How to Start an Autographed Book Collection

Starting an autographed book collection is a fun and rewarding hobby. Following these steps will get you on your way.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Paper
• Pen
• stamps

How to Start an Book Collection

1. Decide what type of autographed books you want to collect. Perhaps youd like to collect all one author or all crime books.

2. Search book stores as well as used book stores and discount stores for autographed books.

3. Attend book signings at book stores.

4. Write to authors and ask for an autograph. Many authors will send you an autographed book plate to put in the book.

Tips & Warnings

• Check places like Ebay and Amazon.
• It can take a long time, years in fact, to build an autographed book collection.

[ruralwriter]

on 7/25/2008 Hi there! You can preserve an autographed book by using a stand. It is a specialized book stand that holds the pages down as youd like and also has a clear plastic film that you can lay over the pages!

[HillPotus]

on 3/15/2008 How can I display/preserve an autographed book?
The author signed it on the title page and I would like to display that. How do i do that? and how do I preserve my book? Are there individual frames/cases (like record album frames for instance) for autographed books?
thanks for helping