Collecting Modern First Editions.

FIRST EDITION, sections of monochrome illustrations showing the covers of various works with a few spreads of the same in colour, the annotations of John Baxter (see below) at various points throughout, pp. xii, 175, 4to, original black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, a couple of tiny spots of wear at bottom corners, bookplate of John Baxter to front pastedown (using a photograph by Marc Atkins), a few related clippings within envelope laid in, dustjacket, very good. The copy of notable collector, John Baxter, inscribed to him by the author on the flyleaf: 'For John Baxter, Best wishes Joseph Connolly, Hampstead, 13.1.78'. Baxter's memoir of book-collecting, 'A Pound of Paper', was published in 2002, and the annotations here alight particularly on the various authors familiar from that account: Kingsley Amis, Graham Greene (the most-heavily annotated, with pages from a G.F. Sims catalogue laid in also), Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, et al.