Forging Ahead

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xv, 304pp+ index. Previous owner's label on front pastedown, else a very good hardback in a price clipped, darkened and rubbed jacket that has a few nicks to the edges.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 315pp. Illustrated. Spine just a touch dulled, else very near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A nice copy.

Publisher's light blue buckram with spine lettering gilt on a dark blue panel, octavo, pp. xv, 315. Illustrated. Reprinted by Cooper Square from the edition of 1939. GOOD condition with mild shelf and handling wear.

New York: Putnam, 1939. Pp. xvi+316(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 11 plates, appendix, index; demy 8vo; red cloth, lettered in gilt, top fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised, the spine gilt occasionally slightly dulled; top edges navy (faded), fore-edges uncut; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly foxed and browned (heavier at backstrip), the front panel and flap detached, edges lightly rubbed… Read more about this item

G. P. Putnam's Son's, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 315 pages. This is the first biographical and critical study of one of the most famous series of forgeries in British literary history. Wise was a self-made man who amassed a fortune and assembled the Ashley Library, one of the finest private libraries in England, later acquired by the British Library.… Read more about this item

G. P. Putnam's Sons. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($3.50 price intact). Published by Putnam, 1939. Octavo. Red boards stamped in gold with blue topstain. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Some light shelf wear along edges… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. pp: xv, 315 with index; frontispiece portrait, 12 plates. Bound in orange cloth, brown lettering on spine and cover, decorated dust wrapper. 8.75" x 6

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 315pp. Illustrated. Slight toning in the gutters of the cloth else fine in near fine slightly spine-toned dustwrapper. A very nice copy.

PARTINGTON, Wilfred. FORGING AHEAD. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1939). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. (xvi), 315 pages. First edition. The American edition Thomas J. Wise in the Original Cloth. Very good in a chipped dust jacket. Leonard F. Bahr's copy with his bookplate. (16026).

New York: Putnam, 1939. The true story of the upward progress of Thomas J. Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary and otherwise. Pp. xvi+316(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 11 plates, appendix, index; red cloth, the spine and upper board lettered in gilt, top fore-corners bruised; top edges navy, fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and silverfished, with several… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1939. Hardcover. Rebound in buckram. .

New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue buckram. xv, 315pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Facsimile of the 1939 first edition.

G. P. Putnam's Son's [c1939], 1/1/1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xv, 315 pages frontispiece, portraits, facsimiles 22 cm.

Cooper Square Publishing, LLC. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

NY: Putnam. Very Good-. [c1939]. Hardcover. Spine lightly faded. ; 8vo; xv, 315 pages; Illustrated, bibliography, index. **The appendix is: The Bibliography of the Bibliographer; a record of his compilations, privately printed publications, edited works, forgeries, piracies, etc. .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Frontis., xv, 315 pp., illus. Some light wear and age toning to book; price-clipped dustjacket is soiled, spine darkened, chipped and repaired with tape at foot.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 315 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs. Paper along right edge of illustration index page with tears, and missing top right corner. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Record # 613655

New York: Putnam, 1939. hardcover. very good. Black & white frontis. & illustrations. 315pp. 8vo, cloth. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons (1939). Very good.<br/><br/>

English literature pwfa Partington, Wilfred, 1888-1955. Forging ahead; the true story of the upward progress of Thomas James Wise, prince of book collectors, bibliographer extraordinary, and otherwise. New York: G.P. Putnam's sons, 1939, xv, 315 pages, front., ports., facsims, appendix, bib, index. Good, clean, tight copy. $9.50 Box 2424 "The bibliography of the bibliographer; a record of his compilations, privately printed… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1939, 1st edition. (Cloth) 315pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Frontispiece, illus., ports. Unclipped dust jacket shows superficial soiling and minor shelf wear..