Alan G. Thomas — Great Books and Book Collectors

New York, Excalibur Books, 1983. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Forty full-color and 250 black-and-white photographs, many being full-page, greatly augment this fine exemplar of an homage to book-collecting. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Pictorial covers. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond scuffing to spine head, price-clipped. A survey of book production and collecting that should be in the library of all book collectors. Includes 16-page chapter on bookbinding and bookbinders, which includes over 30 illustrations of types of bindings. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 280 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,