Collected Books: The Guide to Valuesby Ahearn, Allen, and Ahearn, Patricia |
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Here is the largest and most comprehensive single-volume
guide to current market values of collectible books in America. Used by
most book dealers and serious collectors in the country, this guide explains
how to identify first editions of books and covers a wide range of subjects,
including Americana, early printed books, literature, mysteries, science
fiction, children's books, natural history, photography, and travel. Prices
range from $200 for Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, to $750,000 for the
original London 1865 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and
beyond. Bibliography. |
Book Collecting 2000: A Comprehensive Guideby Ahearn, Allen, and Ahearn, Patricia |
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In this new edition, the Ahearns have added 2,000 titles, with the 1978,
1986, and 1993 prices for each entry, and a new section on prizewinners,
including Pulitzers, Nobels, Hugos, and such lists as the Burgess 99 novels.
This guide goes on to identify which books to collect; where and how to
buy them; how to judge their condition and care for them; provides a glossary
of trade terms; and lists dealers. |
Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in Bookloreby Goldstone, Lawrence, and Goldstone, Nancy |
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This is the second installment in a series dedicated to the love of books
and book collecting. Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone first wrote about their
passion for books in USED AND RARE: Travels in the Book World; here they
offer more adventurous tales of book hunting and purchasing. They also consider
the Internet's impact on the used- and rare-book trade. |
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Booksby Basbanes, Nicholas A. |
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The author traces the history of books and their collectors. He begins
with the library in Alexandria 2500 years ago and moves through time to
present day collectors and collections. The text is supplemented by 16 pages
of b&w photos, line art, and engravings. |
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books: With a New Prefaceby Basbanes, Nicholas A. |
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The author traces the history of books and their collectors. He begins
with the library in Alexandria 2500 years ago and moves through time to
present day collectors and collections. The text is supplemented by 16 pages
of b&w photos, line art, and engravings. |
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