Bookdealers' Most Embarrassing Typos


Bookdealers' Most Embarrassing Typos

 

 

Please do add more when you find them. Anonymity is assured!

 


 

Cataloged by a dealer with a cold:

Narratives of Colonial Aberica

 


 

A book with a lot of food stains?

The Bib Book of Mother Goose

 


 

Coffee table book that got a makeover?

Oversize Boob, In Very Good Condition, With A Very Good Dust Jacket. 276 pages. All About The Old Sailing Ships, With Many Diagrams And Pictures.

 


 

Spotted, appropriately enough, in a description of a music book:

Bach cover has damp marks.

 


 

A new form of aerial warfare?

Finger Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering

 


 

Something about the new singable anatomy?

Songboobs, by Nick Hornby