London: George Allen & Unwin, (1988). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 238 pages. Third edition. The editor has gathered actual case histories of agreements between authors and publishers. READ MORE about PUBLISHING AGREEMENTS, A BOOK OF PRECEDENTS
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London: George Allen & Unwin, (1962). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 244 pages. First edition. Bill Targ's copy with his ownership inscription. Light jacket wear. READ MORE about BANNED BOOKS OF ENGLAND AND OTHER COUNTRIES, A STUDY OF THE CONCEPTION OF LITERARY OBSCENITY
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London: George Allen & Unwin, (1937). 8vo. cloth. 207 pages. First edition. Covers rubbed. Lacks dust jacket. READ MORE about THE BANNED BOOKS OF ENGLAND With a Foreword by E.M. Forster
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With Illustrations by G. Bowers.
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1882. 8vo. full brown calf (by Root & Son London), five raised bands, sporting scenes blind stamped on spine, top edge gilt, original red cloth bound-in at end. (x), 361 pages. With Illustrations by G. Bowers. D'Avigdor (1841-1895) wrote a number of hunting novels under the pseudonym of "The Wander." He was educated as an engineer and supervised many construction projects in the Middle East. D'Avigdor was an avid sportsman..... READ MORE about ACROSS COUNTRY BY "WANDERER"
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With Illustrations by G. Bowers.
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1884. 8vo. full brown calf (by Root & Son London), five raised bands, sporting scenes blind stamped on spine, top edge gilt, original red cloth bound-in at end. viii, 360 pages. With Illustrations by G. Bowers. D'Avigdor (1841-1895) wrote a number of hunting novels under the pseudonym of "The Wanderer." He was educated as an engineer and supervised many construction projects in the Middle East. D'Avigdor was an avid sportsman..... READ MORE about FAIR DIANA BY "WANDERER"
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1994). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiii, 277 pages. First edition. This book concerns more than just the editing of this medieval Spanish work as his "remarks on the process of editing a medieval text, and what a medieval text is, are going to occasion very serious reflection on both subjects." READ MORE about THE ETHICS OF READING IN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE, GLOSSING THE LIBRO DE BUEN AMOR
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Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1969). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 376 pages. First half of book is about becoming a novelist, poet, critical writer in modern times. Second half of book is an extensive bibliography on several British authors, including Yeats. Free front endpaper signed by previous owner. Edges, covers and spine all lightly rubbed, minor wear to edges, crease down spine, light staining in spots around edges of volume. READ MORE about THE PRESENT AGE IN BRITISH LITERATURE
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(Paris): Gallimard, (1991). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 11-278, (4) pages. Text in French. Part of the publisher's NRF Essays series. A study of the world of subversive, censored, and clandestine literature in Enlightenment-era 18th century France and its impact on the coming of the French Revolution of 1789. Table of contents, three appendices, index. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about ÉDITION ET SÉDITION: L'UNIVERS DE LA LITTÉRATURE CLANDESTINE AU XVIIIE SIÈCLE
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 258 pages. First edition. Darton "introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment." READ MORE about THE LITERARY UNDERGROUND OF THE OLD REGIME
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New York: The New York Public Library, 1940. large 12mo. paper wrappers. 30, (2) pages. This is fifth of the R.R. Bowker Memorial Lectures. Davis gives a lecture on the problems of the author. READ MORE about SOME ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMICS OF AUTHORSHIP
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Paris: Unesco, 1974. 8vo. paper wrappers. 81 pages. On Unesco's efforts to promote reading, libraries, and the free circulation of books. Wear to front hinge. READ MORE about POUR LE LIVRE
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(New York): Simon & Schuster, (1996). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 492, (2) pages. First edition. The author, film critic for the New York magazine, takes the reader on a literary tour with him as he rediscovers authors such as Homer, Plato, Boccaccio, Hegel, Nietzsche, and others. READ MORE about GREAT BOOKS, MY ADVENTURES WITH HOMER, ROUSSEAU, WOOLF AND OTHER INDESTRUCTIBLE WRITERS OF THE...
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Pamplona: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, 1970. small 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 298 pages. Elements of a contract, "vicissitudes" in the legal relationship, rights/obligations of the parties, extinction of a contract. Legal references only in footnotes! Bibliography. No.14 of the Cuadernos de Trabajo de Periodismoof the U. of Navarre Institute of Journalism. Chip out of top edge of cover. READ MORE about LA RELACION CONTRACTUAL ENTRE AUTOR Y EDITOR
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New York: Continuum, (1989). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 260 pages. Expanded edition. Brief history of publishing followed by step-by-step explanation of how books are published. Includes a large section on bookselling. Presentation from author on front free endpaper. READ MORE about BOOK PUBLISHING, A BASIC INTRODUCTION
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New York, NY: John F. Dobbs, 1928. 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 386 pages. Preface, table of contents, index. Frontispiece. A guide to proof-reading. Edges of dust jacket chipped. READ MORE about PROOF-READING AND STYLE FOR COMPOSITION IN WRITING AND PRINTING
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London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. 8vo. cloth. xii, 232 pages. First edition. Chapters on Thackeray, Samuel Rogers, book illustration, Samuel Johnson and others. Minor rubbing of covers. Ink inscription on free endpaper. Bookplate. READ MORE about DE LIBRIS PROSE AND VERSE
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London: Chatto and Windus (printed at Chiswick Press), 1903. small 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. xii, 294, (2), 32 pages, with 5 additional pages of plates. Second edition (first publ. 1902). Dobson: Bibliography of First Editions, 63. Articles on the 18th-century actress Margaret Woffington, Henry Fielding as a journalist, the Spectator, and 9 others. With index, 5 illustrations, and a 1902 publisher's catalogue (browned-on different paper) bound in. A Chiswick Press printing, excepting the catalogue..... READ MORE about SIDE-WALK STUDIES
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Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, (1981). 8vo. cloth. 215 pages. Reprint of the 1978 first edition. READ MORE about THE AMERICAN NOVEL IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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A Sermon delivered before King Charles I in the beginning of Lent 1630/1
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1973. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 54, (4) pages. A Sermon delivered before King Charles I in the beginning of Lent 1630/1. Trade edition. John Donne's sermon "Deaths Duell" or "A Consolation to the Soule Against the Dying Life and Living Death of the Body" with a comprehensive essay by Geoffrey Keynes. Five engravings and engraved initial letters. Paper watermarked with John Donne's name. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about DEATHS DUELL
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Essays on American Literature
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (ii), xii, 320, (2) pages. Essays on American Literature. Includes ten essays on American writing and writers as well as seventeen brevities on various authors and their work. Presentation copy with note "To Aileen: In admiration and affection - Denis" on front free endpaper and letter from author to Aileen dated September 30, 1987 laid-in. READ MORE about READING AMERICA
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New York: The Macmillan Co., (1974). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 280 pages. Later printing of first edition. Lengthy discussion of 25 books which have greatly influenced American thought. READ MORE about BOOKS THAT CHANGED AMERICA
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(Syracuse): Syracuse University Press, (1958). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 23 + (1) pages. A commemorative book that contains the address delivered at Syracuse University in April 1958 by the author and librarian Robert Downs on the occasion of the annual Scholastic Achievement Dinner. The speech announces Downs' choices of the sixteen most influential books of all time. READ MORE about THE POWER OF BOOKS
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New York: The Greystone Press, 1939. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 248 pages. First printing in English; from the fifth French edition. On authorship and reading. READ MORE about IN DEFENCE OF LETTERS
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Santa Barbara: Santa Teresa Press, 2004. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 24 + (2). Edition limited to 535 copies of which this is one of 35 specially printed on blue paper, numbered in Roman numerals and signed by the author. Printed as a benefit publication for the Antiquarian Booksellers' Benevolent Fund; a non-profit charity. This is a recollection of Dunning's friendship with Michael Shaara (The Killer Angels) over one summer and, simultaneously, a meditation on..... READ MORE about THAT SUMMER WITH MICHAEL
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Genoptryk af Jørgen Christoffersen Dybvads skrift om kometen 1577.
Holstebro (Denmark): Niels P. Thomsen, 1922. 8vo. speckled paper-covered boards, paper label on cover. 31+(1), (XIII), (2) pages. Genoptryk af Jørgen Christoffersen Dybvads skrift om kometen 1577. Edition limited to 225 copies, produced under the supervision of Emil Selmar. Finely printed facsimile of Jorgen Christoffersen Dybvads' essay on the comet of 1577. With commentary by Selmar. Light rubbing on boards, corners bumped. READ MORE about OM KOMETERS BETYDNING SOM JÆRTEGN I FORDUMS DAGE
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