Title: Books in black or red By Edmund Lester Pearson
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. xii, 213, ff. [35] (plates). Copyrighted in 1923.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">On book collecting and literary hoaxes. Half of the chapters are new, the rest has appeared elsewhere before.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Content: 1. The Literary Hoax I; 2. The Literary Hoax II; 3. Book Shops; 4. Wizards and Enchanters; 5. The Search for Curious Books I; 6. The Search for Curious Books II; 7. The Bird; 8. With Ho! Such Bugs and Goblins; 9. The Cary Girls; 10. An American Eccentric; 11. The Lost First Folio; 12. With Acknowledgements to Thomas De Quincey.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103641" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>