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10 Best AbeBooks Rare Books 2025

Are you an avid reader, constantly on the lookout for rare literary gems? Look no further than AbeBooks Rare Books Services. We've scoured the literary world to bring you the top ten must-reads, with scores ranging from 7.2 to a whopping 9.8! Our number one pick is the classic novel "Persuasion" by Jane Austen, published in 1947, and top-ranked by readers like you. Trust us, you won't want to miss out on this literary masterpiece. Allow AbeBooks to guide you on your journey through the rare book world.
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Persuasion by Jane Austin

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1947. First Edition Thus. 254 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red illustrated paper covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends.

 

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The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments

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Contained with the Prayer Book below in a case with a flap opening, covered in burgundy goatskin, the front and rear tooled in blind with two fillets and arabesque corners, lined with tartan patterned paper and silk pull.

 

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Emma by Jane Austin

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1947. First edition thus. 496 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. 

 

 

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8.9

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

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1949. First Edition Thus. 319 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Tape marking to endpapers. 

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8.8

Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery LM

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1st Edition. An absolutely beautiful book. The cover is faded in places and shows some wear. The illustration on the front cover has a few small sections that are worn away.There is a little bit of fraying of the corners and edges as well as on the crown and foot of the spine. 

 

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8.5

Magic for Marigold by Montgomery LM

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Shelf wear to corners, covers, and spine. Paste-down colour frontispiece starting to peel in one corner. Binding loose but intact. Pages clean and unmarked. Copyright date only (1929) but presumed first edition. Warwick Bros. 

 

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Anne of Windy Willows (Anne of Windy Poplars) by Montgomery LM

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First British edition of this novel in Montgomery's acclaimed Anne series. Octavo, original blue cloth. Light wear, else fine in the original dust jacket with some chips. Uncommon in the original dust jacket. Anne of Windy Willows is an epistolary novel first published in 1936.

 

 

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7.9

Napoleon by Ludwig 

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The spine divided into six panels with raised bands and gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others with emblematic centres and volutes in the corners, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt fillets, Cockerell marbled endleaves, gilt edges.

 

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The Continental Tourist, and Pictorial Companion by George Bayntum

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Illustrated with Sixty-two Beautiful Engravings on Steel, of the most Interesting European Scenery. Commencing at Antwerp, proceeding through the placid garden-like scenery of the Netherlands; and by way of Cologne to the banks of that beautiful river, whose splendid and sumptuous scenery delights the eye and enchants the mind.

 

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The Book of Common Prayer

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Bound in contemporary green goatskin, the covers tooled in gilt with a wide border composed of a floral roll between a pair of thick fillets and repeated impressions of a band of pearls and a tuft of vegetation, with a large vase surmounted by a bird on a sprig in the corners.

 

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