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Title: sub-title (book title page)

ABC for book collectors

Multi-volume set? (book title page)

Series? (book title page)

About the book (goodreads.com, worldcat.org)

Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is the book for you! John Carter's ABC For Book Collectors has long been established as the most enjoyable as well as the most informative reference book on the subject. Here, in over 490 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms used in book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with salutary comments on such subjects as auctions, condition, facsimiles and fakes, 'points', rarity, etc. This eighth edition has been revised by Nicolas Barker, editor of The Book Collector and incorporates additional words created by the introduction of web-based collecting. The ABC For Book Collectors retains its humorous character as the one indispensable guide to book collecting while also keeping us up-to-date with modern terminology.

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Last copyright date shown? copyrighted for entire book, or for what part(s) of book? first edition stated? first printing? publisher and their address? printer and their address? (book title page) ISBN number? Subjects? (book copyright page)

Publisher: Oak Knoll Press, 414 Delaware Street, New Castle, DE 19720, USA; published by arrangement with HarperCollins Ltd.

Printer: Rose Printing Company, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

ISBN: 1-884718-05-1

Subjects: 1. Bibliography--Dictionaries. 2. Book collecting--Dictionaries. 3. Book industries and trade--Dictionaries.

First pages: author(s)? editor? translator? illustrator? half-title page? title- page? cover designer? edition number? text font? acknowledgement? preface? foreward? prologue? dedication? introduction? frontispiece? tissue page? list of illustrations? list of maps?

Author: John Carter

Corrections, Additions, and an Introduction: Nicolas Barker

Cover design: J von Hoelle, Michael Hohne

Dedication: John Hayward

Introduction: Nicolas Barker

Preface: John Carter

Number of pages in book

224, including the first pages and last

Translation? If so, does the text include the original language as well as the translation?

Last pages: afterword/ epilogue? notes? appendixes? bibliography? acknowledgement? indexes? colophon?

None

Advertisements? Other book titles page (advertisement)?

Other Oak Knoll classics for the serious book collector

About the author

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Format, elaborations include hardback? paperback? softback? jacket? slipcase? leather? glassine? acid-free paper? embellishments? gilt letters on cover or spine? raised ribs on the spine? headband? photo plates? rough cut pages? gilt edge pages? tipped-in item(s)? laid-in item(s)? line drawings? woodblock illustrations? color illustrations? ribbon(s)? decorated endpapers?

Hardback

Dust jacket

Gilt letters on cover's spine

Headband

Size of book? shipping weight? (amazon.com)

Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1 x 8.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds

new, like new, mint / fine, vg+, vg, vg-, g, reader's copy, favors (clean, tight, bright, written notes, still wrapped), faults (x-lib (ex-library) warped, stained, frayed, sun bleached, brittle paper, foxing, bent, torn, soiled, markings, etc)

Fine condition; clean, bright copy

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Genre, sub-genre? (worldcat.org)

Book on books

If a nonfiction book: timely? difficult or easy to read? technical? scholarly? author(s) expertise?

Easy to read, witty

In public domain? book club? ex-lib (ex library book)? (book copyright page) remainder mark?

Similar condition market used book price (bookfinder.com, amazon.com)

$12.00

Ephemera: Is the book signed? a message to someone? bookplate? pressed flower? other item(s) laid-in?

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Publisher online (publisher internet address)

www.oakknoll.com

Responsible online (author or editor's internet address)

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Is book a numbered copy? (book title page)

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Book awards? author's or editor's book awards? notable? contest? NY Times bestseller? (book jacket or cover)

Personal book review

A very thorough specialized dictionary

Customer review ratings out of five stars (amazon.com, goodreads.com)

Four stars

Blurbers? If so, where (book jacket, cover, page i)?

N/A

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Teaching/ learning aid content in book?

Footnotes? Located at bottom of pages or in last pages?

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