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AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING AND KINDRED AFFECTIONS
Newton, A. Edward

- Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press 1918 - 8vo. - cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. - xxi, 356 pages. - Order Nr. 14726 - Price: $ 100.00

First edition, with errata slip opposite page 268 (Fleck a. 4.A.1a). Inscribed by Newton on front free endpaper "Anyone can write a book but only the lucky can secure a publisher. A. Edward Newton, November 23, 1918." Loosely inserted is the very rare four page prospectus to this book with information from the bookseller, W.G. Campbell written in ink. Bookplate of MacGregor Jenkins. Covers rubbed and soiled with crack in paper spine label.

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