Anybody else collect books by chance?
A counter-intuitive bit of fun for those who don't- It's often the lowest quality that is the rarest/most valuable. Books with poor binding, or no covers etc don't last very well, over time the sturdier books become comparatively common. There's also the special kind of collector who looks for pulps, or at least books of such low quality that they were clearly made for the common man (common being used loosely, literacy being very uncommon the farther back you go, of course).
A counter-intuitive bit of fun for those who don't- It's often the lowest quality that is the rarest/most valuable. Books with poor binding, or no covers etc don't last very well, over time the sturdier books become comparatively common. There's also the special kind of collector who looks for pulps, or at least books of such low quality that they were clearly made for the common man (common being used loosely, literacy being very uncommon the farther back you go, of course).
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