Book Collecting
This guide will help you to find resources on collecting rare books and on the book arts in general, including bookbinding and the preservation and conservation of rare books.
Useful Websites
Digital Library Resources
Recommended Titles
Modern Book Collecting
094 W75m1
2015
A introduction to book collecting: what to collect, who to buy from, auctions, bibliographies, care, fakes, investments, donations, definitions, and more.
Phantoms on the Bookshelves
027.1 B71p
2012
Bonnet offers musings on the habits of collectors past and present and their techniques are learned, his advice on cataloging may even save the lives of those whose books are so prodigiously piled as to be hazardous to one's health.
Rare Books and Special Collections
025.17 B49r
2014
Berger, a veteran of rare book and special collections, offers a landmark examination of this field, aimed at practitioners in the library field, instructors teaching courses on the subject, booksellers, private collectors, historians, bibliophiles, and others involved in rare and unique materials.
Second-hand Stories
090 S74s
2015
A unique memoir that celebrates not just one life, but all of the lives connected through the past ownership of second-hand books. Every second-hand book tells two stories: one within its pages and another of the life it lived before changing hands.
The Book
094 H84b
2016
Reveals how books and the materials that make them reflect the history of human civilization, tracing the development of writing, printing, illustrating, and binding to demonstrate the transition from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the mass-distributed books of today.
The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios
822.3 Er2
2011
“The first edition of Shakespeare’s collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. In his efforts to catalog all these precious First Folios, renowned Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen embarked on a riveting journey around the globe.”