John Carter's ABC For Book Collectors

Dover: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. Ninth Edition. Fine in black cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. The book and its jacket remain in the publisher's shrink wrap. 263 pages of text, each page of which explains in exacting detail the features of a book with over 700 alphabetical, descriptive entries for the definition and analysis of terms associated with the book trade. This is the first illustrated edition revised and edited by Nicholas Barker and Simran Thadani. Illustrated with color photographs and line drawings. Considered by many as one of the most authoritative texts on the topic by the trade making it an essential reference source for any antiquarian book collector.