Items related to The butterfly books: An enquiry into the nature of...
Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Light wear to extremities.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherB. Rota
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0854000240
- ISBN 13 9780854000241
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages283
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
The Butterfly Books : An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets
Published by
Rota, Bertram, Ltd.
(1987)
ISBN 10: 0854000240
ISBN 13: 9780854000241
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 45947378-75
Buy Used
US$ 34.93
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Butterfly Books: Enquiry Into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets
Published by
Bertram Rota
(1987)
ISBN 10: 0854000240
ISBN 13: 9780854000241
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:0854000240. Seller Inventory # 8674451
Buy Used
US$ 49.96
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Butterfly Books : An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets
Published by
Bertram Rota, London
(1987)
ISBN 10: 0854000240
ISBN 13: 9780854000241
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Clean, unmarked, firm hinges, no DJ but glassine wrapper. Top front corner bumped, rest sharp. Boards clean, handsome, spine gilt bright and shiny. Handsome copy. BP/BookCollecting/BooksonBooks. Seller Inventory # ABE-1611956420981
Buy Used
US$ 80.00
Convert currency
Stock Image
Butterfly Books: Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean text, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller. Seller Inventory # mon0000137152
Buy Used
US$ 49.96
Convert currency
Seller Image
The Butterfly Books. An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets.
Published by
Bertram Rota (Publishing).
(1987)
ISBN 10: 0854000240
ISBN 13: 9780854000241
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description 1987, 283pp. Illustrated. Halfcloth, no dust jacket. In very good condition. Seller Inventory # 65854
Buy Used
US$ 66.12
Convert currency
Seller Image
THE BUTTERFLY BOOKS. An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets
Published by
Bertram Rota
(1987)
ISBN 10: 0854000240
ISBN 13: 9780854000241
Used
Hardcover
Signed
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Bertram Rota, 1987. Hardback, 8vo, 283pp, illust. Inscribed / signed by author, boards slightly marked. A good copy. 0854000240/0.7uk. Seller Inventory # 362383
Buy Used
US$ 77.00
Convert currency
Seller Image
The Butterfly Books : An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets.
Published by
Bertram Rota (Publishing) Ltd., London, first edition, 1987
(1987)
ISBN 10: 0854000240
ISBN 13: 9780854000241
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Limited edition of 400 copies. Cloth-backed paper-patterned boards, small 4to, 22 cm 283 pp, [28] pp of plates and ills. In 1972 Sotheby & Co offered for sale what was described as "a complete set of the poetry pamphlets written or produced by Frederic Prokosch". There were, altogether, 79 of these, 29 manuscripts and 50 printed books, all short poems by 18 different authors, all well-known. Among them were W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats. The pamphlets made a substantial sum, the majority being bought by the well-known booksellers, Bernard Quaritch, but within a month. Quaritch wrote to Sotheby's returning 33 printed pamphlets on the ground that "the dates and/or places of publication claimed for them are not as stated in the.catalogue" - that they were, in short, forgeries. The episode curiously reflected the famous 1934 case of T.J. Wise and the forged Victorian pamphlets. How did the forgeries come into existence, and why? Were they imitations of existing books, or were they original editions, copies of no known exemplar? Who was Frederic Prokosch? Who had singled out Prokosch's work for imitation? All these questions had to be addressed, employing the classic methods of analysis of the materials used that had brought about the detection of the Wise forgeries. The sources of the texts as well as their material ingredients, the worlds of typography and paper-making, the art of marbling paper, then dying but now in revival, the new world of man-made fibres and adhesives - all these had to be plumbed. Between and among these fields, flitted the elusive figure of Frederic Prokosch, poet, novelist, perhaps printer too, like one of his favourite butterflies (for he was a learned entomologist, besides). Nicolas Barker provides a fascinating account of his unravelling of the forensic and literary problems. Near Fine. Seller Inventory # ABE-56852
Buy Used
US$ 89.83
Convert currency
Stock Image
The Butterfly Books: An Enquiry Into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets
Published by
Bertram Rota, London
(1987)
ISBN 10: 0854000240
ISBN 13: 9780854000241
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Cloth-backed Bds. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. 8vo. 283 pp., illus. No jacket as issued. An examination into the Prokosch forgeries. Seller Inventory # 9447
Buy Used
US$ 116.49
Convert currency