Notes from Sotheby’s: Being A Compilation of 2,032 Notes From Catalogues Of Book-Sales Which Have Taken Place In the Room of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Between the Years 1885-1909. First edition.
by Karslake, Frank
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London: Karslake & Co., 1909. . 8vo. 392 pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt spine and gilt tops to pages. Good with staining to boards and endpapers,frayed spine, foxing, waterstains and creasing from water damage. Black and white frontispiece with protective vellum page.Includes 22 pages of advertisements by publishers. First edition. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
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- Title
- Notes from Sotheby’s: Being A Compilation of 2,032 Notes From Catalogues Of Book-Sales Which Have Taken Place In the Room of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Between the Years 1885-1909. First edition.
- Author
- Karslake, Frank
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Karslake & Co., 1909.
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