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Cleveland & New York: World Publishing Company, [1960]., 1960. 8vo. pp. 616, [3]. frontis. portrait & 8 double-sided plates. index. cloth. First Edition.. F. Hardcover.

World, 1960. Very Good. Wolf, Edwin, II. Rosenbach: A Biography. Fleming, John F.. Cleveland: World, 1960. 2nd printing. 616pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with lightly bumped corners. Price clipped. Inscribed by Fleming to Margaret Truman Daniel, child of Harry and Bess Truman, with mention on page 586.

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1960. Limited Edition. Cloth in Slipcase. Fine/Slipcase Very Good. 4to. Pp. 616. Frontis. portrait. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photo reproductions. Index. Bound in half black cloth over salmon buckram with beveled edges, a gilt facsimile of Rosenbach's signature on the front board, gilt lettering stamped on spine. In the publisher's plain paper-covered slipcase that has a decal shadow on one panel, a light scratch on the other. Of an edition limited to 250 copies, this is hand-numbered copy 135. Often cited as the greatest of bookseller biographies.Dr. R., known in Paris auction houses as "Le Napoléon des Livres," was more than the most prominent of 20th-century American antiquarian booksellers: On one side of the leaf he was a promoter of book collecting, rationally suggesting valuable books as an investment; on the other, he was a scholar of depth and wide berth who contributed substantially to the world of bibliography.… Leer más