There's a bittersweet aspect to buying book collections. On the one hand, it's uncommon to find good books in quantity and to see such books equals the thrill of any treasure hunt. On the other, you're taking a collection that took a lifetime to accumulate and you're breaking it up and dispersing it to the four winds, … [Read more...]

We had a visitor to the store the other day who had some books to sell.  She wasn't prepared to sell them, though, and by that we mean that she hadn't figured out what she wanted for the books.  So we went through them, did some research, identified what editions the books were and saw what the market was for them.  We … [Read more...]

Frauds, fakes and forgeries aren't that common to those of us at Printed Page, although they're not absent from the used and antiquarian book business. When we have a fake, we celebrate it. That's why we had a framed photo of Humphrey Bogart hanging in the store, boldly autographed in felt tip pen. Bogart died in 1957, … [Read more...]

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Printed Page is donating children's books to East Denver FISH, a food bank that delivers to needy local families.  If a family can't get to a food bank, they probably can't get to a library, either, yet books in the home are the biggest single contributor to a child's academic success.  Traci Sanders, a children's … [Read more...]