Author: LOW, DAVID,
Title: With all faults. Introduction by Graham Greene. [First edition].
Description: Tehran, The Amate Press, 1973. 8°. Original cloth, gilded title on spine, dustjacket with monochrome cartoons. 118pp. Frontispiece, Captioned monochrome illustrations on 4 plates, featuring portraits of bookdelalers and premises, interiors of permises, some monochrome vignettes in text, alphabetical guide to booksellers mentioned in text, table of contents. An interesting story of a lifetime of bookselling is revealed here, painting a picture of famous british booksellers, habits and ships, auctioneers, both in London and the countryside, experiences with american customers, women collectors, collections, bibliographical terms, including the famous W.a.f. (With all faults), the most widely knownbookseller of our time, the printer, etc. Very fine copy, WITH DUSTJACKET.

Keywords: history bookselling booksellers british customers collecting collections buying british trade survey auctions auctioneers w.a.f.