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London: Robert Hale Limited. Good with no dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Corners are bumped. Spine is beginning to chip, and fade. Endpapers are foxed. Pages are browning. Spine is cracked at title page. .

Hale, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. London: Robert A. Hale. 1946. Frist edition. 372 pages. Frontis, 17 pages of illustrations. Red cloth, bookplate, small Blackwells sticker at bottom of inside board, text is very good, clean.Gilt decoration to front cover, spine dull, binding tight. Needless to say, a fascinating and scholarly account.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1946. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 347pp+ index. Boards slightly darkened, gilt a bit rubbed, else a very good hardback bound in publisher's red cloth; lacking the jacket.

London: Robert Hale Limited. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, front hinge cracked, fore-edges . stained, owner bookplate on front pastedown (Barnet Kottler).. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Red decorated cloth. Appendix by George Bernard Shaw. Yellowed book review from Times Literary Supplement and poem about the literary forger laid in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 372 pages .

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1946. Very Good condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. A fascinating, well illustrated account. 26 illustrations including a frontispiece portrait. Expanded from the American edition published in 1939 as "Forging Ahead." Six pages of notes by George Bernard Shaw. Includes a 23 page appendix entitled: "The Bibliography of the Bibliographer, A Record of His Compilations, Privately-Printed Publications, Edited Works, Forgeries, Piracies, Etc." Bound in the original gilt-stamped red cloth. From the publisher: "In spite of the fame he attained before the exposure of many of the pamphlets in his Ashley Library, Wise was largely a Mystery Man. Practically nothing was known of his early origins and career. He was just accepted by the world as a wealthy, fastidious, and able connoisseur who was the possessor of superb collections of rare books and manuscripts. This work… Read More

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1946. 372p. A very good copy, the top edges of which are spotted and dust-soiled, in a partial d.j. which is lacking parts of its spine, although most of the front and back panels survive. An enlarged edition, with alterations, of the author's Forging ahead, published in New York, 1939. Errata slip inserted. "The bibliography of the bibliographer": p. 323-346. (LC Online Catalog.). First U. K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1946. Very Good condition. Inner flaps from the dust jacket are laid in. NOT a library discard. Previous owner's name on front pastedown endpaper. All other pages are clean and unmarked. A fascinating, well illustrated account. 26 illustrations including a frontispiece portrait. Expanded from the American edition published in 1939 as "Forging Ahead." Six pages of notes by George Bernard Shaw. Complete with errata slip, tipped in. Includes a 23 page appendix entitled: "The Bibliography of the Bibliographer, A Record of His Compilations, Privately-Printed Publications, Edited Works, Forgeries, Piracies, Etc." Bound in the original gilt-stamped red cloth. From the publisher: "In spite of the fame he attained before the exposure of many of the pamphlets in his Ashley Library, Wise was largely a Mystery Man. Practically nothing was known of his early origins and career. He was just accepted by the world as a wealthy, fastidious, and able… Read More

Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. London: Robert Hale Limited, (1946). Includes appendix by George Bernard Shaw, Rebound, Very Good .

Dawson's Book Shop. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

GB: Hale, 1946. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. DW has vlittle oss but spine a bit browned and minor internal repair.. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/G++ DW.

Robert Hale, 1946 Robert Hale Limited London, 1946. First edition hardback no jacket title block to spine with mttled green cloth 372 pages with . Portrait frontis. + Illustrated, ex library book with usual label removed, markings and stamps. Otherwise covers and inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Folkestone & London: Dawsons of Pall Mall,, 1974.. First printing of this edition (originally published 1947).. 372 pp w/index. Light foxing along top edge, else very near fine in like dust jacket. The biography of “The Most Successful Literary Forger the World has Ever Known.”

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1946. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Appendix George Bernard Shaw. :Life and records of forger of 19th century pamphlets: Red cloth with gold.

Robert Hale, 1946. Book. Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, the sub-title continues - 'The Life and Record of the Forger of the Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets'. Red cloth lettered gilt to a faded spine, gilt device to the upper board, remains of the dust jacket folded and loosely inserted at the rear. Press cuttings to the front endpapers, bookplate of a previous owner on the front pastedown. The body of the text is unmarked, b&w plates, 372pp. Thomas J Wise, 1859-1937, bibliophile, dealer, forger, and thief..

London, Dawsons, reprinted 1974.. 372pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper,. B/w plates. A near fine copy.

Robert Hale Ltd. 1946. First Edition, frontispiece, 26 illustrations, orig. cloth. This is the first biographical and critical study of the amazing Thomas James Wise, who has gained immortality as the perpetrator of the most original and extensive series of forgeries in British literary annals.

Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1974. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Frontis., 372 pp., illus. With an Appendix by George Bernard Shaw. Reprint of the 1947 edition. Spine faded.

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Red cloth with gilt lettering and design. Some areas of cloth sunned. Extremities bumped and rubbed. Cloth bubbling on rear board. Previous owner's names and date in ink on ffep. Endpapers and edges foxed. Dust jacket foxed with chips and tears, repaired inside with tape.

Robert Hale Ltd. 1946. First Edition, frontispiece, 26 illustrations, orig. cloth, d.w. This is the first biographical and critical study of the amazing Thomas James Wise, who has gained immortality as the perpetrator of the most original and extensive series of forgeries in British literary annals.

Dawsons of Pall Mall, Dawsons of Pall Mall. 1974, reprint of the 1947 edition, 372pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In good condition. ISBN: 9780712906173