This Book-Collecting Game
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1928. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine / No Jacket. Item #2328410
Limited edition, #482 of 990 copies (950 of which were offered for sale). Signed by author and hand-numbered on limitation page. Lacks slipcase. Spine a bit toned, a few minor scuffs to boards.
410 pp. Includes color frontispiece and black-and-white illustrations. CONTENTS: Preliminary Canter; This Book-Collecting Game; The Books of My Boyhood; "When We Were Very Young"; The Book Itself; The Binding; The Auction Room; Caveat Emptor; "Abuses Stript and Whipt"; What to Collect--and Why; American Literature; Conversation in the Library at "Oak Knoll"; Humor and Pathos of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary; The Format of the English Novel; One Hundred Good Novels; Index.
Price: $125.00