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It has seemed exceedingly busy here the past week or so and in all the bustle I forgot to update you on our January most expensive list. It’s quite interesting considering that following J.D Salinger’s death on 27 January, AbeBooks witnessed a surge in sales of The Catcher in the Rye and his writing in [...]

Our most expensive sales in December 2009: 1. A collection of “Archiv für die civilistische Praxis” 1818-2008 – $12,200 A collection of 208 issues of the German Law magazine Archiv für die civilistische Praxis (The Archive for the Civilians Practice) 2. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis – $8,132 All seven first edition volumes [...]

AbeBooks.co.uk Top 10 Bestsellers 1. Masquerade by Kit Williams 2. Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross 3. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson 4. You Are Special by Max Lucado 5. Out of One Eye: The Art of Kit Williams by Kit Williams 6. First Lords Fury by Jim Butcher [...]

AbeBooks has compiled a list of the most collectible books published between 2000 and 2009. These hyper-modern books became collectible in a hurry. 1 The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling The original edition – there are only seven handmade copies. Our sister company, Amazon, purchased the only one available for £1,950,000 in [...]

Photographer Larry Sultan died on Sunday at the age of 63. He’s famous for Evidence, a watershed modern art photography book of pictures of industrial and government archives co-authored with Mike Mandel. Yesterday, we sold a $2,500 first edition of Evidence. The book’s cover doesn’t really say much about the stark images found inside.

Top 10 most expensive sales on all AbeBooks sites from November 2009 1. Works of Charles Dickens and a Signed Letter – $12,500 Complete set, 22 volumes, of Dickens works published by Chapman and Hall. The set included a note from Dickens on his Tavistock House note paper dated Nov. 10, 1859 – “To Peter [...]

Presenting our bestselling books from November 2009 Top 10 bestsellers for AbeBooks.com 1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson 2. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann 3. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 4. Watership Down by Richard Adams 5. Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis 6. Belle Prater’s [...]

We’ve added new gift ideas to our Holiday Bookshops!

Let the Great World Spin by Irish-American writer Colum McCann triumphed last night in the fiction category at the National Book Awards. There’s been lots of interest in this novel for some time now – last month it was AbeBooks fourth bestselling signed book. There’s plenty of signed copies available right now and they start [...]

We’re pretty excited about our most recent sale. This time we have Bookfever.com, who specialize in modern first editions and signed books, who have discounted their entire inventory, and by a margin of 20%. If you are getting a jump on your Christmas shopping they have some fantastic books listed including the lots from Trixie [...]