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Seller: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Third Impression. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; binding modestly relaxed, but secure, the brown cloth cover showing a very small split at the bottom of the front cutter, some softening at spine ends, and points of surface wear at heel corners, otherwise well-kept. xiii, 241pp. Seller Inventory # 00087364
Seller: Randall's Books, Cathedral City, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Scolar Press, London, 1978. Hardcover, 241 pp. 1st edition, 2nd printing. Essays and writings by bibliophile, scholar, and onetime Librarian of King's College, Cambridge, Alan Noel Latimer Munby (1913-1974). In near fine condition. Seller Inventory # ABE-1759868711975
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Third printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket has minor edgewear and tearing. Binding is sound. Page edges have notable smudging. Text is clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Seller Inventory # 1678623398
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear; two light frays along top edges of jacket, with minor crimping. Else fine. A bright, clean copy overall. Seller Inventory # 2007305
Seller: Emile Kerssemakers ILAB, Heerlen, Netherlands
1979, 3rd impression, xiii,241pp. Illustrated. Cloth (no dust jacket). In good condition. Seller Inventory # 67047
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Binding sound, text unmarked. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Dustwrapper slightly faded on spine but unclipped and protected in a removable clear plastic sleeve. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. No ownership marks. Size: xiii, 241pp., illustrated. No ownership marks. Seller Inventory # ZZ5767
Seller: Celler Versandantiquariat, Eicklingen, Germany
The Scolar Press, London, 1977. 241 Seiten mit Abbildungen, Leineneinband mit Umschlag---- gutes Exemplar - 478 Gramm. Seller Inventory # 6i2063
Seller: The Private Library, London, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor. Seller Inventory # PL-10766-L72
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Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Cloth, 8vo, xiii, 241 pp, ills. Munby was a great bookman but had other talents. He drove an old Bugatti which developed gasket problems - Munby finally crafted the perfect replacement gasket from some vellum taken from an ancient and completely wrecked manuscript. Thereafter, in answer to the inevitable "Lovely car. How old is it?", Munby was able to respond "Well, parts of it date from the 15th century". Contents: Some Caricatures of Book-Collectors (1948); John Maynard Keynes: the Book-Collector (1949); Notes on King's College Library in the Fifteenth Century (1951); Floreat Bibliomania (1952); The Distribution of the First Edition of Newton's Principia (1952); Charles Geoffrey des Graz (1953); The Library of George Thackeray (1957); The Acquisition of Manuscripts by Institutional Libraries (1960); Did Mr. Cavendish Burn his Caxtons (with M. Pollard, 1963); The Libraries of English Men of Letters (1964); Macaulay's Library (1965); Three Opportunities (1966); The Case of the 'Caxton' Manuscript of Ovid (1968); The Earl and the Thief (1968); The Triumph of Delisle: a Sequel to 'The Earl and the Thief' (1969); Arthur Cole (1968); Book Collecting in the 1930s (1973); Father and Son: the Rev. Reginald Heber's Vain Attempt to Stern the Rising Tide of his Son Richard's Bibliomania (1976); List of Writings by A. N. L. Munby. Very Good in dustwrapper with a short closed tear. Seller Inventory # ABE-11480
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Cloth, 8vo, xiii, 241 pp, ills. Munby was a great bookman but had other talents. He drove an old Bugatti which developed gasket problems - Munby finally crafted the perfect replacement gasket from some vellum taken from an ancient and completely wrecked manuscript. Thereafter, in answer to the inevitable "Lovely car. How old is it?", Munby was able to respond "Well, parts of it date from the 15th century". Contents: Some Caricatures of Book-Collectors (1948); John Maynard Keynes: the Book-Collector (1949); Notes on King's College Library in the Fifteenth Century (1951); Floreat Bibliomania (1952); The Distribution of the First Edition of Newton's Principia (1952); Charles Geoffrey des Graz (1953); The Library of George Thackeray (1957); The Acquisition of Manuscripts by Institutional Libraries (1960); Did Mr. Cavendish Burn his Caxtons (with M. Pollard, 1963); The Libraries of English Men of Letters (1964); Macaulay's Library (1965); Three Opportunities (1966); The Case of the 'Caxton' Manuscript of Ovid (1968); The Earl and the Thief (1968); The Triumph of Delisle: a Sequel to 'The Earl and the Thief' (1969); Arthur Cole (1968); Book Collecting in the 1930s (1973); Father and Son: the Rev. Reginald Heber's Vain Attempt to Stern the Rising Tide of his Son Richard's Bibliomania (1976); List of Writings by A. N. L. Munby. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # ABE-11538