Library lucius wilmerding (2 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good condition. First Edition. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc, 1950. Very Good condition. Moderate fraying and age toning to edges of the Yapp style cover (see below). NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. From title page: "Rare English Literature of the XVI-XIX Century, Mainly First Editions, An Extensive Collection of Color Plate Books, Autograph Letters, Broadsides, Association and Other Rare Items, Part I of the Important Library Belonging to the Estate of the Late Lucius Wilmerding. Nov 27-28-29, 1950. Parke-Bernet Galleries Sale #1201. 778 lots. Illustrated. About Wilmerding, William A. Jackson in Grolier 75 (p210) says " Probably never again will an American collector be able to gather so many remarkable rarities in so many fields." Dickinson (p. 340) says "The enthusiastic level of bidding had not been seen since the Jerome Kern sale of 1929. Wilmerding's intelligent approach to collecting was justified by results in the auction rooms." Laid in is a blank printed bid sheet. Bound in the original wraps, printed in black, with "Yapp edges." So-called after the London bookseller who invented the style about 1860 (per ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS) Yapp edges overlap the edges of a book on 3 sides, and are thus understandably a little frayed. 7.25" wide by 10.25" tall. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 187pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustratore).…

2. New York, Parke Bernet Galleries, 1951, in-8°, 240 pp, several b.w. plates, indexes, 947 lots, sewn, orig.wrapper, (with results neatly written in ink). ONLY PART III of this library auction catalogue.