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The Folio Society, January 2015. Hardcover. Good.

(1989): Souvenir Press, 1989. 4to, pp. 124. Pencil numbers and checks on upper right-hand corners of cartoon pages, o/w a VG tight copy in soiled dj. Very funny cartoon puns on book-collector's terms.

London: Souvenir Press, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st trade edition. 124pp. Corners bumped, some spotting on first page, else very good in price clipped dust jacket with a little wear

The Folio Society. Used - Very Good. 2015. Hardcover. Cloth, no dj. Slight shelf wear. Very Good. (Subject: Books on Books).

London: The Folio Society. New with No dust jacket as issued. 2015. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages; 2015 The Folio Society. HC still sealed in publisher's shrink-wrap. Bound in full cream cloth with color pictorial wraparound design by the authoir. Profusely illustrated in color from art by Searle. Still sealed in publisher's shrink-wrap and essntially new. Fine in all respects .

London: Souvenir Press, 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Folio. Hardcover with glossy, color illustrated dust jacket. Book and jacket in very good condition. First printed in 1989. This is a reprint.

London, England: Souvenir Press, 1989. First edition. . Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 128 p. Audience: General/trade.

London: Souvenir Press, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in boards with very slight bumps and dust jacket with light wear.

Great Britain: Souvenir Press, 1989. First Edition. Oversize Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. XL. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. 8 3/4""w x 12""h. 124 pages. A must for every serious book-collector: Learn the true definitions of such terms as neat underlining, lovingly thumbed by the owner, one corner barked, and more. Detailed illustrations of said terms.

London.: Souvenir Press., 1989.. Stated first edition. . Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). As new. . Folio. . Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

London, England: Souvenir Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good plus/Very good plus. Ronald Searle. Quarto, 9 in. x 12 in., pp. 124. Fifty-nine full-page color cartoon illustrations, and humorous glossary on book collecting. Auburn boards with gilt title to spine. Slight bump to bottom of spine. Owner inscription, dated 1995, on front endpaper. 1/4 inch blue stain to lower left corner of dust jacket.

London: Souvenir Press, 1989 1st ed. 124pp. hardback 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [bookplate on pastedown; bit of edge foxing; else nrF] A send-up of antiquarian book terminology illustrated by the masterful English cartoonist Ronald Searle (1920-2011).

Souvenir Pr Ltd, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good hardcover in dustjacket.

London: Souvenir, 1989. First. hardcover. very good/very good(+). Ronald Searle. Illustrated in color with 59 humorous cartoons and glossary on book collecting. 124 pages. Slim 4to, rust brown cloth, d.w. (lightly edgeworn). London: Souvenir Press, (1989). First Edition. Some faint dampstaining on front cover of cloth but wrapper and insides are quitre clean. Overall a very good copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> With 2 gift inscriptions on the fly-leaf by the artist's daughter, Kate Searle and a hand written 2 page letter on her London letterhead stationary.<br/> <br/>

London:: Souvenir Press,, 1989.. Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. After a lifetime of avidly scanning the frequently poisonously-tinted pages of innumerable book catalogues, the renown illustrator Ronald Searle has become expert in the art of decoding those esoteric, poetic and usually approximate, descriptions of literary come-ons. In this clever and entertaining volume, he publishes his hard-earned findings in this fully illustrated pioneer guide, designed to foil the devious machinations of scheming and wicked booksellers for ever more. No longer will the innocent book collector need to puzzle over the finer meaning of 'old half road', 'good working copy', blind tooled', or 'tail-edged shaved'. The unvarnished truth is here exposed at last, both in the shocking explicit drawings and in the devastatingly frank glossary whose revelations will startle even the most battle-scarred of bibliophiles. The result is one of the funniest, most entertaining… Read More

London: Souvenir Press, 1989, 1989. Book. About Fine. Leather Bound. Limited Edition.. Leather Bound. About Fine. Signed by Author. Minor spotting to the top edge else a great copy of this fine work by Searle. Subtitled Ronald Searle's Wicked World Of Book Collecting, this is a compilation of cartoons illustrating common book descriptions, in Searle's slightly twisted view. The signed limited edition, one of only 150 copies. Quite uncommon!.