[Michael Sadleir; Yellowbacks; pamphlet; substantial annotations] Collecting "Yellowbacks" (Victorian Railway Fiction).

Michael Sadleir, publisher, novelist, book collector, and bibliographer (1888 1957)

Published by Constable 10 Orange Street London WC2, 1938

About this Item

Reprint. Originally published in: "New paths in book collecting". [1934]. Pp. 127-161, 8vo, red paper covers, hinge strain, mainly good condition. Annotated knowledgeably throughout by learned person (not Sadleir himself(?See Image)), concluding with one and a quarter page list of the publishers of Yellowback series mentioned in the main body of the text (all marked in the text with "P"), giving year of production, number of titles issued, publisher, titles/ series names (e.g The Parlour Library). See Image. Other annotations apart from the numerous "P"'s relating to the list of series : p.130 ("Ist x"); p.134 (correcting years of a series); p.136 a publication date(?); note about "Freindship's Offering", footnote underlined with question mark, note in another hand "See page 130"; p.138 suggestion that Irving's biography of Goldsmith was preceded by Irving's "Lives of the Successors of Mahomet"; p.141questionmark against Sadleir's specualtion aboiut a firt volume; p.146 a comment "they were".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [Michael Sadleir; Yellowbacks; pamphlet; substantial annotations] Collecting "Yellowbacks" (Victorian Railway Fiction).
• Publisher: Constable 10 Orange Street London WC2
• Publication Date: 1938
• Binding: Hardcover