Benjamin McEvoy | How to Start Book Collecting as a Hobby @BenjaminMcEvoy | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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0:00 a rare bookstore visit
1:10 my latest first edition
2:20 how to start book collecting
3:00 three prerequisites for collecting
3:20 book collections as investments
4:00 finding your personal passion
4:40 should you collect Shakespeare?
6:20 collecting what you love
7:50 the sport of book collecting
8:20 collecting American dime novels
8:00 stray from the well-beaten path
9:00 learn everything about your subject
9:15 collecting detective fiction
9:45 creating your master list
10:00 go slow and choose first editions
10:50 what makes a collection valuable?
11:43 collecting Everyman's Library
12:40 John Keats book collection
13:23 collecting a book from every year
14:20 collecting original serialised periodicals
15:10 collecting popular fiction and comics
15:40 collecting Victorian yellow-backs
16:20 poetry chapbook collecting
16:41 good collections have a story
16:50 collecting works with patron dedications
17:20 collecting literary forgeries
18:00 collecting hobby books
18:20 collecting multiple translations
19:00 collecting historic translations into English
19:35 collecting significant biographies
19:50 author-specific collections
20:00 collecting Stephen King books
21:59 collecting Harold Bloom books
23:00 collecting contemporary books
24:45 why collect first editions?
26:00 the philosophy of book collecting
26:20 why collect signed editions?
27:00 should you read your rare books?
27:40 collecting as act of love
28:28 what books would you collect?