I'm hoping for some guidance about how to keep documentation of a book's
past. The book in question is a first edition of Rex Stout's first novel.
Folded inside is a brief letter (signed and dated) from the grandson of Jake
Baker (founder of The Vanguard Press, which published the book) stating
where this copy has been since 1929 as well some family lore about Stout and
his association with Baker.
Is there a preferred way of handling such a letter? Should I just leave it
folded inside the book? Keep it separate? Enclose it in mylar?
Many thanks,
Anna
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Anna Skinner
Portland, Ore.
plumtree@aracnet.com
"The annual tonnage of publications
is terrifying if I think about it, but I
don't have to think about it. That
is one of the wonderful things about
the written word: it cannot speak
until it is spoken to."
- W.H. Auden