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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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(Johnson, Samuel) Eddy, Donald D. and J.D. Fleeman PRELIMINARY HANDLIST OF BOOKS TO WHICH DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON SUBSCRIBED.
Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 1993 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 34 pages.
Reprinted from Studies in Bibliography. 68 books identified to which Johnson subscribed. Notes to entries discuss other subscribers, record published references to the book or to Johnson's connection with it, and report the copies on which the present record is based.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 53831

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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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Keulen, E.A van, E.K. Spits IN DE GEKROONDE LOOTSMAN. HET KAARTEN-, BOEKUITGEVERS EN INSTRUMENTENMAKERSHUIS VAN KEULEN TE AMSTERDAM 1680-1885.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1989 8.25 x 9.25 inches Paperback 104 pages
For over two centuries, the chartmakers firm of Van Keulen was established in the instrument-house of 'De Gekroonde Lootsman' in Amsterdam. Written in Dutch, this text studies the maps and books published by Van Keulen from their opening in 1680 to their closing in 1885.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 103314

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Kooker, H.W. de, B. van Selm BOEKCULTUUR IN DE LAGE LANDEN 1500-1800. BIBLIOGRAFIE VAN PUBLIKATIES OVER PARTICULIER BOEKENBEZIT IN NOORD- EN ZUID-NEDERLAND, VERSCHENEN VOOR 1991.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1993 8vo cloth xviii, 210 pages.
Study of the book culture of this area. Illustrated.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 103477

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Laurentius, F. CLEMENT DE JONGHE (CA. 1624-1677): KUNSTVERKOPER IN DE GOUDEN EEUW
Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2010 6 x 9.5 inches Hardcover 190 pages
Frans Laurentius describes Dutch prints and the life and business of art vendor and publisher, Clement de Jonghe . It is known that Jonghe was in possession of a group of Rembrandt etched copper plates. Despite his relative fame in this area, Clement de Jonghe has never fully explained in literature. Contains 44 illustrations. Written in Dutch with English summary.

Volume XL in the series of Bibliotheca Neerlandica.
Price: $ 140.00 other currencies Order nr. 105568

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(Leadenhall Press) Young, Matthew McLennan FIELD & TUER, THE LEADENHALL PRESS: A CHECKLIST
With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2010 7 x 10 inches hardcover, dust jacket 176 pages
This book is the first comprehensive (and long-overdue) bibliographic study of the London partnership of Field & Tuer and their publishing imprint, Leadenhall Press (later the Leadenhall Press, Ltd.). Matthew Young makes a convincing argument for Andrew W. Tuer (1838-1900) as one of the most imaginative and influential printers and publishers of the mid-to-late Victorian period. Known today primarily for old-style facsimile reprints and a few outstanding works such as Tuer's own History of the Horn-Book, the Leadenhall Press in fact published hundreds of titles in almost every subject area, from sixpenny pamphlets to vellum-bound limited editions dedicated by command to the Queen, as well as two important and long-running periodicals: The Paper & Printing Trades Journal and The Printers International Specimen Exchange. The remarkable range of the catalogue is evident in a small sample from 1885: Jerome K. Jerome's first book, On the Stage--and Off; Joseph Crawhall's hand-colored Izaak Walton: His Wallet Booke; The Owls of Olynn Belfry, illustrated by Randolph Caldecott; Sir Montague Shearman's Foot-Ball: Its History for Five Centuries; feminist Emily Jane Pfeiffer's Flying Leaves from East and West; and Songs of the North, illustrated by (among others) Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Keene, Albert Moore, Frederick Sandys, and J.M. Whistler.

The book includes a revealing portrait of Andrew Tuer as a man of energy, curiosity, and wit: a successful businessman, inventor, advocate for fine printing, publisher, designer, collector, author, and correspondent. The annotated checklist describes nearly 450 publications issued by Field & Tuer and the Leadenhall Press from 1863 to 1913. Listing details include: month and year of publication, publisher's job number, listed price, brief description of format and cover design, important aspects of content and publication, and location of scarce and noteworthy copies. Appendices cover Andrew Tuer's writings, ephemera, series titles, and institutional collections of special interest. A color section and illustrations in the text complete the story of an important link in the development of printing between the Chiswick Press of Charles Whittingham II and the celebrated publishers of the 1890s.

Matthew Young is a graphic designer and book collector. He was the recipient of a 2008 Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship award to examine the collection at the Lilly Library (Indiana University), and he has presented papers on the Leadenhall Press at conferences in England, Canada, and the United States. A previous article, "The Mystery of Walt Ruding: A Solution," was published in the Antiquarian Book Monthly in 2001.

Available in the UK from the British Library.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 103886

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Leroy, David H. MR. LINCOLN'S BOOK: PUBLISHING THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES.
With a Census of Signed Copies New Castle, DE & Chicago, IL Oak Knoll Press & Abraham Lincoln Book Shop 2009 6 x 9 inches cloth, dust jacket 228 pages
Fifty years ago, David Mearns at the Library of Congress wrote a twenty-page overview of the basic process that led to the publication of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Here, for the first time in a detailed and readable account focusing on Lincoln's personal involvement, Dave Leroy writes the full story with original correspondence, contemporary newspaper accounts, and photos and illustrations of the day to carry the reader from the dejected debater of 1858 to the surprise president of 1860 who rode a political bestseller to the White House. In 1954, Illinois historian Harry Pratt located and described eighteen inscribed copies of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. In this new work, 42 signed volumes are identified.

Perhaps the last remaining Lincoln mystery is also explained at length: did Lincoln make one or two paste-up scrapbooks of the original newspaper texts of his and Douglas' verbatim debate remarks? If only one existed, why did a New York newspaper account hint at another in December, 1860? If there were two, what became of the second? Like a lawyer before a jury, Leroy marshals the facts to let the reader decide. Ultimately, Mr. Lincoln's Book asks the reader to resolve the century and a half old debate: was Lincoln an author? Some argue that he wasn't, but Leroy leads us to conclude that Lincoln, in more ways than not, was author of the book publishing the debates.

It is a rare day when something novel is published about Abraham Lincoln's life and work. Yet 20,000 volumes later, Mr. Lincoln's Book is an unknown study, well researched and compellingly told. The printed volume is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing a complete copy of Lincoln's scrapbook of the debates, copies and transcriptions of Lincoln's correspondence, and some related political cartoons and photographs.

A former prosecutor, attorney general, lieutenant governor, and United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator, Dave Leroy has written and spoken about Lincoln for thirty years. He holds an Honorary Doctorate of Law degree from Lincoln College and serves as chairman of the Governors Council of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. This is his first book-length text about Lincoln. Leroy lives with his wife Nancy in Boise, Idaho, and Bordeaux, France.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 99275

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(Logos) THE LITERATURE OF THE BOOK.
UK LOGOS 2005 6" x 9" stiff paper wrappers 120 pages
First edition. This 120-page book was created and published by Logos: The Journal of the World Book Community. Fifteen corresponding contributors helped to cast a useful descriptive bibliography, which would inform the book professions about the best books written by, about and for them. This book becomes the overall critical guide for the world of Books About Books. This guide is an overall collection which covers all book professions. The bibliography would be useful both to institutions seeking to form overall collections and to individuals building personal libraries in their own fields.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 86935

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(Lumsden & Son) Roscoe, S. and R.A. Brimmell JAMES LUMSDEN & SON OF GLASGOW, THEIR JUVENILE BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS.
Pinner Private Library Association 1981 tall 8vo. cloth. xxv, 134 pages.
First edition. Little information regarding the firm of James Lumsden and Son has survived. It seems they first became interested in publishing books for children around the end of the eighteenth century. Although the firm attracted little notice in their own age, their juvenile books have now become collector's pieces.
Lumsden books show a distinctive quality: it is not easy to define and does not hold in all cases, but these books are easily recognizable to the experienced eye. It is a certain trimness (primness one might almost call it) in the covers, the quality of the paper used, the excellent typeface and the occasional use of colored inks. This important reference book contains 172 lengthy bibliographical descriptions of these fascinating books. There is also an historical introduction which describes the type of books published by this intriguing firm. Available in North and South America; other areas from the Private Library Association.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 13701

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(Magnus, Charles) McKinstry, E. Richard CHARLES MAGNUS, LITHOGRAPHER: ILLUSTRATING AMERICA'S PAST, 1850-1900.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2013 7 x 10 inches hardcover, dust jacket approx. 200 pages
Charles Magnus (1826-1900) was one of the most prolific American printers of ephemera during the late nineteenth century. A native of Germany, he immigrated to New York City around 1850, where he enjoyed a long, creative career printing ephemera such as songsheets, illustrated stationery, bird's eye views, maps, board games, puzzles, greeting cards, and rewards of merit. He also published several books and supplied illustrations for others.

The lifespan of most of Magnus' imprints was short, making them rare survivors in today's collecting institutions. Yet, as examples of the pervasive vernacular visual culture of the nineteenth century, they are important to both scholars and collectors. Documenting nearly a half century of the American experience, they inform us about the games children played, ballads that adults read and sang, the sites of Civil War battles, advertising strategies, and sentiments expressed through valentines.

Filled with over 100 color illustrations, Charles Magnus, Lithographer: Illustrating America's Past, 1850-1900 covers the life and work of an important figure in the history of American publishing and popular imagery.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 110132

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Maslen, Keith EARLY LONDON PRINTING HOUSE AT WORK: STUDIES IN THE BOWYER LEDGERS With a supplement to THE BOWYER ORNAMENT STOCK (1973), an appendix on the Bowyer-Emonson partnership, and BOWYER'S PAPER STOCK LEDGER by Herbert Davis.
New York The Bibliographical Society of America 1993 8vo. cloth. x, 256, (6).
This volume contains twenty-nine studies on the 18th-century London book trade, centering on the work of two of its leading members, printers William Bowyer, father and son. Twenty-seven pieces are reprinted from publications issued over a period of more than 40 years from places such as Cambridge, England; Canberra, Australia; Dunedin, Otago and Charlottesville, Virginia. Coming from prolonged concentration on a great new scholarly resource, these pieces have led to the massive edifice of the Maslen-Lancaster edition of The Bowyer Ledgers. The scope of the Ledgers, published in 1991, can be suggested by the 5,179 items of its "Checklist of Bowyer printing, 1710-1777" and the 136 double-column pages of its "Index of Names and Titles." The "Introductory Commentary" to The Bowyer Ledgers confronts the ledgers as a comprehensive record of 70 years of productivity and guides the reader through their complexity. This collection reprints articles published prior to the publication of The Bowyer Ledgers, as well as four since published. In addition, a "Supplement" to the "Bowyer Ornament Stock" of 1973 is included for the first time and presents 20 printer's ornaments and initials used early in the career of the older Bowyer or at the very end of the son's life. Also, unpublished until now, a note on the younger Bowyer's partnership with James Emonson, 1754-57, is included in the Appendix. Distributed for The Bibliographical Society of America by Oak Knoll Press.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 44033

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Meriton, John (editor) with the assistance of Carlo Dumontet SMALL BOOKS FOR THE COMMON MAN: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware, and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2010 7 x 10 inches hardcover 1,008 pages
First edition. The hundred years prior to the mid-nineteenth century saw a flowering of ephemeral publishing often referred to by the shorthand "chapbooks." This book is an analytical bibliography of the National Art Library's collection of literary ephemera of the period. For the purposes of this book, this includes entertaining and broadly educational works, such as abridged novels, alphabets, ballads, cries, dreadful, fables and tales, nursery rhymes, fortune books, garlands, histories, and natural histories. The book excludes primarily proselytizing and moralizing texts, along with battledores, cabinet and miniature books, harlequinaids, tracts, panoramas, plays, primers, and propaganda pamphlets. Also excluded are more substantial and sumptuous publications with engravings on quality paper and bound in boards as they were considered insufficiently ephemeral.

Nearly 800 titles are described here in significant bibliographical detail to allow accurate comparison and verification with editions, variants, and states in other collections. Examples of illustrations from all the books described are reproduced here, providing a visual feast and resource. The book will appeal to all librarians and owners of collections containing literary and educational ephemera. It will provide support for current research into literary studies and work on literacy and language development.

John Meriton is Librarian of the National Art Library and Deputy Keeper of the Word and Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Carlo Dumontet is the National Art Library's Special Collections Bibliographer. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 99759

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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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Myers, Robin. JOURNEYS THROUGH THE MARKET: TRAVEL, TRAVELLERS AND THE BOOK TRADE.
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 1999 8vo. pictorial paper-covered boards. ix, 154 pages.
First edition. Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. This work is a series of scholarly essays on the history of travel, travelers and their relation to the book trade. The essays are written by the following prominent British scholars: Bill Bell, University of Edinburgh; Jeremy Black, University of Exeter; Michael Harris, University of London; Charles Newton, Victoria and Albert Museum; Anthony Payne, Bernard Quaritch Ltd.; Andrew Tatham, Royal Geographical Society; and Giles Barber, University of Oxford.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 57369

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors) BOOKS FOR SALE: THE ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION OF PRINT SINCE THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2009 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 208 pages
Advertising and promotion have always underpinned the business of bookselling but are often difficult for the historian to reconstruct. Once books were being produced in multiple copies, the book trade invested time, money, and imagination in the attempt to stimulate demand, manipulate customer choice, and expand the market. The mixed uses of marketing, both as product information and as an expression of trade identity and commercial rivalries, offer a glimpse at trade practices and the circumstances of individual careers.

This volume of eight original essays, with contributions by specialists in the promotion and marketing of print, as well as by leading historians of the book, explores themes that include the advertising and marketing techniques of booksellers and publishers across early modern Europe, the increasing use of newspaper and periodical advertisements in England and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the dramatic impact of online marketing on the book trade. Other promotional tools discussed here range from the illustrated trade cards of eighteenth-century Paris to the rise of the book jacket and the cult of literary prizes in the twentieth century.Co-published with The British Library.

Sales rights: Worldwide except in the UK; available in the UK from the British Library.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 100485

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote, eds. MUSIC AND THE BOOK TRADE FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
New Castle, Delaware and London, England Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2008 6 x 9 inches hardcover with dust jacket 240 pages
The history of music printing and publishing has generally formed a self-contained area of research within the study of book history. Bibliographers and book historians have tended to overlook the trade in printed music, partly because the means of production (reproducing notation rather than letter forms) and of distribution (often through the specialist sellers of musical instruments and equipment) were themselves distinct. On the other hand, musicologists have until recently paid less attention to the commercial aspects of printed music, concentrating more on the technicalities of composition and performance.

The original contributions contained in this newest addition to the Publishing Pathways series map some of the common ground between music and other forms of print, exploring the ways in which the organization of production and the process of publication of printed music have developed over time. From the production and sale of missals in Renaissance Spain to the complexities of Gustav Mahlers copyrights in late nineteenth-century Vienna, these essays raise issues and demonstrate methods of approach that will be of wider relevance to many areas of book history. How composers and publishers worked out their respective financial interests is just one of the recurring themes which will strike a chord with those who study the business of print. Co-published with The British Library. Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 96678

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(New Orleans) Jumonville, Florence M. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEW ORLEANS IMPRINTS 1764-1864.
With a foreword by Joanne P. Platou. New Orleans The Historic New Orleans Collection (1989) thick 8vo. printed paper over boards. xxxix, 759 pages.
First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. This work contributes to an understanding of Louisiana history. The entries are from the first 100 years of printing in New Orleans and include books, pamphlets, and ephemera. This bibliography provides information that has been previously unavailable in compiled form. The author and Head Librarian of the Historic New Orleans Collection has succeeded in producing a definitive book on New Orleans imprints which indicates the tastes, concerns, and attitudes of the local citizenry. This work lists 3388 items, and entries are arranged by the year of publication. Well-indexed with listings of Printers and Publishers and Authors and Titles.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 50258

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(Newspapers) Hench, John B. (editor). THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER.
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1991 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 363-463.
Reprinted from the Proceedings. A series of six articles which together give a history of the American Newspaper. Illustrated.
Price: $ 13.95 other currencies Order nr. 37006

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Ong, George and Holzenberg, Eric FOR JEAN GROLIER & HIS FRIENDS: 125 YEARS OF GROLIER CLUB EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS, 1884-2009
New York The Grolier Club 2009 8 x 11 inches hardcover 460 pages
The Grolier Club is devoted to sharing the beauty of typography, printing, illustration, and other areas of book design and production. Through more than 850 exhibitions and almost 500 publications, the Grolier Club has strived to develop an appreciation in America for books and prints. Produced to accompany the Grolier Club exhibition held December 2008 to February 2009, this volume explores the history of the Grolier through its ground-breaking program of exhibitions, and its long and distinguished series of publications. It provides for the first time in a single volume, comprehensive and detailed lists of Grolier Club exhibitions and publications, as well as histories of these activities at the Club. One of only 300 copies on mould-made Hahnemuhle paper, this is a publication in the highest Grolier Club tradition, one of a series marking the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Grolier Club in 1884. There are over 200 illustrations, many in color, some tipped in.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 106180

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Oppen, Monica and Peter Lyssiotis (editors) THE SILENT SCREAM: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL COMMENT IN BOOKS BY ARTISTS.
Petersham Ant Press 2011 8 x 9.5 inches paperback 190 pages
The Silent Scream: Political and Social Comment in Books by Artists presents not only a companion catalogue to an exhibition held at the Monash University Rare Books Library, but also a journey through some of humanity's most inhumane and hypocritical moments. The catalogue provides insights into 77 influential books and works presented in book form in the past 90 years. Monica Oppen and Peter Lyssiotis, both practicing artists, lend their unique perspective in the social content and the techniques behind the production of these books.

The book begins with a short preface by Sarah Bodman about the messages that can be portrayed with written word. Throughout history, many texts and books have been banned, censored, and even burned in an effort to prevent their contents from spreading. This exhibition brings to light some of the bold texts that have survived time such as those that have endured wars and revolutions, sharing earnest petitions from poets, writers, and artists.

The catalogue presents phases of books by artists in three sections with an additional category for those works that stand on the periphery of the blurred line defining "artists' books." The sections are organized chronologically beginning in 1918 and extending to today. Sections include "Across Two World Wars 1918-1950," "Cold War in a Nuclear Era: Alienation and Engagement 1960-1990," Imperialism, Fundamentalism, Democracy, Oil, and its Shadow," and "Along the Tangent: Books on the Edge." Beginning with essays by Walter Struve, Scott McQuire, Humphrey McQueen and Des Cowley, the sections serve to analyze each period's distinctive characteristics.

In a field where few books cover such a wide range of work, The Silent Scream both educates and entertains through informed commentary. It focuses on a particular field of ideas: social and political, and on a particular area of book production: books made by artists. With over 200 color illustrations, this book is beautiful and formatted in an original style.

Sales rights: Worldwide except Australia.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 108927

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Pearson, David BOOKS AS HISTORY: THE IMPORTANCE OF BOOKS BEYOND THEIR TEXTS.
New Castle, Delaware and London, England Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2012 7.25 x 10 inches paperback 208 pages
This revised third edition of David Pearson's Books as History includes a new foreword, an updated list of further reading, and various other additions and updates. Updated in light of the recent development of the e-book, this version will offer new pictures, new ideas on the life of the book, and further thoughts on how the book will survive.

Books have been hugely important in human civilization as instruments for communicating information and ideas. The digital age has caused the landscape of books to change, with more and more of the traditional functions of books being performed electronically. People usually think of books in terms of their contents or their texts, but in fact, books may possess all kinds of potentially interesting qualities beyond their texts, as designed or artistic objects, or because they have unique properties deriving from the ways they have been printed, bound, annotated, beautified or defaced.

David Pearson explores these themes and uses many examples of books from the Middle Ages to the present day to show why books may be interesting beyond their texts. As the format of the book becomes history - as texts are increasingly communicated electronically - we can recognize that books are also history in another significant way. Books can develop their own individual histories, which provide important evidence about the way they were used and regarded in the past, which make them an indispensable part of the fabric of our cultural heritage. This book will raise awareness of an important aspect of the life of books in the context of the ongoing debate about their future. Extensively illustrated with a wide range of images, it will not only be approachable but also thought-provoking.

David Pearson has extensive experience in managing and working in major research collections. He is also a respected scholar in the field of book history, whose articles and books, including Provenance Research in Book History (Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 1994) and English Bookbinding Styles, 1450-1800: a Handbook (Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2005), have focused on various aspects of the ownership and binding of books.

Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library.
Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 109790

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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.
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