20000 League Under The Seas first edition

Lucky find. Was on vacation in Rhode Island and found this edition in a very old bookstore there. Well, this was extremely expensive

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>1 curiousbooks: Wrong forum, dude. At least label it OT (off topic).

>2 Glacierman: This is fine press book and it doesn’t get any better than the first edition. We also discuss Amaranthine and Centipede press and they are definitely not a fine press, dude

>1 curiousbooks: Which bookstore? I’m a recent RI transplant. Discovered a local spot called Commonwealth Books not long after arriving, and I’ve already found some gems including a signed limited first edition of T.S. Eliot’s Ash Wednesday.

Congrats btw!

>4 Nightcrawl: it was a commonwealth bookstore. Gorgeous building. I also left a half of my bank account for this book there. Thank you and congratulations you too on your beautiful signed limited first edition of T.S. Eliot’s Ash Wednesday. Pictures please, if you can.

>1 curiousbooks: Congrats that's super awesome! Do you know what printing it is? This might be of interest to you, I did a google search and found this:

A copy of the 1873 Boston Smith edition had the words "The End" printed after the last word of text on p. 303. The type is damaged and it's surmised that the type was not used in the printing of most copies. Copies with that notation would be among the earliest produced of this edition

Regardless, congrats! Now of course we're all curious... what did you pay?
You don't have to answer that :)

>5 Ragnaroekk: Their early books were NOT printed letterpress and hence not truly "fine press" -- and yeah, we've had this discussion ad infinitum, but for many fine press has to be letterpress, and it looks like Amaranthine is now strictly letterpress!