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| This selection contains 13 title(s) on 1 page. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 13 |
| BARKER (NICOLAS) The Butterfly Books. An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets. Bertram Rota. 1987. First Edition, 12 plates (4 coloured), illustrs., cloth-backed boards with ‘butterfly-net’ patterned paper sides. A study of the poetry pamphlets produced by Frederic Prokosch purchased by Bernard Quaritch at Sotheby’s in 1972 and the ‘Wiseian’ investigation of their validity which ensued. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 73 US$ 108.29 | JP 9633] Book number: 20025 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| COLLINS (JOHN) The Two Forgers. A Biography of Harry Buxton Forman and Thomas James Wise. Scolar Press. 1992. First Edition, 60 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. John Collins has written the final chapter in this account of one of the strangest and subtlest literary frauds ever attempted. The Two Forgers provides a detailed analysis of the lives and careers of Wise and Forman. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP 3705] Book number: 15068 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| MYERS (ROBIN) & HARRIS (MICHAEL) EDITORS. Fakes and Frauds. Varieties of Deception in Print & Manuscript. St Paul’s Bibliographies. 1989. First Edition, facsimiles, orig. decorated boards. These essays uncover the more shadowy areas of book trade history, revealing tricksters, villains, even murderers, who have practised deception in the written and printed word. GBP 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 24.75 US$ 36.65 | JP 3260] Book number: 12539 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| GREBANIER (BERNARD) The Great Shakespeare Forgery. A New Look at the Career of William Ireland. William Heinemann Ltd. 1966. First Edition, illustrs., orig. cloth. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP 3705] Book number: 14361 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| GREBANIER (BERNARD) The Great Shakespeare Forgery. The Audacious Career of William Henry Ireland. W.W. Norton & Co., New York. 1965. First Edition, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP 3705] Book number: 18201 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| MAIR (JOHN) The Fourth Forger. William Ireland and the Shakespeare Papers. Cobden-Sanderson. 1938. First Edition, ex-library, frontis., 5 plates, inner hinges shaken, orig. cloth, hinges torn, a working copy. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP 2964] Book number: 14362 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| MORAN (JAMES) EDITOR. The Fortsas Hoax. William Blades’ Translation of “Catalogue d’une Très-riche mais peu Nombreuse Collection de Livres Provenant de la Bibliothèque de feu M.r le Comte J.-N.-A. de Fortsas”. Published Privately by Arborfield. 1961. Orig. decorated cloth. William Blades's translation of a hoax Parisian rare book catalogue, with the catalogue transcribed. GBP 26.00 [Appr.: EURO 29.25 US$ 43.32 | JP 3853] Book number: 13066 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| PARTINGTON (WILFRED) Thomas J. Wise in the Original Cloth. The Life and Record of the Forger of the Nineteenth-Century Pamphlets. Robert Hale Ltd. 1946. First Edition, frontispiece, 26 illustrations, orig. cloth. This is the first biographical and critical study of the amazing Thomas James Wise, who has gained immortality as the perpetrator of the most original and extensive series of forgeries in British literary annals. GBP 28.00 [Appr.: EURO 31.5 US$ 46.65 | JP 4150] Book number: 14840 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| CARTER (JOHN) & POLLARD (GRAHAM) The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co. Footnote to an Enquiry. Rupert Hart-Davis. 1948. First Edition, 12mo, 95pp., 3 facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers, a nice copy. With 4pp., corrections & Additions (1967). GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 US$ 29.99 | JP 2668] Book number: 9426 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| RATCHFORD (FANNIE E.) EDITOR. Letters of Thomas J. Wise to John Henry Wrenn. A Further Inquiry into the Guilt of Certain Nineteenth-Century Forgers. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 1944. First Edition, frontis., plates, orig. cloth, uncut. Ratchford’s book proved beyond doubt the guilt of Thomas J. Wise as a literary forger and implicated the distinguished men of letters H. Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 US$ 74.97 | JP 6669] Book number: 20043 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| TODD (WILLIAM B.) Suppressed Commentaries on the Wiseian Forgeries. Addendum to an Enquiry. The University of Texas. 1974. Second Impression, one of 500 copies, 1 folding facsimile, orig. cloth, paper label on spine and upper cover. GBP 24.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 US$ 39.98 | JP 3557] Book number: 13564 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| TODD (WILLIAM B.) EDITOR. Thomas J. Wise; Centenary Studies. Essays by John Carter, Graham Pollard & William B. Todd. University of Texas Press. 1959. First Edition, 4to, frontis., orig. cloth. These centenary studies review new evidence of Wise’s operations. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP 3705] Book number: 20101 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| WHITEHEAD (JOHN) This Solemn Mockery. The Art of Literary Forgery. Arlington Books. 1973. First Edition, 8 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. rubbed. Describes the careers of more than twenty literary forgers. GBP 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 24.75 US$ 36.65 | JP 3260] Book number: 10797 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. |
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