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The Book-Hunter by Burton, John Hill - 1882

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The Book-Hunter by Burton, John Hill - 1882

The Book-Hunter

by Burton, John Hill

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Edinburgh & London; William Blackwood and Sons, 1882., 1882. Hard Cover. New Edition. Number 916 of 1000 copies. ASSOCIATION COPY. Large octavo. civ, 427 pp, [1]. 5 illustrations including 2 full-page plates: frontispiece engraving by W B Hole with facsimile of the Author's signature and colour plate of "A Nook in the Author's library". Book Condition: Good. Publishers' blue buckram with gilt titles and ruling to spine and gilt crest to upper board. Edges uncut. Limitation plate to front pastedown. Cloth worn with minor loss at corners and head/tail of spine. Inner front hinge split with stains from adhesive tape removal and inner rear hinge still covered with cream adhesive tape. Scattered foxing mainly to endpapers. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown dated 1900 and signature of author S R Crockett in ink to ffep. Ghost marks from pencilled address to ffep. Essays on book collecting and the characters and literature associated with it, originally published in Blackwood's magazine. From the library of Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1859-1914), the popular and prolific Scottish novelist.
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  • Publisher Edinburgh & London; William Blackwood and Sons, 1882.
  • Date Published 1882
  • Keywords Antiques & Collecting

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The Book-Hunter

by John Hill Burton

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George Routledge and Sons, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 259 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Notable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Marks overall. Textblock is shaky.
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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1900. Later Edition. Hardcover. Condition is good minus. Front free endpaper is detached but present. Spine ends are worn. Covers have some slight rubbing to the front by the author's name and slight wear to the outer corners. Label remnant on front endpaper. Rear endpaper is missing a piece from the outer edge. .
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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
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Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. Octavo, viii+428 pages, original boards, gilt lettering on cover and spine, gilt top edge, untrimmed edges, lightly foxed, a very good copy
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THE BOOK HUNTER

by BURTON, John Hill

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London: Routledge, 1900. Second edn. 8vo, pp. 259. Edited by J. Herbert Slater. Frontis portrait. Reddish cloth, stamped in gilt. TEG. VG.
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THE BOOK-HUNTER.

by BURTON, John Hill

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New York: Worthington, 1887. Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo; xvi, 396 pages, rebacked in light leather, publisher's cloth, new endpapers, corners worn This edition begins with a memorial biography of Burton by E. J. G. Mackey. "From early manhood, Burton was a book-collector. His library comprised some ten thousand volumes . Upon publication [this] became and remains a standard work -Webber, BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS." Issued in The London Library Series. Frontispiece portrait of Burton.
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The Book-Hunter: A New Edition with a Memoir of the Author

by John Hill Burton

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