Joseph Connolly. First edition, second printing. Dust Jacket: Very Good. A price-clipped jacket in a mylar protective wrapper. Cover photography by Chris Linton. There are two removable stickers on rear jacket and spine. Hardcover: Very Good+ London: Orbis Publishing, 1985. No writing or markings in the book, 317 pp. With illustrated black/white and color photos, showing the jackets of over a hundred books of special rarity or of particular typographic interest. Inclides 32 total pages of plates.
Connolly gives an alphabetic listing of English and American authors of "modern firsts", providing for each author a chronological list of works and an A-Z grading of their value.
Connolly's book remains an interesting work of reference and guide to collecting. He has published multiple editions during the 1970's and 80's.
