Getty Images Book collectors tend to look you in the eye ... a bibliographic database and magazine. “That has been a very strong trend, and is frankly irreversible.” And, as the Codex Sassoon ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...