First Editions Future by Wirth Alexander (9 results)

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Thin 8vo. Green cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Small spots of discoloration to cloth of rear board. else is very good. Interior is clean and bright. Books on Books. BOB109241.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated. 1st ed. Baltimore (Proof Press) 1935. Covers marred, but internally fine. Bookplate inside front cover. Overall, a very good copy.

cloth. 8vo. cloth. (62) pages. First edition. A two page introductory note on the different types of booksellers followed by a list of desirable first editions, with retail prices and issue points. With facsimile title pages. Very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Good slim volume has no dustwrapper text edges foxed, corners and spine bumped, paper browned.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. List of First editions to invest in during 1935.Fine Copy.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Volume was owned by N. N. Wallack. Inscribed in ink by author to Wallack on front free endpaper. Owner's bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Green cloth boards are rubbed, with board exposed along botton corners. Pages browning. Signed by Author(s).…

Proof Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 1935, unpaginated. Octavo. First edition. Original publisher's dark navy blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. A fine copy; lovely. Inscribed: "To my good friend Meredith Janvier from Alexander C. Wirth. Sept 5, 1935." Meredith Janvier was a Baltimore-based bookseller and photographer for the Sun papers, and a close friend of H.L. Mencken's. An interesting 1930s guide to American first editions, those the author deemed worthy, with issue points for a number of titles given. The book is intended for novice collectors and includes several first edition title-pages reproduced in facsimile. The author writes, in part: "The intent of this little book is to serve as a beacon to the novice collector of modern American first editions that is, it should help him to avoid the pitfalls which sometimes beset the unwary. Nor is the more seasoned collector really immune from these hazards. Even the most thorough collector can never hope to be a walking encyclopedia, and thus the price of this compact form of bibliographical data may well be offset should it serve to avoid one bad buy.".…

hardcover. Condition: Good. minor wear.