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Discover the secrets of book collecting, identifying first editions, and understanding book values. Our booksellers have a great selection of books that can help.
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Marie Tedford and Pat Goudey
Whether you’ve found a century-old cookbook in your attic, are curious about your favorite contemporary author, or want to appraise a classic from your childhood, This book offers all the professional advice and information you need to determine the right values and the proper care for your books.
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Margot Rosenberg & Bern Marcowitz
Here at last is a short, simple, inexpensive guide to the tricks of the trade regarding how to take care of your beloved books. Written by a pair of booksellers, this little gem emphasizes household products and simple methods.
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John Carter
Here, in over 450 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, are definition and analysis of the technical terms of book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with salutary comment on such subjects as auctions, condition, fascimilies and fakes, "points", rarity, etc.
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Ian C. Ellis
This insider's guide to the world of the used and rare book market shows how to find the best deals. With tricks of the trade and a revised index of over 1,000 "most collectible" books and authors, anyone can learn to find hidden treasures on the bookshelves.
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Nicholas A. Basbanes
The passion to possess books has never been more widespread than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness, finalist for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle award, is an adventure among the afflicted.
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Graham Holroyd
Did you know that many of America’s top authors were first published in paperback? True first editions in paperback form are one of the most overlooked areas in book collecting. Paperback Prices will help you separate the used bookstore chaff from the hidden gems worth hundreds of dollars.
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Bill McBride
Whether you're a collector or bookseller, one of the first questions you'll need to be able to answer is, "Is it a first edition?"
And you can find the answers in the sixth edition of A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions. It lists over 3700 publishers from 1850 to the present and the manner in which they have identified the first printings of their books.
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Marvin Mondlin
This guidebook is the outcome of a half-century's trading in and reflecting on books by Marvin Mondlin, an active antiquarian bookdealer who is executive vice-president of Strand Book Store in New York.
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