Collecting American First Editions.
£35.00
Publisher
The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
Place
Indianapolis
Date
1930
Synopsis
Its pitfalls and pleasures. with fifty-one illustrations. edition limited to 1250 signed and numbered copies...this is no. 1218.
Item Description
8vo. 8.75 x 6 inches. xviii + [ii] + 221 pp. Title page in red and black. Bound in original navy cloth with bevelled edges and printed paper title labels, in labelled slip case, which has edge wear with small splits. Deckled edges. A very good clean copy. Signed by author below limited edition statement on second free endpaper. Illustrated by 51 photographic plates, including frontispiece and facsimiles, with tissue guards where double page. Well illustrated book of advice to collectors of US first editions. Richard Curle (1883-1968) was a Scottish author, journalist and critic, who was an authority on his friend, Joseph Conrad.
[Stock No. 27645]
