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St Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester, second (revised and enlarged) edition, 1982. Cloth, 8vo,. xvii, 94 pp. 140 entries. A revised and enlarged edition of "A.E. Housman: An Annotated Hand-List", published in 1952. Fine.

St Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester, second (revised and enlarged) edition, 1982. Cloth, 8vo,. xvii, 94 pp. 140 entries. A revised and enlarged edition of "A.E. Housman: An Annotated Hand-List", published in 1952. Postcard portrait of Housman tipped in on front free endpaper, otherwise Near Very Good.

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, second impression, November 1936. Cloth, 8vo,. xiii, 136 pp, portrait fpc and facs. Gow's book included the first publication of one couplet by Housman, and quotations from letters etc. The biographical sketch occupies about a third of the book.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, booksellers' catalogue, 1983. Printed wrappers, 4to,. 36 pp (2 pp of ills). 203 entries. Indexed. Bookplate on [front pastedown endpaper] and namestamp on title-page of P B Morris; several provenance references to him in the catalogue are highlighted in yellow, otherwise Good. Loosely laid in is a photocopy of a letter from Morris relating to his Housman collections and some of the items mentioned.

The Macmillan Company, New York, first edition, 1936. Cloth, 8vo,. xiii, 136, [1] pp, portrait frontispiece and facs. Includes the first publication of one couplet by Housman, and quotations from letters etc. The biographical sketch occupies about a third of the book, Offsetting to endpapers, otherwise near Very Good in browned dustwrapper.

St Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester, second (revised and enlarged) edition, 1982. Cloth, 8vo,. xvii, 94 pp. 140 entries. A revised and enlarged edition of "A.E. Housman: An Annotated Hand-List", published in 1952. Near Fine.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Los Angeles, booksellers' catalogue, 1983. Printed wrappers, 4to,. 36 pp (2 pp of ills). 203 entries. Indexed. Slightly creased, Good.

Mercury Books, London, third edition, 1961. Illustrated laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 208 pp. This first paperback edition of Carter's classic work has a photograph on the front cover with various features of books identified and keyed to a table on the rear cover. Of the first edition of this book Wilmarth Lewis wrote in The Book Collector, 'It is a delight - clear, accurate and witty. ABC books are not meant to be read straight through, but I have gone from Abbreviations to Yellow-back without skipping and been instructed and entertained on every page. It is perhaps unwise to pronounce a book 'a classic' on its publication, but if ever that inflated word is to be so risked it may be of the book under review. This is not only because its author has achieved what he set out to do with brilliant success, but because he is himself in such large measure responsible for the tone and temper of present-day book collecting.. .We shall, fortunately, never get to the XYZ of book collecting, and… Read More

Rupert Hart-Davis, second, revised, edition, 1953. Cloth, small 8vo,. 196 pp. John Carter's ABC for Book Collectors quickly established itself as the essential introduction to the language of book-collecting. Of the first edition of this book Wilmarth Lewis wrote in The Book Collector, 'It is a delight - clear, accurate and witty. ABC books are not meant to be read straight through, but I have gone from Abbreviations to Yellow-back without skipping and been instructed and entertained on every page. It is perhaps unwise to pronounce a book “a classic” on its publication, but if ever that inflated word is to be so risked it may be of the book under review. This is not only because its author has achieved what he set out to do with brilliant success, but because he is himself in such large measure responsible for the tone and temper of present-day book collecting.. .We shall, fortunately, never get to the XYZ of book collecting, and one reason for that is the integrity, imagination,… Read More

Hart-Davis, London, fifth, revised edition (1972), reprinted with corrections 1974. Cloth, 8vo, 21 cm,. 211 pp. From the blurb: "Foxed, not in STC, rare in boards, Q6 is a cancel as usual, secondary binding, Harleian style, made-up - do you know the meaning of these and hundreds of similar terms constantly used in the catalogues of antiquarian booksellers and auctioneers ? If not, John Carter's expert but informal manual is the book you have been waiting for. Not only is the actual language of book-collecting full of jargon and special terminology. The rules, conventions and taboos of the cult are also legitimately puzzling to the layman, and its technique involves many unsuspected subtleties. Here, under about 450 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms of book-collecting and bibliography, interspersed with salutary comment on such subjects as auctions, condition, facsimiles and fakes,… Read More

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, third edition, 1961. Cloth, 8vo, 21 cm,. 208 pp. Of the first edition of this book Wilmarth Lewis wrote in The Book Collector, 'It is a delight - clear, accurate and witty. ABC books are not meant to be read straight through, but I have gone from Abbreviations to Yellow-back without skipping and been instructed and entertained on every page. It is perhaps unwise to pronounce a book 'a classic' on its publication, but if ever that inflated word is to be so risked it may be of the book under review. This is not only because its author has achieved what he set out to do with brilliant success, but because he is himself in such large measure responsible for the tone and temper of present-day book collecting.. .We shall, fortunately, never get to the XYZ of book collecting, and one reason for that is the integrity, imagination, learning, and gaiety of bookmen like John Carter.' Good in somewhat faded and slightly chipped dustwrapper.

Hart-Davis, London, fifth, revised edition, 1972. Cloth, 8vo, 21 cm,. 211 pp. From the blurb: "Foxed, not in STC, rare in boards, Q6 is a cancel as usual, secondary binding, Harleian style, made-up - do you know the meaning of these and hundreds of similar terms constantly used in the catalogues of antiquarian booksellers and auctioneers ? If not, John Carter's expert but informal manual is the book you have been waiting for. Not only is the actual language of book-collecting full of jargon and special terminology. The rules, conventions and taboos of the cult are also legitimately puzzling to the layman, and its technique involves many unsuspected subtleties. Here, under about 450 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms of book-collecting and bibliography, interspersed with salutary comment on such subjects as auctions, condition, facsimiles and fakes, "points", rarity, and the like.… Read More

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, fourth edition, "reprinted with corrections" from the third, 1966. Cloth, 8vo, 21 cm,. 208 pp. Of the first edition of this book Wilmarth Lewis wrote in The Book Collector, 'It is a delight - clear, accurate and witty. ABC books are not meant to be read straight through, but I have gone from Abbreviations to Yellow-back without skipping and been instructed and entertained on every page. It is perhaps unwise to pronounce a book 'a classic' on its publication, but if ever that inflated word is to be so risked it may be of the book under review. This is not only because its author has achieved what he set out to do with brilliant success, but because he is himself in such large measure responsible for the tone and temper of present-day book collecting.. .We shall, fortunately, never get to the XYZ of book collecting, and one reason for that is the integrity, imagination, learning, and gaiety of bookmen like John Carter.' Very Good in Very Good… Read More

Mercury Books, London, third edition, 1961. Illustrated laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 208 pp. This first paperback edition of Carter's classic work has a photograph on the front cover with various features of books identified and keyed to a table on the rear cover. Of the first edition of this book Wilmarth Lewis wrote in The Book Collector, 'It is a delight - clear, accurate and witty. ABC books are not meant to be read straight through, but I have gone from Abbreviations to Yellow-back without skipping and been instructed and entertained on every page. It is perhaps unwise to pronounce a book 'a classic' on its publication, but if ever that inflated word is to be so risked it may be of the book under review. This is not only because its author has achieved what he set out to do with brilliant success, but because he is himself in such large measure responsible for the tone and temper of present-day book collecting.. .We shall, fortunately, never get to the XYZ of book collecting, and… Read More

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, fourth edition, "reprinted with corrections" from the third, 1966. Cloth, 8vo, 21 cm,. 208 pp. Of the first edition of this book Wilmarth Lewis wrote in The Book Collector, 'It is a delight - clear, accurate and witty. ABC books are not meant to be read straight through, but I have gone from Abbreviations to Yellow-back without skipping and been instructed and entertained on every page. It is perhaps unwise to pronounce a book 'a classic' on its publication, but if ever that inflated word is to be so risked it may be of the book under review. This is not only because its author has achieved what he set out to do with brilliant success, but because he is himself in such large measure responsible for the tone and temper of present-day book collecting.. .We shall, fortunately, never get to the XYZ of book collecting, and one reason for that is the integrity, imagination, learning, and gaiety of bookmen like John Carter.' Top edge a trifle… Read More

Mercury Books, London, third edition, 1961. Illustrated laminated wrappers, 8vo,. 208 pp. This first paperback edition of Carter's classic work has a photograph on the front cover with various features of books identified and keyed to a table on the rear cover. Of the first edition of this book Wilmarth Lewis wrote in The Book Collector, 'It is a delight - clear, accurate and witty. ABC books are not meant to be read straight through, but I have gone from Abbreviations to Yellow-back without skipping and been instructed and entertained on every page. It is perhaps unwise to pronounce a book 'a classic' on its publication, but if ever that inflated word is to be so risked it may be of the book under review. This is not only because its author has achieved what he set out to do with brilliant success, but because he is himself in such large measure responsible for the tone and temper of present-day book collecting.. .We shall, fortunately, never get to the XYZ of book collecting, and… Read More

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, third edition, 1961. Cloth, 8vo, 21 cm,. 208 pp. Of the first edition of this book Wilmarth Lewis wrote in The Book Collector, 'It is a delight - clear, accurate and witty. ABC books are not meant to be read straight through, but I have gone from Abbreviations to Yellow-back without skipping and been instructed and entertained on every page. It is perhaps unwise to pronounce a book 'a classic' on its publication, but if ever that inflated word is to be so risked it may be of the book under review. This is not only because its author has achieved what he set out to do with brilliant success, but because he is himself in such large measure responsible for the tone and temper of present-day book collecting.. .We shall, fortunately, never get to the XYZ of book collecting, and one reason for that is the integrity, imagination, learning, and gaiety of bookmen like John Carter.' Bookplate of Frank Broomhead on front pastedown endpaper, signature and date on… Read More

Hart-Davis, London, fourth, revised edition, reprinted with corrections, 1967. Cloth, 8vo, 21 cm,. 208 pp. [From the blurb: "John Carter's ABC for Book Collectors has long been established as the most enjoyable as well as the most informative reference book on the subject. Here, under more than 450 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms of book-collecting and bibliography." ] Of the first edition of this book Wilmarth Lewis wrote in The Book Collector, 'It is a delight - clear, accurate and witty. ABC books are not meant to be read straight through, but I have gone from Abbreviations to Yellow-back without skipping and been instructed and entertained on every page. It is perhaps unwise to pronounce a book 'a classic' on its publication, but if ever that inflated word is to be so risked it may be of the book under review. This is not only because its author has achieved what he… Read More

Verlag Dumont Schauberg, Köln, original journal issue, 1969. Cloth, gilt cover-title, folio,. 342 pp, numerous ills (some colour). From the publisher's description: "Contents include: "Archäologe der Universität Mainz, German Hafner, intersucht den berühmten Wiener Adlerkameo und weist Beziehungen zu der Auffindung des Telephos nach. Ein weiterer umfangreicher Beitrag von Hella Arndt und Renate Kroos behandelt ein bisher nur gelegentlich innerhalb der Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Skulptur berücksichtigtes Thema, die Darstellung des Johanneshauptes. Zum ersten Male werden theologische Bedeutung und ikonographische Entwicklung der Johannesschüsseln eingehend dargestellt. Ernst Günther Grimme befaßt sich abschließend mit der umfangreichen Ausstellung kirchlicher Kunst, die 1968 im Krönungssaal des Aachener Rathauses stattfand. Ergänzungen, Präzisierungen und neu gesehene Zusammenhänge zu dem in Band 6 der Aachener… Read More

Verlag M. Dumont Schauberg, Köln, first edition, 1975. Laminated illustrated wrappers, folio,. 333 pp, numerous black-and-white ills. Textblock split between pages 10 and 11 and section from p11 to end detached from spine, contents slightly agetoned, lamination on wrappers torn and wrapper flaps creased.