My essays and escapades span over thirty years of rare book hunting--an exciting journey that is ongoing. Many of my friends are rare book people, and much of my free time revolves around bookish pursuits. I can’t recall a day without thinking about a book and seldom without handling one. I write regularly on my blog about rare books I’ve found and their history. Recently, my wife and I began plans to expand our library space by converting the attic above the garage, so it seems inevitable that the book you hold in your hand would come to fruition. If you’re already a rare book hunter no further prelude is needed. If you have found this book through curiosity or happenstance, and it creates a spark within, I strongly encourage you to follow your own book hunting path. The rewards are great and the space concerns never-ending. Kurt Zimmerman is a highly regarded book collector and author. He has been collecting for over thirty years in two areas: association items related to book collecting history (currently 7,000+ items) and first editions of Latin American literature (over 2,000 items). He received his Master's in Library and Information Science degree from UT-Austin while completing a three year internship at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. There he learned bibliography and rare books from the best in the field. He worked in the rare book trade and as director of the rare books & maps department at Butterfield & Butterfield auction house (now Bonham's) in San Francisco. Zimmerman is a co-founder of the Book Hunters Club of Houston. His established is popular blog bookcollectinghistory.com in 2011. The author can be reached directly at zbooks@yahoo.com. "For book collectors, it's always hunting season. No one knows this better than Kurt Zimmerman, longtime book collector and cofounder of the Book Hunters Club of Houston. Zimmerman has just published his first book, Rare Book Hunting: Essays and Escapades , a collection of highly enjoyable stories about his experiences with rare books and a much-anticipated offshoot of his blog on American book collecting history." Rebecca Rego Barry, Fine Books & Collections. "Even if you've never given a thought to association copies, books about books and book collecting, died-in-the-wool collector and book educator Kurt Zimmerman takes this specialty area and makes it exceptionally lively and appealing in Rare Book Hunting: Essays and Escapades." William Butts, Manuscripts . Vol. 73, #2, 2021, "Kurt's tales all make clear the most important part of book collecting: the people, past and present. His "A Book I Shouldn't Have Had Yet" is profoundly moving, and his stories of Texas bookselling greats Dorothy Sloan and Larry McMurtry, both of whom died in March, are timely indeed. I cannot wait to return to a time when we are able to have a great crowd of biblio-humans in a big room again: if nothing else, we need the opportunity for Kurt to find more great books and tell more great stories!" Jeremy Dibbell, Philobiblos. I enjoyed your book a great deal. Since working on The Pioneer Americanists and Americana Is a Creed I've been urging all my book/history contemporaries to write memoirs. Far too many of our predecessors failed to do so, and I hope we can do better. . . Keep writing, my friend, keep writing." Kevin Graffagnino, former director, The Clements Library. "I am reading your book and savoring every page. Your essays are as addictive as potato chips." Jennifer Larson, FABS Treasurer.