Search Results: an enquiry into the nature of by john graham carter

New York: Haskell House, 1971. Hardcover. Very good. Reprint of original edition. Cloth, very good, no jacket, some spottiness and soil to edges of text block, very light occasional foxing. A brilliant look at the crazy genius Thomas Wise and his forgeries.

New York: Haskell, 1971. hardcover. fine. With four plates. 400 pages. 8vo, brown cloth. New York: Haskell, 1971. A fine copy.<br/> <br/> Disclosure of the Wise forgeries.<br/> <br/>

London: Constable & Co., 1934. Hardcover. Good+. Constable's Bibliographia Series. xii, 400 p. 23 cm. 4 b&w plates. Bound in red cloth. Spine a little faded with softened ends, some bubbling of cloth on rear, lower corners worn. Bookplate for Frederic R. Kirkland on front pastedown. Ink signature on front free.

Constable & Co. Used - Good. 1934. First Edition Cloth, 400 pp., illus. Binding loosening between two signatures, but still intact. Extremities somewhat worn, with some fraying at heel of spine. Still a presentable copy.. (Subject: Books on Books & Cartography.)

New York: Haskell House, 1971. Near Fine. Reprint of first edition. Cloth Hardcover in Near Fine condition. Study of the text of various 19th century pamphlets

London: Constable & Company, 1934-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Missing. Octavo. Constable & Co. Ltd., 1934. xii, 400pp. Four plates. First Edition. Red cloth boards, gilt spine text, gilt top edge of text block. Bind is sturdy and intact; text is very good. Moderate amount of wear to boards, small tear in cloth near spine text; spine has sunned, gilt text remains readable, if dull. Small ink stamp (a 'D' inside a circle) on rear paste-down. From a private collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Charles Scribner's Sons. Hardcover. Good. (NB62 JUN8T8AL) no dust jacket, red boards, age toning, loose binding, edge/point wear, no underlining or highlighting within

London: Constable, 1934. First. hardcover. very good. 4 plates. 8vo, light foxing on end papers, burgundy cloth. London:Constable & Co., 1934. First Edition. Very Good.<br/><br/> Disclosure of the Wise forgeries.<br/><br/>

Constable, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Top of spine damaged, with crack along the spine Size: Octavo . Category: Literature & Literary; .

London: Constable, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Finely printed on hand-pressed paper, with 4 plates. 400 pp. Sunning to jacket spine. Small chips at header of jacket spine and 1.5" closed tear at top of rear jacket flap. Book is fine. This is a first edition of of Carter and Pollard's forensic expose of infamous bookseller and forger Thomas James Wise. A fascinating tale of fraud that turned the rare book industry on its head upon release. Scarce in jacket.

Constable. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1934. Hardcover. Ist edition, xii + 400pp, plates, exlib stamp, red cloth, gilt lettering unclipped dustwrapper, ; Large octavo .

London: Constable & Co Ltd; Rupert Hart-Davis, 1934, 1938. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xxii, 400; 95pp. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt to spine. Spine faded. Light shelfwear to boards with a few spots of discolouration. Head of spine with a few chips to cloth. Binding lightly shaken with cracks to a few signatures but binding holding strong. Custom bookplate to ffep, else internally clean with light age-toning. With "Footnote to an Enquiry" in original blue wrappers and titles in red to front wrapper and spine. Head and tail of spine and edges of wrappers lightly chipped. Sticker ghost to both wrappers. Small custom bookplate to front pastedown, else internally clean with light age-toning. Very good condition First edition with Footnote of Carter and Pollard's investigation into the Thomas J. Wise forgeries. Wise, a bibliographer and book dealer, forged nearly 100 pamphlets of celebrated authors, and after lending legitimacy to these forgeries… Read More

Scolar Press. Used - Very Good. 1983. 2nd. Cloth, 8vo, 441pp. Near Fine. (Subject: Books on Books.)

London: Constable & Co, 1934. First edition. 8vo, 400pp. Facsimiles, plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g., in printed jacket. A nearly fine copy in like jacket with minor toning and edge wear. Carter and Pollard's famous whistle-blowing work on the Thomas J. Wise forgeries.  A very sharp copy, and required reading for the bibliophile.

London: Constable & Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Tight binding, clean pages. A hint of light shelf wear to dustjacket with a few minor closed tears along the edges and slight chipping to top of very lightly sunned spine, otherwise an excellent copy now protected in a new Mylar cover. With previous owner's name neatly inked to top of front pastedown. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. ; 8vo; xii,400 pages .

London: Constable & Co, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dj. Plates. Octavo; xii, 400 pages, maroon cloth, corners bumped Classic study which pointed the finger at the esteemed Thomas J. Wise as the greatest book forger. A classic of bibliographical detection. "The whole thing proves once more that, easy as it appears to be to fabricate reprints of rare books, it is in actual practice absolutely impossible to do so in such a manner that detection cannot follow the result -Thomas J. Wise."

London: Constable and Co, 1934. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 6". Unnamed. A lovely first edition copy of this groundbreaking expose of literary forgery. Written by John Carter and Graham Pollard, the work is noted as uncovering the vast amounts of forged privately printed and "pre-first" books and pamphlets that were held in the then-reputable library of Thomas J. Wise, including works by Dickens, Tennyson and the Brownings. A fascinating volume, the work is considerably involved, and brought about revisions in bibliographies the world over. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973), a noted book collector and diarist. Complete with original price-clipped dustwrapper. In cloth binding with gilt detailing and original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally very smart, with minor shelfwear only. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean throughout. Dustwrapper extremely smart with minor chipping and sunning to backstrip. Fine

London: Constable & Co, 1934. First edition. xii, 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket (small chip at head of spine panel). First edition. xii, 400 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A landmark of bibliography and scholarly enterprise, recounting the research that uncovered the forgeries of THomas J. Wise.

London: Constable & Company Limited, 1934. Pp. xii+400, 4 plates, appendices, index; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; t.e.g., bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, the edges chipped and split (heavier at backstrip extremities), the backstrip lightly faded and browned; text block slightly browned; Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1934. First edition. *Signed and dated (12 Nov. 1973) by Graham Pollard on the title page. From the library of American book collector Alida Roochvarg, with a note on her library letterhead loosely inserted, giving purchase details in green ink, above a pencilled note about the endpapers of this volume 'This copy has wove endpapers, all other copies (6) I have seen have laid endpapers. Seems like a bit of irony that is pursuing Carter and Pollard.' Initialled AMS, the note is possibly by Alfred M. Slotnick, the noted American collector of the works of George Gissing, who had a keen interest in the physical nature of books and was renowned for… Read More

Constable, 1934. Book. Fine. Cloth. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in like jacket.Rare in this condition.Small corner scrape.Lightest of fade to jacket spine.Expose Classic on The Wise Forgeries.Superlative Copy.Classic on Books.