How to Buy Rare Books: A Practical Guide to the Antiquarian Book Market (Christie's Collectors Guides)

Book collectors may be born not made, but there are still rules and techniques to be learned. What is morocco? Where can you buy a first edition of Keats? How do you buy at auction? HOW TO BUY RARE BOOKS aims to provide answers to basic but important questions like these. The book trade is discussed in all its aspects. Fully illustrated with examples of famous and collectable books as well as examples of what NOT to buy. The book is supplemented by a glossary of common terms and lists. With 149 illustrations, 16 in color. Hardbound in russet cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Unstated first, Phaidon, Christie's Collectors Guides series. Author William Rees-Mogg, ex-editor of The Times of London, recently died at age 84 (Dec. 29, 2012). Besides his involvement in politics and newspaper publication, he remained a prolific writer, turning out volumes on economics and rare books - a passion that led to his purchases of one of London's best-known antiquarian bookshops, Pickering and Chatto. The guide was written in collaboration with members of his staff. 159 pp. Illustrated.