The Collectible Book Blog

I would like to encourage you to take a moment and consider why you are a book collector, or why you are thinking about building a book collection.  Assembling a jumble of books is one thing; building a choice personal library is another.  Which are you doing?  Is your collection a hodge-podge of titles gathered [...]

One of the most exciting things about book collecting is that you never know where and when that rare book will turn up.
 
Here is a true story of one of our better rare book finds.  This took place in the summer of 2006.  At the time I was doing some route sales for a friend [...]

This is the last of our posts under the general heading of How to Buy Collectible Books on eBay.
 
Once you have set up your sniper program, learned how to set up your eBay search page, and done your research, you are only a few steps away from becoming a successful eBay bidder.
 
Do you still have [...]

A few stories are beginning to pop up on the internet about book donations for children.  The Christmas season inspires many local donation drives, and we think it is a great idea. 
 

I can remember my grandmother reading to me when I was a wee tyke.  I have been interested in books ever since.  I learned [...]

What is a collectible book worth?  How rare is it?  Who else has a copy, and how many are known?  These are important questions for today’s book collector.  They are especially important for the eBay bidder.  The only way to answer these questions is through research.
 
Our previous “how-to” research posts in the series of Buying [...]

By S. P. Wurth.

One of the key elements in book research is to try to determine just how scarce an item is.  People collect books for many reasons, but one of the main ones is to acquire a book that is uncommon, scarce, or rare.
 
We often start out by examining book dealer catalog holdings, and [...]

By S. P. Wurth

This will be the first of several articles on developing research skills for rare book buying.  The secrets discussed here are also invaluable for selling rare books.  This blog post is one of series that we introduced under the title Buying Collectible Books on eBay.
 
In order to be a successful book collector, [...]

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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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 [...]