ABC for book collectors
by John Carter, John Carter, and Nicolas Barker
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John Carter's classic ABC for Book Collectors has long been established as the most enjoyable and informative reference work on book terminology. Here, in over 490 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, may be found the definition and analysis of the technical terms of book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with insightful comments on such subjects as auctions, condition, facsimiles, fakes, points, rarity, organizations, etc. -- Book Jacket
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Dictionaries, Bibliography, Book collecting, Book industries and trade, Bibliographie, Livres, Bibliofilie, Bibliophilie, Industrie, Dictionnaires anglais, Buch, Wörterbuch, PRO Thadani, Simran (autograph), CHR 2016, Book industries and trade, dictionaries, Bibliography, dictionaries, Rare Books, Dictionary, Book Industry, Bibliographies as Topic, Reference, General, Descriptive Bibliography, Teminology, Terminology, Bookselling, BookbindingShowing 6 featured editions. View all 39 editions?
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ABC for book collectors
2004, Oak Knoll Press, British Library
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- 8th ed. / [with corrections, additions, and an introduction by] Nicholas Barker.
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ABC for book collectors
1995, Oak Knoll Press, Distributed by Lyons & Burford, Publishers
in English
- 7th ed. / with corrections, additions, and an introduction by Nicolas Barker.
1884718051 9781884718052
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"This ninth (and first illustrated) edition, revised and edited by Nicolas Barker and Simran Thadani, and with a new introduction, incorporates more additions and amendments which they have accumulated since the last edition was updated for Oak Knoll Press"--
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