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Maurizio Martino Publisher, Cambridge, 1992 reprint of 1951 first edition. Reprint stated to be limited to 350 copies. Cloth, 4to,. 195 pp, plates. The second volume only of a 2-volume set. Volume II is a bibliographical catalogue of Sadleir's "Yellow-back collection" together with a section on "Novelist's Libraries, Standard Novels, the Parlour Library, and other cloth (or cloth and board) bound fiction (or part-fiction) series." Sadleir's work is primarily based on his own fiction collection, but in many cases he expanded the scope to provide complete bibliographies for previously-unbibliographed authors, even including non-fiction works. Top edge a trifle spotted, otherwise Near Fine.

Cooper Square Publishers, New York, 1969 reprint of 1951 first edition. 2 vols, cloth, 4to,. xxxiii, 398 + 195 pp. The best reprint of this classic work, in large format and with good-quality illustrations. Volume I provides a detailed bibliographical catalogue of some 3,392 items, many entries extensively annotated, together with Sadleir's entertaining introduction "Passages from the Autobiography of a Bibliomaniac" and an interesting analysis of "Comparative scarcities" for many of the more important authors. Volume II is a bibliographical catalogue of his "Yellow-back collection" together with a section on "Novelist's Libraries, Standard Novels, the Parlour Library, and other cloth (or cloth and board) bound fiction (or part-fiction) series." Sadleir's work is primarily based on his own fiction collection, but in many cases he expanded the scope to provide complete bibliographies for previously-unbibliographed authors, even including non-fiction… Read More

Cooper Square Publishers, New York, 1969 reprint of 1951 first edition. 2 vols, cloth, 4to,. xxxiii, 398 + 195 pp. The best reprint of this classic work, in large format and with good-quality illustrations. Volume I provides a detailed bibliographical catalogue of some 3,392 items, many entries extensively annotated, together with Sadleir's entertaining introduction "Passages from the Autobiography of a Bibliomaniac" and an interesting analysis of "Comparative scarcities" for many of the more important authors. Volume II is a bibliographical catalogue of his "Yellow-back collection" together with a section on "Novelist's Libraries, Standard Novels, the Parlour Library, and other cloth (or cloth and board) bound fiction (or part-fiction) series." Sadleir's work is primarily based on his own fiction collection, but in many cases he expanded the scope to provide complete bibliographies for previously-unbibliographed authors, even including non-fiction… Read More

Cooper Square Publishers, New York, 1969 reprint of 1951 first edition. 2 vols, cloth, 4to,. xxxiii, 398 + 195 pp. The best reprint of this classic work, in large format and with good-quality illustrations. Volume I provides a detailed bibliographical catalogue of some 3,392 items, many entries extensively annotated, together with Sadleir's entertaining introduction "Passages from the Autobiography of a Bibliomaniac" and an interesting analysis of "Comparative scarcities" for many of the more important authors. Volume II is a bibliographical catalogue of his "Yellow-back collection" together with a section on "Novelist's Libraries, Standard Novels, the Parlour Library, and other cloth (or cloth and board) bound fiction (or part-fiction) series." Sadleir's work is primarily based on his own fiction collection, but in many cases he expanded the scope to provide complete bibliographies for previously-unbibliographed authors, even including non-fiction… Read More

Cooper Square Publishers, New York, 1969 reprint of 1951 first edition. Cloth, 4to,. xxxiii, 398 + 195 pp. 3,392 items. The first volume only. The best reprint of this classic work, in large format and with good-quality illustrations. Volume I provides a detailed bibliographical catalogue of some 3,392 items, many entries extensively annotated, together with Sadleir's entertaining introduction "Passages from the Autobiography of a Bibliomaniac" and an interesting analysis of "Comparative scarcities" for many of the more important authors. Sadleir's work is primarily based on his own fiction collection, but in many cases he expanded the scope to provide complete bibliographies for previously-unbibliographed authors, even including non-fiction works. The authors featured in the "comparative scarcities" section are: W H Ainsworth, R D Blackmore, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George… Read More

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, first edition, 1951. Limited edition of 1025 copies. 2 vols, cloth, top edges gilt, 4to,. xxxiii, 398 + 195 pp. The first edition of this classic work, attractively produced in large format and superior to the 1969 reprint in the print quality of the illustrations. Volume I provides a detailed bibliographical catalogue of some 3,392 items, many entries extensively annotated, together with Sadleir's entertaining introduction "Passages from the Autobiography of a Bibliomaniac" and an interesting analysis of "Comparative scarcities" for many of the more important authors. Volume II is a bibliographical catalogue of his "Yellow-back collection" together with a section on "Novelist's Libraries, Standard Novels, the Parlour Library, and other cloth (or cloth and board) bound fiction (or part-fiction) series." Sadleir's work is primarily based on his own fiction collection, but in many cases he expanded the scope to… Read More

F. Muller, Amsterdam, first edition, 1896. Printed wrappers, 4to, 25 cm,. 5, 13-23 pp, 40 plates, illustrations, coats of arms, facsimiles. Title and captions in Dutch, French, German and English. Slightly worn at spine-ends, otherwise Good.

Centro studi piemontesi, Torino, first edition, 2001. Illustrated printed wrappers. large 8vo, 31 cm,. 381, [2] pp, many illustrations. With a 1 page TLS signed by the author presenting the volume to the bibliophile A R A Hobson, and Hobson's booklabel on the front inside wrapper. Minor creasing and fingermarking, otherwise Near Very Good.