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Collected Books : The Guide to Values

By: Ahearn, Allen and Patricia

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1991

Seller ID: 13006

Binding: Hardcover

Some wear and aging though still square and securely bound. Occasional notes in pencil. Sheet with various books and values listed in ink laid in. VG to VG+. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 636 pages; This copy is signed and dated by the Ahearns on the title page. It belonged to well-known Atlanta, Georgia bookseller and collector, George Williams. The notes in the books are from Williams. Book is in special archival protector with Williams' Burke Cellar Library plate laid in.
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The Gentle Art of Book Collecting

By: Farmer, Bernard J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Thorsons Publishers LTD.: 1950

Seller ID: 11395

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-, dust jacket only

Slate blue cloth over boards with gilt titles on spine. Very light edge and corner wear. Some interior check marks in pencil where a reader marked passages without underlining. VG to VG- Jacket is a pale blue with maroon titlessome edge and corner wear. Some toning around edges and some sort of light red, crayon like mark bottom left on the front. Jacket is price clipped. Book is square and securely bound. Jacket is VG- to G+. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 93 pages; Amiably British book on book collecting. Reminds me a little of Newton. Good information, though it was published in 1950.
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Casanova Was a Book Lover : and Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books

By: Hamilton, John Maxwell

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 2000

Seller ID: 11035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

Both book and jacket are new, with no wear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 351 pages; Essays on books, writers and collectors.
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Early American Imprints III A Collection of Works Printed in America between 1663 and 1800

By: Jenkins, John H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Austin, The Jenkins Company: 1983

Seller ID: 8216

Binding: Catalog

Condition: Very Good

Light scuffing to edges of wraps and head and foot of spine. Interior is clean and tight. Book seems unread. ; Catalogue One Hundred Fifty; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; not paginated pages; 1029 listings of original printed works plus a few reference books and catalogs.
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Category: Book Collecting

Collected Books : The Guide to Values

The Gentle Art of Book Collecting

Casanova Was a Book Lover : and Other Naked Truths and Provocative Curiosities about the Writing, Selling, and Reading of Books

Early American Imprints III A Collection of Works Printed in America between 1663 and 1800