Collector's Progress

Constable & Co Ltd, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1952. First Edition. 245 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Black and white photographic and illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to… Read more about this item

London, Constable and Co, (1952). . First UK Edition; 8vo; pp. xxiii, 245; 17 plates, index; original cloth, postcard with a modern view of St. Mary's College, Strawberry Hill loosely inserted; edges of dustjacket worn, spine faded, a good copy.

London: Constable, 1952. First UK edition. Hardcover. near Very Good. 1st printing. Pp xxiii + 245 + 17 half-tone plates. Blue cloth boards. Edges spotted and one corner lightly bumped else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding without dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xx, 254, xiii pages. First edition. Designed by W.A. Dwiggins. "The collector's own story of the formation of the world's greatest collection of books and manuscripts by and about Horace Walpole ... ." Spine of jacket lightly faded, with minor rubbing to edges. Else… Read more about this item

Constable & Co., 1952. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1952. First Published. 245 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with silver lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and occasionally foxed throughout. End papers are more notably foxed. Binding remains firm. Plates are bright and clear. Top edge of text block is dust marked. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.. 1951.. Very good. - Octavo, decorative cloth backed boards, in dw. Lightly soiled & rubbed with the spine faded. The dw is rubbed & the spine is darkened. 253 & xiii pp. Illustrated with B&W plates. Very good in a good dw. <p>First edition.<p>The book is designed by W. A. Dwiggins. It describes Lewis's famous… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1951. The story of how Wilmarth Lewis gathered the largest collection of Walpoliana, larger than all the other Horace Walpole collections put together. This is a first edition, with attractive cover of partially red and white decorative paper and partially red cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation on spine. Binding itself in very good condition, with… Read more about this item

Alfred A Knopf. Very Good. . 1951 1st ed, decorative boards, clean copy, no markings, feint toning the endpapers, no dustjacket, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1951. Hardcover.