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Johnson, Kevin THE DARK PAGE II: BOOKS THAT INSPIRED AMERICAN FILM NOIR, 1950-1965.
Foreword by Guy Maddin New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 9 x 12 inches cloth, slipcase 272 pages
Deluxe version, limited to 110 copies, with a slipcase and a colophon page signed by Guy Maddin and Kevin Johnson.

Following up on his well-received bibliography of first edition sources for American film noir of the 1940s, Kevin Johnson's new bibliography The Dark Page II explores the second half of the classic American period, covering the years 1950-1965. Ground rules for noir style were by this time firmly established in Hollywood, and new techniques and themes had emerged, including location shooting and documentary-style storytelling, the incorporation of social issues into storylines, the final years of the Production Code's stranglehold on film content, and the influence of the style on Westerns, melodramas, and even science fiction. Importantly too, this era would see many of Hollywood's finest writers and directors blacklisted, jailed, or exiled as a result of McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities hearings.

The literary sources that informed this era evolved as well, with Hollywood taking a greater interest in the surprisingly literate novels that were being published as paid-by-the-word paperback originals, as well as hardcover titles being released by obscure and often short-lived publishers. The influence of the film industry on the book industry was felt in turn, with stories being snatched up as film options as soon as they first appeared in magazines and newspapers, sometimes resulting in a book publication that would never have occurred otherwise.

The Dark Page II is an essential volume in a continuing series of references that are projected to cover American screwball comedies, European film noir, and American crime films and dramas of the late 1960s and 1970s. Full-color photos of each first edition are featured, as well as bibliographical points for each book and a bounty of factual information surrounding both the origins of the books and their subsequent film adaptations.
Price: $ 375.00 other currencies Order nr. 100484

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Jones, Howard PRINTING THE CLASSICAL TEXT
`t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2004 6.25 x 9.75 inches hardcover 238 pages
Printing the Classical Text presents a comprehensive survey of the period in which the first Classical text was printed in 1465 through the end of 1500. The opening chapter of the book locates Classical printing within the wider context by reviewing some of the cultural, intellectual, and commercial factors which affected the printing industry as a whole during the first fifty years of its development. The two central chapters are devoted to the Latin and Greek editions.
Latin editions, representing more than ninety percent of the whole, include comprehensive chronological listings that detail the printing history of each of the more than seventy authors represented, a synoptic chart, and running commentary in which the author identifies observable patterns and highlights the text's most distinctive features. An account of the introduction of Greek studies into Italy, where all fifteenth-century editions of Greek authors were printed, and a review of the typographical challenges that the earliest printers of Greek texts faced is followed by an examination of each of the Greek editions in the context of its printer's instinctive publishing program. In the concluding chapter, the author examines what the process of editing involved and attempts to assign to the earliest printed Classical editions their appropriate place in the evolution of the authoritative text in light of both the claims which the earliest editors themselves made and the less enthusiastic judgment rendered by modern critics. Illustrated in black-and-white.
Howard Jones is Professor of Classics at McMaster University in Canada, and is the author of books on Cicero, Gassendi, and the Epicurean tradition.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 103669

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Kerssemakers, Agnes M.L. SOCIAL LIBERATION: FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE MIDDLE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2012 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover 835 pages
This extensive catalogue describes around 9,000 printed books, pamphlets, papers, periodicals, almanacs, broadsides, posters, prints, caricatures, photographs, manuscripts, and memorabilia that were collected by author Agnes M.L. Kerssemakers over the course of many years.

It is a collection of mainly propaganda and enlightenment publications, but also entertainment pieces like songs and literature, including almost every edition of the Malik-Verlag. The book is complemented with pictorial surveys of social bodies or activities, as well as the great works of the social Fathers, like Babeuf, Morelly, Rousseau, Moses Hess, Flora Tristan, Marx and Lenin.

The catalogue has been enriched with 161 full color illustrations.

Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 108986

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Kurian, George Thomas THE DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHING FROM FOUNDING FATHERS TO TODAY'S CONGLOMERATES.
New York Simon and Schuster (1975) small 4to. faux leather. (xii), 386 pages.
First edition. With short histories of American publishers. Some illustrations.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 103004

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Leypoldt, F. AMERICAN CATALOGUE. AUTHOR AND TITLE ENTRIES OF BOOKS IN PRINT
8 volumes. With the seven other volumes taking the work through 1910. First volume, New York A.C. Armstrong & Son, New York: The Office of Publishers' Weekly 1881; other volumes 1885-19, thick tall 4to. Through 1900 and then thick 8vo. contemporary half leather with cloth-covered boards. Thousands of pages.
First edition of this massive "Books-in-Print" for this entire period from when Kelly ended his work up to 1910. The work was started under the direction of F. Leypoldt with the first volume compiled by Lynds E. Jones, the second volume covers 1876 to 1884 and was compiled by R.R. Bowker and Miss A.I. Appleton. Bowker continued his work up to 1900. Ex-library set with markings. Covers rubbed. Hinges cracked, with a few covers detached. Five volumes have spines partially detached. Volume 1890-1895 is missing title page and Volume 1900-1905 is missing front cover and title page.
Price: $ 273.00 other currencies Order nr. 59008

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Meyer, Fredrich Hermann KATALOG DER BIBLIOTHECK DES BÖRSENVEREINS DER DEUTSCHEN BUCHÄNDLER.
2 volumes. Leipzig Verlag des Börsenvereins der Deutschen Buchhändler 1885, 1902. 8vo. later quarter cloth with paper covered boards. xxxvi, 708; xx, 655-1406 pages
Second edition (Besterman, 5270). A description of books about books in the library of this German bookseller's organization. Includes 7,564 entries. With the second volume expanding the listing through 1901. Scarce catalogue of this pre-eminent collection of books relating to all aspects of book production.
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 103034

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Mezger, Johann Jakob GESCHICHTE DER DEUTSCHEN BIBELÜBERSETZUNGEN IN DER SCHWEIZERISCH-REFORMIRTEN KIRCHE VON DER REFORMATION BIS ZUR GEGENWART. EIN BEITRAG ZUR GESCHICHTE DER REFORMIERTEN KIRCHE.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1967 5.5 x 8.5 inches cloth xv, 428 pages.
Reprint of the 1876 edition published in Basel. Study of the Bible in Switzerland.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 103593

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(Mosher, Thomas Bird) Hatch, Benton L. CHECK LIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THOMAS BIRD MOSHER OF PORTLAND MAINE.
Northampton The Gehenna Press 1966 4to. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, slipcase. 213 pages.
First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Biographical essay on Mosher by Ray Nash followed by the bibliography. Beautifully printed by the Gehenna Press. With information on William Morris. Bookplate indicates that this copy is from the referenc library of the bookseller, William Wreden.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 72101

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Pettas, William A. THE GIUNTI OF FLORENCE: A RENAISSANCE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING FAMILY.
A History of the Florentine Firm and a Catalogue of the Editions New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2012 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover 1096 pages
This ambitious project explores in detail the history and output of the Giunti Press in Florence, covering the firm from its beginnings in 1497 to its end in 1625, and providing descriptions of each Giunti book published with extensive indication of the libraries holding copies of each edition. In doing so, it addresses issues of censorship, the development of the Italian language from Florentine dialect, and the larger literature and history of Florence in the late Renaissance.

Printer and publisher Aldus Manutius, founder of Aldine Press, is well known among students of Renaissance Italian literature and history. Less has been published on the Guinti, however, a family whose members established operations over much larger territory than the Aldine press, collectively achieving much greater financial resources and surviving for a longer period of time. Their role in the history of Italian literature was significant and deserves an extensive review. The aim, then, of the present history is to tell the story of this late Renaissance Florentine printer-publisher.

Part I of the book covers all aspects of the Giunti family and the press, the nature of its output, its relationship to the governments of Florence and Tuscany, to social conditions, to the economy, to members of their own family, to their editors, and to the strictures of censorship. Names of Greek authors and editors in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have been cited in a transliteration of the Greek rather than the usual Western form, and libraries holding Florentine Giunti editions have been listed by country. The catalogue in Part II provides a basic description of all known editions, as well as some unsigned editions that others have attributed to the Giunti, seeking to identify as many surviving exemplars as possible. In addition, the book provides Giunti images, genealogical tables, a chronological list of editions by language, and a list of works cited.

Dr. William Pettas is a native of Buffalo, NY, and has had a long career in public and academic library administration. His research has focused on the Giunti family of Florence, and he has published extensively on their firms in Florence, Rome, Venice, Lyon, Burgos, Salamanca, and Madrid. In researching this book, he has traveled extensively to libraries with rare book collections in the US, England, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, and Greece.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 105520

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Pettas, William A HISTORY & BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GIUNTI (JUNTA) PRINTING FAMILY IN SPAIN 1526 - 1628, COVERING THE JUNTA (GIUNTI) PRESS AND THE IMPRENTA REAL IN BURGOS, SALAMANCA & MADRID WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SEVERAL GIUNTI PRESSES IN VENICE, FLORENCE AND LYON AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRESS OF JUAN BAUTISTA VARESIO IN BURGOS, VALLADOLID & LERMA
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2004 8.5" x 11" cloth, hardcover. 1086 pages.
The first edition of this monumental work opens with a 170 page history of the Giunti publishing family that covers their achievements in Italy, Spain and France from 1489 to 1628. As the great rivals of the Aldine Press, the Giunti aggressively captured large portions of the lucrative governmental and Church's printing business. From their base in Florence and Venice, family members set up printing presses in Burgos, Salamanca, Madrid, Valladolid, Lerma and Lyons. In Spain they became printers to the most powerful King in the world and established "The Imprenta Real," changing their name to "Junta." The comprehensive, 700 page bibliography of the books they published while in Spain is annotated with more than 148 wood cuts of their ornate title page art, imprints, and other identifying ornaments. The text also features the genealogical charts of the family, library holdings, and a documentary chronology.

The author, William Pettas, has researched this early printing family for over twenty years, and this is his second work on this important clan. A very readable and valuable contribution to the history of the book and an important bibliography and reference work.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 77561

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(Pickering, William) Birnie, William. THE BLAME OF KIRK-BURIALL, TENDING TO PERSWADE CEMITERIALL CIVILITIE. EDITED BY W.B.D.D. TURNBULL.
London W. Pickering; and G.A. Douglas, Edinburgh 1833 small 4to. full leather stamped in blind, top edge gilt xii, (44) pages.
Limited to 100 copies printed. Inscribed by Editor to Thos. Sharp. Nicely executed facsimile of this rare pamphlet, with an informative introduction by Turnbull. Covers a little faded and rubbed at extremities. Bookplate of Philip Sperling.Signed binding by R. Nelson.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 80639

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(Postel, Guillaume) Secret, François (editor) POSTELLIANA.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1981 8vo cloth 366 pages.
Published on the occasion of the quartercentenary of the death of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581). Contains the following hitherto unpublished texts: Traduction du Sefer-ha-Bahir - Apologie à G. Lindan - De la restitution de la vérité démonstrative des temps courants - Aphorismes pour servir d'appendice au De Orbis terrae concordia - De magia orientali - Catastrophes veritatis et victoriae aethernae de praesentis mundi immutatione - Qu'est ce que de l'image de Dieu à laquelle l'homme est crée, formé et faict? - They are preceded by an introduction and followed by an index. ". une contribution de premier plan à la connaissance de Postel (Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 11, 1982). Professor Secret has rendered yet another service to Postel scholarship by this book of transcriptions, since the manuscripts are not easily accessible to many" (Marion Leathers Kuntz in Renaissance Quarterly XXXV,3, 1982). (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. XXXIII).

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 103356

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Complete run of a very rare journal

LA PRESSE UNIVERSELLE. ORGANE OFFICIEL DE L'UNION DE LA PRESSE PÉRIODIQUE BELGE. RÉVUE MENSUELLE [D'HISTOIRE & DE BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE LA PRESSE PÉRIODIQUE].
Anvers & Bruxelles Bureau de la Revue, January 1897 - July 1905. Years 1-1X. 8vo. original paper wrappers 262; 200+; 229; 172; 204; 208; 211; 164; 84 pages.
74 issues. Annual cumulative. Facsimiles., illustrated. Not in BUCOP. NUC lists 2 runs, detailing the NYPL run which concludes "no more published" after 1904, i.e. does not have the numbers issued in 1905. The journal was under the general editorship of J. B. Vervliet. One or two wrappers loose but on the whole remarkably well preserved set.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 80650

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Roden, Robert F. AUCTION PRICES OF AMERICAN BOOK-CLUB PUBLICATIONS 1857-1901.
Cleveland The Rowfant Club 1904 small 8vo. quarter leather, paper-covered boards, fore and bottom edges uncut. (vi), 70, (2) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 120 numbered copies; this copy does not have a number but is inscribed in ink "Sample Copy." A record of some book club publications and the prices realized at various auctions. Book clubs listed include the Caxton Club, the Grolier Club, and the Rowfant Club, among others. Well-preserved copy of this scarce book. Unopened copy.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 51622

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(Sauer, Christopher) AUSBUND, DAS IST: ETLICHE SCHÖNE CHRISTLICHE LIEDER, WIE SIE IN DEM GEFÄNGNUS ZU BASSAU IN DEM SCHLOSZ VON DEN SCHWEITZER-BRÜDERN, UND VON ANDEREN RECHTGLÄUBIGEN CHRISTEN HIN, UND HER GEDICHTET WORDEN
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1971 17.5x11.5 cm cloth (iv, x), 818, 20, 46 pages.
Facsimile reprint of the original 1742 edition published in Germantown, PA, with kind permission of the Historical Library of the Eastern-Mennonite College, Harrison, Virginia (USA). First American edition of the oldest hymnbook of the Swiss Brethren. Printed by Christopher Sauer, the first German printer and publisher in America.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 103638

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Savigny de Moncorps, Vicomte de ALMANACHS ILLUSTRÉS DU XVIIIE SIÈCLE.
Paris Librairie Henri Leclerc 1909 4to. full red polished calf with original covers bound in including original paper spine, five raised bands on spine, gilt-stamping on spine, edges gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut, marbled endpapers with gilt edges viii,(ii),283,(5) pages
Text in French. Limited to 125 numbered copies. (Besterman I, 293). Author was a member of the Société des Bibliophiles François. Foreword by Georges Vicaire. Frontispiece. Description of almanacs published in France from the beginning of the 18th century into the early 19th. Introductory chapter gives an overview of almanac publication. Subsequent chapters look at almanacs through the 18th century, the Revolutionary era and the era of the Bourbon Restoration to 1830. Contains detailed descriptive information about all entries, organized by year of publication. Numerous attached illustrations throughout text. Alphabetic table of almanacs and index. Also a study of bookbinding as the original covers were often excellent examples of the craft. A well excecuted signed binding by E. Carayon. Small crack in front hinge along top.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 109649

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Schedel, Hartmann THE NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, A FACSIMILE OF HARTMANN SCHEDEL'S BUCH DER CHRONIKEN PRINTED BY ANTON KOBERGER IN 1493.
New York Landmark Press (1979) folio fabricoid, spine and cover labels, slipcase. 286 leaves plus index.
A facsimile edition of this well known incunabula.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 37331

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SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING, A JOURNAL FOR AUTHORS & PUBLISHERS.
30 volumes composing 118 (of 120) issues. Toronto University of Toronto Press 1969 - 1999 8vo. stiff paper wrappers.
Filled with excellent articles on publishing and its history. Lacks only volume volume 25, 4 and volume 30, 2.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 105216

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SCHRIFTEN ZUR BUCHMARKT-FORSCHUNG.
21 plus volumes, being volumes 1 to 25, lacking 15, 17, 22 (Vol 2) and 24. Gütersloh C. Bertelsmann Verlag 1963-1974 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. For the run:
Each volume in this set is a complete book in itself. Includes: 1. Kliemann and Meyer-Dohm. Buchhandel, Eine Bibliographie. 160 pages. 2. Meter-Dohm. Buch und Leser in Frankreich, Eine Studie des Syndicat National des Éditeurs, Paris. 96 pages. 3. Meyer-Dohm. buch und Leser in den Niederlanden. 182 pages. 4. Girardi. Buch und Leser in Deutschland. 356 pages. 5. Uhlig. Buchhandel und Wissenschaft. 196 pages. 6. Hintze. Massen-Bildpresse und Fernsehen. 312 pages. 7. Arnim. Gewerbliche Leihbüchereien. 315 pages. 8. Otto. Das Moderne Antiquariat. 274 pages. 9. Lichtenstein-Rother. Jugend und Buch in Europa. 307 pages. 10. Escarpit. Die Revolution des Buches. 146 pages. 11. Meyer-Dohm. Buchhandel als kulturwirtschaftliche Aufgabe. 224 pages. 12. Aley. Jugendliteratur im Dritten Reich. 262 pages. 13. Becker. Literarisches Leben. 254 pages. 14. Glotz. Buchkritik in Deutschen Zeitungen. 226 pages. 16. Meyer-Dohm. Das wissenschaftliche Buch. 256 pages. 18. Noelle-Neumann. Religioses Buch und christlicher Buchhandel. 190 pages. 19. Die Moderne Schulbibliothek. 260 pages. 20. Siebert. Der andere Teil Deutschlands in Schulbüchern der DDR und der BRD. 125 pages. 21. Dahrendorf. Das Madchenbuch und seine Leserin. 292 pages. 22. Erpf. Internationale Preisvergleiche wissenschaftlicher Bücher. 280 pages. 23. Scheib. Das Angebot wissenschaftlicher Bücher in der BRD. Two volumes. 319; 124 pages. 25. Gehmacher. Buch und Leser in Osterreich. 138 pages.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 45200

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Schwetschke, Gustav CODEX NUNDINARIUS GERMANIAE LITERATAE BISECULARIS
Mess-Jahrbücher des Deutschen Buchhandels von dem Erscheinen des ersten Mess-Kataloges im Jahre 1564 bis zu der Gründung des ersten Buchhändler-Vereins im Jahre 1765. (With:) - - Codex Nundinarius Germaniae literatae continuatus. Der Mess- Jahrbücher des Deutschen Buchhandels Fortsetzung, die Jahre 1766 bis einschliesslich 1846 umfassend. Nieuwkoop De Graaf 1963 tall folio unlettered two toned cloth xxxvi, 440 in quadruple columns
Reprint of the Halle 1850-77 edition. The essential bibliography of the term catalogues issued for the annual German book fairs in Frankfurt and Leipzig 1564-1846. Two parts in one volume. Three plates.
Price: $ 455.00 other currencies Order nr. 80728

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Schwetschke, Gustav CODEX NUNDINARIUS GERMANIAE LITERATAE BISECULARIS. MESS-JAHRBÜCHER DES DEUTSCHEN BUCHHANDELS VON DEM ERSCHEINEN DES ERSTEN MESS-KATALOGES IM JAHRE 1564 BIS ZU DER GRÜNDUNG DES ERSTEN BUCHHÄNDLER-VEREINS IM JAHRE 1765.
2 parts bound in 1 Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1963 folio cloth xxxvi, 440 pages in quadruple columns.
Mess-Jahrbücher des Deutschen Buchhandels von dem Erscheinen des ersten Mess-Kataloges im Jahre 1564 bis zu der Gründung des ersten Buchhändler-Vereins im Jahre 1765. (With:) - Codex Nundinarius Germaniae literatae continuatus. Der Mess- Jahrbücher des Deutschen Buchhandels Fortsetzung, die Jahre 1766 bis einschliesslich 1846 umfassend. Reprint of the Halle 1850 -77 edition. The essential bibliography of the term catalogues issued for the annual German book fairs in Frankfurt and Leipzig 1564-1846. Two parts in one volume. Three plates.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 455.00 other currencies Order nr. 103288

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Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. GREEK LIBRARY: THE KONSTANTINOS SP. STAIKOS BOOK COLLECTION HENCEFORTH THE ALEXANDER S. ONASSIS PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION LIBRARY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2011 9 x 12.25 inches hardcover 550 pages
Greek Library is a bibliography of the collection of Konstantinos Sp. Staikos acquired by the Library of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. This collection represents the entire spectrum of the intellectual pursuits of the Greeks of the Diaspora, extending over a period from the Early Renaissance until the late years of Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment. The books in this collection not only exemplify Greek printing and publishing activities, but they demonstrate the participation of Greeks in international politics and religious matters in the courts of empires such as Russia and Austria.

The collection includes more than 1,200 titles divided into five sections. The first section, Renaissance-Humanism, discusses first editions of Greek literature, grammaires, and Lexikons. The other sections examine Neo-Hellenic literature, liturgies, theology, and the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment. Among these sections, poetry, novels, mythistories, gospels, psalters, the Old and New Testament, Works of the Greek Fathers, Dogmatic works, translations of European literature, and specimens of Greek typography in many places are examined.

For each listed book, full bibliographical notes, references in standard bibliographies, provenance, comments, notes, and descriptions by the writer are provided. There are over 700 printers' marks listed, as well as many title pages and portraits of writers, publishers, and editors. A general introduction, introductions for each section, a general index, and an index of printers are also included.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 104816

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Tebbel, John HISTORY OF BOOK PUBLISHING IN THE UNITED STATES. VOLUME I - VOLUME 4.
4 volumes, complete. New York R.R. Bowker 1972, 1975, 1978, 1981 large 8vo. cloth. xvi,646; xiv,813; xiii,774; xiv,830 pages.
First edition. An excellent history of publishing in the United States. Each volume covers a different chronological period. Presentation from the author on free endpaper of volumes 1 "for Mark- with admiration and affection John, "and in volume 3 "for Mark with affection, admiration and very best wishes, John, Southbury, MA, Dec 9, 1978." From the library of Mark Carroll. Clipped newspaper obituaries of Alfred Knopf inserted in volume 4 (which has foxed endpaper and pastedown. Well preserved set.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 46760

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(Texas) Streeter, Thomas W. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TEXAS 1795-1845, PART III, UNITED STATES AND EUROPEAN IMPRINTS RELATING TO TEXAS, VOL. I, 1795-1837 / ...VOL. II, 1838-1845.
2 volumes. Cambridge(MA) Harvard University Press 1960 large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xlii,278; (vi),281-677 pages.
Limited to 600 copies for each vol. Besterman 6067. Third and final part in two volumes of the five-volume bibliography of early Texas by Thomas Winthrop Streeter (1885-1965), the well-known collector of Americana. One may be surprised to learn that the major class of imprint up to the establishment of the Texas Republic seems to be the publications of land speculators and promoters of colonization schemes, both in the United States and Europe (particularly Germany). The stream of real-estate promotions scarcely slackens during the Texas War of Independence, concerning which we learn relatively little, and only at the end of this war do the land-settlement promotions and disputes yield precedence to another kind of publication: the often bitter annexation debate in the United States, a foretaste of the polarization of the 1850's. Frequently lengthy annotations generally contain historical and biographical information, references, and holdings locations (often including Streeter's own collection). Six hundred thirty-four main entries, frequently with subentries for variants or later editions. Index. Dust jackets soiled, chipped, torn.
Price: $ 212.00 other currencies Order nr. 54519

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Topp, Chester W. VICTORIAN YELLOWBACKS & PAPERBACKS, 1849-1905. VOLUME IX, DAVID BRYCE, INGRAM, COOKE & CO., DAVID BOGUE, HENRY LEA, SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., J.&C. BROWN & CO.
VOLUME IX Denver Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop 2006 8vo. cloth, dust jacket (xii), 196, (4) pages
First edition limited to 500 copies. Volume IX in what will be a multi-volume bibliography of over twenty-five publishers of Victorian yellowbacks and paperbacks. An expansion of the work of Michael Sadleir and the catalogue of the Robert Wolf collection, this series represents the first comprehensive study of this important literary genre. Arranged chronologically by publisher, each numbered entry includes information on the first English and first American editions along with other important editions. With a history of each publisher, 24 pages in color, and title, author, and series indexes.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 93388

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