VOLUME IX
Denver: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, 2006. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 196, (4) pages. VOLUME IX. First edition limited to 500 copies. Volume IX in what will be a multi-volume bibliography of over twenty-five publishers of Victorian yellowbacks and paperbacks. An expansion of the work of Michael Sadleir and the catalogue of the Robert Wolf collection, this series represents the first comprehensive study of this important literary genre. Arranged chronologically by publisher, each numbered entry includes... READ MORE about VICTORIAN YELLOWBACKS & PAPERBACKS, 1849-1905. VOLUME IX, DAVID BRYCE, INGRAM, COOKE &...

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Paris: Edward W. Titus, 1927. 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards. (iv), xiii, 111, (3) pages with several black and white illustrations inserted. First edition, limited to 500 copies, numbered and initialed by E.W. Titus. Ten German dialogues between couples, translated into English. Once often performed on the stage under the title of Reigen, it ran into censorship problems in Germany until, in 1920, a Berlin court determined the presentation of the play to be a moral... READ MORE about COUPLES, TEN DIALOGUES RENDERED FROM THE GERMAN

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London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. small 4to. half brown polished buckram with marbled paper covered boards. 252, (2) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. (Cockalorum no.181). Wood engravings by Clifford Webb. The colophon has a wood engraving of the famous cockerel doing battle with an Amazon. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about THE AMAZONS, A NOVEL

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New York: Simon and Schuster, (1975). small 4to. faux leather. (xii), 386 pages. First edition. With short histories of American publishers. Some illustrations. READ MORE about THE DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHING FROM FOUNDING FATHERS TO TODAY'S CONGLOMERATES

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New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1933. 8vo. cloth-backed paste-paper-covered boards, paper spine labels, top edges gilt, slipcase. xxx,408; viii,352; viii,396,(2) pages. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by King (LEC 50). The Translation by Constance Garnett, revised, with an Introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. With Eighteen Portrait Illustrations by Alexander King.. 3 volumes. Printed by D.B. Updike at his Merrymount Press. Slipcase is rubbed and spotted. Spines of books slightly age darkened, with minor... READ MORE about THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV, A NOVEL IN FOUR PARTS AND AN EPILOGUE

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New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. 8vo. printed paper-covered boards, slipcase. 23 pages. With the following as part of the title page "One hundred copies printed for Stanley Morison at the press of Doubleday, Page & Co." "Morison spent a month and a half in America. He got the 'The Influence of the Audience' printed, a neat plain little book set in Caslon, with capitals two sizes smaller than the lower-case letters" - (Barker... READ MORE about THE INFLUENCE OF THE AUDIENCE. CONSIDERATIONS PRELIMINARY TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF...

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New Castle, DE and Oxford, England: Oak Knoll Press and The Bodleian Library, 2019. 6.14 x 9.2 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 448 pages. "Anyone interested in the provenance of books would be well advised to obtain a copy of the new edition, even if they own the previous one... what has changed the most are the increased awareness of its importance as a field of study, and the research tools available, especially online ones. The... READ MORE about PROVENANCE RESEARCH IN BOOK HISTORY: A HANDBOOK

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Des Moines: The Historical Department of Iowa, 1911. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges deckled. 241 pages. First edition. This very scarce volume was authored by Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick, descendent of Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States. Besides the bibliography and the sketch of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, this volume contains a bibliography of one hundred and thirty-nine books which frequently refer to Rafinesque, and information on portraits of... READ MORE about RAFINESQUE, A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE WITH BIBLIOGRAPHY

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 8.125 x 10.75 inches. Hardback with dust jacket. 160 pages. "This meticulously researched volume untangles the complicated and confusing history of American first editions of Dickens. It will be of interest to all students of Dickens, and invaluable for specialists. ... Highly recommended." - J. D. Vann, Choice This bibliography traces the history of Charles Dickens's Christmas books and other works published in America during his lifetime. Meticulously... READ MORE about CHARLES DICKENS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS AND SELECTED...

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 7.5 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 200 pages. "For anyone interested in Granjon and sixteenth-century type-founding, this is an excellent place to start. A concise and clear biography, several themed lists and indexes, and a series of well-printed facsimiles, provide the essential underpinning for such study, while committed readers will also need to have beside them the earlier and more specialist work by Vervliet and others." -... READ MORE about ROBERT GRANJON, LETTER-CUTTER, 1513-1590: AN OEUVRE-CATALOGUE

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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930. thick 8vo. original quarter leather. xii, 393+(1) pages. B1-1535. First edition, one of 100 numbered copies signed by Ward and Wyeth on colophon and bound thus and printed on rag paper; this being number 100. Original leaf of Ward's manuscript bound in. With a frontispiece portrait in color of Johan Printz by N.C. This copy has been inscribed by a du Pont family member to another du Pont family... READ MORE about THE DUTCH & SWEDES ON THE DELAWARE 1609-64

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New York: Arno Press, 1973. 8vo. silver cloth. (vi), 100, (28), (4) pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1868 New York edition published by Scovill Manufacturing Company (See Roosens & Luc Salu 1607). Part of the Literature of Photography series. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about THE AMERICAN CARBON MANUAL

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 9 x 12 inches. stiff paper covers with French flaps. xx, 245 p., 37 color plates. "With a new foreword by Sidney Berger, this second edition meticulously tracks the rise and fall of paper marbling." - Printmaking Today, Fall 2018 Subtitle: with special reference to the relationship of marbling to bookbinding in Europe and the Western world. Second edition with corrections, from the original edition published in 1990... READ MORE about MARBLED PAPER: ITS HISTORY, TECHNIQUES, AND PATTERNS

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