Graz: Teuschner & Lubensky, 1889. small 8vo. half cloth with paper-covered boards. xvi, 210 pages. Third edition. A study of reading and education, setting forth the contemporary conditions, goals, and means of achieving those goals. Also includes sections on the new German literature, on realism, and on Henrik Ibsen. Ends with suggested reading lists. READ MORE about UBER LESEN UND BILDUNG
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Düsseldorf: Der Jungbuchhandel, (1965). 8vo. paper wrappers. 46, (10) pages. 7th edition. Outlines a reading plan for booksellers. READ MORE about LESEPLAN FUR BUCHHANDLER
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A Life in Reading
Boston: Beacon Press, (1996). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 119, (3) pages. A Life in Reading. Later printing. Just a hint of wear at the corners. READ MORE about RUINED BY READING
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Beckenham: Trigon Press, (1979). 12mo. paper-covered boards. 80 pages. First edition. An informative listing of societies, bookclubs, literary periodicals and trade journals on all books and collectors. Review copy with slip tipped-in. READ MORE about LITERARY SOCIETIES FOR BOOKMEN A COLLECTION OF SOCIETIES, CLUBS AND PERIODICALS IN ENGLAND AND...
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 237 pages. Spine lettering faded. READ MORE about HOW TO JUDGE A BOOK; A HANDY METHOD OF CRITICISM FOR THE GENERAL READER
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New York: Grosset/Putnam, 1999. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xxii), 298 pages. In this book more than one hundred distinguished contemporary writers share their personal thoughts about their favorite books and how those works influence them and their writing. A few of the contributors include Rita Mae Brown, Doris Lessing, John Irving, P. J. O'Rourke, Anna Quindlen, John Updike, and Kurt Vonnegut. READ MORE about FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS, 115 CELEBRATED WRITERS ON THE BOOKS THEY LOVE THE MOST
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New York: R.R. Bowker, (1963). 8vo. cloth. xi, 268 pages. First edition. Sections on educating the reader, commercial publishing, the University as publisher and some comments on bookshops. READ MORE about AMERICAN READING PUBLIC, WHAT IT READS, WHY IT READS THE DAEDALUS SYMPOSIUM, WITH REBUTTALS AND...
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Bad Godesberg: Hohwacht, 1966. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 63 pages. On how to read with understanding. READ MORE about LESEN--ABER MIT VERSTAND
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New York: New York Public Library, 1963. 12mo. paper wrappers. 29 pages. READ MORE about BOOKS AND TELEVISION
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922. 8vo. cloth. (xii), 324 pages. Later printing. Chapters on Racine, Browne, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Rousseau, Blake, and others. Frontispiece and titlepage foxed. Spine faded. READ MORE about BOOKS AND CHARACTERS, FRENCH & ENGLISH
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. (x), 306, (2) pages. First edition. Chapters on Racine, Browne, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Rousseau, Blake, and others. Near fine. READ MORE about BOOKS AND CHARACTERS, FRENCH & ENGLISH
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(Burnsville, MN): Voyageur Press, (1975). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), iv, 150 pages. First edition. With a foreword by Norine Odland, an introduction, index, bibliography with 218 entries, and appendix. READ MORE about MINNESOTA IN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX
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New York: Book Arts Press, 1991. 8vo. paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 850 copies. On the need for research libraries to change the ways in which they deal with the books in their care.The Sixth Sol. M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography. READ MORE about LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, AND READING
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Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, (1998). 8vo. cloth. xvii, 355 pages. First edition. Fifteen essays exploring the interconnections between verbal works and the physical objects (primarily manuscripts and printed books) that transmit them. Divided into five groups with such chapters as "Libraries, Museums, and Reading," "The Latest Forms of Book-Burning," "A Description of Descriptive Bibliography," "Books, Canons, and the Nature of Dispute," and "Printing History and Other History." READ MORE about LITERATURE AND ARTIFACTS
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London: Thames and Hudson, (1963). large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 552 pages plus 24 plates. First English edition. Volume one in the General History of the Sciences series. Three parts describing the ancient, Greco-Roman and Medieval world. Each section describes contributions to mathematics, medicine and other sciences by various countries and societies. Covers all parts of the world from India to the Americas. Fifty-three black-and-white illustrations and forty-three figures. With a memorial bookplate on..... READ MORE about A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES, ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SCIENCE, FROM PREHISTORY TO AD 1450....
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Translated by A.J. Pomerans.
London: Thames and Hudson, (1966). large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 635, (3) pages plus 32 plates. Translated by A.J. Pomerans. First English edition. Final volume in the General History of the Sciences series. Six parts describing various realms of science including mathematics, physical science, earth science, astronomy, biology, medicine and finally science and society. One-hundred fourteen black-and-white illustrations and thirty-three figures. With a memorial bookplate on the front pastedown which indicates that this book..... READ MORE about A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES, SCIENCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1975. 8vo. cloth, dustjacket, top edge red. (vi), 154 pages. Covering literature from the early centuries before 1485 all the way to the twentieth century, the author recommdends several titles needed to be a well red individual. Title was printed simultaneously in the UK and the US. READ MORE about WHAT TO READ IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
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Amorbach: Hermann Emig, (1964). small 8vo. paper-covered boards, leather spine label, dust jacket. 53, (7) pages. Printed in an edition of numbered copies. Reprinted from Heft 1 of Philobiblon (1957). Essay on collecting and reading. Jacket rubbed at edges. READ MORE about SAMMELN UND LESEN
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Gleerup: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1942. 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. 258 pages. "Robber-novels" reached their height of popularity in Sweden from 1800-20. This book discusses the "noble" robber, contrasts with the real ones, the rövarroman in the contemporary literary scene, domestic and translated novels, etc. Wrappers detaching from book block at bottom. READ MORE about ROVARROMANEN OCH DESS HJALTE I 1800-TALETS SVENSKA FOLKLASNING. [THE "ROBBER-NOVEL" AND...
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1926. small 8vo. half cloth, paper spine label, dust jacket, paper spine label on jacket. vi, 89 pages. First edition, dust jacket stamped "Release Date for Review Nov. 12, 1926." Jacket faded along spine. Edges of slipcase sunned and cracking. READ MORE about READING, AN ESSAY
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (1961). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 251+(1) pages. First edition. Autobiographical reminiscences of childhood reading experiences. READ MORE about THAT EAGER ZEST, FIRST DISCOVERIES IN THE MAGIC WORLD OF BOOKS. AN ANTHOLOGY
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Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, (2004). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 282 pages. Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages. "Text by, for, and about preachers from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries reveal an intense interest in the preacher's human nature and its intersection with his 'angelic' role." (from the dust jacket) The book and dust jacket have the slightest hint of wear at the lower edge. READ MORE about ANGELS AND EARTHLY CREATURES
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(New Haven: Andrew Kner, 1958). small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 85+(1) pages. Printed, designed and bound at the Department of Graphic Arts at Yale. First edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies. A translation of a fourteenth-century prompt book for a passion play. With an essay on the development of modern theatre by the translator. Set in Bembo types on Mohawk Superfine paper. Black and white illustrations by James Higa and Harry..... READ MORE about PHILLIPPE DE MEZIERES' DESCRIPTION OF THE FESTUM PRAESENTATIONIS BEATAE MARIAE
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Berkeley: Book Arts Club of the Univ. of Ca. 1938. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 236, (2) pages. First edition limited to 750 copies. Minor chipping to the dust jacket edges, else a near fine copy. The story behind famous books. READ MORE about 23 BOOKS & THE STORIES BEHIND THEM
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New York: Halcyon House, (1929). thick 8vo. cloth. 374 pages. First edition. Well illustrated. Minor cover rubbing and spine faded. Else very good. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about ROMANCE OF GREAT BOOKS AND THEIR AUTHORS
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