Catalogue Four.
York: Ken Spelman, n.d. oblong 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 54 pages. Catalogue Four. A bookseller's catalogue describing 202 books for sale. Illustrated. Some notes in pencil on back cover. READ MORE about THE ARTIST'S COMPANION, THREE CENTURIES OF DRAWING BOOKS AND MANUALS OF INSTRUCTION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 107973
Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 1991. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 78 pages. Second Edition. Prepared by the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (ACRL/ALA). READ MORE about GENRE TERMS, A THESAURUS FOR USE IN RARE BOOK AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS CATALOGUING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 101226
Troisième édition revue. Traduit de l'anglais.
Paris: La Palme, (1950). 8vo. later cloth, original paper wrappers bound in. 95+(5) pages, with 12 plates. Troisième édition revue. Traduit de l'anglais. Third edition, translated from the English. (Besterman p.790). The best bibliographical guide to the study of the earliest bibliographies from the 16th and 17th centuries covers Tritheim, the earliest legal and medical bibliographies, Gesner, the beginnings of National bibliography and the history of bibliography in the 17th century. There are twelve black... READ MORE about LES DÉBUTS DE LA BIBLIOGRAPHIE MÉTHODIQUE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 104244
New York: Fleet Publishing Corp. (1961). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 415 pages. First edition. Reference for more than 2,500 rare books. Eighty-eight selected illustrated title pages. Jacket shows wear along edges. READ MORE about MORE GOLD IN YOUR ATTIC
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 6287
New York: Fleet Press, (1968). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 280 pages. Second edition. Price guide to more than 2500 American books and pamphlets. Jacket soiled. READ MORE about NEW GOLD IN YOUR ATTIC
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 92907
8 volumes.
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1860-1880. thick 8vo. quarter calf with pebbled cloth-covered boards, top edges gilt. Thousands of pages. 8 volumes. First edition of the fifth and best edition of the main work and first editions of the other two supplemental volumes. The inner hinges of volume one have clear tape reinforcement. Light rubbing of covers. Well preserved set. READ MORE about MANUEL DU LIBRAIRE ET DE L'AMATEUR DE LIVRES. With MANUEL DU LIBRAIRE ET DE L'AMATEUR DE LIVRES....
Price: $950.00 Order nr. 72094
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966. small 8vo. paper-covered boards. (viii), 179, (5) pages. First edition. A comprehensive guide to library research, this book not only describes research facilities and services but also explains how to use them. The main part of the book is a listing of general and specialized reference works and includes sections on reference books, periodicals, dictionaries, gazetteers, biographies, etc. Cover yellowing, top edge foxed, red stamp on bottom of next to last page. READ MORE about HOW TO DO LIBRARY RESEARCH
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 64116
Leipzig: VEB Otto Harrassowitz, 1957. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. viii, 263 pages. A manual on the basics of bibliography. Corners bumped; boards age yellowed. READ MORE about GRUNDRISS DER BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 48188
Leipzig: Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler, 1942. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 96 pages. Third edition. A guide to using books as a way to knowledge; sections on the book trade (publishing and bookselling), libraries, and bibliographies. Wrappers faded. Pages yellowed. Bookplate inside front wrapper. READ MORE about WEGE ZUM WISSEN, BUCH, BUCHHANDEL, BIBLIOTHEKEN, SCHRIFTUMSVERZEICHNUNG
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 268 pages. First edition. Most of the major works of English literature are readily available today only in versions that are sadly inadequate. There are few reliable specialist editions; much worse, the majority of the paperback texts of English and American authors that are sold in their millions to students and general readers are corrupt and misleading. This is as unnecessary as it is undesirable. By... READ MORE about FROM WRITER TO READER, STUDIES IN EDITORIAL METHOD
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New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1954. 8vo. cloth. xv, 820. Seventh edition, revised and enlarged by Hester R. Hoffman. (Webber p.74). Near fine. READ MORE about BOOKMAN'S MANUAL, A GUIDE TO LITERATURE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 16098
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1935. 8vo. cloth. xii, 715 pages. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. (Webber p.74). Covers rubbed and faded with crease in front cover. Endpapers yellowed. READ MORE about BOOKMAN'S MANUAL, A GUIDE TO LITERATURE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 25602
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1928. 8vo. cloth. (xiv), 635 pages. Third edition, revised and enlarged. (Webber p.74). Minor rubbing of covers. READ MORE about THE BOOKMAN'S MANUAL, A GUIDE TO LITERATURE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 76383
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1941. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 829 pages. Fifth edition. (Webber p.74). Spine of jacket age darkened. READ MORE about THE BOOKMAN'S MANUAL, A GUIDE TO LITERATURE
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 92906
Berkeley: University of California, 1962. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 16 pages. Second in a Series of Lectures on Bibliography. Signed "Roy Stokes" on title page. Nice association item. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY & LITERARY STUDIES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 9233
New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., 1941. 8vo. cloth. xi, 94 pages. A guide to practive in bibliography, quotations, footnotes, and thesis format. Soiled spine, spine edges rubbed. READ MORE about BASIC REFERENCE FORMS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 104834
Instructional Manuals and Ephemera 1749-1925.
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 2006. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 34, (2) pages. Instructional Manuals and Ephemera 1749-1925. Limited to 2000 copies. An exhibition catalogue for exhibition at the Grolier's Club 17 May to 29 July, 2006, and the Special Collections Library, the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 29 September, 2006 to 7 January, 2007, principally from the collection of Albert A. Anderson, Jr., and Evelynn M. Ellis. Contains unnumbered entries. With black-and-white illustrations. READ MORE about TEACHING AMERICA TO DRAW
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Austin: Humanities Research Center, (1974). thin 8vo. cloth. 25 pages. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OLD & NEW
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New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1969. small 8vo. cloth. x, 314 pages. Originially given as a course under the same title at Harvard University. Chapters on bibliography, the preparation of an edition, establishing a critical bibliography, questions of versification, investigation of sources, etc. READ MORE about PROBLEMS AND METHODS OF LITERARY HISTORY
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Dresden: G. Schönfeld, 1860. 8vo. contemporary half cloth with marbled paper-covered boards. 50 pages. Separately printed from Neuen Anzeiger für Bibliographie und Bibliothekwissenschaft. Foxed. READ MORE about CHRONOLOGISCHE ÜBERSICHT VON BIBLIOGRAPHISCHEN SYSTEMEN. (SEPARATABDRUCK AUS DEM NEUEN ANZEIGER...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 80620
Marseille: Laffite Reprints, 1983. 8vo. cloth. (x), xiv, 270, 270i-270iv, 271-280, (2) pages. Written in French. A facsimile of his 1862 edition (See Roosens & Luc Salo 8164), Traité de l'impression photographique sans sels d'argent contenant: l'histoire, la théorie et la pratique des méthodes et procédés de l'impression au charbon, de l'hélioplastie, de la photolithographie, de la gravure photochimique. Avec une introduction par M. Ernest Lacan. Paris, Leiber. Seven black-and-white plates on six leaves. Page..... READ MORE about TRAITÉ DES IMPRESSIONS PHOTOGRAPHIQUES, EDITION DE 1883 PAR LÉON VIDAL AUGMENTÉE DES...
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 102530
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1952. square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 90 pages. Second printing. The impact of scientific methods and developments on bibliographical research. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 18443
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1952. square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 90 pages. Second printing. The impact of scientific methods and developments on bibliographical research. With the pencil signature of Gavin Bridson and the ink ownership inscription of the bibliographer, Roy Stokes. Minor jacket wear. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 98597
Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1950. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 115 pages. Written in German. With a foreword, bibliography, and index by name, topic, and city. A book for teaching the process of cataloguing. Minor wear, extremities tanned. With the laid-in bookplate from Oak Knoll designating this book as from the reference library of H.P. Kraus. Covers age yellowed. READ MORE about LEHRBUCH DER SACHKATALOGISIERUNG
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 100688
Paris: Hermann, (1969). 8vo. cloth. xv, 214 pages. Text in French. Second edition. 12 black and white illustrations. Introduction and index. Organized in four parts. Part I covers organizations. Part II general sources. Part III by epoch, from antiquity to the 20th century. Part IV by subject, eg. mathematics, astronomy, etc. Signed by prior owner. READ MORE about ELEMENTS DE BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE L'HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES ET DES TECHNIQUES
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 107305
