Twenty-one catalogues (various sizes), as issued, in publisher’s wrappers. - Twenty catalogues from Finch’s numbered series, and one catalogue hors série. ¶ Excellent, unmarked copies.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 49] Seduction of the Innocent
London, Simon Finch, [2002]
(19.5 × 21 cm), 83 (1) pp., illustrations (most in colour). 146 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - The catalogue title is derived from the eponymous book on the deleterious effect of comics by Frederic Wertham (1955). Noticed in The Book Collector, Spring 2002, p.89.
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 50] English books to 1900
London, Simon Finch, [2002]
(27 cm), (2) 130 (4) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 200 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. “Some of these books had been through the rooms recently, but the whole represented a substantial and well-judged investment in important English books, an apt way to celebrate a fiftieth catalogue” (from a notice in The Book Collector, Autumn 2002, p.413).
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 51] D.H. Lawrence : an exceptional collection of first editions, autograph material, manuscripts, original paintings, photographs, and association items
London, Simon Finch, 2002
(19.5 × 21 cm), (2) vi, 175 (1) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 374 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - “This catalogue comprises the D.H. Lawrence collection of John Martin, publisher of the Black Sparrow Press in Santa Rosa, California…” (p.iii).
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 53] Modern books
London, Simon Finch, 2002
(19.5 × 21 cm), 155 (1) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 230 items; priced. - Includes (addendum) 32 books from J.R.R. Tolkien’s working library (offered as a group, price on application).
[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 60] English 1230-2004 [other title:] English: an exploration of Englishness in books, manuscripts and art from c. 1230 to 2004
London, Simon Finch, 2004
(27 × 21 cm), 242 (2) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 317 items; priced. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - Noticed in The Book Collector, Autumn 2004, pp.423-424.