Rhymes of a Red Cross Man- Featured Book

There are many stories out in the book collecting world that tell of a collector going into a used book store and coming out with a very rare very valuable book for only a few dollars.
It happens. More infrequently now, but it does happen. (more…)

A Gently Mad Blog New Feature

I will be adding a new little feature here.
I will take specific books from my collection, photograph them, and write up an entry on them.
The entry may be about how I came about the selected work, or why the work is important to me, my collection, or the overall bibliophile world. Probably all three [...]

A Treatise on Editions, Printings, States, And Variants

A recent announcement from a small press in the horror genre has brought upon a great debate about how publishers should handle their business with regard to limited editions. I will discuss the idea of limited editions and small presses in a later entry and I will not editorialize about this publisher and his [...]

On How Collectors Save the Written Word

    A few posts ago I spoke of On the differences on Collecting and Reading. The last line of that post “Up next I’ll take a look at the collector and how he does a service to preserving books and culture.” reminded me that I wanted to write about how collectors preserve the written word [...]

On the Idea of Speculation

As It Pertains to Money and As It Pertains to Longevity in Literature and Collections.
A certain idea has been running through my head the past few days pertaining to the speculation of the price of a specific book or edition and whether it is some how immoral to speculate on [...]