Editions Club
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 STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Tennessee Williams LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Signed $60.99 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 4h 12m |
 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1st Edition Book Club Roald Dahl Schindelman $99.99 Time Remaining: 2d 5h 7m Buy It Now for only: $99.99 |
 Limited Editions Club 1949 SEVEN VOYAGES OF SINBAD in slipcase signed limited $74.99 Time Remaining: 2d 7h 28m |
 BEOWULF Limited Editions Club 1952 Wonderful Lynd Ward Illustrations $25.00 Time Remaining: 3d 4h 14m |
 The Stand Stephen King Near Mint 1978 Club Edition Hardcover Mirrors 1st Edition $49.99 Time Remaining: 6d 3h 19m Buy It Now for only: $49.99 |
 THE FOUNTAINHEAD Book Club Hardcover Edition AYN RAND 1968 $4.50 Time Remaining: 2h 32m |
 Limited Editions Club SIR GAWAIN THE GREEN KNIGHT 1971 SIGNED $11.50 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 4d 1h 51m |
 Limited Editions Club Alexandre Dumas MAN IN THE IRON MASK 1965 SIGNED $11.50 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 4d 1h 41m |
 Limited Editions Club Tono Bungay by HG Wells Signed LEC illus by Lynton Lamb $65.00 Time Remaining: 29d 23h 41m Buy It Now for only: $65.00 |
 Edmund Dulac Signed THE GOLDEN COCKEREL by Pushkin Limited Editions Club $90.98 (4 Bids) Time Remaining: 3d 5h 39m |
 Limited Editions Club Hart Crane THE BRIDGE 1981 2000 Copies SIGNED $17.16 (3 Bids) Time Remaining: 4d 1h 47m |
 Through the Looking Glass Limited Editions Club Signed by Alice Hargreaves $1,250.00 Time Remaining: 29d 17h 3m Buy It Now for only: $1,250.00 |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB The Stories of O Henry John Groth Illustrated SIGNED LEC $39.95 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 8m Buy It Now for only: $45.00 |
 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 HB Book Club Edition w Dust Cover Nice $49.99 Time Remaining: 2d 47m Buy It Now for only: $59.99 |
 POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON Limited Editions Club Elizabeth Sewell Signed $34.00 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 3d 5h 30m |
 Limited Editions Club Tess of the DUrbervilles by Thomas Hardy $95.00 Time Remaining: 28d 3h 6m Buy It Now for only: $95.00 |
 COMPLETE ANDERSEN FAIRY TALES Limited Editions Club Fritz Kredel Signed $149.95 Time Remaining: 3d 5h 43m |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB BOTTOM OF THE HARBOR PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERENICE ABBOTT $650.00 Time Remaining: 2d 22h 13m Buy It Now for only: $900.00 |
 Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac 1936 Limited Editions Club Signed by Sauvage $30.00 Time Remaining: 27d 18h 57m Buy It Now for only: $30.00 |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB PAUL CELAN TODESFUGE EPIC HOLOCAUST POEM WITH CD $400.00 Time Remaining: 4d 2h 2m Buy It Now for only: $750.00 |
 LITERARY WORK ABRAHAM LINCOLN Limited Editions Club John Steuart Curry Signed $19.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 3d 5h 27m |
 SIGNED SZYK THE BOOK OF JOB LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1946 No1274 1950 $119.99 Time Remaining: 2d 4h 33m |
 1955 GEORGES SIMENON EL CLUB DE LAS SOLTERONAS TOR ARGENTINA MEGA RARE EDITION $47.00 Time Remaining: 28d 7h 57m Buy It Now for only: $47.00 |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB ASHBERY DESCRIPTION OF A MASQUE SIGNED ASHBERYFREILICHER $550.00 Time Remaining: 3d 23h 57m Buy It Now for only: $800.00 |
 Tartuffe and Would Be Gentleman Moliere Limited Editions Club Near Fine Ivanoff $35.96 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 8m Buy It Now for only: $41.54 |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB FLOWERS OF EVIL BAUDELAIRE CARTIER BRESSON EROTIC PHOTOS $3,000.00 Time Remaining: 1d 21h 55m Buy It Now for only: $3,500.00 |
 Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Limited Editions Club 1940 $100.00 Time Remaining: 28d 47m Buy It Now for only: $100.00 |
 FATHERS SONS by Turgenev Limited Editions Club Fritz Eichenberg Signed $24.95 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 3d 5h 35m |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB VOWELS RIMBAUD SIGNED BY CARTIER BRESSON142 300 COPIES $1,100.00 Time Remaining: 1d 21h 16m Buy It Now for only: $1,400.00 |
 Raggedy Ann Stories by Johnny Cruelle Book Club Edition 1955 $7.00 Time Remaining: 29d 12h 58m Buy It Now for only: $7.00 |
 Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations Limited Editions Club 1936 Signed $69.99 Time Remaining: 2d 7h 22m |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Peter Ibbotson George du Maurier Newsletter Slipcase VG+ $31.46 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 8m Buy It Now for only: $36.34 |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding TM Cleland 1943 $17.96 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 8m Buy It Now for only: $20.75 |
 Blaze of Noon Ernest K Gann 1946 Book Club Edition Hardback Jacket Free Ship $19.90 Time Remaining: 28d 19h 52m Buy It Now for only: $19.90 |
 Ghosts and Hauntings by Dennis Bardens Hardcover Book Club Edition $9.99 Time Remaining: 1h 31m Buy It Now for only: $11.99 |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB THE TALE OF THE WANDERING MONK IZUMI IDETA WOODBLOCKS $850.00 Time Remaining: 1d 22h 45m Buy It Now for only: $1,200.00 |
 Limited Editions Club Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Signed LEC 1950 $85.00 Time Remaining: 29d 5h 45m Buy It Now for only: $85.00 |
 VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS by Bligh LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Mutiny on the Bounty $24.95 Time Remaining: 3d 5h 21m |
 Excellent Limited Editions Club Analects of Confucius Hand Carved Box 1933 $350.00 Time Remaining: 6d 5h 14m |
 Gautier MADEMOISELLE DE MAUPIN Limited Editions Club signed by Andre Dugo $49.99 Time Remaining: 2d 7h 28m |
 IN COLD BLOOD 1965 BCE W ORIGINAL BOOK CLUB EDITION FLYER $10.99 Time Remaining: 6d 20h 3m Buy It Now for only: $10.99 |
 The LYRICAL POEMS of FRANCOIS VILLON Limited Editions Club SIGNED $24.99 Time Remaining: 4d 5h 14m |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Green Mansions Dust Jacket 1935 Edward Wilson WH Hudson $40.46 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 8m Buy It Now for only: $46.74 |
 THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY Edward Everett Hale LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Signed 1936 $52.00 Time Remaining: 20d 18h 13m Buy It Now for only: $52.00 |
 THE WALK WEST A Walk Across America 2 Book Club Edition 1981 $0.99 Time Remaining: 4h 53m |
 Virgil The Georgics Limited Editions Club 1952 Bruno Bramanti Illustrations $25.00 Time Remaining: 3d 4h 26m |
 Nostromo Joseph Conrad LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Illustrated LEC Lima de Freitas $31.46 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 8m Buy It Now for only: $36.34 |
 Limited Editions Club LEC Confessions of St Augustine Slipcase $19.99 Time Remaining: 15d 15h 1m Buy It Now for only: $19.99 |
 The Prairie James Fenmore Cooper 1940 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Signed Numbered $49.99 Time Remaining: 1d 3h 12m |
 The Living Talmud Ben Zion Limited Editions Club Slipcase Hebrew ILLUSTRATED LEC $134.96 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 8m Buy It Now for only: $155.88 |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB George Bernard Shaw Two Plays for Puritans Him SIGNED LEC $39.95 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 8m Buy It Now for only: $45.00 |
 The Fables Of JEAN DE LA FONTAINE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Signed Slipcase 1930 $50.00 Time Remaining: 22d 20h 53m Buy It Now for only: $50.00 |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Four Plays Christopher Marlowe Copperplate Engravings LEC $44.96 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 8m Buy It Now for only: $51.93 |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Hunchback of Notre Dame Masereel Hugo 1930 2V Chemise $179.95 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 3m Buy It Now for only: $199.95 |
 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe Limited Editions Club 1930 HC $35.00 Time Remaining: 18d 17h 7m Buy It Now for only: $35.00 |
 Gustave Flaubert THREE TALES Limited Editions Club Signed by artist May Neama $49.99 Time Remaining: 2d 7h 30m |
 Limited Editions Club HIROSHIMA by John Hersey signed illustrated 812 1500 $800.00 Time Remaining: 1d 21h 26m Buy It Now for only: $1,000.00 |
 JOHN BROWNS BODY by Stephen Benet Limited Editions Club John Steuart Curry $24.99 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 3d 5h 55m |
 EVERGREEN by Belva Plain HC DJ GC Old 1978 Book Club Edition 1st Printing $1.99 Time Remaining: 27d 17h Buy It Now for only: $1.99 |
 At the Sign of Queen Pedauque LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Anatole France SAUVAGE 1933 $22.46 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 8m Buy It Now for only: $25.95 |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB She Stoops to Conquer Goldsmith Newsletter Slipcase N FINE $39.95 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 8m Buy It Now for only: $45.00 |
 Limited Editions Club The Gambler Notes From Underground Dostoevsky LEC Note $88.00 Time Remaining: 20d 9m Buy It Now for only: $88.00 |
 Lew Wallace BEN HUR Tale of the Christ Limited Editions Club signed by Mugnaini $34.99 Time Remaining: 2d 7h 28m |
 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB Troilus and Cressida Chaucer 1939 SIGNED NUMBERED $28.00 Time Remaining: 1d 3h 13m |
 1984 THINNER book novel Richard Bachman aka Stephen King Book Club Edition $19.99 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 50m |
 NANCY DREW BCE 26 THE CLUE OF THE LEANING CHIMNEY BOOK CLUB EDITION 1962 KEENE $12.88 Time Remaining: 29d 17h 57m Buy It Now for only: $12.88 |
 TRUE GRIT by Charles Portis 1st Book Club Edition 1968 Very Fine Condition $45.00 Time Remaining: 4h 35m Buy It Now for only: $65.00 |
 Limited Editions Club MEMOIRS OF AN INFANTRY OFFICER 1424 2000 Signed $57.00 Time Remaining: 5d 15h 25m |
 1940 Edition TEN YEARS AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB PUBLISHING $9.99 Time Remaining: 3d 1h 51m Buy It Now for only: $9.99 |
 Vintage A Mickey Mouse Club Book Robin Hood 1955 D48 AEdition $14.99 Time Remaining: 1d 2h 4m |
 The Fifteenth Pelican by Tere Rios The Flying Nun 1965 HCwDJ Book Club Edition $29.00 Time Remaining: 22h 57m Buy It Now for only: $32.00 |
 Rare 1934 Limited Editions Club The Travels of Marco Polo 2 Volumes Lapshin 657 $99.00 Time Remaining: 3d 19h 37m |
 Junior Deluxe Editions Club Childrens books advertising poster $11.11 Time Remaining: 28d 21h 21m Buy It Now for only: $11.11 |
 John Grisham A Time to Kill 1st book club edition Wynnewood Press 1989 VG DJ fr $2.99 Time Remaining: 1d 28m |
 special book club edition of the panorama of modern literatureby christopher m $0.99 Time Remaining: 16h 42m |
 Limited Editions Club THE BRIDGE By Hart Crane 1055 2000 Signed $57.00 Time Remaining: 5d 15h 26m |
 Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk 1st 1st First Edition Books into Film $224.99 Time Remaining: 22d 16h 15m Buy It Now for only: $224.99 |
 The Cat Screams by Todd Downing HC 1934 First Edition The Crime Club $5.00 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 18h 14m |
 1983 DEER OF THE WORLD SPECIAL EDITION SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL AWESOME $9.99 Time Remaining: 5d 3h 53m |
 1936 Henry Thoreau WALDEN Limited Editions Club SIGNED by Edward Steichen $700.00 Time Remaining: 11d 1h 20m Buy It Now for only: $700.00 |
 Limited Editions Club A LIFE ON THE ROAD Signed 1st Ed Charles Kuralt $57.00 Time Remaining: 5d 15h 23m |
 HGWELLS TONO BUNGAY THE HERITAGE CLUB EDITION 1960S FREE MEDIA MAIL SHIP $19.95 Time Remaining: 1d 17h 16m Buy It Now for only: $26.95 |
 In Cold Blood Truman Capote 1965 Vintage Hardback Book Club Edition w dust cover $19.99 Time Remaining: 1h 44m Buy It Now for only: $22.49 |
 MADAME BOVARY FLAUBERT LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB $20.00 Time Remaining: 6d 7h 31m Buy It Now for only: $20.00 |
 Limited Editions Club JOUNEYS AMONG THE DEAD signed by Eugene Ionesco $200.00 Time Remaining: 1d 21h 24m Buy It Now for only: $250.00 |
 Limited Editions Club BEIJING DIARY Signed 1st Ed Charlton Heston $57.00 Time Remaining: 5d 15h 22m |
 The Life of King Henry V by William Shakespeare 1951 Limited Editions Club HC $25.00 Time Remaining: 27d 19h 3m Buy It Now for only: $25.00 |
 Limited Editions Club WHATS WRONG WITH SPORTS Signed 1st Ed Howard Cosell $57.00 Time Remaining: 5d 15h 24m |
 Utopia Sir Thomas More LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1934 Signed Numbered $29.95 Time Remaining: 2d 3h 8m |
 Limited Editions Club THE THREEPENNY OPERA by Bertolt Brecht 198 2000 $57.00 Time Remaining: 5d 15h 22m |
 stephen king carrie hc hardcover bce book club edition 1974 doubleday $30.85 Time Remaining: 23d 6h 37m Buy It Now for only: $30.85 |
 Limited Editions Club EXILES RETURN By Malcom Cowley 299 2000 Signed $57.00 Time Remaining: 5d 15h 26m |
 The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger 1951 Vintage Book Club Edition $2.25 (2 Bids) Time Remaining: 6d 1h 55m |
 WALDEN BY THOREAU 1936 LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB SIGNED BY STEICHEN VERY RARE $549.95 Time Remaining: 11d 22h 25m Buy It Now for only: $549.95 |
 The Turquoise By Anya Seton Peoples Book Club Edition $4.99 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 42m Buy It Now for only: $5.99 |
 Limited Editions Club TO RENEW AMERICA Signed 1st Ed 2567 3000 Newt Gingrich $57.00 Time Remaining: 5d 15h 24m |
 The Grapes of Wrath 1967 Viking Book Club Edition John Steinbeck HCDJ $12.99 Time Remaining: 1d 22h 28m |
 The Last PIcture Show Larry McMurtry Signed HBDJ Book Club Edition $89.00 Time Remaining: 29d 20h 28m Buy It Now for only: $89.00 |
 Limited Editions Club A LOST LADY By Willa Cather 750 1500 Signed $57.00 Time Remaining: 5d 15h 25m |
 The Lute Player by Norah Lofts 1951 Book Club Edition $14.99 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 40m Buy It Now for only: $16.99 |
Editions Club
Large Print Book Clubs: Bomc2 Vs Doubleday Large Print
Large print books, for obvious reasons, can get rather expensive, which is not a small problem for book enthusiasts with impaired vision. More often than not, even online book stores do not offer their customary 30-40% discount on large print titles -- usually it's 10% off or not even that much. Fortunately, not everything is as black as it seems: by joining a book club it is still possible to save substantial amounts even on large print books. The only question is: which book club to choose?
Basically, you have two choices: Doubleday Large Print and BOMC2.
Doubleday Large Print has been established to cater exclusively to people with less than stellar eyesight. The club relies on a tried and trusted operational procedure for book clubs: an enticing introductory offer is combined with an obligation to buy a certain amount of books within a certain amount of time at a discounted price, and spiced with an attractive catalog that helps the members wade through the myriad of reading choices. In this particular case you are offered 5 books for 50¢ each at the enrollment, but you need to agree to buy 4 more books at the club's discounted prices within the next two years. If this seems too good to be true, it's because it is. Well, sort of. Shipping charges need to be added to the equation and that deflates the magnificence of the deal to an extent. Still, you get first 5 large print books for just over $3 apiece, total, and that's hardly an offer you will find elsewhere.
Doubleday Large Print, for the most part, prints their own books, and this has several advantages. First, all books are printed in 16-point typeface, plus the spacing between words and lines, and the ink, have been deliberately chosen with reading comfort in mind.
The second advantage is selection of books. The majority of latest bestsellers are available at DLP as hardbound large print editions as soon as they've been published. The same, however, cannot be said for either brick-and-mortar or online book stores; they will have regular editions, this is never a problem, but: retailers depend on publishers to provide large print editions, and publishers don't always seem to find it in their interest to produce such an edition at all, while sometimes they print the softcover version only. So, this is a big advantage of Doubleday Large Print: they always have the latest stuff in large print, and you are sure to always get 30% discount on publisher's price -- again, something you can't count on even with the largest online retailers.
Of course, latest bestsellers are not all you can find at Doubleday Large Print. There is plenty of older titles as well, mostly by major authors such as Nora Roberts, Nicholas Sparks, John Grisham etc. This is actually an additional perk of DLP membership; many of these books are often difficult to find elsewhere (the hardcover versions, anyway), and, what's more, they are often offered at bargain prices.
The other excellent source for large print books is BOMC2.
BOMC2 (or Book-of-the-Month Club 2, formerly known as Zooba Book Club) is a novel, subscription-based book service. It works like this: you compile a list of books you'd like to read (your Reading List), and the club sends you the top book from that list each month and charges you a $9.95 monthly fee, which includes shipping and handling costs. Additional books you buy are also $9.95 in most cases (some select titles are $12.95) and are also shipped to you free of charge.
$9.95 for a hardbound large print book, with free shipping, you will agree that this sounds like a great deal. But what about selection? Do they have as many large print books as DLP has? The answer is yes. They do, actually. BOMC2 and Doubleday Large Print are part of the same parent company, which in practice means that everything DLP has to offer is also available at BOMC2. For $9.95 per book. And with free shipping. Always.
Conclusion
So, which of these two book clubs should you choose? That, of course, depends on your preferences. If you're not into long-term relationships, then Doubleday Large Print might be a better choice. You can join the club, take care of the obligation immediately, and cancel. You'll wind up with nine books (5 introductory and 4 obligation books) for a total cost of about $80-100, depending on which books you choose and whether or not you take advantage of some money-saving concessions DLP offers. The procedure is repeatable, and many people do actually take advantage of it.
The cost of nine books at BOMC2 is in the same ballpark, so, savings-wise, for the first nine books, neither of the clubs holds a real advantage. However, if you don't like the join-swoop-up-the-books-cancel approach mentioned above (some people are not comfortable with it), and would prefer a more solid, long-term association, then BOMC2 might prove to be more to your liking. At Doubleday Large Print, most of the savings you'll make are due to the incredible introductory offer. Afterwards, you get 30% off on new titles, which is still better than what online stores usually offer, but not even close to BOMC2's fixed low price. Admittedly, DLP does carry plenty of older books at much lower prices, and they do often feature special offers, sales and discounts to encourage loyal members to stay loyal, but still -- $9.95 per book, with freedom to order your books at a whim granted by the free shipping policy -- just sounds better.
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BOOK CLUB EDITION does that mean that book has no value?
I have heard that when a book has the words BOOK CLUB EDITION on it, no matter how old the book is, that book has no value. Only the books that do not have those words are the ones that would have value. (of course that depends on first edition, first printing, author, title etc. ) Is this true???
I have a very old Stuart Little book. The DJ states it is a Book Club Edition. I don't know if it is valuable or not.
Thank you!
You can check with Bauman Rare Books. They have a website. I don't know about children's books, but very often book club editions are abridged - making them less valuable. Pax-C
JOOF Editions club nights