Devon: David & Charles, (1970). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 272 pages. First English edition. Jacket spine faded. READ MORE about MUDIE'S CIRCULATING LIBRARY AND THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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New York: The Grolier Club, n.d. (circa 1994). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages. Order form loosely inserted. Fine condition. READ MORE about THE GROLIER CLUB, EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, PUBLICATIONS AND POSTERS FOR SALE
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New York: Burt Franklin, (1972). small 8vo. cloth. (ii), 85 pages. Reprint of 1875 edition. A near fine copy. This was the first of a course of lectures in the Jefferson Medical College, and traces the history of medical literature in America from the tracts written by Benjamin Rush, a surgeon in the Continental Army and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Medical libraries, and publishers of medical works are also discussed. From the reference..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF AMERICAN MEDICAL LITERATURE FROM 1776 TO THE PRESENT TIME
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Buenos Aires: Librería y Casa Editora de Jesús Menéndez, 1938. large 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. 111 pages. Numbered copy; however, the size of the edition is not indicated. An 1893 account of the Biblioteca Nacional and its predecessor, the Public Library of Buenos Aires, by the Argentine scholar, historian and librarian Paul Groussac (1848-1929), who was Director of the Biblioteca Nacional from 1885 to 1929 (effectively to 1925). The founding and early years of..... READ MORE about NOTICIA HISTORICA SOBRE LA BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE BUENOS AIRES (1810-1 901) Y DISCURSO...
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44 Kirjailijaa Kertoo Kirjallisista Ensiaskeleistaan
Jyväskylä: K.J. Gummerus, (1947). 4to. quarter cloth, paper covered boards, dust jacket. 262 pages. 44 Kirjailijaa Kertoo Kirjallisista Ensiaskeleistaan. Text in Finnish. We Became Writers, 44 writers published by Gummerus relate their experiences, the "baby steps" fo writing, according to the subtitle. Black and white illustrations throughout. Published on the 75th anniversary of the founding of Gummerus. Dust jacket slightly worn at edges. Boards dented at corners. Endpapers tanned. READ MORE about MEISTÄ TULI KIRJAILIJOITA
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Manchester: John Rylands Library, 1941. 8vo. cloth. xii, 239 pages. Being Volume 25 of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. A special issue with a prefatory note by Sir John S.B. Stopford, an article on Henry Guppy including a bibliography of his writings, articles by Kenyon, Craster, W. Wright Roberts, etc. Illustrated. Cloth spine slightly faded. READ MORE about BULLETIN OF THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY MANCHESTER, IN HONOUR OF HENRY GUPPY
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Manchester: John Rylands Library, 1941. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 239 pages. Being Volume 25 of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. A special issue with a prefatory note by Sir John S.B. Stopford, an article on Henry Guppy including a bibliography of his writings, articles by Kenyon, Craster, W. Wright Roberts, etc. Illustrated. READ MORE about BULLETIN OF THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY MANCHESTER, IN HONOUR OF HENRY GUPPY
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Leeds: The Elmete Press, 1976. 4to. quarter black calf with crushed canvas covered boards, clamshell box. x, 95, (2) pages. First edition. Printed in an edition limited to 465 numbered copies, this being one of 430 copies bound in quarter calf. Introduction by Percy Muir. A reference book of printers and publishers of conjuring books and ephemera. The principal illustrations are facsimile reproductions from old conjuring books, printed by lithography from plates made by C...... READ MORE about SOME PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS OF CONJURING BOOKS AND OTHER EPHEMERA
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London: Mansell Publishing Ltd., (1986). large 8vo. cloth. (vi), 266 pages. The journalist and newspaper publisher George Julian Harney (1817-1897) was one of the more radical members of the Chartist movement. After the apparent failure of Chartism, and European radicalism in general, in 1848, he began to withdraw from politics, but continued to acquire books for his library. This is a reconstruction of Harney's library with later additions by family; most but not all of..... READ MORE about A CHARTIST'S LIBRARY
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New York: Harper & Row, (1965). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 415 pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. Illustrated. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about THE BROTHERS HARPER, A UNIQUE PUBLISHING PARTNERSHIP AND ITS IMPACT UPON THE CULTURAL LIFE OF...
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New York: Harper & Row, (1967). 8vo. cloth. x, 236 pages. First edition. Interesting history of this important publisher. Lacking the dust jacket. Exlibris with markings. Spine faded. READ MORE about THE HOUSE OF HARPER, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF PUBLISHING
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New York: Harper & Row Publishers, (1967). small 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 32 pages. First edition. Spine faded, else a near fine copy. Short history of Harpers issued on their 150th anniversary. READ MORE about THE PRICE OF SURVIVAL
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(London): The British Library, 1998. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 833 pages. First edition. Massive study of this instutition. Many plates of illustrations in the back. Near fine. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY, 1753-1973
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Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1991. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 93+(1) pages. Exhibition catalogue issued as a sequel to the 1973 keepsake, Some Treasures of The Bancroft Library. James D. Hart was Director of the Library from 1969 to 1990. Before he was named Director, he negotiated the merger of the University Library's Rare Book Department into The Bancroft Library. Illustrated with facsimiles of manuscripts, maps, title-pages, and historical photographs. READ MORE about THE LEGACY OF JAMES D. HART AT THE BANCROFT LIBRARY, 1970-1990
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A Checklist of Printed and Manuscript Works of Francis Bret Harte in the Library of the University of Virginia
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1957. 16mo. cloth-backed, paper-covered boards. viii, 64 pages. A Checklist of Printed and Manuscript Works of Francis Bret Harte in the Library of the University of Virginia. A facsimile of the checklist of printed and manuscript works of Francis Bret Harte in the University of Virginia Library. Slight shelf wear. READ MORE about BRET HARTES
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N.P. n.p., (1831). small 8vo. paper, disbound. 19 pages. An interesting Massachusetts government document which list all the gifts, grants, and donations made by the State to Harvard College and Williams College since their incorporation to 1831. READ MORE about HOUSE ......NO 26, A STATEMENT OF DONATIONS MADE BY THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS TO LITERARY...
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Cambridge: Harvard College Library, (1992). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (xii), 100+(1) pages. Preface by Richard Wendorf, introduction by Anne Anninger and Roger Stoddard and exhibition catalogue with illustrations. Printed by the Stinehour Press. READ MORE about CENTURIES OF BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS, COLLECTORS AND FRIENDS, SCHOLARS AND LIBRARIANS, BUILD THE...
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1994. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp.3-19. An article in Harvard Library Bulletin, New Series, Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 1994. Includes Sidney Verba on Douglas Bryant, A Note on the Origins of the Houghton Library, An Acquisitions Trip to Ukraine by Jaryna Bodrock and Harvard's Germanic Collections: Their History, Their Future by Michael Olson. READ MORE about " AMONG HARVARD'S LIBRARIES"
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Four Volumes
Cambridge MA: E.W. Metcalf & Co., 1830-1831. 8vo. original cloth-backed paper cover boards, paper spine labels. vol 1: xvii, (3), 490; vol 2: (2), (491)-952, (2); vol 3: xii, 233, (1); vol 4: viii, 224 pages. Four Volumes. First of the 19th-century catalogues of Harvard's holdings, here uncut and unopened in four volumes, including the Catalogue of the Maps and Charts, which was published shortly after the three main volumes. Front free endpaper of volume..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY IN CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Library, 1994. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 71 pages. Includes the following: The Houghton Library, 1991-1993: The Librarian and the Curators of the Houghton Library; The Uses of Manuscripts: Late Medieval English by Derek Pearsall; Seven Bad Reasons Not to Study Manuscripts, by Robert Darnton; Columbus in Chains: Tennyson and the Conquests of Monologue, by Herbert F. Tucker, and The Two Lives of the Poem, by Helen Vendler. READ MORE about HARVARD LIBRARY BULLETIN. VOL 4, NO 4
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Vortrag gehalten in der 28. Hauptversammlung des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure zu Leipzig; Sonderabdruck aus dem Export-Journal für Buchhandel und Buchgewerbe
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1887. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (v), 17+(1) pages. Vortrag gehalten in der 28. Hauptversammlung des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure zu Leipzig; Sonderabdruck aus dem Export-Journal für Buchhandel und Buchgewerbe. This copy is moderately soiled and worn with minor loss along the edges. A penned inscription from the author appears in the upper fore-edge corner of the front wrapper. A few leaves show modest foxing. A loosely laid-in plate indicates that this copy..... READ MORE about DIE ENTWICKELUNG DES BUCHGEWERBES IN LEIPZIG
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London: John Hatchard and Son, 1835. small 8vo. original stiff paper wrappes. 24 pages. Catalogue dated January, 1838. Text within ruled border. Exclusively religious texts. A rare publishing survival. READ MORE about A SELECT LIST OF NEW WORKS PUBLISHED BY JOHN HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY
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Haverhill: Press of Franklin P. Stiles, 1888. 8vo. original cloth. (iv), 420, 12 pages. This catalogue comprises the additions to the library from May 1880, to July, 1888. There is a small section in the back which list the most popular French Books. Nineteenth century library markings. One half of the spine is partially detached. Corners worn, hinges cracked and soiled. READ MORE about SECOND BULLETIN OF THE HAVERHILL PUBLIC LIBRARY. JULY, 1888
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Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, (1925). 8vo. purple cloth stamped in gilt. 61 pages. Uncommon publishing history. Specialized in educational books. Spine slightly faded. READ MORE about FORTY YEARS OF SERVICE, PUBLISHED IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF D.C. HEATH AND...
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Brunswick, Maine: The Curtis Memorial Library, (1976). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 84 pages. Some illustrations. Presentation from the author on front free endpaper "Bobbie from Louise R, Helmreich." READ MORE about A HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN BRUNSWICK, MAINE
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