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BOOKS AND BIDDERS, THE ADVENTURES OF A BIBLIOPHILE by Rosenbach, A.S.W - 1927

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BOOKS AND BIDDERS, THE ADVENTURES OF A BIBLIOPHILE by Rosenbach, A.S.W - 1927

BOOKS AND BIDDERS, THE ADVENTURES OF A BIBLIOPHILE

by Rosenbach, A.S.W

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Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1927. cloth, top edge gilt. 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xiv, 311 pages and 78 illustrations. Reprint edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Else a very good copy. Some of the chapters are Talking of Old Books, A Million Dollar Bookshelf, Sold to Dr. R.!, Some Literary Forgeries, and five others. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.
  • Bookseller Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press US (US)
  • Format/Binding Cloth, top edge gilt
  • Book Condition Used
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  • Publisher Little, Brown and Co
  • Place of Publication Boston
  • Date Published 1927

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Books and Bidders, The Adventures of a Bibliophile

Books and Bidders, The Adventures of a Bibliophile

by Rosenbach, A S W

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Boston, USA : Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. First Edition . Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Endpapers slightly browned and interior pages slight browned around the edges Rough cut edges which have browned There is a split along the gutter at the title page revealing the webbing beneath but the binding is not affected. There is a small round dent on back endpaper which has impacted on some interior pages but has not torn the paper A. S. W. Rosenbach was an American collector, scholar, and seller of rare books and manuscripts. In London, where he frequently attended the auctions at Sotheby’s, he was known as “The Terror of the Auction Room.” In Paris, he was called “Le Napoléon des Livres”, which translates to “The Napoleon of Books.” Many others referred to… Read More
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Books and Bidders The Adventures of A Bibliophile

by A.S. W Rosenbach

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Reprint in Year of Publication
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Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1927. 311pp. Index. With illustrations. Copyright Page States, "Published Vovember, 1927 Reprinted November, 1927". Pages are clean (unmarked) but yellowed with age. Hinges are slightl creased but atill secure. Text block is slightly pulling away from boards (possibly reglued)but still fairly tight. Boards are scuffed/soiled with moderate rubbing to extremities, corners frayed, bumping to head/heel of spine. Nice reading copy. . Reprint in Year of Publication. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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by Rosenbach, A.S.W

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Boston: Little, Brown, 1927.. xv,[1],311pp. Large octavo. Cloth and boards, paper label, t.e.g.. Plates. Tiny edge nick in spine label (the spare is tipped in at the rear endsheet), otherwise fine in very good slipcase with early short paper mends at two joints. First edition, limited issue. One of 785 numbered copies, specially bound and signed by the author.
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Books and Bidders The Adventures of a Bibliophile

by Rosenbach, A. S. W

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Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1927. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author on edition page. Limited edition, number 743 out of 785 copies published. Hard cover published by Little, Brown and Co. in 1927. No dust jacket. Light brown covers with dark brown binding, and printed label on spine. Spine has some scrapes and stains at bottom half and at top edge. Bottom corners of covers are bumped and worn, with some splitting of the cloth. Top edges of pages are gilt-covered. Book is in good condition. Large 8vo, 311 pages, 2.9 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 311 pages; Signed by Author .
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Books and Bidders The Adventures of a Bibliophile

by Rosenbach, A S W

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Boston: Little, Brown & Co.. Near Fine. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by author, top edge gilded; no jacket; spine cloth a bit faded, but overall a nice firm attractive copy; 311 pages; Signed by Author .
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Books and Bidders The Adventures of a Bibliophile

by A. S. W. Rosenbach

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Boston, Mass.: Little Brown and Co, 1927. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First printing. Author signed letter on "The Rosenbach Company" stationary tipped onto the last free end paper. Gilt on brown covers. Top edge gilt. 8vo, 311pp. Spine lettering faded.
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Books And Bidders. The Adventures Of A Bibliophile.

Books And Bidders. The Adventures Of A Bibliophile.

by ROSENBACH, A. S. W

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Somerville, Victoria, Australia
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Boston; Little, Brown, And Company; 1927.. First Limited Edition; Roy. 8vo; pp. xvi, 311; frontispiece (page of the Gutenberg Bible, showing the Ten Commandments), text with numerous b/w. illustrations including a tipped-in facsimile of Poe letter, index, bound in original quarter brown cloth, title label on spine, embossed boards, boards a little worn, good copy. Seven Hundred and Eighty-Five copies of this large paper edition printed, being numbered and signed by the author, this is copy number 469.
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Books And Bidders The Adventures of A Bibliophile

by ROSENBACH, A.S.W

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1927., 1927. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xv, 311. numerous plates & text illus. quarter cloth, t.e.g., others untrimmed (marginal repairs to few leaves). First Edition, Large-Paper Issue, Limited to 785 numbered copies (25 hors-commerce), signed by the author.. Signed by Author(s). F. Hardcover.
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