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See More... Aldis, Harry G. THE PRINTED BOOK.
Cambridge University Press 1941 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 141+(1) pages and 14 illustrations.
Second edition, revised by John Carter and E.A. Crutchley. Excellent short guide to the history of printing. Jacket has small pieces missing at spine ends. Name in ink at top of title page.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 50486

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See More... (Bookbinding) Carter, John. MORE BINDING VARIANTS. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY MICHAEL SADLEIR.
London Constable & Co. (1938) 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 52 pages.
First edition; part of the Aspects of Book Collecting series. (Brenni No. 869). A continuation of Carter's BINDING VARIANTS IN ENGLISH PUBLISHING, 1820-1900, published as part of the Bibliographia Series. Scarce pamphlet, with descriptions of bindings on many books by such authors as Charles Dickens. Chipped at corners and spine ends.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 20915

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See More... (Book Collecting) Chapman, R.W. et al BOOK COLLECTING, FOUR BROADCAST TALKS
Cambridge Bowes and Bowes (1950) small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 49 pages.
First edition. Preface by John Carter followed by articles on The Sense of the Past, Why First Editions, The Technical Approach and Bookshop and Auction Room. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 715

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See More... (Book Collecting) Chapman, R.W. et al BOOK COLLECTING, FOUR BROADCAST TALKS
Cambridge Bowes and Bowes (1950) small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 49 pages.
First edition. Preface by John Carter followed by articles on The Sense of the Past, Why First Editions, The Technical Approach and Bookshop and Auction Room. Jacket is price clipped.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 69900

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See More... (Carter) Dampier, William James A MEMOIR OF JOHN CARTER.
The soul's triumph amid the body's wreck London John W. Parker 1850 small 8vo. cloth (x), 36 pages
This book is a memoir of John Carter, who was paralyzed from the neck down. His paralysis led him to develop unique artistic talents such as the ability to paint and draw with his mouth. This book includes six black-and-white and one color facsimile sketches by Carter. Also includes a replication of letter correspondence. Inside soiled. Signature completely cracked, detaching the spine between the frontis and the title page. Text-block fragile. Cover faded and heavily worn.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 87214

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See More... Carter, John & Nicolas Barker ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS 8TH ED. (U.S.)
Eighth US Edition With Corrections, Additions and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2006 tall 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages
Eighth edition, completely revised and re-set, with additional information and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is the book for you! John Carter's ABC for Book Collectors has long been established as the most enjoyable as well as the most informative reference book on the subject. Here, in over 490 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms used in book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with salutary comments on such subjects as auctions, condition, facsimiles and fakes, 'points', rarity, etc. This eighth edition has been revised by Nicolas Barker, editor of The Book Collector and incorporates additional words created by the introduction of web-based collecting. ABC for Book Collectors retains its humorous character as the one indispensable guide to book collecting while also keeping us up-to-date with modern terminology.
Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 75338

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See More... Carter, John ABC FOR BOOK-COLLECTORS
New York Alfred A. Knopf (1960) 8vo. half cloth over patterned paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 191 pages.
Second U.S. edition, from the sheets of the second English edition.Jacket is price clipped. Name in ink on free endpaper. Small bookseller's ticket on front pastedown.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 1299

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See More... Carter, John ABC FOR BOOK-COLLECTORS
New York Alfred A. Knopf 1990 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 211 pages.
Eleventh printing of the fifth edition of this classic glossary of terms for collectors and dealers.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 30479

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  Carter, John ABC FOR BOOK-COLLECTORS
New York Alfred A. Knopf (1953) 8vo. cloth. 196 pages.
Second edition, revised. U.S. printing. Lacks jacket. Spine faded.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 114406

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  Carter, John ABC FOR BOOK-COLLECTORS 6TH ED.
London Granada (1985) small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 219 pages.
Reprint of the sixth edition, revised with corrections and additions by Nicolas Barker. Barker has incorporated the changes John Carter was about to make on this edition before his death and includes changes of his own. With many binding terms defined. Some wrinkling of jacket spine.
Price: $ 22.50 other currencies Order nr. 41203

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See More... Carter, John and Brooke Crutchley THE PRINTED BOOK, THE ORIGINAL MANUAL BY HARRY G. ALDIS..
Revised and Brought Up to Date by John Carter and Brooke Crutchley. Cambridge University Press 1951 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 142 pages.
Third edition, revised. Excellent short guide to the history of printing, binding and illustration. Jacket rubbed along edges.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 12283

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See More... Carter, John BOOKS AND BOOK-COLLECTORS
Cleveland World Publishing Co. (1957) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 196 pages.
First U.S. edition. Excellent book with sections on book collectors, typographers, bibliophily and two footnotes to his book on T.J. Wise. Pieces of jacket missing along back hinge. Endpapers and pastedowns foxed from jacket acidity.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 114401

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See More... (Carter, John) CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE COLLECTION OF PRINTED BOOKS THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE JOHN CARTER, CBE.
London Sotheby Parke Bernet 1976 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 78 pages.
With prices estimated inserted. The version of this catalogue that does not contain the portrait of Carter.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 36655

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See More... (Carter, John) Dickinson, Donald C. JOHN CARTER, THE TASTE & TECHNIQUE OF A BOOKMAN
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 2004 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 422 pages.
First edition. Preface by Sebastian Carter. Throughout his professional career, John Carter, 1905-1975, was recognized as one of the most important figures in the Anglo-American book world. He was known as an imaginative book dealer, a creative bibliographer and a stylish and thoughtful writer. In 1934, after working for several years in the London book trade, he achieved instant fame, along with his co-author Graham Pollard, for An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, a brilliant piece of detective work that exposed Thomas J. Wise.
Carter quickly built up a circle of friends, including Frederich Melcher, the editor of Publishers' Weekly and Elmer Adler, the editor of The Colophon. With those useful connections, he was able to publish over a dozen articles on bibliography and the rare book trade before he was thirty years old. Critics agreed that Carter's writing was characterized by precision, elegance and wit. Among his best known publications were Taste & Technique of Book Collecting and his popular glossary, ABC for Book Collectors. He was, above all, an articulate spokesman for the pleasures and challenges of book collecting. Contains a full checklist of John Carter's publications. Well-illustrated. This work will be appreciated by all bibliophiles who are interested in 20th century bibliophilia.

Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 76307

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See More... Carter, John (editor) SIR THOMAS BROWNE. URNE BURIALL AND THE GARDEN OF CYRUS.
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1958 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 119 pages.
New edition, published in the tercentenary year of the first publication. The text takes account of corrections to the first edition by Browne. Contains appendices on author-corrected copies of the first edition and a note on the present text. Jacket chipped at head of spine and is price clipped.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 114416

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See More... Carter, John. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE.
Compiled and Edited by John Carter & Percy H. Muir. London and New York Cassell and Co. and Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1967 4to. cloth, dust jacket, xxxvi, 280 pages.
First U.S. edition. One of the most important exhibitions held in the last century. Small piece missing from top edge of front cover of jacket. Blue smudge at bottom of front cover of jacket.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 55230

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See More... Carter, John PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE ILLUSTRATING THE IMPACT OF PRINT ON THE EVOLUTION OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION DURING FIVE CENTURIES.
Compiled and Edited by John Carter & Percy H. Muir. London Cassell and Co. and New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston 1967 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxxvi, 280 pages.
First U.S. edition. One of the most important exhibitions held in this century. Jacket slightly age darkened with chipping around edges. Glue mark on front pastedown where bookplate used to be. Loosely inserted is a keepsake by Reynolds Stone which he has signed in ink.
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 34443

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See More... Carter, John PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF FINE PRINTING AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
London British Museum 1963 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 125 pages and 32 plates followed by 62 pages and 16 plates.
Important catalogue. Contributions by John Carter and P. H. Muir and an introduction by Stanley Morison. (Appleton no. 223). Loosely inserted in this copy is a four-page pamphlet "A Keepsake for Visitors to the Exhibition of Printing and the Mind of Man," a prospectus to the book that would be published, and a printed broadside that had been printed at the exhibition for the specific visitor (and has his name on it) This pamphlet summarizes what the visitor would see. Nicely designed. Some soiling of spine.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 7428

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See More... Carter, John PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF FINE PRINTING AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
London British Museum 1963 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 125 and 32 plates followed by 62 pages and 16 plates.
Important catalogue. Contributions by John Carter and P.H. Muir and an introduction by Stanley Morison. (Appleton no.223).
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 7429

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See More... (Carter, John) RARE BOOKS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE.
London Elkin Matthews 1932 12mo stiff paper wrappers 120 pages
Catalogue 49 of London bookseller Elkin Matthews, Ltd. Introduction, with additional notes to binding variants by John Carter. Three sections: 18th (or earlier) authors, 19th century authors and modern first editions. 881 entries. Advertisement for H.W. Bell's textbook Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson laid in. Wrappers torn at spine. Back wrapper torn and detached from text.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 108847

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See More... Carter, John TASTE & TECHNIQUE IN BOOK COLLECTING, A STUDY OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.
Cambridge University Press 1949 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 201, (3) pages.
Second impression, corrected. Two main sections; the evolution of of book collecting and the method of book collecting. A classic book in the field. Jacket has tape repair on back which doesn't show through to front.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 12850

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See More... Carter, John VICTORIAN FICTION, AN EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS
With the Collaboration of Michael Sadleir. Cambridge Cambridge University Press (for the National Book League) 1947 tall 12mo. stiff paper wrappers xiii, 50 pages.
No plates in this edition.
Price: $ 9.00 other currencies Order nr. 2917

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See More... Carter, John VICTORIAN FICTION, AN EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS AT 7 ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON ... ARRANGED BY JOHN CARTER WITH THE COLLABORATION OF MICHAEL SADLEIR.
N.P. National Book League 1947 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiii, 50 pages followed by 16 plates.
First edition, one of the hardbound copies issued with 16 plates. Foreword and introduction by Carter. Many unsigned notes by Sadleir. An important catalogue. Small chip out of head of spine of jacket.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 6123

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See More... COLOPHON, A BOOK COLLECTOR'S Q. 8
New York The Colophon Ltd 1931 4to. paper-covered boards. not paginated.
Contains John Carter's "The Origins of Publishers' Cloth Bindings," a biographical article, "Benjamin Gomez·Bookseller," by Charles G. Poore, and Harry Miller Lydenberg's "Some Observations on Modern Firsts." Six other articles, a lithograph by Victoria Hutson,and an index to Parts 5 through 8. Cover and colophon page design by Frank McIntosh.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 45345

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See More... (Colophon) THE NEW COLOPHON, A BK COLLS' Q V I,PT 2.
New York Duschnes Crawford, Inc. 1948 4to. paper-covered boards. (iv), 113-216, (4) pages.
"Stephen Crane, War Correspondent," with a bibliography of Crane's Spanish War correspondence, is written by Ames W. Williams, John Carter writes "Reflections on Rarity," and George Boas contributes an affectionate tribute to librarian Alfred W. Pollard. An article by Philip Hofer about the Old Testament wood cuts of Hans Holbein is illustrated with many examples of the work.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 45454

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