Bookorithms by AbeBooks

Beautiful, notable & rare books from AbeBooks.com

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Discover a beautiful collection of posters from London's AntikBar Original Vintage Posters who recently joined AbeBooks.

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Beautiful fashion art by Käthe Berl.

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We can’t get enough of this dust jacket from Contract Null & Void by Joe Gores. This first edition was published in 1996.

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How To Eat Better For Less Money by James A. Beard and Sam Aaron was published in 1954. I bet there's no recipe for avocado toast in this book!

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Nancy Mitford was an English novelist, she is best remembered for her novels about upper-class life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She also established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical biographies.

Have you read any of her work? We just love these reissued copies published by Penguin in 2015.

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First edition of the author's first book.

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher In the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists.

It begins, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.".  

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A Dell Murder Mystery. Classic 1940s vintage cover art of the phantom of the opera playing the keyboard. 

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Vintage Agatha Christie.

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Signed, first edition of The Other Hand by Chris Cleave

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This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger

80s YA sci fi at its best! 

It's the year 2057 and students take classes in ESP, people live in malls, there aren't any parks left, and thanks to an airtight dome, there is a colony on the moon. Fourteen-year-old Aurora couldn't be happier—she's part of the "in" crowd, her best friend is a celebrity, and Matthew has asked her to Homecoming.

But Aurora's parents have new jobs on the moon, and she and her little sister must leave their friends and schools to go with them. Aurora is sure she will hate life on the moon, because there are only 750 people in the whole colony. What if none of them is a boy her age?

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March 1940: Le Jardin des Modes

Le Jardin des Modes was a French language women's fashion magazine published monthly in France between 1922 and 1997.

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These Penguin Clothbound Classics never grow old.

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Sci-Fi for as far as the eye can see.

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Did anyone else see the Google doodle today? It features German artist, Paula Modersohn-Becker. Here is a painting of hers that is available on a book that is for sale on AbeBooks.

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This week we continue to spotlight neighborhood book exchanges across our city, here is one situated at the entrance to a children’s play park.

“You’re never too old, too wacky, to wild, to pick up a book and read to a child” - Dr. Seuss

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Another magical neighbourhood book exchange in Victoria, BC, Canada.

“Books are a uniquely portable magic” - Stephen King

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Who else has a Little Free Library in their neighborhood?