Paper Collectibles, Bibliographies, Literary Reference
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Overview
A brand-new, expanded handbook of estimated market values of first printings of first books, revised and updated for the new millennium.Like its previous editions--hailed as "the standard guide to market worth" (The Washington Post) and "required reading" (Southern Living)--Book Collecting 2000 is more than a simple listing.
It is an exhaustive guide to the basics and finer points of book collecting and the book trade for novice and professional collectors, as well as dealers and librarians. It identifies which books to collect, where and how to buy them, and how to judge their condition and care for them, and provides a glossary of trade terms and lists of dealers.
Book Collecting 2000 also features an introduction looking back over the century, and an examination of how the Internet is affecting both collecting and pricing; and it includes estimated prices for some 6,000 first books, comparing the pricing for the same titles in 1989 and 1995. Notes.
Editorials
Library Journal
Despite its title, this work is a brief but helpful introduction for the novice collector, with many useful tips on such matters as the importance of a book's condition. Its chief value lies in the various lists included: a catalog of authors' first books--heavily weighted to modern works--and their estimated value; a guide to identifying first editions; a glossary of booksellers' terms; and addresses of booksellers and auction houses. All this information is available elsewhere, so collections that already include the standard references (e.g., Van Allen Bradley's The Book Collector's Handbook of Values , 1982. o. p.) can forego this one. Smaller libraries may want this and/or Joseph R. LeFontaine's Turning Paper to Gold ( LJ 7/88), which contains many, but not all, of the same features.-- Joseph Rosenblum, Univ. of North Carolina at GreensboroBook Details
Published
January 1, 2000
Publisher
Putnam Publishing Group
Pages
480
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780399145742