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(Adams, Fred) F.B.A. JR.
N.P. n.p. 1963 4to. cord-tied stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
This keepsake consists of a menu for a luncheon in honor of Frederick B. Adams given on December 2, 1963, a chronology of "Some notable events at the Pierpont Morgan Library as seen by the Poets and Chroniclers," and a list of attendees.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 95482

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(Adams, Joseph Quincy) McManaway, James G., Giles E. Dawson and Edwin B. Willoughby (editors) JOSEPH QUINCY ADAMS: MEMORIAL STUDIES.
Washington The Folger Shakespeare Library 1948 8vo. cloth x, 808 pages
Essays, with footnotes, in honor of Shakespeare scholar and Folger Library director Joseph Quincy Adams (1881-1946). Frontispiece illustration of Adams. Preface by McManaway. Table of contents. Bibliography of Adams.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 114791

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(Adams, Randolph) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RANDOLPH G. ADAMS WITH AN INTRODUCTRY MEMOIR.
Ann Arbor William L. Clements Library 1962 large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers 35 pages.
Limited to 750 copies. Includes a bibliography by Georgia Haugh and a biography by Howard H. Peckham.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 77255

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(Adams, Randolph Greenfield) RANDOLPH GREENFIELD ADAMS, 1892-1951.
Ann Arbor The Clements Library Associates 1951 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages.
Small pamphlet with biographical content printed to commemorate the life of this noted librarian.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 89943

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(Alderman Library) ALDERMAN LIBRARY: 50 YEARS
The Keepsake of an Exhibition Stettinius Gallery-Division of Archives and Manuscripts, 1 March-31 August 1988 n.p. (University of Virginia 1988) oblong 12mo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
A commemoration of the semicentennial of Alderman Library's beginning by reviewing some major events that led to the Library's international stature as a major housing of academic research collections.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 97459

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(American Antiquarian Society) Burkett, Nancy H. and John B. Hench (editors). UNDER ITS GENEROUS DOME, THE COLLECTIONS AND PROGRAMS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1992 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 190 pages.
Second edition, revised. Edited by Nancy H. Burkett and John B. Hench and a foreword by Jill Ker Conway. Illustrated.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 42174

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(American Antiquarian Society) THE COLLECTIONS AND PROGRAMS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: A 175TH ANNIVERSARY GUIDE.
2 volumes. Worcester (MA) American Antiquarian Society 1987 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cloth-covered slipcase with paper label on front. 183+(1); 81 pages.
The American Antiquarian Society was founded in 1812 by the printer Isaiah Thomas and associates for the purpose of preserving the records of the American Revolution. The Society is today a major archive of materials for American History. One volume is a brief history of the Society and a description of its collections and activities (with some black-and-white photographic illustrations); the other volume lists members.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 54414

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(American Antiquarian Society) Gura, Philip F. THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, 1812-2012: A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY.
Worcester, Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society 2012 6.75 x 10 inches hardcover, dust jacket 454 pages
Founded in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, the patriot printer and leading publisher of the new nation, the American Antiquarian Society reflects his vision for the printed record of America's history-its preservation and its interpretation. Over two centuries, beginning with Thomas's gift of his own extensive library of books and newspapers, this learned society has become widely recognized as a national treasure. The collections are an indispensable resource for everyone interested in studying the United States to 1876. Scholars, artists, and writers benefit from the library collections and its fellowship programs to conduct research resulting in books and other works that frequently earn national awards. The Society also offers lectures, seminars and conferences, programs for teachers, and a rich website for diverse audiences.

This volume traces the development of the library and the role the Society's librarians have played as collectors, scholars of American writing and publishing, and stewards of the nation's history. Readers will meet Isaiah Thomas and his successors at the Society's helm: Christopher Columbus Baldwin, Samuel Foster Haven, Edmund Mills Barton, Clarence Brigham, Clifford K. Shipton, Marcus A. McCorison, and Ellen S. Dunlap. Each has moved the Society forward by deftly matching the institution's needs with local and national developments. The Society celebrates its bicentennial as a leading independent research library, a pioneer in the digitization of its collections, and a center of scholarship for the study of American history and culture.

The American Antiquarian Society-pride and joy of its founder Isaiah Thomas-holds the DNA of our shared national patrimony. On the occasion of its bicentennial, this uniquely American library has published a copiously illustrated history that is at once scholarly in purpose, rich in probing insight, and brimming with narrative detail. While keenly alert to the evolution of the Society, Philip F. Gura's guiding approach has been more finely focused on its intellectual development as a cultural repository of extraordinary consequence, with careful attention given to the people who have shaped and nurtured it into the twenty-first century. The founding spirit of this remarkable institution-a bookman for the ages "touched early by the gentlest of infirmities, bibliomania"-would be mightily pleased, I am certain, with this magisterial tribute to his enduring legacy.
-Nicholas A. Basbanes, author of A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008 and A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books.

Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture since 2000, has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1987. Widely recognized for his scholarship, Gura, who first visited the American Antiquarian Society as a reader in 1971, considers his election to membership in 1988 one of his highest honors. He is the author of many books, including American Transcendentalism: A History (2007), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (nonfiction) and Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel (forthcoming in 2013).
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 108979

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Angle, Paul M. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AN ACCOUNT, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.
Kingsport Kingsport Press 1958 tall 8vo. cloth, slipcase. (vi), 77, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 1500 copies.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 3071

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(Apprentices Library) FINDING LIST OF THE APPRENTICES LIBRARY.
New York Press of J. J. Little & Co. 1888 large 8vo. cloth. Variously paginated.
A complete, but condensed, list of all the separate works in the library up to the time of publication. It is a subject analysis of the books arranged in alphabetical and sub-alphabetical order of topics, broken up into as minute divisions as the amount of material on hand seemed to render necessary, with a copious alphabetical index for ready reference to any desired topic. A Mercantile Library Co. bookplate is on the front pastedown and a library stamp is on the title page and page 3 and 5. A two inch portion of the top of the spine is lacking and chipped at the bottom. Corners bumped and very yellowed with age.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 59419

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Archer, H. Richard (editor) RARE BOOK COLLECTIONS, SOME THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR USE BY LIBRARIANS AND STUDENTS.
Chicago American Library Assoc. 1965 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 128 pages.
Articles by Wynne, Wolf, Peckham, Baughman, Alden, Storm, French and others. Bookplate.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 16470

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(Architecture) Schimmelman, Janice G. ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS IN EARLY AMERICA, ARCHITECTURAL TREATISES AND BUILDING HANDBOOKS IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES THROUGH 1800.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1999 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 221 pages.
First edition. This annotated bibliography describes 147 architectural treatises and building handbooks that were available in American libraries and bookstores prior to 1800. The books listed were highly influential in colonial America. Originally published as part of the PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY in 1985, this revised and expanded edition is the first hardcover edition. ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS IN EARLY AMERICA is an essential and valuable tool for collectors and students of early American architecture.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 105339

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Asheim, Lester (editor) A FORUM ON THE PUBLIC LIBRARY INQUIRY.
The Conference at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, August 8-13, 1949 New York Columbia University Press 1950 small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xiv), 288 pages.
These reports evaluated libraries' contributions to American society and the volume is a supplement to those reports. Jacket chipped and soiled.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 114631

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Ash, Lee THE ARCHONS OF THE COLOPHON, 1909-1917 AND 1926-1969: "MUCH AND LITTLE CHANGED".
An address at the Sixtieth Year's Anniversary Meeting on May 1, 1969 N.P. H.W. Wilson Company 1969 large 12mo stiff paper wrappers (iv), 54, (2) pages
Edition limited to 500 copies. Printed "for distribution to The Archons of Colophon, and to some friends, and to a few libraries." Ash's history is followed by appendices which include among other things a list of known members.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 100867

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Ash, Lee YALE'S SELECTIVE BOOK RETIREMENT PROGRAM
Hamden Archon Books 1963 8vo. cloth. xii, 94 pages.
First edition. Nine different chapters concerning aspects of this program.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 12736

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Babb, James T. THE YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: ITS EARLY AMERICAN COLLECTIONS.
N.P. n.p. n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 397-401+(1) pages
Reprint fromThe WIliam and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. II, No. 4, October 1945. A description of early American holdings at the Yale University Library, written by James T. Babb, former Librarian of Yale University. Back wrapper soiled. Very light crease down the center of front wrapper. Light shelf wear.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 98911

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Baker, Hugh S. " RATIONAL AMUSEMENT IN OUR MIDST," PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN CALIFORNIA, 1849-1859.
Berkeley, CA California Library Association 1960 tall 8vo. self paper wrappers. (iv), 26 pages.
Reprinted from The California Historical Society Quarterly, Volume XXXVIII, Number 4, Decemberm, 1959. With a two page foreword by Richard H. Dillon.
Price: $ 13.00 other currencies Order nr. 97238

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(Baldwin, Christopher Columbus) Larkin, Jack and Caroline Sloat (editors) A PLACE IN MY CHRONICLE: A NEW EDITION OF THE DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BALDWIN, 1829-1835.
Introduction and Transcription by Jack Larkin Worcester, Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society 2010 8.5 x 11.5 hardcover, dust jacket 322 pages
The text of Baldwin's diary is a virtual trip back in time, and this edition with its lively illustrations and helpful identification of the hundreds of people he meets along the way, takes the reader back into Massachusetts in the years between 1829 and 1835. Numerous illustrations and pictures expand the descriptions Baldwin gives readers in his entries. Additionally, Larkin and Sloat use footnotes to explain information, such as dates or places, that audiences may be unfamiliar with. Baldwin's entries detail a wide variety of subjects, including everyday occurrences, such as the weather and places he visited, as well as the obscure and unusual things that amused him. Also discussed are people Baldwin met (with an index in the back describing every person in detail) in addition to his feelings on important subjects, such as slavery and religion, and his passions for books and reading. Larkin and Sloat have restored Baldwin's diary to its most original form, including the format, style and language in which he wrote. Readers will have a thorough understanding of life in Massachusetts in the early republic after reading Baldwin's diary.

"The diaries of Christopher Columbus Baldwin have long been among the American Antiquarian Society's nineteenth-century treasures. Baldwin's 'chronicle' now has a modern edition worthy of its invaluable contents, richly illustrated and superbly annotated thanks to the labors of Jack Larkin and Caroline Sloat. In these pages, everyday life in central Massachusetts- courtship and death, career and travel- shares the stage with key national developments of the early republic, from party politics to temperance to phrenology. Through it all, Baldwin reveals the passion for reading and collecting books that made him AAS's ideal librarian at the time and a forebear to all the men and women who have built America's great research collections." - Scott Casper, professor of history, University of Nevada, Reno
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 104667

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(Bancroft Library) Morgan, Dale L. & George P. Hammond (editors) A GUIDE TO THE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY.
2 volumes. Berkeley University of California Press 1963 8vo. cloth, dust jacket x,377; x,294 pages
Volumes I and II of 3 part series of guides to the Bancroft Library's collection of more than four million manuscripts related to the history of western North America and early Latin America. Jackets show minor wear.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 101856

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(Bancroft Library) SOME TREASURES OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY CELEBRATING THE DEDICATION OF THE ENLARGED AND REMODELED LIBRARY, MAY 6TH, 1973.
Berkeley Friends of the Bancroft Library 1973 tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 85 pages.
Introduction by James D. Hart. Illustrated. Some cover fading.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 43615

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(Barrett, C. Waller) Cahoon, Herbert A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE CLIFTON WALLER BARRETT LIBRARY.
Charlottesville University of Virginia 1960 8vo. boards. 35 pages.
First edition. Printed at the Thistle Press. Spine faded and some foxing.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 354

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(Barrett, C. Waller) Cahoon, Herbert A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE CLIFTON WALLER BARRETT LIBRARY.
Charlottesville University of Virginia 1960 8vo. boards. 35 pages.
Printed at the Thistle Press. Covers show some fading.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 12610

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(Barrett, C. Waller) Cahoon, Herbert A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE CLIFTON WALLER BARRETT LIBRARY.
Charlottesville University of Virginia 1960 (1961) 8vo. paper wrappers. 35 pages.
Second printing.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 37887

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(Barrett, C. Waller) Cahoon, Herbert A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE CLIFTON WALLER BARRETT LIBRARY.
Charlottesville University of Virginia 1960 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 35 pages.
Second printing, printed at the Thistle Press. With presentation on front cover "To Polly Kenway with best wishes of Herbert Cahoon, 17 May, 1961".
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 45643

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Barringer, George. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AT GEORGETOWN, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOG.
Washington, DC Georgetown University Library 1989 4to. paper wrappers. 127 pages.
Second edition. Includes a history of the library with an illustrated overview of its special collections. Bottom corner bumped.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 51505

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