Collecting Not everyone is a book collector, but everyone collects books. From time to time, overcrowding makes it necessary to weed out some of the books but some are always kept. If you chose wisely the last time you thinned out the shelves, you may have the basis of a book collection.

When you think about book collecting, your thoughts probably turn to first editions, for the non-collector does not know what other kinds of books there are to collect. As a matter of fact, many collectors limit their interests to first editions, for the first editions of certain authors increase in value as time goes on.

When you know book collecting, you will know which authors' first editions sell at premium prices. However, with contemporary authors, there is no assurance that the first editions of their new works will have any special value. This is because the first edition of a well-established writer is likely to run many thousands of copies, and a single copy is no longer a rarity, as it was when a wary publisher was speculating on a new author.

Many collectors, who are completely indifferent to first editions, specialize in new or old books on one subject. In this case, the subject is probably related to another of the collector's hobbies: stamps, coins, dolls, antique furniture, pewter, glass, ceramics. Crime is hardly a hobby with us, but reading about crime is, and over the years we have assembled a moderately large and now valuable collection of volumes on factual crimes.




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March 11, 2010