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Bezig met laden... Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places (editie 2015)door Rebecca Rego Barry (Auteur), Nicholas A. Basbanes (Voorwoord)
Informatie over het werkRare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places door Rebecca Rego Barry
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  murderbydeath | Jan 27, 2022 |    ) Biggaz | Apr 10, 2020 |  ) SESchend | Sep 6, 2017 | A collection of short vignettes of people finding rare, mostly expensive books (and sometimes comics and sometime manuscripts) for cheap. An early printed copy of the Declaration for less than $2; a first edition of a Borges book for 50¢. Out of the way places, too. An estate sale, a stack of discarded newspapers, a book stall, a kids book shop, etc. Basically, it's what every rare bookseller and every book buyer or antiquer dreams of doing: the steal of a deal find. Pretty good, short enough to read a chapter in a sitting. There are fifty-two chapters. Most are interesting, though a few are a bit boring. There is an index and some book-buying terms defined in sidebars. There is an informative afterword and a short selected bibliography. One drawback, there are some nifty pictures, but not one for each chapter, which disappoints. (  ) tuckerresearch | Dec 8, 2016 | That said, this collection of short essays on unexpected book finds will be catnip to anyone interested in book collecting in even the most basic way, and should make everyone look at books a little differently. You never know when you're going to unearth a gem! ( )1  JBD1 | Dec 23, 2015 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Feed your inner bibliophile with this volume on unearthed rare and antiquarian books. Few collectors are as passionate or as dogged in the pursuit of their quarry as collectors of rare books. In Rare Books Uncovered, expert on rare and antiquarian books Rebecca Rego Barry recounts the stories of remarkable discoveries from the world of book collecting. Read about the family whose discovery in their attic of a copy of Action Comics No. 1--the first appearance of Superman--saved their home from foreclosure. Or the Salt Lake City bookseller who volunteered for a local fundraiser--and came across a 500-year-old copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Or the collector who, while browsing his local thrift shop, found a collectible copy of Calvary in China--inscribed by the author to the collector's grandfather. These tales and many others will entertain and inspire casual collectors and hardcore bibliomaniacs alike"--
"Discoveries of rare and collectible books are chronicled in stories from both casual and die-hard book collectors"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Rare Books Uncovered is a collection of 52 stories from some of the more well known (relatively) scouts, librarians, and dealers in the business, each sharing their biggest, or most memorable 'score'. Rare first editions, ephemera and in one case, a flag.
This kind of stuff is my personal catnip and I ate it up. The cherry on top being a recommended reading section at the back, which will do nothing for the ever-growing size of my TBR. (