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The Amenities of Book Collecting and Kindred Affections - INSCRIBED Copy
by NEWTON, A. Edward
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. xxi, 255. Frontis. color lithograph caricatures of Thackeray and Dickens with tissue guard. Illustrated with numerous black & white photo reproductions on coated paper and document facsimiles in the text. Tan cloth backstrip over light brown paper covered boards, titles on paper label mounted to the spine, five raised bands, gilt tops, errata slip tipped in at page 268, bookseller tag of The Norman Remington Company Baltimore. Flex nib inscription with a jesting message on ffep. Small dents to edges, corners rubbed, light soiling to spine cloth with a vertical crease to the label. Newton (1864-1940) was an industrialist-bibliophile whose anglophilia led him to amass a significant collection of English literature high points. His ability to tell an amusing or poignant anecdote in an affable style led to articles in magazines, collected here. The first was an account of the rare-book trade in London and New York. Subsequent essays are on his passion for association books, James Boswell, Hester Thrale, Charles Lamb, William Dobb, Oscar Wilde, etc. With many facsimiles including manuscript letters and inscriptions from his collection. A classic of bibliophilia.
Reviews
On Nov 18 2010, BooksAreMyCupofTea said:
A fascinating book if you are a book collector or becoming one. The b/w pictures in the book are great. Haven't finished reading it as yet but I am very pleased.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7643
- Title
- The Amenities of Book Collecting and Kindred Affections - INSCRIBED Copy
- Author
- NEWTON, A. Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1918
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