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Books and the Man.: Antiquarian Booksellers' Association Annual
by Antiquarian Booksellers' Association
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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About This Item
[iv], 76 pages, with a further 20 pages of which 19 are book-trade advertisements, plus 5 pages of black and white plates.
Salmon-coloured cloth covered boards with black lettering. Dust-wrapper in protective plastic sleeve.
Slight rubbing to the top and lower board edges. Dust-wrapper age-toned and with signs of foxing, otherwise in good condition. Spots of foxing to the title-page. Off-setting to the three rear end-papers. Text and plates clean and unmarked.
Contents include:
Sir Thomas Phillipps, A.N.L. Munby (The Second A.B.A. Lecture); Gibbon: the "Unprofitable Undergraduate" by John F. Fulton; Modern First Editions, by A. Miller; The "Lincolne Nosegay" Books, by William A. Jackson; Dr, Johnson and the Book Trade, by Alan G. Thomas; The Restoration of the Chichester Antiphonal, by Albert F. Seth; Watermarks as a Guide to the Dating of Bindings, by Charles Ramsden; Notes on Advertising in Early Newspapers and Periodicals, by Richmond P. Bond; Old Flower Books: a Bookseller's View, by Handasyde Buchanan; William Creech, by Ian R Grant.
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- Bookseller
- John Atkins
(ES)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0207
- Title
- Books and the Man.
- Author
- Antiquarian Booksellers' Association
- Format/Binding
- Cloth covered boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Wm. Dawson & Sons Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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