This is a blog to discuss book collecting! We post one article every week in relation to collecting Antiquarian and Collectible Literary Works.
There are many terms used among Antiquarian book dealers and collectors that can be confusing for anyone “new to the game” of collecting. Here is an abbreviated list of many of the most commonly encountered terms when referring to old, rare, and out-of-print books.…
What makes a book go under the category of RARE? Are there any set guidelines? In short, the answer is no. There are standard guidelines for categorizing books as RARE for antiquarian books. When a book is described as ‘RARE’, it is more often…
For those who are unfamiliar with the term Book Row, it is referring to ‘a comparatively small area of New York City, [a] collection of phenomenal booksellers who begun to ply their trade from the 1890s to the 1920s and beyond, on and around Fourth…
Amazon is facing backlash from hundreds of antiquarian book dealers across 24 countries who are vowing to pull books off a website owned by Amazon for a week in protest of a move by the website to ban sellers from specific countries around the…
Here at Ash Tree Books, we are an online bookshop. So the reality is, we are just as much “here” as we are “anywhere”! Presently we do not have a physical storefront, although that is a future dream for us. For our weekly Collector…
The following essay is one chapter featured in a book called A Passion for Books, which is a collection of sixty classic and contemporary essays, stories, lists, poems, quotations, and cartoons on the joys of reading, appreciating, and collecting books. How to Care for Books…
