Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, n.d. (circa 1927). 8vo. cloth. 224 pages. B1-3024. Bissell was the originator of the Red Cross Christmas Seal in 1907. After the section of poetry, there is a history of the development of the Christmas Seals. Corner of front free endpaper spotted. Foxing to title page. READ MORE about HAPPINESS AND OTHER VERSES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 66261
N.P. privately printed, n.d. (circa 1949). 8vo. cloth. 30 leaves. Fifth edition. A series of fictional letters to various newspaper editors dated between 1939 and 1949. Presentation from the author on front free endpaper. READ MORE about SIGNIFYING NOTHING BY G.P.B
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 65962
Stockholm: Statens Offentliga Utredningar, 1972. 8vo. stiff paper covers. 707, (3) pages, with 8 additional pages of plates. A Swedish government publication. Results of studies conducted 1969-1972 in five districts in Sweden on reading and book use. Includes demographic and other data on the districts, library statistics, reading data, activities of school children, etc., with analysis, photographic illustrations, samples of questionaires. Part one of this report. READ MORE about LAS- OCH BOKVANOR I FEM SVENSKA SAMHALLEN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 51508
Yellow Springs, OH: Kahoe & Company, 1928. small 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (vi), 28 pages. Printed and bound at The Antioch Press. Twenty-one poems by the eighteenth-nineteenth century English artist/poet. Cover rubbed at edges, soiled. Covers rubbed with wear along spine. Name in ink on free endpaper. READ MORE about SONGS OF INNOCENCE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 44887
(Winchester: Winchester College, 1985). 8vo. cloth. 72 pages. Being the first book appearance of a manuscript found after the death of Blakiston. Issued in tribute to Blakiston (1904-1981). Two page foreword by Walter Oakeshott. READ MORE about REMINISCING IN THE 17TH CENTURY
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Frankfurt: Bücherschiff, n.d. 12mo. paper wrappers. 352 pages. Contemporary essays on books--"keys to life, gates to the world." Spine creased. READ MORE about BUCHER, SCHLUSSEL ZUM LEBEN, TORE ZUR WELT, STIMMEN DER GEGENWART
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New York: Burt Franklin, n.d. 8vo. cloth. xvi, 353 pages. Reprint of the 1884 edition. Biographical information on French authors of the 17th century. READ MORE about DICTIONNAIRE DES AMATEURS FRANÇAIS AU XVIIE SIÉCLE
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London: A. and R. Spottiswoode, 1824. 8vo. contemporary calf with raised bands and gilt decoration and rules. 296 pages. First edition. Presentation copy. John Bowdler (1746-1823), a writer on religious and church affairs, was the author of Select Pieces in Verse and Prose (1818). Inscribed "From the Author" on the half title. Bookplates are on the front paste down and the front free endpapers, both from the Locker family. There are a few notes in..... READ MORE about MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF JOHN BOWDLER, ESQ
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 96348
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1968). 8vo. cloth. xxi, 362 pages. First edition; with a 15 page bibliography. Tear in jacket along hinge and some spotting of jacket. READ MORE about PURITY IN PRINT THE VICE-SOCIETY MOVEMENT AND BOOK CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1968). 8vo. cloth. xxi, 362 pages. First edition; with a 15 page bibliography. Cloth faded. READ MORE about PURITY IN PRINT THE VICE-SOCIETY MOVEMENT AND BOOK CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA
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Ljubljana: Drzavna zalozba Slovenije, 1972. square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 142, (6) pages. Presentation from the author to Siegred Taubert on the half-title. A Slovenian compilation of essays on books, reading and the publishing industry. Includes translated essays by Marshall McLuhan, Stanley Unwin, Robert Escarpit, and Paul Hazard. Quotations printed in purple. READ MORE about CAS KNJIGE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 74556
Westport: Greenwood Press, (1970). 8vo. cloth. x, 198 pages. Reprint of the 1952 first edition. A look at the development of American philosophy, journalism and American social thought. READ MORE about AMERICAN NON-FICTION, 1900-1950
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1913. thick 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. ix, 470 pages. First edition. Divided into twenty-one different types of dedications. Contains a bibliography and index. Covers lightly rubbed. READ MORE about DEDICATIONS, AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE FORMS USED FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS OF BOOK-MAKING TO THE PRESENT...
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1913. thick 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. ix, 470 pages. First edition. Divided into twenty-one different types of dedications. Contains a bibliography and index. Worn at spine ends. Bookplate of Frederic Melcher. Inside hinges cracked. READ MORE about DEDICATIONS, AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE FORMS USED FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS OF BOOK-MAKING TO THE PRESENT...
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Foreword by Howard Mumford Jones.
N.P. Ohio State University Press, (1968). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xviii, 327 pages. Foreword by Howard Mumford Jones. First edition. An important look at publishing and the author in America during the 19th century. With an embossed private library stamp. READ MORE about THE PROFESSION OF AUTHORSHIP IN AMERICA, 1800-1870 THE PAPERS OF WILLIAM CHARVAT
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Philadelphia: A. Hart, Late Carey & Hart, 1850. 8vo. original red cloth stamped in blind with gilt decoration on front cover and on gilt decorations on spine, all edges gilt. 378 pages. Reprint of the 1847 first edition (See BAL 1633). Complete in One Volume. In a well preserved publisher's binding by Ducomb & Collins. Bookseller's ticket of Wm. Murray of Lancaster, PA, on front pastedown. READ MORE about POEMS BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY THE AUTHOR
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New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1864. 12mo. original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth , yellow endpapers. (iii), 222+(1) pages. BAL1683. First state, pg 213, line 5 "veielo". Binding A. Gold stamped lettering on spine faded. Head and tail of spine chipped. Minimal foxing and soil. READ MORE about THIRTY POEMS
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(Ithaca, New York): Ithaca House, (1985). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii) 75, (3) pages. First edition. Presentation from author on title page. Acknowledgements, table of contents, biography. Three chapters of over 20 poems in this poetry book. READ MORE about OTHER LIVES
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1977. 4to. paper wrappers. pp.362-523. Offprint from Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, Band XVIII, Lieferung 3, 1977. A study of German writers' associations after the Second World War. Indexed. READ MORE about DIE REORGANISATION DER WESTDEUTSCHEN SCHRIFTSTELLERVERBANDE 1945-1952
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New York: AMS Press, 1972. 8vo. cloth. xii, 335 pages. Reprint of the 1878 first edition. READ MORE about STUDIES ON THE TEXT OF SHAKESPEARE: WITH NUMEROUS EMENDATIONS AND APPENDICES
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3 volumes.
London: T. Rickaby, 1793. large 4to. full leather, gilt turn-ins, gilt design and lettering on the spine, gilt rules on boards, marbled endpapers. (iv), xxxix, (i), 317+(1); (iv), 322-678, (2), 8; (iv), 495, 18+(1) pages. 3 volumes. Lowndes 1, 336. Limited to only two hundred copies, this copy being one of those with the illustrations in black- chiefly Hogarth cuts. Volumes one and three have engraved frontispieces, and all three have engraved title pages. Volume..... READ MORE about HUDIBRAS
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Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1980. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xii), 106 + (4) pages. Forward is written by Winthrop Knowlton, book was published for the International Publishers Association. It is about problems with censorship around the world. Small tears at the heel of the spine and light wear at the lower edge of the cover. READ MORE about FREEDOM TO PUBLISH A REPORT ON OBSTACLES TO FREEDOM IN PUBLISHING PREPARED FOR THE CONGRESS OF...
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 91591
A study of eminent American writers from Irving to Whitman with an introductory survey of the Colonial background of our national literature
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1931). 8vo. cloth. (xviii), 372 pages. A study of eminent American writers from Irving to Whitman with an introductory survey of the Colonial background of our national literature. First edition. Tipped in notice that this book is an advance copy from Harcourt, Brace and Co., dated September 24, 1931. Front endpapers tanned from a somewhat larger item, now not in the book.Previous owner' s name on free front endpaper..... READ MORE about CLASSIC AMERICANS
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1936). 8vo. cloth. x, 310 pages. First edition. A Delaware author. Covers faded. Name in ink on front free endpaper. READ MORE about SEVEN YEARS' HARVEST, NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
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Su Clasificación Crítica
Buenos Aires: Talleres S.A. Casa Jacobo Peuser, 1923. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iii), 22 +(1) pages. Su Clasificación Crítica. Numero XVII of the Publicationes del Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas. Cover tanned. Pages unopened. READ MORE about LOS HISTORIÓGRAFOS ARGENTINOS MENORES
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