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  Ahearn, Allen & Patricia COLLECTED BOOKS, THE GUIDE TO IDENTIFICATION AND VALUES, FOURTH EDITION.
Comus, MD Quill & Brush 2011 8vo cloth, dust jacket 817 pages
Fourth Edition. Includes identification information and estimated prices for over 20,000 collected books in all categories. Over 800 pages. Sections on book collecting, publishers' methods for first-edition identification, comprehensive bibliography of bibliographies, and more. A NOTE FROM THE COMPILERS: With millions of books listed online, the internet has become the first place to go for identifying and pricing scarce and rare first editions. However, the information needed to identify first printings and first "states" or "issues" is not always available on the internet -- and what information is available online is often inaccurate or misleading. For those interested in buying or selling scarce and rare first editions COLLECTED BOOKS: THE GUIDE TO IDENTIFICATION & VALUES provides assurance that your offerings or purchases are bibliographically correct. COLLECTED BOOKS has been cited as a standard reference in American Literary Scholarship, Antique Week, Arts & Antiques, The Baltimore Sun, Barrons, Business Week, Departures, Forbes, National Enquirer, People Magazine, Southern Accent Magazine, USA Today, Washington Investor Quarterly, The Washington Post, and The Washington Times.
Signed by authors on title page.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 107213

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  Ahearn, Allen and Patricia BOOK COLLECTING 2000, A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE.
New York Putnam's (2000) 8vo. quarter cloth, dust jacket xvii, (iii), 536 pages
First printing of this completely revised handbook of estimated market values for first printings of first books, updated and expanded to include the works of more than 6000 authors, and discussions on the impact of the internet on book collecting. With chapters on what to collect, book collecting, sources for books, knowledgeable buying, etc.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 64811

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  Ahearn, Allen and Patricia COLLECTED BOOKS, THE GUIDE TO VALUES, 2002 EDITION.
New York G.P. Putnam's Sons (2001) 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. viii, (iv), 788 pages
Revised edition of the 1998 price handbook with up-to-date values for more than 20,000 first and important collected editions. The largest and most comprehensive single-volume guide to current market values of collectible books in the United States,Collected Books is used by most book dealers and serious collectors in the country. It explains how to identify first editions and covers a wide variety of subjects, including Americana, early printed books, literature, mysteries, science fiction, children's books, natural history, photography, and travel. "This richly informative reference volume offers authoritative guidance for every manner of bibliophile" (Nicholas A. Basbanes, author of A Gentle Madness).
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 64781

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  (Argentine, John) Rhodes, Dennis E. JOHN ARGENTINE, PROVOST OF KING`S (C.1442-1508). HIS LIFE AND HIS LIBRARY.
Amsterdam HES & DE GRAAF 1967 8vo boards 40 pages.
First edition. With 5 plates. A short study of John Argentine, provost of King's College, Cambridge, in the early 16th century, including a catalogue of his library and a transcription of his poems.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 37.50 other currencies Order nr. 103287

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  Asaf, Allen PUBLICATIONS OF THE GROLIER CLUB: 1884-1983
New York The Grolier Club 1984 8.5 x 11 inches paperback 48 pages
This commemorative publication lists the books, pamphlets, prints, handlists, periodicals, and medallions produced by the Club in its first 100 years. It is an offprint from The Grolier Club, 1884-1984: Its Library, Exhibitions, & Publications and contains a foreword by Allen Asaf. It was designed by Stephen Harvard and printed at the Stinehour Press.
Price: $ 18.00 other currencies Order nr. 106588

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  Austin, Gabriel THE LIBRARY OF JEAN GROLIER: A PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE.
New York The Grolier Club 1971 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover 137 pages
Jean Grolier can be considered a window to the history of French culture. He was interested in Italian and French scholarship, music and publications, antiquarian books, book collecting, and more. The Grolier Club has been named after this "prince of bibliophiles." This book is a groundbreaking study of the legendary bibliophile and patron of printing. Colin Eisler provides an informational and historical introductory study on Jean Grolier and the Renaissance that includes a full-page color illustration of Grolier's Painted Arms and Emblematic Device. It also contains eight full-page black-and-white illustrations including an Italian plaquette binding and various forms of Grolier's signature.

The bibliography includes books and essays that discuss Grolier bindings in different collections, in addition to contemporary references to Jean Grolier. The extensive catalogue lists books from the library of Jean Grolier, providing author, title, editor, imprint, size, provenance, booksellers, catalogues of private libraries and auction sales, and catalogues of institutional libraries. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author, Greek authors are listed in their English form, Roman authors in Latin form, and others in their colloquial form. The book was designed by Greta Franzen and printed by the Halliday Lithograph Corporation.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 106587

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  (Autographs) Nicolas, Alain LES AUTOGRAPHES.
Paris Maisonneuve & LKarose 1988 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 370, (4) pages.
First edition. Articles on autograph collecting by the experts in the field. Hundreds of reproductions of autographs throughout the text. Sections on how to collect autographs, authenticating autographs, and the value of autographs in the marketplace (including an article by Kenneth Rendell). In French.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 46818

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  Balsamo, Luigi BIBLIOGRAPHY, HISTORY OF TRADITION.
Translated by William A. Pettas. Berkeley, CA Bernard M. Rosenthal 1990 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. iii, 209 pages.
First U.S. edition. Originally published in Italian as LA BIBLIOGRAFIA, STORIA DI UNA TRADIZIONE IN 1984. Explains the circumstances and objectives behind the evolution of bibliographies. Includes chapters on books and book distribution in the Middle Ages, the introduction of printing, seventeenth century libraries, and the bibliography of librarians and historians in the nineteenth century.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 30553

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  Barker, Nicolas THE PLEASURES OF BIBLIOPHILY: FIFTY YEARS OF THE BOOK COLLECTOR, AN ANTHOLOGY.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2003 6.75 x 9.75 inches cloth, dust jacket 320 pages
First edition. The Book Collector (which started publication in 1952) has established itself as the one of the leading authoritative journals for those interested in all aspects of bibliophily. Nicolas Barker, The Book Collector's editor for the past 37 years, has produced an anthology taking the best essays printed over the last 50 years and combining them into one book. Many articles deal with particular collectors: J.R. Abbey (A.N.L. Munby and Anthony Hobson), Chester Beatty (Christopher de Hamel), Martin Bodmer (B.H. Breslauer), John Cosin (A.I. Doyle), C.H. Hartshorne and Richard Heber (Arnold Hunt), Philip Hofer (W.A. Jackson), Geoffrey Keynes (David McKitterick), Narcissus Luttell (J.M. Osborn), Solomon Pottesman (Alan Thomas), Richard Rawlinson (B.J. Enright), and Harry Widener (Arthur Freeman). A number of other essays are concerned with particular books, authors, or related topics. This work also examines notable books, including the first edition of the infamous Fanny Hill, and also portrays the personalities of a number of famous collectors, from Richard Heber and Sir Thomas Phillipps, to Chester Beatty, Martin Bodmer and Philip Hofer. Co-published with the British Library. Sales Rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 72296

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  Barnes, Robert C. and Judith M. Pfeiffer PRESS, POLITICS & PERSEVERANCE, EVERETT C. JOHNSON AND THE PRESS OF KELLS.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 1999 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 320 pages.
This long-awaited biography brings to life the remarkable printer, politician and sage, Everett Johnson. Inspired by the work of Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters, Johnson established the indomitable Press of Kells in Newark, Delaware. The fortress-like stone building that became home to the "Newark Post" still stands, and as of 1999, this lively paper celebrates its 90th year. For the next generation, through his books, newspaper articles, and public service, he struggled to champion a series of social causes and became known as the "Conscience of Delaware." This very readable book includes Robert Barnes' comprehensive bibliography of Johnson's works.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 54276

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  Belanger, Terry LUNACY AND THE ARRANGEMENT OF BOOKS
New Castle Oak Knoll Books 2003 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 24 pages.
First edition, third printing. A humorous and poignant essay on the idiosyncrasies of book arrangements by collectors over the centuries. Professor Belanger treats the reader to some of the idiotic methods of categorizing and shelving books. One gem from an etiquette book of 1863 decreed that a perfect hostess will see to it that the works of male and female authors be properly segregated on her book shelves. Their proximity, unless they happen to be married, should not be tolerated. This book will bring a smile to the face of any bibliophile. Belanger, founder of the Book Arts Press, is the University Professor and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 14014

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  Bennett, Stuart THE PERFECT VISIT.
(Northampton, MA) Longbourn Press (2011) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (ii), 343+(1) pages
The Perfect Visit tells the story of two bibliophiles who go back in time to rescue lost books and manuscripts. Vanessa Horwood decides on Regency England; Ned Marston goes to Shakespeare's.

The novel takes its title from Jane Austen's Emma: "it was a delightful visit -- perfect, in being much too short." This is what Vanessa and Ned plan for. Then things go wrong and their sojourns become longer and more dangerous than either had ever imagined.

Vanessa falls foul of the law, transported from Jane Austen's genteel world to the dark underbelly of a Regency prison. 1607 London shows an equally black side to Ned when he antagonizes one of Shakespeare's rivals, escaping with his life only to find that an accident of time takes him only halfway home.

First edition.
Price: $ 14.95 other currencies Order nr. 115100

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  BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.3, MARCH 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: B. Hicks on Nancy Drew books, G. Dibert-Himes on the library of Schloss Corvey in Germany, B.G. Henneke on old ship's logbooks, J.G. Schiller on the early publishing history of the Paul Bunyan tales, T. Conway on James Michener, G. and M. Green on the Little Blue Books of the 1920's and 30's, N. Basbanes on Romanov books at the New York Public Library, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 51973

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  BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.4, APRIL 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: L. Gordan on E.B. and R. Browning in Italy, W. Brown and K. Blewster on Jackie Gleason's collection of books on the paranormal, D. Ressinger on the memoires of the Huguenot refugee Jacques Fontaine, an article and publication checklist for the Bird & Bull Press, the library of Umberto Eco, bestselling war novels of 1948, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 52344

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  BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.5, MAY 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: S. Cowell on the world's most famous defunct Library (at Alexandria), C. Grossman on the definition of "private press," "limited edition" et al., D. Thompson on George Orwell as a print and radio journalist, plus articles on W.M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens, the libraries of the University of Toronto, books on chess, the novels of the preacher Harold Bell Wright, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 52533

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  BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.10, OCT., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: K. Ramsland on Anne Rice, W.H. Scheuerle on the 19th-century color printer George Baxter, G. Turley on the Heritage Book Shop, L. Brumer on the printer Wilsted & Taylor, J. Ashton on the sentencing of the manuscript and rare book thief D. Spiegelman, an international auction report by I. McKay, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53233

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  BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.9, SEPT., 1998
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53315

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  BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.12, DEC., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: J. Fawcett on Thomas Malthus, A.S. Earle on 19th-century illustrated flower books, N.H. Marshall on Clement Moore, and R. Armstrong on the "state of the art book." ALSO: M. Atwood discusses storytelling (excerpt), B. Strubble takes a bibliophile tour of England, and the Bill Gates Library Foundation commits $200 million over the next 5 years to give libraries access to the latest computer technology. AND MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53715

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  BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1999 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages.
Volume 4, Number 4. March 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: Grant Menzies on Luce's Women, women who have inspired one-woman plays from the pen of William Luce; Alice L. Tufel on The New York Public Library Berg Collection, offers remarkable accessibility to booklovers wanting a hands-on experience with rarities; Peter Szatmary on Edward Hirsch's poetry that engages head and heart--and his newest prose book. Lorenzo Thomas on Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to an African American 50 years ago; Reviews; Postscript; Matrix; Biblio Mart, AND MORE. We also have various recent back issues.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 55331

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  BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1997 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 2, NO.10, OCT. 97. IN THIS ISSUE: David Tannenbaum reports on looking for ancient scriptures in the Horn of Africa; David Thompson Thompson writes on William Henry Ainsworth, early Victorian author of historical romances and crime novels; Zena Pearlstone examines origins and persistence of stereotypes of Native Americans in advertising; Amy Hanson presents the history of Everyman's Library. In Features: In Milestones Roy Meador reminds us not to forget the centennial of Stoker's Dracula; In Book Places Terry Conway introduces readers to Baldwin's Book Barn near West Chester, PA; antiquarian Stephanie Howlett-West recounts her experiences in compiling a (not yet completed) bibliography of the well-known science fiction and fantasy author C.J. Cherryh, in Collector's Corner, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 49990

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  BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1997 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 2, NO.11, NOV., 97. IN THIS ISSUE: 150 years of photo-illustrated books; Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, Mary Shelley; history of the Atlantis Press; collecting old stock and bond certificates, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 50374

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  BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1997 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 2, NO.12, DEC. 97. IN THIS ISSUE: Edith Wharton's coauthorship of an influential book on interior decoration; early publishing history of Perrault's fairy tales; an interview with Peter B. Howard of Serendipity Books in Berkeley; how the Brontës first got published; collecting British comic book Christmas annuals; a visit to a Baroque library in Prague, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 50375

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  BIBLIO, THE MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND EPHEMERA
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.2, FEB. 98. IN THIS ISSUE: B. Coleman on Thomas Hardy, R. Young Jr. on cinema books, N. Basbanes on the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, G. Freeman on how to distinguish between different types of engraving, C. Grossman on the Golden Cockerel Press, N. Rosin on Valentines, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 51208

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  (Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry VIGNETTES, AN ECLECTIC ASSEMBLAGE OF ANECDOTES ABOUT PAPERMAKING.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1999 large 4to. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine. 72, (5) pages, with additional pages of color illustrations.
Limited to 150 numbered copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press. Includes chapters on Bird & Bull Incunabula, 19th-Century Security Papers, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Numismata Typographica, Farewell to Papermaking, A History of Die Cutting, The Wurzburg Lithography and more. Includes a tipped-in sample of the first Bird & Bull handmade paper (1958). The portfolio case includes two removable cylinder seal impressions. These clay impressions, attributions to the article "Better Late Than Never," bear images of people and inscriptions from ancient cylinder seals in Babylonia. Full of illustrations in both black and white and color, many tipped-in. Text in Ehrhardt types on Arches Mouldmade paper. Several pages printed in two colors. Prospectus inserted.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 56850

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  (Bird & Bull Press) Silver, Joel DR. ROSENBACH AND MR. LILLY: BOOK COLLECTING IN A GOLDEN AGE
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2010 8vo quarter leather over cloth covered boards, leather label on spine 131 pages
First edition. Limited to 140 copies. There was a time when book collecting was big news. In the first half of the twentieth century, some of America's leading financiers, executives, and philanthropists played "this book-collecting game" (as A. Edward Newton called it), and competed with each other for the finest books and manuscripts in the world. Their booksellers were no less newsworthy, and one of the most astute, knowledgeable, and flamboyant of them all was Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia. Dr. R., as the press liked to call him, helped to build some of America's greatest collections, and his own library, assembled from the treasures that he took home for himself rather than put into his stock, still draws vistors and researchers from around the world.

Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly: Book Collecting in a Golden Age is the story of one collector, Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., of Indianapolis, and the books and manuscripts that he bought from Dr. Rosenbach. The story is told through the many letters that they exchanged, and through the descriptions and illustrations of the books and manuscripts themselves. Though this book is the story of only one collector and bookseller, it is also a microcosm of a great age of book collecting, in which choices were made by booksellers and collectors alike that shaped the contents of some of the greatest research libraries of our own day.

Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 104399

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