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Published by University of Texas Press, (1959), 1959
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Book
hardcover. Condition: Good. Austin, 1959; Second Printing; blue cloth boards in paper dust jacket; discoloration and wear to jacket; some discoloration to boards, pastedowns and endpapers; penned name & address on front endpaper; text is unmarked; 128 pages; 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall.
Published by University of Texas Press, (1959), 1959
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Book
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1959; Texas; blue cloth covered boards with black titles; very mild wear; dust jacket in brod-art like cover; light soiling and edge wear to jacket; interior is clean and unmarked; 4to, 9 3/4" to 12" tall; 128 pages.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Book shows light edge wear. Jacket shows some edge wear, mild sunning at spine, and some very light tanning at rear. Interior remains crisp and clean, binding firm. A very nice copy.
Published by Thomas Nelson & Son Ltd, Edinburgh, 1959
Seller: Parrott Books, Nr Faringdon, United Kingdom
Book
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. excellent reference. c/t and p/c jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second Printing. NF/NF. Hardcover, blue cloth with silver gilt titles, 128 pp, light edgewear to jacket, else a clean and fresh copy.
Published by University of Texas Press
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Used - Very Good. 1959. Cloth, dj., in an acetate cover. 128 pp. Dj. sunned; some chips at head of spine.
Published by University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1959
Seller: CHARLES BOSSOM, Ely, CAMBS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket unclipped price, tiny closed tears to edges. Original cloth with bright white titling on spine. No ownership inscription. Frontis portrait plate. 128 pages clean and tight. THOMAS JAMES WISE (1859-1937), though destined to receive in his own lifetime practically every honor the world of letters could bestow, is remembered today as perhaps the greatest malefactor in all of literary history. From 1934 to 1957 various enquiries have implicated him first in the manufacture of more than fifty pre-dated "original" editions of eminent Victorian authors, then in seven additional forgeries, later in countless piracies of other nineteenth-century work, and finally in repeated acts of vandalism upon forty-one seventeenth-century plays. It is fitting that Wise himself appears as a contributor to this volume. Included are his original Introduction to the Browning Library, his letters to bookseller J. E. Cornish, his extraordinary letter to Sir Edmund Gosse, and a note to H. Buxton Forman. These Centenary Studies review the course of research over the last twenty-five years, designate topics requiring further investigation, and assess new evidence of Wise's villainies. One more forgery is identified, the provenance of others re-examined, the forger's method of purveying his wares closely appraised, his association with H. Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Grosse more precisely defined, and the range of his activities summarized in an annotated handlist. The record now includes 401 printings directly attributed to Wise, as well as 23 suppressed or abortive issues, and 29 others in which he seems to be somewhat involved. Through these several perspectives the culprit appears even more contemptible and, possibly for this very reason, ever more intriguing as a cause celebre in literary scholarship. The illustration on the jacket of this book reproduces, through a magnifying glass, the peculiar question mark appearing in certain forgeries printed for Wise by the firm of Richard Clay & Sons. The mark may also implicate Wise in other irregular printings, including The Death of Balder. The Contributors JOHN CARTER and GRAHAM POLLARD, Co authors of the original Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (1934), have also collaborated in several later studies of the Wisean forgeries. Both are Vice-Presidents of the Bibliographical Society (London) and have been appointed, the one in 1947, the other in 1959, Sandars Reader in Bibliography in the University of Cambridge. Apart from other scholarly endeavors, each has separately published numerous works of particular interest to bibliophiles, Mr. Carter's including Taste and Technique in Book-Collecting (1948), ABC for Book-Collectors (1952), Books and Book-Collectors (1956), and Mr. Pollard's, a series of contributions to the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (1941) and The Earliest Directory of the Book Trade (1955) . WILLIAM B. TODD, a Fulbright Research Fellow in the United Kingdom in 1952-1953 and now Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, is the author of various bibliographical studies, most recently of New Adventures among Old Books (1958) . Size: 8vo.
Published by University of Texas, 1959
Seller: Castle Hill Books, Llandrindod Wells, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 128pp, frontis and 1 other illustration, bound in blue cloth with dustwrapper ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Published by Austin: University of Texas Press and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1959, 1959
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Austin: University of Texas Press and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, (1959). Blue cloth and pictorial dust jacket, 128 pp. Essays by John Carter, Graham Pollard, and William Todd, who does "A Handlist of Thomas J. Wise", pp. 80-122, which identifies known forgeries. This was first done as a supplement to "The Texas Quarterly" Winter, 1959. A Fine copy in a somewhat chipped, aged, Good jacket.
Published by University of Texas Press, Austin, 1959
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Edited by William B. Todd. Essays by John Carter, Graham Pollard, William B. Todd. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a tanned spine and minor wear.
Published by University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1959
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Essays by John Carter, Graham Pollard, William B. Todd. Pp. [x]+130(last colophon, verso blank), frontispiece portrait, index; med. 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corner of boards faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, silverfished, edges and backstrip lightly faded and rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, title page and last couple of pages slightly silverfished; University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 1959. First edition. *Includes A Handlist of Thomas J. Wise by William B. Todd.