Welcome to AbeBooks’ Book Collecting Guide – a new educational section of the website dedicated to helping you understand the basic elements of book collecting and the terminology of booksellers. Our guide covers everything from what to collect to caring for your book collection.

The guide includes an in-depth glossary of book terms (full of pictures), an explanation of book conditions and a list of abbreviations.

And this is just the start… we’re going to adding new videos and pages as we put them together.

Visit the Book Collecting Guide.