Normally, this means buying all the first editions of an author's work, but a complete vision includes reprints, foreign translations, special editions, and magazine appearances.īuilding an author's collection is a costly option, especially if you want to do it with prominent authors. In this collection, it is constructed from particular authors. According to The Art of Manliness and Nate Pedersen, who is a librarian, historian, and writer we mentioned some ways to do it:Īlthough there are many ways to build a collection, here are some true and proven ways: It does not matter if you are a compulsive collector or an amateur since a personal library must be well structured and have a purpose. Bibliophilia is also a call sometimes bibliomania, but it should not be confused with the obsessive-compulsive disorder that receives this name and that is characterized by the accumulation of books. The love for books is called bibliophilia, and the one who likes to read, admire and collect books is called a bibliophile. The collection of books includes searching, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, exhibiting, storing and publishing any book that is of interest to an individual collector. Next, we will know a little more about this hobby, and how we can be a book collector. However, it is not necessary to be a good reader to be a book collector. Generally, book collectors are very studious people, who like to read and meditate on one or several types of books. By tradition, the Spanish market is smaller than the British, French or Italian, and is very limited to national publications, increasingly scarce, as many end up in libraries of public bodies. Some of them are book collectors.Įxquisite, but also jealous, fetishists, lovers of the weird, of the cult piece. For true collectors many times there are no limits to do what is necessary to get what they want. For many, it is a hobby, for others a love, a passion or even an obsession. The collecting of any object is something that millions of people do in all parts of the world.

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