About this title: This reference contains over 450 alphabetical entries ranging in length from a single line to several pages. Each entry consists of a definition and analysis of the technical terms of book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with comments on such subjects as auctions, facsimiles, fakes and pirated editions. It should be a valuable book for ...
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9781884718052ISBN:1884718051
Description: Good in Good jacket. Hardcover copy with dust jacket, copy is in good condition with only light wear. For quick delivery, please consider Expedited shipping-standard delivery ranges from 4-19 business days. Thank you! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1963
ISBN-13:9781884718052ISBN:1884718051
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Owner's bookplate to pastedown, several check marks in text. Jacket price clipped, chipped at spine ends. read more
Description: Good in Good jacket. Alfred A. Knopf, 5th Edition, Revised, pgs are excellent and appear barely used, 3rd printing, 1976, great reference copy. read more
Edition: 5th Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hart-Davis, London
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780246105714ISBN:0246105712
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine in Mylar jacket. A bright, tight edition. DJ is cut; light aging; colorful & protected with mylar. Text is firmly bound w/clean, unmarked pages throughout. read more
Edition: 6th Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oak Knoll Books, New Castle, DE
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780938768302ISBN:0938768301
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-Over 8"-9" Tall. 219 pp, red cloth covered boards w/gilt lettering, dj light blue w/red-white lettering. 6th Edition. Book has more than 450 alphabetical entries with the definition & analysis of the technical terms of book-collecting & bibliography. The book contains some of book collecting jargon and special terminaology along with rules, conventions, and taboos. An essential reference book for the book collector. read more
Description: Carter, John & revised by Nicholas Barker., pub. by Granada, nd (1985), c1980, 6th Edition 3rd printing, cloth w/gilt titles, fine w/dj, 219 pp, 8vo, "An answer to a Book Collector's prayer..." read more
Edition: 8vo. 21cm x 13.5cm. 8th edition, revised & expanded. 232 pp.
Binding: Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket.
Publisher: Oak Knoll Books,, New Castle, DE:
Date Published: 2004.
Description: As New. Still in publisher's shrink-wrap. read more
Edition: Reprint. 6th ed. -Reprinted March 1994
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oak Knoll Books, New Castle, De
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780938768302ISBN:0938768301
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 219 p. Audience: General/trade. John Carter's "ABC for Book Collectors" has long been established as the most enjoyable as well as the most informative reference book on the subject. Here, in over 450 alphabetical enteries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms of book collecting and bibliography. This sixth edition revised by Nicolas Barker incorporates ... read more
Edition: 8th Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE, USA
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781584561125ISBN:1584561122
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 9781584561125. A beautiful copy of this eighth edition with corrections in As New condition in alike dust-jacket; Carter's classic reference work on book terminology originally pusblished by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1952. Over 460 entries on book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with comments on subjects such as auctions, condition, facsimiles, fakes, points, rarity, organizations, etc. read more
Edition: Fifth Edition, Revised
Binding: Cloth Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1952
ISBN-13:9780394414034ISBN:0394414039
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. 5 1/4" x 8" Text is crisp and clean with no markings. Edges are straight and sharp. Binding is tight. Dustjack is bright and clean. Dustjacket has extremely minor shelfwear to top spine area, else no flaws. DJ protected by new clear mylar cover. This is the Fifth Revised Edition. Not a remainder. Price is intact. "An answer to the book-collector's prayer. " Shipping includes delivery tracking within U.S. read more
Description: New. Hardcover no dj. Fifth Edition, fifth printing, 1978. NEW NEW NEW Condition; never read. DJ is new. In sealed plastic protection. 1973. Hardcover no dj. read more
"IF you love books you will appreciate the ABC.
It provides basic information for inexperienced collector and a lot of unnecessary, but very interesting items for the general reader and book lover."
"Containing a wealth of trivial-for-some-but-not-for-me information and terminology on book collecting, ABC... proved itself readable per sitting as well as a reference. I thought it (in 8th ed.) a bit expensive for its size (or format, ibid.), but it paid for itself when I saved $65 on a recent purchase of a translator-signed rarity. Descriptions of terms of condition, format (I always wondered what "8vo" meant), bindings, auction and cataloguers' lingo were succinct and easy to comprehend.
Carter showed a good bit of wit as well, especially when referring to the "chronological obsession" (the need to obtain the earliest if not the best copy), which invariably lead to "issue-mongers" and "point-maniacs" (bibliographers and collectors who use printers' errors to argue degrees of rarity). The highlight of this delightful eccentricity culminates (for me) in the entry for "misprints," in which the word "misprint" appears 12 times with various errant spellings, as Carter expounds on the unimportance of the same.
Overall, it's a comprehensive and amateur-friendly manual. The anatomy of a book itself is illustrated in spots on the margins, headers and inside cover. If you're curious about books pre-dating mass market and movie posters on the cover, you should start here."
"This was a required textbook for one of my library school classes. I still use it today. It explains parts of a book and is so helpful in understanding the book printing process of the past and present."
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