The Book-Hunter at Home

The Book-Hunter at Home[viii] [ix] [1] The rich finds of which the aged bookseller dreams are bargains...
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Author: Allan, P. B. M. (Philip Bertram Murray),1884-1973
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Language: English
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The Book-Hunter at Home

The Book-Hunter at Home

€6,35

The Book-Hunter at Home

€6,35
Author: Allan, P. B. M. (Philip Bertram Murray),1884-1973
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Book-Hunter at Home

[viii] [ix] [1] The rich finds of which the aged bookseller dreams are bargains only in the light of present-day prices. As a matter of fact, the great majority of them were not really bargains at all. He may bitterly lament having parted with a copy of the first edition of the 'Compleat Angler,' in the 'sixties for twenty guineas, but he overlooks the fact that that was then its market value. Had he asked a thousand pounds for it, his sanity would certainly have been open to question. 'Why, when I was a boy,' he says, 'you could buy first editions of Shelley, Keats, or Scott for pence.' Precisely: which was their current value; by no stretch of the imagination can they be considered bargains. His business is, and has always been, to buy and sell; not to hoard books on the chance that they will become valuable 'some day.' Neither can it be urged that 'people' (by which he means collectors) 'did not know so much about books fifty years ago.' Collectors know, and have ever known, all that they need for the acquisition of their particular desiderata. If they were ignorant of the prices which volumes common in their day would realise at some future period, why, so were the dealers and every one else concerned! Judging by analogy, we have every reason to believe that many volumes which we come across almost daily on the bookstalls, marked, perhaps, a few pence, will be fought for one day across the auction-room table. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 22716
Author: Allan, P. B. M. (Philip Bertram Murray)
Release Date: Sep 22, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

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