For anyone interested in book collecting as either a hobby or an investment, Book Collecting is a useful, informative reference book that's not only a must by a treat. Hardcover. Original jacket. Number line counts down to 1. Light rubbing and edge wear. Jacket has light edge wear. VG/VG.

Book Collecting

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Allen Ahearn

Patricia Ahearn

Antiques & Collectibles

G.P.Putnam's Sons

The largest, most comprehensive and up-to-date single-volume guide to current market values of collectible books in America. Includes 20,000 titles in various categories all arranged alphabetically by author.

Collected Books: The Guide to Values

An updated, well-regarded handbook lists the estimated market values of thousands of first editions, including the works of more than five thousand authors, and features a section on prize-winners and a guide to antiquarian book-sellers.

Putnam Adult

A price handbook to more than twenty thousand titles in various categories--literature, poetry, Americana, detective and spy novels--lists the market value of each volume

Collected Books

Book Collecting : A Comprehensive Guide

DIANE Publishing Company

This is the fourth edition of BOOK COLLECTING. It attempts to show that book collecting is enjoyable and a reasonably good investment over the long run. It explains some of the terms used in the trade and how to identify, purchase, care for, and sell first editions. It also includes an interpretation of the rationale that drives collecting interests, which admittedly may be an attempt to explain the unexplainable. BOOK COLLECTING includes tips, trends, terms and more for the experienced or novice collector. Covers how and what to collect, books as objects, collecting for the fun of it or for investment, first-edition identification, the economics of the trade, sources for books, knowledgeable buying, theories on pricing, condition grades and guidelines, estimating values, signed books, limited editions, and more. With appendices listing first-edition identification by publisher, terms used in the book trade, author and general bibliographies, literary prize winners & high spots, and more. By the author of COLLECTED BOOKS: THE GUIDE TO IDENTIFICATION AND VALUES, a standard reference for the book collectors and dealers. Praise for past editions includes, "Here is a guide for the novice book collector and a reference tool for the more experienced bibliophile" (The Washington Post); "The best reference work I know on the subject is Book Collecting: A Comprehensive Guide by Allen and Patricia Ahearn. We keep a copy at ABE, and I use it much as a Scrabble player uses a dictionary." (Rick Pura, Advance Book Exchange); "Talk to any bookseller anywhere for any length of time, and you'll encounter the name Ahearn. Book Collecting should be required reading for all beginners, and booksellers and experienced collectors" (Dianne Young, Southern Living); "Best single-volume source for libraries" (Library Journal).

Collection of First Books

Richard Peabody

Patricia Henley

Quill & Brush

Book collecting: The book of first books

Fourth edition. There are 3500 first books listed in this edition. This book explains some of the terms used in the trade and how to identify, purchase, care for, and sell first editions. viii , 255 pages. stiff wrapper papers. 8vo..

Book Collecting: The Book of First Books

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Books by Allen Ahearn

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Book Collecting

Collected Books: The Guide to Values

Book Collecting

Collected Books

Book Collecting : A Comprehensive Guide

Collection of First Books

Book Collecting: The Book of First Books

Author Price Guides