The late American collector Robert H. Taylor said that a rare book is a book I want badly and can’t find. On the occasions that people answer seriously, they all agree that rare is a highly subjective moniker.The earliest use of the term has been traced to an English book-sale catalog in November 1692. But it wasn’t until the early eighteenth century that scholars attempted to define what makes a book rare, with bibliophile J. E. Berger making Monty Python-esque distinctions between rarus and rarior and rarissiumus. A book’s degree of rarity remains subjective, and the only qualities of rare that collectors and dealers seem to agree on is some combination of scarcity, importance, and condition. Taste and trends play roles as well, however. When a movie adaptation is released, whether Pride and Prejudice or Nancy Drew, first editions of the book often become temporarily hot property among collectors. While Dickens will almost certainly be a perennial choice, Dr. Seuss’s star has risen as the children who were raised on his books have become adults with the means to form their own collections. ― Allison Hoover Bartlett, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

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    The late American collector Robert H. Taylor said that a rare book is a book I want badly and can’t find. On the occasions that people answer seriously, they all agree that rare is a highly subjective moniker.The earliest use of the term has been traced to an English book-sale catalog in November 1692. But it wasn’t until the early eighteenth century that scholars attempted to define what makes a book rare, with bibliophile J. E. Berger making Monty Python-esque distinctions between rarus and rarior and rarissiumus. A book’s degree of rarity remains subjective, and the only qualities of rare that collectors and dealers seem to agree on is some combination of scarcity, importance, and condition. Taste and trends play roles as well, however. When a movie adaptation is released, whether Pride and Prejudice or Nancy Drew, first editions of the book often become temporarily hot property among collectors. While Dickens will almost certainly be a perennial choice, Dr. Seuss’s star has risen as the children who were raised on his books have become adults with the means to form their own collections. ― Allison Hoover Bartlett, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
    The late American collector Robert H. Taylor said that a rare book is a book I want badly and can’t find. On the occasions that people answer seriously, they all agree that rare is a highly subjective moniker.The earliest use of the term has been traced to an English book-sale catalog in November 1692. But it wasn’t until the early eighteenth century that scholars attempted to define what makes a book rare, with bibliophile J. E. Berger making Monty Python-esque distinctions between rarus and rarior and rarissiumus. A book’s degree of rarity remains subjective, and the only qualities of rare that collectors and dealers seem to agree on is some combination of scarcity, importance, and condition. Taste and trends play roles as well, however. When a movie adaptation is released, whether Pride and Prejudice or Nancy Drew, first editions of the book often become temporarily hot property among collectors. While Dickens will almost certainly be a perennial choice, Dr. Seuss’s star has risen as the children who were raised on his books have become adults with the means to form their own collections. ― Allison Hoover Bartlett, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

    The late American collector Robert H. Taylor said that a rare book is a book I want badly and can’t find. On the occasions that people answer seriously, they all agree that rare is a highly subjective moniker.The earliest use of the term has been traced to an English book-sale catalog in November 1692. But it wasn’t until the early eighteenth century that scholars attempted to define what makes a book rare, with bibliophile J. E. Berger making Monty Python-esque distinctions between rarus and rarior and rarissiumus. A book’s degree of rarity remains subjective, and the only qualities of rare that collectors and dealers seem to agree on is some combination of scarcity, importance, and condition. Taste and trends play roles as well, however. When a movie adaptation is released, whether Pride and Prejudice or Nancy Drew, first editions of the book often become temporarily hot property among collectors. While Dickens will almost certainly be a perennial choice, Dr. Seuss’s star has risen as the children who were raised on his books have become adults with the means to form their own collections.
    ― Allison Hoover Bartlett,

    The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

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