Search Results: book collecting an introduction to modern by collison robert l

Fair Lawn, N. J.: Essential Books, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. First US Edition. Hardcover. DJ has some wear top of spine. .

London: Ernest Benn. VG/VG- (see notes). 1957. 1st. hardcover. 12mo . 244pp . Couple tears to 3/4", edgewear to DJ. .

London (Ernest Benn). Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. Bookplate inside. (Book Collecting, Bibliographies, Publishers)

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Fully intrated, including of a facsimile on high-gloss paper at frontis depicting the transition from manuscript to printed book. xv [1], 17-244 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1957. 244pp. 30 plates plus txt illus.A nice copy but trifle foxed to the fore-edges.. 1st edition. hardback. V.g./V G Chipped and Foxed. 8vo.

(London: Ernest Benn, 1957). 8vo; original charcoal cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 244, including index; plates. Dustwrapper rather rubbed and edgeworn; trace of light spotting to edges and endpapers. Good condition. "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. … Mr. Collison … shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit-and by no means an expensive one-that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime." .

Ernest Benn , 1957 . Hardback. . 8vo blue boards. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale. VG hardback (light edgewear, bookplate and ownership sig. of previous owner otherwise contents clean and unmarked), no dustwrapper.

London: Ernest Benn Ltd, 1957. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 244 pages. First edition. Some rubbing to jacket along edges and hinges, else near fine.

London: Ernest Benn, 1957. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 244pp. Frontis. Illus. 1st edition 1957. Ownership label on front pastedown.Slight chipping to edges of d/w. Small mark to margin of page 102. A very decent copy. (p10). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Essential Books, Inc. 1957. Essential Books, Inc. Fair Lawns. 1957. First edition. Hardback with DW. Illustrated in black and white. A good clean copy in a slightly worn wrapper.

Fair Lawn, NJ: Essential Books Inc, 1957. Hardcover. Foreword by Andrew H. Horn. Small 8vo. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 244pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Handsome first edition. Very much from the mid-century British perspective, but still a useful primer with nice bibliography. From the collection of Frank S. Hanlin (1924-82, bibliographer and University of Iowa special collections director), with his ownership signature on front pastedown.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1957. With a Foreword by Andrew H. Horn. Pp. 244, frontispiece plus 30 plates, text illustrations, appendices, glossary, index; post 8vo; dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edge lightly rubbed and a trifle split, the backstrip slightly faded; upper hinge starting, outer leaves and edges faintly foxed; Ernest Benn Limited, 1957. First U.K. edition..