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Mann, Thomas THE THEME OF THE JOSEPH NOVELS.
Washington (U.S. Government Printing Office) 1942 8vo. self paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut 23+(1) pages
Address delivered by the German novelist Thomas Mann at the Coolidge Auditorium in the Library of Congress, November 17, 1942, about a tetralogy of novels by the author and their biblical basis.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 115758

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Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso PAROLE IN LIBERTA.
Berkeley, California CODEX Foundation 2012 5.5 x 7.75 inches paperback pamphlet 24 pages
Number two of the CODE(X)+2 Monograph Series. This book is a photographic reproduction of the metal book Parole in Liberta Olfattive Tattili-Termiche, a collection of futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's poetry, made by Tullio d'Albisola and Vincenzo Nosenzo in 1932. It contains photos of every page, the covers, and the slipcase.

The photographed copy is held by The Beinecke Rare Book and Manusrcipt Library, Yale University.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 115572

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(Marinetti, F.T.) Wynne, Marjorie G. and Luce Marinetti Barbi F.T. MARINETTI AND FUTURISM: CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION IN THE BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY.
(New Haven) Yale University 1983 8vo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Exhibition of 121 items, with detailed descriptions, focusing on the work of Marinetti, a pioneer of Futurism. Preface and acknowledgments. Black and white illustrations. "Manifesto of Futurism," printed in Le Figaro on February 20, 1909, laid in.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 115646

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Markham, Sheila A BOOK OF BOOKSELLERS: CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ANTIQUARIAN BOOK TRADE, 1991-2003.
New Castle, Delaware and London, England Oak Knoll Press and Sheila Markham Rare Books 2007 8vo. paper wrappers 324 pages
Paperback reprint of the first edition, with corrections. The antiquarian book trade-- the last resort of the English eccentric--is rich in colorful and entertaining characters. Since 1991, Sheila Markham has been interviewing some of its most influential figures. Fifty of these conversations, in which leading dealers speak frankly about their life and work, are published here for the first time in paperback form. The 2004 hardcover, limited to 500 copies, quickly sold out. A significant contribution to the literature of book trade history, A Book of Booksellers will also appeal to the general reader with an interest in rare books and bookselling--perhaps the most humane, sociable, ill-organized, yet absorbing form of commerce to be found anywhere.
Sheila Markham has been in the antiquarian book trade for twenty-five years. She is also Librarian of the Travellers Club and Library Scribe at Brooks's Club in London. Her interest in the world of rare books dates from university days when she was Treasurer of the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles. She is currently working on a sequel to the present work and a companion volume on book collectors.
Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 115704

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Maynard, W. Barksdale BUILDINGS OF DELAWARE.
Charlottesville, VA University of Virginia Press (2008) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, (ii), 353, (3) pages.
First edition. Part of a series of books published by the Society of Architectural Historians entitled Buildings of the United States. Illustrated. Includes a section on old New Castle and the Booth House.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 98752

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Mazal, Otto BUCHKUNST DER ROMANIK.
Graz, Austria Akademische Druck 1978 4to. cloth 366, (2) pages
Volume 2 in the "Book Art in Times of Change" series. A study of book art in the Romanesque period. Table of contents, introduction, bibliography, index, directory of cited manuscripts. 100 plates, 26 in color.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 115787

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McColvin, Lionel THE PERSONAL LIBRARY, A GUIDE FOR THE BOOKBUYER.
London Phoenix House, Ltd. (1953) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 159 pages.
First edition. Chapters on which books to buy, background books, people and places, pictures and music, the mundane and practical, book collecting, tracking down books, etc. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 21555

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(McCrindle, Joseph F.) den Broeder, Frederick A. OLD MASTER DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF JOSEPH F. MCCRINDLE.
(Princeton) The Art Museum, Princeton University (1991) 4to. stiff paper wrappers 203+(1) pages
Exhibition at Princeton and other American galleries, 1991-2, of drawings collected by McCrindle. Wrappers lightly soiled and worn at edges.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 115581

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McInlay, Dennis P. JUNIATA, RIVER OF SORROWS: ONE MAN'S JOURNEY INTO A RIVER'S TRAGIC PAST.
(Hollidaysburg, PA) Seven Oaks Press (2003) 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket (x), 259+(1) pages
A personal and historical account of the Juniata River in central Pennsylvania based on the author's journey down the river. Presentation by the author. Table of contents, preface, acknowledgments, permissions and credits, biographical sketch of the author, bibliography, index. Black and white illustrations.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 115799

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McLean, Ruari. HOW TYPOGRAPHY HAPPENS.
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 1999 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 96 pages.
First edition. Noted English typographer, Ruari McLean, discusses the evolution of typography as an art form. Looking at the work of other well known typographers in England, Europe and America, the author examines the development of typography, starting in the 17th century with Moxon's Mechanick Exercises and progresses to the work of Jan Tschichold and his contemporaries.
Price: $ 21.95 other currencies Order nr. 56809

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McMurtrie, Douglas C. ALPHABETS, A MANUAL OF LETTER DESIGN, WITH COMPLETE ALPHABETS OF VARIED STYLES OF LETTERING.
Pelham, New York Bridgman Publishers, Inc (1941) 8vo. cloth. 78 pages.
Fifth printing. Three pages of text followed by displays of various alphabets.
Price: $ 12.50 other currencies Order nr. 17366

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McMurtrie, Douglas C. ALPHABETS, A MANUAL OF LETTER DESIGN, WITH COMPLETE ALPHABETS OF VARIED STYLES OF LETTERING.
Pelham, New York Bridgman Publishers, Inc (1941) 8vo. cloth. 78 pages.
Sixth printing. Three pages of text followed by displays of various alphabets. Wear at spine ends and along back hinge.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 115711

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Mearns, David C. and Verner W. Clapp (compilers) CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF ITS TRAVELS SINCE SEPTEMBER 17, 1787.
Washington The Library of Congress 1950 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards 43+(1) pages
Fourth edition, second printing. An account journeys of the United States Constitution, with notes, since its adoption in 1787, with a copy of the text of the document and amendments to 1933. Presentation from Clapp on free endpaper. Bookplate on front pastedown.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 115634

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(Medicine) ARS LIBRORUM MEDICORUM PER QUINQUE SAECULA.
Iowa City, IA The University of Iowa Museum of Art 1983 4to. stiff paper wrappers 32 pages
An exhibition of medical books spanning five centuries in the John Martin Rare Book Room at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Iowa. Foreword, introduction by John Martin. Glossary.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 115636

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(Medicine) Austin, Robert B. EARLY AMERICAN MEDICAL IMPRINTS, A GUIDE TO WORKS PRINTED IN THE U.S., 1668-1820.
Washington Depart. of Health, Education and Welfare 1961 8vo. cloth. x, 240 pages.
First edition of the hardbound edition (Besterman 3840; Sheehy ED30). Over 2,000 items described. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Name in ink at top of free endpaper.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 98321

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(Melcher, Frederic G.) FREDERIC G. MELCHER, FRIENDLY REMINISCENCES OF A HALF CENTURY AMONG BOOKS & BOOKMEN.
New York The Book Publishers' Bureau 1945 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 59, (3) pages.
First edition. With a preface by Christopher Morley followed by collected essays about publishing and bookselling by his friends. Formerly owned by Elmer Adler with his name and acquisition date in ink on the front pastedown.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 58042

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Melz, Christian F. AN EVALUATION OF THE EARLIER GERMAN TRANSLATION OF "DON QUIXOTE" "JUNCKER HARNISCH AUS FLECKENLAND"
Berkeyey University of California Press 1945 8vo. stiff paper wrappers pp. 301-342
University of California Publications in Modern Philology Volume 27, No. 5, pp. 302-342. An essay on an early German translation of Don Quixote. Footnotes. Presentation by the author at the top of the front cover. Wrappers tanned around edges.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 115722

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(Mergenthaler, Ottmar) Schlesinger, Carl BIOGRAPHY OF OTTMAR MERGENTHALER, INVENTOR OF THE LINOTYPE. A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDED HISTORICAL NOTES BASED ON RECENT FINDINGS.
New Castle Oak Knoll Books 1989 8vo. cloth, dust jacket xviii, 125+(1) pages.
First edition thus. Ottmar Mergenthaler, the world-famous inventor of the Linotype machine, was dying of tuberculosis in 1898. Too weak to hold a pen the inventor, whose breakthrough had made possible cheaper and larger newspapers and books, still burned with a desire to tell his life's story. Death would soon take this man who had made it possible for everybody to read more of everything.
New research by Carl Schlesinger about the first matrices
used in the 1886 Blower Linotype has been included. For a hundred years, scholars presumed these mats were made from steel alphabet punches which had been cut by hand. Schlesinger offers proof that the matrices were really made with inserted electrotype molds. These had been copied from existing hand type to conceal the appearance of Linotype printing. Illustrated. With pocket in the back containing a facsimile reprint of the first Linotype printing in the New-York Tribune. Presentation from the author on the title page. Back cover of jacket is wrinkled.
Price: $ 42.50 other currencies Order nr. 115676

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Meriton, John (editor) with the assistance of Carlo Dumontet SMALL BOOKS FOR THE COMMON MAN: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware, and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2010 7 x 10 inches hardcover 1,008 pages
First edition. The hundred years prior to the mid-nineteenth century saw a flowering of ephemeral publishing often referred to by the shorthand "chapbooks." This book is an analytical bibliography of the National Art Library's collection of literary ephemera of the period. For the purposes of this book, this includes entertaining and broadly educational works, such as abridged novels, alphabets, ballads, cries, dreadful, fables and tales, nursery rhymes, fortune books, garlands, histories, and natural histories. The book excludes primarily proselytizing and moralizing texts, along with battledores, cabinet and miniature books, harlequinaids, tracts, panoramas, plays, primers, and propaganda pamphlets. Also excluded are more substantial and sumptuous publications with engravings on quality paper and bound in boards as they were considered insufficiently ephemeral.

Nearly 800 titles are described here in significant bibliographical detail to allow accurate comparison and verification with editions, variants, and states in other collections. Examples of illustrations from all the books described are reproduced here, providing a visual feast and resource. The book will appeal to all librarians and owners of collections containing literary and educational ephemera. It will provide support for current research into literary studies and work on literacy and language development.

John Meriton is Librarian of the National Art Library and Deputy Keeper of the Word and Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Carlo Dumontet is the National Art Library's Special Collections Bibliographer. This copy has very rubbed covers and is priced accordingly.
Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 115795

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METHODIST HISTORY INDEX VOLUMES I-XX OCTOBER 1962-JULY 1982.
(Madison, NJ) General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church 1984 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 112 pages
Index to the first twenty volumes of Methodist History, 1962-1982. Includes table of contents, introduction, alphabetical index of subjects, a list of contibutors and articles, and a list of book reviews. Front wrapper bent at lower fore-edge corner.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 115773

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Miller, Julia BOOKS WILL SPEAK PLAIN: A HANDBOOK FOR IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING HISTORICAL BINDINGS
Ann Arbor, MI Legacy Press 2010 8vo cloth, dust jacket 528 pages, 374 illustrations
Books Will Speak Plain is published at a time when the historical book is at risk of being ignored, put away, and forgotten. This handbook combines an overview of the history of the codex with basic information about many of the materials and structures found on historical bindings. The book also includes description-survey guidelines and is supported yb a variety of appendices. The book's focus on primarily non-luxury bindings adds depth to an often-neglected segment of the history of bookbinding.
Preservation is at the heart of Books Will Speak Plain. We have already lost too many historical bindings because their importance was not understood and appreciated. This book is a call to action to urge custodians of every kind of historical book collection, public, and private, to assess the physical character of the historical bindings in their care and record the changes that have accrued to those bindings during their passage through time.
This book is a resource that can be used to recognize binding variations that have long been overlooked and to document such bindings for future scholars. All bibliophiles, including book-binders, curators, private collectors, librarians, catalogers, antiquarian book-sellers, scholars of the book, and conservators, will find this an invaluable reference. Books Will Speak Plain is also a useful textbook for students enrolled in academic courses in the history of the book and book conservation, and in practical bookbinding. Photography: J. Wayne Jones - Drawings: Pamela Spitzmueller.
Price: $ 80.00 other currencies Order nr. 106900

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(Molehill Press) Averill, John SCRATCHBOARD PRINTING PLATES.
N.P. (Molehill Press 1951) 12mo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Keepsake printed by Molehill Press for members of the Society of Typographic Arts demonstrating the potential of scratchboard plates. Illustratrations. Tanning at edges.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 115574

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(Mosher Press) THE BIBELOT.
10 Volumes. Portland, ME Thomas B. Mosher 1900-1912 16mo. self paper wrappers variously paginated
Described as a "reprint of poetry and prose for book lovers, chosen in part from scarce editions and sources not generally known." Some include illustrations. Presentation card signed by Mosher laid in. Wrappers of some copies lightly soiled and chipped at edges.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 115654

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Myers, Bernard THE GERMAN EXPRESSIONISTS: A GENERATION IN REVOLT.
New York Frederick A. Praeger (1966) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 348 pages
An overview of the German Expressionist movement and its three major schools--Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter, and The New Objectivity. Table of contents, acknowledgments, sources of illustrations, notes, list of illustrations, bibliography, and index. 140 black and white plates; 24 color plates. Wrappers lightly soiled and worn at edges.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 115816

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Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (editors) GENIUS FOR LETTERS: BOOKSELLERS & BOOKSELLING FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Winchester & New Castle, DE St Paul's Bibliographies & Oak Knoll Press 1995 8vo. printed paper over boards. 188 pages.
By the mid-eighteenth century bookselling was established as the key factor in the book business. On the one hand, booksellers were at the center of the interlocking range of associated activities involved in the manufacture and distribution of a multi-form product. On the other hand, they helped to shape the consumption of print in the market, responding to and guiding the taste of readers as customers.
Printers, binders, authors, and readers never achieved the corporate force and solidarity of the booksellers who, in England, early on dominated the London Stationers' Company. It was as `publishers' in its increasingly specialist sense of the marketing and distribution of texts, that this commercial sector acquired its authority in the long term. As the owners of valuable copyrights the leading London booksellers laid the foundation of a commercial interest which was never seriously challenged.
The contributors to this volume unravel some of the complexities of the trade organized by business people working at different times and different places but all pursuing what might be called the logic of the market place through the sale of books. Topics include booksellers and bookbinders by Anthony Hobson; Italian bookselling in the eighteenth century by Luigi Balsamo; booksellers and bookshops in late seventeenth-century London by Giles Mandlebrote; and circulating libraries, booksellers and book clubs 1870-1966 by Simon Eliot. Head of spine bumped. Spot on free endpaper.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 115675

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