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Cooper Square Publishing, LLC. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1939. Hardcover. Rebound in buckram. .

English literature pwfa Partington, Wilfred, 1888-1955. Forging ahead; the true story of the upward progress of Thomas James Wise, prince of book collectors, bibliographer extraordinary, and otherwise. New York: G.P. Putnam's sons, 1939, xv, 315 pages, front., ports., facsims, appendix, bib, index. Good, clean, tight copy. $9.50 Box 2424
"The bibliography of the bibliographer; a record of his compilations, privately printed publications, edited works, forgeries, piracies, etc.": p. [283]-304.

New York: Putnam, 1939. Hardcover. Book: Good. 8vo.. 315 pp. 6 x 8 1/2. Red cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on front and spine. No dj. Prev owner's name on ffep, chipped at head of spine.

New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1973. cloth. Wise, Thomas J.. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 315 pages. Reprint of the 1939 first edition. Some cover soiling.

New York : Putnam, 1939. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. 315 pages. Frontis photo of Thomas Wise, 11 pages of illustrations. Appendix, index. Red cloth, with titles in gilt. Some light soiling to bottom edge.Very good clean copy in bright dust jacket with some wear along top edge and some light soiling. Jacket is in a mylar protector.

New York: Cooper Square Publishers. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. 0815404425 . Wilfred Partington. Forging Ahead: The True Story of the Upward Progress of Thomas J. Wise Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary and Otherwise. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1973. Reprint of 1939 edition. 8vo. xiv,313 pages including Index. Cloth. Fine condition, issued without dj, no owner's name.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 327 pages .

Publisher's light blue buckram with spine lettering gilt on a dark blue panel, octavo, pp. xv, 315. Illustrated. Reprinted by Cooper Square from the edition of 1939. GOOD condition with mild shelf and handling wear.

G. P. Putnam's Son's [c1939], 1/1/1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xv, 315 pages frontispiece, portraits, facsimiles 22 cm.

New York: G. P. Putnam's. 1939. Hardcover. 0815404425 . Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear; B&W Photographs; 315 pages .

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 315pp. Illustrated. Spine just a touch dulled, else very near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A nice copy.

G. P. Putnam's Son's, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 315 pages. This is the first biographical and critical study of one of the most famous series of forgeries in British literary history. Wise was a self-made man who amassed a fortune and assembled the Ashley Library, one of the finest private libraries in England, later acquired by the British Library. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. No dust jacket.

New York, Cooper Square, 1973.. Large 8°, publisher's light blue buckram, vertical darker blue spine label with title stamped in gilt. As new. xiv, 315 pp., illustrations. *** Facsimile reprint of the New York, 1939 edition. The text differs somewhat from that of the London edition which appeared the same year with a different title.***

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xv, 304pp+ index. Previous owner's label on front pastedown, else a very good hardback in a price clipped, darkened and rubbed jacket that has a few nicks to the edges.

New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue buckram. xv, 315pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Facsimile of the 1939 first edition.

New York: Putnam, 1939. hardcover. very good. Black & white frontis. & illustrations. 315pp. 8vo, cloth. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons (1939). Very good.<br/><br/>

G. P. Putnam's Sons. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. Front cover slightly dampstained. Writing inside. In protective mylar cover. (Book Collecting, Literary Forgeries, Biography)

New York, G.P. Putnam's sons [c1939] Book collecting. Hard Cover. xv, 315 p. front., ports., facsims. 22 cm "The bibliography of the bibliographer; a record of his compilations, privately printed publications, edited works, forgeries, piracies, etc.": p. [283]-304 Thomas James Wise, 1859-1937, forged and stoled books. His nasty work had been exposed, but not until after his death and the subsequent relief from the threat of libel suits that the full story could be told. Stock# 37,341. Vg/ dj vg.

New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. pp: xv, 315 with index; frontispiece portrait, 12 plates. Bound in orange cloth, brown lettering on spine and cover, decorated dust wrapper. 8.75" x 6

New York, G.P. Putnam, 1939.. FIRST EDITION. 8°, publisher's cloth with dust jacket (a few nicks and tears) In very good condition. Frontispiece, xiv, (1), 315 pp., 12 illustrations on 11 plates. *** FIRST EDITION. The text differs somewhat from that of the expanded London edition which appeared in 1946, titled Thomas J. Wise in the original cloth: the life and record of the forger of the nineteenth-century pamphlets.***