Australian Book Collectors: Some Noted Australian Book Collectors & Collections of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries: Second Series, Volume III.

Hardback large octavo, dustjacket, new condition (in new dustjacket), black & white text-photos, few colour plates, protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. Heavy (1.4 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 450 pp. Charles Stitz has edited a set of 5 volumes, collectively being the first authoritative textbook on Australian book collectors. This copy is Second Series, Volume III, being Part 2: family names I - Z, ISBN 9780987599841). The editor charts the lives and fascinating collecting careers of further Australian bibliophiles during the first 200 years of Australia's history. The bibliographies are arranged alphabetically, and mostly written by Stitz, and are interspersed with reprinted essays on some of the more famous book collectors. A few corrections to Volume 1 (2010) are listed. Charles Stitz is a very experienced bookseller from Albury, New South Wales. (A limited edition of 500 copies.).