Book Collecting

Use the links below to display a number of articles by Robert Newbury, Ardis director, who started a business selling secondhand books from home in 1983. There are items about condition and storage of books, identifying and finding first editions, and individual collecting areas. Many of these are adapted from his articles originally published in Book and Magazine Collector.

Please download any items which you think may be useful for reference purposes.

Comic Relief - a thing of the past
Book Collecting - the lighter side
Running a small postal books business
Collectable Books - How to find them
Collectable Books - How to price them
First Editions - How to find them
Sending books through the post
Folio Society Books
Easton Press Books
Franklin Library Books
Signed Books

TV and film related

Fiction

Annuals

Comics

Humour

Please let me know what you think of them, and feel free to suggest subjects for further items.

Subbuteo Football - Game for a laugh
Forty Years On

There is also a full length comic novel in bite size chunks if you are looking for a deeper experience. 'Nothing Serious' is a darkly comic love story about Guy Sanderson, who comes out of university and plans to become something in the city. He is serious about making money, but not about much else. But everything changes when he arrives at the interview at finance house J J Ross...

You can read the first chapter here:

Chapter 1

If you like it, please buy the Kindle version here:

Nothing Serious Kindle Version

and bring my dreams of being an unlikely internet millionaire just that little bit closer.

'After all, human beings come and go, while books remain forever' - Amos Oz