AN ACCOUNT OF A WEDDING. Excerpts From The Pickwick Papers. A good-humored Christmas chapter, containing an account of a wedding, and some other sports beside, which although in their way, even as good customs as marriage itself, are not quite so religiou
by Dickens, Charles
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Samuel A. Dalton, Philadelphia: December 25, 1964., 1964 31p. + Plus four full page bold color drawings by Rey Abruzzi through Frank R. Ewing of Art Service Associates. Color pictorial title page lettered in red, green and gold. Text printed in black with large gold initials. Title and page numbers printed in red. Format and Typography by Robert Donald. Christmas Greeting insert poem. 8vo. Original full embossed sky blue cloth binding with a Dickens figure embossed in gold and white. Also on front cover title and author gold and white lettered. Gilt lettered spine. Original yellow slip case. Binding by Albert Oldach & Son. Limited Edition. Number 786 of only 1300 copies. This edition prepared as a Christmas Greeting from Samuel A. Dalton. A charming crisp copy. Fine books from earlier Christmas seasons make great gifts today. CHRISTMAS/W68. Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- THE FAMILY ALBUM (US)
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- AN ACCOUNT OF A WEDDING. Excerpts From The Pickwick Papers. A good-humored Christmas chapter, containing an account of a wedding, and some other sports beside, which although in their way, even as good customs as marriage itself, are not quite so religiou
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Samuel A. Dalton, Philadelphia: December 25, 1964.
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- CHRISTMAS; PRINTING; FINE PRESS; CHARLES DICKENS; EXCERPTS; PICKWICK PAPERS ; LIMITED EDITION; CHRISTMAS KEEPSAKE; BINDING; COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
- Bookseller catalogs
- ILLUSTRATED; FINE PRESS;
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Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.
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