Bird, Robert Montgomery.

HAWKS OF HAWK-HOLLOW. A TRADITION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Volume Two (of two).
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. 8vo. original brown cloth, paper spine labels. 8, 256 pages. Volume Two (of two). First edition. (BAL 1155). State B of the paper spine label with text printed in all capitals. Also has an eight page section at the beginning describing new books issued by Carey, Lea, & Blanchard which is not noted by BAL. These ads refer to the second edition of both CAVALAR and THE INFIDEL. BAL..... READ MORE about HAWKS OF HAWK-HOLLOW. A TRADITION OF PENNSYLVANIA

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Bissell, Emily P.

HAPPINESS AND OTHER VERSES.

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

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Bissell, George P.

SIGNIFYING NOTHING BY G.P.B.

N.P. privately printed, (1943). 8vo. cloth. 54 leaves. Fourth edition. A series of fictional letters to various newspaper editors dated between 1913 and 1943. Presentation from the author on front free endpaper "To Fred & Bertha Stone with very best regards from their old friend, G.P.B. 12-7-'43" READ MORE about SIGNIFYING NOTHING BY G.P.B

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Blake, William.

SONGS OF INNOCENCE.

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

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(Blomefield, Francis). Stoker, David A.

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE REVEREND FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD (1705-52).

N.P. The Bibliographical Society, 1992. large 8vo. cloth. 276 pages. Francis Blomefield compiled and published the fascicles of what might have been the most comprehensive topographical history of any English county, when he died at the age of forty-seven. The 294 letters transcribed in this volume were written by, to, or (in a few cases) on behalf of Blomefield, historian and private printer. Indexed. Distributed for the Society. READ MORE about CORRESPONDENCE OF THE REVEREND FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD (1705-52

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Bonnaffé, Edmond.

DICTIONNAIRE DES AMATEURS FRANÇAIS AU XVIIE SIÉCLE.

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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(Book Lover's Library). Wheatley, Henry B.

THE DEDICATION OF BOOKS TO PATRON AND FRIEND A CHAPTER IN LITERARY HISTORY.

London: Eliot Stock, 1887. small 8vo. original green cloth, beveled edges. viii, 257 pages. First edition. History of the book dedication. One chapter devoted to Dr. Johnson's dedications. Minor cover wear. Ink stamp on front free endpaper. Back inside hinge cracked. READ MORE about THE DEDICATION OF BOOKS TO PATRON AND FRIEND A CHAPTER IN LITERARY HISTORY

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BOOKLETTER.

New York: Harper's Magazine, 1975. 4to. self paper wrappers. Vol.1, No.10 (January 6, 1975) to Vol.2, No.4 (September 29, 1975), missing issues. A total of 12 issues. Interesting reading with many reviews of books. Enclosed in a box with the name of the periodical stamped on the covers. READ MORE about BOOKLETTER

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(Boswell). Tinker, Chauncey Brewster (editor).

LETTERS OF JAMES BOSWELL.

2 volumes.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. tall 8vo. half creme colored cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine labels. xxiv,270; xi,271-550 pages. 2 volumes. First edition, one of the 100 numbered copies printed for the Brick Row Book Shop on hand-made paper. Signed by the author and Byrne Hackett of Brick Row. Covers soiled with rubbing to spine labels and tips. Bookplate. READ MORE about LETTERS OF JAMES BOSWELL

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Boyer, Paul S.

PURITY IN PRINT THE VICE-SOCIETY MOVEMENT AND BOOK CENSORSHIP IN AMERICA.

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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Bringhurst, Robert with Ulises Carrión.

THE TIMELESS ART OF ALLOWING BOOKS TO THRIVE.

Number eleven of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series
Berkeley, California: CODEX Foundation, 2015. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. paperback pamphlet. 28 pages. Number eleven of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. Number eleven of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. The Timeless Art of Allowing Books to Thrive is a dialogue between two theoretically and existentially divergent proponents of reading-executed in the manner of a conversation. Ulises Carrion's ground-breaking 1975 manifesto "The new art of making books" is here presented with interleaved remarks composed 40 years later by..... READ MORE about THE TIMELESS ART OF ALLOWING BOOKS TO THRIVE

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Brown, Mary Elizabeth.

DEDICATIONS, AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE FORMS USED FROM THE EARLIEST DAYS OF BOOK-MAKING TO THE PRESENT TIME.

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...

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 23072