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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manycats, post: 5754508, member: 13761&quot;]There is a Facebook group with an interest in these labels, though it is non-commercial:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://m.facebook.com/groups/255807868673068/?ref=group_browse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://m.facebook.com/groups/255807868673068/?ref=group_browse" rel="nofollow">https://m.facebook.com/groups/255807868673068/?ref=group_browse</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been sporadically collecting them for years, after buying Larry Dingman&#039;s little book on them, Booksellers Marks. Most of my collection comes from low-value books from which the labels are fairly easily removed, others from books being repaired, in which the label would otherwise be lost. </p><p><br /></p><p>Some people don&#039;t like the idea of removing them - it can damage the book, and does remove a bit of the &#039;provenance&#039;. (I sold last week a book on Alaskan exploration with the label of a Juneau bookseller and the rubberstamped name of a notable Alaskan schoolteacher - who would break up THAT story?) But keeping hundreds of books just for their labels takes up a LOT of space. I suppose it&#039;s the same with bookplate collectors, but I haven&#039;t explored that market as a separate field.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nowadays, I post pictures of labels on the Facebook page and release the books back into the stream of commerce. I do mention their presence, but I can&#039;t say anybody has ever said they were buying the book FOR the label. But people certainly do look for labels, and will buy a cheap enough book with an interesting label, or, I suppose, might pay a fair bit for a label of special interest. For example, I&#039;d love to find a J. Francis Ruggles &#039;Ye Bibliopoloexperto&#039; label, though I can&#039;t say for sure how much I&#039;d spend....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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