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Slightly Foxed - Still Desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting
by Ronald Searle
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 028562945X
- ISBN 13
- 9780285629455
- Seller
-
Smyrna, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Souvenir Press, 2010. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. 9x0x12. Like New in a Very Good dust jacket. DJ has 2 very small edge tears. . . . As any, even vaguely addicted book collector will have swiftly learned, most booksellers' catalogues are written in a parallel language that can fool anyone but the 'cognoscenti' and which makes the mysteries of the Rosetta stone, or Linear B, look like something out of Enid Blython. Without a smattering of inside information, the baffled but hopelessly-bitten book buyer is drifting unarmed and unprepared into a minefield whose perilous complexities will usually only be made plain when an eagerly awaited parcel of dream volumes arrives and mangled contents are revealed in all their deceptive glory.... But all is not lost. Help is at hand! After a lifetime of avidly scanning the frequently poisonously-tinted pages of innumerable book catalogues, Ronald Searle has become expert in the art of decoding those esoteric, poetic and usually approximate, descriptions of literary come-ons. Now, licking his wounds, he publishes his hard-earned findings in this fully illustrated pioneer guide, designed to foil the devious machinations of scheming and wicked booksellers for ever more. No longer will the innocent book collector need to puzzle over the finer meaning of 'old half road', 'good working copy', blind tooled', or 'tail-edged shaved'. The unvarnished truth is here exposed at last, both in the shocking explicit drawings and in the devastatingly frank glossary whose revelations will startle even the most battle-scarred of bibliophiles. The result is one of the funniest, most entertaining books to have emerged from the brilliantly perceptive pen of the master. No book collector, and certainly no bookseller, can afford to be without it - even the wicked ones. -- From dust jacket flap
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antique Mall Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2310030003
- Title
- Slightly Foxed - Still Desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting
- Author
- Ronald Searle
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 028562945X
- ISBN 13
- 9780285629455
- Publisher
- Souvenir Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 9x0x12
- X weight
- 32 oz
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Antique Mall Books, LLC
30-day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Antique Mall Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2023
Smyrna, Georgia
About Antique Mall Books, LLC
We have been in the used book business for over 20 years. We started in 2002 in Georgia with an online business. A cornerstone of our business model over the years was to provide the best possible customer service and strive for 100% customer satisfaction. We received almost 7,000 customer feedbacks on our Amazon sales over the past 20 years, with a 99.7% positive rating.
In March of 2023, after 14 years in Steubenville, Ohio, we sold our brick-and-mortar bookstore and moved back to Georgia. We understand both the used and collectible book business along with customer service. We will be happy to provide you with a quality book if you find one of our offerings worthy of being added to your library. We will provide pictures if you do not see one in our listing. We strive to have detailed and accurate listings, and when we sell a book, we do our best to ship it within 24 hours.
In March of 2023, after 14 years in Steubenville, Ohio, we sold our brick-and-mortar bookstore and moved back to Georgia. We understand both the used and collectible book business along with customer service. We will be happy to provide you with a quality book if you find one of our offerings worthy of being added to your library. We will provide pictures if you do not see one in our listing. We strive to have detailed and accurate listings, and when we sell a book, we do our best to ship it within 24 hours.
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