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FORTY YEARS IN MY BOOKSHOP
Spencer, Walter T.
Edited with an Introduction by Thomas Moult. With Illustrations in Colour and Black and White.

   

- London : Constable & Co. (1927)
- thick 8vo.
- cloth
- xxxv, 284 pages.
- Order Nr. 90325
- Price: $ 15.00



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Reprint of the first edition. A valuable, well-illustrated, antiquarian booksellers memoir. Spencer was personally acquainted with many of the authors of his day. Much on Dickens, George Cruikshank, Phiz and a positively laudatory account of T. J. Wise and his library. Five illustrations in color and a number in black and white. Spine rubbed. Pencil inscription on free endpaper.

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BEFORE LIFE BEGAN, 1883-1923.
by Hunter, Dard

Limited to 219 numbered copies signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers. Printed by A. Colish on handmade paper by Dard Hunter and including two watermarked sheets which serve as a quasi frontispiece, one with his name and the other with his portrait. Has handmade paper covers decorated by Vernoica Ruzicka. The text consists of autobiographical sketches by Hunter. Small owner's label in corner of back pastedown. Well preserved copy.




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