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Cambridge, England: Bowes and Bowes. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1950. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Review copy with a laid-in review sheet. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has generalized toning to the spine and rear panel. The spine ends of the dust jacket have nicking and smallish chips. "Robert William Chapman (5 October 1881 in Eskbank, Scotland – 20 April 1960 in Oxford) , usually known in print as R. W. Chapman, was a British scholar, book collector and editor of the works of Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen...Although Chapman is generally credited as the scholar who established Austen’s canonical status in the twentieth century, his wife played a key role in igniting his interest in book collecting as…
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Book Collecting: Four Broadcast Talks.
by Carter, John and others
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[2], 45, [1] pages.
Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine in very good condition, Dust-wrapper soiled and chipped in places. Off-setting to front and rear free end-papers. Text clean and unmarked.
Contains the text of 4 talks delivered on BBC Radio in the summer of 1950. By: R.W. Chapman,"The Sense of the Past", John Hayward, "Why First Editions?", John Carter, "The Technical Approach", and Michael Sadleir, "Bookshop and Auction Room".
With a short preface by John Carter, "The four talks here printed were the first (but not I hope the only) fruits of a suggestion made to the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1949. They represented, I believe, the first sustained attention ever given to their subject on air in this country".
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- Format/Binding Cloth covered boards with dust-wrapper.
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- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Bowes and Bowes
- Place of Publication Cambridge
- Date Published 1950
- Size 12mo.
- Size 12mo.
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Book Collecting Four Broadcast Talks
by Chapman, R. W. , John Hayward, John Carter, and Michael Sadleir
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Book Collecting: Four Broadcast Talks
by Chapman, R.W., John Hayward, John Carter, and Michael Sadler
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Bowes & Bowes. Used - Very Good. 1950. Cloth, dj., duodecimo.., 45 pp. Some sunning and scuffing to jacket, dampstain to cloth at rear board. Slight foxing to endpapers. Otherwise in excellent condition. Very good. (Subject: Books on Books.)
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