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Book collecting: a modern guide

Book collecting: a modern guide
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ISBN 0835209857
Title Book collecting : a modern guide / edited by Jean Peters
Publisher New York : R.R. Bowker, 1977
Physical desc. xix, 288 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes index
Contents What book collecting is all about / William Matheson. -- Buying books from dealers / Robin G. Halwas. -- Buying at auction / Robert A. Wilson. -- The antiquarian book market / Robert Rosenthal. -- The art and craft of collecting manuscripts / Lola L. Szladits. -- Descriptive bibliography / Terry Belanger. -- Fakes, forgeries, facsimiles, and other oddities / Joan M. Friedman. -- Physical care of books and manuscripts / Willman Spawn. -- Organizing a collection / Jean Peters. -- Appraisal / Katharine Kyes Leab and Daniel J. Leab. -- The book collector in the world of scholarship / Susan O. Thompson. -- The literature of book collecting / G. Thomas Tanselle.
Subject Book collecting -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Added name(s) Peters, Jean 1935- ed.
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