45 Rare Books to Celebrate My 45th Birthday!; Catalogue 48
South Woodstock, CT: Charles B. Wood III, Inc., September, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. [3], 45 pages. Spine is worn and scuffed. Includes illustrations and descriptions of 45 rare books, which the author (a book seller) has chosen to celebrate his 45th Birthday. Information on Thirty-four More for Good Measure (a supplement to this catalogue) has been laid in, numbering 46 to 80. Charles B. Wood III was an Antiquarian Bookseller, Specializing in architecture, landscape, decorative arts, book arts & printing history, trade catalogues, and early photography. Charles Wood Bookseller was founded in Woodstock, Conn. in 1967. Their business has been primarily with rare book libraries. They issue only three or four catalogues a year in the specialties. This catalogue is a landmark of sorts, as it appears on the author's forty-fifth birthday, and marks the point at which he will have spent almost exactly one third of his life as an antiquarian bookseller. Very rare with surviving supplement. More