Source: Reading Habits Feed Yours Website. We want to thank the author Amber Cross for allowing me to publish this. I hope you will find it interesting... Thursday, 10 November 2011Reading Habit's http://feedyourreadinghabit.blogspot.com/2011/11/reading-habits-top-ten-influences-on.html Top Ten: Influences on the Value of a Second Hand Book As a second hand bookstore operator I often get asked to [...]
Guide to Preserving Your Rare Book Collection
Book Collecting Nemesis - Dust
As the book collector's glossary explains unopened pages: "A state where the book's pages at the fore edge and/or top are still joined from the folding. This cannot occur if the book has been properly cut. At one time many books were issued unopened, and it is not uncommon to find older books still in this pristine state."
When The Library of Congress considered the undertaking the conservation and restoration of all the collections which needed immediate attention, they saw a daunting task. Lacking finds and trained staff, they determined to create an in-house Phased Preservation Boxing Program.
Unless one is a book collector, dealer, or book scout, it is difficult to understand how to describe the condition of a book. Even within this group there can be wide differences of opinion, which only confirms the fact that condition descriptions are somewhat subjective.
