Using the Americana Exchange Resources to Their Fullest Potential
By Abby Tallmer Could you please inform me how I can tell if a book is a first edition and if its an important Americana item. Where do I go in the book or elsewhere to find this information? What do I look for? typical quote from a befuddled book owner to a reference librarian Questions like those posed above are asked several times a day every day to countless reference librarians, rare book dealers, and rare book specialists across the country. To contextualize a bit, in this media-driven, wired world in which we live, it seems that everything that can possibly be sold (and t...