[Rarebooks] fa: INSCRIBED BY JOHN CARTER: An Enquiry into Certain 19th-Century Pamphlets - 1st Ed.

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John Carter and Graham Pollard: An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain  
Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. London: Constable, 1934. FIRST EDITION.  
Hardcover 8vo in red publisher's cloth, printed dustjacket; 400 pp.;  
illustrated with black&white plates.

This copy amusingly INSCRIBED to a fellow bibliophile by co-author  
John Carter: "Inscribed for for [sic] Tom Schlientz / John Carter /  
Detroit 1955 / 'very scarce without dustjacket.'" Carter, one of the  
preeminent bookmen of the twentieth century, also wrote the still- 
invaluable ABC for Book Collectors. Bookplate of Thomas Robert  
Schlientz on the front paste-down, and loosely laid in is a leaflet/ 
invitation for a lecture given by Carter to the Friends of the Detroit  
Public Library in 1955 ("Style and Fashion in Book Collecting").

Some bumping to the spine ends, else about Near Fine, clean and sharp  
in a price-clipped dustjacket with shallow wear to the spine head and  
modest sunning to the spine (less than is often seen). A superior copy  
of this landmark of literary detective work in which Carter and  
Pollard rocked the rare book world by exposing the many forgeries of  
Thomas J. Wise, paragon of bibliographers. Though diplomatic enough  
never to explicitly name Wise as the forger, their book leaves no  
doubt where the guilt lies. The authors even have the cheek to use an  
ironically prescient quote from Wise as an epigraph: "The whole thing  
proves once more that, easy as it appears to be to fabricate reprints  
of rare books, it is in actual practice absolutely impossible to do so  
in such manner that detection cannot follow the result."