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7453Dated by Mitchell in manuscript 'Xmas 1930'. Printed by 'BLOWS HENLEY'. On a piece of brown card roughly 250 x 200 mm. Designed to be hung from two punch holes at head. Worn and aged but with text printed in red and black within a decorative border clear and entire. A clever and amusing spoof deliberately old-fashioned typographically in a parody of 'improving' texts. Reads '£50000 A Wireless Dealer aged 82 died - He left £50000; thanks to long hours close attention to business strict economy and - a bequest of £49650 from an Uncle in Australia T. N. MITCHELL Benson Oxford.' Inscribed on the reverse 'Xmas. 1930. With my Best Wishes and Thanks signed Mitchell'. Dated by Mitchell in manuscript 'Xmas 1930'. Printed by 'BLOWS, HENLEY'. unknown
1927899441927. Experimenter Publishng Company Inc. New York. April 1927. Illustrated. Cover bright. Spine slightly faded with small rips to prelims at the top and bottom and stain to the top inner corner of spine and rear cover. Pages browned but otherwise a clean and sound copy. unknown
1853004103NY: Redfield 1853. Second revised and enlarged same year as the original published first edition. Hardcover. Fair/Good. Original brown cloth with still bright gilt stamping to spine but chipped. Visible edge-wear rear cover neatly reattached light foxing discoloration and some damp staining at the margins not extensive; some signatures pulled a bit but remains a sound binding and a very good reading copy. Former owners bookplate on the front paste-down page. 541 pages plus advertisements <br/><br/>Questions welcome. Images can be made upon request. Redfield hardcover
00201419North Hills Pa: Bird & Bull Press 1970. Printed for the Philobiblon Club. Limited Edition. #23 of 250. 9-1/2 by 12 inches. 13 pages plus catalogue facsimile. Cloth spine with marbled paper boards. Fraying and wear to 0.5" of bottom spine else near fine. The only facsimile of this hoax; a momento of a meeting of the Philobiblon Club in Alverthorpe Gallery in Pennsylvania where the members were the guests of the President Lessing J. Rosenwald. Rosenwald reproduced his copy of the Fortsas Catalogue and wrote the introduction found in this copy adapted from the paper he read that evening. The "Avis" and the text of M. Polain's newspaper report of the sale are reproduced from the originals bound in with the facsimile copy of the Catalogue in pocket in rear. Fifteen years after the hoax August 1840 the printer of this catalogue M. Hoyois wanted to reprint this highly collectible catalogue but was prevented by the courts. Instead he published a transcript of the trial. A fabulous and exciting story of one of the world's great biblio hoaxes. unknown