Background
Carter, John Wayn Flete was born on May 10, 1905 in Eton, England. Son of Thomas Buchanan and Margaret Teresa (Stone) Carter.
Carter, John Wayn Flete was born on May 10, 1905 in Eton, England. Son of Thomas Buchanan and Margaret Teresa (Stone) Carter.
Student Eton College, King’s College, Cambridge.
European representative rare book department Scribners, New York City, 1927-1939, managing director Charles Scribner’ Sons, Ltd., London, 1946-1953 staff Ministry Information, 1939-1943. With British Information Services, New York City, 1944-1945. Counsellor embassy, personal assistant to British ambassador in Washington, 1953-1955.
Associate for American operations Sotheby & Company, auctioneers, London. Bibliographical consultant, 1956-1975. Director Parke- Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York City.
Author: ABC for Book Collectors, 1952, 4th edit., 1966. Taste and Technique in Book Collecting, 1948, enlarged, 1970. (with Graham Pollard) An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain 19th Century Pamphlets, 1934, Books and Book Collectors, 1956.
Editor: Selected Prose of A.E. Housman, 1961. (with Percy H. Muir) Printing and the Mind of Man, 1967.
Fellow Eton College, 1967-1974. Clubs: Garrick, Double Crown, Eton Ramblers, Beefsteak (London).
Married Ernestine Marie Fantl, December 26, 1936.