I have always believed that we become book collectors through being avid book readers. There may be he rare exception to this but for the most part, we love reading - everything about reading, actually. We love the way words paint images in our minds of places and situations we may never experience in our lifetime. We love the way some authors manage to put words together in ways that are lovely and evocative. We love the style of certain authors - the way they speak to our experience of life - to reflect or enhance life. We love the very feel of books in our hands
Among the rare items are "two of three known copies of first-edition Horatio Alger books in original 1890s dust jackets, signed copies of some of Jack Kerouac's books, the most complete set of the Mother Earth pamphlets published by Emma Goldman and 338 unpublished literary letters written by the renowned American poet Larry Eigner," Leif said.
Ken Lopez is a former President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. He maintains an office in Hadley, Massachusetts and welcome visitors by appointment. They are always interested in buying rare books, manuscripts, or related material in any of their areas of specialty and are happy to hear from anyone offering such items to [...]
I have a few suggestions for gifts for Book Cookectors. These are entirely subjective, being gifts, I would love to recieve. These sorts of lists are by their very nature subjective, however. Hope you enjoy!
Challenges may come from parents, teachers, clergy members, elected officials, or organized groups, and arise due to objections to language, violence, sexual or racial themes, or religious viewpoint, to name just a few. In 2008, the ALA counted 513 challenges. Many other cases go unreported.
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." ~ Jorge Luis Borges.
Amazon used its computer system to enter the Kindle devices of customers who had purchased George Orwell's books and summarily deleted them from the devices
