Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1973. 8vo. cloth. 284 pages. First edition. Looks at the literature of the development of Symbolist aesthetics during the period 1950 to 1970. Covers spotted. READ MORE about A POST-SYMBOLIST BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 6721
Berlin: Richard Carl Schmidt & Co., 1924. 8vo. cloth. 305, xxiii pages. With 105 illustrations. Study of prints and their artists including information on signature methods. Covers soiled with a small tear along front hinge at top. READ MORE about KUPFERSTICHSAMMLER EIN HAND- UND NACHSCHLAGEBUCH SAMT KÜNSTLERVERZEICHNIS FÜR DEN SAMMLER...
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 41947
Paris: Librairie Léopold Cerf, 1893. 8vo. original front paper wrapper, rear wrapper lacking. 16 pages. Includes a suggested outline for a course in the history of the book. Bookseller's tag on front wrapper. Front wrapper detached, chipped, and yellowed. READ MORE about L' ENSEIGNEMENT DE L'HISTOIRE DU LIVRE ET SON UTITLITE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 48479
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1930. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 255, (3) pages. First edition. Guide to pseudonymous literature. Jacket chipped. READ MORE about PEN NAMES AND PERSONALITIES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 33888
Wurzburg: Konrad Triltsch, 1941. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vii), 164 pages. Volume one of the series DAS BUCH IM KULTURLEBEN DER VÖLKER edited by Gerhard Metz. This volume discusses bookselling in Europe since 1839 and includes statistical tables. Small snag at top of first few pages. READ MORE about DER EUROPÄISCHE BUCHHANDEL SEIT DEM WIENER KONGRESS
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 42433
Würzburg: Konrad Triltsch, 1941. 8vo. paper wrappers. (viii), 164 pages. On the European book trade since the Vienna Congress in the nineteenth century. Wrappers soiled. Spine bumped at head. READ MORE about DER EUROPÄISCHE BUCHHANDEL SEIT DEM WIENER KONGRESS
Price: $13.00 Order nr. 50712
New York: Burt Franklin, (1971). small 8vo. cloth. vi, 255 pages. Reprint of the 1929 edition. An outline bibliography of serials and important monographs, including diplomatic documents issued by government offices and ministries of Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland and France. Listings are arranged under each country by issuing organization. READ MORE about OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS OF EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 46257
Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, (1973). 8vo. cloth. x, 73 pages. First U.S. edition. READ MORE about DISSERTATIONS ON ANGLO-IRISH DRAMA, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STUDIES 1870-1970
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 42146
Cambridge, MA: The Abbey Press, 1931. small 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (iv), 8, (3) pages. Edition of 750 copies. An offprint from the Boston Globe. One of a series of essays, this being Volume I, "A Bumper Crop of Fame Raised on Stony Fields." Discusses the number of New Englanders in the DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY and in WHO'S WHO. READ MORE about DAILY JAUNTS IN NEW ENGLAND
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 46487
Berlin: Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1894. 8vo. original paper wrappers. 32 pages. On the use of bibliography for booksellers. Wrappers discolored and detached. Some pages detached. Stain on p.32. READ MORE about DIE BIBLIOGRAPHIE IM DIENSTE DES BUCHHANDELS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 50703
Bonn: Buchgemeinde Bonn, (1950). tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 348 pages. Over 150 illustrations in the text. Jacket tape repaired. Some offset of frontispiece onto title page. READ MORE about BUCHERN UND BIBLIOTHEKEN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 34166
New York: Wilfred Funk, (1964). cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 236 pages. A concise guide to writing and selling nonfiction, discussing each step from getting the idea to signing the contract. The author analyzes the difficulties confronting him and explains how he resolved problems he faced writing his eighteen published books. Minor chipping to dust jacket. READ MORE about NONFICTION: FROM IDEA TO PUBLISHED BOOK
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 46261
New York et al.
K.G. Saur, (1980). small 8vo. cloth. vi, 301 pages. New York et al. Part 1 consists of case studies of 12 projects sponsored by the HEA-II-B Library Research and Demonstration Program; Part 2 includes case studies of LSCA III in ten states: AK, CA, MN, MS, NH, NY, ND, RI, TX and VA. This volume 2 is complete in itself. READ MORE about A STUDY OF LIBRARY COOPERATIVES, NETWORKS, AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48022
London: The Bibliographical Society, 1897. 8vo. original paper wrappers. (vi), 159 pages. First published work by Proctor. A bibliography of articles appearing in The Serapeum between 1840 and 1870. Classifications include bibliography, manuscripts, printed books, bibliographical miscellanies, libraries and biography. Wrapper soiled, chipped, torn,detached, back wrapper lacking. Spine rubbed, chipped, some lacking. READ MORE about A CLASSIFIED INDEX TO THE SERAPEUM
Price: $23.00 Order nr. 46528
New York: Burt Franklin, (1972). 8vo. cloth. vi, 386 pages. Reprint of the 1935 first edition. The third volume of Cushing's Union World Catalogue of Manuscript Books being the complete volume of printed catalogues of manuscript books. Indispensable for any researcher who has to do with book manuscripts. READ MORE about A LIST OF PRINTED CATALOGS OF MANUSCRIPT BOOKS
Price: $28.00 Order nr. 47765
1947. 4to. paper wrappers. pp.163-256, with 14 additional leaves of advertising. In Graphis, vol.3, no.19, 1947. Ruota's article appears on pp.176-183. Illustrated; text in English, French, and German. Wrappers rubbed. Corners bumped. READ MORE about " CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN ENGRAVERS."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 50956
Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1922. 4to. cloth. viii, 543 pages. Third edition. A study of mostly 20th century book illustration throughout the world. With separate chapters on different countries including one on America. Filled with Illustrations. Covers show foxing. READ MORE about MODERNE GRAPHIK, EINE DARSTELLUNG FÜR DEREN FREUNDE UND SAMMLER
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 36840
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
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 41963
Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, (1969). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 316 pages. This bibliography deals primarily with political, social and economic factors of modernization and development. 2,493 annotated items, from scholarly journals, symposia and conference reports are cited. These are primarily in English, with some in French and Spanish, and cover works published between 1945 and l967, most being from the early 1960s. A list of relevant books, and indices of journals..... READ MORE about DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGE, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 46193
Pragae: Pragopress, 1971. small 4to. self paper wrappers and inserted in pocket in the back of the facsimile of (8) pages which is bound in boards. 26 pages. The sub title of the facsimile is LEGES BIBLIOTHEACAE STRAHOVIENSIS BIBLIOTHECARIO ET COMNIBUS STRAHOVIENSIS ECCLESIAE PROFESSIS AD OBSERVANDUM PRAESCRIPTAE. Edited by Pravoslav Kneidl. READ MORE about RAD STRAHOVSKE KNIHOVNY 1672
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 43677
(Munich): n.p., (1948). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 38+(1), followed by 7 illustrations. A history of the Munich bookseller J. Lentner, published to celebrate its 250th anniversary. Illustrated by Felix Buttner. Some wear to wrapper. Front free endpaper yellowed. READ MORE about 250 JAHRE LENTNER'SCHE BUCHHANDLUNG
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48349
Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1937. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 62, (2) pages. Celebrating the art of printing. Indentation on front wrapper and early pages. READ MORE about DIE JAHRHUNDERTFEIERN DER BUCHDRUCKERKUNST 1540-1940
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48774
Tulsa, OK: Commercial Publishers, 1956. small 4to. paper-covered boards. not paginated. An essay on art appreciation and the basic philosophy of collecting. Illustrated by three plates in full color, tipped-in. READ MORE about A PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO COLLECTING AND DECORATING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 46295
Kassel: J.G. Oncken, (1959). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 286, (2) pages. Third printing of the first edition. A general history of the book and its production. Many illustrations. Jacket chipped. READ MORE about 6000 JAHRE UND EIN BUCH
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 41714
New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, (4), 286 pages. First edition. A collector's guide to the world of prints. With chapters devoted to what to collect, and famous collectors and collections. Authored by the curator of prints at the New York Public Library. Jacket torn with small loss. READ MORE about THE QUEST OF THE PRINT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 43723
