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Pinney,Thomas and David Alan Richards (editors) KIPLING AND HIS FIRST PUBLISHER; CORRESPONDENCE OF RUDYARD KIPLING WITH THACKER, SPINK AND CO. 1886-1890.
(Bucks, England) Rivendale Press 2001 8vo. cloth viii, 92 pages with 6 leaves of illustrations
First edition. This volume describes in detail the letters written by Rudyard Kipling to his Indian publishers regarding their publication of his first two books, Departmental Ditties and Plain Tales from the Hills. The previously unpublished correspondence is accompanied by an informative introduction, scholarly notes and a bibliography of his books published by Thacker, Spink and Co. With twelve black-and-white illustrations and an index.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 69516

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(Poetry Bookshop) Woolmer, J. Howard THE POETRY BOOKSHOP, 1912-1935: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Revere, PA and Winchester, England Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd and St. Paul's Bibliographies 1988 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxii, 186 pages.
With an introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald. Founded in 1912 in London by Harold Munro, the Poetry Bookshop was one of the most important of these smaller houses, publishing books by Robert Graves, Richard Aldington, Ford Madox Hueffer, F. S. Flint, Eleanor Farjeon and others as well as the popular and important series of anthologies, Georgian Poetry. The Bookshop also published three series of rhyme sheets, two periodicals, and several series of Christmas cards, most of them with color illustrations by well-known illustrators. The firm also maintained an open shop that carried poetical works of other British publishers.
This bibliography describes all the books, chapbooks, rhyme sheets, periodicals and most of the ephemera in detail. With more than 50 black-and-white illustrations as well as seven color plates including a foldout and tipped-in Christmas card. Distributed by Oak Knoll Press.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 50295

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Pollack, John H. (editor). "THE GOOD EDUCATION OF YOUTH": WORLDS OF LEARNING IN THE AGE OF FRANKLIN.
New Castle, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Oak Knoll Press and University of Pennsylvania Libraries 2009 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 352 pages
In 1749, Benjamin Franklin published his educational call to arms, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania. In it, Franklin set forth a radically new template for educating students, one that stressed social utility, secular independence, and an English language-based curriculum. This slim pamphlet led to the creation of the University of Pennsylvania, the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in North America. But what were schools like in the early Delaware Valley? Who received an education; how was it financed; and where did it occur? Who were the teachers; and what was taught? The essays in this collection seek to answer these questions by looking in detail at Franklin's projects for education alongside educational plans by and for Quakers, African Americans, women, German Americans, and the other populations of Pennsylvania and the region from the colonial era through the early national period.

Contributors to the volume include Michael Zuckerman, who argues that Franklin's vision of education was far more democratic than that of his counterpart Thomas Jefferson, although Jefferson is often hailed as a father of public education. William C. Kashatus surveys the many Quaker projects for education during the colonial period, while John C. Van Horne's study of projects for African American education in Philadelphia documents Franklin's involvement with the school for blacks supported by the Anglican Associates of Dr. Bray. Patrick Erben examines the diverse German communities and argues that Anglo observers like Franklin were particularly blind to innovative German educational projects occurring around them, and Carla Mulford looks at Franklin's attitudes towards women's education, both in theory and in practice. Also included are essays by George Boudreau on William Smith, the neglected pioneer of Philadelphian educational and cultural life, and by Mark Frazier Lloyd on how the Academy and College of Philadelphia under Smith moved away from Franklin's original intentions and ideals. An Afterword by University of Pennsylvania scholars Ira Harkavy, Lee Benson, and Matthew Hartley considers how Franklin's vision for education can guide institutions like Penn in the twenty-first century.

These essays relate and respond to an exhibition prepared by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries in 2006, and the full catalogue of the exhibition is included in this volume. Drawing on the collections of the University of Pennsylvania, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and other Philadelphia-area libraries, museums, and schools, the exhibition surveys the educational landscape of the period and provides a vital context for understanding the importance, originality, and ongoing relevance of Franklin's vision. It includes full color reproductions of original documents, printed books, and artifacts, as well as a brief illustrated essay by Lynne Farrington on The Friendly Instructor, a newly rediscovered Franklin imprint concerning education. An accompanying photographic essay assembles for the first time images of numerous surviving school buildings in the Delaware Valley, many of them previously unknown and little studied.

Co-published with University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 100470

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(Postel, Guillaume) Secret, François (editor) GUILLAUME POSTEL: APOLOGIES ET RÉTRACTATIONS.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1972 8vo cloth 271 pages.
Manuscrits inédits publiés avec une introduction et des notes. This study, based on unpublished documents, concentrates on the notorious Venetian trial of 1555. Postel (1510-1581) was a author, translator, publisher, and collector. "Édition savante d'ouvrages d'un humaniste illuminé et cabaliste, qui est l'un des grands esprits du XVIe siècle." (Henri Dubief in Bulletin des bibliothèques de France 17, 11, 1972). With facsimiles.

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Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 103353

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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).

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Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 103356

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(Private Libraries Association) Chambers, David (editor) A MODEST COLLECTION: PRIVATE LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION, 1956-2006.
Pinner, Middlesex Private Libraries Association 2007 6.25 x 9.75 inches hardcover 378 pages
First edition. Here, in the guise of a history of the Private Libraries Association, is an account of the friendships of its members over the past fifty years. They have all been collectors, with widely differing interests, from countries across the world, united by a love of books and the need to be surrounded by them at the end of a day's work and in all the years of retirement. The aim of the society is to bring together such enthusiasts and to offer them books and essays in the association's journal that would lead them further into the bibliophilic web. The enormous range of their interests adds vitality to the group's publications and creates a dynamic tension between the need to deal in sufficient depth with each subject and yet to interest other members whose collections have moved in quite different directions.
The book contains the story of the Association and a bibliography of its publications, but perhaps the most interesting portions are the brief essays by over eighty members about their collections, with photographs of many of these individuals and illustrations taken from the collections. Their specialties range from illustrated books and early private presses to Australiana, golf, the history of the automobile and surgery. There is a retail price index at the end of the book, which will prove very useful when recounting book prices over the last 50 years. This book is an enjoyable and valuable resource for book collectors everywhere. Distributed by Oak Knoll for the Private Libraries Association.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 94201

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Rostenberg, Leona & Madeleine B. Stern. FROM REVOLUTION TO REVOLUTION: PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLISHING & BOOKSELLING.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2002 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 192 pages.
First edition. This series of historical essays survey the past five centuries of printing and publishing and their technical achivements. Beginning with Gutenberg's 15th-century printing revolution to today's high-tech e-books, the authors present a calvacade of new insights into publishing history. This work follows a humble trade that grew into a profession that today faces its second great revolution.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 69266

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Rostenberg, Leona THE MINORITY PRESS & THE ENGLISH CROWN, A STUDY IN REPRESSION, 1558-1625.
Nieuwkoop B. De Graaf 1971 8vo. cloth. xii, 263 pages.
First edition. A richly documented book, portraying the clandestine activity of the under-ground Catholic and Puritan presses in England and on the Continent during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. With full details of government censorship. "... this erudite study will provide interest and enlightenment... It is fascinating and surprising to see how detailed an account of these essentially secret operations Leona Rostenberg's researched have enabled her to give" (Times Literary Supplement, March 10, 1972).

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 120.00 other currencies Order nr. 103765

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(Sanford, John) Mearns, Jack JOHN SANFORD: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2008 6 x 9 inches cloth. 168 pages
First edition. Born Julian Shapiro in 1904 in Harlem, John Sanford was inspired to write by his childhood acquaintance Nathanael West. William Carlos Williams, Ernest Hemingway and James Joyce also were important early influences on Sanford's themes and style. But Sanford's work displays a style uniquely his own. Sanford authored 24 books, including novels, creative interpretations of history and several volumes of memoir and autobiography. His monumental five-volume autobiography was titled Scenes from the Life of an American Jew. Both Sanford and screenwriter Marguerite Roberts, his wife for over 50 years, were blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the 1950s. Just before Sanford's death in 2003, the Los Angeles Times called him "an authentic hero of American letters." Sanford's career as a writer was star-crossed. His first ten books were issued by ten different publishers. Sanford quarreled with editors and alienated people throughout the publishing industry. Each of his books represents the culmination of a struggle. Thus, for Sanford, perhaps more so than most writers, there is a story that goes with each book. This bibliography recounts those travails to chart Sanford's development into the unique writer he became. Annotations address style and content of the works described, as well as the often winding road these works took toward publication. There are three appendices, including indices of historical pieces and of his family members and acquaintances. This book will prove to be a valuable and interesting resource for scholars of American literature. Author Jack Mearns is professor of psychology at California State University, Fullerton. He has previously published Deadline News, a novel (iUniverse, 2006).
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 94202

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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.

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Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 103638

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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.

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Price: $ 455.00 other currencies Order nr. 103288

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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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Staikos, K. & Sklavenitis, T. (editors). THE PRINTED GREEK BOOK 15TH - 19TH CENTURY.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press and Kotinos Publications 2004 6.5" x 9.5" Half faux leather/printed paper-covered boards, 710 pages
Printed letterpress in an edition limited to 1000 copies. In May of 2001, an International Congress on the History of Greek Printing was held in Delphi, Greece where leading scholars presented over 40 papers pertaining to dissemination of the Greek language via manuscripts, books and documents. The collection of essays compiled in this book is the publication of these learned papers.
A sample of essays within the text includes the following: "The First Use of Greek Type in Spain, France, the Low Countries and England" by Dennis E. Rhodes; "Andreas Kounadis and the Nicolini da Sabbio" by Evro Layton; "Libri Greci Impressi da Melchiorre Sessa Solo e in Societa con Pietro di Ravini (1521-1555)" by Silvia Curi Nicolardi; "Greek Books in Venice" by Marino Zorzi; "Controversial Problems Regarding the Printing Press of Moschopolis" by Max Demeter Peyfuss; "Echi e Riflessi dell'Illuminismo Veneto nella Letteratura Scientifica del Tardo Settecento Eptanesio" by Maria Laura Soppelsa; and "British Collections of Seventeenth-Century Greek Liturgical Books" by Michael Jeffreys.
This illustrated and handsomely bound volume is one of the best scholarly works on the diaspora of the Greek written word. The essays appear in a broad variety of languages, and many are printed in Greek. There is a useful appendix that contains abstracts in English for all 30 of the essays in Greek. It should be on the book shelf of all scholars of Greek culture and anyone interested in early books in the West. Co-published with Kotinos Publications, Athens Greece.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 76423

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Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. and Triantaphyllos E. Sklavenitis THE PUBLISHING CENTRES OF THE GREEKS FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE NEOHELLENIC ENLIGHTENMENT.
(Athens) National Book Centre of Greece Ministry of Culture (2001) small 4to. pictorial paper-covered boards xx, 221, (3) pages
Limited to an edition of 5000 copies. This catalogue was created to accompany an exhibition dedicated to the history of the publishing activities of Greeks during a critical period of time beginning with the Renaissance and extending to the Enlightenment. From Venice, Florence and Rome to Paris, Geneva, Moscow, Constantinople, Leipzig, Corfu and Chios, it details the role of each of the twenty cities that emerged as major centers of the publication of Greek books. Entries for the 105 titles provide the publishing history and historical background, significance of the text and people associated with the book. With numerous photographic facsimilies of woodcuts, engravings, printer's marks, ornaments, and title pages throughout. Some illustrations, page lines and shoulder notes in sepia tones, some initial letters, headings and ornaments in red, remainder in black. Bibliography with many titles in Greek. Index.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 64949

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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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Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. PRINTERS' & PUBLISHERS' MARKS IN BOOKS FOR THE GREEK WORLD (1494-1821).
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF 2009 8.75 x 12.25 inches hardcover, dust jacket 254 pages
This book contains reproductions of the printers and publishers marks of all those - both Greeks and non-Greeks - who printed or published books for Greek readers from the dawn of typography until just before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. Their aim was to preserve the historical memory of the modern Greeks, to foster the use of the Greek language, and to uphold the Orthodox faith. Also reproduced here are the crests and coats of arms of the rulers of the Danubian principalities who actively supported the publication and dissemination of Greek books in the East. Some of the devices are the marks of well-known printing houses, where Greek scholars and calligraphers were largely responsible for the accuracy of the texts and the visual appearance of the book, such as the firms of Aldus Manutius in Venice and Robert Estienne in Paris. All this printing and publishing activity, even if limited to only books containing printers or publishers marks, covered a vast area of the Western and Eastern worlds. The list of places where these books were produced includes Alcalá, Bucharest, Constantinople, Florence, Geneva, Jassy, Kefallonia, London, Milan, Moschopolis, Mount Athos, Paris, Rome, Venice, and Vienna.

The marks are illustrated and described in all their variant forms, complete with bibliographical references, identifications, a general index, and an index of printers and printing houses. They are shown at actual size and presented chronologically. Includes a brief message to the reader by the author, as well as an extensive and detailed introduction.

Available in Europe from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 102238

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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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(Stevenson, Robert Louis) McKay, George L. SOME NOTES ON ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, HIS FINANCES AND HIS AGENTS AND PUBLISHERS.
New Haven Yale University Press 1958 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 43 pages.
Details on Stevenson's relations with his literary agents and his publishers. Known for his most famous title Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer. He traveled mostly in an attempt to improve his poor health which hindered him throughout his life.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 99776

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Storms, Martijn, Joss Hopstaken, Luc Janssens, Karel Leenders DRIE GENERATIES ADAN. WEST-BRABANTSE LANDMETERS IN DE ACHTTIENDE EN NEGENTIENDE EEUW.
`t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2008 22.5 x 30.5 cm cloth. 284 pages.
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, three following generations of the Adan geometrician family were active in the western part of the province of Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands. The cartographic production of these three generations of geometricians gives a good impression of the development of Dutch cartography in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. This work is a scientific accountable reference book and a standard work about the cartographic heritance of the Adan family. It contains contributions about the local landscape, the history of the region, geometricians, the family history and the Adans in historic cartographic perspective. It also includes an annotated bibliography with descriptions and illustrations of nearly 1100 maps which the Adan geometricians have manufactured. The book contains many full-page maps in color. 115 color illustrations and over 1000 black and white illustrations.

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Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 103212

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Tanselle, G. Thomas BOOK-JACKETS: THEIR HISTORY, FORMS, AND USE
Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia 2011 6 x 9.25 inches hardcover, dust jacket 324 pages
Book-jackets (or "dust-jackets," as they are often called), along with other detachable book coverings such as slip-cases, have been regularly used by publishers in the English-speaking world and some countries of the European continent since the early part of the nineteenth century. Historians of publishing practices, however, have not accorded them the scrutiny that one might have expected such a ubiquitous and noticeable phenomenon to receive. This illustrated book is intended as a compact introduction to the historical study of these objects, which -- though removable from the books they cover -- are essential parts of those books as published.

The present work offers a concise history both of publishers' detachable book coverings (primarily British and American) and of the attention they have received from scholars, dealers, collectors, and librarians. It also surveys their use by publishers (as protective devices and advertising media) and their usefulness to scholars of literature, art, and book history (as sources for biography, bibliography, cultural analysis, and the development of graphic design). In effect, the book constitutes a plea for the preservation and cataloguing of this significant class of material, so that it will be available for future examination.

Following the text is a list of some of the surviving pre-1901 examples of British and American publishers' printed book-jackets and other detachable coverings. This list, with 1,888 entries, is the outgrowth of a process the author began in 1969: he has kept a record of every pre-1901 jacket that he came across or learned about. Because surviving jackets from the nineteenth century are scarce (most having been thrown away by the original booksellers or purchasers of the books), and because the large majority of those that do survive are known in only a single copy, it is important to have a listing that indicates their whereabouts, or at least the basis for knowing that they exist or once existed. The list thus provides a guide to the body of evidence on which generalizations about the history of nineteenth-century jackets must be based, until more examples are reported. The book also contains two image sections: the first containing eight black-and-white plates, and the second containing sixteen color plates.

G. Thomas Tanselle, former vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and adjunct professor of English at Columbia University, is president of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and co-editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the writings of Herman Melville. He has previously served as president of the Bibliographical Society of America, the Grolier Club, and the Society for Textual Scholarship. His books include Royall Tyler (1967), Guide to the Study of United States Imprints (1971), A Rationale of Textual Criticism (1989), Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing (1990), The Life and Work of Fredson Bowers (1993), Literature and Artifacts (1998), Textual Criticism since Greg (2005), and Bibliographical Analysis (2009). His collection of American imprints is in the Beinecke Library at Yale, where his assemblage of nineteenth-century book-jackets will soon be placed as well.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 107173

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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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Turner, John R. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF UNAUTHORISED AMERICAN EDITIONS OF THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT BY BEATRIX POTTER 1904-1980.
London Ian Hodgkins & Co. Ltd. 2012 6 x 9 inches hardcover 228 pages
This is an essential guide for any devotee of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit and of illustrators of childrens books during this period. Illustrated with eight pages of color photographs, this bibliography contains over 300 entries published between 1904 and 1980. It seeks to describe all titles published in the United States that are versions of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, or use the name of Peter Rabbit, and were not authorized by Frederick Warne.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first issued privately in a total of 450 copies by Beatrix Potter and was then published by Frederick Warne in 1902. Obtaining copyright in the USA at that time was fraught with difficulties, particularly for foreign publishers. Warne failed to comply with the formalities, and the book entered the public domain in the USA. The book immediately became a huge commercial success throughout the world and has remained that way ever since. Between 1904 and 1980, about 80 publishers issued their own versions of the story.

In many cases the text and/or illustrations did not follow Potters originals, and others were credited as the author and illustrator. Some books are to be regarded as derivatives of the well-known story. The books are arranged alphabetically by publisher, and entries detail publisher, illustrator, title page, binding, and more. Following the bibliography is a list of further readings, and indexes of titles, authors and illustrators.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 105518

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Twyman, Michael EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF IMPROPER BOOKS IN THE AGE OF THE HAND PRESS, WITH A CATALOGUE.
London Farrand Press & Private Libraries Association (1990) small 4to. cloth. 374 pages.
First edition. Includes chapters on Lithographic incunables, Military manuals, The Lithographic Publications of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Books on Accounting, and Books with pictures. Well-illustrated.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 31987

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Verwey, H. de la Fontaine DRUKKERS, LIEFHEBBERS EN PIRATEN IN DE ZEVENTIENDE EEUW.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1980 8vo stiff paper wrappers. 192 pages.
Second printing. Among other things about Guicciardini's, "Beschrijving der Nederlanden," the Amsterdam publisher and binder Cornelisz Claesz, the flourishment of the Dutch book in the early 17th century, the book-illustrations by Rembrandt and the famous binder Albert Magnus. Illustrated.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 103682

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Verwey, H. de la Fontaine IN EN OM DE `VERGULDE SONNEWYSER`.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1979 6 x 8.75 inches Paperback 256 pages
This illustrated text tells the story of the famous bookshop "de Vergulde Sonnewyser," the location where three generations of the family of printers Blaeu produced many notable books. The most famous of their published books is the Blaeu Atlas. Written in Dutch.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 103703

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