C-SPAN Cities Tour - Salt Lake City: Ken Sanders Rare Books

Tour some of the book collections at Ken Sanders Rare Books. When he is not appraising books for the Antiques Roadshow, Ken Sanders is amassing a collection of rare books in his downtown Salt Lake City store. See some of his favorite collections, which include Wallace Stegner, B. Traven, and Everett Ruess.

[@havefunbesafe]

I went to college to gain knowledge; I read books for a real education.

[@frehleyrox]

I have a dust jacketed hardcover edition of To Kill a Mockingbird which is a 21st impression as printed on the copyright page. However the copyright date is 1960, not 1962.

[@mexicanlawconsultant]

Book people are movie directors as they imagine what they are reading, whereas the audience is yourself

[@powerslave6944]

Other than the copyright year is there any other way we can tell that a book is really the very first edition printed? And does the first edition always has to be the most valuable or it doesn't always has to be?

[@silensviator]

First editions aren't always the most valuable. It depends on the history and availability of the item in question. Most of the time First Editions tend to maintain the most value, but if you came across a rare book, where something happened of historical significance to its second edition, it might feasibly maintain a higher value than the first. Collecting rare books, you have to pay attention not only to the time a book might have been released, but the history surrounding it, the impact it has had on society and its availability in good condition.

[@powerslave6944]

silensviator Thanks for explaining it to me.

[@randomrazr]

dis the same guy who had the tv show?

[@WilhelmMuller88]

randomrazr If your talking about that Talk Show host that gets bombarded with prank calls the answer is no.

[@robwarren4425]

BTW. The first of MOCKINGBIRD. was published in 1960.

[@kimward7997]

There's no discovering anything in this shop. One has only to navigate the clutter and hope something doesn't fall on them. Now if your into seances that have local appointees to the position of sheriff as a way of consumating such nefarious practices then SLC is the place for you.