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Souvenir Press. hardcover. Very Good. 9x0x12.
Slightly Foxed - but still desirable: Ronald Searle's wicked world of Book Collecting by Searle, Ronald - 2015
by Searle, Ronald
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Slightly Foxed - but still desirable: Ronald Searle's wicked world of Book Collecting
by Searle, Ronald
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London: The Folio Society, 2015. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. 128pp. Octavo [22.8cm]. White illustrated cloth over boards with copper metallic stamped lettering on boards and spine. Stamp and signature of former owner on the front free endpaper in ink as well as some black ink pen markings on the top fore-edge corner of the paper. There is also an approxamately 2cm mark in black ink on the rear pastedown. Lacking publisher's slipcase. From Publisher: As any, even vaguely addicted book collector will have swiftly learned, most booksellers' catalogues are written in a parallel language that can fool anyone but the 'cognoscenti' and which makes the mysteries of the Rosetta stone, or Linear B, look like something out of Enid Blython. Without a smattering of inside information, the baffled but hopelessly-bitten book buyer is drifting unarmed and unprepared into a minefield whose perilous complexities will usually only be made plain when an eagerly awaited parcel of dream volumes arrives and mangled contents are revealed in all their deceptive glory.... But all is not lost. Help is at hand! After a lifetime of avidly scanning the frequently poisonously-tinted pages of innumerable book catalogues, Ronald Searle has become expert in the art of decoding those esoteric, poetic and usually approximate, descriptions of literary come-ons. Now, licking his wounds, he publishes his hard-earned findings in this fully illustrated pioneer guide, designed to foil the devious machinations of scheming and wicked booksellers for ever more. No longer will the innocent book collector need to puzzle over the finer meaning of 'old half road', 'good working copy', blind tooled', or 'tail-edged shaved'. The unvarnished truth is here exposed at last, both in the shocking explicit drawings and in the devastatingly frank glossary whose revelations will startle even the most battle-scarred of bibliophiles. The result is one of the funniest, most entertaining books to have emerged from the brilliantly perceptive pen of the master. No book collector, and certainly no bookseller, can afford to be without it - even the wicked ones.
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- Publisher The Folio Society
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 2015
- Keywords Folio society; Ronald Searle; humor; books on books
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Slightly Foxed - Still Desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting
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Slightly Foxed - Still Desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting
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Souvenir Press, 1989-09-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.
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Slightly Foxed - Still Desirable Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting
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Souvenir Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 028562945X . Copyright page does not state edition or printing. Likely 1st edition judging from date. Foxing present to cover and exterior edge of pages. No slipcover included. Otherwise in great condition. No writing or noteworthy blemishes. ; 9 X 0.69 X 12 inches; 128 pages .
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Souvenir Press, 2010. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 9x0x12. Like New in a Very Good dust jacket. DJ has 2 very small edge tears. . . . As any, even vaguely addicted book collector will have swiftly learned, most booksellers' catalogues are written in a parallel language that can fool anyone but the 'cognoscenti' and which makes the mysteries of the Rosetta stone, or Linear B, look like something out of Enid Blython. Without a smattering of inside information, the baffled but hopelessly-bitten book buyer is drifting unarmed and unprepared into a minefield whose perilous complexities will usually only be made plain when an eagerly awaited parcel of dream volumes arrives and mangled contents are revealed in all their deceptive glory.... But all is not lost. Help is at hand! After a lifetime of avidly scanning the frequently poisonously-tinted pages of innumerable book catalogues, Ronald Searle has become expert in the art of decoding those esoteric, poetic and usually approximate,…
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Slightly Foxed - but still desirable: Ronald Searle's wicked world of Book Collecting
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Sourvenir Press, 1991. hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 8-3/4 X 12 inches.
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Slightly Foxed - but still desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting
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London: Souvenir Press, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st trade edition. 124pp. Corners bumped, some spotting on first page, else very good in price clipped dust jacket with a little wear
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Slightly Foxed - Still Desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting
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Souvenir Press Ltd , 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Heavy Book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, minor marks and edge worn. Tightly bound and presented beautifully in cellophane. The text within the book is clear and bright. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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Slightly Foxed - but still desirable Ronald Searle's wicked world of Book Collecting
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The Folio Society. Used - Very Good. 2015. Hardcover. Cloth, no dj. Slight shelf wear. Very Good. (Subject: Books on Books).
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London: Souvenir Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. 028562945X . 128 pages .
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Slightly Foxed - but still desirable. Ronald Searle’s wicked world of Book Collecting.
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Souvenir Press. 1989 1st. 12.0 x 9.0 inches. In terra cotta cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Yellow endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (d/w; Slightly creased along top edges. Not price clipped). Else a clean and tight copy. 124 pp. Illustrated with 60 + coloured sketch drawings. Collection of amusing drawings illustrating jargon from the used book trade.
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