country of sale. There are US children's books where the price in one corner of the jacket is for the trade edition and the price in the other corner is for the sturdier "library edition," and the jacket was always issued with one corner clipped.