A new edition of the classic guide to book collecting includes a new section on Internet resources.
Twelve essays by noted book collectors, curators, and scholar cover auctions, dealers, descriptive bibliographies, forgeries, the organization of a collection, and the care of books and manuscripts.
The antiquarian's reference to old books features 15,000 listings, and includes an Internet buying guide and advice on buying, selling, and maintaining fragile acquisitions
This work makes available a mass of useful information, including details of the technical aspects of book making, the vexed question of first editions and the matters of completeness and...
An experienced insider in antiquarian book markets offers advice on finding, buying, and selling used and rare books, and provides an index of more than one thousand of the "most...
This book contains a complete list of children's works by over 200 collectable authors and illustrators, and provides help in identifying the collectable editions of all the works listed.
Journey into the world of book collecting with the Goldstones-rediscover the joy of reading, laugh, and fall in love with books all over again.
"Discoveries of rare and collectible books are chronicled in stories from both casual and die-hard book collectors" --
This edited collection offers the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe.
Titles include Blood Brotherhood , The Missing Brontë ( also titled The Case of The Missing Brontë ) , Death of an Old Goat , Death by Sheer Torture , Unruly Son . BARNES , JULIAN ( literature ) . Flaubert's Parrot , A History of the ...
Whether you're an art fan, aficionado, or collector, this book should be on your required reading list.