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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

Price: $40.00 Order nr. 60366

(Center for Book Arts). Campos, Alexander and Heidi Neilson.

METADATA: SOURCE MATERIALS VISUALIZED.

New York, NY: Center for Book Arts, 2016. 8.5 x 5.25 inches. paperback. unpaginated. Metadata: Source Materials Visualized presents artists books, book-related artworks, and text-based new media that are visual interpretations, extrapolations, and recontextualizations of researched source materials such as data analysis, surveying, mapping, plotting, data mining, statistics, analytics, observations, and schemes. READ MORE about METADATA: SOURCE MATERIALS VISUALIZED

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 129167

(Center for Book Arts). van Haaften-Schick, Laura.

CANCELED: ALTERNATIVE MANIFESTATIONS AND PRODUCTIVE FAILURES.

New York: Center for Book Arts, 2012. 6.7 x 10.25 inches. paperback. 54 pages. Canceled: Alternative Manifestations and Productive Failures is a catalogue accompanying the Center for Book Arts exhibition of the same name. The catalogue presents a selection of canceled or otherwise prohibited exhibitions that now exist as publications or in other formats. It brings together self-produced publications and documentation of exhibitions or active social interventions in which the artists bypass formal environments (museums..... READ MORE about CANCELED: ALTERNATIVE MANIFESTATIONS AND PRODUCTIVE FAILURES

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 109480

Garvey, Nathan.

THE CELEBRATED GEORGE BARRINGTON: A SPURIOUS AUTHOR; THE BOOK TRADE, AND BOTANY BAY.

Sydney: Hordern House, 2008. 9.5" x 6.5" hardcover. 327 pages. First edition. This book traces the genesis of the Barrington books in rich and evocative detail, offering a compelling account of publishing history in England and on the continent, and displaying the subtle machinations of the book trade in a world without copyright laws. Throughout, The Celebrated George Barrington combines the rigour of book history and bibliographical research with a fresh and engaging style. Of..... READ MORE about THE CELEBRATED GEORGE BARRINGTON: A SPURIOUS AUTHOR; THE BOOK TRADE, AND BOTANY BAY

Price: $49.95 Order nr. 100796

(Hemingway, Ernest). Grissom, C. Edgar.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2011. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket, with DVD. 644 pages, plus 112 on DVD. Edgar Grissom's Ernest Hemingway: A Descriptive Bibliography can succinctly be described as the culmination of all previous endeavors in Hemingway bibliography. Grissom corrects the work of previous bibliographers, adding numerous editions and printings to the periods they covered and addressing the years 1975-2009, which had previously been left untouched. This is the only..... READ MORE about ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $225.00 Order nr. 102275

Hinks, John and Catherine Armstrong (editors).

BOOK TRADE CONNECTIONS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES.

Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005
New Castle, Delaware and London, England: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2008. 6 x 9 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 281 pages. Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005. First edition. This ninth volume of the Print Networks series contains twelve exciting chapters from scholars working on the connections between the parties involved in the production of print artifacts; from author to printer, publisher, bookseller..... READ MORE about BOOK TRADE CONNECTIONS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES

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(Huxley, Elspeth). Cross, Robert and Michael Perkin.

ELSPETH HUXLEY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY.

With a foreword by Elspeth Huxley.
Winchester and New Castle, Delaware: St Paul's Bibliographies and Oak Knoll Press, 1996. 8vo. cloth. xx, 187+(1) pages. With a foreword by Elspeth Huxley. First edition. The fifth volume in the Winchester Bibliographies of Twentieth Century Writers series. Mrs. Huxley's writing life began at the age of fourteen when she sent anonymous articles, often with her own photographs, to the EAST AFRICAN STANDARD and other periodicals. By the age of seventeen she had written ninety-six..... READ MORE about ELSPETH HUXLEY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 43019

(Johnson, Samuel). Vander Meulen, David L. and G. Thomas Tanselle.

SAMUEL JOHNSON'S TRANSLATION OF SALLUST, A FACSIMILE AND TRANSCRIPTION OF THE HYDE MANUSCRIPT.

New York: The Johnsonians and Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 42 pages. Limited to 750 copies printed by The Stinehour Press. Facsimile and transcription of the surviving portion of Johnson's 1783 translation of Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline. This is the first publication of this manuscript. READ MORE about SAMUEL JOHNSON'S TRANSLATION OF SALLUST, A FACSIMILE AND TRANSCRIPTION OF THE HYDE MANUSCRIPT

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 53832

(Lawrence, D.H.). Ross, Charles L.

COMPOSITION OF THE RAINBOW AND WOMEN IN LOVE: A HISTORY.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, (1979). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 168 pages. First edition. A study of the sequence of writing and revision of these two D.H. Lawrence novels. Includes the history of Lawrence's involvement with the drafts of each novel and the impact of literary agents and publishers on the novels. READ MORE about COMPOSITION OF THE RAINBOW AND WOMEN IN LOVE: A HISTORY

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(Lear, Edward). Schiller, Justin G.

NONSENSUS: CROSS-REFERENCING EDWARD LEAR'S ORIGINAL 116 LIMERICKS WITH EIGHT HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS AND COMPARING THEM TO PRINTED TEXTS FROM THE 1846,1855 AND 1861 VERSIONS; TOGETHER WITH A CENSUS OF KNOWN COPIES OF THE GENUINE FIRST EDITION.

With introductory remarks by Vivien Noakes.
Stroud: Catalpa Press, 1988. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 119 pages. With introductory remarks by Vivien Noakes. A fascinating census of the limericks in Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense,which was first published in 1846 as two separate volumes with seventy-three limericks. A "new" (i.e. second) edition came out in 1855, and a third edition with forty-three additional verses was published in 1861. This third edition provides the first full text and also identifies Lear..... READ MORE about NONSENSUS: CROSS-REFERENCING EDWARD LEAR'S ORIGINAL 116 LIMERICKS WITH EIGHT HOLOGRAPH...

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 25739

(Logos).

THE LITERATURE OF THE BOOK.

UK: LOGOS, 2005. 6" x 9" stiff paper wrappers. 120 pages. First edition. This 120-page book was created and published by Logos: The Journal of the World Book Community. Fifteen corresponding contributors helped to cast a useful descriptive bibliography, which would inform the book professions about the best books written by, about and for them. This book becomes the overall critical guide for the world of Books About Books. This guide is an overall collection..... READ MORE about THE LITERATURE OF THE BOOK

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 86935

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso.

PAROLE IN LIBERTA.

Number two of the CODE(X)+2 Monograph Series
Berkeley, California: CODEX Foundation, 2012. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. paperback pamphlet. 32 pages. Number two of the CODE(X)+2 Monograph Series. Number two of the CODE(X)+2 Monograph Series. This book is a photographic reproduction of the metal book Parole in Liberta Olfattive Tattili-Termiche, a collection of futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's poetry, made by Tullio d'Albisola and Vincenzo Nosenzo in 1932. It contains photos of every page, the covers, and the slipcase. The photographed copy is held..... READ MORE about PAROLE IN LIBERTA

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 115572

Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (Editors).

OWNERS, ANNOTATORS AND THE SIGNS OF READING.

with The Publishing Pathways Series Cumulative Index
New Castle, Delaware, and London, UK: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2005. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 248 pages with 40 b/w illustrations. with The Publishing Pathways Series Cumulative Index. Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. Reading, and the manifold signs of reading, have become one of the most dynamic areas of research in book history. The reader as consumer and owner, as well as participant in the construction of new meanings, is the..... READ MORE about OWNERS, ANNOTATORS AND THE SIGNS OF READING

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 89478

(Pepys, Samuel). Wilson, Edward M. and Don W. Cruickshank.

SAMUEL PEPYS'S SPANISH PLAYS.

London: The Bibliographical Society, 1980. 8vo. cloth. (viii), 196 pages. First edition. A detailed study on the subject with much about printing and the book trade in Seville up to 1700. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society. READ MORE about SAMUEL PEPYS'S SPANISH PLAYS

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 60378

Pettas, William A.

THE GIUNTI OF FLORENCE: A RENAISSANCE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING FAMILY.

A History of the Florentine Firm and a Catalogue of the Editions
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 1096 pages. A History of the Florentine Firm and a Catalogue of the Editions. This ambitious project explores in detail the history and output of the Giunti Press in Florence, covering the firm from its beginnings in 1497 to its end in 1625, and providing descriptions of each Giunti book published with extensive indication of the libraries holding copies of each edition. In..... READ MORE about THE GIUNTI OF FLORENCE: A RENAISSANCE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING FAMILY

Price: $195.00 Order nr. 105520

Pirie, James W.

WILLIAM STAFFORD: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

New Castle, Delaware and Portland, Oregon: Oak Knoll Press and Lewis & Clark College, 2013. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover with dust jacket. 544 pages. William Stafford (1914-1993) was one of the most prolific and important American poets of the last half of the twentieth century. Among his many awards, Stafford served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, and received the National Book Award in 1963 for his poetry collection Traveling through..... READ MORE about WILLIAM STAFFORD: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $79.95 Order nr. 110070

(Pope, Alexander). Vander Meulen, David L.

POPE'S DUNCIAD OF 1728, A HISTORY AND FACSIMILE.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and The New York Public Library, 1991. 8vo. cloth, paper cover and spine labels. xvii, 174 pages. A comprehensive account of the composition and production of the first edition of Pope's Dunciad, accompanied by a photofacsimile of a copy recording Pope's original manuscript readings. The appendices identify hundreds of textual changes Pope introduced in the later 1728 printings and record the names with which pirate printers filled..... READ MORE about POPE'S DUNCIAD OF 1728, A HISTORY AND FACSIMILE

Price: $40.00 Order nr. 53823

(Powys, Llewelyn). Foss, Peter J.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LLEWELYN POWYS.

New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2007. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 308 pages. First edition. The brothers John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Llewelyn Powys were members of a prolific and influential circle of writers and poets of the early twentieth century. In this, the first comprehensive bibliography of the writings of Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939), Peter Foss not only provides a complete description of every first..... READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LLEWELYN POWYS

Price: $80.00 Order nr. 93072

(Sabatini, Rafael). Knight, Jesse F. and Stephen Darley.

THE LAST OF THE GREAT SWASHBUCKLERS: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RAFAEL SABATINI.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 200 pages. A biography and comprehensive bibliography of novelist Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950) is being presented here for the first time anywhere. Sabatini is one of the most prolific and widely read novelists of the twentieth century, specializing in making history come alive through his fictional characterizations and his unique ability to use history as a background for fiction. Sabatini, half Italian..... READ MORE about THE LAST OF THE GREAT SWASHBUCKLERS: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RAFAEL SABATINI

Price: $65.00 Order nr. 102816

(Shakespeare, William). Evans, G. Blakemore (editor).

SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Vol. VI. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK ALLEY OTHELLO and Part ii TEXT OF THE SMOCK ALLEY OTHELLO.

2 volumes bound in 1.
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1980. 4to. quarter cloth, paper cover and spine labels. (iv),36; (1) page followed by a 23 page facsimile. 2 volumes bound in 1. From the Smock Alley Theatre of Dublin. Contains partial text illustrations, an introduction, and collations. READ MORE about SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Vol. VI. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK...

Price: $50.00 Order nr. 53840

(Shakespeare, William). Evans, G. Blakemore (editor).

SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, Vol. V. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK ALLEY MACBETH and Part ii TEXT OF THE SMOCK ALLEY MACBETH.

2 volumes.
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1970. 4to. stiff paper wrappers enclosed in a slipcase. (vi),36; (2) pages followed by a 21 page facsimile. 2 volumes. From the Smock Alley Theatre of Dublin. Contains partial text illustrations, an introduction, and collations. READ MORE about SHAKESPEAREAN PROMPT-BOOKS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, Vol. V. Part i INTRODUCTION TO THE SMOCK...

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Smith, Margit.

THE MEDIEVAL GIRDLE BOOK.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.375 x 10.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 384 pages. "The Medieval Girdle Book provides rich information about this iconic binding structure and inspiration to those binders (teachers and students alike) who are seeking to replicate the structure and keep alive this branch of book history." - Peter D. Verheyen, PBSA "I highly recommend this book for its wealth of information; a single read-through will not be enough. It..... READ MORE about THE MEDIEVAL GIRDLE BOOK

Price: $95.00 Order nr. 129111

Spevack, Marvin.

JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS: THE LIFE AND WORKS.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 8vo. cloth, 624 pages. illustrated. This is the first book-length presentation of the life and works of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, the eminent Shakespearean scholar. Halliwell was a man of prodigious energy and wide interests. His six hundred or so publications deal, not only with Shakespeare and early modern literature, but also cover mathematics, lexicography, the history of science, archaeology, and many other important subjects of his day. This..... READ MORE about JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS: THE LIFE AND WORKS

Price: $49.95 Order nr. 61956

Staikos, Konstantinos Sp.

INTELLECTUAL ROUTES OF THE GREEKS THROUGH THE MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED BOOK. VOL. I: 13TH TO MID-16TH CENTURIES.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 8.26 x 11 inches. Hardcover. 496 pages. Translated from the Greek by Katerina Spathi. Intellectual Routes of the Greeks explores the role of written documents in the transmission of knowledge and education among the Greek-speaking population and the gradual formation of national conscience, from the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the years preceding the Greek War of Independence of 1821-1829. This is the first volume of the..... READ MORE about INTELLECTUAL ROUTES OF THE GREEKS THROUGH THE MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED BOOK. VOL. I: 13TH TO...

Price: $85.00 Order nr. 133722

(Stevenson, Robert Louis). McKay, George L.

SOME NOTES ON ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, HIS FINANCES AND HIS AGENTS AND PUBLISHERS.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 43 pages. Details on Stevenson's relations with his literary agents and his publishers. Known for his most famous title Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer. He traveled mostly in an attempt to improve his poor health which hindered him throughout his life. READ MORE about SOME NOTES ON ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, HIS FINANCES AND HIS AGENTS AND PUBLISHERS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 99776

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