Unlike most collectors of mysteries, who tend to be completists (because so many mysteries are published as part of a series), folks who are high spot collectors tend to focus only on those titles considered to be the most important in a particular field or subject. The high spot in English literature, for example, is generally held to be Shakespeare's First Folio, while the high spot in American orinthology is Audubon's double-elephant folio:
While some high spot collectors achieve familiarity with the most important titles in a field--e.g., beat literature--by vocational involvement with the field (e.g., they teach beat literature)...
...others rely on any number of books that have come to assume a sort of guidebook to high spot collecting function. Arguably the most prominent of all such titles is Printing and the Mind of Man...
..,but there are many more well-known titles that have come to perform a similar function, such as Heralds of Science...
...The Zamorano 80 (for high spot collectors of Californiama)...
...and a number of titles published by The Grolier Club:
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