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San Francisco: the Book Club of California, 1949. Folio. Quarter cloth over decorative floral paper boards. Paper label to spine and decorative paper label to front board. Cloth and corners a touch rubbed, else a fine copy. The original leaf is tipped to page [V] and is in near fine condition. with some minor age-toning. An… Read more about this item

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. Undetermined. near fine. 1st edition limited to 225 copies. [x],[31]pp.pp. Folio, uncut in original red linen cloth with paper spine label, 12 tipped in colour plates from photos of the twelve bindings executed by Michael Wilcox for W. Thomas Taylor of Austin, Texas, and colour illustrations. Copy #143/225. near fine With remarks… Read more about this item

London: Constable & Co Ltd; Rupert Hart-Davis, 1934, 1938. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xxii, 400; 95pp. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt to spine. Spine faded. Light shelfwear to boards with a few spots of discolouration. Head of spine with a few chips to cloth. Binding lightly shaken with cracks to a few signatures but… Read more about this item

New York: Perennial, 2004. Undetermined. fine. 1st Paperback printing. xvii, 442pp. Octavo. Photographically-illustrated wrappers. Signed by Basbanes on the title page. fine The final collection in Basbanes's trilogy of stories about the quirky and unpredictable world of book people and book collectors. An engaging read, signed by Basbanes on the title page. 2004

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002. Undetermined. as new. 1st Edition. xi, 250pp. Octavo. Photographically-illustrated dust jacket over paper-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Moire-style endpaper. Signed by Basbanes on the title page. as new A signed first edition of the celebrated book writer's treatise on book collecting in the 21st century. Filled with… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover. very good. 19th printing. xii,[2],2048;v,[3],2049-4116pp. Two volumes Folio (approximately 31cm tall) in original blue buckram in paper covered cardboard slipcase complete with magnifying glass. Both volumes in excellent condition. Minor wear to slipcase. N.B. Extra shipping required. Before placing your order please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.… Read more about this item

London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1938. Undetermined. fine. 1st Edition. ix,452;453-822;823-1136pp. 3 volumes octavo with red cloth and gilt lettering on spines. Prices from volumes I and II have been removed and all three volumes have a B&W illustrated frontispiece. The dust jackets of all three volumes have rubbing, age toning to spine and light chipping to edges.… Read more about this item

San Francisco: the Book Club of California, 1949. Undetermined. near fine. edition limited to 375 copies. [vi], 15, [2]pp. Folio. Quarter cloth over decorative floral paper boards. Paper label to spine and decorative paper label to front board. Cloth and corners a touch rubbed, else a fine copy. The original leaf is tipped to page [V] and is… Read more about this item

Boston: Hudson House, 2000. Hardcover. as new. new revised and expanded edition with addenda an corrigenda. xvi,726pp. Octavo. Illustrated with plates from title pages (including portrait frontispiece). Original maroon buckram with gilt lettering on spine with dust jacket. as new A bibliography of the full works of Arthur Conan Doyle. 2000

Mission, Bc: Barbarian Press, 1994. Hardcover. fine. 1st edition limited to 250 copies. Large octavo. Wood cuts by various engravers. Errata sheet. Unpaginated. Interesting bookplate on front pastedown. Blue quarter cloth and patterned paper over boards. Fine decorative blue slipcase. fine Copy 72/250. Laid in loosely is a small sheet related to the production of… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois: Black Cat Press, 1935. Undetermined. fine. 1st edition limited to 300 numbered copies. 95pp. + Index and Colophonpp. Octavo in original brown cloth with gilt lettered spine and label on front, beige endpapers, printed on Worthy Sterling Cream Wove with decoration on title page by Calvin Brazelton. Copy #254/300. fine 1935

Addis Ababa, Etiopia: Haile Sellassie I University Institute of Ethipian Studies, 1974. Advance proof. very good. 1st Edition. [iv],146pp. Octavo in original grey wrappers. very good 1974