And as a collector, I understand that loving a book means more than loving the words it contains. Objects cannot be reduced to information. They are bound up with their material history.

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The Largest Collection in the World by David Silver is a coffee table book for collectors and aesthetes alike.

Publishing, like just about every business, has its discrepancies. According to “Firsts,” the book collector’s magazine published in Tuscon, Arizona, first-print runs can range from as few ...

Five million copies of the magazine sold within two days. Two weeks later the novel was issued in book form with a first ... truer than true.’ ” Collectors of fine first editions should ...

WHEN Mr. A. Edward Newton published The Amenities of Book-Collecting, some of his business friends regarded it as an amiable eccentricity. It was held to be odd and amusing that a busy electrical ...

She began her career by publishing stories in sci-fi and fantasy magazines in the mid ... House), is the first of Link’s books to present itself as a collection of fairy tales, she has always ...

In 1939, Ernest Hemingway left a large collection of his belongings—the manuscript of his earliest short story, childhood trinkets, memorabilia from his time at war, intimate letters ...

People Magazine decided to celebrate Queen Bey's country debut with a special collector's edition. The new issue, now on sale at newsstands and Amazon, includes over 125 photos reflecting on ...

Perfecting a coffee-table-book collection is much like curating anything else — the more personal and intentional, the better. We asked people with enviable taste about the Black coffee-table ...

In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” a rare-book collector sets out to “investigate” a group of overlooked female writers. By Sadie Stein Sadie Stein is an editor at the Book Review.