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Lot 317

Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. A group of 22 books about books and book-collecting in the 19th- and 20th-century, including: 


Book Collecting. Edited by Richard Booth. Florence, AL: House of Collectibles, 1976. 4to. Original publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. -- WOOLF, Leonard (1880-1969). Letters of Leonard Wolf. Edited by Frederic Spotts. San Diego, New York, and London: Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich, 1989. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First edition. -- BASBANES, Nicholas (b. 1943). A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. 8vo. Original publisher’s cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First edition. -- BASBANES. Among the Gently Mad. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 8vo. Original publisher’s binding, dust jacket. First edition. -- SALISBURY, Laney and Aly Sujo. Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art. New York: The Penguin Press, 2009. 8vo. Publisher’s original binding, dust jacket. -- MAYS, Andrea E. The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, New Delhi: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Original publisher’s cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. First edition. -- And 18 others. Together 22 works in 22 volumes, all in original publisher's bindings, condition generally fine. Complete list available upon request.


From the Private Collection of Richard Cady

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