Amazon takes on antiquarians and books good enough to eat.

The truth about book collecting by Wayne Somers Books hold a curious position among life's good things: unlike good health and sensual pleasure, they can be stockpiled.

Books bring historic mining towns back to life by Adair Lara "It took me almost a year to discover I'd moved to a writer's idea of heaven."

A direct warning about the impending demise of pulp magazine by Neil Mechem A gnawing, late-night fear is worming its way into a small segment of the collectables maelstrom, and a fate not shared by many other accumulators of stuff—that is, the collectors themselves will outlive market interest in their hobby. [READ ONLINE]

If you though completing a set of 56 Declaration of Independence signors was hard, try tracking down the 280 signors of India's constitution by Amy Stewart "Hitkari made a visit to the National Archives to copy the names of all the signatories of India's historic constitution. He had little difficulty finding the original document, which was ungaurded and unattended in the veranda of the building."

by Scott Brown— So much for the quaint, neighborhood used bookshop. Alibris' sales in 2003 exceeded $45 million.

by Jerry Dorbin— Points mean as much to bibliomanes as the spread does to sports bettors.

Reviews of A Splendor of Letters and A Pound of Paper.

The Maurice Neville Collection of Modern Literature

Offbeat Catalog Listings and Rare Specimens

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