Despite frequent claims by the media and certain North American online retailers about a digital revolution in books, collecting books in their printed form still remains a popular activity for both casual readers and serious investors.
Significantly, it has been the growth of international websites- such as Abebooks.com- that has prompted a resurgence amongst book collectors.
This new, full colour edition of 'Modern Book Collecting' offers advice that answers all the basic questions a book lover and collector might have: what to collect and where to find it, how to tell a first edition from a reprint, how to build an author collection, how to get the best price from dealers, how to understand the prices and rarity of books and more. With a handy dictionary of terms used in auction and dealer catalogues and a new section on internet resources, this is a must-have guide for book-lovers.
