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See More... (Academy of Sciences of the USSR) ISTORIIA BIBLIOTEKI AKADEMII NAUK SSSR 1714-1964 (HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE USSR 1714-1964).
Moscow Nauka Publishing House 1964 tall 8vo. cloth 599+(1) pages
Text in Russian with English translation of title page. Published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Academy of Sciences. Foreword by M.S. Filippov. Foldout plates. Black and white illustrations. List of abbreviations. bibliography, index, table of contents. Front board bent. Boards soiled and bumped at edges, endpapers tanned. Errata sheet laid in.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 115107

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See More... (Accounting) THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS IN ENGLAND AND WALES. LIBRARY CATALOGUE.
2 volumes. London The Council of the Institute 1937 small 8vo. gilt stamped cloth. vi,256; vi,259 pages.
Third edition, second impression. This two volume set gathers together the best books on the subject of accountancy from the Library of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Volume one lists subjects and authors while volume two is a bibliography of bookkeeping. Cosmo Gordon provides a preface. Bookseller's tag on front pastedowns. Stain to bottom edge of initial pages in volume one.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 61719

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See More... (Africa) REPORT OF THE COMMONWEALTH AFRICAN BOOK DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR, IBADAN, NIGERIA, 2-14 FEBRUARY 1975.
London Commonwealth Secretariat n.d. (circa 1975) small 4to. paper wrappers, fabric spine. (iv), 76 pages,.
Includes papers on publishing in Africa, on libraries for schools, and on textbooks for Africa.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 49516

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See More... (Africa) Zell, Hans M. THE AFRICAN BOOK WORLD & PRESS--A DIRECTORY.
Oxford Hans Zell 1980 4to. cloth. xxxiI, 244, (10) pages.
Second edition, revised and expanded. Lists a total of 4,028 institutions and organizations, including libraries, publishers, the retail book trade, research institutions with publishing programs, book industry and literary associations, and the major periodicals and newspapers published throughout the African continent. Presentation from editor to Sigfred Taubert on free endpaper.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 49503

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See More... Alston, R.C. HANDLIST OF LIBRARY CATALOGUES AND LISTS OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.
London The Bibliographical Society 1991 4to. stiff paper wrappers. iv, 87 pages.
Occasional Papers No.6. A handlist of this collection, with dates and a short description of the contents of each entry. Combined author/subject index. Covers rubbed along edges.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 47826

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See More... Alston, R.C. HANDLIST OF LIBRARY CATALOGUES AND LISTS OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY DEPARTMENT OF MANUSCRIPTS.
London The Bibliographical Society 1991 4to. stiff paper wrappers. iv, 87 pages.
Occasional Papers No.6. A handlist of this collection, with dates and a short description of the contents of each entry. Combined author/subject index. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 60383

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See More... Altick, Richard LIBRARIANSHIP AND THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH
N.P. Rutgers University 1974 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages.
Second annual Richard H. Shoemaker Lecture, 1972. Lengthy errata slip inserted.
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 61

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(American Antiquarian Society) Gura, Philip F. THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, 1812-2012: A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY.
Worcester, Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society 2012 6.75 x 10 inches hardcover, dust jacket 454 pages
Founded in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, the patriot printer and leading publisher of the new nation, the American Antiquarian Society reflects his vision for the printed record of America's history-its preservation and its interpretation. Over two centuries, beginning with Thomas's gift of his own extensive library of books and newspapers, this learned society has become widely recognized as a national treasure. The collections are an indispensable resource for everyone interested in studying the United States to 1876. Scholars, artists, and writers benefit from the library collections and its fellowship programs to conduct research resulting in books and other works that frequently earn national awards. The Society also offers lectures, seminars and conferences, programs for teachers, and a rich website for diverse audiences.

This volume traces the development of the library and the role the Society's librarians have played as collectors, scholars of American writing and publishing, and stewards of the nation's history. Readers will meet Isaiah Thomas and his successors at the Society's helm: Christopher Columbus Baldwin, Samuel Foster Haven, Edmund Mills Barton, Clarence Brigham, Clifford K. Shipton, Marcus A. McCorison, and Ellen S. Dunlap. Each has moved the Society forward by deftly matching the institution's needs with local and national developments. The Society celebrates its bicentennial as a leading independent research library, a pioneer in the digitization of its collections, and a center of scholarship for the study of American history and culture.

The American Antiquarian Society-pride and joy of its founder Isaiah Thomas-holds the DNA of our shared national patrimony. On the occasion of its bicentennial, this uniquely American library has published a copiously illustrated history that is at once scholarly in purpose, rich in probing insight, and brimming with narrative detail. While keenly alert to the evolution of the Society, Philip F. Gura's guiding approach has been more finely focused on its intellectual development as a cultural repository of extraordinary consequence, with careful attention given to the people who have shaped and nurtured it into the twenty-first century. The founding spirit of this remarkable institution-a bookman for the ages "touched early by the gentlest of infirmities, bibliomania"-would be mightily pleased, I am certain, with this magisterial tribute to his enduring legacy.
-Nicholas A. Basbanes, author of A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008 and A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books.

Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture since 2000, has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1987. Widely recognized for his scholarship, Gura, who first visited the American Antiquarian Society as a reader in 1971, considers his election to membership in 1988 one of his highest honors. He is the author of many books, including American Transcendentalism: A History (2007), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (nonfiction) and Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel (forthcoming in 2013).

Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 108979

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See More... (Apprentices Library) FINDING LIST OF THE APPRENTICES LIBRARY.
New York Press of J. J. Little & Co. 1888 large 8vo. cloth. Variously paginated.
A complete, but condensed, list of all the separate works in the library up to the time of publication. It is a subject analysis of the books arranged in alphabetical and sub-alphabetical order of topics, broken up into as minute divisions as the amount of material on hand seemed to render necessary, with a copious alphabetical index for ready reference to any desired topic. A Mercantile Library Co. bookplate is on the front pastedown and a library stamp is on the title page and page 3 and 5. A two inch portion of the top of the spine is lacking and chipped at the bottom. Corners bumped and very yellowed with age.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 59419

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See More... (Architecture) Schimmelman, Janice G. ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS IN EARLY AMERICA, ARCHITECTURAL TREATISES AND BUILDING HANDBOOKS IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES THROUGH 1800.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1999 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 221 pages.
First edition. This annotated bibliography describes 147 architectural treatises and building handbooks that were available in American libraries and bookstores prior to 1800. The books listed were highly influential in colonial America. Originally published as part of the PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY in 1985, this revised and expanded edition is the first hardcover edition. ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS IN EARLY AMERICA is an essential and valuable tool for collectors and students of early American architecture.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 105339

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See More... Asheim, Lester (editor) A FORUM ON THE PUBLIC LIBRARY INQUIRY.
The Conference at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, August 8-13, 1949 New York Columbia University Press 1950 small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xiv), 288 pages.
These reports evaluated libraries' contributions to American society and the volume is a supplement to those reports. Jacket chipped and soiled.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 114631

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See More... Ashley, Frederick W. "A LOOK BACK", THE STORY OF THE VOLLBEHR COLLECTION.
Washington Washington Club of Printing Club Craftsmen 1934 8vo. green cloth. 38 pages.
Limited to 500 copies. The story of the acquistion of this extremely important collection of incunabula by the Library of Congress. Front cover spotted.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 114344

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See More... Astbury, Raymond (editor) THE WRITER IN THE MARKET PLACE.
London Clive Bingley (1969) small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 176 pages.
First edition. Papers delivered at a symposium held at Liverpool School of Libraranship April, 1968 and edited by Raymond Astbury, FLA, Senior Lecturer at the school. The role of the author in society, and the value which society places upon it, forms the principal subject of this collection of papers presented at the conference. Michael Dempsey, Seymour Smith and Bryan Luckman are a few of the speakers here represented. Index of references.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 114411

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See More... Bakewell, K.G.B. INDUSTRIAL LIBRARIES THROUGOUT THE WORLD.
Oxford Pergamon Press (1969) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 184 pages.
Part of the International Series of Monographs in Library and Information Science. Indexed. Jacket slightly rubbed, faded, and torn.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 47827

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See More... Bakken, Hallvard S. VITENSKAPELIGE BIBLIOTEKER I NORGE, HVA HAR DE VAERT TIL NA [SCIENTIFIC (I.E. SCHOLARLY, RESEARCH) LIBRARIES IN NORWAY, WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN TILL NOW]?
N.P. n.p. 1965 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages.
Reprint from "Naturen," No. 5, 1965. Collections in Norway from the Vikings to the present age.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 52458

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See More... Balsamo, Luigi BIBLIOGRAPHY, HISTORY OF TRADITION.
Translated by William A. Pettas. Berkeley, CA Bernard M. Rosenthal 1990 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. iii, 209 pages.
First U.S. edition. Originally published in Italian as LA BIBLIOGRAFIA, STORIA DI UNA TRADIZIONE IN 1984. Explains the circumstances and objectives behind the evolution of bibliographies. Includes chapters on books and book distribution in the Middle Ages, the introduction of printing, seventeenth century libraries, and the bibliography of librarians and historians in the nineteenth century.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 30553

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See More... (Bancroft Library) Morgan, Dale L. & George P. Hammond (editors) A GUIDE TO THE MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY.
2 volumes. Berkeley University of California Press 1963 8vo. cloth, dust jacket x,377; x,294 pages
Volumes I and II of 3 part series of guides to the Bancroft Library's collection of more than four million manuscripts related to the history of western North America and early Latin America. Jackets show minor wear.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 101856

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See More... Bannister, Arthur Thomas (compiler) A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE HEREFORD CATHEDRAL LIBRARY.
Hereford Wilson and Phillips 1927 small 4to. later cloth (xii), viii, 190 pages
A bibliography of the manuscripts from between eighth and fifteenth centuries in the Hereford Cathedral Library and their respective donors and previous owners. Original wrappers, in excellent shape, bound-in front has an ornate red border with alternating coats of arms. Includes an introduction by Montague Rhodes James, the Provost of Eton. A few notes penciled in margins. Two faded splotches on back.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 96616

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See More... Barber, Giles. ARKS FOR LEARNING, A SHORT HISTORY OF OXFORD LIBRARY BUILDINGS.
Oxford Oxford Bibliographical Society 1995 large 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. xiii, 176 pages.
Brief general history of libraries at Oxford, followed by 71 two-page spreads of text and illustrations (in black- and-white) on the various individual libraries, depicted in drawings, engravings, or photographs. Three additional illustrations (two in color).
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 51970

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See More... (Barrett, Clifton Waller) A SALUTE TO CLIFTON WALLER BARRETT ON HIS EIGHTIETH FROM FRIENDS & ADMIRERS.
Charlottesville, VA University of Virginia 1981 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated.
A festscrift in honor of C. Waller Barrett, donor to the University of Virginia Library. Includes words from Fredson Bowers, Erskine Caldwell, Frederick Goff and others. Designed by Warren Chappell.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 35494

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See More... Barringer, George. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AT GEORGETOWN, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOG.
Washington, DC Georgetown University Library 1989 4to. paper wrappers. 127 pages.
Second edition. Includes a history of the library with an illustrated overview of its special collections. Bottom corner bumped.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 51505

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  Barringer, George. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AT GEORGETOWN, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOG.
Washington, DC Georgetown University Library 1985 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 72 pages.
First edition. Includes a history of the library with an illustrated overview of its special collections. Introduction by Joseph E. Jeffs, University Librarian.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 96166

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See More... Bartholomew, A.T. CATALOGUE OF THE BOOKS AND PAPERS FOR THE MOST PART RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY, TOWN, AND COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGE BEQUESTHED TO THE UNIVERSITY BY JOHN WILLIS CLARK.
Cambridge At the University Press 1912 tall 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. xvi, 282 pages.
First edition. (Besterman p.1093). With biographical notes on Clark. Presentation on free endpaper "L.E. Smith from A.T. Bartholomew, Cambridge, April 1924." Light rubbing.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 43581

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See More... Basbanes, Nicholas A. PATIENCE & FORTITUDE.
(New York Harper Collins 2001) thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, (ii), 636 pages.
First edition. In this sequel to A Gentle Madness Basbanes continues his conversations with a wide variety of kindred spirits, each one a testament to the never-ending relevance of books in our lives. By exploring the transmission and preservation of knowledge, including the changes in the way information is amassed and stored, he reveals a deep and abiding respect for the printed word that is shared by "book people" around the world. Jacket rubbed along edges.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 64474

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See More... Baur-Heinhold, Margarete, SCHÖNE ALTE BIBLIOTHEKEN, EIN BUCH VOM ZAUBER IHRER RÄUME.
Einführung Karl Bosl. Aufnahmen Helga Schmidt-Glassner München Verlag Georg D.W. Callwey (1972) small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 295 pages.
First edition. A history of libraries with 388 plates including a number in color. With the bookplates of A.N.L. Munby and Susan Otis Thompson on front pastedown. Jacket is very worn with pieces missing.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 105071

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