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(Dibdin, Thomas Frognall) Rabaiotti, Renato (editor). HORAE BIBLIOGRAPHICAE CANTABRIGIENSES: A FACSIMILE OF DIBDIN'S CAMBRIDGE NOTEBOOK 1823 WITH READINGS FROM THE LIBRARY COMPANION 1824.
With an introduction by Renato Rabaiotti. New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 1989 6.5 x 9 inches quarter leather with acetate dust jacket, slipcase. 79, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 250 copies. Printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona on Magnani mould-made paper. A hitherto unpublished notebook reproduced in facsimile and accompanied by corresponding readings from the 1824 first edition of the Library Companion. It contains Dibdin's comments on books, manuscripts and prints examined by him in the University, Pepys, St. John's College and Trinity College libraries. The introduction by the editor, Renato Rabaiotti, describes the events surrounding Dibdin's life in the 1820s and places the notebook in the perspective of Dibdin's career. There is also a current finding-list of the books, manuscripts and prints Dibdin examined, compiled by David McKitterick. A fine production of one surviving testament of Dibdin's ambition to publish a Tour of England.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 104177

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Fowler, Arthur (editor) THE GOLDEN GALLEON.
First seven issues. Kansas City, MO Alfred Fowler 1924-1925 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 1-30; 31-62; 63-94; 95-126; 1-32; 33-64; 65-96 pages.
Volume 1, number 1 (January 1924) through Volume 2, number 3 (Summer 1925) of this interesting literary magazine that includes original essays, stories, poems, and woodcuts by artists such as A. Edward Newton (Fleck E.24), Vincent Starrett, George Sterling, Arthur Symons, and William Rose Benet among many others. Illustrated with woodcuts. First issue has corner of back cover chipped off.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 61050

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(French, Frederick W.) LIBRARY OF FREDERICK W. FRENCH.
Boston C.F. Libbie & Co. (1901) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers bound in half cloth, marbled paper-covered boards x, 237+(1); 158; 118 pages
McKay 5275 and 5283. Three catalogues bound in one volume. Auction sale of collector Frederick William French (1842-1900) of Boston, held April 23-25, 1901. Biographical sketch of French with notes about his collection (1718 lots) which included first editions, complete sets of book club publications, private presses, 18th century French vignette books, bindings, watercolor books, and other rarities. Frontispiece illustration of French. Also included are the auction catalogues of French's autograph collection (1446 lots) and his etchings and mezzotints collection (1297 lots), held May 2-3 and May 10, 1901, respectively. Illustrations, including foldouts. Some realized prices pencilled in the autograph and etching/mezzotint catalogues. Price list for auction of books and newspaper clippings tipped in. Spine slightly faded and with some wear along edges and top of front hinge. Bookplate on front pastedown.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 115086

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FUND OG FORSKNING I DET KONGELIGE BIBLIOTEKS SAMLINGER.
23 issues Kobenhavn Det Kongelige Bibliotek 1955-1980 large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jackets.
23 issues, volumes II (1955)-XXIV (1980). This periodical features articles stemming from or relating to the collections of the Royal Library in Copenhagen. Article topics range from early Danish printers' and publishers' marks to silver filigree bindings. While many articles center on specifically Danish topics, an equal amount address subjects of a more international scope. For example, volume XXIII includes an article on a picture book from colonial Georgia, USA. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. In Danish with English summaries of each article at rear of journal. Volume XX features an index of all prior issues. A rare yet important 20th century journal.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 61534

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Funke, Claudia (editor) GROLIER 2000: A FURTHER GROLIER CLUB BIOGRAPHICAL RETROSPECTIVE IN CELEBRATION OF THE MILLENNIUM.
New York The Grolier Club 2000 6.75 x 10.5 inches hardcover, slipcase 424 pages
In 1959 at the Grolier Club's 75th anniversary, Grolier 75, a volume of biographical sketches of seventy-five former members written by seventy-five current members, was published. This book proved to be very valuable to the literature of the book world through its presented facts and life stories. Grolier 2000 was published as a sequel to Grolier 75, extending the biographical records begun forty-one years ago. This book presents informative and expressive stories of past Grolier Club members, now deceased, who were distinguished lovers of manuscripts, prints, drawings, and photographs.

The Grolier Club has always welcomed membership to anyone interested in all aspects of the book including design, illustration, printing, binding, publishing or selling. This book covers all of these areas, including biographies of designers and printers such as Altschul and Grabhorn, and Heckscher and Hugo, illustrators such as Pennell, Ruzicka, and Oenslager, and publishers such as Kennerley, Knopf, and Sadleir. Overall, the book contains biographies of 119 Grolier Club members. It is beautifully designed and kept in a slipcase. The book was printed under the direction of Jerry Kelly by E.H. Roberts.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 106632

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Gauz, Valeria (editor) PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN BOOKS IN THE JOHN CARTER BROWN LIBRARY 1537-1839.
With a Selection of Braziliana Printed in Countries Other than Portugal and Brazil Providence The John Carter Brown Library 2009 7.5 x 11.25 inches hardcover 792 pages
Compiled by the rare book cataloguer Valeria Gauz, this work describes in detail, item by item, the finest collection in North America of books relating to Brazil before the country declared its independence from Portugal in 1822.

Nearly 650 of the titles in this catalogue antedate 1800. For the period from 1800 through 1822, some 500 titles are described, including 165 printed in Brazil itself after the Impressão Regia opened a branch in Rio de Janeiro in 1808 and presses began operating in Bahia.

Each of the approximately 1,300 titles catalogued in the book is annotated, some extensively, with historical and biographical information, and the major bibliographies of Luso-Brazilian printing, such as those by Rubens Borba de Moraes, are regularly cited. For libraries with significant colonial Braziliana holdings, this book is an essential reference work. Historians and other scholars, librarians, collectors, and booksellers will find it to be an invaluable aid to research in the field.

The arrangement of entries in the volume is chronological, from 1537 to 1839, and within each year the titles are listed alphabetically. The work is completely indexed by author and title, and there is a special index to government laws and decrees, a provenance list, and helpful bibliographical guides, including a general bibliography at the end that offers readers suggestions of other related works of interest. There are forty-six illustrations throughout the text.

Valeria Gauz has been a cataloguer at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro and was employed at the John Carter Brown Library from 1998 to 2005. The John Carter Brown Library is an independently funded and administered institution for advanced research in history and the humanities founded in 1846 and located on the campus of Brown University since 1901. The Library has unparalleled strength in primary sources relating to the history of North and South America between 1492 and ca. 1825.

Distributed in North America only for the John Carter Brown Library.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 108377

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(Grolier, Jean) Le Roux de Lincy, Antoine-Jean-Victor RECHERCHES SUR JEAN GROLIER SUR SA VIE ET SA BIBLIOTHÈQUE SUIVIES D'UN CATALOGUE DES LIVRES QUI LUI ONT APPARTENU.
Nieuwkoop B. de Graaf 1970 thick 8vo. cloth. xlix, (iii), 491+(1) pages.
Reprint of the 1866 first edition. (See S-K 1287; St. Bride Catalogue p.530). Grolier (1479-1565) was a famous French bibliophile who commissioned the best binders of the day to bind his book. Over 600 of these bindings exist today that can be attributed to his library. Includes a biography, an alphabetical catalogue of his library and reprints of correspondence. Ownership inscription in pencil.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 102695

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(Grolier, Jean) Le Roux de Lincy, Antoine-Jean-Victor RECHERCHES SUR JEAN GROLIER, SUR SA VIE ET SA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, SUIVIES D'UN CATALOGUE DES LIVRES QUI LUI ONT APPARTENUS.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1970 8vo cloth xlix, 491 pages.
Reprint of the 1866 edition published in Paris. The Catalogue (pp. 179-320), extensively describing 349 items (13 of which are manuscripts) gives a masterly reconstruction of Grolier's Library, which ranks among the most precious collections of books of all times. The owner (1479-1565) is rightly considered as the founding father of French bibliography. With 10 facsimiles on 6 plates.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 190.00 other currencies Order nr. 103709

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(Grolier, Jean) Portalis, Roger (Editor) RESEARCHES CONCERNING JEAN GROLIER, HIS LIFE AND HIS LIBRARY. WITH A PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF HIS BOOKS BY A.-J.-V. LE ROUX DE LINCY.
Translated and Revised by Carolyn Shipman. New York The Grolier Club 1907 4to. original half leather over creme colored paper-covered boards xlvi, 386, 13 chromolithographed plates.
First edition, limited to 303 copies printed at the DeVinne Press. A magnificent volume giving much biographical information about Jean Grolier and his family as well as many bibliographical facts about his library. With many plates including a number of chromolithographs. Leather rubbed at spine ends with soiling to covers along edges. Much better preserved than most copies.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 76590

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Howard-Hill, T.H. THE BRITISH BOOK TRADE, 1475-1890: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware, and London, England Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2009 7.5 x 9.75 inches Hardcover, 2 volumes 1,876 pages in 2 volumes, plus index on CD-ROM
This superbly comprehensive and detailed bibliography of the British book trade, the product of research in over three hundred libraries in the UK and USA, supersedes all bibliographies on British authors and authorship, bibliography itself, book collecting, bookbinding, book illustration, bookselling, censorship, copyright, libraries, literacy, papermaking, printing, publishing, textual criticism, and typography until 1890. More than 24,000 items (notably articles in trade journals) are lightly annotated and arranged in classified chronological order to illustrate the social and technological development of British book crafts and industries. Items are minutely indexed on the accompanying CD-ROM. Large areas of the history and practices of the British book trades are opened to scholarly study for the first time. British Book Trade, 1475-1890 belongs in every research library: no-one who works in the fields of British literature, bibliography, or book trade history should neglect this work.

Trevor Howard-Hill is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Besides his many publications on Shakespearean texts, Renaissance dramatic manuscripts, and textual scholarship are eight volumes of the Index of British Literary Bibliography (Oxford 1969-99).

Published by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, in association with The Bibliographical Society and The Bibliographical Society of America.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 96665

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Paul Lacombe's priced copy

(Hoym, Karl Heinrich) Martin, Gabriel CATALOGUS LIBRORUM BIBLIOTHECÆ ILLUSTRISSIMI VIRI CAROLI HENRICI COMITIS DE HOYM, OLIM REGIS POLONIAE AUGUSTI II. APUD REGEM CHRISTIANISSIMUM LEGATI EXTRAORDINARII
Parisiis Gabrielem & Claudium Martin 1738 small 8vo. 18th century quarter calf, blue paper-covered boards, red leather spine label, all edges stained red (vi), xx, 528, (58) pages
Text in Latin. The sale catalogue of the collection of the celebrated book collector Count Karl Heinrich Hoym (1694-1736). (Blogie 3.) An extensive collection catalogue with 4785 entries, arranged into broad subject categories including scripture, theology, jurisprudence, philosophy, medicine, mathematics, arts, grammar, rhetoric, poetry, geography, history, and more. Individual lots are priced in ink in the margins. Dampstaining to title page and a few pages that immediately follow. Wear to extremities with small chips to head and tail of spine and to one panel between raised bands. Small corner of page 99 lacking. With the bookplate of Paul Lacombe and A. Aubry on the front pastedown. Loosely inserted is a commemorative booklabel which indicates that this set came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus, purchased by Oak Knoll Books at the auction sale.
Price: $ 1,750.00 other currencies Order nr. 76057

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(Huth, Alfred H.) CATALOGUE OF THE FIFTY MANUSCRIPTS & PRINTED BOOKS BEQUEATHED TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY ALFRED H. HUTH.
London Printed for the Trustees 1912 small folio. cloth, top edge gilt. xvi, 130 pages.
Frontispiece portrait of Huth, introduction by F.G. Kenyon along with much text and illustrations including 18 separate plates done in collotype. Printed letterpress by Horace Hart at the University Press. Former library book from the Gloucestershire County Libraries with bookplate and pocket mounted on free endpaper. Paper label on spine.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 33505

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(Johnson, Samuel) Eddy, Donald D. (editor) 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. quarter leather, paper over boards. (vii), 320 pages.
First edition, limited to 210 numbered copies. 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. The book has been bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery.
Price: $ 215.00 other currencies Order nr. 37909

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(Johnson, Samuel) Newton, A. Edward SALE CATALOGUE OF DR. JOHNSON'S LIBRARY WITH AN ESSAY BY A. EDWARD NEWTON.
New York Edmond Byrne Hackett (1925) 8vo. boards, paper spine and cover labels. 11 pages followed by the 28 page facsimile of the catalogue.
Limited to 250 numbered copies (Fleck A.10). Signed by Newton. The facsimile was made from Ralph Isham's copy and not Newton's as Isham's copy had both the prices realized and the names of the buyers. Excellent introduction. Some foxing of paper covering on boards. Lacks mailing box.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 36258

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Lemerre, Alphonse LE LIVRE DU BIBLIOPHILE.
Paris Alphonse Lemerre 1874 12mo. half brown calf with marbled paper covered boards, top edge gilt with original paper wrappers bound-in. (iv), 49, (5) pages.
Second edition. Chapters on bookcollecting, paper, bookbinding, etc. From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. With the bookplate of the Zaehnsdorf Company and in a signed binding by them.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 2367

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Le Roux de Lincy, Antoine-Jean-Victor LA BIBLIOTH'EQUE DE CHARLES D'ORLÉANS A SON CHATEAU DE BLOIS EN 1427.
Publiée pour la première fois d'après l'inventaire original. Paris Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères 1843 8vo. contemporary quarter calf, red leather spine label, marbled paper covered boards. 57 pages.
Extract from the Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes. Description of the library of this 14th century French poet. Minor rubbing of covers.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 104265

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LE LIVRE, REVUE MENSUELLE BIBLIOGRAPHIE ANCIENNE.
Premier Volume. Paris A. Quantin 1880 thick small 4to. half leather, all edges gilt. 431 pages.
Ulrich & Kup p.124. "News of the world of books and letters. Well edited; useful for reference for the period." Filled with illustrations of books and bindings, portraits and others. Minor cover rubbing.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 32595

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LE LIVRE, REVUE MENSUELLE BIBLIOGRAPHIE ANCIENNE.
Paris A. Quantin 1880-1886 small 4to. variously bound in original paper wrappers, later cloth, and contemporary half cloth with leather spine labels and marbled paper-covered boards.
A large run of this deluxe periodical for bibliophiles was first published by A. Quantin in 1880 and later by Quantin with Octave Uzanne from 1881 to 1889. (Ulrich & Kup p.124.) A spectacular journal letterpress printed with many original prints bound-in. Artists include Jules Adeline, author of Les Arts de Reproduction Vulgarises (1894), as well as others. Some plates are reproduced in color. Filled with illustrations of books, book illustrations, bindings, portraits, and other subjects. Many articles are devoted to the history of printing as well as to contemporary book production. Present are volumes one through three (1881-1883), and volumes five and six (1885-1886). Part one of the first volume is bound in later cloth, part two is unbound and all other volumes are bound in period half cloth with leather spine labels and marbled boards.
Price: $ 700.00 other currencies Order nr. 43262

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LE LIVRE, REVUE MENSUELLE BIBLIOGRAPHIE ANCIENNE.
Paris A. Quantin 1880-1883 small 4to. original paper wrappers.
The first three years of this deluxe periodical for bibliophiles first published by A. Quantin in 1880, and later by Quantin with Octave Uzanne from 1881 to 1889. (Ulrich & Kup p.124). A spectacular journal letterpress printed with many original prints bound-in. Artists include Jules Adeline author of LES ARTS DE REPRODUCTION VULGARISES (1894) as well as others. Some plates are reproduced in color. Filled with illustrations of books, book illustrations, and bindings, portraits and other subjects. Many articles are devoted to the history of printing as well as to contemporary book production. Present are Volumes 1-3 (1881-1883). 1883 only lacks August issue. Many wrappers detached or partially chipped, some partially missing, most spines chipped or split, all pages however, are in nice condition.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 43292

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LE LIVRE, REVUE MENSUELLE BIBLIOGRAPHIE ANCIENNE.
Paris A. Quantin, 1882-1888 small 4to. variously bound in original paper wrappers, later half cloth with leather spine labels and marbled covered boards variously paginated
A deluxe periodical for bibliophiles first published by A. Quantin in 1880, and later by Quantin with Octave Uzanne as editor-in-chief from 1881-1889. (Ulrich & Kup p, 124). Included here are 1882-1884 and 1888. Lavish use of llustration, including drawings, illustrations of books and bindings, and many original prints bound-in. Some plates reproduced in color. Frequent use of pictorial initials. Articles on writers and their works, book collectors and collections, printing and book production. A 156-page supplement to December 1883 is devoted to advertisements for new books, magazines and manuals. Many are samples of prints from the advertised books. Detailed indexing. Present are Volumes 3 and 4 in their original paper wrappers, many detached or partially chipped, however internally fine. 1882 lacks the December issue. 1883 lacks September, October and November. 1884 contains twelve issues and the retrospective. 1888 retrospective bound separate from monthly issues.
1884 and 1888 later bound with leather spine labels and marbled covered boards. 1884 detached front cover. 1888 rubbed spine.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 62071

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LE LIVRE, REVUE MENSUELLE BIBLIOGRAPHIE ANCIENNE. With LE LIVRE, REVUE MENSUELLE BIBLIOGRAPHIE MODERNE.
Paris A. Quantin, 1880 small 4to. contemporary green cloth, top edge gilt. (iv),48; 88 pages.
Volume One of this deluxe periodical for bibliophiles first published by A. Quantin in 1880, and later by Quantin with Octave Uzanne as editor-in-chief from 1881-1889. (Ulrich & Kup p, 124). Included here are 1882-1884 and 1888. From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. With the bookplate of the Zaehnsdorf Company. The first part is printed on handmade paper.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 102444

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Madan, Falconer BOOKS IN MANUSCRIPT, A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THEIR STUDY AND USE WITH A CHAPTER ON RECORDS.
London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1893 8vo. quarter parchment over cloth covers. xvi, 188 pages.
First edition, one of 150 numbered large paper copies printed on Dutch handmade paper and bound thus. Part of the Books about Books Series edited by A.W. Pollard (Webber p.38). Eight illustrations. Parchment spine is soiled with chip in center. Foxing.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 9584

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(Miniature Books) Blumenthal, Walter Hart FORMATS AND FOIBLES, A FEW BOOKS WHICH MIGHT BE CALLED CURIOUS.
Worcester Achille J. St. Onge 1956 miniature book (6 x 4.9 cm.) full red morocco, all edges gilt. (iv), 105 pages.
Limited to 300 copies (Bradbury, St. Onge, 13). Printed by the Chiswick Press on Barcham Green's handmade paper and bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Discusses oddities in book format.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 28082

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(Miniature Books) CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF MINIATURE BOOKS COLLECTED BY PERCY EDWIN SPIELMANN. TOGETHER WITH SOME DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARIES.
London Edward Arnold (1961) 8vo. cloth-backed, patterned paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xv, 289 pages.
Limited to 500 numbered copies. Introduction by Spielmann followed by descriptions of over 500 miniature books. Well-indexed. Scarce book.
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 41596

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(Miniature Books) CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF MINIATURE BOOKS COLLECTED BY PERCY EDWIN SPIELMANN. TOGETHER WITH SOME DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARIES.
London Edward Arnold (1961) 8vo. cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xv, 289 pages.
Limited to 500 numbered copies. Introduction by Spielmann followed by descriptions of over 500 miniature books. Well indexed. Scarce book. Chip out of jacket at top of spine.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 34289

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