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ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS
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Enjoyable, Essential, & UPDATED! 
Carter, John; & Nicolas Barker & Simran Thadani. ABC for book collectors. Ninth edition. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 8vo. 264 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement.AT ONCE a great basic resource and a rewarding volume for browsing or bibliophilic pleasure-reading, this classic work by John Carter contains over 490 alphabetical entries offering definitions and analysis of technical terms as well as the jargon of book collecting and bibliography — with ample
examples now including illustrations and much enhanced coverage of the implications of the internet. Carter's ABC, first printed in 1952, was last revised, expanded, and given a new introduction by Nicolas Barker, his friend and the respected editor of The Book Collector, in 2004. This new, 9th edition co-revised by Barker and Simran Thadani is 
a book that no purchasing collector or cataloguer should think of as a frivolous expense, and a book that as a gift to a collector or cataloguer cannot fail to please.
• Complete with printed dust-jacket; new. (39930)
Enjoyable & ESSENTIAL Carter, John, & Nicolas Barker. ABC for book collectors. Eighth edition with corrections, additions, and a new introduction by Nicolas Barker. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press & the British Library. 8vo. 232, [2] pp.
John Carter was a vice-president of the Bibliographical Society and Sandars Reader in Bibliography in the University of Cambridge; he also worked for Scribner's and Sotheby's, and over the course of his active career he wrote or edited many well known and influential books about books. 
With Percy H. Muir, he was a prime mover of the legendary 1963 exhibition from which was derived that landmark text and guide among guides — Printing and the Mind of Man.
• Complete with printed dust-jacket; new. (35722)
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