MARKET VALUES AND THOMAS J. WISE.
Contained in The Book Collector, Volume 10, No. 4, Winter 1961. Pp. 385-516(including advertisements), 14 plates, a few text figures; demy 8vo; printed stiff beige paper wrappers, a trifle soiled, edges and backstrip slightly rubbed and creased; The Book Collector, London, 1961. *With the printed Notice to Subscribers (about a future price increase) loosely inserted. The Editorial Commentary to this number of The Book Collector is presumably by John Hayward and includes, on pages 390-1, reference to an auction featuring five Wiseian items 'in varying categories of suspicion' in Carter & Pollard's Enquiry. 'Such is the horrid fascination [Wise] can still exert even a quarter of a century after his death that we cannot forbear allowing him to crop up again - this time in his less familiar role of dealer. Wise was in fact a potent figure in the rare book market during his lifetime (or rather until the blow fell in 1934) and his ghost still occasionally haunts the places where his honour died. Its presence could be felt at the sale at Sotheby's on 18 July last' [p. 391]. Item #160018
Price: $30.00