Book-Collecting : More Letters to Everyman
Inbunden bok. CASSELL and Company Ltd. London, Toronto, Melbourne Sydney, Wellington . 1949. 156 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. Skyddsomslag i gott skick. Book-collecting [n his second volume on book-collecting, P. H. Muir continues his letters to Everyman and sets out to guide him further along the road after the first milestones have been passed. Although this volume takes up the story where its successful predecessor left off, it is complete in itself, and will be read with delight by all those who are or would like to become book collectors. The subjects of these letters are: I. The Joys and Woes of a Book-COLLECTOR; II. How TO Proceed; III. How to Use a Bibliography; IV. What to Do About Auction Sales; V. Is BOOK-COLLECTING AN Investment?; VI. Is There Money in Old Bibles?; VII. The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association; The last contains a full list of members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association, which forms a valuable feature. Mr. Muir is himself a past president of the Association and Director of the well-known firm of Antiquarian Booksellers, Elkin Matthews, which, as Mr. John Carter has recently pointed out, has done so much to assist and form the taste and technique of Book Collecting in this country during the last quarter of a century.
