Reading Copy Book Blog

Just in time for Halloween we have put together a little feature on the life and poetry of Edgar Allan Poe as well as the 10 most expensive Poe works ever sold on AbeBooks.

If you are ever get to AbeBooks and are lost for choice AbeBooks most recent contest is for you. Enter to win one of three copies of the Rough Guide to Classic Novels. The book is well laid out allowing you browse though a number of literary genres choosing. As usual all you have to [...]

No really…. here’s your chance to hear words of wisdom from Zelda and F Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda just wants to dance, F Scott is world weary. (Courtesy of the Heldfond Book Gallery from San Anselmo, California. You guys are red-hot booksellers.)

The childhood home of Dylan Thomas has been restored to its appearance in 1914, the year of his birth. No Ikea furniture, no Wii, no Ipods – not even a Kindle. The Guardian takes you on a tour.

Author Anita Shreve – who is clearly a big fan of pastel cream colours judging by her kitchen – explains what goes through her head.

Pairing books with beers. Ales lend themselves well to vigorous literature–adventures, thrillers, spy novels, horror, serious science fiction, and hard-boiled mysteries. Several types of modern, quasi-classic British mysteries featuring the ever-expanding class of brooding Detective Inspectors (Inspector Wexford; Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley; Susannah Stacey’s Inspector Bone) also taste great with ale, as do light comedic [...]

Our friends at Bookride – a most excellent blog – have some interesting tales from the secondhand booktrade. I love this comment….. I used to work at a used book store. One day a group of bus tourists came in, each one asking if I could do any better on the price. When the last [...]

A rare first edition of William Butler Yates’ poem, Easter 1916, has been sold for nearly twice its expected price. It fetched 7,100 euros in Dublin and is just one of three copies known to exist worldwide.

The one in Seattle looks like a football stadium.

The author Tony Hillerman has died. He is famous for his detective novels set among the Navajos. He wrote 18 novels set on Southwest Indian reservations featuring Lieut. Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police. His early books are pretty collectible. Here’s the report on his passing from the IHT.