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Hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. heavy wear to older book Standard-sized.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. 2nd edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. Edge wear to jacket. Heavy brown tape along edges of back of jacket. Price-clipped.

Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. This work includes seeral articles on subjects relating to the collecting of antiques. Subjects include hints for buying from original sources, secrets of success, scrollwork and frets, old rugs, old iron, old brass, old glass, and the European field. Photographs, illustrations, and footnotes are included. Some shelfwear; dust jacket appears to be a photo reproduction of the book's boards, now in mylar; otherwise, this copy is clean and solid.

Condizione: Fair. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. 1st edition. 8vo Hardcover. 147pp. B/W illustrations. Fair book and dust jacket. Some edgewear to covers, joints cracked. Jacket chipped and torn at edges, lacking bottom of spine. In protective mylar cover. (antiques, collectors and collecting, humor) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Second. BOOK IS CLEAN AND BRIGHT. INSCRIBED FROM PRINCETON IN 1934 TO GRADUATING STUDENT JOHN SCOON AND SIGNED BY AUTHORS KENNETH ROBERTS AND KAHLER. RE-INSCRIBED FROM PRINCETON UNIVERSITY BY KAHLER TO HIS GRANDSON NICHOLAS HUBBY. The Collector's Whatnot: A Compendium, Manual, and Syllabus of Information and Advice on all Subjects Appertaining to the Collection of Antiques, both Ancient and not so Ancient. SECOND EDITION, 1923, NO DJ, VERY GOOD. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first edition of this satirical account. Original manila paper boards with paste-down to spine and front, in original illustrated dust jacket. Some very slight rubbing loss to head and tail of spine, and to bottom fore-corners. Edges just mildly toned. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in similar dust jacket showing some light soiling and some fading to spine (now in removable archival mylar sleeve). Very neat -- a sound and handsome volume. Illustrated. Eight-page publisher's ads. at rear. xx,147[+ads.]pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. Papercovered boards with printed paper labels. Spine label toned thus very good in a modestly spine-toned, very good price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second edition. Fine in a lightly soiled, otherwise near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a few short edge tears.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second edition. Illustrations by Booth Tarkington. Fine in attractive, near very good dustwrapper with tanning and light staining to the spine. Signed by all three authors with their real names.

Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 147pp+8ads. Illust. throughout w/ 24 plates, collated complete. Publisher's intact jacket wrapped around manila boards with paper labels to front panel and spine. Jacket creased and generally soiled, rubbed, toned, and torn with minor loss to head of sunned spine. Verso shows rubbing from boards. Board corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed with shelfwear to bottom margin. Page edges dust-soiled with toning to endsheets. A Very Good or better copy in a Good only jacket of a humorous take on those who collect and antique. The names of the compilers are pseudonyms for Booth Tarkington, Kenneth L. Roberts, and Hugh MacNair Kahler, respectively.

Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 147pp+8ads.; illustrationsthroughout including24 plates, collated complete.Jacket creased and generally soiled, rubbed, toned, and chipped with minor loss to top margin of front panel. Sunning to spine and foxing overall, more to verso. Previous owner tape repair to verso. Board corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed with shelfwear and small burn mark to top margin of front board. Page edges lightly dust-soiled with internal toning at margins and offsetting to page 18. Good to Very Good overall. Presentation copy inscribed by Kenneth Roberts to his wife Anna with her bookplate to front pastedown as well as a lengthy illustrated inscription signed by Hugh MacNair Kahler.One manuscript and one typewritten page laid in, as well asautograph letter signed by Grace Coolidge onWhite House letterhead mounted to front pastedown. A humorous take on those who collect and antique. The names of the compilers are pseudonyms for Booth Tarkington, Kenneth L. Roberts, and Hugh MacNair Kahler, respectively. Detailed list of correspondence and signatures/illustrations: - Grace Coolidge Correspondence: When this book was published in 1923, Roberts, author of Rabble in Arms, was working on an informal biography of recently elected Calvin Coolidge, which published the next year. This biography created a connection between Roberts and the First Family, evidenced from the letter pasted, envelope and all, at the endsheet from First Lady Grace Coolidge. She had received a copy of the Whatnot from Roberts and loved the rear ads, calling the three authors "Snoodle-hams" who clearly had fun writing the book. - Inscription: Roberts manuscript inscription to his wife on the front free endsheet, thanking her for her "equanimity and amiability before the wild and persistent collecting of Milton Kilgallen," his pseudonym for this volume. - Typed letter Signedlaid in: Written from the desk of Hugh MacNair Kahler, fiction editor for the Ladies Home Journal,dated a year before the publication. He gives his love to Anna and condolences on Kenneth's current illness with a "Sorry you suffer." - Hand-drawings and descriptions: Kahler also seems responsible (as he signs one) for the hand drawings at the half title and recto of the frontis. He has drawn a "rare" lamp and a burnt match holder tinted in "bile-green sateen" on the half title and (racist?) caricatures of the three authors on the next page. - Manuscript page: Booth Tarkington, novelist known for Penrod, was also known for his satirical writing which poked the American class system, in particular those who were a part of the nouveau riche bent on upward social mobility. While there is no name on it, it is likely the loose manuscript page from "Seawood / Kennebunkport, Maine" was written by him to Roberts about the photos in the book. Overall, a robust collection of things from Snoodle-hams bent on making fun of those stuck in the past.