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At Star Dot Star Books we provide articles every so often about various authors, book collecting, book-buying and book-selling issues and other subjects we hope you'll find interesting.

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The publisher responsible for Dr. Johnson's Dictionary

Copyright © 2007 Bruce Tober - All Rights Reserved

Robert Dodsley, English playwright and publisher, is also recognised as collector and publisher of one of the pre-eminent collections of poetry from the 18th Century, A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes by Several Hands. Read more here.

Just One Good Reason (of many) to Buy Your Books Direct from the Seller, Rather than through ABE

Copyright © 2006 Bruce Tober - All Rights Reserved

Books at Star Dot Star is no longer listing our inventory on ABE. And we are not alone. As of April 3 many dealers stopped listing with ABE altogether. And others now list only their cheapest stock on ABE. Read why here.

A Second-Generation Bookseller's View of Bookbreaking

Copyright © 2005 Susan Netzorg Halas - All Rights Reserved (see below for details)

My parents were both book dealers for more than 50 years in the pre-Internet antiquarian, scholarly and OP trade. For the record I am now 62 years old and have been working in the book biz since I could sit upright and hold a pencil which is just about the time my folks started their shop.

There's always been quite a bit of discussion about breaking books, so here for the record is his take on things. My dad wasn't big on breaking, but he did think (More)

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Why Does Crime Thrill

Author Name:   Bremner, Marjorie

Title:    Why Does Crime Thrill

Binding:   Stapled Wraps
Book Condition:   Very Good
Jacket Condition:   No Jacket
Edition:   First Edition
Publisher:   London Newman Neame Take Home Books Ltd
Illustrator:   Toy, David

Seller ID:   000016

16pp inc illustrations. Undated, but the British Library lists it as 1957. One of the very collectable "Take Home Books" series from the 1950s and '60s.

"We are violent by nature - all of us. We like thrills.. but if this is true of thrills, why should crime be so exciting? It is.. Well why is it?" Bremner was born in the U.S. and educated in psychology and social sciences at the University of Chicago and Columbia University. In 1946 she came to London to work on her Ph.D. in political science. Here she became a researcher for the Hansard society, lecturer, journalist specialising in social and political problems, reviewer and author of detective stories. Cover edgeworn and corners slightly worn.

TAKE HOME BOOKS, CRIME, FICTION, WRITING, David Toy, Marjorie Bremner

Price = 8.50 GBP

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