Book collecting
Videos
Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given collector. The love of books is bibliophilia, and someone who loves to read, admire, and a person who collects books is often called a bibliophile but can also be known as an bibliolater, meaning being overly devoted to books, or a bookman which is another term for a person who has a love of books.
Some inexpensive collectible books: these are, left to right, by Tyndall, Collingwood, H. M. Field, Bryce, Woolf, and Asimov.
The beginning of Paradise Lost from a 1720 illustrated edition. Not a first edition but desirable among antiquarians.
Bookselling
Videos
Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process.
Cărturești Carusel, a bookshop in a historical building from Bucharest (Romania), built in 1860 as a bank. Its interior combines Baroque Revival architecture with modern design
Bookshop in Marburg (Hesse, Germany)
Interior of the bookshop from the Singer House (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Catholic Book shop in Victoria, Australia