Books on
Book Collecting
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(either Amazon or AbeBooks)
Books are listed alphabetically and include Reference
Books on Books as well as Fiction and Non Fiction
titles.
Reference
Books on Books for Collectors and Dealers
- ABC for Book
Collectors, by John Carter. Oak Knoll Press.
2002. 224 pages.
- A Book of
Books by Abelardo Morell. Bullfinch
Press (Little, Brown and Co.), 2002. 108
pages.
- A Dictionary of Book
History by John Feather. Oxford University
Press. 1986. 278 pages.
- A
Gentle Madness:
Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for
Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes -
1995 Henry Holt & Company 638 pages A
very entertaining and informative
book.
- A
Magnificent Farce and Other Diversions of a Book
Collector by A. Edward Newton - Out of
print.
- American First
Editions by Merle Johnson and later
editions edited by Jacob Blanck 1942. Out of print.
Considered by many to the be definitive bibliography of
American first editions ever
produced.
- A
Primer of Book Collecting
by John
Winterich - 1966.
- Antiquarian Books: A Companion for
Booksellers, Librarians and
Collectors by Philipagesa Bernard, Leo
Bernard and Angus O'Neill - 1994 University of
Pennsylvania Press.
- Antiquaries, Book Collectors, and
the Circles of Learning by Robin Myers and Michael
Harris (editors) - 1996 Oak Knoll
Books.
- Antique Trader Vintage Magazines
Price Guide
- At Home With Books: How Booklovers
Live With and Care for Their Libraries
by Estelle Ellis,
Caroline Seebohm and Christopher Simon Sykes (editors)
1995 Random House. Includes information on starting a
collection, organizing, and caring for books with very
useful information on categorizing, editing and
storage.
- Between Boards: New Thoughts on
Old Books by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine
B. Stern - 1989 Modoc
Press.
- Biblioholism: The Literary
Addiction by Tom Raabe - 1991 Fulcrum
Pub. 179 pages. Have you ever. . . Awakened, the morning
after a book-buying spree, unable to remember how many
books you bought or how much you spent? Been reprimanded
or fired for reading on the job? Become suddenly deeply
interested in an obscure topic and immediately bought
six or more books on that topic? Had to sit down with
your family to discuss your book-buying and reading
habits? You are not alone. Your complete recovery awaits
you--just buy one more
book!
- Bibliophile of the Future: His
Complaints About the Twentieth Century
by Jacques
Barzun.
- Book-Collecting as a Hobby: In a
Series of Letters to Everyman by Percy Muir 1945.
Out of print.
- Book-Collecting: More Letters to
Everyman by Percy Muir –
1949. Out
of print.
- Book Collecting 2000: A
Comprehensive Guide by Allen & Patricia Ahearn -
480 pages. Prices listed are primarily for author’s
first published book, which are generally the most
valued. Excellent additional resource material for
collectors and book dealers.
- Book Collecting As One of the Fine
Arts: And Other Essays by Colin Franklin - 1996 Scholar
Press.
- Book Collecting for Fun &
Profit by Bill McBride - 1998 McBride
Publishing.
- Book Collecting, Four Broadcast
Talks by , R. W. Chapman, John Hayward,
John Carter and Michael Sadleir 1950 Out of
print.
- Book Collecting: A Modern
Guide by Jean Peters - 1977. Out of
print.
- Booking
Pleasures by Jack Matthews - 1996 Ohio Univ
Press. 191 pages.
- Books and Book
Collectors - by John Carter 1957. Out of
print.
- Books and Collectors 1200-1700:
Essays Presented to Andrew Watson
(British Library
Studies in the History of the Book) by James P. Carley,
Colin G. C. Tite and Andrew G. Watson - 1998 British
Library Publications.
- Books and the
Man by John Winterich 1929. Out of
print.
- Children's Picturebooks Price
Guide
- Collected Books: The Guide to
Values 2002 Edition by Allen & Patricia
Ahearn.
- Collectible Books: Some New
Paths by Jean Peters - Out of
print.
- Collecting Rare Books For Pleasure
and Profit by Jack Matthews - Out of
print.
- Collector's
Choice by John
Winterich.
- Damn Rare: The Memoirs of an
African-American Bibliophile
by Charles L. Blockson
and Barbara Hope - 1998 Quantum Leap Publisher
Inc., 356 pages.
- Dictionary of American Book
Collectors by Donald C. Dickinson - 1986
Greenwood Publishing Group.
- Discovering Book
Collecting by John Chidley - 1983 Shire
Publications.
- ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE
BOOK by
Geoffrey Ashall Glaister. Oak Knoll Press & the
British Library. 2001. 551 pages. ISBN
- Essays of a Book Collector:
Reminiscences on Some Old Books and Their
Authors (Locust Hill Literary Studies, Vol
3) by Claude Annett Prance - 1989 Locust Hill
Press.
- Adventures of a Treasure Hunter: A
Rare Bookman in Search of American
History by Charles P. Everitt - 1987
Meyerbooks. A great book of anecdotes about the author’s
years of buying and selling rare
Americana.
- Fine Books and Book
Collecting by Christopher de Hamel and
Richard A. Linenthal (editors).
- Fine Books
by Alan G.
Thomas.
- First Editions: A Guide to
Identification edited by Edward N. Zempel and
Linda A. Verkler. The Spoon River Press, 2001. 4th
edition.
- Great Books and Book
Collectors by Alan G. Thomas - Out of
print.
- Henry E. Huntington's Library of
Libraries by Donald C. Dickinson - 1995 H E
Huntington Library & Art.
- Hooked on Books: Everybody's Guide
to Book Collecting by Maurice Dunbar - 1997 James
Whitaker & Associates.
- How to Buy Rare Books: A Practical
Guide to the Antiquarian Book Market (Christie's
Collectors Guides) by William Rees-Mogg - Out of
print.
- HOW TO READ A
BOOK by Mortimer J. Adler & Charles
Van Doren. Simon & Schuster. 1972. 426 pages.
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- How to Stock a Home Library
Inexpensively by Jane A. Williams - 1995
Bluestocking Press
- Invitation to Book Collecting, Its
Pleasures and Practices by Colton Storm and Howard
Peckham.
- J.R.R. Tolkien - A Descriptive
Bibliography by Wayne G. Hammond and Douglas A.
Anderson - 2002 Oak Knoll Press
- Last of the Rare Book
Game by George Sims - 1990 Holmes
Publishing Co.
- Lunacy and the Arrangement of
Books by Terry
Belanger 1986 Paperback Oak Knoll
Books.
- Memoirs of a
Bookman by Jack Matthews - 1990 Ohio
University Press.
- Minding My Own Business: An
Autobiography by Percy Muir - 1991 Oak Knoll
Books.
- Modern Book
Collecting by Robert A. Wilson - 1992 The
Lyons Press. 276 pages.
- Modern Book
Design by Ruari
McLean.
- More of the Rare Book
Game by George Sims - 1988 Holmes
Publishing Co.
- New Paths in Book Collecting:
Essays by Various Hands by John Carter - 1934 Ayer Co
Pub.
- New Worlds in Old
Books by Leona Rostenberg - 1999 The
Lyons Press.
- Old Books in the Old World:
Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad
by Leona Rostenberg and
Madeleine B. Stern - 1996 Oak Knoll Books. 160
pages.
- Old Books, Rare Friends: Two
Literary Sleuths and Their Shared
Passion by Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine
B. Stern - 1998 Doubleday Books. 288
pages.
- Out of the Flames: The Remarkable
Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of
the Rarest Books in the World
by Lawrence and Nancy
Goldstone New York: Broadway,
2002
- PAPERBACK PRICE GUIDE FOR
ROMANCE. Paperback Price Guide Publishing
Co., 2001. 224 pages.
- PRICE GUIDE OF WORLD WAR I AND
WORLD WAR II BOOKS AND MANUALS
compiled by Mark A.
George. Morris Publishing. 1997. 301
pages.
- Rare Book Lore: Selections from
the Letters of Ernest J. Wessen
by Ernest J. Wessen and
Jack Matthews (editor) - 1991 Ohio University
Press.
- Renaissance Book Collecting: Jean
Grolier and Diego Hurtado De Mendoza, Their Books and
Bindings by Anthony Hobson - 1999 Cambridge
University Press.
-
Science Fiction the
Illustrated Encyclopedia
- Slightly Chipped: Footnotes in
Booklore by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone -
1999 Dunne Books. 224 pages.
- Talks On
Book-Collecting by Percy Muir.
- Taste and Technique in
Book-Collecting by John Carter - 1949 Out of
print.
- The Book Collector: A general
survey of the pursuit and of those who have engaged in
it at home and abroad from the earliest period to the
present by W. C. Hazlitt J. Grant,
1904
- The Book Collector's Fact
Book by Margaret Haller - Out of
print.
- The Collector's Book of
Books by Eric Quayle - Out of
print.
- The Encyclopedia of Science
Fiction
- The Friar and the Cipher :
Roger Bacon and the Unsolved Mystery of the Most Unusual
Manuscript in the World by Lawrence and Nancy
Goldstone New York: Broadway,
2005
- The Greatest Book In the
World by A. Edward Newton - Out of
print.
- The Pleasures of Book
Collecting by Salvatore J. Iacone - Out of
print.
- This Book Collecting
Game by A. Edward
Newton.
- Understanding Book
Collecting by Grant Uden - 1986 Antique
Collectors Club. 279 pages.
- Used and Rare: Travels in the Book
World by Lawrence Goldstone and Nancy
Goldstone - 1998 Griffin Trade Paperback.
224 pages.
- Used
Book Lover's Guide to Canada
by David S. Siegel and Susan Siegal.
Hunter Books, 1999.
- Used Book Lover's Guide to the
Central States by David S. Siegel and Susan
Siegal. Hunter Books, 1997. 464
pages.
- Used Book Lover's Guide to the
Mid-Atlantic States: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
and Delaware by David S. Siegel and Susan
Siegal. Revised Edition. Hunter Books, 1997. 438
pages.
- Used Book Lover's Guide to the
Midwest: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesoata, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, and West
Virginia by David S. Siegel and Susan
Siegal. Revised Edition. Hunter Books, 1998. 466
pages.
- Used Book Lover's Guide to New
England by David S. Siegel and Susan
Siegal. Second Revised Edition. Hunter Books, 2000. 384
pages.
- Used Book Lover's Guide to the
Pacific Coast States: California, Oregon, Washington,
Alaska, and Hawaii by David S. Siegel and Susan
Siegal. Hunter Books, 2000. 528
pages.
- Used Book Lover's Guide to the
South Atlantic States: Maryland, Washington, DC,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and
Florida by David S. Siegel and Susan
Siegal. Revised Edition. Hunter Books, 1997. 374
pages.
- Victorian Book Design and Colour
Printing by Ruari McLean - Out of
print.
- Warmly Inscribed: The New England
Forger and Other Book Tales
by Lawrence and
Nancy Goldstone New York: St. Martin's Press,
2001
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