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See More... Allen, V.L. INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TRADE UNIONISM
(London The Merlin Press Ltd. 1968) 8vo. cloth viii, (ii), 180 pages
An index of 1668 texts relating to the working class' struggle to improve their livelihoods. Former library book with expected stickers and markings. Rear board a little bowed.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 97501

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See More... Ash, Lee THE ARCHONS OF THE COLOPHON, 1909-1917 AND 1926-1969: "MUCH AND LITTLE CHANGED".
An address at the Sixtieth Year's Anniversary Meeting on May 1, 1969 N.P. H.W. Wilson Company 1969 large 12mo stiff paper wrappers (iv), 54, (2) pages
Edition limited to 500 copies. Printed "for distribution to The Archons of Colophon, and to some friends, and to a few libraries." Ash's history is followed by appendices which include among other things a list of known members.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 100867

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See More... Benarcik, Michael D. IN SEARCH OF PEACE: A REVIEW OF EVENTS AND EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCES ENDURED BY THE 8TH AIR FORCE BOMBARDMENT GROUPS IN WORLD WAR II.
(State College JOSTENS Printing and Publishing Division 1989) 4to. paper-covered boards, title and eblems stamped on, dust jacket. 300 pages
Edited by Maj. Gen. Andrew S. Low, Jr. Historical information, personal recollections, and tributes to the personnel of the 8th Army Air Force and its service in World War II. Includes personal reflections that set forth both the professional and emotional sides of air duty. Black and white illustrations throughout. Letters, newspaper clippings, and bookmarks laid in. Color illustrations of aircraft on endpapers. Dust jacket lightly worn. Gift inscription on front free endpaper.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 115947

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See More... Blackwell, Lewis TWENTIETH CENTURY TYPE.
New York Rizzoli (1992) 4to. cloth, dust jacket 256 pages
A history of type design through the 20th century, examining the linkage with changing technology and art movements. Each chapter examines a decade from the 1890s to the 1990s. Glossary, notes, bibliography, picture credits and index. 395 illustrations, 265 in color. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 109787

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See More... Bloxom, Marguerite D. (compiler) PICKAXE AND PENCIL: REFERENCES FOR THE STUDY OF THE W.P.A.
Washington Library of Congress 1982 4to. stiff paper wrappers vii, 87+(1) pages
A reference guide to the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal agency. Focuses on arts, writers and cultural projects. Brief historical overview begins each chapter. Preface, key to symbols, two appendices, index of authors. Black and white illustrations.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 114912

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See More... (Bookbinding) 150 JAHRE AMMERING IN RIED SEIT 1840
Ried/Innkreis, Austria (Buchbinderei Ernst Ammering) 1990 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 96 pages
Written in German. A history of the bookbinders. Contains many black-and-white and color plates throughout. Laid-in is a pamphlet entitled "Festrede" von Gen. Dir. Dr. Ernst Kubin anläßlich der Jubiläumsmatinee 150 Jahre Ammering in Ried 30. September 1990.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 101447

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See More... (Bookbinding) 150 JAHRE AMMERING IN RIED SEIT 1840
Ried/Innkreis, Austria (Buchbinderei Ernst Ammering) 1990 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 96 pages
Written in German. A history of the bookbinders. Contains many black-and-white and color plates throughout. Laid-in is a pamphlet entitled "Festrede" von Gen. Dir. Dr. Ernst Kubin anläßlich der Jubiläumsmatinee 150 Jahre Ammering in Ried 30. September 1990. Signed by three Ammering family members on half-title.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 106415

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See More... Bradshaw, Graham WHERE DUTY LEADS: CANADA IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
(Toronto) The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto 2008 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 117+(1) pages
Exhibition at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, September-December 2008. Frontispiece. Books, photographs, broadsides, and ephemera relating to the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I. 146 entries. Bibliography.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 115211

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See More... Breedlove, Joseph Penn DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, 1840-1940
A Brief Account with Reminiscences Durham, N.C. The Friends of Duke University 1955 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (ii), 81+(1) pages
Details the history of said library based on its members' memories. Wrappers worn - soiled, creased short tears.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 97509

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See More... Brenni, Vito Joseph THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1920-1975.
Metuchen The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 1979 8vo. cloth viii, 210 pages
Text concerned with bibliographic control, chiefly aimed at all the various studies that list publications by and about American authors from 1920-1975. Inscribed on the free front endpaper, "To the English Department, In Grateful Apprecia- from Vito J. Brenni." Very light shelf wear.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 98923

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See More... (Bruccoli, Joseph M.) THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918.
(Columbia) Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina 1997 8vo stiff paper wrappers 48 pages
Catalogue of an exhibition at the University of South Carolina, 1997-8. Included many items from the Joseph M. Bruccoli Collection at the University of Virginia. Foreword by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Description of the Brucolli Collection by Edmund C. Berkeley of the University of Virginia. Description of items exhibited and acknowledgments/credits. Listing of other exhibitions held at the Cooper Library.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109304

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See More... Budd, Edward A PRINTER GOES TO WAR.
London Howard Baker (1975) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 182 pages
Memoirs of the director of printing operations for the BEF, the 8th Army and 21st Army Group, World War II. Foreword by Major General Sir Francis de Guignand. Frontispiece illustration of Field Marshal Lord Montgomery with facsimile inscription to the author. Preface. Third party inscription on title page. Includes a collection of Montgomery's personal messages to the 21st Army Group 1944-5. Dust jacket bent and slightly torn at edges. Boards faded at top edge. Letter from "Don" to "Willy" laid in calling the work "embarrassing" and noting the author's "overweening arrogance."
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 109812

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See More... Bullard, Robert Lee PERSONALITIES AND REMINISCENCES OF THE WAR
New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1925 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xi, 347 pages
First edition. Personal memories of the First World War. Spotting and soiling to the boards, wear to the head and tail of the spine. Edges and corners rubbed.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 105756

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See More... Bussy, R. Kenneth PHILADELPHIA'S PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS: AN INFORMAL HISTORY
Philadelphia Philadelphia Book Clinic 1976 4to. cloth (xii), 121+(1) pages
Book has been separated into two main sections, PUBLISHERS and PRINTERS, COMPOSITORS. Includes chapters on: The American Philosophical Society, Lea & Febiger, Judson Press, John C. Meyer, The Maple Press, Haverford House, and much more. Illustrated throughout with several black-and-white photographs. Faint rubbing to corners of covers.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 93485

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See More... (Carroll, Mark) Frugé, August DESIGN & PRINTING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Western Heritage Press 1991 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label (ii), 19+(1) pages
Limited to 500 copies. Presentation form the author to Mark Carroll and his wife on free endpaper. Printed for distribution to members of the Roxburghe Club, the Zamorano Club and to selected libraries and printing associations.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 105585

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See More... (Caughey, John Walton) Hundley, Norris, Jr. JOHN WALTON CAUGHEY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS.
Los Angeles Glen Dawson 1961 large 12mo. cloth vii, (i), 22, (2) pages.
Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in an edition limited to 200 copies. Dr. Caughey was a history professor at UCLA and the author of many books on California and civil liberties.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 70545

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See More... Chapuis, Alfred. DE HOROLOGIIS IN ARTE L'HORLOGE ET LA MONTRE À TRAVERS LES AGES, D'APRÈS LES DOUMENTS DU TEMPS
Lausanne Scriptar 1954 4to cloth iv, 154 pages
Text in French, some English and German captions to illustrations. 'Éditions du Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie et de Bijouterie.' Two color plates, 212 black and white illustrations. Frontispiece. Front board warped, faded and worn. Pastedowns and endpapers tanned.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 106466

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See More... (Children's Books) Zweigberk, Eva von BARNBOKEN I SVERIGE 1750-1950.
Stockholm Ráben & Sjögren (1965) 8vo cloth, dust jacket 520 pages
Text in Swedish. Color frontispiece. Foreword by the author. History of the publication of children's literature in Sweden over two centuries. Discusses Swedish authors, as well as foreign (mainly German, English and French) children's literature translated into Swedish. English summary. 29 color plates. Black and white illustrations throughout. Indices of names and titles. Bibliography. Dust jacket torn at edges.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 108223

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See More... Clark, Kenneth THE OTHER HALF: A SELF-PORTRAIT.
New York Harper & Row (1977) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket, fore-edge uncut xii, 259+(1) pages
First U.S. edition. A sequel to the first volume of Clark's autobiography, Another Part of the Wood. Includes the World War II and postwar years. Table of contents, list of illustrations, preface, appendix, index. Black and white plates.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 116080

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See More... (Commercial Appeal) Tally, Robert ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
The Story of the Greatest Romance in American Journalism 1840-1940 Memphis Commercial Appeal 1940 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (vi), 71, followed by a 9 page appendix
Issued as a souvenir booklet on the occasion of its one hundredth anniversary. Wrappers tattered at the foredge with some paper loss. The back corners have paper loss also.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 90949

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See More... Cornelius, Roberta D. J.P. BELL'S OF LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
Established in 1859 Lynchburg, VA J.P. Bell Company, Inc. 1959 8vo. cloth, dustjacket viii, 131+(1) pages
A centennial publication of the history of J.P. Bell's book company. Small presentation slip from J.P. Bell Company loosely laid-in. Dust jacket age-darkened and worn with creases, chips and small paper loss.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 97620

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See More... Danton, J. Periam UNITED STATES INFLUENCE ON NORWEGIAN LIBRARIANSHIP, 1890-1940
Volume 2, No. 1 of the University of California Publications in Librarianship. Berkeley, CA University of California Press 1957 8vo. stiff paper wrappers xii, 91 pages
With a preface, appendix, index, and a map. Edges tanned.
Price: $ 16.00 other currencies Order nr. 101833

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See More... (Darien Library) Petersen, Betsy Stilwell SO MANY FRIENDS, THE DARIEN LIBRARY 1894-1994
N.P. n.p. n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 96 pages
A history of the Darien Library in Connecticut. Etching of stork on front cover. Minor tear on back cover near edge.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 96428

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See More... Davidson, Cathy N. IDEOLOGY AND GENRE: THE RISE OF THE NOVEL IN AMERICA.
The1986 James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture at the American Antiquarian Society Worcester, MA American Antiquarian Society 1987 8vo stiff paper wrappers 31+(1) pages
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 96, Part 2, October 1986. Lecture on the history of the book, focusing on American literary history.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 105184

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See More... DeKoven Ezrahi, Sidra BY WORDS ALONE
The Holocaust In Literature With a Foreward by Alfred Kazin Chicago The University of Chicago Press (1980) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket xiii, 262 pages
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi's accounts of the creative literature and art that arose from the those effected by the tragic events of the Holocaust. Includes detailed section interpreting how documentation can be viewed as art as well the art that will be produced by the interpretation of future generations. Slight wear around corners and spine of dust jacket.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 96197

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