Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. 8vo. original green cloth, beveled edges. (viii), 380 pages. First edition. (BAL 13136). Covers rubbed with spotting. Wear at spine ends. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about AMONG MY BOOKS
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Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1882. 8vo. original green cloth, beveled edges. (viii), 380 pages. Reprint of 1870 first edition. (See BAL 13136). Covers rubbed. Ink inscription on first blank page. Ownership inscription in pencil. READ MORE about AMONG MY BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 102776
Sussex: The Harvester Press, (1982). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 232 pages. First edition. A survey of movements in literary attitude, from classical allusion to personal reaction. READ MORE about ROMANTIC TO MODERN LITERATURE, ESSAYS AND IDEAS OF CULTURE, 1750-1900
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New York: The Peter Pauper Press, n.d. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 21 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. The address was delivered at the annual banquet of the American Booksellers Association. Prints a Franklin D. Roosevelt letter. Covers soiled and spine faded. READ MORE about A FREE MAN'S BOOKS; AN ADDRESS
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893. 8vo. quarter parchment over cloth covers. xvi, 188 pages. First edition, one of 150 numbered large paper copies printed on Dutch handmade paper and bound thus. Part of the Books about Books Series edited by A.W. Pollard (Webber p.38). Eight illustrations. Parchment spine is soiled with chip in center. Foxing. READ MORE about BOOKS IN MANUSCRIPT, A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THEIR STUDY AND USE WITH A CHAPTER ON RECORDS
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 9584
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893. 8vo. original cloth. xvi, 188 pages. First edition. Part of the Books about Books Series edited by A.W. Pollard (Webber p.38). Eight illustrations. Covers rubbed. Wear at spine ends. Bookplate. READ MORE about BOOKS IN MANUSCRIPT, A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THEIR STUDY AND USE WITH A CHAPTER ON RECORDS
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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1893. 8vo. original cloth. xvi, 188 pages. First edition. Part of the Books about Books Series edited by A.W. Pollard (Webber p.38). Eight illustrations. Partial split of cloth along hinge. Two bookplates. READ MORE about BOOKS IN MANUSCRIPT, A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THEIR STUDY AND USE WITH A CHAPTER ON RECORDS
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Brussels: Insitut Catholique des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, circa 1961. large 8vo. paper wrappers. iii, 201 pages. An economic study of French-language publishing, including book production, marketing. and sales. Wear to wrapper at spine. Corners bumped. Front hinge partly detached. READ MORE about ECONOMIE DE L'EDITION EN LANGUE FRANCAIS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 48253
London: Grant Richards Ltd., 1920. 12mo. cloth. 343 pages. First edition. Overview of English literature, 18th to early 20th century, novels, poetry and books in general. Some wear to spine and boards. Inside hinges partially cracked. Edges soiled and foxed. Ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. READ MORE about BOOKS AND THEIR WRITERS
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Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co., (Privately Printed), 1913. 4to. cloth-backed paper-covered boards, paper cover label. Frontispiece; (6), 493-589 pages. Reprinted for private circulation from Canada and Its Provinces, edited by A. Shortt and A. G. Doughty. Contains 75 signed contributions to this series. Covers somewhat stained and soiled, prelims a little foxed. READ MORE about ENGLISH-CANADIAN LITERATURE
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Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 118 pages. First edition. A translation of the 1993 Schouler Lectures given by the eminent French scholar, who established the history of the book as a distinct subject requiring its own approaches and methods. This single inspiring work helped bring forth the history of the book as a field of scholarship with specialists in universities, research centers, and libraries all over the..... READ MORE about THE FRENCH BOOK, RELIGION, ABSOLUTISM, AND READERSHIP, 1585-1715
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Freiburg im Breisgau: C.A. Wagner, 1914. square 8vo. quarter parchment over boards. 188 pages. Presentation from the author to the German bookseller, Emil Hirsch. Covers soiled and rubbed. READ MORE about ZUR PSYCHOLOGIE DES VERSTEHENS WISSENSCHAFTLICHER TEXTE
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Napoli: Chiurazzi, 1874. 8vo. modern cloth. xxiv,464 pages. First edition. Bibliography and biography of Neopolitan authors, with index. (Besterman 3197). Describes approximately 2000 items. A commemorative book label is loosely inserted, which indicates that this set came from the reference library of H.P. Kraus and was purchased by Oak Knoll Books at the auction sale. READ MORE about NOTIZIE BIOGRAFICHE E BIBLIOGRAFICHE DEGLI SCRITTORI DEL DIALETTO NAPOLITANO
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London: National Book Council, 1944. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. First edition, paperback variant. (Wight 110). Introduction by Geoffrey Faber. Masefield's comments on reading, authorship and publishing. Chipped at spine ends. READ MORE about I WANT! I WANT!
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Or the pangs of Love
New York: Macmillan Company, 1922. 8vo. cloth spine, paper-covered boards, paper label on front. (viii), 151+(1) pages. Or the pangs of Love. Wright, 55b.Special Autograph Edition. Limited to an edition of 1000 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Tear in the upper edge of the title page repaired. Boards very worn and soiled. READ MORE about MELLONEY HOLTSPUR
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London: William Heinemann Ltd., (1947). large 12mo. cloth. vi, 216 pages. First edition. (Handley-Taylor 64) A 22 page chapter on William Morris is an appreciation of his art as Masefield comes to realize "with full acuteness, the loneliness and the heroism of the man and all the greatness of his invention." Foxing along inner gutters. READ MORE about THANKS BEFORE GOING WITH OTHER GRATITUDE FOR OLD DELIGHT
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Boston, MA: The Club of Odd Volumes, 2016. 9.5 x 9.5 inches. Casebound with Japanese cloth, dust jacket. 600 pages. "This careful account of the life's work of a dedicated scholar-collector accomplishes what no practicing entomologist can ever do... Never mind that the books are totally fascinating to the outsider." -- Roger E. Stoddard, Former Curator of Rare Books, Houghton Library, Harvard "A thoughtful distillation of a great deal of gathering and collecting that combines..... READ MORE about AMERICAN BEE BOOKS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS ON BEES AND BEEKEEPING 1492 TO 2010
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New York: Francis P. Harper, 1896. tall 12mo. original cloth, gilt stamping on cover and spine, beveled edges. (xi), 129 pages. Essays on various books and bookmen. Some pages uncut. Hinges weak. Spine, front and rear edges tanned. Some minor chipping and loss of cloth to the head and tail of spine. READ MORE about RAINY DAYS IN A LIBRARY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 104384
New York, NY: Frederic A. Stokes Company, 1926. 8vo. yellow cloth. 414 pages. READ MORE about SHOT TOWERS
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Philadelphia, PA: The Penn Publishing Company, 1906. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages. Lovely little, relatively unknown, work by John McIntyre. Some shelfwear. READ MORE about THE SWELL CRACKSMAN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133485
Mit drei Originalradierungen des Verfassers.
Hamburg: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 2002. 8vo. cloth, paper spine and cover label. 117, (5) pages. Mit drei Originalradierungen des Verfassers. Written in German. Limited to 1100 copies. This copy is signed by the author. With an afterword. Contains three original etchings by the author. With a black fabric bookmark. READ MORE about KALEIDOSKOPISCHE SCHRIFTEN
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(Reading, England): Colloquium on Textbooks, Schools, and Society, University of Reading, (1993). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 66 pages. A volume in the University of Reading's Textbook Studies series. Preface, index, three tables, bibliography. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations in text. Brochure laid in. READ MORE about EARLY TEXTBOOKS OF ENGLISH
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Wilmington: Annie E. Michener, (1903). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages. "Dedicated to the Children, the World Over, Who Love the Fairies." A lengthy poem by this Delaware author. READ MORE about THE FAIRIES' SECRET
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The Sixth Annual Lecture Under the 'Thank-Offering to Britain Fund'
London: The British Academy by the Oxford University Press, 1971. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. The Sixth Annual Lecture Under the 'Thank-Offering to Britain Fund'. Lecture given 20 October, 1971, on the prohibitions we lay upon ourselves. "Purchased at Heffers Bookstore Cambridge, England - Ma 21 1973 JHK(?)" written in ink on title page. READ MORE about CENSORSHIP AND THE LIMITS OF PERMISSION
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 101231
Paris: Les Arts et le Livre, 1927. small 8vo. leather with four raised bands, with original paper wrappers bound in, top edge gilt, front edge uncut, bottom edge deckled. 245 pages, with 15 additional plates of illustrations. Edition limited to 1100 copies, of which this is number 1016. Printed on Vélin de Rives. Provocative illustrations in pencil accompany this novel in the Le Miroir des Muirs series. Worn along hinges. READ MORE about L' EUROPE GALANTE, QUINZE LITHOGRAPHIES HORS TESTE ORIGINALES DE
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 55292
