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, 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!
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!
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.
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!
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 :)
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!
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.
Congratulations, some of those rough edged books are the result of being printed with folded and closed leaves in the 19th century and having to use a pen knife to open the leaves as you were reading the book, I was gifted in the nineteen-seventies a copy of a Napoleon by Bourriene book with closed leaves based on the journal. Someone had started reading it and stopped, as I wanted to leave the uncut leaves, I ordered a modern copy from my bookstore and read that one. My most amusing bookstore story, involves my sister sending me an article from the hometown paper about a book written by a local titled White Palace, I ordered it from my small town bookstore and when I went to pick it up, it had a very lurid cover of Susan Sarandon and James Spader from the movie of the same title. Goodness, a raised eyebrow from the clerk. I enjoyed the book but learned the screenplay was written first, and he later wrote the book form, thus the cover.😅
*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.*
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.
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.
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!
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?
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- 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 !!
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.
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!
Thanks for answering our questions!! You have the best rare book channel on TH-cam.
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 on your anniversary!!
Great vid as always, Tom! Huge congratulations are in order 🙌
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.
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!
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 :)
Congratulations!🏆
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.
Congrats Tom! Well deserved!
THANKYOU for answering my question!! ❤🎉
Congratulations, here's to the next milestone 👏👏👏⭐⭐⭐
Congratulations my friend!!!
Congratulations 🎉🍾
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!
Congratulations. Best wishes for further growth.
Good Morning ! thankyou.
That was quick!
Great video.
Thank you for sharing your personal book related memories and favorite books and snippets of your personal life.
All the best!
On the subject of books about books, I adore The Bookseller of Florence by Ross King
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.
Congratulations, some of those rough edged books are the result of being printed with folded and closed leaves in the 19th century and having to use a pen knife to open the leaves as you were reading the book, I was gifted in the nineteen-seventies a copy of a Napoleon by Bourriene book with closed leaves based on the journal. Someone had started reading it and stopped, as I wanted to leave the uncut leaves, I ordered a modern copy from my bookstore and read that one. My most amusing bookstore story, involves my sister sending me an article from the hometown paper about a book written by a local titled White Palace, I ordered it from my small town bookstore and when I went to pick it up, it had a very lurid cover of Susan Sarandon and James Spader from the movie of the same title. Goodness, a raised eyebrow from the clerk. I enjoyed the book but learned the screenplay was written first, and he later wrote the book form, thus the cover.😅
*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.*
Many thanks for yet another delightfully informative presentation.
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.
Congrats.
200k is just the start of your journey, Tom.
Great Video!!!
Yes ! Love it !!
Best wishes with all you do.
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.
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!
such a good channel
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?
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?
Are you on PATREON ?🤔
Also - please make it clear if these are your own copies? Are they? Or are you just showing other people collections?
❤
Is Flo-handler not a joke name ? Anyone?
@1:53 ..."more interesting than most copies of the book." I suspect Tom is playing fast and loose with the word "interesting"' there...
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- 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 !!
Could You add english subtitles. Thank you