Collected Books: The Guide to Identification and Values
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An introduction to and advice on book collecting with a glossary of terms and tips on how to identify first editions and estimated values for over 20,000 collectible books published in English (including translations) over the last three centuries–about half are literary titles in the broadest sense (novels, poetry, plays, mysteries, science fiction, and children's books); and the other half are non-fiction (Americana, travel and exploration, finance, cookbooks, color plate, medicine, science, photography, Mormonism, sports, et al).
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Allen OSB Ahearn. Collected Books: The Guide to Identification and Values
INTRODUCTION
USING THIS GUIDE
ESTIMATED VALUES
COLLECTED BOOKS AND THEIR VALUES
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SMITH, James. The Carpenter’s Companion … London, 1733. 41 plates. $4,000
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FIRST-EDITION IDENTIFICATION BY PUBLISHER
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CONSULTED
BOOK COLLECTING
First Editions / Printings
First Printings vs. Reprints
First Edition Identification
Condition Isn’t Everything — It’s the Only Thing
Dust Jackets or Dustwrappers
Collecting Options
Literary Prize Winners
Autographed Books
Limited Editions
Proofs and Advance Review Copies
Paperbacks and Paperwraps
Sources for Books
The Internet
Catalogs and Specialist Dealers
General Used-Book Stores and Sales
Auctions
KNOWLEDGEABLE BUYING
First Issue or State and “Points”
Bibliographies
Reprint Publishers and Book Clubs
Pricing
Auction records
Book-Collecting Publications
CONSIDERATIONS WHEN BUYING OR SELLING
Dealer Cost
Consignor's Desired Price
Individual Dealer’s Experiences
Credit
Bargaining
Selling Your Books
PROTECTING THE COLLECTION
Caring for Books
Insurance and Appraisals
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN THE BOOK TRADE
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This is the fourth edition of Collected Books. We initiated this series in 1991 as a continuation of Van Allen Bradley’s highly regarded Handbook of Values series. It was revised and updated in 1998 and 2002.
We’ve been around the book trade for over half a century. We started as collectors in the 1950s, issued a few catalogs every year in the 1960s and early 1970s (under the name Allen Ahearn-First Editions), and opened the Quill & Brush as a book and art store in 1976. We self-published the Book of First Books, a price guide to authors’ first books. We updated that first-book guide in 1978, 1983, and 1986. In 1989, 1995, and 2000, Putnam published expanded editions as Book Collecting: A Comprehensive Guide.
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BOGAN, Louise. Body of This Death: Poems. New York, 1923. Author’s first book. $600.
BOGAN, Louise. Dark Summer. New York, 1929. $600.
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