The Fear of Books

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. Reprint. Originally published in 1932. First printing thus [stated]. Hardcover. Very good.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. x. [2], 199, [5] p. Occasional footnotes. Index. . Pencil erasure residue inside the back cover. Cover as some wear and soiling/sticker residue. From Wikipedia: "George Holbrook Jackson (31 December 1874-16 June 1948) was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognized as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. In 1906, shortly after arriving in the capital, Jackson suggested founding the Fabian Arts Group. This eventually led to a split from the Fabian Society, whose interest was economic and political. In 1907, Jackson and a partner bought The New Age, a struggling Christian Socialist weekly magazine, with finance from Lewis Wallace and George Bernard Shaw. He set up in 1912 or 1913 the Flying Fame Press, with the poet Ralph Hodgson and designer Claud Lovat Fraser. This was the beginning of a long association with small press and the worlds of typography and book collecting, on which he wrote extensively. He did more, as a patron of the Pelican Press amongst others, to encourage the raising of production standards of books."