Books Their History, Art, Power, Glory, Infamy and Suffering According To Their Creators, Friends and Enemies

New York ET AL: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Printing. Hardcover. 0442219016 . DJ has some light scuffing, and is beginning to yellow. Endpapers are beginning to yellow. ; 128 pages .

Van Nostrand Reinhold, Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1981, 128pp. Illustrated. Cloth, with dust jacket. In very good condition. An informative, lighthearted tribute to books provides a host of trivia, anecdotes, and facts about bookselling, binding, literary figures, rarities, and other miscellaneous data about the history, art, and power of the book. ISBN: 9780442219017

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo . pp. 128, b/w and color illustrations

Van Nostrand Reinhold. GF205 1981, hardcover, goed exemplaar, scheurtje in stofomslag / small tear in dustjacket

Phaidon Press Ltd, 1981. Book. Very Good. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, slim quarto, 9 1/2" x 8 2/5", a very good tightly bound copy in a pictorial dust wrapper that has faded to spine and part of rear panel, the text is clean and is free of markings, illustrated throughout in colour and b&w, 128pp.

New York. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. 1981. square8vo, 23.5x 20.5cm, 128p., colour illustrated title-page, decorated half-title, extensive illustrations including many colour, bibliography, subject & authors indexes, navy blue cloth, fine in fine jacket(bk.ds). ~ "Books leaves no page unturned, from Mark Antony's gift to Cleopatra of 200,000 volumes for the fabled library at Alexandria to the strangest titles of… Read more about this item

Book. Good. Binding see description. New York, 1981. 128pp. Illus. & plates in b/w & colour. Bibliography. Indexes. Cloth. Dustjacket.*A lighthearted and ingenious tour of books and book people through the ages... culled from a dazzling variety of sources. .

Book. Good. Binding see description. New York, 1981. 128pp. Illus. & plates in b/w & colour. Bibliography. Indexes. Cloth. Dustjacket.*A lighthearted and ingenious tour of books and book people through the ages... culled from a dazzling variety of sources. 0.