The Collectible Book Blog

eBay: Tips on Buying Books
 
The online auction monster eBay is a great source for you as you build your library of collectible books. Your intrepid blogger purchases books from this source many times per week; sometimes many times per day.  And since I purchase mainly for resale, you should gather that as a collector, you [...]

Good morning all ~
We just added a couple of short catalogues for the collectible book lover.
These are theological in nature.
You may view the links at our main page www.spwurth.com.
We added English Bible Origins and Huguenot - French Protestant History.
Take a look!
 

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It’s tough doing business on eBay these days.  Especially when your $10,000 sale goes south.
 
Edward Marshall sold a book that had been in his inventory since 1999, only to have it taken by the State Police in Pennsylvania when they showed up to pick up the merchandise.  Here’s hoping he has now put them on [...]

 
I am looking at the invoice from our local Staples office supply store.  $666.85 for five cherry bookshelves, 72” high, 36” wide.  Delivered.  By delivered, I mean right to the door, with help getting them in the building. 
 
I now have five 130 lb boxes looming behind me in the hallway.  Assembled, they did not [...]

A frequent item in the top ten goals for individuals is to “read more books.” 
 
(Did you know that in our Internet age there are several sites where people post, for the entire watching world, their personal goals?).
 
Such a goal, in the estimation of your humble blogger, is a worthy one.
 
But where to find the [...]

 
Do you remember a few years ago when someone found a first printing of the Declaration of Independence hidden behind a painting?  In 1989 the flea market purchase of a painting for $4 resulted in financial bliss for the new owner.  As he was inspecting it, the frame fell apart and regurgitated a first printing [...]

Solve the problem of long-term book preservation and you will warm the cockles of the heart of many an archivist.  One method gaining ground is scanned digitization.  A pilot program is being launched by “PALINET, an organization of hundreds of libraries, information centers, museums and archives that promotes library cooperation and resource sharing. It is [...]

 
Alcohol, long considered the social lubricant of the masses, and key to successful adventures in dating, has been embraced by a book collecting club in Brussels. 
“The club was formed by a handful of book lovers six years ago. Today there are around 350 members and a new, bigger venue above The Duke, a pub [...]

You can’t sell that!
 
Collectible books gathering dust in a library in Wales are the focus of controversy and the naysayers are “claiming victory in the first battle of the war over the historic texts.”  The public libraries of Cardiff have some rather scarce items in their holdings, including a Tyndale Bible, early editions of Shakespeare, [...]

I remember the first old book that I ever bought. 
 
I was about 14 years old and was rummaging around a thrift shop in Owego, NY.  This would have been sometime in 1975.  At the time I was becoming active in Revolutionary War reenactments and would often scrounge around such places to find items to [...]