Book Collecting Bibliography

Ahearn, Allen and Patricia.  BOOK COLLECTING 2000:  A Comprehensive Guide. New York:  Putnam, 2000.

Basbanes, Nicholas.  AMONG THE GENTLY MAD:  Strategies for the Book Hunter in the 21st Century.  New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003.

Carter, John and Nicholas Barker.  ABCs FOR BOOK COLLECTORS. 8th Edition.  New Castle, Del.:  Oak Knoll Press, 2004.

Peters, Jean (ed).  BOOK COLLECTING:  A Modern Guide.  New York:  R.R. Bowker, (1977).

Peters, Jean (ed).  COLLECTIBLE BOOKS:  Some New Paths.  New York:  R.R. Bowker, (1979).

Wilson, Robert A.  MODERN BOOK COLLECTING.  New York:  Lyons & Burford, 1992.

 

Book Collectors & Book Collecting

Basbanes, Nicholas.  A GENTLE MADNESS:  Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books.  New York: Holt Books, 1995.

Blom, Philipp.  TO HAVE AND TO HOLD:  An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting.  Woodstock, NY:  Overlook Press, 2003.

Jackson, Holbrook.  THE ANATOMY OF BIBLIOMANIA.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 2001.  (Paperback edition.)

Jackson, Robert H. and Carol Zeman Rothkopf (eds). BOOK TALK:  Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting, and Special Collections.  New Castle, Del.:  Oak Knoll Press, 2006.

Rabinowitz, Harold and Rob Kaplan.  A PASSION FOR BOOKS:  A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books.  New York:  Times Books / Random House, 1999.

Targ, William (ed).  BOUILLABAISE FOR BIBLIOPHILES.  Metuchen, NJ:  Scarecrow, (1968).

 

Bibliography

Bowers, Fredson.  PRINCIPLES OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION.  New Castle, Del.:  Oak Knoll Press, 1994.

Tanselle, G. Thomas.  SELECTED STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY.  Charlottesville, VA:  University of Virginia, 1979.

 

 

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