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Book Collecting
Twelve essays by noted book collectors, curators, and scholar cover auctions, dealers, descriptive bibliographies, forgeries, the organization of a collection, and the care of books and manuscripts.
Book Collecting in Chinese Culture
Book collecting is an old tradition in Chinese culture which is experiencing a recent revival. Books are a key to understanding Chinese cultural past and present. It is the author's contention that books are a crystallization of human wisdom, and book collection is a crystallization of culture. People's respect for knowledge and culture all start with books and with book collecting. In the electronic age, this is even more relevant. This book explores all aspects of book collecting in China, including: government book collecting and prohibition * famous book collectors * religious book collecting * college book collecting * business book collecting * book collecting philosophy and its influence on the development of education and commerce.
A Primer of Book Collecting
PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for...
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Modern Book Collecting
A new edition of the classic guide to book collecting includes a new section on Internet resources.
The Romance of Book-Collecting
Reproduction of the original: The Romance of Book-Collecting by J. H. Slater
Book Collecting
The meat of this reference for amateur and professional book collectors is a list of thousands of books with suggested prices for the first editions, which can also be used to price later editions. Other sections suggest what books to collect, where to buy them, what to look for, and the fundamentals of building and maintaining a collection. Also useful for book dealers and librarians. Updated from previous editions, the frequency of which is not noted. No general index, but most of the sections are alphabetical. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Hooked on Books
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