HUNTIA, A YEARBOOK OF BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, VOLUME I (and) VOLUME 2.

2 volumes.
Pittsburgh: Hunt Botanical Library, (1964), (1965). large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers for first volume; cloth for second volume. (vi),221+(1); vi,394,(2) pages. 2 volumes. Reports the research activities of staff members; studies of special collections in Hunt Botanical Library. Includes information on Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt. READ MORE about HUNTIA, A YEARBOOK OF BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, VOLUME I (and) VOLUME 2

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Barzun, Jacques.

THE BIBLIOPHILE OF THE FUTURE: HIS COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.

Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1976. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 19, (3) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Fourth Annual Maury A. Bromsen Lecture on Humanistic Bibliography, by a noted and highly respected scholar of European intellectual history and author of many works on that subject. Presents his view on the future of book collecting. Complimentary card laid in. READ MORE about THE BIBLIOPHILE OF THE FUTURE: HIS COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

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Dubois, Henri Pene.

FOUR PRIVATE LIBRARIES OF NEW-YORK A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF BIBLIOPHILISM OF AMERICA.

New York: Duprat & Co., 1892. 8vo. woven cloth outer wrappers with book loosely inserted (stiff paper wrappers). 119 pages. First edition, limited to 1000 copies, of which this is one of 200 copies printed on Japanese paper (Webber p.62). Thirteen chapters on the book including one on the art of bookbinding and another on Historical Book-Covers. Includes thirteen illustrations with eight of the bindings including a full color frontispiece. Worn copy without case having..... READ MORE about FOUR PRIVATE LIBRARIES OF NEW-YORK A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF BIBLIOPHILISM OF AMERICA

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Fleck, Robert D.

A BOOKSELLER'S BOOKERY.

1983. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 58, (2) pages. In Collectrix, Books on Antiques & Collectibles, number 3, Spring-Summer 1983. Good advice for the beginning book collector. Includes such information as what makes a book valuable, how books are sold, and a list of useful guides for book collecting. READ MORE about A BOOKSELLER'S BOOKERY

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Greenspan, Ezra and Jonathan Rose (editors).

BOOK HISTORY, VOLUME 11.

University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (2008). 8vo. cloth. vi, (ii), 327+(1) pages. First edition. A collection of twelve essays by various authors related to the history of written communication. Includes Nicole Howard's "Marketing Longitude: Clocks, Kings, Courtiers, and Christiaan Huygens," Ross Alloway's "Cadell and the Crash," and Trysh Travis's "The Women in Print Movement: History and Implications." READ MORE about BOOK HISTORY, VOLUME 11

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Greenspan, Ezra and Jonathan Rose (editors).

BOOK HISTORY, VOLUME I.

University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. 8vo. cloth. xii, 306, (2) pages. First edition. A collection of essays by various authors, related to the history of written communication. Includes twelve essays including "Geographic Information systems: A New Research Method for Book History," "The Market Value of Memory: Popular war Histories and the Northern Literary Marketplace, 1861-1868," "Forbidden Topics: Early Soviet Censorship Directives," and more. Includes an introduction by the editors. Bookplate. READ MORE about BOOK HISTORY, VOLUME I

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Levy, Newman.

SANDY MACPHERSON; BOOK COLLECTOR.

N.P. n.p., n.d. 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), 12, (2) pages. Separate edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, of the 1940 Duschnes edition. Produced for the Biennial Meeting of the San Francisco Roxburghe Club and the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles by James Wehlage of Classic Letterpress. An enlarged and revised version of an article that occurred in Quarto Club Papers for 1928. READ MORE about SANDY MACPHERSON; BOOK COLLECTOR

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Mott, Howard S.

COLLECTING SOUTHERN AMATEUR FICTION OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the Univ. of Virginia, 1952. 4to. paper wrappers. 14 pages. First edition. Reproduced from typescript. READ MORE about COLLECTING SOUTHERN AMATEUR FICTION OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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Newton, A. Edward.

EXPERIENCE IS MASTER.

Philadelphia: The Cutter Co., (1926). tall 8vo. buff colored boards backed in blue cloth with blue cloth label on front cover. 77, (3) pages. Newton is not listed as the author of this advertising booklet for his business but the style is obviously his (Fleck A.13). Contains a photograph of Newton admiring the intricacies of an I.T.E. circuit breaker. A former copy sold by Oak Knoll had a post-it on the front cover of the..... READ MORE about EXPERIENCE IS MASTER

Price: $115.00  other currencies  Order nr. 117044

Newton, A. Edward.

" HOUSE-HUNTING IN LONDON."

Boston: The Atlantic Monthly, 1926. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. pp.28-36. In the Atlantic Monthly, July, 1926, Vol. 138, No.1 (Fleck E.28). Appeared in HIS BOOK COLLECTING GAME. READ MORE about " HOUSE-HUNTING IN LONDON."

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Newton, A. Edward.

" THIS BUSINESS OF BOOKS "

12mo. self paper wrappers. Article removed from In World's Work, January, 1929, Vol.58. pp.70-73 and mounted on separate leaves to form a booklet (Fleck E.44). A version appeared as BOOKS AND BUSINESS. Scarce. READ MORE about " THIS BUSINESS OF BOOKS "

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