Sale of the working library of the late Howard M. Nixon comprising books on book-binding, bibliography, publications of the Roxburghe Club, a very comprehensive collection of publications of the Bibliographical Society, sale, booksellers' and library catalogues, and some interesting bindings (catalogue for an auction conducted by Bloomsbury Book Auctions, Kenilworth Hotel, London, 6 October 1983)
London, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 1983
(21 cm), [32] pp., frontispiece-portrait. 245 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - “The sale was well and sympathetically catalogued, and prefaced by a memoir by Mirjam Foot” (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Spring 1984, p.90). ¶ Copiously annotated in ink, priced.
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- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1983
- Bookbinding - Bibliography
- Authors/Creators
- Bloomsbury Book Auctions (London)
- Owners
- Nixon, Howard M., 1909-1983
- Auction date
- 19831006
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