A guest post that I wrote for Readful Things Blog regarding book collecting. Thanks to Ionia for allowing me to share my thoughts.
I am very happy to present a guest post by the amazingly talented Julian Froment.
He may well be the only other person I know who is as devoted to the love of books and literature as I.
We eat them for breakfast…quite good with blackberry jam. Please give him a moment of your time and appreciate his wisdom. If we try hard we might convince him this needs to be a series.
Without further ado–Julian’s thoughts on book collecting:
I felt extremely honoured when Ionia asked me to write a post for ReadfulThings Blog regarding book collecting. I hope that this short post will serve to introduce her many followers to the general topic of book collecting and give a little insight into why certain people, like us, love to collect books.
It appears that many people seem to have the view that book collectors are boring…
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You are amazing. I still say series! Series! Series! Encore, bravo and all those other things that mean just fucking do it.
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I think that we can look at a series, but probably guided more to collecting first editions and how to find them, book scouting, how to identify them, the importance of dust covers and condition, potential defects to look for, etc.
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Precisely what I was hoping for
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It will be quite fun to do this. I will start to think about how best to approach it.
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Excuse me you two. Julian, good post. I have people put it away and then decide to collect John W. Howell first editions someday. (before I die)
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Oh I am sure they will be John
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I hope people not have people. I am watching Notre Dame football and got confused.
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