"Jon Meyers" wrote in message
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"Kim C" wrote...
I am interested in book collecting...but am not knowledgable. Can
someone tell me what the international collectors library is? Is it
worthwhile to pursue a collection of these books?

Series of inexpensive reprints of classic literature, published by
Doubleday, bound in faux leather. The paper is highly acidic and often
found yellowing; the leatherette also is not of the highest quality, and
it
is prone to chipping and splitting at the hinges.

That said, it looks like there are one or two books in this series--e.g.
To
Kill a Mockingbird--that are scarce and in demand. But for the great bulk
of them, dozens of dealers at ABE have laughably high notions about the
value of these books. I wouldn't take one for free.



Just to second the remarks already made, there is very little to recommend
books in the ICL. I recently picked up a couple of dozen at a thrift--and
indeed they are relatively fragile.

I also recently picked up a copy of the ICL Augustine's *Confessions* (the
J.G. Pilkington translation) for my Confessions single-title collection.
That might be their only appeal: to fill out a single-title or completist
collection.


William M. Klimon
http://www.gateofbliss.com