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Constable & Co. Ltd, 1934. Hardcover. Good. 1934. First Edition. 294 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Heavy sunning to spine. Minor scuffing and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.
New Paths in Book-Collecting by CARTER, John (and others) - 1934
by CARTER, John (and others)
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New Paths in Book-Collecting
by CARTER, John (and others)
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. Hardcover. Very good. Small octavo, 294pp. Ex-library with the usual markings. Still an otherwise very good copy in the publisher's green cloth, with the spine sunned (as usual), lacking the dust jacket. Contents clean; a firm, crisp example.
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Cleveland Book Company
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- Publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1934
- Keywords Book collecting, Bibliophilia, Bibliomania
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New Paths In Book Collecting
by John Carter
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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New Paths in Book Collecting
by CARTER, John
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Bryn Mawr,, Pennsylvania, United States
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CARTER, John, ed. New Paths in Book Collecting. Essays in Various Hands. Original cloth. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., [1934]. First edition. Some minor foxing. A very good copy.
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New Paths in Book-Collecting: Essays by Various Hands
by Carter, John [Editor]
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Hopewell, New Jersey, United States
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Small Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 inches; 192 x 130 mm), 294 pages, original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge green, in a printed dust jacket.A scarce first U.S. edition -- in an even scarcer dust jacket -- of a landmark work on book collecting edited by John Carter. It includes essays by some notable bibliophiles, including David Randall, Percy Muir, Michael Sadleir, Graham Pollard, and, of course, Carter himself. The American edition followed Constable's U.K. edition in 1934. This was during the Depression, so Carter wanted to suggest some new areas for collecting that wouldn't cost much money. Interestingly, the book was also aimed at antiquarian book dealers to give them ideas for new specialties. The essays are: The Expansion of an Author Collection by John T. Winterich; Ignoring the Flag by P.H. Muir; Detective Stories by John Carter; Musical First Editions by C.B. Oldman; Yellow-Backs by Michael Sadleir; English…
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