Timestamps: 0:29 Do Inscriptions in Books Effect Value? 3:40 Handling and Care of Books? 6:11 Best Ancient Manuscript to See When Visiting England? 7:08 Aesthetics of Old Books vs. Modern Books? 9:06 Best Books *About* Books? 12:19 Have You Ever Regretted Selling A Book? 13:10 At What Price Does a Book Become Worth You Selling? 14:54 Preserving Books vs. Buying/Selling Books? 17:42 Best Way to Transport Loads of Old/Rare Books? 19:29 Buying and Selling with Other Booksellers? 21:31 Do You Have an Apprentice? 22:54 What Do You Like to Read vs. Like to Sell? 27:57 Favorite Memories from Your Younger Years in a Bookshop?
Fantastic milestone, Tom. Extremely well earned 👏. I only have a few youtube channels that I watch religiously, and yours is one. Brace yourself for that million.
Congrats on the 200K mark! I had to laugh when you mentioned St. Aubyn - our used bookstore regularly receives copies, which means I'm constantly shifting to make more space for them (although I'll admit to never having heard of him before). One of my personal sub-collections is books from other authors' collections. Usually it's just a name inscribed on the blank page before the title page, but it's always fun to pick up one of those (found a Gilbert Murray in Boston, for example). One unique item I grabbed recently was a tiny book on Emily Dickinson published by Amherst College Press, inscribed by poet Richard Wilbur to fellow poet Vassar Miller.
Thank you for answering! I just got a new job in a bookshop, so I'm hoping to create similar memories, I have learnt a lot from your videos! Oh and yes the 'younger' line was unintentional 😅 Not calling you old by any means, you still have youth on your side :)
Thank you, Tom, for answering my question on care & handling. The information was helpful & timely for my small collection of much loved old friends. (Any book I keep I refer to as "friend".) They are currently being housed in climate control storage due to unexpected living location changes. Too much glass & sunlight where I am presently 😢. It's comforting to know I made the right choice for them. How wonderful that you were able to be present for the 1st year of your child's life! Your family should always come first. Your priorities are not misplaced. I do hope you do an episode on when to seek the help of a conservator. I do have a couple of historically important items I had grown to be nervous about before my sudden relocation & will need any advice you can spare. Congratulations on achieving 200,000 subscribers! I love reading your video comments section. The community you've built is wonderful!
Very excited about the amount of interest your TH-cam videos generate. I appreciate the work you're doing and bless your heart for sharing information about your business and personal life. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for answering my question! Your answer was very insightful and gave me a lot to think as someone who does have complicated feelings on art preservation as commerce, private collections, etc. I do think you make a very salient point that without that side of things, it would be immeasurably more difficult for books to be preserved and cared for before they have the opportunity to end up in non-private collections, in museums or in libraries, and as I said, it does give me something to think about!
Also , if you had an Australian accent like me , I promise you - NO ONE would take your book talking thing serious !!! You have the perfect accent to pull of this antiquarian channel and I love it!
Best book in my library that I cherish is a First Edition of 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff and I manage to read it religiously once a year. It just totally warms my heart... By the way... LOVE your videos.. Thank u for sharing your knowledge. Most kind and generous of you. You will be Blessed in your Business and Affairs.
Congratulations indeed! You fully deserve your success. You are one of the few people on the internet I feel that I really know, and would be at ease conversing with. I’m glad to learn that you love Rosenbach’s great book, a literary classic in itself. I’ve got a first edition, though without dust jacket, and have re-read it at least five times!
Magnificent and congratulations on the growing followers….very well deserved. I held my breath as you moved into your new premises ….. horray!!!🎉 As a collector of vintage children’s books I have come to expect inscriptions in every copy I pick up. Children’s books are more often than not inscribed by a loving parent or aunt upon a birthday or Christmas OR by the child in large wobbly writing ❤. I find it endearing…little stamps of life and human history in such a fragile thing as a book which has travelled through the last 50 to 100+ years.
Tom, you thanked us, but I'm sure I speak for many when I say, thank you. This channel is, for me at least, an small island of peace in a somewhat tumultuous world.
Amazing, I love books and look forward to your videos. I am 80 and was brought up to love books and I still have my copies of children’s classic bought from Woolworths and still look at them particularly Wind in the Willows. I can probably recite this book from cover to cover but still like to hold the book. I drink to your success. John
I am not a book collector as such I just like reading. I am a Bronte fan and have recently found an 1858 third edition Wuthering Heights / Agnes Grey. It's a bit battered but what a find, it is the pride of my Bronte bookshelf as it is scarce as you will probably know. It's also interesting because it has a W H Smith library sticker from the time on the cover, which i have left because of it's historical interest. I've not attempted cleaning and some future owner can decide if they want it rebound and restored. The pages within are in remarkable condition. I do like old Bibles, books of common prayer and hymn books. These i find can be purchased relatively inexpensively for those like me who have limited means and i particularly like those with inscriptions and family history in them.
Here is a question for your next video like this one: When would you engage a conservationist to stabilize a book, & when would you consider a restoration (i.e., recovering the book, either in part or whole, resewing the binding, &c)? How would these steps affect the value of the book? I'm very happy that your new endeavor is doing so well, & I was rather crestfallen when you did not win the bid on the Alice book. So it goes. I am one of the recent subscribers. Keep up the great work, & I wish you well.
*Outside of rare book areas of institutions and elite book sellers, I've never seen even collections of great value stored at proper temperature and humidity levels. Indeed, most often, quite the opposite protocols seemed in place. I wish these stats were more widely known/followed.*
I've been looking for a book for years that I found in a used book store but then lost in a house fire. I can't remember the name or author and nobody online has been able to help me so far. It was essentially an alternate timeline for The Lord of the Rings, and the premise was that the Palantir stone was shattered when it fell from Orthanc and so Pipin never touched it and the timeline changed. If anyone has any ideas please let me know!
That sounds like fan-fiction. I'm not aware of Tolkien (or Estate) publishing such an alternative timeline. It may have been a publication for a Middle-Earth based Roleplaying Game, as these, by their very nature, are wont to employ poetic license on accepted canon. Good luck with your search! :)
The price of books is similar to art: its value is directed by the consumers. Tolkien's books gained in value and attention after the movies. While I wouldn't spend even a thought about them, I cherish a first edition of the "seven pillars of wisdom" , which is in my possession for 40 years. But according to ebay, it's worth nothing.
Given the new world of direct selling of possessions on line is all book dealers end up doing, making books more expensive for potential buyers? As with shops in high streets, middle men are being pushed out of use. Also, is the 'value' of a nicely bound book more or less than the cost of having the same thing made, bound, by a modern bookbinder? As a craftsman in a different area for my working life, all antiques are basically cheap second hand goods at the hand made, one off end at least. For all the fuss made of them as expensive. Dead men as competition, needed no wages to eat.
Hiya, I wonder if you can help? I have a copy of The Hieroglyic Bible for youth, it’s a pocket size and it was prob my late nans. But I have no idea when it was printed as there is no date. I cannot find this exact one on Google searches - it has red cover with gold wording on front. With vines and flowers in black. It says Houlston and sons - it’s looks old some of the printing is wonky lol. Can you point me in the direction to find out when this copy was published?
Just found your content and loving it, but I was wondering, what is your opinion on the Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski do you plan on reading it if you haven’t read it if not, I highly recommend it if you love Game of Thrones
Wonderful insights Tom! Congratulations on realising another milestone in your journey & legacy. I'm sure I'm not alone in expressing heartfelt appreciation for taking us with you on your adventure. Your eloquent narrative is intellectually stimulating & educational. Furthermore, your gracious, empathetic sharing of passion & process is enlightening and life-affirming. Thanks for sharing Tom (AND thanks for sharing, Tom) 🙏
9:00 i think teh core of teh question was why books are not made teh way the where back tehn even though the majority of readers woudl prefer it of course it is not practical anymore but which great art is
Looove your channel. One question which might improve your online content AND maybe make some money.. have you by any chance considered apprasing books ( with your guidelines on how you want the images taken ) online for people that don't have these services in their countries like me? Or maybe for you to research more for some interesting content?
Also- tell your new member of staff to pronounce “books” correctly- because you say “books” very wrong !!also - dude , I f-ing love this channel!! After some beers or wine (like I’ve just had ) your channel makes life worth living !!
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Timestamps:
0:29 Do Inscriptions in Books Effect Value?
3:40 Handling and Care of Books?
6:11 Best Ancient Manuscript to See When Visiting England?
7:08 Aesthetics of Old Books vs. Modern Books?
9:06 Best Books *About* Books?
12:19 Have You Ever Regretted Selling A Book?
13:10 At What Price Does a Book Become Worth You Selling?
14:54 Preserving Books vs. Buying/Selling Books?
17:42 Best Way to Transport Loads of Old/Rare Books?
19:29 Buying and Selling with Other Booksellers?
21:31 Do You Have an Apprentice?
22:54 What Do You Like to Read vs. Like to Sell?
27:57 Favorite Memories from Your Younger Years in a Bookshop?
Thanks
Congratulations! And good luck to/with the new staff member
Having a child makes you sentimental I found. Glad you are having fun with the business and it’s enabled you to live the sort of life you want.
Fantastic milestone, Tom. Extremely well earned 👏. I only have a few youtube channels that I watch religiously, and yours is one.
Brace yourself for that million.
Congratulations, Tom. Given your hard work, it's more than deserved. It's not a proper Sunday without one of your uploads.
Congrats on the 200K mark! I had to laugh when you mentioned St. Aubyn - our used bookstore regularly receives copies, which means I'm constantly shifting to make more space for them (although I'll admit to never having heard of him before).
One of my personal sub-collections is books from other authors' collections. Usually it's just a name inscribed on the blank page before the title page, but it's always fun to pick up one of those (found a Gilbert Murray in Boston, for example). One unique item I grabbed recently was a tiny book on Emily Dickinson published by Amherst College Press, inscribed by poet Richard Wilbur to fellow poet Vassar Miller.
Thanks for answering our questions!! You have the best rare book channel on TH-cam.
Thank you for answering! I just got a new job in a bookshop, so I'm hoping to create similar memories, I have learnt a lot from your videos! Oh and yes the 'younger' line was unintentional 😅 Not calling you old by any means, you still have youth on your side :)
Thank you, Tom, for answering my question on care & handling. The information was helpful & timely for my small collection of much loved old friends. (Any book I keep I refer to as "friend".) They are currently being housed in climate control storage due to unexpected living location changes. Too much glass & sunlight where I am presently 😢. It's comforting to know I made the right choice for them.
How wonderful that you were able to be present for the 1st year of your child's life! Your family should always come first. Your priorities are not misplaced.
I do hope you do an episode on when to seek the help of a conservator. I do have a couple of historically important items I had grown to be nervous about before my sudden relocation & will need any advice you can spare.
Congratulations on achieving 200,000 subscribers! I love reading your video comments section. The community you've built is wonderful!
Very excited about the amount of interest your TH-cam videos generate. I appreciate the work you're doing and bless your heart for sharing information about your business and personal life. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for answering my question! Your answer was very insightful and gave me a lot to think as someone who does have complicated feelings on art preservation as commerce, private collections, etc. I do think you make a very salient point that without that side of things, it would be immeasurably more difficult for books to be preserved and cared for before they have the opportunity to end up in non-private collections, in museums or in libraries, and as I said, it does give me something to think about!
Congratulations!🏆
Great vid as always, Tom! Huge congratulations are in order 🙌
Also , if you had an Australian accent like me , I promise you - NO ONE would take your book talking thing serious !!! You have the perfect accent to pull of this antiquarian channel and I love it!
Congratulations on your anniversary!!
Best book in my library that I cherish is a First Edition of 84 Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff and I manage to read it religiously once a year. It just totally warms my heart... By the way... LOVE your videos.. Thank u for sharing your knowledge. Most kind and generous of you. You will be Blessed in your Business and Affairs.
Congratulations, here's to the next milestone 👏👏👏⭐⭐⭐
Congratulations!!!! Your videos are Always a breath of fresh air. 1 MIL is around the corner.
Congratulations my friend!!!
THANKYOU for answering my question!! ❤🎉
Congrats Tom! Well deserved!
Congratulations indeed! You fully deserve your success. You are one of the few people on the internet I feel that I really know, and would be at ease conversing with. I’m glad to learn that you love Rosenbach’s great book, a literary classic in itself. I’ve got a first edition, though without dust jacket, and have re-read it at least five times!
Magnificent and congratulations on the growing followers….very well deserved. I held my breath as you moved into your new premises ….. horray!!!🎉 As a collector of vintage children’s books I have come to expect inscriptions in every copy I pick up. Children’s books are more often than not inscribed by a loving parent or aunt upon a birthday or Christmas OR by the child in large wobbly writing ❤. I find it endearing…little stamps of life and human history in such a fragile thing as a book which has travelled through the last 50 to 100+ years.
Congratulations 🎉🍾
Congratulations. Best wishes for further growth.
Tom, you thanked us, but I'm sure I speak for many when I say, thank you. This channel is, for me at least, an small island of peace in a somewhat tumultuous world.
Amazing, I love books and look forward to your videos. I am 80 and was brought up to love books and I still have my copies of children’s classic bought from Woolworths and still look at them particularly Wind in the Willows. I can probably recite this book from cover to cover but still like to hold the book. I drink to your success. John
Thank you so much for sharing the books about books and book collecting. Fabulous!
I am not a book collector as such I just like reading. I am a Bronte fan and have recently found an 1858 third edition Wuthering Heights / Agnes Grey. It's a bit battered but what a find, it is the pride of my Bronte bookshelf as it is scarce as you will probably know. It's also interesting because it has a W H Smith library sticker from the time on the cover, which i have left because of it's historical interest. I've not attempted cleaning and some future owner can decide if they want it rebound and restored. The pages within are in remarkable condition. I do like old Bibles, books of common prayer and hymn books. These i find can be purchased relatively inexpensively for those like me who have limited means and i particularly like those with inscriptions and family history in them.
Here is a question for your next video like this one: When would you engage a conservationist to stabilize a book, & when would you consider a restoration (i.e., recovering the book, either in part or whole, resewing the binding, &c)? How would these steps affect the value of the book?
I'm very happy that your new endeavor is doing so well, & I was rather crestfallen when you did not win the bid on the Alice book. So it goes. I am one of the recent subscribers. Keep up the great work, & I wish you well.
Hello from St Andrews, Fife. Didn’t know you loved our little town.
Great video.
Thank you for sharing your personal book related memories and favorite books and snippets of your personal life.
All the best!
Many thanks for yet another delightfully informative presentation.
Tom you are an inspiration
Good Morning ! thankyou.
That was quick!
200k is just the start of your journey, Tom.
Great Video!!!
*Outside of rare book areas of institutions and elite book sellers, I've never seen even collections of great value stored at proper temperature and humidity levels. Indeed, most often, quite the opposite protocols seemed in place. I wish these stats were more widely known/followed.*
On the subject of books about books, I adore The Bookseller of Florence by Ross King
Congrats.
Best wishes with all you do.
Yes ! Love it !!
Going in to libraries and destroying rare books increases the value of all other surviving copies
Perish the thought!😨
I've been looking for a book for years that I found in a used book store but then lost in a house fire. I can't remember the name or author and nobody online has been able to help me so far. It was essentially an alternate timeline for The Lord of the Rings, and the premise was that the Palantir stone was shattered when it fell from Orthanc and so Pipin never touched it and the timeline changed. If anyone has any ideas please let me know!
That sounds like fan-fiction. I'm not aware of Tolkien (or Estate) publishing such an alternative timeline. It may have been a publication for a Middle-Earth based Roleplaying Game, as these, by their very nature, are wont to employ poetic license on accepted canon. Good luck with your search! :)
The price of books is similar to art: its value is directed by the consumers. Tolkien's books gained in value and attention after the movies. While I wouldn't spend even a thought about them, I cherish a first edition of the "seven pillars of wisdom" , which is in my possession for 40 years. But according to ebay, it's worth nothing.
such a good channel
Given the new world of direct selling of possessions on line is all book dealers end up doing, making books more expensive for potential buyers? As with shops in high streets, middle men are being pushed out of use.
Also, is the 'value' of a nicely bound book more or less than the cost of having the same thing made, bound, by a modern bookbinder? As a craftsman in a different area for my working life, all antiques are basically cheap second hand goods at the hand made, one off end at least. For all the fuss made of them as expensive. Dead men as competition, needed no wages to eat.
Hiya, I wonder if you can help?
I have a copy of The Hieroglyic Bible for youth, it’s a pocket size and it was prob my late nans.
But I have no idea when it was printed as there is no date.
I cannot find this exact one on Google searches - it has red cover with gold wording on front. With vines and flowers in black.
It says Houlston and sons - it’s looks old some of the printing is wonky lol.
Can you point me in the direction to find out when this copy was published?
Just found your content and loving it, but I was wondering, what is your opinion on the Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski do you plan on reading it if you haven’t read it if not, I highly recommend it if you love Game of Thrones
Are you on PATREON ?🤔
Wonderful insights Tom! Congratulations on realising another milestone in your journey & legacy. I'm sure I'm not alone in expressing heartfelt appreciation for taking us with you on your adventure. Your eloquent narrative is intellectually stimulating & educational. Furthermore, your gracious, empathetic sharing of passion & process is enlightening and life-affirming.
Thanks for sharing Tom (AND thanks for sharing, Tom) 🙏
❤
St Andrews. Are you a golfer as well as a bibliophile? I heard you read digital in addition to IRL but what are your thoughts on audiobooks?
9:00 i think teh core of teh question was why books are not made teh way the where back tehn even though the majority of readers woudl prefer it of course it is not practical anymore but which great art is
Also - please make it clear if these are your own copies? Are they? Or are you just showing other people collections?
He’s a book dealer. Most of the books he shows are stock for sale.
Looove your channel. One question which might improve your online content AND maybe make some money.. have you by any chance considered apprasing books ( with your guidelines on how you want the images taken ) online for people that don't have these services in their countries like me? Or maybe for you to research more for some interesting content?
If you’re extremely knowledgeable and love buying and selling books but hate people, what are the chances your business will succeed?
@1:53 ..."more interesting than most copies of the book." I suspect Tom is playing fast and loose with the word "interesting"' there...
Is Flo-handler not a joke name ? Anyone?
Could You add english subtitles. Thank you
Add them yourself!
Also- tell your new member of staff to pronounce “books” correctly- because you say “books” very wrong !!also - dude , I f-ing love this channel!! After some beers or wine (like I’ve just had ) your channel makes life worth living !!
Also- tell your new member of staff to pronounce “books” correctly- because you say “books” very wrong !!