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MONUMENTA PALAEOGRAPHICA VINDOBONENSIA
Karabacek, Josef Ritter
DENKMÄLER DER SCHREIBKUNST AUS DER HANDSCHRIFTENSAMMLUNG DES HABSBURG-LOTHRINGISCHEN ERZHAUSES. Two parts.

- Leipzig : Karl W. Hiersemann 1910 - folio - text and plates housed in a portfolio, cloth spine and tips with paper-covered boards, and cloth edges with paper-covered boards for the housing - (iv),68 with 26 loose plates;(iv),73 with plates 27-46 - Order Nr. 100258 - Price: $ 250.00

Written in German. Edited by Rudolf Beer. Two parts bound separately. A Memorial of the Art of Writing from the Manuscript Collection of the "Habsburg-Lothringischen Erzhauses". Part One contains plates of facsimiles of fragments of Hilarius Pictaviensis "De Trinitate" and a tract, "Contra Arianos", as well as plates of the Golden Psalter of King Charlemagne. Part Two contains plates of facsimiles of "Bobbienser Mischhandschrift: Patristische und grammatische Schriften, zum Teil auf reskribierten Blättern mit klassischen, biblischen und apokryphen Texten" as well as the Sacraments of Pope Gregory I, or Gregory the Great. The text explains and expounds upon these manuscripts. Part One has the text bound regularly, whereas the text of Part Two is comprised of 10 loose sets of folio sheets folded into quarters, therefore being split into 8 pages per section. Part One: Lightly soiled, corners and spine head lightly bumped, small tear at spine foot and small rubbed areas along left side of spine, cracks and tears in the folds of the portfolio. Part Two: Corners bumped, edges slightly dented, small tear at the foot of the right side of spine, large tear throughout left side of spine, light soiling, cracks and tears in the folds of the portfolio, soiling on inside of spine cloth.

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THE BALLAD OF BILLY BONNEY. by Henry, Will Limited to an edition of 67 copies signed by the author and printer. Henry was a great Hollywood fiction and screen writer whose works were often adapted for film. This text is a previously unpublished manuscript he wrote but never tried to have published, which was later found by Dale Walker of El Paso, Texas and offered to Dick Fleming of the Flying Coffin Press for publication. Contains a preface by Henry and an illustration of Billy the Kid as a frontispiece. Printed in red and black Century Bold type with Italic on Warren's Olde Style paper. Letter on Flying Coffin Press letterhead from Dick Fleming (but signed "famous") presenting book to previous owner (Donn Sanford) gratis and giving information on Will Henry laid-in. Minor wear.