These classic books reveal how history keeps repeating itself, proving that past struggles and absurdities still exist today.

The tool that I prefer to use is the book-repair knife. It has a rounded tip and is less likely to do damage that you did not intend as an X-Acto knife would. I'm removing the old tape.

“To a true collector,” the German philosopher Walter Benjamin noted in his 1931 essay “Unpacking My Library,” “the acquisition of an old book is ... even imagine life the way you live ...