Book Collecting an Introduction to Modern Methods of Literary and Bibliographical Detection by Collison Robert L (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Blue cloth, has some light fading and some age toning. We ship fast.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Fully intrated, including of a facsimile on high-gloss paper at frontis depicting the transition from manuscript to printed book. xv [1], 17-244 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near Fine, blue cloth, gilt title on spine, pages are clean & unmarked.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. Bookplate inside. (Book Collecting, Bibliographies, Publishers).

Hardback. Condition: V.g. Dust Jacket Condition: V G Chipped and Foxed. 1st Edition. 244pp. 30 plates plus txt illus.A nice copy but trifle foxed to the fore-edges.

First Edition. 8vo blue boards. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale. 244 pp Very Good hardback (light edgewear, bookplate and ownership sig. of previous owner otherwise contents clean and unmarked), no dustwrapper.

Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Condition: Gut. 244 Seiten englisch, Schutzumschlag lädiert. Mit Exlibris K.F. Plesner im vorderen Innendeckel ; Kanten gering bestossen, papierbedingte Seitenbräunung // sammeln, bibliophil, Buch, Bücher, Manuskripte, Handschriften, Sammlung, books, bookplate ; With bookplate K. F. Plesner ; /// Standort Wimregal . HAA-21693 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 434.

8vo; original charcoal cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustwrapper; pp. 244, including index; plates. Dustwrapper rather rubbed and edgeworn; trace of light spotting to edges and endpapers. Good condition. "The reader of this book is invited to take part in a real adventure of detection. Instead of looking for the misprint on page 33 and the other minutiae of the first-edition collector, he is sent on a quest for the true reason for a book's existence. Mr. Collison shows how book-collecting can be a fascinating pursuit-and by no means an expensive one-that grows more rewarding as skill is acquired in a hobby calling on all the knowledge that can be accumulated in a lifetime.".

cloth. 8vo. cloth. 244 pages. First U.S. edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Spine faded. Else a fine copy.

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 244 pages. First edition. Some rubbing to jacket along edges and hinges, else near fine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback with dust-wrapper. 244pp. Frontis. Illus. 1st edition 1957. Ownership label on front pastedown.Slight chipping to edges of d/w. Small mark to margin of page 102. A very decent copy. (p10).

Essential Books, Inc. Fair Lawns. 1957. First edition. Hardback with DW. Illustrated in black and white. A good clean copy in a slightly worn wrapper.

With a Foreword by Andrew H. Horn. Pp. 244, frontispiece plus 30 plates, text illustrations, appendices, glossary, index; post 8vo; dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edge lightly rubbed and a trifle split, the backstrip slightly faded; upper hinge starting, outer leaves and edges faintly foxed; Ernest Benn Limited, 1957. First U.K. edition.