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 ...

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.

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 ...