Product Description: Imagine... ...owning a book printed in 1584 and having a fellow collector declare, sight unseen, that it is a "bastard" copy. ...finding stacks of dusty pamphlets written by the magician Harry Houdini. Decades after their publication in 1924 they are still selling for their original price of one dollar...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Two savvy antiques collectors reveal one of the dirty secrets of the book collecting world, the art of forgeries, illustrating how a New England forger managed to fool collectors and how many of these collectors and booksellers ignore the suspicious books. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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