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(Bendix, Hans) EN BOG OM HANS BENDIX.
Kobenhavn Selskabet Bogvennerne (1978) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 175+(1) pages.
First edition. This festschrift commemorates the life and work of the Danish author and book illustrator, Hans Bendix. Essays are supplied by Niels Birger Wamberg, Elias Bredsdorff and others. Illustrated in black-and-white. Chronology at end. Pages unopened.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 61581

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Benet, William Rose THE READER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA.
New York Thomas Y. Crowell Co. (1950 thick 8vo. cloth. x, 1242 pages.
Appears to be a reprint of the first edition.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 15487

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Benge, R.C. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND THE PROVISION OF BOOKS.
London Association of Assistant Librarians 1963 8vo. cloth. 240 pages.
Sections on reading, writing, library service, publishing, and bibliography. Indexed. Bumped at spine.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 48949

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(Ben Jonson) Hudson, Hoyt H. EPIGRAMS, THE FOREST, UNDERWOODS.
New York Columbia University 1936 8vo. cloth boards 285 pages
Reproduced from the first editions and published for the Facsimile Text Society. Epigrams and The Forrest(1616), New York Public Library copy.The Underwoods (1640-41), Columbia University copy. Printed by Acme Photo-Offset, New York. Ink inscription on free endpaper.
Price: $ 22.50 other currencies Order nr. 64967

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Bennett, William JOHNSONIANA, DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS FRIENDS, RICHARD GREENE, THE LICHFIELD APOTHECARY AND HIS MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES.
Birmingham Birmingham School of Printing and Graphic Arts 1993 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. 17 pages.
Offset reprint of the original 1935 publication by the City of Birmingham School of Printing. Brief account with excerpts from contemporary documents of one of Dr. Johnson's Lichfield relations.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 53173

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Benson, Alden R. LOTUS LILIES.
N.P. Privately printed n.d. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt, dust jacket. (xii), 176 pages.
B1-4692. Well printed with decorations in green ink by Star Publishing Co. of Wilmington. Presentation "To Mr. & Mrs H.W. Cullen, most respectfully yours, Alden R. Benson, Dover, Del. October, 9th, 1924". Spotting of endpapers and pastedowns and boards.
Price: $ 18.00 other currencies Order nr. 65978

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(Berthelot, Marcelin) CENTENAIRE DE MARCELIN BERTHELOT.
Paris (Imprimerie de Vaugirard) 1929 folio full leather, spine stamped in gilt with inset profile portrait in relief on cover, all edges speckled, slipcase with protective board vii, 709+(1) pages with additional leaves of illustrations
Produced after a symposium commemorating the centennial of Marcelin Berthelot's birth. Berthelot (1827-1907) was a French scientist who made landmark contributions to synthetic organic chemistry. Includes a biographical essay, a comprehensive bibliography of Berthelot's publications, tributes from his colleagues, and lists of symposium attendees. Notices of praise for the chemist from an international assortment of universities and research institutions are reprinted, some in color. Marbled endpapers. Well-illustrated with black-and-white photographs and facsimiles of Berthelot's notes. A few subtle scratches/marks on the covers; slipcover shows much wear, rubbing. Magnificent production.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 73975

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Bialostocki, Jan LIVRES DE SAGESSE ET LIBRES DE VANITÉS
Pour une Symbolique du Livres dans l'Art N.P. Éditions des Cendres, Institut d'étude du livre (1993) large 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper label on spine and top board 73, (5) pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 999. Traces the appearance and symbolism of books from fourteenth-century statues of saints to the work of Vincent van Gogh in the nineteenth century. Essay translated by Christiane F. Kopylov. Preface by François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout.
Price: $ 34.00 other currencies Order nr. 94600

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages.
VOLUME 3, NO.12, DEC., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: J. Fawcett on Thomas Malthus, A.S. Earle on 19th-century illustrated flower books, N.H. Marshall on Clement Moore, and R. Armstrong on the "state of the art book." ALSO: M. Atwood discusses storytelling (excerpt), B. Strubble takes a bibliophile tour of England, and the Bill Gates Library Foundation commits $200 million over the next 5 years to give libraries access to the latest computer technology. AND MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53715

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1998 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages.
VOLUME 4, NO.1, JAN., 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: K. Ramsland on A. Camus, B. Roismann-Cooper on the private press printer Gloria Stuart (who learned printing from Ward Ritchie and is at the moment better known for her role in a recent movie), S. Stipe on "the book that ruined Kate Chopin's career," B. Hicks on Powell's Books in Portland, N. Basbanes on the London Library, AND MUCH MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 53955

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1999 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages.
Volume 4, Number 3, March, 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: K. Blewster on Sherman Alexie, K. Vonnegut on himself, C. Grossman on the Limited Editions Club then and now, R. Meador on The Death of a Salesman, K. Jones on a bookstore in W. Texas, D. Thompson on collecting Beatles books, K. Peterson on Hemingway in Cuba, Dodgson's own first edition copy of Alice at auction, AND MORE. We also have various recent back issues.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 54401

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1999 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages.
Volume 4, Number 2, Feb., 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: S. Stipes on the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs with a bibliography of other such narratives by C.L. Blockson, N.A. Basbanes on Tom Wolfe, I. Ungar and J.P. Ansell on the illuminator and anti-Nazi caricaturist Arthur Szyk, R. Meador on the Wine and Food Library in Ann Arbor, and MORE.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 54933

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BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
Eugene, OR Aster Publishing Corporation 1999 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages.
Volume 4, Number 4. March 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: Grant Menzies on Luce's Women, women who have inspired one-woman plays from the pen of William Luce; Alice L. Tufel on The New York Public Library Berg Collection, offers remarkable accessibility to booklovers wanting a hands-on experience with rarities; Peter Szatmary on Edward Hirsch's poetry that engages head and heart--and his newest prose book. Lorenzo Thomas on Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to an African American 50 years ago; Reviews; Postscript; Matrix; Biblio Mart, AND MORE. We also have various recent back issues.
Price: $ 4.95 other currencies Order nr. 55331

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(Biblio Novel) Cohen, Richard. DON'T MENTION THE MOON.
New York Seaview/Putnam 1983 cloth, dust jacket. 224 pages.
Liberal arts graduate Rich Redstone, unable to find rational, gainful employment in NYC, decides to become an observer of life and meets diverse characters, while supporting himself as a writer for Yer Press, a company which produced each of its books "to please the customer who had ordered it, who had specified many of the characters and events, and who was sent the entire limited edition in a half-dozen cardboard boxes" (p.67). While at Yer Press, he writes the autobiography of a South American dictator, and becomes an anonymous best-selling author in the dictator's country (where the book is required reading for the population)...
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 49944

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(Biblio Novel) Fritzhand, James. SON OF THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL.
New York George Braziller n.d.(1975) small 8vo. two-tone cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 241 pages.
First edition. An account of the epic journey of Arden K., famous writer of the late 20th century and author of the monstrous bestseller "Flush," to Brooklyn, where he visits Guysman, producer and apostle of the New Pornography, who plans to start on his" most significant contribution to the art of film...Law and Order on the Indiana Thruway" (p.111). With other biographical excursions, samples of Arden's first rejection slips, etc. along with scholarly comments by the author, a 21st-century critic. Bookplate.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 49954

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(Biblio Novel) Westlake, Donald E. A LIKELY STORY.
With an Introduction by F.N. Doubleday New York Penzler Books (1984) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 248 pages.
First edition. An author decides to write a sure-fire bestseller. The resulting dealings with his publishers and family make for a very funny novel. Much on publishing in this book. Name in ink at top of free endpaper.
Price: $ 14.95 other currencies Order nr. 9546

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(Bird & Bull Press) Adelman, Seymour CHANGING PATTERNS IN THE FUNCTION OF TRAVEL AGENCIES
Philadelphia Taylor & Hessey (1977) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 23, (3) pages.
Limited to 400 numbered copies printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. A humorous trip to England where the author meets many of the famous authors of the 19th century. Presentation from the author on the first blank page.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 3564

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Bird, Robert Montgomery CITY LOOKING GLASS, A PHILADELPHIA COMEDY, IN FIVE ACTS.
Edited, with An Introduction, by Arthur Hobson Quinn. New York The Colophon 1933 square 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, dust jacket. xxii, 138, (3) pages.
First edition. (BAL 1177). Limited to 465 copies printed by the Pynson Printers. Jacket is chipped at spine ends with small tears. Piece missing at head of spine. Unusual to find still in jacket.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 43897

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Birkenhead, Sheila. ILLUSTRIOUS FRIENDS, THE STORY OF JOSEPH SEVERN AND HIS SON ARTHUR.
New York Reynal & Company in association with William Morrow & Company (1965) tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 303 pages.
First U.S. edition. Biography of these two great men and their association with others. Joseph Severn was the artist who traveled with John Keats to Rome and in whose arms Keats died, and Arthur married John Ruskin's ward and cared for him when he could no longer work. Illustrated. Minor jacket wear.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 35082

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Birkerts, Sven THE GUTENBERG ELEGIES, THE FATE OF READING IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE.
New York Faber and Faber (2006) small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xv, (iii), 251+(1) pages
First published in 1994, this edition has a new introduction and afterword by Birkerts. Essays on reading and the effects of the digital age. This is the latest edition.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 93070

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Birkos, Alexander S. and Lewis A.Tambs HISTORIOGRAPHY, METHOD, HISTORY TEACHING, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES IN ENGLISH, 1965-1973.
(Hamden, CT) Linnet Books 1975 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 130 pages.
Instructors of history can use this bibliography to compile reading lists for classes and a source of potential publishing outlets. Divided into chapters on research methods in history, teaching of history, historiography and philosophy of history, and historiographical studies by area, with a checklist of professional periodical literature as appendix.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 70838

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Birley, Robert. SUNK WITHOUT TRACE, SOME FORGOTTEN MASTERPIECES RECONSIDERED, THE CLARK LECTURES, 1960-1961.
London Rupert Hart-Davis 1962 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 208 pages.
First edition. Six fairly forgotten works, considered masterpieces in their day, are reconsidered for today's literary audience. Discusses works by William Warner, Nathaniel Lee, Edward Young, William Robertson, Thomas Moore and Philip James Bailey. Dust jacket chipped at spine ends and spotted on spine.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 35475

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Birrell, Augustine. ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES.
Freeport Books for Libraries Press (1970) small 8vo. cloth. xii, 290 pages.
Reprint of the 1901 first edition. Ten essays on various subjects, including Walter Bagehot, James Anthony Froude and Robert Browning; also an address on good taste in books.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 61170

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Birrell, Augustine SEVEN LECTURES ON THE LAW AND HISTORY OF COPYRIGHT IN BOOKS.
London Cassell 1899 8vo. original cloth. 228, (18) pages.
First edition thus. Reprint of several lectures by Birrell that he gave at the University College, where he was the Quain Professor of Law. Only minor cover wear. Private collector's embossed ownership stamp on free endpaper.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 476

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Bjork, Kai. LAS- OCH BOKVANOR I FEM SVENSKA SAMHALLEN.
Stockholm Statens Offentliga Utredningar 1972 8vo. stiff paper covers. 707, (3) pages, with 8 additional pages of plates.
A Swedish government publication. Results of studies conducted 1969-1972 in five districts in Sweden on reading and book use. Includes demographic and other data on the districts, library statistics, reading data, activities of school children, etc., with analysis, photographic illustrations, samples of questionaires. Part one of this report.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 51508

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