[Rarebooks] FS: BOOK COLLECTING MAGAZINES

[Norman Kane]

SMITH, GEORGE D., Publisher.
THE LITERARY COLLECTOR.
Group of approx. 35 isssues in original wrappers, most very good, between Vol. One, No. 2, Nov. 1, 1900 & Volume Nine, Nol. 1, Nov./Dec., 1904. Most issues with an appropriate frontispiece, (Early Connecticut laws; bookplates; hornbooks; Dickensiana; De Vinne on chapbooks; bookbinding for bibliophiles; Dante portraits; Goudy on book cover designs; Essex House Press; book advts in the 18th C.; unique Whitttier leaflet; A. W. Pollard London letters; notes on Whistler, Wm. Dunbar by Wegelin; the "Fortsas" spoof; Kipling collectors; bibliomania; Gutenberg; Baskerville; book prices (each isue); Rowfant Club; Lewis & Clark; Blake; Early American plays and magazines by Wegelin; Beardsley; Chatterton; &c; &c.)  A marvellous look at the book and collecting world at the turn of the Century over  a hundred years ago. $190.00 ($150 to the trade) + post.

AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTOR: ARTICLES, NEWS AND REVIEWS FOR THE BOOK COLLECTOR. NEW SERIES. VOLUME ONE NUMBER ONE,  JAN./FEB. 1980 TO VOLUME EIGHT NUMBER ONE JAN. 1987.  
A complete run in the original pictorial wrappers, some with notations, &c, on the cover, otherwise very good. Seldom found complete with all 52 issues. The contents feature checklists and articles on many  collected authors.
$150 ($120 to the trade) + post. 

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