Book collecting : a modern guide /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
R. R. Bowker Company,
1977.
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Table of Contents:
- What book collecting is all about
- Buying books from dealers
- Buying at auction
- The antiquarian book market
- The art and craft of collecting manuscripts
- Descriptive bibliography
- fakes, forgeries, facsimiles, and other oddities
- Physical care of books and manuscripts
- Organizing a collection
- Appraisal
- The book collector in the world of scholarship
- The literature of book collecting