Washington: Printing Industry of America, (1958). 4to. cloth. xviii, 339 pages. Reprint of the 1953 first edition. Manual on running a printing plant with sections on production, plant layout, etc. Many illustrations. READ MORE about MANAGEMENT OF PRINTING PRODUCTION
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East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1903. 8vo. full green suede, title and author gilt-stamped on front cover, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. (iv), 77+(1) pages. McKenna 96. A five-part essay. Covers rubbed and scuffed. READ MORE about VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE: AN ESSAY IN FOUR PARTS
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Washington: Library of Congress, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 95+(1) pages. Foreword by John Y. Cole. With James Madison's List of Books for Congress. Contains over 300 titles. READ MORE about " WELL AQUAINTED WITH BOOKS", THE FOUNDING FRAMERS OF 1787
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New Castle, Delaware and Winchester, England: Oak Knoll Press and St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1999. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 320 pages. First edition. This is the most comprehensive bibliography on Sackville-West, which encompasses the great diversity of her writings, which includes novels such as THE EDWARDIANS and ALL PASSION SPENT and biographies like PEPITA, which was about her grandmother who was a Spanish dancer. Along with the aforementioned novels and biographies, the authors have listed 61..... READ MORE about VITA SACKVILLE-WEST, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Saint Paul, MN: Rulon-Miller Books, 2011. 8vo. cloth. (8), 134, (1) pages. Edition limited to 450 copies, this one of 400 copies constituting the trade edition (there is also an edition of 50 special copies which are numbered and contained a signed wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec, plus a suite of 12 trial sheets and proofs). Original midnight blue cloth, printed paper label on the spine. Design and typography by Jerry Kelly. A fine copy..... READ MORE about QUARTER TO MIDNIGHT. GAYLORD SCHANILEC & MIDNIGHT PAPER SALES. A DISCURSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
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New York: Henry N. Abrams, (1962). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 322 pages. A survey of the Art Nouvau movement from its origins in the early 19th century to its peak in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Tipped in frontispiece. Table of contents, acknowledgments, notes, selected bibliography, list of plates and illustrations, index of names, photographic credits. Black and white, and color, illustrations, many tipped in, throughout. READ MORE about ART NOUVEAU
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New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, (1977). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxvi, 13-258 pages. Includes over 1200 sources. Preface, guide to using the sources, glossary, subject index, index of names. Ink notations on half title and in text. READ MORE about REFERENCE SOURCES IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Chicago: United Typothetae of America, 1918. small 8vo. cloth. (vi), 21, (9) pages. No.21 in the series of training manuals for printers issued. READ MORE about TABULAR COMPOSITION, A STUDY OF ELEMENTARY FORMS OF TABLE COMPOSITION WITH EXAMPLES OF MORE...
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Austin: The Humanities Research Center, (1975). 8vo. cloth, glassine wrapper. 29 pages. Limited to 750 copies. Being no.8 of their Bibliographical Monograph Series. READ MORE about CENSURE AND CENSORSHIP, IMPEDIMENTS TO FREE PUBLICATION IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
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Old Chatham, NY: (Shaker Museum Foundation), 1970. 8vo. later cloth, paper cover label. 62, (2) pages. A catalogue of more than 300 entries, with several black-and-white plates throughout. Minor wear, stamp of previous owner on top of title page. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE EMMA B. KING LIBRARY OF THE SHAKER MUSEUM
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Winterthur: The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, (1980). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (28) pages. Illustrated. Lightly soiled covers. Preliminary pages lightly foxed, else a fine copy. READ MORE about H. RODNEY SHARP, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES MARKING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH
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[Oxford]: Carcanet Press, 1970. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 18 pages. American author's first book, limited to 600 copies. Fine. READ MORE about CURIOUS QUESTIONS
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Chicago: American Library Association, 1967. small 4to. later cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. x, 208 pages. First edition. Study of the building of the modern library. Ex-library copy with markings. READ MORE about LIBRARIES, BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE, PROCEEDINGS OF THE LIBRARY BUILDINGS INSTITUTE AND THE ALTA...
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Chicago: American Library Association, 1967. small 4to. later cloth with original front paper wrapper laid-down. x, 208 pages. First edition. Record of two workshops held by the American Library Trustee Association and the Library Buildings Institute in July 1956 at Detroit, Michigan. The goal of the workshops was to discuss problems inherent to planning library building projects and possible solutions. Papers were also given about the different phases of such projects and critiques of existing..... READ MORE about LIBRARIES, BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
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In The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. Volume 39, Number 4
(Washington D.C.): Library of Congress, Fall 1982. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (i), 198-260 pages. In The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. Volume 39, Number 4. This issue has the following articles: "The Bollingen Foundation: Mary Mellon's 'Shining Beacon'" by William McGuire, "My Monday Morning Country Store" by Patrick Hayes, "Twentieth-Century American Fine Printing" by Robert R. Shields, and "Heroes and Victims: Willa Cather's Marriage Theme" by Doris Grumbach. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. Separate..... READ MORE about " TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FINE PRINTING."
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Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes, 1906. small 8vo. two-tone cloth. 47, (5) pages. Handwritten limitation on free endpaper states that this copy is number 120 of 150 printed. Besterman 5132. John Siberch (1476-1554), born Johann Lair, was the first printer at Cambridge, from 1521-1523, and is known to have produced at least 14 works while there. This 1906 work was meant as a supplement to an 1886 work by Henry Bradshaw. Introductory matter by Bowes is..... READ MORE about JOHN SIBERCH, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, 1886-1905, WITH FACSIMILES OF TITLE-PAGES, COLOPHONS,...
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Orlando: University Presses of Florida, (1980). 8vo. paper covered boards. vi, (vi), 73 pages. First edition. Blurbs by F. D. Reeve, Richard Eberhart, John Leax. Copyright deposit copy. One of two copies submitted by the publisher for copyright purposes. This copy not selected for the Library's collections. Copyright Office and Library of Congress surplus duplicate stamps. Fine. Issued without dust jacket. READ MORE about IN A PIG'S EYE
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Orlando: University of Central Florida, (1980). 8vo. paper covered boards. vi, (vi), 73 pages. First edition. Blurbs by F. D. Reeve, Richard Eberhart, John Leax. Lower corners bumped, otherwise near fine in black and white paper boards. Issued without dust jacket. READ MORE about IN A PIG'S EYE
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Atlanta: Emory University Libraries, 1979. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 43 pages. Illustrated exhibition catalogue. READ MORE about NATURE AND NATURE'S GOD: ASPECTS OF THE INTERPLAY OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION FROM NEWTON TO DARWIN
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Wilmington: Wilmington Arts Commission, 1987. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 70 pages. Preface by Daniel S. Frawley, Mayor, Foreword by John Stephens Crawford, Chairperson of the Delaware Humanities Forum followed by a map and text describing the sculpture work in Wilmington. Photographs by Leigh Frederick. READ MORE about OUTDOOR SCULPTURE IN WILMINGTON
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Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1897. 8vo. original paper wrappers. xii, (ii), 86 pages. Biographical notes on the 30 librarians in Trinity College's history starting with William Hicks (1609). Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Octavo Publication XXIX. Light chipping around edges and a spot at the top of the front cover. READ MORE about BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE LIBRARIANS OF TRINITY COLLEGE ON SIR EDWARD STANHOPE'S FOUNDATION
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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1967. 8vo. cloth. xviii, 461 pages. Thousands of entries. Back inside hinge cracked. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF STUDIES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE FOR THE TEN YEARS 1955-1964
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New York, NY: Sheldon and Company, 1859. 8vo. original embossed gilt-stamped leather, five raised bands on spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. 841+(1) pages. New edition including works not heretofore published. Table of contents, preface by the author, English Romantic poet and poet laureate of England 1813-43. With eight steel engraved illustrations, including frontispiece portrait of Southey, by Kenny Meadows, Corbould, Westall, and Middleton. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges. Foxing on front endpapers, frontispiece..... READ MORE about COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT SOUTHEY, LL. D
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With a memoir.
New York, NY: T. Y. Crowell, n.d. (circa 1888). 8vo. red cloth. 592 pages. With a memoir. Ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Near fine. Southey was born August 12th, 1774, and through both his parents was born from respectable families of Somerset County, England. He was raised by his mother's maiden aunt who was such a cleanliness fanatic that she once buried a cup someone she considered unclean had used that she..... READ MORE about THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT SOUTHEY
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New York: The Macmillan Co., 1962. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 790, 268 pages. Revised edition, second printing. History of American literature and its makers including a large section of bibliographical essays. Jacket chipped. READ MORE about LITERARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
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