Always be first to know about the latest donations coming into the shop! Every time we get a box of something special, we'll blog it right here. That way you won't end up coming in right after the books you wanted got sold. We look forward to seeing you often and making your book shopping much easier!



Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Beautiful set of famous "scholar's edition" of Enccyclopedia Britannica

Just as the announcement was made that the Encyclopedia Britannica is going exclusively on-line we have  received a complete set -- twenty nine volumes --  of the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1910-1911.  Beautifully bound, on india paper as white as the day the books were printed, our "handy volume" set of the encyclopedia is in remarkably  pristine condition.  The thin india paper means that each volume has about a thousand pages! We are told that it was apparently kept in one family for a hundred years!  But it was not much used.  The maps that pull out , for example,  appear  free of  the tears that pull-outs normally are subject to  All you need to learn about  the Britannica's eleventh edition is readily available on the internet.  Only $225. to be found in the sets section.