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  Basbanes, Nicholas A. A GENTLE MADNESS: BIBLIOPHILES, BIBLIOMANES, AND THE ETERNAL PASSION FOR BOOKS.
New York Henry Holt 1995 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 584 pages.
First edition, first printing. A must-read for everyone interested in bookselling and book collecting, the passion of the chase, the thrill of the formation of a library, the nastiness of the forger, etc.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 42688

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  Basbanes, Nicholas A. PATIENCE & FORTITUDE.
(New York Harper Collins 2001) thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, (ii), 636 pages.
First edition. In this sequel to A Gentle Madness Basbanes continues his conversations with a wide variety of kindred spirits, each one a testament to the never-ending relevance of books in our lives. By exploring the transmission and preservation of knowledge, including the changes in the way information is amassed and stored, he reveals a deep and abiding respect for the printed word that is shared by "book people" around the world. Jacket rubbed along edges.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 64474

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  Bason, Fred FRED BASON'S 2ND DIARY
Edited and with a preface by L.A.G. Strong. London Wingate (1952) small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 159 pages.
First edition. A continuation of this bookseller's reminiscences. Jacket soiled along edge.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 3438

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  (Basson, Govert) Bögels, T.S.J.G GOVERT BASSON, PRINTER, BOOKSELLERS, PUBLISHER, LEIDEN 1612-1630.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1992 24.5x16.5 cloth. 356 pages.
First edition. Basson takes a prominent place among the publishers and booksellers who served the Leiden academic institutions. Contains a full bibliography of publications (187 entries). With 2 portraits and 73 facsimiles of printer's devices, capitals, ornaments, etc.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 135.00 other currencies Order nr. 103276

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  (Batsford) Bolitho, Hector A BATSFORD CENTURY.
London B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1944 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. x, 148 pages.
First edition, second impression with some corrections and a colored frontispiece. Record of one hundred years of publishing and bookselling. Jacket has piece missing out of front cover.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 368

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  (Batsford) Bolitho, Hector A BATSFORD CENTURY.
London B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1943 tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. x, 148 pages.
First edition. Record of one hundred years of publishing and bookselling. Jacket worn with pieces missing.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 21905

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  Batterham, David AMONG BOOKSELLERS: TALES TOLD IN LETTERS TO HOWARD HODGKIN
York Stone Trough Books 2011 5.25 x 8.75 inches paperback 118 pages
First edition. For over thirty-five years bookseller David Batterham has been going on book buying trips abroad and describing his journeys in letters written to artist Howard Hodgkin. This book contains the letters he wrote that reveal his traveling adventures and his buying interest and history. The visitable bookseller, a fast disappearing breed, is immortalized in this text. Lighthearted, entertaining, and charming, this book is intended to amuse rather than instruct.

Travelling around France, Spain, Portugal, America, Denmark, Holland, and Finland, Batterham wrote letters to Hodgkin to keep himself occupied since he mostly traveled on his own. The letters presented in this book begin in August 1970 and continue until January 2006. Describing his daily activities, conversations he had with acquaintances along the way, his plans for seeing new shops and buying books, and much more, the letters encompass Batterham's entire travelling and book-buying experience. He wrote mostly during the evenings when book shops were closed, many times in a local café with a drink in hand. As he states, his mission was to collect books that "one can enjoy without having to read," including trade catalogues, fashion magazines, and other illustrated journals, typography, political caricatures, and architectural pattern books. As he didn't have a shop, he worked on the theory that if he only bought things he liked himself, he would eventually find enough catalogue customers who shared his tastes.

Filled with humorous and fun tales of the life of a bookseller, this book is an enjoyable and delightful read. "An extraordinary portrait of the strange, eccentric world of dealing and collecting, with its chance encounters, its crazed characters, its obsessions and its loneliness." -Margaret Drabble.

"For thirty five years bookseller David Batterham has been making buying trips abroad and describing his adventures in letters to artist Howard Hodgkin. He was looking for trade catalogues , fashion magazines and other illustrated journals but his colleagues interest him almost as much, seen in their homes and shops. The visitable bookseller, a vanishing breed, is here immortalised" Publishers blurb.
Part diary, part memoir, some anecdotes and reflections; intended to amuse rather than inform! Designed by typographer George Ramsden with cover from a painting by Howard Hodgkin - an elegant little bedside book or stocking filler .
"completely fascinating and totally enjoyable" Howard Hodgkin
"...a gallery of eccentrics with Batterham himself the most notable, drunk, often penniless... ...lucky Hodgkin to have received these letters " Alan Bennett in London Review of Books
"An extraordinary picture of the strange eccentric world of dealers with its chance encounters, crazed characters, its obsessions and its loneliness" Margaret Drabble
"wonderfully redolent, skirting Chatwin Country in favour of Simenon's Maigret" William Feaver
"beguiling. I couldn't put it down" Simon Hoggart in the Guardian
"It's addictive!" James Fergusson (he also chose it as one of his "books of the year " in TLS)
"this book is a cracking read!" Amazon reader's review
"the funniest book I have read in years" Richard Burton
"a considerable prose stylist who has cleverly hit on the perfect vehicle for his absurdist or farcical take on the world. The book is a delight" Christopher Reid
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 108660

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  Behar, D. y R. (compilar) BIBLIOGRAFIA HISPANOAMERICANA
Libros Antiguos y Modernos Referentes a American y España Buenos Aires Libreria Panamericana 1947 8vo. later leatherette binding xxiv, 372, 28 pages
Bookseller's catalogue with 28 page price list at the end of the text. Introduction by Dr. Enrique de Gandia. Original front wrapper bound in. Scattered red penciled check marks throughout.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 95287

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  Bell, John Gray. SHEET OF JOHN GRAY BELL’S CATALOGUE OF AUTOGRAPHS ON SALE AT THE LOW PRICES AFFIXED ... .
London Printed by C. Demaine (for John Gray) 1853 12mo. original printed wrappers, stitched as issued. pp. 41-48
An unusual survival, being a sort of prospectus for the main catalogue. "Parties wishing the complete Catalogue can have it forwarded by enclosing 12 stamps to the Publisher, or it will be sent gratis with orders from this sheet." Very fine condition.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 79932

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  (Bell, Robert) ROBERT BELL'S BOOK AUCTION CATALOG, AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN BROADSIDE.
A facsimile from the Library of Congress. (Washington, DC Library of Congress) n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages with broadside facsimile loosely inserted.
One page of text by James Gilreath. Facsimile is one of two known copies of this broadside. Broadside is loosely inserted in a pocket in folder.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 107497

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  Bennet, Thomas Letter from T. Bennet to unnamed recipient.
N.P. n.p. n.d. (12 by 7 1/2 inches)
A letter from T. Bennet to unnamed recipient. Discusses "the suspicion that has been raised that an imprinted book of the subject of Religion" was "purloined." Bennet calls this "the most unlikely thing in the world;" there is "nothing like it at present either at the Tower or at the Chapel of the Rolls." Bennet asks his addressee to offer his opinion. Postscript states that a "messenger shall call for this paper, with your answer tomorrow abt. one of ye clock."
Thomas Bennet (1664/5-1706) was a London bookseller, Half-Moon in St. Paul's Churchyard. See Henry R. Plomer, A Dictionary of the Printers and Booksellers who were at Work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1668 to 1725, 29, and Norma Hodgson and Cyprian Blagden, The Notebook of Thomas Bennet and Henry Clemens (1686-1719), 3-6.
Lightly soiled and bent at edges.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 109435

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  Bennett, H.S. ENGLISH BOOKS & READERS 1475-1557
Cambridge University Press 1952 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 337 pages.
First edition. Jacket foxed with chipping around edges. Ex library copy with markings though very clean.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 404

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  (Berès, Pierre) 60. MANUSCRITS ET LIVRES DU QUATORZIÈME AU SEIZIÈME SIÈCLE.
(Paris) Pierre Berès n.d. 8vo. paper-covered boards unpaginated
Text in French. Catalogue 60. A collection of books, incunabula, manuscripts, and other items from the 14th to the 16th century offered for sale by Berès of Paris. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Two-page color frontispiece. Boards dented at corners and lightly soiled.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 115289

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  (Beres, Pierre) 66 MANUSCRITS & ENLUMINURES DU ONZIEME AU DIX-HUITIEME SIECLE
Paris Pierre Berès n.d. but circa 1975 large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. Not paginated.
Illustrated catalog of Pierre Berès' c.1975 offering of manuscripts and illuminated manuscripts from the 11th to 18th centuries. The catalog is divided by country--France, Italy, Germany, Flanders, Spain, Armenia and Ethiopia. Each entry provides a description of physical state and, when applicable, decoration and provenance. Prices are listed at the back. Extensively illustrated in black-and-white. Bookplate on inside front wrapper.
Price: $ 26.00 other currencies Order nr. 59470

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  (Berès, Pierre) DIX-NEUVIÈME SIÈCLE ESSAIS, ÉTUDES, ART.
Paris Pierre Berès (1977) large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers not paginated
Catalogue 76 from Pierre Berès of Paris offering French 19th century illustrated books, book bindings, napoleonica, etc. 370 books are offered for sale. Each entry is described and given a price. Illustrated in black-and-white. Indexed at rear.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 62625

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  (Bères, Pierre) VENTE, PIERRE BERÈS, 80 ANS DE PASSION. 4EME VENTE. LE CABINET DES LIVRES.
Paris Drouot Richelieu 2006 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 348, (4) pages.
Auction sale catalogue of a selection of the inventory of this famous Paris bookseller. Illustrated in color.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 99754

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  (Bertelsmann) BESTELLWESEN UND AUSLIEFERUNG ALS ZENTRALES PROBLEM.
Hannover Bredt Wirtschaftsberatung 1970 4to. folder binding. (ii), v, iii, 180, (51) pages.
Typescript of a report on orders and delivery as a central problem for the German book trade initiated by the publisher Bertelsmann. Folder slightly torn; corners and edges bumped.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 48687

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  BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.1, JAN. 98. BIBLIO changes its subtitle. IN THIS ISSUE: K. Blewster on Oprah Winfrey and books with a second article on book clubs, A. Hanson on Edward Gorey, N.A. Basbanes on Swedish libraries, C. Sell on booksellers along the Oregon coast, M. Angelou on art and censorship, D. Lindley on cuneiform writing, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 51999

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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.7, JULY 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: J.S. Murray on 19th-century book canvassers in America, C. Pelayo on the private library of her great-uncle Menéndez Pelayo, G. Menzies on memoirs of aristocratic Russian émigrés, P. Dininny on Kenny's Bookshop in Galway, R. Meador on Orson Well's 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, N. Basbanes on the bookseller P. Juvelis, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 52958

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  BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 80 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.8, AUG., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: W.C. Webb on the Viking Portable Library, D. Lindley on Samuel Beckett, A. Hanson on the publishing consequences of the Jack the Ripper crimes, K. Jones on the novelist Larry McMurtry as a bookseller, H. Morris (proprietor of Bird & Bull) on the printing of medals, R. Armstrong on digital facsimiles, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53135

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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.11, NOV., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: A. Tufel on George Eliot, R. Armstrong on Alan Paton, and J. Waters on "Invasion of the E-Books" (yes, a certain software company has expressed interest). N. Basbanes tours that institution, The Strand; R. Brown and Tasha Tucker discuss Tasha Tudor (with notice of the new Tasha Tudor bibliography by John & Jill Hare, published by Oak Knoll!); P. Szatmary reports on the Houston Museum of Printing History, and...MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53574

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