My wife Kim and I run Anthony Restorations, a company dedicated to the restoration and preservation of books, rare paper and original artwork.
If you have a passion for books and have thought about starting to build a collection, you won’t want to miss the 45th California International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Pasadena Convention Center Feb. 10-12.
Jonathan and Barbara Hill are offering an English tour group for book collectors, librarians, and book dealers on March 26-April 10, 2011. The price for this unusual tour seems quite reasonable to me. Their website gives the following information (as well as daily schedule, registration forms, etc):
After posting the news about the fire that destroyed the bookstore yesterday, I searched for "collectibles insurance" using quite a few different keywords and came up with very little. Then I remembered the folks at Collectibles Insurance Services, LLC and asked them for a summary of their services.
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.
Any serious book collector (and the most serious belong to The Grolier Club, that pre-eminent New York shrine) harbors a latent penchant for lists.
Book Collecting - A Filthy Habit Got Too Clean
We all know the importance of maintaining good condition for our books. And, I think we can agree that the dust jacket is the most fragile part of our collection. Keeping them out of direct sunlight is always a good start but covering them with plastic is the best way to protect and uphold value of our books. One of the first places I "discovered" as a book collector was the website of Broadart. They sell a wide range for both the institutional (libraties, schools, etc) and the private book collector. You can find them
The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection stands out among the distinguished resources of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of The Library of Congress. Taking the illustrated book as its central theme and containing books from the last six centuries and manuscripts from the three preceding, the collection's greatest strengths are in the fifteenth century woodcut books, early sixteenth-century illustrated books, William Blake, and twentieth-century livres des peintres. Within this grand design the late Mr. Rosenwald sought books produced by the earliest printers and outstanding presses of later periods, and books on the following subjects: science, calligraphy, botany, and chess. The catalog describing the collection published in 1978 contains 2,653 entries, many for books represented by more than one copy.
Fine Books & Collections magazine, which targets collectors of rare and collectible books, will return to a regular print schedule in April 2010.
