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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry FIRST FINE SILVER COINAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SAN SERRIFFE: THE BIRD & BULL PRESS COMMEMORATIVE 100 CORONAS.
Including an account of this legendary republic and its connection with the Bird & Bull Press. With a description of similar numismatic rarities and a 30-year checklist of work produced by the Press, 1958-1988. Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1988 8vo. quarter morocco, paper-covered sides with a silver coin design on the front cover. Accompanied by a special holder for the silver proof coin; both inserted in a slipcase. 57 pages.
First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies. Full of Henry Morris humor about his mythical kingdom of San Serriffe, a tipped-in numbered stock certificate for 1000 shares of Bird & Bull stock, printed currency of San Serriffe, and even a map of the kingdom. The coin itself is sure to be a numismatic rarity, a beautifully minted proof silver coin of San Serriffe. Also of interest is the chapter on other privately minted coins.
Price: $ 85.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 42.50] other currencies Order nr. 21246

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(Bookselling) Aitken, Neil THE HUNTED BOOKSHOP.
Gabriola (BC) Reflections Publisher 1996 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 92 pages.
First edition. Directory of bookshops in British Columbia. Lists over 500 general and specialty bookstores, new and antiquarian, including college, university, and chain bookstores. Unnumbered entries. Entries may include name, address, telephone and fax no. (occasionally e-mail address), and a brief description of the store's specialties. Minimum is name, address and phone. Arranged by mailing address, then alphabetically by bookshop name. There are also a few listings for western U.S. stores known to the author and very brief directories for book binding and repairs, publications distributed by or in bookstores, associations, writing programs, and annual festivals/conferences in BC. There is no index. With thirteen short articles, mostly by BC booksellers writing about their experiences, a similar contribution by Mr. Aitken, and various other material.
Price: $ 15.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 7.50] other currencies Order nr. 49985

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BOOKWAYS. 3
Austin, TX W. Thomas Taylor 1992 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 52 pages.
With Decherd Turner on "A Perplexed Scene," an article by Alastair Johnston and many reviews of fine press books.
Price: $ 15.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 7.50] other currencies Order nr. 43048

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BOOKWAYS. 7
Austin, TX W. Thomas Taylor 1993 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 68 pages.
With special articles by Tom Taylor giving a survey of American typefounders, a look at the private collection of Travis Beck, a description of the Barrois collection of printing ephemera and a history of the Providence Public Library by Philip J. Weimerskirch.
Price: $ 15.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 7.50] other currencies Order nr. 43040

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BOOKWAYS. 8
Austin, TX W. Thomas Taylor 1993 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 76 pages.
With special articles by Martin Antonetti on Italian private press printing, Colin Franklin on "Some Phrase-Books from Old Japan," a conversation with Dwight Agner and others.
Price: $ 15.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 7.50] other currencies Order nr. 42972

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Clark Jr, Raymond B. DELAWARE CHURCH RECORDS, A COLLECTION OF BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS AND OTHER RECORDS AND TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS, FROM 1686-1880, FIVE IMPORTANT RELIGIOUS GROUPS: BAPTIST, EPISCOPAL, METHODST, PRESBYTERIAND AND QUAKER, WITH HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE CHURCES OR GROUPS AND WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE CHURCHES.
St. Michaels n.p. 1986 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56, (8) pages.
First edition. Includes Odessa Old Drawyers Presbyterian, Newark Quaker Meeting, Broad Creek Christ Church, Little Creek Old Style Baptist, Lewes St. Peters Episcopal, Register of Rev. Joseph Carlyle, Methodist minister.
Price: $ 15.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 7.50] other currencies Order nr. 69437

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Clark Jr, Raymond B. DELAWARE FAMILIES: A COLLECTION OF ELEVEN REPRESENTATIVE FAMILY ARTICLES AND NINE ALLIED FAMILIES IN THREE COUNTIES: KENT, NEW CASTLE AND SUSSEX.
St. Michaels n.p. 1988 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 46 pages.
11 family articles and 9 allied families. Includes Carter, Clifton, Graham, Gruwell, Jackson, MacDonald, Massey, Mundell, van Bibber, Garrett, Hall, Keith, Kollock, Moleston, Ogle, Peterson, Gilder, Reynolds, Rodney, and Wells. Indexed..
Price: $ 15.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 7.50] other currencies Order nr. 69433

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Clark Jr., Raymond B. DELAWARE TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS.
St. Michaels n.p. 1989 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 40 pages.
First edition. 700 Revolutionary soldiers from the three counties and 600 in small church and family cemeteries, chiefly in Sussex Co. Full name index.
Price: $ 15.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 7.50] other currencies Order nr. 69430

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(Copernicus, Nicolaus) NICOLAUS COPERNICUS, 1473-1973, HIS REVOLUTIONS AND HIS REVOLUTION.
Bethlehem, PA Lehigh University 1973 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 49+(1) pages.
Beautifully printed exhibition catalogue. Limited to 1500 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Foreword by James D. Mack and catalogue and historical essay by Seymour L. Chapin.
Price: $ 25.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 12.50] other currencies Order nr. 31872

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(Davies, David W.) Keran, Don W (compiler) DAVID W. DAVIES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Fullerton, CA Orangerie Press, California State University 1973 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 39+(1) pages.
A bibliography of the writings of David W. Davies, scholar, librarian, and founder of the Orangerie Press. With entertaining annotations by DWD, a biographical sketch, and several affectionate essays by friends and colleagues. Printed by Ward Ritchie at the Castle Press.
Price: $ 15.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 7.50] other currencies Order nr. 46663

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Desmond, Ray A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH AND IRISH GARDENS.
Winchester St Paul's Bibliographies (1996) tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 312 pages.
First paperback edition. Reprint of the corrected edition of 1988. 5,500 gardens in England, Scotland, Wales and, to a limited extent, Ireland, are arranged under the names of the gardens or the places in which they are found. A guide to the literature of the garden is then given with each of these 5,500 entries.
Price: $ 47.50 [SALE PRICE: $ 23.75] other currencies Order nr. 50537

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Eason, Ron & Sarah Rookledge ROOKLEDGE'S INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF TYPE DESIGNERS, A BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY.
Edited by Phil Baines and Gordon Rookledge. Carshalton Beeches Sarema Press 1991 small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. vi, 209 pages.
First edition. Biographies of over 175 type designers. With an appendix of technical terms and another devoted to indexes by subject and by typeface.
Price: $ 19.95 [SALE PRICE: $ 9.97] other currencies Order nr. 43931

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(Faulkner, William) Brodsky, Louis Daniel and Robert W Hamblin FAULKNER: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE BRODSKY COLLECTION.
Volume IV. Jackson University Press of Mississippi 1982 8vo. cloth, printed dust jacket. xlix, 409 pages.
First edition. Volume four of Louis Daniel Brodsky's five-volume guide to his own collection of rare William Faulkner books, letters, and manuscripts. Written with the assistance of Robert Hamblin, this volume contains all known drafts of Faulkner's screenplay "Battle Cry." Also included are reproductions of Faulkner's original manuscripts and letters to writer/director Howard Hawks. With an introduction by Brodsky, a foreword by Meta Carpenter Wilde, and bibliographical references. Indexed.
Price: $ 35.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 17.50] other currencies Order nr. 60485

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(Faulkner, William) Brodsky, Louis Daniel and Robert W Hamblin FAULKNER: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE BRODSKY COLLECTION.
Volume III. Jackson University Press of Mississippi (1984) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxxix, 400 pages.
First edition. Volume three of Louis Daniel Brodsky's five-volume guide to his own collection of rare William Faulkner books, letters, and manuscripts. This volume contains all known drafts of Faulkner's screenplay "The De Gaulle Story," which tells of General De Gaulle's establishment of Free France. Also included are related documents such as deleted scenes, A French Research Foundation chronology, and facsimile's of Faulkner's transcripts and contracts, and more. With an introduction by Brodsky and Hamblin.
Price: $ 14.95 [SALE PRICE: $ 7.47] other currencies Order nr. 60614

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(Faulkner, William) Brodsky, Louis Daniel FAULKNER: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE BRODSKY COLLECTION.
Volume II. Jackson University of Mississippi Press (1984) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxviii, 334 pages, with 44 illustrations.
First edition. Volume two in the series. This volume prints almost five hundred letters written by and to William Faulkner, filling in some of the missing pieces in Joseph Blottner's Selected Letters of William Faulkner and significantly illuminating the period 1951-1957.
Price: $ 14.95 [SALE PRICE: $ 7.47] other currencies Order nr. 47743

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(Freneau, Philip) Marsh, Philip FRENEAU'S PUBLISHED PROSE; A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Metuchen The Scarecrow Press 1970 8vo. cloth. 167 pages.
Reprint of first edition. Freneau was an 18th century American prose writer of renown.
Price: $ 19.50 [SALE PRICE: $ 9.75] other currencies Order nr. 3894

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(Furnivall, F.J.) Benzie, William DR. F. J. FURNIVALL, A VICTORIAN SCHOLAR ADVENTURER
Oklahoma Pilgrim Books Inc (1983) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 302 pages.
First edition. A biography of Dr. F. J. Furnivall, which traces his career as a Christian Socialist to his crucial involvement in the composition of the Oxford English Dictionary. It also covers the work of the various societies Furnivall founded and presided over, such as The Early English Text Society, and the New Shakespeare Society. Illustrated. Includes a bibliography and an index.
Price: $ 45.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 22.50] other currencies Order nr. 55368

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(Garden Ltd.) THE COLLECTION OF THE GARDEN LTD. MAGNIFICENT BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS, CONCEIVED AND FORMED BY HAVEN O'MORE, FUNDED BY MICHAEL DAVIS.
New York Sotheby's 1989 4to. cloth. Not paginated.
Foreword by Nicolas Barker. Preface by Haven O'More. Fully describes 308 items from the collection of the Garden Ltd. Includes a first edition of Dante's La commedia, a first edition of The Book of Common Prayer some Dard Hunter items, first editions of William Blake and many more superb items. Well-illustrated in color.
Price: $ 65.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 32.50] other currencies Order nr. 35415

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Homer, William Innes AVANT-GARDE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE IN AMERICA 1910-1925.
Delaware Art Museum, April 1910-1925. Wilmington (DE) Delaware Art Museum 1975 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 3-176 pages.
Although the American artists featured here had little involvement in typography, book design, or book illustration, their adaptation of European modernism influenced these in the 1930's and later. Fifty-six artists with brief bio-historico-descriptive articles and reproductions of a few works. Eleven short introductory articles, about 160 black-and-white illustrations, indexes.
Price: $ 20.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 10.00] other currencies Order nr. 53486

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(Illustration) Martin, Douglas THE TELLING LINE, ESSAYS ON FIFTEEN CONTEMPORARY BOOK ILLUSTATORS.
New York Delacorte (1989) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 320 pages.
First U.S. edition. This collection focuses on fifteen contemporary illustrators of children's books, including Raymond Briggs, Quentin Blake, Charles Keeping, Michael Foreman, Shirley Hughes and John Lawrence. Well-illustrated throughout, many in color, and with a number of previously unpublished illustrations from the artists' private collections. Included is a complete chronological bibliography of each artist.
Price: $ 65.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 32.50] other currencies Order nr. 33111

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(Johnson, Samuel) SALE CATALOGUES OF THE LIBRARIES OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, HESTER LYNCH THRALE (MRS. PIOZZI) AND JAMES BOSWELL.
With Introductions by Donald D. Eddy. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Books 1993 8vo. set of unbound signatures. (vii), 320 pages.
First edition, a set of unbound sheets of this book. In studying great authors, one of the persisting lines of inquiry has involved questions of influence and association. What specific authors influenced our writer? What books has he read, quoted from, or owned? The obvious first way to answer these questions is to examine the author's own published writings. Other ways include examining the author's correspondence; letters of the author's friends and acquaintances; contemporary biographical accounts; locating the actual physical volumes owned by the author or presented to others: etc. An important part of this process is examining any available list of the books in the author's library. All too frequently - and this is true in the case of Samuel Johnson - the only list is the sale catalogue of his library prepared for the auction following his death. However hastily such a catalogue may have been prepared, and whatever its faults and omissions, it is still invaluable since it presents the names of more authors and titles our author knew than any other source. It is for this reason that the three sale catalogues reproduced here, for the first time in one volume, are so important. Donald Eddy has provided a lively and informative introduction explaining the significance of each catalogue, some of the highlights of the sales and the dangers inherent in studying these catalogues. He also provides a list of known locations of each of these catalogues. The introduction has been printed by letterpress and the catalogues by offset lithography at The Ascensius Press.
Price: $ 100.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 50.00] other currencies Order nr. 52962

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(Johnston, Edward) Holliday, Peter EDWARD JOHNSTON: MASTER CALLIGRAPHER
New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and the British Library 2007 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket. 412 pages
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First edition. Edward Johnston (1872-1944) was a man of letters - master calligrapher, typeface designer and creator of the lettering and branding for the London Underground. He was also a great teacher and philosopher. Many were, and still are, influenced by his down-to-earth ideas on calligraphy and lettering, and those who studied in his classes at the Central School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London took his ideas and views into their own classes and to their own students. Great calligraphers and letterers of today throughout the world are still influenced by Edward Johnston's work.

This detailed book by art and design historian Peter Holliday looks afresh at Johnston's work and legacy. It considers his friendships and his philosophy, the people he worked with and the influence he had on them and others. Importantly it gives details of the setting up of the craft community at Ditchling in Sussex and the craftspeople who were all drawn to the village as a result. During his career, Peter Holliday taught at Ravensbourne College of Design and worked at Ditchling Museum. He contributed to and edited the book Eric Gill in Ditchling published by Oak Knoll in 2002. Holliday passed away in November 2003 while creating this book, and the task of completing it passed to his sister, Susan Skinner. As a fellow calligrapher, she recognized the importance of this book on Johnston. With the information left to her by Holliday, Skinner contacted Sam Mullen to help her complete this book. Skinner and Mullen lightly edited Holliday's work using his impeccable research and have left the original Preface, written in 2002, untouched.
Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 40.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 20.00] other currencies Order nr. 102484

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Lause, Mark A SOME DEGREE OF POWER.
Fayetteville The University of Arkansas Press 1991 small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 261 pages.
The story of printers on the road and the trade societies they formed in New York, Philadelphia, and points westward. Illustrated.
Price: $ 32.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 16.00] other currencies Order nr. 57969

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Lee, Brian North EARLY PRINTED BOOK LABELS, A CATALOGUE OF DATED PERSONAL LABELS AND GIFT LABELS PRINTED IN BRITAIN TO THE YEAR 1760.
N.P. Private Libraries Assoc. and the Bookplate Society 1976 8vo. cloth. xxii, 185 pages.
First edition. A catalogue of dated personal labels printed in Britain to the year 1760. It is a very impressive study of bookplates and other identifying marks in books. The appendices cover early American labels, printers' gifts and book stamps.
Price: $ 28.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 14.00] other currencies Order nr. 6776

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Lewis, John TALES OF THE EASTERN SHORE.
Wilmington, Delaware Cedar Tree Books 1997 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 132 pages
First edition. This work is a celebrated collection of 13 short stories that bring to life the Chesapeake boyhood of the award-winning author, book designer, and publisher, John Lewis. Using the wealth of family recollections and personal observations, Mr. Lewis weaves the culture and spirit of his people into these memorable stories of his youth. His use of warm humor, tactfully erotic prose and poignant insight profoundly influenced his later writings.
In this early work, Lewis will make you laugh, blush, and even cry, but he dispels the notion that publishers can't write. William Wise commented, "From such colorful origins, great publishers are born." Distributed for Cedar Tree Books.
Price: $ 12.95 [SALE PRICE: $ 6.47] other currencies Order nr. 50414

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