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  • Not even the first-edition copy of Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday.

    "My little world and all I see..." greygirlbeast 2010

  • My first big find was a first-edition "The Great Gatsby" for $3 at a yard sale in New Jersey.

    First Person Singular: Bookseller Brian Cassidy Post 2010

  • Where else would you find a 1957 first-edition of the Gibraltar Girl Guides Association's "Favourite Recipes in English and Spanish" (estimate: £100-£150) next to "Foods and Feeding Habits of the Pedi" (estimate: £40-£60).

    A Culinary Man of Letters Bruce Palling 2011

  • Not even the first-edition copy of Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday.

    "My little world and all I see..." greygirlbeast 2010

  • On the left is a first-edition "The Monkey Wrench Gang" by everyone's favorite misanthropic desert bard, Ed Abbey.

    Hunting For Books 2009

  • A wall of first-edition books from Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and others lined the far wall from the ceiling to the floor.

    Larger Than Lyfe Cynthia Diane Thornton 2011

  • A wall of first-edition books from Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and others lined the far wall from the ceiling to the floor.

    Larger Than Lyfe Cynthia Diane Thornton 2011

  • A wall of first-edition books from Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and others lined the far wall from the ceiling to the floor.

    Larger Than Lyfe Cynthia Diane Thornton 2011

  • A wall of first-edition books from Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and others lined the far wall from the ceiling to the floor.

    Larger Than Lyfe Cynthia Diane Thornton 2011

  • When wealthy horse trainer H.R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true bookwoman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books.

    The Bookwoman's Last Fling by John Dunning: Book summary 2010

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