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Book collecting : a modern guide
Title
Book collecting : a modern guide / edited by Jean Peters.
ISBN
0835209857
9780835209854
Publication
New York : R.R. Bowker Company, 1977.
Copyright Notice Date
©1977.
Physical Description
xix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
Twelve essays by noted book collectors, curators, and scholar cover auctions, dealers, descriptive bibliographies, forgeries, the organization of a collection, and the care of books and manuscripts.
Other formats
Online version: Book collecting. New York : R.R. Bowker, 1977
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 1989
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-271) and index.
Contents
What book collecting is all about / William Matheson
Buying books from dealers / Robin G. Halwas
Buying at auction / Robert A. Wilson
The antiquarian book market / Robert Rosenthal
The art and craft of collecting manuscripts / Lola L. Szladits
Descriptive bibliography / Terry Belanger
fakes, forgeries, facsimiles, and other oddities / Joan M. Friedman
Physical care of books and manuscripts / Willmam Spawn
Organizing a collection / Jean Peters
Appraisal / Katherine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab
The book collector in the world of scholarship / Susan O. Thompson
The literature of book collecting / G. Thomas Tanselle.
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