GREAT CATALOGUES BY MASTER BOOKSELLERS: A SELECTION OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES, 19TH-21ST CENTURY

Austin, TX: Roger Beacham, 2017. quarter brown leather over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt on spine, five raised bands, top edge gilt, loose facsimile paper catalogue, slipcase. 4to. quarter brown leather over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt on spine, five raised bands, top edge gilt, loose facsimile paper catalogue, slipcase. xxii, 485, [2] pages. First edition limited to 500 copies, of which this is one of 100 deluxe copies signed by the author / compiler John R. Payne, the designer William R. Holman, and the author of the introduction, Kurt Zimmerman (this copy is unnumbered). This copy is bound thus in unique quarter brown leather over marbled paper-covered boards and accompanied by a copy of the 2017 quasi-facsimile edition of The Scribner Book Store's A Catalogue of Original Manuscripts and First and Other Important Editions of the Tales of Sherlock Holmes, as Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.



This monumental achievement in the preservation of the legacy produced by significant American and British booksellers over a two-hundred year period. Compiled by John R. Payne. Heavily illustrated, in color. (Inventory #: 141105)