Franklin, Colin.

OBSESSIONS AND CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LIFE.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, Books of Kells, and Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 2012. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 296 pages. A SIGNED COPY BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS LOVELY BOOK Reminiscences of an author, bookseller, and publisher, written at the age of eighty-eight, Colin Franklin's newest book is perhaps his most entertaining. It wanders freely through themes which have absorbed him - a lost world of publishing, adventures in bookselling, and the..... READ MORE about OBSESSIONS AND CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LIFE

Price: $49.95  other currencies  Order nr. 133464

Franklin, Colin.

BOOK COLLECTING AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS AND OTHER ESSAYS.

(Aldershot): Scolar, (1996). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 138 pages. First edition. Twelve chapters of interest to the book collector including ones on "Type Under the Water," John Baptist Jackson and his Chiaroscuro method, D.G. Rossetti, and "Hume, Sludge & I: A Study in Techniques of Dishonesty." READ MORE about BOOK COLLECTING AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS AND OTHER ESSAYS

Price: $64.95  other currencies  Order nr. 61988

Franklin, Colin.

OBSESSIONS AND CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LIFE.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, Books of Kells, and Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., 2012. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 296 pages. Reminiscences of an author, bookseller, and publisher, written at the age of eighty-eight, Colin Franklin's newest book is perhaps his most entertaining. It wanders freely through themes which have absorbed him - a lost world of publishing, adventures in bookselling, and the irreplaceable scholarly eccentrics who dominated that world a generation ago..... READ MORE about OBSESSIONS AND CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK LIFE

Price: $49.95  other currencies  Order nr. 108511

(Gogmagog Press). Chambers, David, Colin Franklin and Alan Tucker.

MORRIS COX & THE GOGMAGOG PRESS.

Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1991. small 4to. cloth. 184 pages. A tribute to the work of Morris Cox and his Gogmagog Press. Cox started his press, in 1957, as a means to present his own poetry and illustrations, in the meanwhile, creating some beautiful bindings and some highly individual techniques in printing. The text presents Cox's life and work, some of his poetry and illustrations and a lengthy and well annotated bibliography of the..... READ MORE about MORRIS COX & THE GOGMAGOG PRESS

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 33963