Publication details: Studio Vista, 1977,
Rare Book
The copy of notable collector, John Baxter, inscribed to him by the author on the flyleaf: 'For John Baxter, Best wishes Joseph Connolly, Hampstead, 13.1.78'. Baxter's memoir of book-collecting, 'A Pound of Paper', was published in 2002, and the annotations here alight particularly on the various authors familiar from that account: Kingsley Amis, Graham Greene (the most-heavily annotated, with pages from a G.F. Sims catalogue laid in also), Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, et al.
1977, pp. xii, 175, 4to, original black boards, backstrip lettered in silver, a couple of tiny spots of wear at bottom corners, bookplate of John Baxter to front pastedown, a few related clippings within envelope laid in, dustjacket, very good
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