Storm, Colton, 1908-1988
Invitation to book collecting : Its pleasures and practices, with kindred discussions of manuscripts, maps, and prints / By Colton Storm and Howard Peckham. - New York : R.R. Bowker Company, 1947. - 281 p. : il., facs.
1. What are rare books? -- 2. Historic collectors. -- 3. Motives and pleasures of collecting. -- 4. Collecting literature. -- 5. Collecting americana. -- 6. The substantial world of books. -- 7. Manuscripts. -- 8. Historical prints. -- 9. Old maps. -- 10. Bibliography. -- 11. Buying and selling rare books. -- 12. Auction buying. -- 13. Book prices. -- 14. Fakes, forgeries, facsimiles, and thefts. -- 15. Planning and building a collection. -- Index.
"This books has grown out of a series of lectures given at the University of Michigan. They were designed partly to explain the "whys and wherefores" of the William L. Clements Library, a collector´s library on that campus, but chiefly to preach the fun we find in collecting books, manuscripts, maps, and prints." --Pref.
47030190
Colección Fernández Blanco
Coleccionismo
Manuscritos
Libros raros
Falsificaciones
Z987 / .S78
010
Invitation to book collecting : Its pleasures and practices, with kindred discussions of manuscripts, maps, and prints / By Colton Storm and Howard Peckham. - New York : R.R. Bowker Company, 1947. - 281 p. : il., facs.
1. What are rare books? -- 2. Historic collectors. -- 3. Motives and pleasures of collecting. -- 4. Collecting literature. -- 5. Collecting americana. -- 6. The substantial world of books. -- 7. Manuscripts. -- 8. Historical prints. -- 9. Old maps. -- 10. Bibliography. -- 11. Buying and selling rare books. -- 12. Auction buying. -- 13. Book prices. -- 14. Fakes, forgeries, facsimiles, and thefts. -- 15. Planning and building a collection. -- Index.
"This books has grown out of a series of lectures given at the University of Michigan. They were designed partly to explain the "whys and wherefores" of the William L. Clements Library, a collector´s library on that campus, but chiefly to preach the fun we find in collecting books, manuscripts, maps, and prints." --Pref.
47030190
Colección Fernández Blanco
Coleccionismo
Manuscritos
Libros raros
Falsificaciones
Z987 / .S78
010