Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile. First Edition, First Printing. 1927

ROSENBACH, A. S. W. (1876?1952)

Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1927

About this Item

ROSENBACH, A. S. W. (1876?1952). Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile. Philadelphia and New York: Rosenbach Company, 1927.

First Edition, First Printing, November 1927. Octavo. [xiv], 299, [1], [12] pp. Publisher's original light brown cloth, gilt lettering and auctioneer's gavel device to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Deckle-edged pages. Illustrated throughout with 78 illustrations and line drawings, 40 photographic plates, 38 facsimiles, and a Gutenberg Bible leaf facsimile frontispiece with facing blank.

Pages clean and unmarked. Binding sound and square. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. A well-preserved example of this important work in the literature of book collecting.

A. S. W. Rosenbach was the most influential antiquarian bookseller of the early twentieth century, responsible for placing many of the world's greatest books, manuscripts, Gutenberg Bibles, and Shakespeare First Folios into major institutional and private collections. Books and Bidders offers a firsthand account of rare-book collecting, landmark auctions, literary forgeries, famous collectors, and the international antiquarian book trade during its formative golden age.

Among the most enduring classics of books-about-books, the volume remains essential reading for collectors, booksellers, librarians, and students of the history of the rare-book market.

[Attributes: First Edition; First Printing; Hard Cover; Illustrated].

Seller Inventory # 2024WSWR34F

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile. First Edition, First Printing. 1927
• Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1927
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover, cloth
• Edition: 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 6W x 9H x 0D centimeters 6 centimeters width by 9 centimeters height by 0 centimeters depth
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