About this title: This work is a series of essays on the joys and challenges of collecting rare and old books. Jack Matthews, a confessed rabid bibliophile, author, teacher, collector and nationally-known literary critic, offers a fascinating collection of twelve personal essays about book collecting that runs the gamut from profound to humorous. Matthews delivers book collecting tips for the aspiring as well as the established book collector. The most widely asked bibliophile question, "What makes a book a collectible?" is one of many questions that are discussed. This work is a wonderland of the author's ...
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Description: A Rabid Bibliophile's Adventures Among Old and Rare Books By Jack Matthews Published by Oak Knoll Press, 2000, 189 pages. No wear to binding. Dust jacket has faint edge wear, protected in a new mylar Brodart cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. No remainder mark. Binding tight, hinges intact. This work is a series of essays on the joys and challenges of collecting rare and old books. Jack Matthews, a confessed rabid bibliophile, author, teacher, collector, and nationally known literary critic, ... read more
Edition: 1st ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Del
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781584560272ISBN:1584560274
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. mint/mint-a fresh copy stored in a smoke-free private library. First printing. (alk. paper) x, 189 p. , 8 p. of plates: col. ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references. A mint copy of the first printing of the first edition (1996) in a mint dustjacket protected with a clear Brodart cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781584560272ISBN:1584560274
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 189pp. Illustrated. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781584560272ISBN:1584560274
Description: pp. 189. Book is AS NEW; tight and crisp; boards and manuscript pages are bright; manuscript text has no markings. DJ is AS NEW; bright and crisp. English. read more
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