Author: BAIN, James Stoddart
Title: A Bookseller Looks Back: The Story of the Bains
Description: London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Foreword by Hugh Walpole. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. xv, 304pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket edgeworn, with spine age toned. Tight and nice first edition of this memoir and account of several generations of English booksellers, begun by James Bain in 1816 and continuing up through 1937. .

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