Posts Tagged ‘Newsletters 2009’

The old cliche of not judging a book by its cover is true in more than one sense. Today the dust wrapper is as important as the contents and the edition of the book itself. Sometimes a first edition is not always the best edition. Here a good example is Captain William Cornwallis Harris’ Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa (1852).

Anyone interested in antiques, fine art & collecting these items, is constantly on the lookout for exciting objects to add to their collections. Many people do not think of the dealer as a collector, but of course he is. He finds unusual items which he then researches & then offers them for sale. They pass through his hands & he gets great pleasure out of handling them, albeit for a short time in some cases.