How selling a book collection to a dealer works: buying outright, selling on commission, and what I look for.

Why Ink & Signature Books is narrowing its focus to books that carry ideas, and what that means for the shelf.

How I set a maximum bid at auction, why fees change the maths, and why I shortlist eight books to buy two.

How I choose and research books at auction, from setting a theme to checking editions and condition before I bid.

Where I find books before they reach the catalogue: charity shops, estate sales, and the damaged books most people wa...

Dust jackets, foxing, structure and provenance: what condition means in rare books, and why I grade conservatively.

Why two first editions of the same book can carry very different prices, and the checks I use to confirm an edition b...

How a lifelong reader and collector became a book dealer, and what learning to let books go has taught me.