Bookman's Holiday: A recreation for booklovers
by Jackson, Holbrook
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
London: Readers Union / Faber and Faber, 1946 12mo (19 cm), 264 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj worn, parts of paper missing, some foxing to endpapers and facing leaves, edges slightly dusted and stained). George Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), a British journalist, writer and publisher, was widely recognized as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. "This anthology shows what the writers of books think of their predecessors, their contemporaries and themselves. It is not meant to be a collection of entertaining or elegant extracts but a mosaic made up of selected pieces, mostly, I hope, entertaining, and some elegant." (from the preface)
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008944
- Title
- Bookman's Holiday: A recreation for booklovers
- Author
- Jackson, Holbrook
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Readers Union / Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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