Item #133685 FORGING AHEAD. Wilfred Partington.

FORGING AHEAD.

The true story of the upward progress of Thomas J. Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary and otherwise. Pp. xvi+316(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 11 plates, appendix, index; red cloth, the spine and upper board lettered in gilt, top fore-corners bruised; top edges navy, fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and silverfished, with several small edge chips and splits, backstrip lightly browned; the upper endpapers offset (from loosely inserted related newscutting); G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1939. First edition. *The first biographical and critical study of Thomas J. Wise, perpetrator of the most extensive series of forgeries in British literary history. Later published in Great Britain (in 1946) as Thomas J. Wise in the Original Cloth.. Item #133685

Price: $175.00

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