Portraits and Reviews by Tanselle, G. Thomas - 2015

Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2015. 485 pp.; 24 cm. Indexed. A selection of the biographical sketches and reviews that G. Thomas Tanselle has written since 1959. Twenty-eight portraits of collectors, booksellers, librarians, scholarly editors, publishers, bibliographical scholars, literary and historical scholars, and authors among whom Fredson Bowers, John Carter, Floyd Dell, Nancy Hale, Harrison Horblit, Vera Lawrence, Ruth Mortimer, Gordon Ray, Harrison Hayford, Mary Hyde, Alfred Kazin, William Matheson, William Scheide, and Carl Woodring. The Reviews section consists of forty-two pieces, mostly book reviews but also including some responses to essays, introductions to anthologies, and retrospective assessments, plus several bibliographies, bibliographical reference works, books on book collecting, and scholarly editions.. Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine.