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A treat for those facing The Great Waterloo Tangent in our #LesMisBuddyRead. This book was taken from the Tuileries when Napoleon deposed Louis XVIII March 1815. The handwritten notes were made by the French King himself shortly before (see the date 19 January 1815 in the top left). Blücher took it from Napoleon's carriage at Waterloo and gave it to the British liaison Sir Henry Hardinge who presented it to Lady Edgcumbe #RareBooks

The Nursery "Alice". Rare find at an Antiquarian Bookstore. Alice and all of her whimsy have always inspired that magic essence in my own life.
#AliceinWonderland #WorldofWhimsy #AntiquarianFind #RareBooks #WereAllMadHere

For those living in New York City! Brooklyn print & photo fair will be in Greenpoint in September!! 🍂🌞📖
www.brooklynbookfair.com
Saw this poster today while strolling through Boerum Hill.
#bookfair #brooklyn #greenpoint #newyorkcity #bookshopping #rarebooks #weekend #photos #readon
Who‘s going?

This came to mind for both #LostBooks & #RareBooks. I credit this as one of the school textbooks that reignited my love for poetry. I had tracked down a copy after high school, but I lost it in a house fire. It took over 15 years to find another copy! Half the book has notes pencilled in, but that just adds to the charm. #OldCoolBooks

#OldCoolBooks #rarebooks

The State Library Of Victoria on the east coast of Australia houses many rare publications. We learnt about some of them while attending a World of the Book tour at the library in October last year.

A page from the lavishly produced Book of Hours c 1480 by the Catholic Church is pictured here.

As far as #rarebooks go Rage by Richard Bachmann definitely qualifies. Stephen King pulled it from publication after the school shootings in the 80s and 90s. Now copies, if you can find them, can go for $500 on Amazon. I found the story in one of the old copies of The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels. Even in newer copies of that Rage is absent.
#OldCoolBooks @Linsy

#OldCoolBooks #RareBooks
I own no books that could be called rare, but did you know you can read some of the books in the Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections in their online Reading Room? Here's the link to the children's titles available-including this beautiful copy of Beauty and the Beast. Reading online isn't the same, but it's still interesting to look at.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/digitalcoll/digitalcoll-children.html

If a #rarebooks genie granted wishes, I‘d ask for the 1st illustrated/translated Salomé. According to ABAA, Wilde would be disappointed in my choice:

“Although Wilde commissioned [Audrey] Beardsley to illustrate his translation of Salome, he was shocked by the end result and felt that the images overpowered his text. Beardsley mocked Wilde in several of the illustrations.”

https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/rare-books-by-oscar-wilde

#OldCoolBooks

MAY 12 PROMPT: Rare Books

This 1885 Allegheny Edition of Theodore Roosevelt‘s Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains I think qualifies as a rare book. It was originally my great-grandfather‘s, I believe. My grandfather told me his father had hunted with Teddy a time or two, but “a bit of a bigot, he is(Teddy).” Continued 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

#oldcoolbooks #rarebooks #princeps #firsteditions#theodoreroosevelt

Saved this one from my parent's attic a long time ago!

#OldCoolBooks #RareBooks @Linsy