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See More... Starrett, Vincent " WINDOWS."
Chicago Flora Warren Seymour for The Bookfellows 1924 small 8vo. stiff papper wrappers. pp.33-64.
A poem in The Step-Ladder, A Monthly Journal of bookly Ascent, Volume VIII, Number 2, January, 1924, pages 48-49.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 93280

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See More... Stern, Madeleine and Leona Rostenberg. BOOKS HAVE THEIR FATES.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2001 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 218 pages.
First edition. This book is by two of New York's most legendary antiquarian dealers. It is a collection of essays in which all the protagonists are books. The authors have scanned the sixteenth to the twentieth century looking for books with interesting narratives. This work brings to life a cast of characters such as Shakespeare, Descartes, Shelley, Poe, George Eliot, and many others. Within these pages, the fates of some 30 books are traced and brought to life in suspenseful sequence.
Price: $ 34.95 other currencies Order nr. 61651

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See More... Stoddard, Roger E. ABUNDANT BIBLIOPHILES: HUBBARD WINSLOW BRYANT ON THE PRIVATE LIBRARIES OF PORTLAND, 1863-1864.
Preface by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. Portland The Baxter Society 2004 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. 74, (4) pages.
First edition, limited to 230 copies. With a two page foreword by Eliot H. Stanley, Founder and First President of this society of book collectors.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 95566

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See More... (Streeter, Thomas Winthrop) CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF AMERICANA FORMED BY THE LATE THOMAS WINTHROP STREETER... ADVANCE PROGRAM OF SALES.
New York Parke-Bernet Galleries n.d. (1966) tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (22) pages.
Biography of Streeter followed by a description of the various sales to take place. Illustrated. A nice compliment to the auction sale catalogues.
Price: $ 13.00 other currencies Order nr. 15209

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See More... Strouse, Norman H. A COLLECTOR'S DECABIBLON, AN ADDRESS TO THE ANNUAL MEETING OF GLEESON LI BRARY ASSOCIATES, APRIL 23, 1972.
San Francisco Privately printed for Strouse by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy 1972 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 21 pages.
Limited to 1000 copies, this being one of the 200 copies specially printed for private distribution for Norman H. Strouse. Autobiography by this book-collector. Corner bumped. Minor fading along top edge.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 25364

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See More... Strouse, Norman H. A COLLECTOR'S DECABIBLON, AN ADDRESS TO THE ANNUAL MEETING OF GLEESON LI BRARY ASSOCIATES, APRIL 23, 1972.
San Francisco Privately printed for Strouse by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy 1972 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 21 pages.
Limited to 1000 copies, this being one of the 600 copies specially printed for the Gleeson Library.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 96863

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See More... Strouse, Norman H. LADIES IN MY LIBRARY, A TALK BEFORE THE ANNUAL MEETING THE MANUSCRIPT SOCIETY.
Boston The Manuscript Society 1966 4to. typescript stapled in the upper left hand corner. 34 pages.
Last page is loose.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 6381

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See More... Strouse, Norman H. LADIES IN MY LIBRARY, BOOKS AND LETTERS FROM THE COLLECTION OF NORMAN H. STROUSE.
Philadelphia Free Library of Philadelphia 1948 8vo. later cloth with original paper wrappers bound-in. (ii), 27 pages.
Comments on 82 books.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 10537

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See More... Strouse, Norman HOW TO BUILD A POOR MAN'S MORGAN LIBRARY
Syracuse Syracuse University Library Associates 1966 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 23+(1) pages.
Reprinted from their library periodical. With a woodcut by John DePol.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 6345

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See More... (Stuart, Robert L.) CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF ROBERT L. STUART.
New York J.J. Little & Co. 1884 thick small 4to. modern library cloth. x, 527 pages.
Limitation not written in on half title in this copy. This large collection contained a Audubon folio, Gould and a very fine selection of bibles. Stuart sold the collection to the Lenox Library.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 32583

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See More... (Stuart, Robert L.) CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF ROBERT L. STUART.
New York J.J. Little & Co. 1884 thick small 4to. original cloth. x, 527 pages.
Limitation page contains a presentation from Mrs. Stewart and is numbered. This large collection contained a Audubon folio, Gould and a very fine selection of bibles. Stuart sold the collection to the Lenox Library. Covers and spine spotted.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 55184

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See More... (Stuart, Robert L.) CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF ROBERT L. STUART.
New York J.J. Little & Co. 1884 thick small 4to. contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards. x, 527 pages.
Limitation page inscribed "No. 108. To Mercantile Library of Philadelphia, Pa with Compliments of Mrs. Robert L. Stuart." This large collection contained a Audubon folio, Gould and a very fine selection of bibles. Stuart sold the collection to the Lenox Library. Covers worn and detached. With the stamp of the Mercantile Library on a number of pages.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 64142

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See More... (Sumac Press) THE AMPERSAND CLUB, RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT.
N.P. The Ampersand Club 1965 8vo. paper wrappers. (16) pages.
Limited to 460 copies printed by Emerson Wulling at his Sumac Press. With a full-page reproduction of the title page of FRIENDS, ROMANS, a Christopher Morley story published by this club. With information on Morley, an honorary member of the club.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 3027

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See More... Szladits, Lola L. BROTHERS, THE ORIGINS OF THE HENRY W. AND ALBERT A. BERG COLLECTION OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY.
New York New York Public Library 1985 8vo. cloth. 60 pages.
First edition. Illustrated history of the development of this fine collection and the collectors behind it.
Price: $ 6.00 other currencies Order nr. 11971

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See More... Tannen, Jack HOW TO IDENTIFY AND COLLECT AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS A GUIDE BOOK.
New York Arco Publishing Co. (1976) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 147 pages.
First edition. The author has supplied a list of over 270 firms and how to tell their first editions. Other interesting material on book collecting included.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 7686

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See More... (Taylor, Mrs. William A.) SPORTING & HISTORICAL COLORED PLATE BOOKS, FIRST EDITIONS OF SHELLEY, DICKENS ... SELECTIONS FROM THE LIBRARY OF MRS. WILLIAM A. TAYLOR.
New York The Anderson Galleries 1925 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 75+(1) pages.
McKay 8818. Chipped along spine. Front wrapper detached, edges chipped..
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 33558

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See More... (Taylor, Robert H.) Wickenheiser, Robert J. (editor) ESSAYS ON THE ROBERT H. TAYLOR COLLECTION
Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Library 1977 8vo. cloth Frontispiece photograph of Taylor
First edition. One of 100 copies bound thus. Being Numbers 2 and 3 of volume XXXVIII of the Princeton University Library Chronicle. With essays by Wickenheiser, Michael Papantonio, Mary Hyde, James Thorpe, John V. Fleming and others.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 98456

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See More... (Taylor, Robert H.) Wickenheiser, Robert J. (editor) THE ROBERT H. TAYLOR COLLECTION.
Princeton The Princeton University Library Chronicle 1977 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 77-250 pages.
Being the entire issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, numbers 2 and 3. With 51 plates. Includes an article by Michael Papantonio.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 10585

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See More... (Texas) A DECADE OF COLLECTING, AN EXHIBIT.
N.P. University of Texas 1964 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, clear plastic dust jacket unpaginated
Limited to 1000 copies. An exhibition from the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library. An exhibition catalogue of 64 entries, with a brief description of the exhibit and a few black-and-white plates throughout.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 101786

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  (Texas) Jenkins, John H. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SELECTED WORKS FOR A RESEARCH LIBRARY.
Austin Texas State Historical Association 1988 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 648, (2) pages.
Revised edition. "Guide to the 224 books that the author considers essential to any Texas research library" [i.e. research related to Texas]. Entries provide information on bibliographic details, origin, production and reception of the book, description of content and analysis, related works, and citations in other bibliographies. Over 1,000 additional books are mentioned in the discussions. A critical bibliography, not primarily concerned with books as artifacts or with documentation. Appended is a list of 219 Texas-related bibliographical works! By the controversial antiquarian bookseller J.H. Jenkins. Small closed tear along top edge of front cover of jacket.
Price: $ 28.00 other currencies Order nr. 54466

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  (Thacher, John Boyd) Paltsits, Victor Hugo THE HONORABLE JOHN BOYD THACHER: MAN OF VERSATILITY.
(New York New-York Historical Society) 1951 8vo. self paper wrappers unpaginated
Reprint from New York History, January 1951. Summarizes the career of Thacher in public life, as mayor of Albany, as historian, and as collector of manuscripts and books. Frontispiece. Footnotes. Wrappers faded at edges.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 115725

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See More... Thompson, James Westfall BYWAYS IN BOOKLAND
Berkeley Univ. of California Press 1935 8vo. cloth. (viii), 202, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 600 numbered copies. With 10 excellent book essays including Napoleon as a Booklover, Bookhunting as a Sport, Lost Memoirs of Antiquity, and others. Spine faded.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 3613

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See More... Thompson, Lawrence S. WHO KILLED BIBLIOGRAPHY?
Berkeley Peacock Press 1965 16mo. paper wrappers. 15 pages.
Limited edition.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 10606

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See More... Thornton, Willis NEWTON D. BAKER AND HIS BOOKS
Cleveland Western Reserve University (1954) small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 84 pages.
First edition. Biography of this book collector and educator with a list of his writings and comments on books in his library. Jacket soiled.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 10613

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  Thornton, Willis NEWTON D. BAKER AND HIS BOOKS
Cleveland Western Reserve University (1954) small 8vo. cloth. (vi), 84 pages.
First edition. Biography of this book collector and educator with a list of his writings and comments on books in his library.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 69961

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