All the Best Rubbish

Description

Author: Hume, Ivor Noël (1927-2017)

Publisher: Harper & Row

Pub Date: 1974

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket.  Gilt on spine fading–you can read the title but not the author or publisher.  Some sun-fading to spine and upper front board edge.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: “…the book is about antiquities, bygones, memorabilia, books, manuscripts, a miscellany of antiques, and a dash of numismatics, which when all lumped together comprise what used to be known as curiosities…It is not a bad term at that; it identifies the objects as being out of the ordinary, exciting curiosity–and that is what collecting and the book are all about.”  (page 5).  A history of collecting.   Probably “fair to midden”.  ‘Nuf said.