Green fabric cover with red Chinese characters, red tassels and a green ribbon with gold lettering.

Bright yellow volume with a resplendent dragon.

Fridays I'm in Love

We welcomed Chicago's esteemed Friday Club @newberrylibrary.bsky.social yesterday, and a bespoke woven portfolio set with printed ribbons marking their 1898 gift to the library was my favorite! Full of chromolithographs of ceramics, it marked the start of a beautiful friendship!

‘A wow moment’: ancient Romanian gold helmet returned in plea deal with theft suspects Prosecutors unveil artefact linked to lost Dacian civilisation after it was stolen from Dutch museum last year

Brilliant news!

‘A wow moment’: ancient Romanian gold helmet returned in plea deal with theft suspects www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A plug for a good site many haven't used before - Biblio.com. Not as big as ABEbooks, but a better advanced used & rare books interface & more tools to block particular sellers of Print on demand/crap copies. ABE seems to have copied some features, but Biblio does it better.
www.biblio.com

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

There's been some buzz on used & rare bookseller lists about Alibris orders suddenly increasing - the speculation is that it's companies feeding AI Models. If so, those books are likely being destroyed and pose long term copyright issues #Usedbooks #AI #copyright

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Erling Haaland: Manchester City striker donates rare £100k Viking book to home town in Norway Erling Haaland donates a rare 16th-century manuscript of Viking sagas, worth £100,000, to be displayed in the library in the Norwegian town of Bryne, where he grew up.

Intriguing!

www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

You'll Need a Magnifying Glass to Read Some of the World's Smallest Books at the V&A The V&A's National Art Library is home to more than a million publications related to art, design, and performance—even really tiny ones.

You’ll Need a Magnifying Glass to Read Some of the World’s Smallest Books at the V&A www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/va-m...

For books that are hard to find / too damn pricey, I find putting a saved search want up on eBay and waiting like a bibliophilic crocodile til someone posts a cheap one has some success.

Books there often go too high or too low.

Yes. In fact, If I know who they are, I try and get them my name. I've gotten a few good hauls that way. Some the clearance folks have a good eye for books, and I am sure other things as well not in my wheelhouse.

I bought books from a hoarder's house & the family told me they had found over 3000 USD of coins in jars all over the house.

You bet they looked thru every book I took to make sure there wasn't cash inside. None was found but they did find a couple checks for a few hundred they could get re-issued.

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I get calls late on a Thursday: "my parents' house has been sold & new owners are taking possession Monday morning. Can you come & get the (2000, 3000, 4000) books before they throw them in the dumpster?"
If I CAN go, I get some things, or I call colleagues & we all descend. But a ton get binned.

Not a shocker the culture commissioner is a conservative.

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Grabbed 😀

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Grabbed 👍

@sharpnews.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social
This important work about the British Museum Library is now available open access here - doi.org/10.23636/t2s...

Dave's, Brighton's independent comic shop, next to Dirty Harry, a clothing store with a cool mural.

Was a beautiful day in Brighton today. I did my usual second-hand bookstore circuit for the first time in a few months and found some neat things, but no Star Trek pickups.

However, it got me feeling down about how many great bookshops we've lost… 🧵/1

Entire Discworld series turned into a rotating book wheel - Yanko Design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAdnN0TDZ5w To say that the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett has a cult following is one of the biggest understatements in book world. It's a pretty long series but ...

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ive ever seen

#Discworld

www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/17/e...

Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks After years of steady sales declines, the format will largely disappear next year.

The coming end of Mass Market (small) paperbacks

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Mychal Threets
@mychal3ts.bsky.social
Happy Black History Month

A photo of the book shelves at Paper+Word, full of romantasy novels by the likes of Sarah J Maas. Superimposed over this is the text: Living the Dream - Opening a Fantasy-Focused Bookshop.

Cheshire-based @matthewspalmer.bsky.social was rather excited when a new fantasy-focused bookshop opened in a nearby village. Just before Christmas, he met with the owner, Abby Munro, and spoke about the journey to opening Paper+Word.

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If you are only now learning about THE WESTING GAME, written by Ellen Raskin in 1979 & winner of a Newbery Medal, find it and read it NOW.

It's the best puzzle mystery novel ever, and is illustrated and typeset by Raskin herself (who started as an illustrator and book cover designer)

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Another gripe - why do folks underline almost an ENTIRE page? Doesn't that kill the effectiveness of focusing on a passage? A post-it note is far better. Then you don't have to grumble about the bookseller paying you less for a book cuz it's marked up like an F1 track after a race.
#usedbooks #books

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Not sure why booksellers asking high dollar for books they say are 1st editions and take a ton of pictures, yet not ANY images of the copyright page - the one page that has the most convincing info of a first printing in most cases. Seems damn odd to me.
#usedbooks #bookshops #bookbuying

I want to go to there.
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Lake Superior State University Announces 50th Annual Banished Words List | Lake Superior State University Media Contact: LSSU Marketing, marketing@lssu.edu SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – It’s time for a golden anniversary. Celebrating five decades of linguistic commentary, Lake Superior State University (LSSU)...

Lake Superior State has their annual "Banished Words" list up :

www.lssu.edu/lake-superio...

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We often get offers to advertise in broad markets. However, used book selling is odd. Broad advertising results in MORE books being offered to us & very few sales. A great idea if you need stock, not so much if there's already 75+ boxes on the floor & 12 more in your car.
#usedbooks #bookstores

And for over 30 more new arrivals at Motte & Bailey, from Ancient History to Modern Bengal India, look over the list at :

#books #usedbooks #booksky #newarrivals #ancienthistory #india

www.mottebooks.com/new-arrivals...

2 Uncommon British Revolver titles :

Stamps and Skennerton
.380 Enfield No. 2 Revolver
Greenhill Books, 1993

Layman
The British Bulldog Revolver : the Forgotten Gun that Really Won the West!
Mowbray. 2006

See them on our new arrivals page here:

www.mottebooks.com/new-arrivals...

Kind of counter-seasonal, but -
For sale :
Alan Boureau
Satan the Heretic : The Birth of Demonology
Chicago, 2006

You can order this from out website, link below
#books #Satan #Medieval #Demonology #Aquinas #usedbooks

www.mottebooks.com/details.php?...

Not often we get a two-fer like this on a house buy - the Ash & Lake book was sitting on top of the Broel Book:
#usedbooks #books #frogs #bookshop #booksky #usedbookshop #rarebooks

DECEMBER SALE!

Choose 3 books & get the cheapest FREE if $12 or less!!!

Any # of books - 3,6,9, etc.
Cheapest books of the entire group are free

Excludes consignment books, small, mass market paperbacks

#usedbooks #annarbor #booksale