[Rarebooks] Important journal for sale, a very long run

[Kenneth Karmiole]

FIRSTS.  The Book Collector's Magazine.  Edited by Robin and Kathryn Smiley.  The first issue was January, 1991, and the journal ceased in December of 2011.  I have the first 190 issues,  January, 1991, Volume 1, no. 1 to October, 2008, Volume 18, no. 8.  12 issues per year were published in 1991 and 1992, when it changed to 11 issues published per year, 1993 to 2001, when it changed to 10 issues per year (none for July-August).  Plus the special issue "The first five year index".  This set with the first 13 years housed in the publisher's annual red buckram slipcases.  In all 191 issues of the first American color printed "glossy" book-collecting journal.   Fine.  $400 net plus post.

Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
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