READER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA.
New York: Harper & Row, (1987). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 1141 pages. Forth edition. A fine copy. READ MORE about READER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA
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New York: Harper & Row, (1987). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 1141 pages. Forth edition. A fine copy. READ MORE about READER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA
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London: Association of Assistant Librarians, 1963. 8vo. cloth. 240 pages. Sections on reading, writing, library service, publishing, and bibliography. Indexed. Bumped at spine. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY AND THE PROVISION OF BOOKS
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New York: George H. Doran company, 1917. 8vo. cloth. xii, 337+(1) pages. First American edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Boards rubbed. Preliminary pages lightly foxed. Else a very good copy. READ MORE about BOOKS AND PERSONS BEING COMMENTS ON A PAST EPOCH, 1908-1911
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New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. 8vo. cloth, paper cover label, dust jacket. 461 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket, else a fine copy. 40 separate chapters each devoted to a best seller. READ MORE about MUCH LOVED BOOKS BEST SELLERS OF THE AGES
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Birmingham: Birmingham School of Printing and Graphic Arts, 1993. 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. 17 pages. Offset reprint of the original 1935 publication by the City of Birmingham School of Printing. Brief account with excerpts from contemporary documents of one of Dr. Johnson's Lichfield relations. READ MORE about JOHNSONIANA, DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON AND HIS FRIENDS, RICHARD GREENE, THE LICHFIELD APOTHECARY AND HIS...
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N.P. Privately printed, n.d. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt, dust jacket. (xii), 176 pages. B1-4692. Well printed with decorations in green ink by Star Publishing Co. of Wilmington. Presentation "To Mr. & Mrs H.W. Cullen, most respectfully yours, Alden R. Benson, Dover, Del. October, 9th, 1924". Spotting of endpapers and pastedowns and boards. READ MORE about LOTUS LILIES
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 65978
Pour une Symbolique du Livres dans l'Art
N.P. Éditions des Cendres, Institut d'étude du livre, (1993). large 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper label on spine and top board. 73, (5) pages. Pour une Symbolique du Livres dans l'Art. Text in French. Limited to an edition of 999. Traces the appearance and symbolism of books from fourteenth-century statues of saints to the work of Vincent van Gogh in the nineteenth century. Essay translated by Christiane F. Kopylov. Preface by François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles. Illustrated in..... READ MORE about LIVRES DE SAGESSE ET LIBRES DE VANITÉS
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New Haven and London: Yale University, (1996). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 197+(1) pages. Exhibition catalogue for an exhibit at the Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University from March-September 1996. Lightly soiled, else a near fine copy. The exhibit also appeared at Columbia University (November 1996-Feburary 1997), Harvard University (January 1997), and Yale University (February-April 1996). The essay preceding the catalogue covers the changes the Bible underwent during the Reformation as well as the ways in..... READ MORE about THE REFORMATION OF THE BIBLE, THE BIBLE OF THE REFORMATION
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Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1998. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. VOLUME 3, NO.12, DEC., 1998. IN THIS ISSUE: J. Fawcett on Thomas Malthus, A.S. Earle on 19th-century illustrated flower books, N.H. Marshall on Clement Moore, and R. Armstrong on the "state of the art book." ALSO: M. Atwood discusses storytelling (excerpt), B. Strubble takes a bibliophile tour of England, and the Bill Gates Library Foundation commits $200 million over the next 5 years to..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
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Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1999. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Volume 4, Number 3, March, 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: K. Blewster on Sherman Alexie, K. Vonnegut on himself, C. Grossman on the Limited Editions Club then and now, R. Meador on The Death of a Salesman, K. Jones on a bookstore in W. Texas, D. Thompson on collecting Beatles books, K. Peterson on Hemingway in Cuba, Dodgson's own first edition copy of Alice at..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
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Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1999. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Volume 4, Number 2, Feb., 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: S. Stipes on the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs with a bibliography of other such narratives by C.L. Blockson, N.A. Basbanes on Tom Wolfe, I. Ungar and J.P. Ansell on the illuminator and anti-Nazi caricaturist Arthur Szyk, R. Meador on the Wine and Food Library in Ann Arbor, and MORE. READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
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Eugene, OR: Aster Publishing Corporation, 1999. 4to. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Volume 4, Number 4. APRIL 1999. IN THIS ISSUE: Grant Menzies on Luce's Women, women who have inspired one-woman plays from the pen of William Luce; Alice L. Tufel on The New York Public Library Berg Collection, offers remarkable accessibility to booklovers wanting a hands-on experience with rarities; Peter Szatmary on Edward Hirsch's poetry that engages head and heart--and his newest prose book. Lorenzo..... READ MORE about BIBLIO, EXPLORING THE WORLD OF BOOKS
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New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, (1930). small 8vo. publisher's cloth. 264 pages. First American edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Light age darkening to the spine. Else very good. Part of the Traveler's Library series. READ MORE about THE MONK AND THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER
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Volume 1 (of two) volumes.
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834. 8vo. original brown cloth, paper spine label. xxviii, (29)-278, (2), (12) pages. Volume 1 (of two) volumes. First edition of author's first book. (BAL 1152). With a 12 page publisher's catalogue at the end of each volume - being state B in the first volume ("Just Published ... Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"). No priority assigned by BAL. Robert Montgomery Bird was a well-known Delaware author that resided in..... READ MORE about CALAVAR; OR, THE KNIGHT OF THE CONQUEST: A ROMANCE OF MEXICO
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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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New York: Faber and Faber, (2006). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xv, (iii), 251+(1) pages. First published in 1994, this edition has a new introduction and afterword by Birkerts. Essays on reading and the effects of the digital age. This is the latest edition. READ MORE about THE GUTENBERG ELEGIES, THE FATE OF READING IN AN ELECTRONIC AGE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 93070
(Hamden, CT): Linnet Books, 1975. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 130 pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. Instructors of history can use this bibliography to compile reading lists for classes and a source of potential publishing outlets. Divided into chapters on research methods in history, teaching of history, historiography and philosophy of history, and historiographical studies by area, with a checklist of professional periodical literature as appendix. READ MORE about HISTORIOGRAPHY, METHOD, HISTORY TEACHING, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES IN ENGLISH, 1965-1973
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Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, (1970). small 8vo. cloth. xii, 290 pages. Reprint of the 1901 first edition. Ten essays on various subjects, including Walter Bagehot, James Anthony Froude and Robert Browning; also an address on good taste in books. READ MORE about ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES
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South Hackensack, NJ & New York, NY: Rothman Reprints, Inc., and Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers, 1971. 8vo. cloth. 228 pages. Reprint of the first edition. Lightly soiled, else very good. Several lectures by Birrell that he gave at the University College, where he was the Quain Professor of Law. READ MORE about SEVEN LECTURES ON THE LAW AND HISTORY OF COPYRIGHT IN BOOKS
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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, (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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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
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(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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New York: Viking, 1991. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 240 pages. First edition. Near fine in fine jacket. READ MORE about ALL BUT THE WALTZ: ESSAYS ON A MONTANA FAMILY
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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
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 60366