book collecting
Guest Blog by Roger Layton, Communications Manager, The Harold B. Lee Library at BYU on the A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference March 17-18, 2011.
First editions are the word today in the Wall Street Journal, with our very own Nick Bas
Booksellers and book buyers are gearing up for next weekend's book bonanza in Boston.
I love a well-illustrated book.
Judging from the prices that well-illustrated books often fetch at auction, I am not alone.
Judging from the prices that well-illustrated books often fetch at auction, I am not alone.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary....Is there anyone left who still ponders over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore?
Book collectors come in all shapes and sizes. Some of us collect genre fiction (mysteries, for example). Others collect topically (e.g., books about gardening).
From 1953 to 1983, Beta Phi Mu, an international "honor society" for librarians founded in 1948, published a series of
Amherst, MA—The first-ever museum consideration of the Jewish picture book, Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish
