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Ryskamp, Charles OF CABBAGES AND KINGS: RECOLLECTIONS OF COLLECTORS AND COLLECTING, THE ROBERT L. NIKIRK LECTURE 2003
New York The Grolier Club 2003 6 x 9 inches paperback 20 pages
This catalogue provides the speech of Charles Ryskamp delivered at the Grolier Club as part of The Nikirk Lectures, New Series, Number 4. It contains his thoughts on collectors and collecting, while celebrating the memory of Robert Nikirk. The pamphlet was designed by Jerry Kelly.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 106649

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(Sadleir, Michael) Stokes, Roy MICHAEL SADLEIR, 1888-1957
Metuchen Scarecrow 1980 8vo. cloth. vi, 154 pages.
First edition. In every area of study, a few names are recorded as those who transformed the world in which they worked. Michael Sadleir will always be associated with the bibliography and collecting of 19th-century books. This volume contains selections of Sadleir's works as well as a lengthy biography and checklist of his writings. Volume Five of the Great Bibliographer Series.
Price: $ 18.50 other currencies Order nr. 10290

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(Sadleir, Michael) Stokes, Roy MICHAEL SADLEIR, 1888-1957
Metuchen Scarecrow 1980 8vo. cloth. vi, 154 pages.
First edition. In every area of study, a few names are recorded as those who transformed the world in which they worked. Michael Sadleir will always be associated with the bibliography and collecting of 19th-century books. This volume contains selections of Sadleir's works as well as a lengthy biography and checklist of his writings. Volume Five of the Great Bibliographer Series. Library of Congress duplicates with stamps on free endpaper and title page.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 114877

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Schreyer, Alice D., William S. Reese, and Robert H. Jackson COLLECTORS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, THREE TALKS.
Washington Library of Congress 2002 8vo. stiff patterned paper wrappers. 56 pages.
Preface by John Cole and introduction by Daniel DeSimone, followed by the short essays by the authors on the general subject of collecting. These talks were given at a symposium at the Library of Congress to wide acclaim. Nicely printed and bound.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 71687

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Seale, William THE ALEXANDRIA LIBRARY COMPANY.
[Alexandria, Virginia] Alexandria Library Company 2007 4to. hardcover xiv, 160 pages
The Alexandria Library Company describes a rare American library in Virginia and the booklovers associated with it through two centuries. Historian William Seale presents the story--through good times and bad--of this historic library company, which has been in business since 1794. Sponsored by the Company, the book is documented from the shelves and boxes of early manuscripts that chronicle the history of the organization. Old leather volumes preserve the minutes from the founding to the present, while volumes of library records reveal what books were checked out and by whom, as well as the names of those who were charged late fees. Early political figures like Charles Lee joined churchmen like Dr. James Muir and tavern keeper John Wise in membership; their fellow subscribers were lawyers, cabinetmakers, coach makers, ship captains, planters, farmers and other townspeople. Women were among the early members. The hundreds of subscribers included Mrs. G.W.P. Custis of Arlington, who had a strong taste for Sir Walter Scott's romances and was in fact listening to one being read aloud by a young Robert E. Lee, when he took a break and left the room to propose to her daughter.
The focus of The Alexandria Library Company in the illustrations and the text is on the surviving books of the Alexandria Library Company, some 1,800 volumes, many of which were published in the eighteenth century. At least one volume came from the library of George Washington. Novels, histories, geographical and travel books, published diaries, bound newspapers and political and religious treatises show the reading tastes of early Alexandrians, and the membership included people of nearly every walk of life. The Company joined the city of Alexandria in founding the public library in 1937, and continues participating in the supervision of the library. Fifty years ago, the Company began sponsoring an annual lecture, which is held in Alexandria.
This handsomely designed book is a book collector's delight, borrowing its special appearance from the mellow old books in the collection. The Alexandria Library Company consists of a narrative history, a bibliography of the historic books and a list of members through two centuries. It contains over 50 color illustrations, including historic portraits and images of many of the early books. Distributed by Oak Knoll for the Alexandria Library Company.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 93893

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Silver, Joel DR. ROSENBACH AND MR. LILLY: BOOK COLLECTING IN A GOLDEN AGE
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2011 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 176 pages
There was a time when book collecting was big news. In the first half of the twentieth century, some of America's leading financiers, executives, and philanthropists played "this book-collecting game" (as A. Edward Newton called it) and competed with each other for the finest books and manuscripts in the world. Their booksellers were no less newsworthy, and one of the most astute, knowledgeable, and flamboyant of them all was Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia. Dr. R, as the press liked to call him, helped to build some of America's greatest collections, and his own library, assembled from the treasures that he took home for himself rather than put into his stock, still draws visitors and researchers from around the world.

Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly: Book Collecting in a Golden Age is the story of one collector, Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr., of Indianapolis, and the books and manuscripts that he bought from Dr. Rosenbach. The story is told through the many letters that they exchanged, and through the descriptions and illustrations of the books and manuscripts themselves. Mr. Lilly assembled a collection of some twenty thousand books in American literature and on historical Americana throughout the course of his collecting career. He bought books from a number of booksellers, but Rosenbach sold Lilly some of the best books and manuscripts in his collection. Rosenbach and Lilly were both personally interested in literature and Americana, and while Lilly was a conservative businessman who was usually very methodical in his acquisitions, Rosenbach's enthusiasm, which was well supported by his knowledge and experience, enticed Lilly to make some uncharacteristically large purchases during the two decades of their relationship.

This book focuses on the intersection of the two men and their business relationship from the 1920s through the 1940s. Though this book is the story of only one collector and bookseller, it is also a microcosm of a great age of book collecting, in which choices were made by booksellers and collectors alike that shaped the contents of some of the greatest research libraries of our own day.

Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly was first published in 2010 in a limited edition by Bird & Bull Press. This new trade edition retains Henry Morris's superb design and adds a new preface, additional illustrations, and an index. A sixteen page section of color plates is also included.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 105704

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Spevack, Marvin (Editor). ISAAC D'ISRAELI ON BOOKS: PRE-VICTORIAN ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2004 6.75 x 9.5 inches cloth, dust jacket xxxvii, 266 pages
First edition. Benjamin D'Israeli was of the opinion that he was born in a library. The library was reputed to have held about 25,000 volumes and belonged to his father, Isaac D'Israeli, a prolific and popular author of fiction, poems and historical subjects. Over his lifetime, D'Israeli had much to say about books, and the essays in this volume demonstrate his "honest desire of giving useful pleasure," as well as his conviction that books form the character of civilization. This is a fascinating read on a topic which is absorbing and thought-provoking for any bibliophile. Includes major sections on 1. Writing and Reading, 2. Printing and Publishing, 3. Books, 4. Authors & Co., 5. Preservation and Destruction, 6. Property and Politics, 7. Libraries. Includes a biography of D'Israeli by the editor at the beginning. Co-published with the British Library. Sales rights North and South America.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 75715

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Stern-Szana, Bernhard BIBLIOTHECA CURIOSA ET EROTICA, BESCHREIBUNG MEINER SAMMLUNG VON SELTENHEITEN UND PRIVATDRUCKEN EROTISCHER UND KURIOSER BÜCHER
Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing 2003 Oversized 4to. cloth. 247 pages.
Reprint of the first edition printed in Vienna by Helm in 1921. Limited and numbered edition of 500 copies. Deakin 72: "A very detailed catalogue of Stern-Szanas excellent private collection, cont. 264 very rare items. The book is exceedingly useful also for its detailed synopses of the contents of books and periodicals. A fascinating, attractive and well-produced volume." Illustrated.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 76529

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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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(Steuart, David) Hillyard, Brian. DAVID STEUART ESQUIRE, AN EDINBURGH COLLECTOR. THE 1801 SALE CATALOGUE OF PART OF HIS LIBRARY REPRODUCED FROM THE UNIQUE COPY IN NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
Edinburgh, Scotland Edinburgh Bibliographical Society in association with The National Library of Scotland 1993 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 90 pages.
First edition. The library of David Steuart, Edinburgh banker and businessman, was described by a contemporary as "the most uncommon, and certainly the MOST VALUABLE PRIVATE LIBRARY EVER brought to the hammer on this side of the Tweed." But few historians of the book know about Steuart.
This facsimile of the only known copy of the 1801 sale catalogue, with an introduction about the man and his books by Brian Hillyard, is intended to restore Steuart to his rightful position in the history of book collecting.
Price: $ 27.50 other currencies Order nr. 55498

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Tanselle, G. Thomas THE PLEASURES OF BEING A SCHOLAR-COLLECTOR: THE 2005 ROBERT L. NIKIRK LECTURE.
New York The Grolier Club 2005 6 x 9 inches paperback 29 pages
This catalogue contains the text of the address delivered by G. Thomas Tanselle for the Nikirk Lecture, New Series, Number 5. Tanselle reminiscences about his book collecting and selling in Britain and America during his lecture on November 14, 2005. The book contains one illustration and was designed by Jerry Kelly.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 106663

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(The Caxton Club) OTHER PEOPLE'S BOOKS: ASSOCIATION COPIES AND THE STORIES THEY TELL
Introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle Chicago The Caxton Club 2011 8 x 11 inches Hardcover 214 pages
The idea for Other People's Books was conceived in 2007 when Steve Tomashefsky, then President of the Caxton Club, actively supported a project to create a collection of essays revealing the stories behind association copies. Even earlier, Caxton Club members recognized the importance of provenance during its exhibition of "books interesting through their associations," in 1896. This enthusiasm for association copies continued to grow even outside of the Caxton Club as newspapers such as The New York Times began publishing articles related to these unique pedigree books.

Other People's Books provides stories of fifty-two presentation copies from 1470 to 1986, narrating how each book came to be inscribed. Containing 112 illustrations, this work is a lively historical account of the journey of twenty-four books from institutional collections and twenty-eight from private hands. Set in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States, these books range in topics from astronomy, ornithology, political science, and psychology, to art, film, history, and literature. While many of the books are presentation inscriptions directly from the author, others were inscribed by someone who was closely connected with the author. The book highlights the owners of these volumes now, many of whom are famous names in literature and history or book scholars and collectors.

This book is a creation of the Caxton Club, an organization of collectors, publishers, designers, and librarians. Many Caxton Club members worked together to assemble this work, with a jury of members hand-picking the fifty-two essays seen in this collection. They edited, designed, and indexed the book. Submission requests were made to numerous book organizations across North America, as well as to curators of university library special collections. An introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle is included.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 105527

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Tomasko, Mark D. RAY SAFFORD RARE BOOKMAN.
New York The Grolier Club 2012 6 x 9 inches paperback 84 pages
Ray Safford was a consummate rare bookman and book collector whose life and career revolved around books and the firm of Charles Scribner's Sons. Produced to accompany a Grolier Club Member Exhibition in 2012, this catalogue offers a fascinating look into Safford's role in the literary, publishing, and rare book worlds of New York in the twentieth century. The exhibition highlights Safford's intriguing relationships with Joseph Conrad, Henry Clay Frick, Frank Nelson Doubleday, and others, and lists some of the unusual items he collected related to Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, and Lewis Carroll.

Including an introduction written by Mark D. Tomasko and an illustrated and annotated checklist of items in the exhibition, the catalogue reveals the character of Safford through his remaining books and papers. The book was designed by award-winning designer Jerry Kelly and contains 24 illustrations, including some color and full-page images.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109017

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(Updike, John) De Bellis, Jack & Michael Broomfield JOHN UPDIKE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATERIALS, 1948-2007
With "Foreword to my own Bibliography" by John Updike and a CD Supplement New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2007 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 624 pages (plus 359 pages on CD-ROM)
First Edition. John Updike is internationally renowned for his novels, short stories, poems, essays and criticism. He has won two Pulitzers, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other prizes. Updike has written a "Foreword to My Own Bibliography" especially for this book.
This definitive guide to materials by and about this prolific American author consists of a printed first volume and a second volume on CD (a first for Oak Knoll Press). The A and B sections of Volume I, concerning separately printed works by Updike and books to which he has contributed, are superb examples of descriptive bibliography. The printed volume also features over 500 grayscale images of book covers, jackets, broadsides, and many seldom seen items. It includes comprehensive listings of Updike's short fiction, poems, articles, essays, and reviews, as well as extensive documentation of letters, speeches, dramatic works, manuscripts, interviews, and blurbs. Volume II contains entries for material about Updike and his work (reviews, commentary, and theses), several appendices (media appearances, work read by others, works in translation, exhibits and catalogs), and full-color versions of images appearing in the printed volume. John Updike: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, 1948-2007 provides an indispensable guide to Updike's work and commentary about it.
Jack De Bellis, professor emeritus of English (Lehigh University), has authored The John Updike Encyclopedia (2000) and John Updike: Critical Responses to the "Rabbit" Saga (2004), as well as several essays and reviews concerning Updike's novels. This bibliography greatly expands his 1994 compilation for Greenwood Press. De Bellis has also published two books on the poet Sidney Lanier, and articles on writers ranging from Shakespeare to Ken Kesey, and from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Truman Capote. His first published work, on Andrew Lytle, was a bibliography. De Bellis was a Fulbright scholar to the University of Toulouse in France. He lives with his wife in Allentown, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia where he was born.
Michael Broomfield, a corporate lawyer by profession, has become, over the past 40 years, a preeminent collector of first editions and other materials by a number of American writers, including Raymond Carver, E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Joseph Heller, Robinson Jeffers and many living authors. Collecting work in many forms, Broomfield displays remarkable attention to detail and an acute understanding of the complexities of editions. He has what is probably the most extensive private collection of John Updike materials. This bibliography is Broomfield's first book. He lives in New York City with his wife and their daughter.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 92254

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Wendorf, Richard. THE LITERATURE OF COLLECTING & OTHER ESSAYS.
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts Oak Knoll Press and the Boston Athenæum 2008 6 x 9 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 376 pages
First edition. In this new collection of essays, many published here for the first time, the author of the warmly reviewed Scholar-Librarian leads a series of further explorations into the world of books, libraries and the visual arts. In his extended title essay, Richard Wendorf provides a groundbreaking investigation of the relationship between the theoretical texts devoted to collecting and the rich fictional texts that also take collecting as their focus: not just John Fowles's The Collector, but also Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover, Evan Connell's The Connoisseur, Tibor Fischer's The Collector Collector, Bruce Chatwin's Utz, and Ian McEwan's early short story "Solid Geometry." Wendorf shows how the critical arguments posed by Benjamin, Baudrillard, Muensterberger and others play out in these modern literary texts and how, in turn, these fictional works complicate the ways in which we think about what it means to be a collector.

Wendorf devotes two chapters to library history: a bicentennial essay on the Boston Athenæum and an investigation of the origins of America's membership libraries in England and its colonies in the eighteenth century. Returning to the painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, the focus of much of his scholarly work, Wendorf includes four essays, two of which provide fresh assessments of Reynolds's career, while the other two document his relationships within the blue-stocking world of Elizabeth Montagu, Hester Thrale Piozzi and his sister Frances Reynolds. And in a tour de force near the end of this volume ("Deconstructing Athena - and Me"), Wendorf writes about what it is like to serve not just as the scholarly interpreter of portraiture but as the photographic subject of it as well.

Richard Wendorf is the Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenæum, which he has helped shepherd through a historic renovation and expansion project as well as its 2007 bicentennial. He was previously the Librarian (director) of Harvards Houghton Library and, before that, Professor of English and Art History at Northwestern University, where he also served as the undergraduate academic dean. His publications include the award-winning Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society (Harvard) and After Sir Joshua: Essays on British Art and Cultural History (Yale). This represents his third book with Oak Knoll Press; its companions are The Scholar-Librarian (2005) and America's Membership Libraries (2007). Co-published with the Boston Athenæum.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 96668

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Yoshimura, Zentaro GLOSSARY OF LIBRARY TERMS IN JAPANESE-CHINESE-ENGLISH.
Tokyo Yushodo Press Co., Ltd. 1997 small 8vo. limp vinyl wrappers, cardboard slipcase. (vii), 332, (6) pages.
For those working with books in English, Chinese and Japanese, this extremely useful glossary translates almost 2,000 library and book terms into English, Chinese and Japanese, both in written and spoken forms. These terms are organized alphabetically into three sections: Japanese-Chinese-English, Chinese-Japanese-English, and English-Japanese-Chinese.
This glossary will be of great benefit to not only librarians, but to book collectors, trade specialists, publishers and others who work with the printed word in these languages.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 49823

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Zboray, Ronald J. and Mary Saracino Zboray HANDBOOK FOR THE STUDY OF BOOK HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES.
Washington Center for the Book - Library of Congress (2000) small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. ix, (3), 155+(1) pages.
Preface by John Cole. Arranged in three major sections: Introduction on the field of book history; How to Locate and Use Sources including information on publishers, writers, printers, booksellers, distributors, consumers, etc.; and Conclusion giving thoughts on the future of book history. With appendices giving important periodicals in the field and suggested reading.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 59790

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