Book Collecting - Hardcover

Ahearn, Allen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399134565 ISBN 13: 9780399134562

Verlag: Putnam Adult, 1989

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Allen and Patricia Ahearn operate the Quill & Brush bookstore in Dickerson, Maryland, and online at www.QBbooks.com, where they specialize in first editions and other fine books. The business was started in 1976, although they have been buying and selling first editions since the mid-1960s. Their previous book is Book Collecting 2000.

Rezensionen

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 Greensboro
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Putnam Adult
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0399134565
• ISBN 13: 9780399134562
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
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