Invitation to Book Collecting. Its Pleasures and Practices. With Kindred Discussions of Manuscripts, Maps, and Prints.

New York: R. R. Bowker, 1947,

First Edition. octavo, red cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 281pp. R. R. Bowker, Item #32745

Illustrated with photographs. An informal survey of book collecting: Historic Collectors; Collecting Literature; Collecting Americana; Manuscripts; Bibliography; Buying and Selling Rare Books; Book Prices; Fakes, Forgeries, Facsimiles, and Thefts; Planning and Building a Collection; and more. Top of text block with a touch of foxing, otherwise fine and clean. Slight wear to jacket which is not price clipped.

Price: $20.00