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Spine has darkened, and has heavy chipping at the ends. Corners are lightly bumped. Covers have some light browning around the edges.

X-library hardcover, by A. S. W. Rosenbach, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936, 259 pages including index, B&W photos, Good (worn, moderately stained cover, library sticker on front cover, call number label painted on spine, library stamp on page block, corner bumping, sticker on inside front board, library sleeve on inside back board)

Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. Octavo, lettered cloth (foxed) in original dustjacket (edges worn and slightly chipped, some marks), pp. xiv; [ii]; 259, occasional foxing, illustrated. Biblio-memoir of one of the great booksellers of the twentieth century.

Hardcover; 8vo; 259 pages. First trade edition. Beige cloth with gilt titles on red labels on cover and spine. Sunned/spotted spine. Rubbed/scuffed. Bookplate on fep, name on ffep. Yellowing but bright, tight, and clean interior. VG/--

xiv,(2),259pp. d.w. Beige cloth with gilt lettering on red squares on front board and spine. With numerous b/w illus.and plates. 22.2x15.2cm. d.w.sunned and stained, sl.torn, and its spine browned and chipped. Front and rear board and spine foxing. Edges foxing and top edge stained. E.ps.flyleaves, frontis.and title page light stained. Ex-libris.(John H.Barnes) and a bookshop label pasted on front e.p. [b01271-430455]

First Trade Edition (1936 on title page and copyright page with no later date).Very good hardcover book (no DJ). Beige cloth with gilt titles on red labels. Browning to endpapers and spine. Pages and text bright clear.Boards and spine are straight // Binding is tight.//Pages are clean, legible, and bright // No previous owner names//No writing in the book margins or blank spaces // No highlighting// Not remainder marked // Not Ex Library// Not a Book Club. Shelf247

1st. ed. fine. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

lower spine soiled, owner bookplate and part of jacket on endpapers, contents are clean

ROSENBACH, A. S. W. A Book Hunter's Holiday: Adventures with Books and Manuscripts. Original cloth, non-priceclipped dustjacket. Boston; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. First edition. Spine of d/j is rubbed, else a very good copy. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper, "with the best wishes of A. S. W. Rosenbach."

Signed by the author on the limitation page. Not inscribed. Book number 212 of 760 copies. The book is in near fine/fine condition. Copyright 1936.

Limited edition of 760 signed & numbered copies in slipcase.

Blue cloth, with red paper label on front and spine with gilt lettering. Number 745 of 760 autographed copies.(75) illustrations, sum untrimmed pages throughout, deckled edges. 258 pp.

ROSENBACH, A.S.W. A Book Hunter's Holiday. Adventures With Books and Manuscripts. Original buckram. Illustrated. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936. First edition. Limited to 760 copies. Fine.

The book is in fine condition.

Signed, limited edition of this entertaining and important work from one of the towering figures in the 20th century American rare book world. 4to, 259pp. Illustrations, facsimiles. Black cloth, beveled edges, red labels on spine and upper board, lettered in gilt. Signed by Rosenbach on the limitation page. Bookplate of California publisher and rare book collector, Joshua Stewart Odell to front pastedown. Nearly fine with light toning and rubbing to spine in very good red slipcase that shows wear and soiling First edition, limited to 760 signed copies, this being #408.

xv,[1],239pp. Large octavo. Cloth, gilt labels. Plates and facsimiles. Fine and largely unopened, in very good slipcase with small label scar at one corner. First edition, limited issue. One of 760 numbered copies, specially printed and bound, and signed by the author.

Decorative Cloth. No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. Presentation By Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very fine copy of the signed limited edition. Additionally inscribed "To Litta with affectionate regards of " A. S. W. Rosenbach March 10, 1937. Rare copy as a limited in presentation copy.

Limited Edition. Large Octavo. Red slipcase with paper title plate on rear foredge, dark blue cloth over boards with red leather title plate on front cover and spine, gilt lettering, illustrated, number 50 of 760 copies signed by the author. Near fine, minor scuff to edge of slipcase, spine faded.

Fine Copy In a Very Good Jacket. First Edition 1936. Signed Presentation Copy in Year of Publication. For Fred G. Moore with best wishes of A.S.W. Rosenbach. Dec 19, 1936." Very Rare Inscribed Excellent Condition. Sharp.

Fine Copy In Like Jacket. $4.00 On Flap. Presentation Copy."For Folger Johnson & Jr. With The Warm Regards With Best Wishes A.S.W. Rosenbach Nov 17. 45. Folger An Architect His Son a Judge. Gorgeous Copy.

LIMITED EDITION of 760 numbered and autographed with this volume numbered 277, and SIGNED by Rosenbach. In slipcase. Book is in Near Fine condition in tatered glassine dustjacket and in Good slipcase. A real find for this rare copy.

Fine Copy In a Very Good Jacket. First Edition 1936. Signed Presentation Copy in Year of Publication. For Fred G. Moore with best wishes of A.S.W. Rosenbach. Dec 19, 1936." Very Rare Inscribed Excellent Condition. Sharp.