Why Books?
Why deal in books instead of other collectible items such as statuettes or artistry or pottery?
Books possess a exceptional place in the history of humanity. They eternalize the history, opinions, beliefs, thoughts, philosophy, theology and ambitions and imaginings of those that lived before us and who live with us now.
Books have molded the ways everyone thinks, live our lives and have forged the backbone of political science and international religions.
The reality that books hold a extraordinary place in our lives make them, I believe, to a higher degree ‘collectible items’. They are an investment in the yesteryear and the future of the whole human race. Man has detached himself from animals in his ability to reason, to think and to record those thoughts in books for each generation to read.
So what makes books invaluable? Why should somebody pay $100,000 or more for merely a book? These are the questions I asked my self prior to getting caught up in this fantastic business.
Did you know that, of all the collecting arenas, only one has a disease named after it? “Bibliomania” is a disease. Virtually, a Bibliomaniac is somebody who’s “mad for books”.
By the way, for the purpose of this Tool Kit, when I’m speaking of “books” I am talking exclusively about “hard cover” books and NOT paperbacks (certain paperbacks are collectible as well, but very few of them have reached the value of their hard cover cousins).
And, I was as astounded, as you might be right now, to learn that used and out-of-print books are valuable and some are even super-valuable.
Take for instance a first publishing of “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland”- nowadays worth approximately $725,000. Why ought a fundamental child’s book be worth so much cash? Because it’s “collectible”? Because it’s old? Because it is a Children’s book? The answer is simple. And it took me sometime to accept the simplicity of it, but here it is:
“Certain books are invaluable because somebody wants it and is inclined and able to pay the cost to own it”.
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