Lacey, Robert — Sotheby's: Bidding for Class

Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely bound in green paper over boards, gilt lettering to spine, sharp and distinct. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Many score sharp black-and-white photographers of buyers and sellers, winners and losers, in this fine social history of Sotheby's Auction House. viii [1], 4-354 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New