Collectible books : some new paths / edited by Jean Peters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peters, Jean, 1935-2023, editor.

R.R. Bowker Company, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book collecting.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : R.R. Bowker Company, 1979.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction / William Matheson

A backward look: the Sadleir Circle in perspective / Percy Muir

Illustrations

Non-firsts / G. Thomas Tanselle

American trade bindings and their designers, 1880-1915 / Charles Gullans and John Espey

Books in series / William B. Todd

Film books / Daniel J. Leab

American mass-market paperbacks / Thomas L. Bonn

Photograph as book illustration, 1839-1900 / Stuart Bennett

Book catalogues / Wm. P. Barlow, Jr.

Publishers' imprints / Jean Peters

American fiction since 1960 / Peter B. Howard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dust jacket. Also, laid in, a greeting card, and an index card.

ISBN:

0835211541

9780835211543

OCLC:

5353423