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Justin Bieber and Anne Frank
A lithograph of Anne Frank by Marc Chagall. Debate broke out in the AbeBooks marketing department this morning over whether the world is judging popstar Justin Bieber too harshly for his most recent...
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Lily’s Bookshelf: The Books That Mean Home
Let us introduce you to Lily King, one of the many booklovers on staff here at AbeBooks. Lily works in the Customer Support department as our Communications Specialist. She has been an AbeBooks...
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Harper Lee Fights to Reclaim Rights to To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee, who is now 87 years old, sued her literary agent on May 3rd in an attempt to regain full copyright to her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee claims that in 2007, Samuel Pinkus plotted to...
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Mailer to Hemingway: “I suspect you’re even more vain than I am.”
I love this letter that Norman Mailer sent to Ernest Hemingway in 1965, along with a copy of his novel, The Deer Park, which had been rejected multiple times for years before finally being published:...
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A Book Collection in One Click
It can take decades to assemble a half decent collection of rare books…or you could just buy a ready-made collection with a single click. Booksellers on AbeBooks offer hundreds of ‘instant...
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The Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2013
I am going to go out and say it, there are far too many book prizes given out every year. This isn’t to say that I don’t think authors deserve to be recognized for their fantastic work, it’s just that...
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Beautiful Devotion: Illuminated Manuscripts
First created over 2000 years ago, illuminated manuscripts had drawings or paintings of ornate initials, borders, flowers, vines and other decoration to accompany text. A true illuminated manuscript...
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Books Found on Brooklyn Stoops, and Other Book Love
One of the (many) things I love about being a booklover is the feeling of global community that gives me. If one isn’t a booklover, I imagine he or she can’t understand the perverse joy felt at the...
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English Satire Author Tom Sharpe Dies
Famously sharp-witted satire novelist Tom Sharpe has died. Sharpe was revered throughout England and beyond as one of the funniest writers going, despite some of his more delicate readers being turned...
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Iain Banks February 15th 1954 – June 9th 2013
Very sad literary news today – just two months after making a public statement about his illness, Iain Banks passed away today at age 59. The Scottish author had been suffering from cancer of the gall...
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The Prettiest Publications of the Past
What constituted a beautiful book a century ago? We’ve found 30 books that tell the story well. Highly decorated cloth, ornate scrollwork, symmetrical and floral patterns, gilt, embossing, debossing...
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Fascinating First Editions from the 1950s
It was the decade that gave us Narnia, Holden Caulfield and 007. But this selection showcases other memorable books published in the 1950s. A little Dennis Wheatley, a slice of Muriel Spark and a dash...
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Behold, Austen Lovers: Mr. Darcy Emerging from the Lake
If you have ever seen the BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice starring Colin Firth (and if you haven’t, you really must – it is the best adaptation to many minds, mine included), you’ll remember...
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George Orwell’s 110th Birthday Present
I love this (albeit a little late). Dutch artists Thomas voor‘t Hekke and Bas van Oerle (who collectively call themselves Front404) pulled off a thought-provoking art installation in the city of...
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Why We Abandon Books Before Finishing Them
One of the both joys and drawbacks of being an avid reader is the book pile. When it gets too low, we become anxious we’ll run out. When it gets too high, we become anxious we’ll never get through....
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Reading Around The World
A Year of Reading the World is a very interesting project by a blogger who wanted to read a book from every country in the world. This was admitted as being a fairly difficult project, not only because...
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Globe theatre to take Hamlet on all nation world tour
The modern reconstruction of the original Globe Theatre Shakespeare’s Globe theatre is planning an amazingly ambitious two year tour of the planet. The tour will begin April 2014 to mark the 450th...
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The 35 Worst Children in Literature
In the real world, we love kids. They’re one of the absolute best parts of life, and arguably, our purpose. They represent the future. And most children are lovely. Children can be innocent,...
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Collectible Lobby Cards from Film’s Golden Age
The delight of movie buffs everywhere, lobby cards are one of the more glamorous types of ephemera listed for sale on AbeBooks. Smaller than movie posters, lobby cards were first used in the early 20th...
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What Type of Reader Are You?
Laura E. Kelly, a former executive in the editorial world of books and magazines, now resides mainly online, helping book industry types bridge the gap to the digital age. She created this infographic...
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