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AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH CENTURY PAMPHLETS.
Carter, John and Graham Pollard

- London : Constable & Co. 1934 - 8vo. - cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. - xii, 400 pages. - Order Nr. 105883 - Price: $ 450.00

First edition. A classic piece of literary detective work in which the authors expose Thomas J. Wise as a forger by their work in type specimens, paper and study of the text of various 19th century pamphlets. A landmark book in the history of literary forgery. This copy has been signed by both authors on the half-title. Very rare to find a copy signed by both authors. Bookplate of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (stamped HBL Withdrawn). Jacket is worn with piece of front cover and top of spine missing.

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AGATHA by Eliot, George This is the fake of the counterfeit edition produced in the United States [Todd 156c(3)]. Probably printed sometime around 1920, and it is uncertain who produced this fake. Unopened pages that are folded together.