PARTINGTON, Wilfred. Forging Ahead: The True Story of the Upward Progress of Thomas James Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary, and Otherwise
Item #7363
8vo; 315 pp.; cloth in dust jacket. New York: Putnams, 1939. First Edition. Biography of the notorious inventor of fraudulent first editions, published within a few years of his exposure by Carter and Pollard's "An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets." With printed bookplate of noted collector Irving W. Robbins, Jr. on front pastedown. Near fine condition in like jacket. |
