CANADIAN LIBRARIES.
London: Clive Bingley, (1969). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 90 pages. First edition. Covers public, academic and special libraries. Jacket soiled. READ MORE about CANADIAN LIBRARIES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 26407
London: Clive Bingley, (1969). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 90 pages. First edition. Covers public, academic and special libraries. Jacket soiled. READ MORE about CANADIAN LIBRARIES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 26407
2 volumes; Bulletins III and IV
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Printing Office, 1946, 1947. 8vo. cloth. (ii), 53+(1); 110 pages, 10; 24 plates. 2 volumes; Bulletins III and IV. Bulletin III limited to 150 copies and bulletin IV limited to 200 copies. Bulletin III consists of reports and letters by various librarians at the Harvard University, including Directors of the Library of the Harvard Law School and the Houghton Library. Bulletin IV lists recent additions to the Canadian collection and the..... READ MORE about THE CANADIAN COLLECTION AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 96764
(Turin): Provincia di Torino, 1997. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 154 pages. Text in Italian. Historical essays about the Historical and Cultural Library of Piemonte. Preface by Monica Cuffia; introduction by the author. Essays on the library itself, its collections and technical matters. Most essays include bibliographies. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about LA BIBLIOTECA DI STORIA E CULTURA DEL PIEMONTE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 108364
Manuscrits - Incunables - Livres Rares - Reliures - Dessins - Estampes - Objets d'Art - Curiosités Bibliographiques
Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1937. 4to. loose leaves in stiff paper wrappers. (iv), pp.59-106 followed by plates XXI-XXXVII. Manuscrits - Incunables - Livres Rares - Reliures - Dessins - Estampes - Objets d'Art - Curiosités Bibliographiques. One section of this series devoted to the treasures of the French National Library. This part contains contains six essays about objects of interest in the collections of various libraries in France. The essays are as follows..... READ MORE about LES TRÉSORS DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES DE FRANCE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 95398
Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, (1967). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 158 pages. First edition. "Essays from the Librarian's desk on twentieth century man and his books." With humorous illustrations. READ MORE about IN A GRAND AND AWFUL TIME
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 34853
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1996. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Program in celebration of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's one hundredth anniversary. With the article "Free to the People," by Hax McCullough. Photographs. READ MORE about CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH, 100TH ANNIVERSARY GALA DINNER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 71017
Organization and Scope. Sixth Issue, February 28, 1917.
Washington, D.C. Carnegie Institution, 1917. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 49+(1) pages. Organization and Scope. Sixth Issue, February 28, 1917. Examines the organization and scope of the institution, along with its various departments. Wear at extremities, coverrs heavily sunned. READ MORE about THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON, FOUNDED BY ANDREW CARNEGIE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 101388
London: Grafton & Co., 1947. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 166 pages. First edition. This book was written for the training course for the New Zealand Library Association. With an introduction by Raymond Irwin. Minor soiling of jacket. READ MORE about LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 115717
1968. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), iv, 291-474, (2) pages. Being Vol. 38, No.4, October 1968, issue of The Library Quarterly. The entire issue is devoted to Carnovsky. Library stamp on front cover. READ MORE about " IN HONOR OF LEON CARNOVSKY."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 97572
Pasadena, CA: Ampersand Press, 1947. tall 8vo. stiff marbled paper wrappers, paper cover label. (ii), 8, (2) pages. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at his Castle Press. A history of imaginary libraries. With two tipped-in facsimile plates showing books in the Fortsas catalogue. READ MORE about SOME LIBRARIES WE HAVE NOT VISITED, A PAPER READ AT THE ROUNCE & COFFINS CLUB, AUGUST 26, 1947
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 17604
Cambridge: Harvard University Library, 1995. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 76+(1) pages. A special issue of the Harvard Library Bulletin, New Series Fall 1995, Volume 6, Number 3. Includes several essays on the importance of the Widener Library. Paper loss in corner front cover. Covers lightly soiled. READ MORE about WIDENER LIBRARY: VOICES FROM THE STACKS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 102500
Cambridge: Harvard University Library, 1986. 8vo. cloth. xii, 216 pages. Describes the history of the library buildings and the holdings of the Harvard University Library. READ MORE about THE FIRST 350 YEARS OF THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, DESCRIPTION OF AN EXHIBITION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 35607
Washington: Library of Congress, 1996. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 40 pages. A lecture given by Kenneth Carpenter at the Library of Congress on September 25, 1995 in which he calls for a new collaborative history of libraries and their role in American culture, READ MORE about READERS & LIBRARIES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 58974
West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1919-1990
(West Vancouver, British Columbia: Corporation of the District of West Vancouver, 1990). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 182 pages. West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1919-1990. Chronicles the growth of library services in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor wear on corners. READ MORE about FULFILLING A DREAM
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 97437
Davis, CA: University of California, Davis, 1975. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 14, (2) pages. Keepsake Number 7 in a series issued by the University of California, Davis. Foreword by Celeste Turner Wright. Discussion of the finding of the text of a novel by William Dean Howells. READ MORE about ON THE TRAIL OF THE TRUTH
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Livres Illustrés Modernes, La Plupart dans de Riches Reliures
Paris: Me Georges Muel, Me Étienne Ader, M.L. Giraud-Badin, and M. Marc Loliée, (1949). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 52, (2) pages. Livres Illustrés Modernes, La Plupart dans de Riches Reliures. Text in French. Auction catalogue. Includes eight photographs of items for sale. Phiroze Randeria bookplate as well as penciled-in notes on front free endpaper. Prices for each object written in the margins. Wrappers and spine beginning to tan, some wear around edges and corners slightly..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHÈQUE LÉOPOLD CARTERET, ÉDITEUR D'ART
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 92132
William A. Caruthers and His Reading, 1823-29
New York: The New York Public Library, 1948. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 13+(1) pages. William A. Caruthers and His Reading, 1823-29. Lists and describes texts read by Caruthers in the New York Public Library that might have influenced his writing. Pages have slight tanning on edges. Creasing on top right edge and slight fold mark on lower right corner. Corners bumped. READ MORE about AN EARLY HISTORICAL NOVELIST GOES TO THE LIBRARY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 97551
Vol. 77, 1957
( Rio de Janiero): Divisâo de Publicações, 1963. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 235+(1) pages. Vol. 77, 1957. Text in Portuguese. Contains a long article about Alfredo de Carvalho by José Honório Rodrigues. Also three bibliographies: Biblioteca Exótico-Brasileira ( N-Z), Biblioteca Exótica Pernambucana (A-Z) and Bibligrafia Geográfica Brasileira (A-Z). Wrappers worn at the extremities, some darkening at the spine and edges, a few stains none of which affect the interior. READ MORE about ANAIS DA BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 95816
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, (2001). small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xii, 177+(1) pages. First edition, later printing. Near fine in near fine jacket. The story of ancient libraries is told from their very beginning when books were just clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Through the royal libraries of the ancient Near East, the private and public libraries of Greece and Rome and the first libraries of..... READ MORE about LIBRARIES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 62576
Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1966. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Reprint of an address given before the District of Columbia Library Association. Contains a bibliography of Peacock Press titles in the rear. READ MORE about LONG, WARM FRIENDSHIP: H.L. MENCKEN AND THE ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 1176
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Library, 1980. small 8vo. selff paper wrappers, stiff paper overwrap. (vi), 30 pages. Limited to 1,500 copies. A fine copy. A booklet to accompany an exhibition of the works of Willa Cather, containing essays by Alfred A. Knopf, Yehudi Menuhin and Eudora Welty, all of whom knew Miss Cather well. READ MORE about MIRACLES OF PERCEPTION: THE ART OF WILLA CATHER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 48597
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1987. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxv, (i), 414 pages. An extensive collection of manuscripts, maps, sound recordings, and microfilm holdings from the American Philosophical Society are well-indexed here. Some wear on edges of dust jacket. Upper corners lightly bumped. READ MORE about A NEW GUIDE TO THE COLLECTIONS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 97419
Catologhi di biblioteche private dei secoli XVII-XVIII nei fondi dell'Angelica.
Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1990. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxii, 326 pages. Catologhi di biblioteche private dei secoli XVII-XVIII nei fondi dell'Angelica. Text in Italian. Published under the auspices of the Ministry of Cultural and Environmental Heritage. Catalogues of private libraries in the Biblioteca Angelica in Rome. Introduction and list of frequently consulted works. Organized by chronologically by country of origin. Black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about VOCIS ET ANIMARUM PINACOTHECAE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 108393
New York: Center for Book Arts, 2013. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. paperback. 28 pages. Catalogue of an exhibition of the same name, which ran from from January 18-March 30, 2013. The exhibition presents 13 artists' works that challenge typical conceptions of the library's place in contemporary society, presenting it as an agent of social change. The catalogue provides a brief but informative description of each work in the exhibition. Illustrated in color throughout. READ MORE about BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A STACK?
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 117975
(Allegany, NY): Friedsam Memorial Library, n.d., but 1998. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 26 pages. Foreword by university president Robert J. Wickenheiser, list of trustees and university officers, acknowledgments. Color illustrations and descriptive text about highlights of the library's special collections. READ MORE about A CENTURY OF GATHERING: THE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF ST. BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134658