Whiting Books

Used and out-of-print books and ephemera via the Internet and book fairs.

[Fine Books Magazine @finebooks]

Unpublished Beethoven Manuscript and Virginia Woolf’s Copy of Far From the Madding Crowd to Auction
https://t.co/6gL087F3d8

[Whiting Books @whitingbooks]

IOBA's Virtual Book Fair opens tomorrow at noon (EST), and ends at 5 p.m. (EST) Sunday, Nov. 22nd. More than 80 IOBA members from the United States and other countries will exhibit books, ephemera, manuscripts, autographs, photographs, and maps throughout the three-day fair.

[IFLScience @IFLScience]

In 1959 a librarian called the police on 9-r-old Ronald McNair after he refused to leave a segregated library without letting him check out his books.

He went on to become an astronaut and died aboard Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.

[Newberry Library @NewberryLibrary]

Google Maps has nothing on this.

[16C portolan Atlas by Sebastiaõ Lopes] https://t.co/7SCow5no1v

[Whiting Books @whitingbooks]

@Caladex_books I, too, was watching it at my grandmother’s house on a black and white tv. She was born when it was still horse and buggy days. To see men fly to the moon in her lifetime was beyond incredible.

[Whiting Books @whitingbooks]

@FrostRareBooks Maybe inversion, like a film negative. But I like transference.

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Poems / by Wilfred Owen
https://t.co/vWTol8cV4D

[Whiting Books @whitingbooks]

Sad to hear, but what a great legacy! Many around the world have embraced his idea, my family included.

[Biblio: Used & Rare Books Marketplace @Biblio_com]

Thank you for your work, Todd Bol. The founder and spokesman of "Little Free Libraries" has passed away. https://t.co/xW1hSjCvMN

[Whiting Books @whitingbooks]

Beatles Fan Club lot of 3 pieces, ca. 1965-66, including a signed photo (facsimile or auto-pen) and note card with silhouette Beatles logo from Freda Kelly, Northern Fan Club Secretary, Liverpool. https://t.co/iR0q9YlT3n via @eBay

[Bodleian Rare Books @RareBooksOfBod]

Yikes! Some books aren't as safe as they seem...

How we discovered three poisonous books in our university library: https://t.co/DibmTp7SjS

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank was originally published on 25 June 1947. This image shows Frank's original diary at the Anne Frank Zentrum.

Books have power. Books can speak truth to power.

[Whiting Books @whitingbooks]

R.I.P. Donald Hall. This has been on our kitchen wall for years and seems an appropriate poem to share now from our summer kitchen in June.

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

Donald Hall, former US poet laureate who was known throughout literary circles and for his ties to New Hampshire, dies at 89. https://t.co/39exKCKZzG

[Rare Book Cafe @RareBookCafe]

In Memoriam: William Reese (1955-2018) | The New Antiquarian | The Blog of The Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America https://t.co/jxfQEdBWVV

[Whiting Books @whitingbooks]

The Houston Book Show is next weekend, May 19-20, benefiting https://t.co/j7rIOjYQr8. Dealers from across the country (and one from Madrid, Spain) will also exhibit ephemera, prints, photographs, postcards, and maps. For more information, please visit https://t.co/4CM6vnWRfw

[Whiting Books @whitingbooks]

During the Masters Golf Tournament, all our Masters Yearbooks (1990s-2000s) are 20% off in our eBay store: https://t.co/RCLi45EpHC

[Louis88books @louis88books]

The Five Most Valuable First-Edition Books of the 20th Century https://t.co/G6JEKNziX6

[Whiting Books @whitingbooks]

Read Books, Live Longer? https://t.co/xOUUccc6g4

[Bibliophilia @Libroantiguo]

19th century card, designed to break the ice, start a conversation, and flirt with the opposite sex.

[Murray & Hong Special Collections at MSU Libraries @MurrayHongSPC]

📷 First published in 1796, American Cookery by Amelia Simmons is considered the first true American #cookbook... https://t.co/mYp60ExHbI