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This book-collecting game / by A. Edward Newton.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Rare Books Collection Z992.N38 B72 1928b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newton, A. Edward (Alfred Edward), 1864-1940
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book collecting.
- Books.
- books.
- Genre:
- Authors' inscriptions.
- Physical Description:
- 410 pages, [3] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Limited ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1928.
- Contents:
- Preliminary canter
- This book-collecting game
- The books of my boyhood
- "When we were very young"
- The book itself
- The binding
- The auction room
- Caveat emptor
- "Abuses stript and whipt"
- What to collect, and why
- American literature
- Conversation in the library at "Oak Knoll"
- Humor and pathos of Dr. Johnson's dictionary
- The format of the English novel
- One hundred good novels
- Notes:
- "One hundred good novels": pages 383-385.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy inscribed by the author.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Robert S. Price in memory of Emilie K. Price.
- OCLC:
- 1066809837
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