Library Addition: Signed First of A. S. W. Rosenbach’s A Book Hunter’s Holiday

Another signed first by this legendary bookseller.

Rosenbach, A. S. W. A Book Hunter’s Holiday. Houghton Mifflin, 1936. First edition hardback, #747 of 760 signed, numbered copies, a Very Good+ copy with a bit of wear to the cloth and a large sticker ghost on the inside front cover, with some sheets still uncut, sans dust jacket, presumably as issued (the trade edition had a dust jacket, but all online examples of the signed edition seem to lack the dust jacket), but lacking the slipcase. Essays on bookselling and collecting. Received as a Christmas gift from Dwight, and a companion volume for Books and Bidders.

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One Response to “Library Addition: Signed First of A. S. W. Rosenbach’s A Book Hunter’s Holiday”

  1. Dwight Brown says:
    January 15, 2026 at 12:42 PM

    Lawrence is kind of hard to shop for, so when I find a (metaphorical) gift horse to ride for him, I ride it until the legs fall off.

    With that said, I’ve already warned him that I’m not getting him a first of The All-Embracing Doctor Franklin as that’s way out of my price range, and only tangentially related to book collecting.

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