Slightly Foxed- But Still Desirable

As any,even vaguely addicted book collector will have swiftly learned, most booksellers' catalogues are written in a parallel language that can fool anyone but the cognoscenti and which makes the mysteries of the Rosetta stone, or Linear B, look like something out of Enid Blyton. Without a smattering of inside information the baffled but hopelessly-bitten book buyer is drifting unarmed and unprepared into a minefield whose perilous complexities will usually only be made plain when an eagerly awaited parcel of dream volumes arrives and the mangled contents are revealed in all their deceptive glory....

But all is not lost. Help is at hand! After a lifetime of avidly scanning the frequently poisonously-tinted pages of innumerable book catalogues, Ronald Searle has become expert in the art of decoding those esoteric, poetic and usually approximate, descriptions of literary come-ons.. Now, licking his wounds, he publishes his hard-earned findings in this fully illustrated pioneer guide, designed to foil the devious machinations of scheming and wicked book-sellers for ever more.........

Original brown boards with humourous unclipped dustcover.Coloured Plate. Coloured Frontispiece. Title. Author's comments. 124 pages text supported with delightful colour plates. Enjoyable and interesting throughout.

Fine.