Brook, G.L.

BOOKS AND BOOK-COLLECTING.

Aldershot: Gower, (1982). 8vo. textured paper over boards, dust jacket. 175 pages. Reprint of 1980 first edition. Private bookplate on the front free endpaper. Fine in fine jacket. An entertaining and informative book on many facets of book collecting with chapters on What to Collect, The Making of Books, The Care of Books, Trends in Book-Collecting, Some Great Collectors, Booksellers, Forgeries and the Disposal of a Collection. READ MORE about BOOKS AND BOOK-COLLECTING

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 53085

(Carter, John). Tanselle, G. Thomas.

JOHN CARTER: AN ASSESSMENT AND A HANDLIST.

Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2025. 6.125 x 9.25 inches. wrappers. 136 pages. "Every page is thoroughly soaked in Tanselle's enthusiasm for his subject... When one master turns his attention to another, the rest of us should stop and listen. This volume is a handsome tribute from one of the greatest bibliographers of our present age to one of the greatest bibliographers of the previous age. It is a joy to..... READ MORE about JOHN CARTER: AN ASSESSMENT AND A HANDLIST

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Edwards, A.S.G.

NICOLAS BARKER AT EIGHTY: A LIST OF HIS PUBLICATIONS TO MARK HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY IN 2012.

New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 2013. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. paperback. 96 pages. Published in celebration of Nicolas Barker's eightieth birthday, this bibliography serves both as a collection of his writings and as a tribute to one who has inspired so wide and deep affection in so many. Nicolas Barker's first bibliographical articles and reviews appeared in 1959. John Hayward, then the Editor of The Book Collector, was quick..... READ MORE about NICOLAS BARKER AT EIGHTY: A LIST OF HIS PUBLICATIONS TO MARK HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY IN 2012

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 118364

(Forgery). Murray, Timothy.

FORGING A COLLECTION, THE FRANK W. TOBER COLLECTION.

Newark, DE: University of Delaware, 1999. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), xii, 88 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Exhibition catalogue for the Special Collections Department of the Hugh M. Morris Library at the University of Delaware. Describes 90 works in chronological order under 10 sections including "General Material on Forgery," "George Psalmanazar, the Celebrated Native of Formosa," "James Macpherson and the Ossian Poems," etc. An appendix contains a checklist of Thomas J. Wise letters..... READ MORE about FORGING A COLLECTION, THE FRANK W. TOBER COLLECTION

Price: $16.00  other currencies  Order nr. 56747

(Forgery). Taylor, W. Thomas.

TEXFAKE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE THEFT AND FORGERY OF EARLY TEXAS PRINTED DOCUMENTS.

Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1991. 7.25 x 10.25 inches. hardcover. xix, 159 pages. First edition. With an introduction by Larry McMurtry. Describes the history and impact of various forged Texas documents. Mr. Taylor, who was instrumental in uncovering the forgeries, includes his own evidence, which made him suspect forgery. The forged and original documents are described in detail. The text includes an up-to-date census of each document as well as plates that illustrate differences..... READ MORE about TEXFAKE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE THEFT AND FORGERY OF EARLY TEXAS PRINTED DOCUMENTS

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Freeman, Arthur.

JULIA ALPINULA, PSEUDO-HEROINE OF HELVETIA: HOW A FORGED RENAISSANCE EPITAPH FOSTERED A NATIONAL MYTH.

London, United Kingdom: Bernard Quaritch, 2015. 8vo. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Julia Alpinula is a legendary Swiss heroine, whose pathetic fate in AD 69 inspired popular historians, dramatists, artists, and poets including an infatuated Byron over a period of more than two hundred years. Her very existence, however, was based entirely on a funerary inscription first published in 1588 and ultimately shown to be a humanist forgery. Julia Alpinula is a fully documented account of..... READ MORE about JULIA ALPINULA, PSEUDO-HEROINE OF HELVETIA: HOW A FORGED RENAISSANCE EPITAPH FOSTERED A NATIONAL...

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Goldstone, Lawrence and Nancy.

WARMLY INSCRIBED, THE NEW ENGLAND FORGER AND OTHER TALES.

New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, (2001). small 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 215+(1) pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. The authors of Used and Rare and Slightly Chipped are accompanied by their witty eight-year-old daughter, Emily, as they tour the Library of Congress ("114,000,000 books, so little time"), and entertain us with unorthodox behind-the-scenes looks at the Folger Library and Yale University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Other chapters include The..... READ MORE about WARMLY INSCRIBED, THE NEW ENGLAND FORGER AND OTHER TALES

Price: $20.00 save 50% $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 65056

(Hofmann, Mark W.). Naifeh, Steven and Gregory White Smith.

THE MORMON MURDERS. A TRUE STORY OF GREED, FORGERY, DECEIT AND DEATH.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). 8vo. cloth spine with paper sides, dust jacket. xi, 458+(1) pages. Book Club Edition. Fine in near fine jacket. Another of the books published on this subject, written by two graduates of the Harvard Law School. This book also contains some details unmentioned in the other two main accounts - for instance more details of Steve Christensen's autopsy are given. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About..... READ MORE about THE MORMON MURDERS. A TRUE STORY OF GREED, FORGERY, DECEIT AND DEATH

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Landon, Richard; Marie E. Korey (editor).

A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON.

With an Introduction by Marie Elena Korey
New Castle, DE and Toronto: Oak Knoll Press and The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2014. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 440 pages. With an Introduction by Marie Elena Korey. "It was at heart Landon's hard work and connections that turned the Fisher Library into the world-class rare book and manuscript collection that it is today... These essays are exactly what polite essays should be: full of recondite information attractively expressed, and somehow..... READ MORE about A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON

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(Libri, Guglielmo). Norman, Jeremy M.

SCIENTIST, SCHOLAR & SCOUNDREL.

New York: The Grolier Club, 2013. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 200 pages. A fine copy. A Bibliographical Investigation of the Life and Exploits of Count Guglielmo Libri, Mathematician, Journalist, Patriot, Historian of Science, Paleographer, Book Collector, Bibliographer, Antiquarian Bookseller, Forger, and Book Thief. Published in connection with an exhibition held at the Grolier Club March 28-May 24, 2013. Guglielmo Libri (1803-1869) represents an extreme form of bibliomania. He was born into one of the..... READ MORE about SCIENTIST, SCHOLAR & SCOUNDREL

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 116606

(Wise, Thomas J.). Ratchford, Fannie E. (editor).

LETTERS OF THOMAS J. WISE TO JOHN HENRY WRENN A FURTHER INQUIRY INTO THE GUILT OF CERTAIN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FORGERS.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1944). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 591, xvi pages. First edition. Ratchford's book proved beyond doubt the guilt of Thomas J. Wise as a literary forger and implicated the distinguished men of letters, H. Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse and thus becomes a necessary supplement to Carter and Pollard's An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets. Jacket chipped with pieces missing along edges and is price clipped..... READ MORE about LETTERS OF THOMAS J. WISE TO JOHN HENRY WRENN A FURTHER INQUIRY INTO THE GUILT OF CERTAIN...

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(Wise, Thomas J.). Todd, William (editor).

THOMAS J. WISE, CENTENARY STUDIES.

In The Texas Quarterly, Winter, 1959, Volume II, No.4
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 195, (2), 128 pages. In The Texas Quarterly, Winter, 1959, Volume II, No.4. The Studies consist of a 128 page supplement at the end of the Quarterly. A near fine copy. With essays by John Carter, Graham Pollard and a bibliography of Wise's work by William Todd. This bibliography includes forgeries, his own writings and piracies. The front cover pictures the Wrenn room. READ MORE about THOMAS J. WISE, CENTENARY STUDIES

Price: $24.00  other currencies  Order nr. 7897