#first editions

[whilereadingandwalking]

What are all the tips and tricks you need to know to find first editions of your favorite books? I'm a passionate book collector who has spent way too much time, luck, and money gathering first edition books by Neil Gaiman, Toni Morrison, Naomi Novik, and more—not to mention finding them as gifts for friends and family!

So I gathered all my know-how, and some extra know-how from my friends at Book Riot, into one awesome, comprehensive guide to finding first edition books. Check it out!

Do you have any first editions on your shelves/are you on the hunt for any in particular? Let me know in the comments!

#book collecting #first editions #toni morrison #book collector #neil gaiman #naomi novik #the master and margarita #book riot

[pazzesco]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1879 colorized, enhanced

Poor Folk, The Friend of the Family & The Gambler.

#books #bibliophile #collectibles #fyodor dostoievski #fedor dostoevsky #russian literature #novellas #first editions #fedor dostoievsky #fydor dostoevsky #dostoevksy

[scrambler]

First US Printing, The Queen's Gambit, 1953

#The Queen's Gambit #anya taylor joy #Netflix #Walter Tevis #first editions #chess

[ilikelookingatthings]

I am devastated. My local comic book store is shutting down (TT.TT) Comfort me Tumblr.

I had been trying to order a variant cover for a comic I saw on Tumblr for about two weeks. The computer was down for the second week but they told me to come and try again the following week. So, I just mozy on over with my sister in the car to make a quick order the following week.... just to see CLOSING all over the windows. 

Not gonna lie I kept wondering i it was my fault...did I not buy enough comics due to the inflation everwhere else?! was that why I hadn’t see as many new issues on display!

The owner told me he got a really good offer from Delta for a job he couldn’t bring himself to refuse(whether is the airline or the bank i didn’t ask) and that he was closing this chapter of his life.

Something understandable and I’m happy for the guy but damn it I wasn’t prepared for this loss! It was  a good distance from where i live! not too close but not too far. I knew how to get to it without GPS!

and it wasn’t large enough to be overwhelming. The big stores are nice but I could browse the entire store fairly quickly.

(If i go to a place thats too large with too many things I feel like the little brother of the Witch from Terry Pratchett who loves candy but when been given too much candy or brought into a candy store is overwhelmed and distressed at the possibility. because part of the bro senses that no matter how much he tries he might not be able to eat all the candy and is overwhelmed on where to start....frozen not being able to eat the candy at all in the existential horror of the situation). 

I also did not prepare for a sale of liquidation of those comics? do I go in and get as much as I can? or pace myself since I never planned the need to get so many comics so DON’T give into the sale bug 

Damn it I don’t want to go to Dave’s Comics! its close enough to be a option to consider by definitely far away enough to be a actual inconvenience! and its large! I got lost in there once!

The first edition’s comic store will always be in my heart...and now forever in my memories.

bright side is the owner said “the worst thing about this is telling my customers. Its like breaking up with 800 people!” which is just hilarious on principle. 

#comics #first editions #1st editions comics #peachtree city #GA #damn you delta the airline or the bank! #you took a real one! #all always have the branded plastic bags i use as proto comic spacers #comic book #it closes fully in june #comic book store #1st editions comic book store

[claar-bookdragonwitch]

"Book collectors like First Editions. They have a cachet of some kind, whether it’s rarity or quality. (Most of the time I just like books to be readable and to have all the pages in the right order.)"— Neil Gaiman.

#neil gaiman #quotes #tumblr #books #first editions #bookish stuff

[jemmalynette]

Maybe all the things you thought made you you aren’t really…you. Barbie (2023) / Fight Club (1999)

#legit the first thing i thought of when i heard this speech #barbie #fight club #margot robbie #brad pitt #crossover #gifset #parallels #my gifs #my edits #colouring by daily-hundred #barbie 2023

[transannabeth]

if you opened discord’s april fools day loot boxes how long did it take you to get all the items? it took my friend 18 boxes but me 65 and i want to see how bad my luck is

#not pjo #chitter chatter #sixty five is too many but I wanna know how much a clown I am vs everyone else #polls #discord #for anyone looking at the tags: yes that first one is wrong #you have to open 9 boxes at least #but you cannot edit polls and here we are #100 #1000 #🧍

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

[ocxmaul]

my text post collection vol. 1

#i want these to have some sort of loose theme so for this one it's the first tweet #plenty more to come. if you care #valor core #maul core #text posts #edit: this post breached containment lmao

[enchantingruinscandy]

#dual post #enchanted dumbassery #edited for an image id sonce this blew up** #*since #also please stop just attaching this picture to the sieve with powdered sugar. just rb this one first then immediately reblog the other if #youre looking to get the full effect

[beets]

9-1-1. 7.04 Buck, Bothered and Bewildered [details]

#911 #911edit #911 abc #911 spoilers #evan buckley #tommy kinard #bucktommy #having so many emotions about buck's hand here. help #edited after posting bc the first one was too dark oops sry oops #beets.gif

[amalgamezz]

ALT

#aromantic #actually aromantic #aro #aro pride #love loses #good job everyone. im so proud of us <2 #edit (12/31): also pls do not quote 'not all loves are romantic/sexual' at me #1. aros have always been the first to dissect the definition of love. we are likely to know that before you. #2. are we gonna keep pretending that aros aint only an afterthought to the 'love wins' and 'love is love' crowds. #3. im loveless aro. i do not care for love whether its romantic platonic or familial etc etc. #one can do good w love. one can also do evil w love. love =/= morals. stop acting like it is.

[rayjeff]

silly hazbin doodles

and lucifer&vox request from last week

#ITS NOT A SHIP #Just 2 friends chilling together :] #doodles #hazbin hotel alastor #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel rosie #edit: i fixed some details in the first drawing

[nedlittle]

it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...

#the picture of dorian gray #lit #this is a pointless text post #guess what i read for the first time in the year of our lord 2023 #and yes this is a real review on storygraph that i took a screenshot of. you people are so stupid god bless #girl he literally censored it himself did your edition have 0 introduction or background at all #greatest (s)hits #book discourse

[mermaidstede]

Nathan breaking after getting slapped in the face by a sammy.

#shoutout to bee for noticing it first... i was NOT breathing throughout these eps lol #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd gif #ofmd edit #my gifs #wanna make more but my computer is at it's limit tonight and i don't feel good :( #* #ofmd s2 spoilers

[dykealloy]

what do you mean jennifer saunder's shrek 2 cover of Holding Out for a Hero didn't play over the entirety of dressrosa arc

#happy new year. it's been about a decade since dressrosa arc first aired #i thought i was well and truly done with that last edit but this struck me like a bolt of lightning #one last go at it to wrap up the year #also. to be fair to doflamingo: how the fuck do you predict or prepare for this shit #(small aside: dressrosa arc is so badly paced you would not believe how many eps i had to download to pull four minutes together) #one piece #op #CJ's op watch-through #CJ's edits #dressrosa #trafalgar law #donquixote doflamingo #amv #monkey d. luffy #monkey d luffy #lawlu #roronoa zoro #zoro #donquixote rosinante #lulaw