Firsts: Collecting Modern First Editions (January 1991) [first issue]

[light external wear, especially along spine, very slight bend at lower right corner]. (B&W photographs, graphics) The inaugural issue of this long-running publication devoted to book collecting, establishing from the outset its definite emphasis on popular fiction and authors (and especially on books as movie sources). (Although after the first five years or so, the subtitle was changed to the somewhat more inclusive-sounding "The Book Collector's Magazine," the focus never really changed that much.) In this issue: "First or Facsimile", a discussion of the facsimile editions of collectable modern first editions issued by The First Edition Library; "The Book I Never Found," a reminiscence by bookseller John Mitchell, a mystery specialist who had a shop in Pasadena for many years; "Collecting Jack Finney," the first in a long line of author-focused articles that (in my opinion) have always been the magazine's most vauable feature; and Part 1 of a series on "How to Sell Collectable Books." Most of the magazine's regular features were already in place -- the Auction & Catalogue Report, a Q&A feature on "Points," etc. -- as is the long-running "Books into Film" column, in this installment discussing "Little Caesar," the 1929 W.R. Burnett gangster novel, and its film version, directed by Mervyn Le Roy the following year.

Product Info

Publisher: The Lucerne Group

Year: 1991

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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