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CAMBRIDGE, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 1948. No Edition Remarks. 201 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with faded lettering. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Pages remain bright with minimal tanning. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Strong tanning to spine and edges.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

(London: Cambridge University Press, 1949). 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped dustwrapper; pp. xii + 201, incl. index. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn and partially tanned; trace of light foxing. Good to very good condition. 'The grace and wit of these Sandars Lectures in Bibliography for 1947 will recommend them to others besides the confirmed bibliophile, perhaps even to those who in echoing Housman's "Bibliophiles, an idiotic class" have dared to deny the civilised appeal to eye, heart, mind and imagination of the pursuit. Certainly they will be of real interest to collectors, antiquarians, booksellers, librarians and bookmen in general.' .

Private Libraries Association, 1970. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Cambridge University Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. A large piece of the spine panel is missing and there are other tears and creases. Now protected in cellophane. The condition of the book is given in terms of the book's age. GN. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cambridge, 1949. Hardcover. Poor/Poor. jacket is much worn, torn and repaired, thus poor condition. edge wear and knocking on boards. thorough foxing, staining and marks. ownership inscription, ex-library copy for Frank Bradlow . very poor copy.[SN]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Private Libraries Association, 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Pages unmarked. 1/4" tear at upper edge of dust jacket near spine. Spine sunned, DJ moderately edge & shelfworn. Price clipped. Binding square & firm..

London: Private Libraries Assoc., 1948. 5th impression, 1977. HC w DJ. MV VG+/VG. Green cloth, gilt spine titling bright in red block, bright, tight. Clipped DJ edgewear w nicks/chips to tips, toned w some smudges, now in Brodart. Reprint w corrections and notes, and epilogue. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.

New York: R.R. Bowker Co, 1948. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 203 pages. First U.S. edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Near fine. Two main sections; the evolution of book collecting and the method of book collecting. A classic book in the field.

New York: R.R. Bowker Co, 1948. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 203 pages. First U.S. edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Minor fading to spine, minor wear to spine ends and corners. Else a very good copy. Two main sections; the evolution of book collecting and the method of book collecting. A classic book in the field.

Private Libraries Association, 1970T. Hardbound, with the DJ, VG/VG.

Cambridge University Press, 1949. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. the jacket is worn, torn and most of the spine is gone (but repaired with a strip of grey paper). creased. shelf rubbed. price clipped. light marks. internally clean and tightly bound. [P.O.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Good. offered by the UK charity Langdon: Supporting men & women with disabilities.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,, 1949. 8vo., Second Impression; original ochre cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean, crisp copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly soiled and browned at backstrip. A much-loved standard reference. Published a year after the first edition.

Private Libraries' Association, 1970-12. Hardcover. Good.

London, Private libraries, London, Private libraries. 1977, 5th impression, xiv,242pp. Illustrated. Cloth. Dust jacket with signs of use. Book in good condition. Originally published in 1948, this book contains the text of the Sandars Lectures in Bibliography for the previous year. Carter reflects upon the evolution and method of book collecting from the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1940s, and meditates on what it means to be a book collector. ISBN: 900002301

Cambridge University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Second impression, 1949. Rebound in half vellum over brown marbled boards, with gilt spine lettering. Boards are bowed but otherwise a good clean copy.

Cambridge University Press. FREE U.K. Shipping. FAMILY Business. FIRST Class Service. Full refund if not totally satisfied. 1949 FIRST Hardback edition, Second Impression corrected. Complete with dust jacket, . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2nd Printing. 1949.

Cambridge University Press CUP , pp. 214 . Papeback. New.