Modern Book Collecting

Wilson (Robert A.).   Illustrations Alfred A. Knopf, New York,  1980 First Edition     Fine copy in dust-wrapper. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: “This copy of [Modern Book Collecting] is for Arthur Uphill from his friend Bob Wilson in token of nearly two decades of a Transatlantic friendship, and partial thanks for his wonderful help on this book”  Arthur Uphill (1931-2009) joined the staff of Bertram Rota Ltd. in 1955 and worked for the company as a cataloguer for nearly thirty-eight years. He brought to the company an extraordinary depth of knowledge of the expatriate authors living and working in Paris after 1918 and especially of Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett. His expertise was highly valued by his colleagues, fellow booksellers and many collectors. He was Wilson’s chief collaborator in the preparation of Gertrude Stein: A Bibliography (1974), a fact that was fully acknowledged by the appearnce of Arthur Uphill’s name on the title-page of the revised edition of 1994. 

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