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1. Antique Books Antique Books - Can you think of something more fascinating than holding a book in your hands that is a couple of hundred years old? The old art of printing and book binding has produced many beautiful works. Finding these, enjoying these and maybe al...
2. The World of Anne of Green Gables and Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery created Anne of Green Gables from her vivid imagination. There is a wealth of information available about the world-renowned red-haired Anne Shirley and her fictional life in Prince Edward Island. However, L.M. Montgomery wrote n...
3. Antique Bible Collecting Owning an Antique Bible is not only a profitable investment, but also brings with it a deep appreciation for the writers, printers and artisans who created these masterpieces.  An Antique Bible is a wonderful heirloom for the family and makes a...
4. Benjamin Franklin Biography Benjamin Franklin, Revolutionary War Figure / Inventor / Writer     * Born: 17 January 1706     * Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts     * Died: 17 April 1790 (pleurisy and old age)     * Best Kn...
5. Rare Bibles and Christian Ebooks on Cd Yes lots of classic old books are scanned and turned into great,easy to access and last forever ebooks. I have taken it one step further and bookmarked and turned them from just text to pdf format and republished them on cd or downloadable works of a...
6. Popular Authors in 1909 Being an avid reader and a seller of antique and collectible books, I was curious as to who the most popular authors were in 1909. So, I did a little digging around and would like to tell you about the authors and the books that they wrote about 100...
7. Out Of Print Books - We Have Them! The definition for an 'out-of-print book': This is a book that is no longer being published. There may still be copies out there on the shelves of some book stores, there are copies in private libraries and in specialized shops for rare and antique b...
8. Rare Books Rare Books - Rare Books are almost always also used books. Rare means there are only a few for sale, if ever, or there are only a few items in existence at all. For books there are a few different reasons, why they can become rare: 1. Only very few wer...
9. Free Air by Sinclair Lewis This lens is dedicated to the early Sinclair Lewis novel Free Air, originally published in 1919.  This novel was about the possibilities of travel and adventure that the automobile opened up for all Americans, and was the last novel be...
10. Biblio and Biblion Biblio, the preferred global marketplace for buying used, rare, and out-of-print books. ------------  Biblion.co.uk - where you can find and buy second hand books, out of print books and rare books as well as ephemera, magazines, journals and used...
11. Popular Authors of 1908 It isn't difficult to find what last years Best Selling book was, but what about over 100 years ago? Who was the most popular author in 1908? Books and reading are a large part of my life. I am particularly fascinated with the authors in the pa...
12. Vintage Books for Young Readers First of all let me say that I think teaching a child to read is one of the greatest gifts we can give them. Within the pages of a book lies untold adventure that can take them on a wonderful journey and give them new things to dream about and knowle...
13. Antique American Furniture Antique American Furniture Styles from the seventeenth to the twenthy century.
14. Hike and the Aeroplane by Sinclair Lewis This lens is dedicated to Hike and the Aeroplane, the first novel written by the great American author, Sinclair Lewis.  Written under the pen name of Tom Graham, this first work printed only 1,000 copies, and was the inauspicious beginning to a...
15. Tennis As I Play It Tennis As I Play It by Maurice E McLoughlin, is a novel about the then tennis champion of the United States.  Published in 1915, this novel was ghost written by Sinclair Lewis, who was still struggling to put together a career as a novelist duri...
16. The Trail of the Hawk by Sinclair Lewis The Trail of the Hawk was the third novel written by American literary giant Sinclair Lewis, though only the second one using his real name.  This novel is subtitled: "A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life" and shows the young Lewis comi...
17. Book Collecting Antique book collecting is a fascinating glimpse into world history and the people who once made that history. Antique book collecting can be a guessing game sometimes since the actual age of the book may have nothing at all to do with the appraised...
18. Antique Furniture Guide: What it is, What it's Worth Invariably, the first question about an antique concerns its current value. The answer depends on more than just the age and condition of the piece. Antiques have a variety of value levels, depending on the purchaser's position in the sales hierarchy...