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Sir IsaacPitman 1st 1964 . 8vo, blue boards with silver titling to spine + silver publisher's device to front board. Inscribed by the author to 1/2 title page. Slight sunning to boards, especially to spine o/w VG 405 gms.

London: Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1964. Book. Good. Hardback. 4vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. 206 pages. Surrey County Library Stickers to front and rear. T664.

Sir Isaac Pitman, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket. .

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons.Ltd. 1964 1st.. 9.0 x 5.5 inches. In blue cloth covers with silver gilt to spine and front. With decorated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Mild foxing. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to edges and endpapers. Neat inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 206 pp. ‘Every aspect of bookselling is examined - from book tokens to the Net Book Agreement.’

London: Pitman, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Out of print

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1964. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo. x, 206 pp. With a Foreword by Sir Stanley Unwin. Mild wear to cover extremities, a few small stains to top- and bottom-edge; price-clipped dustjacket is chipped with a few closed tears, damp-stains on front panel, and soiling to both front and back panels. Everything you need to know about bookselling in the UK in the sixties. A world gone, gone forever.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1964. Linnen band, 22 cm, 206 pp. Foreword by Sir Stanley Unwin. Cond.: goed / good. .

The Truth About Bookselling by Thomas Joy, with a foreword by Sir Stanley Unwin. Hardback, 1964, first edition, published by Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London, 206 pages + x. Signed/inscribed on title page: "To George Depotex [?] from his friend Tommy Nov. 10th 1964 Thomas Joy".
Octavo/8vo, measures around 8 3/4" by 5 3/4" by 3/4". Dust jacket shows scuffing and marking, with wear and slight tearing at spine edges. Blue cloth binding, silver lettering and detail to front board, silver lettering to spine. A little wear to edges but clean. Binding reasonably firm. Page edges browned, a bit foxed and scuffed. The odd bit of foxing to page surfaces, more so towards endpapers, but no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd, 1964. Pp. x+206, appendices, index; demy 8vo; navy cloth, lettered and decorated in silver; dust wrapper, lightly soiled, and foxed edges a trifle rubbed and split; scattered light foxing; Pitman, London, 1964. First edition. *Second of the author's four books about the book trade.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1964.. 8vo. 206 pp. Very Good. Hard Cover. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Dust Jacket Very Good, with minor shelf wear and edge wear. DJ clipped. In protective mylar wraps.ISBN: 0333383125 9780333383124.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz.