Booking Through Thursday: Collectibles
Filed Under (Booking Through Thursday) by Morbid Romantic on Feb 26, 2009 @ 11:55 pm
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My mood is: 
Mischievous
Listening to: Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor Put Your Boots On
All the ETC: 
What kind of collectible books do I have in my collection? Signed uncorrected proofs, signed first edition hardbacks, signed paperback releases, signed ARCs, 200 year old books, hardback first editions… I have a lot of books that qualify as collectible. Usually, when I do, I got them from the author or I am such a big fan of the book that I purchase collectible versions when I also own my own reading paperback or hardback.
To be honest, it doesn’t really matter. I have collectible books that fit into all the above in some form.
A book is collectible for its own unique reasons. It doesn’t HAVE to be first edition, but it can be. It doesn’t HAVE to be signed, but it’s delightful if it is. I consider each book on its own to decide if it is collectible. Even if it may not be considered collectible in an official sense, it will be to be for my own reasons. Just… a special and important book in my collection.
Though, I have the say that the only one above that I don’t place value on one way or the other is illustration. I don’t collect books that have illustrations. I guess that’s because no book that I have wanted to collect has come out with an illustrated version.
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