[Rarebooks] Fishers of Books by Barton Currie

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Currie, Barton.  Fishers of Books.   Boston:  Little, Brown, and Company, 
September, 1931.  First  edition.  8vo, pp. (x-xiv)350.    Full-bound blue cloth  
boards, paper-label spine. Top-edge blue, fore-edge uncut.  Profusely  
illustrated.  Title-page facsimile of Barton  Currie's book-plate.  Frontis.  Index. 
 Tight, intact,  text-block clean.  Spine and cover-edges faded, else Fine  
condition.  $50.00 
Wisdom and lore of book-collecting, with numerous  illustrations from the 
classics, including Trollope, Tarkington, Twain, Austen,  Dickens, Longfellow, 
Emerson, Hawthorne, Conrad, Boswell,  Johnson, Fielding, Melville, Gutenberg 
Bible, Caxton, Psalter, Whitman,  Lincoln, Doves Press, Pope, Swift, Gumuchian 
Catalogue, et al. 


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