Antique Books
Advice re whether to cut pages of antique books? Antiquarian help please.?
I bought a set of antique books a while ago, but have not read them because many pages in every volume are uncut and cannot be opened. Is it considered a bad thing to cut the pages? If not, what is the best way to do it?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 
If the books are valuable and you are going to sell them, don’t cut the pages!! It all has to do with the book being in its original condition. Collectors usually will keep them in storage, not read them, and the fact that the pages are still uncut is crucial to getting a good price.
If you are just going to read the books and keep them for yourself with no expectation of ever selling them, then go ahead and cut the pages.
Rare Ancient Books! 300 Years Old!
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All American 921 21-1/2-Quart Pressure Cooker/Canner $199.99 This heavy-duty pressure cooker’s large capacity is probably best utilized for canning (though it would also be great for a number of cooking tasks). A pressure cooker is generally recommended when canning vegetables and nonacid fruit, since the high heat that can be generated will kill more bacteria than a regular hot water bath. Made from cast aluminum, with sturdy screws to seal the lid to the … |
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Presto 1755 16-Quart Aluminum Pressure Cooker/Canner $109.99 The USDA recommends pressure canning as the only safe method for low-acid foods such as vegetables, meats, and poultry. The Presto 16-quart pressure canner is more than adequate for any home canning needs. It’s a professional-quality tool, made of heavy-duty aluminum, with stay-cool handles and a strong-lock steel lid. An accompanying rack fits down into the pot to keep jars up off the bottom, so … |
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Sainstore Refractometer for Measuring Sugar Content for Beer or Wine $31.44 This refractometer from Learn To Brew is for measuring the sugar content of beer and includes an automatic temperature compensation of 10 – 30 degree Celsius. No tools are needed for calibration. This refractomerter can replace your homebrew hydrometer and is much more precise. It is ideal for brewing and is extremely easy to use. Just drop some wort or beer on the lense and gaze through the eye p… |
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Michael Jackson: This Is It $1.50 Michael Jackson’s This Is It is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created, and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts at London’s O2 arena. Chronicling the months from April through June 2009, this film was produced with the full support of Michael Jackson’s estate. The movie draws from more than 100 hours of behind-the-scenes footage, and features Jackson rehearsing a … |
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Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days $20.15 Sesame Street has been educating and entertaining kids for 40 years. But the kind of TV programming for children that we currently take for granted didn’t exist until Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett dreamed up the concept of curriculum-based, educational children’s television in the late 1960s. By 1969, lots of research, consultation with educators, and testing had culminated in Sesame Street… |
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Glenn Miller – Greatest Hits $4.78 No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: MILLER,GLENNTitle: GREATEST HITSStreet Release Date: 04/16/1996… |
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Dances With Wolves [VHS] $0.01 Kevin Costner’s 1990 epic won a bundle of Oscars for a moving, engrossing story of a white soldier (Costner) who singlehandedly mans a post in the 1870 Dakotas, and becomes a part of the Lakota Sioux community who live nearby. The film may not be a masterpiece, but it is far more than the sum of good intentions. The characters are strong, the development of relationships is both ambitious and care… |
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Love Letter [VHS] $3.99 No one with romantic tendencies will be able to resist The Love Letter. Campbell Scott plays a Civil War buff who buys a desk from that era. While polishing it, he discovers a secret compartment, in which sits an unmailed letter–a letter written by a young woman named Lizzie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) over a century earlier. Touched by her yearning for passion, he writes her back, egged on by his mys… |
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Crimson Tide [VHS] $0.97 In the typical Don Simpson-Jerry Bruckheimer mold (the partnership yielded Top Gun and Days of Thunder, among many other films), this 1995 drama is a combination of one-dimensional but enjoyable performances, lots of high-tech nonsense taking place onscreen, and mechanistic movie-making at its loudest and most seizure-inducing. Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington play nuclear submarine officers squ… |
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Quakehold! 4162 15-Inch Furniture Strap Kit, Antique Brown $8.99 - Flexible nylon straps are safer than ridge L brackets – These furniture straps are the strongest most versatile straps available today – Easy to install – No holes in the furniture, just peel and press to the furniture – Great for file cabinets, large copy machines, bookcases, armoires, hutches, antique cabinets, grandfather clocks, entertainment centers, fish tanks, washers, dryers, and more – … |
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