A list of some useful guides to collecting vintage paperbacks or first editions:
- McBride's A Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions. Comment: Essential if you are interested in eventually becoming a seller or a serious collector.
- Ahearn, Allen. Book Collecting: A Comprehensive Guide. Comment: Another essential book with numerous examples and references.
- Bradley, Van Allen. Gold In Your Attic and More Gold In Your Attic. Comment: Essential for book sellers.
- Carter, John. ABC For Book Collectors. Comment: All purpose guide, probably a little outdated but useful.
- Tannen, Jack. How To Identify and Collect American First Editions. Comment: Haven't used it so no comment.
- Wilson, Robert A. Modern Book Collecting. Comment: Excellent little book, with several humourous anecdotes and a good no-nonsense guide to book collecting.
- Zempel, Edward N. and Linda A. Verkler. First Editions: A Guide To Identification, Third Edition. Spoon River Press. Comment: Haven't used so no comment.
- Ellis, Ian C. Book Finds: How to Find, Buy, and Sell Used and Rare Books, 1996. Comment: Good quality book.
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Hi-
I am currently putting together a website for Biblionews (The Journal of The Book Collectors’ Society of Australia, founded Sydney, 1944).
Would you care to trade links?
Any feedback, comments, etc, would be gratefully accepted.
thanks
Tom Fletcher
http://bookcollectors.org.au/
Links page
http://bookcollectors.org.au/about/
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