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Books About Books. Buhler Curt F.
Early Books and Manuscripts Forty Years of Research.
New York: The Grolier Club 1973. First edition Limited to 510 stated. Cloth over Boards. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo pp. 659 indexed illustrated w/ 20 b/w plates. The Grolier Club hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9165
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS
EARLY PRINTED BOOKS OF THE LOW COUNTRIES
1958. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. EARLY PRINTED BOOKS OF THE LOW COUNTRIES. From the Ledding J. Rosenwald Collection. An exhibition at the Library of COngress April 2 1958-August 311959. Washington: L.O.C. 1958. 8vo. wrappers; 37 pp. Mild soil. wear to wraps; clean internally. A very good copy. unknown
Bookseller reference : 73332
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Books About Books. Joint Bank Fund Library ed..
Economics and Finance. Index to Periodical Articles 1947-1971 Four Volumes complete .
Boston: G.K. Hall 1972. First edition. Blue Cloth over Boards Gilt Lettering. Very Good mild ex-library. Folio pp. approx. 670 per volume. G.K. Hall hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9172
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Books about Books Sawyer Charles J. and FJ. Darton F. J.
English Books 1475-1900. A Signpost for Collectors
London: Chas. J. Sawyer 1927. First edition one of 2000 copies. With one hundred Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. Maroon buckram. About fine. First edition one of 2000 copies. With one hundred Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> Chas. J. Sawyer hardcover
Bookseller reference : 19980
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. SAWYER Charles J.. DARTON Harvey
ENGLISH BOOKS 1475-1900.
BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. SAWYER Charles J. ENGLISH BOOKS 1475-1900. A Signpost for Collectors by Charles J. Sawyer and F.J. Harvey Darton. With One Hundred Illustrations in two volumes. New York:: E.P. Dutton 1927. First edition limited to 2000 copies. . Spines quite faded endpapers tanned else a very good set. . Two volumes octavo red cloth stamped in gold pp. xvi 368 illustrated; viii 423 illustrated. E.P. Dutton, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 26875
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Books About Books. Bishop William Warner and Andrew Keogh.
Essays Offered to Herbert Putnam by His Colleagues and Friends on His Thirtieth Anniversary as Librarian of Congress 5 April 1929.
Freeport NY: Books for Libraries Press Inc. 1929/1967. Reprint. Original Cloth. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo pp. 555. Books for Libraries Press, Inc. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3746
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Books About Books. Bearman Frederick A. and Nati H. Krivatsy J. Franklin Mowery.
Fine and Historic Bookbindings: From the Folger Shakespeare Library signed by Mowery.
Washington DC: Folger Shakespeare Library/Harry N. Abrams 1992. First edition. Brown Cloth over Boards gilt lettering. New in new dustjacket. Quarto pp. 271 profusely illustrated w/sepia-tone and color photographs. An important book for those interested in bookbindings and design showing175 bookbindings from the days of early printing to present times. The first exhibit about bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Folger Shakespeare Library/Harry N. Abrams hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7014
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Books About Books. Amory Hugh.
First Impressions: Printing in Cambridge 1639-1989.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1989. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Large Octavo pp. 63 richly illustrated w/ b/w reproductions. Harvard University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 6849
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Books About Books. Roberts Henry L.
Foreign Affairs Bibliography
New York: R. R. Bowker Company 1969. Reprint of 1955 edition. Original Cloth. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo pp. xxii 727 indexed. Scarce R. R. Bowker Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5230
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Books About Books. Langer William and Hamilton Fish Armstrong.
Foreign Affairs Bibliography
New York: Russell & Russell 1960. Reprint of 1933 edition. Original Cloth. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo pp. xvii 551 indexed. Russell & Russell hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5229
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Books About Books LEVINSOHN John L.
FRANK MORRISON PIXLEY OF THE ARGONAUT
San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 81 pages. One of a limited edition of 450 un-numbered copies. Designed and printed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press. Bound by Cardoza-James Binding company with photographs printed by Marin Star Graphic Arts. Cloth with gilt spine-titling. Octavo. Frontispiece from photograph of Frank Morrison Pixley at his desk at The Argonaut San Francisco. Pixley founded and edited The Argonaut a San Francisco literary weekly which began publication in 1877. A Fine copy in a slightly rubbed Near Fine plain white mailing wrapper now in a custom clear mylar protective sleeve. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes via media mail to any United States address. The Book Club of California unknown
Bookseller reference : 593
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS
FRENCH ART OF THE BOOK
1949. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. FRENCH ART OF THE BOOK. San Francisco Palace of the Legion of Honor 1949. Original printed wrappers. 7 tipped in plates printed on both sides of book illustrations. Errata slip. Wear and soil to wraps internally bright and clean. unknown
Bookseller reference : 62827
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Books About Books. Salter Ronald.
Fritz Kredel: Das Buchkunstlerische Werk in Deutschland und Amerika w/ note signed by author Ronald Salter laid in.
Rudolfstadt: Burgart-Presse Jens Henkel 2003. First edition Limited to 500 copies. Orange Cloth over Boards w/ b/w title and logo inlaid center front. As New no DJ as issued. Large Octavo pp. 215 indexed profusely illustrated w/ 162 color reproductions. Burgart-Presse Jens Henkel hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7013
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Books About Books. Salter Stefan.
From Cover to Cover: The Occasional Papers of a Book Lover.
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice Hall Press 1969. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo pp. 269. Prentice Hall Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6055
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Books About Books POWELL Lawrence Clark
FROM THE HEARTLAND. Profiles of People and Places of the Southwest and Beyond
Flagstaff: Northland Press 1976. First Edition. . Cloth First Edition Fine in Fine DJ xi 167 pages. Illustrated from photographs and from black and white drawings by Bettina Steinke. Gray cloth with gilt spine lettering. SIGNED in ink by Lawrence Clark Powell on the title page. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket now in a clear mylar sleeve. This is a collections of essays by Dr. Powell including pieces about Maynard Dixon Henry Miller Edward Albee Gertrude Stein Jake Zeitlin and others. Book designed by Robert Jacobson and bound by Roswell Bookbinding of Phoenix. SIGNED by Author Powell. Always FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address. <br/><br/> Northland Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 493
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Books About Books. Holstein Jurgen & Waltraud.
Goldrausch & Werther
Berlin: Self published 2014. First edition limited to 250 copies. Decorated Boards. New. Quarto pp. 283. Richly illustrated with color and b/w photos. Text in German and English. A beautifully produced volume on the design and content of rare and antiquarian booksellers' catalogs primarily from the 20th century. This is the fourth in a series on books and book catalogs produced and privately printed by the authors J�rgen and Waltraud Holstein. With more than 800 annotated examples of antiquarian book catalog covers this well-researched visually impressive work provides historians designers and bibliophiles with a valuable resource on the subject. (Self published) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 15879
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Books About Books. Hornung Clarence.
Handbook of Early American Advertising Art One volume only of 2 this is the Typographical and Ornamental volume.
New York: Dover Publications Inc 1953. Second revised. Cloth over Boards. Small cutout to page 87 else Very Good priced accordingly. Quarto pp. 248 profusely illustrated w/ b/w samples. Dover Publications, Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8847
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Books About Books. Irene Schlegel.
Hugo Steiner-Prag.
Memmingen: Edition Curt Visel 1995. First edition. Cloth over Boards. New in new dustjacket. Octavo pp. 229 richly illustrated w. b/w and color photographs. Hugo Steiner-Prag illustrated many books for the Limited Editions Club. In 1945 he established a design school in New York. Edition Curt Visel hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6811
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Books About Books. Ferber Christian editor.
Hundert Jahre Ullstein. 1877 - 1977
Berlin: Ullstein Verlag 1977. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo. pp 272. 17 pages of introduction and ca. 260 pages of photographs with descriptions giving the history of this illustrious publishing house. Text in German. A wonderful "story in pictures" which by association tells the complicated tale of the history of Germany: from its unification in the 1870s to the post-war "Wirtschaftswunder" years. A visual feast of publishing and cultural images. Ullstein Verlag paperback
Bookseller reference : 4639
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Books About Books. Wogenstein Antiquariat.
Illustrierte B�cher des 19. Jahrhunderts
Vienna: Antiquariat Walter W�genstein 1981. First edition. Paperback Original. Very Good. 8� Octavo pp. 189 mit diversen Illustr. OBrosch kleine Fehlstelle am R�cken sonst sehr sch�nes und sauberes Exemplar. Diverse Abbildungen und Erl�uterung von verschiedenen sch�nen und seltenen B�chern des 19. Jahrhunderts Antiquariat Walter W�genstein paperback
Bookseller reference : 6484
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Books about Books Faullman Karl
Illustrirte Geshichte der Buchdruckerkunst
Wien Pest Leipzig: A. Hartlebens Verlag 1882. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with 14 wonderful chromolithogrphs and full page black and white plates some folding. 806 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco with contrasting leather labels t.e.g. Fine. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with 14 wonderful chromolithogrphs and full page black and white plates some folding. 806 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. A wonderful book. A. Hartlebens Verlag unknown
Bookseller reference : 21938
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Books about Books.
Incunabula: Books of the Fifteenth Century from the Presses of One Hundred Towns Part 1.
London:: Maggs Bros. 1930. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 256 pp. Soiling to cover light wear to edges creasing to spine. Towns of Austria Belgium "Czecho-Slovakia" England and France. Illustrated. Maggs Bros., paperback
Bookseller reference : 42206
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS
IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION: Catalogue of Publications
1962. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION: Catalogue of Publications Issued and in Preparation 1928-1962. Dublin: Stationery Office c. 1962. 8vo. wrappers. Sunned with a bump to the crown and some minor pencil underlining; typed list of publications through 1964 taped in at one leaf. About very good. unknown
Bookseller reference : 66753
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS PRINTING. MASON J. H
J.H. MASON: R. D. I.
BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS--PRINTING. MASON J. H. J.H. MASON: R. D. I. A Selection from the notebooks of a scholar-printer made by his son John Mason. Illustrated by Rigby Graham. Leicester:: The Twelve By Eight 1961. First edition wrappered issue. . Signed by John Mason on the title page. A fine copy. . Octavo decorated wrappers 44 pages illustrated. The Twelve By Eight, unknown
Bookseller reference : 36620
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS PRINTING. MASON J. H
J.H. MASON: R. D. I.
BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS--PRINTING. MASON J. H. J.H. MASON: R. D. I. A Selection from the notebooks of a scholar-printer made by his son John Mason. Illustrated by Rigby Graham. Leicester:: The Twelve By Eight 1961. First edition hardbound issue. . A fine copy in fine dust jacket. . Signed by John Mason in 1961 on the half-title page. Octavo decorated paper-covered boards 44 pages illustrated. The Twelve By Eight, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 36617
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Books About Books HARLAN Robert D.
JOHN HENRY NASH The Biography of a Career
Berkelely: University of California Press 1970. Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. xi167 1 pages. First Edition. 8vo. Appendix. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Blue cloth. Silver cover and spine lettering. Nash's initial device in silver on front cover. Frontis portrait of Nash in cap and gown from painting by H. Raschen. Illustrated from vintage photographs and facsimilies. The definitve biography of the San Francisco fine press printer and biblio-entreprenuer John Henry Nash 1871-1947. A Near Fine copy small crimp top of spine now in a clear custom mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes via media mail to any United States address. University of California Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 1762
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Books About Books
Le Livre et ses amis. Revue mensuelle de l'art du livre. Nos. 2-18. 17 Issues Rebound in Four Volumes
Paris 1947. All copies except that of journal issue no. 2 are #1348 of 1700 on various papers Boucher Lana or Schwindenhammer from a total of either 1900 or 1920. 4to; handsomely rebound in 3/4 black first vol. or ruby red remaining three vols. morocco and marbled paper boards spines with gilt lettering marbled endpapers t.e.g. original wrappers with special front and rear designs bound in. Binding of first vol. is slightly worn; else fine. With numerous plates text illustrations and ornaments the latter usually commissioned especially for the issue all relating to the visual arts of the book typographic and illustrative. unknown
Bookseller reference : 2459
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: Rare Books and Special Collections
1992. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: Rare Books and Special Collections. An Illustrated Guide. Washington DC: Library of Congress 1992. Oblong 8vo. paper wrappers. Fine. unknown
Bookseller reference : 60802
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS.
Lijstebrij. Programma voor het schooljaar 1972-73.
Very Good. Illus. in colour. Wrs. . unknown
Bookseller reference : 82002
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Books about California
Los Angeles 200: a Bicentennial Celebration
New York New York: Harry N. Abrams. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardback. 0810912570 . FINE gift book Bright orange cloth with gilt title 320 pg. 234 illustrations including 200 photos in full color. Full photo end-pages Bright and vivid and complex just like L. A! - each photograph is accompanied by a crisp commentary describing a key historic event in the city's development.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall . Harry N. Abrams hardcover
Bookseller reference : 000985 ISBN : 0810912570 9780810912571
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Books About Books EVERSON William
MAN-FATE The Swan Song of Brother Antoninus
New York: New Directions 1974. First Edition. Original Cloth First Edition Fine in Near Fine DJ ix 80 pages. Note.Index of titles and first lines.SIGNED by William Everson in ink on the title page. Green cloth. a fine copy in a very slightly edgeworn near fine pictorialdustwrapper now in a clear mylar protective jacket. Thbis is Everson's first collection since leaving the Dominican order in December of 1969 and with it the name of Brother Antoninus. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover
Bookseller reference : 651
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Books About Books. Giraud Jeanne.
Manuel de Bibliographie Litt�eaire pour les XVI XVII et XVIII Si�cles Fran�ais 1936-1945.
Paris: Librarie Nizet 1956. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good mild ex-library tear to backstrip. Octavo pp. 270 indexed. Scarce covering war years Librarie Nizet hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3744
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Books About Books RODGERS Marion Elizabeth
MENCKEN; The American Iconoclast
Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005. First Edition. 662 pages. Illustrated primarily from vintage photographs. Small quarto. Boards. Illustrated dustjacket. Notes. Bibliography. Index. An excellent and detailed Mencken biography by Marion Rodgers who also wrote Mencken and Sarah: A Life in Letters and The Impossible H. L. Mencken. A Fine copy in a Fine DJ now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1044
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: FALES LIBRARY CHECKLIST
1970. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: FALES LIBRARY CHECKLIST. In two volumes. Revised and edited by Theodore Grieder. New York: AMS Press Inc. 1970. 4to. blue cloth. Slightly rubbed with one opening corner bumped and one volume just skewed. Clean tight copies; very good plus. unknown
Bookseller reference : 72469
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Books About Books HAYDEN Arthur & BUNT Cyril G. E.
OLD PRINTS
London: Ernest Benn Limited Dover Publications in U.S. 1956. London: Ernest Benn Limited Dover Publications in US 1956. NF/VG. First Edition. Small Octavo. 200 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. Glossary. Table of Engravers. Index. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. A slightly rubbed Near Fine copy in a lightly worn and chipped Very Good dustjacket now collected and protected in a Brodart mylar sleeve. One of the "Practical Handbooks for Collectors" series this useful book covers how to collect prints and chapters on etching wood engraving; line stipple steel and mezzotint engraving as well as aquatint and lithography. Always FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address. <br/><br/> Ernest Benn Limited Dover Publications in U.S. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 460
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Books About Books. McCoy Ralph E.
Open Court; A Centennial Bibliography 1887-1987.
La Salle IL: Open Court Publishing Co. 1987. First edition. Original Blue Cloth w/gilt design on cover. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo pp. 383 indexed with an historical introduction by Sherwook J.B. Sugden. Open Court Publishing Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3704
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Books About Books PEARSON J. D.
ORIENTAL AND ASIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY An Introduction with Some Reference to Africa
Melbourne: F. W. Cheshire 1966. First Edition. Melbourne: F W. Cheshire 1966. Cloth First Edition Fine in Fine DJ 261 pages. Appendices. Index. Brown cloth with gilt spine titling. A Fine copy in a Fine price-clipped dustjacket now in a protective clear Brodart sleeve. Small bookseller's label at front pastedown Gaston Renard Melbourne. A remarkable and scholarly work taken from Author Pearson's lectures in the School of Librarianship and Archives in University College London. Always FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address. <br/><br/> F. W. Cheshire hardcover
Bookseller reference : 504
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Books About Books. The Caxton Club.
Other People's Books: Associations and the Stories They Tell.
Chicago: Caxton Club 2011. First edition. Cloth over Boards. New. Quarto pp. 214. Presents 52 association copies and the stories behind them. A fascinating read especially such "associations" as the copy of "The Great Gatsby" inscribed by Fitzgerald to T. S. Elliot sic or Whitman and Thoreau inscribing copies to each other during a visit in Brooklyn owned by who else The Library of Congress! Caxton Club hardcover
Bookseller reference : 12583
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Books About Books.
out-of-Print from the John G. White Folklore Collection at the Cleveland Public Library.
Cleveland:: Micro Photo Division Bell and Howell Co 1966. Paperback. Good. Folio. 321 pp. Covers are foxed esp front. Edges are lightly rubbed with bump to bottom edge near spine end. Light foxing to eps. Interior clean with reproductions of the library index cards for all books in the John G. White Folklore Collection. Table of contents to front. "Reproduced by the Duopage Process." Micro Photo Division, Bell and Howell Co, paperback
Bookseller reference : 109840
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Books About Books. Cogan Sara G.
Pioneer Jews of the California Mother Lode 1849-1880.
Berkeley: Western Jewish History Center of the Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum 1968. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo pp. x 54 indexed. Western Jewish History Center of the Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3714
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Books About Books. Overton Grant.
Portrait of a Publisher and the first hundred years of the House of Appleton 1825-1925.
New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1925. First edition. Trade Cloth over Boards. Very Good mild ex-library. 12 mo pp. 96 numerous b/w illustrations. D. Appleton and Co. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3731
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Books About Books. Miller Edward.
Prince of Librarians: The Life and Times of Antonio Panizzi of the British Museum.
Athens Ohio: Ohio Univ. Press 1967. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo pp. 356 indexed illustrated w/ b/w plates. Ohio Univ. Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6005
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Books About Books. Coakley J. F. editor.
Printing in the Mission Field Harvard Library Bulletin Vol 9 Number 1.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1998. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps. Quarto. pp 68. Well illustrated and researched. with numerous indices and registers. . The definitive treatment on the subject indispensable for anyone collecting in this area An imprerssive checklist. Harvard University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 9418
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS
PROPOSALS IN THE JOHN JOHNSON COLLECTION
1961. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. PROPOSALS IN THE JOHN JOHNSON COLLECTION. Index to Proposals for English Books up to 1800. Oxford: University Press 1960. Oblong 8vo. stapled wrappers xerox typescript pages 21 with 5 additional stapled leaves laid in "Additions January 1961." Slightly bumped creased with wear to edges of wraps. Very good. unknown
Bookseller reference : 66803
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Books About Books. Gross Gerald ed..
Publishers on Publishing.
London: Secker & Warburg 1961. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Octavo 495 indexed. Secker & Warburg hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7047
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. STEVENS Henry. LENOX James. BOOKPLATE. W. F. Hopson
RECOLLECTIONS OF MR JAMES LENOX OF NEW YORK AND THE FORMATION OF HIS LIBRARY.
BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. STEVENS Henry. RECOLLECTIONS OF MR JAMES LENOX OF NEW YORK AND THE FORMATION OF HIS LIBRARY. By Henry Stevens of Vermont Bibliographer and Lover of Books Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. London:: Henry Stevens & Son 1886. First edition large paper issue printed on heavy stock paper with very wide margins with leaves measuring 23.5 cm. . Early engraved pictorial bookplate of collector Edward S. Marsh dated 1909 and signed in the plate by W. F. Hopson on front pastedown. Early newspaper clipping tipped onto verso of front flyleaf printing an obituary of James Lenox. Moderate wear and foxing to extremities of covers spine is quite tanned and rubbed with foxing front hinge is shaken and just started but secure else a good to very good copy with the text and illustrations quite fresh and clean. . With an autograph letter signed by Henry Stevens tipped onto second front flyleaf. ALS one large octavo page 28 lines on first page of folio sheet folded to make four pages Barnet Vermont December 29th 1848 to a Mr. Ingraham of Philadelphia. The letter to "Dear Sir" with good personal content includes references to Continental money a printing project and his sons stating in part: ". The package of Continental money you speak of I should be very glad to receive. My son Simon is in the office with Hon. Thaddeus Stevens at the City of Lancaster. I will direct him to call on you for the said package. As to the object of your young friend to print the Trials under the Alien and Sedition law there were but two cases in this State Harwell & Lyon. would expect the records of Court are now in Rutland. will make inquiry. Lyon was for a time a distinguished man in the state. Harwell has several sons. I flatter myself that they will willingly furnish all particulars. my son Henry arrived in London. He speaks of being very successful in his business. Your friend Henry Stevens". An early letter with nice content; the letter has two small chips and tears at folds with no loss to writing and it is folded and tipped onto second front flyleaf. Henry Stevens 1791-1867 noted "Bibliographer and Lover of Books" was born in Barnet Vermont where he became a justice of the peace and later served in the state legislature from 1826-1827. An avid book collector he founded the Vermont Historical and Antiquarian Society 1n 1838; his sons Henry Stevens Jr. and Benjamin Franklin Stevens were book dealers who resided in London. Large octavo grained ivory cloth spine and corners red morocco spine label stamped in gilt marbled paper-covered boards pp. xii 211 1 illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and two other engraved portraits marbled endpapers; printed at the Chiswick Press. Henry Stevens & Son, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 78739
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Books About Books. Libman Valentina A.
Russian Studies of American Literature.
Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press 1969. First printing. Original Blue Cloth. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo pp. 218 indexed translated by Robert V. Allen edited by Clarence Gohdes. University of North Carolina Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3705
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Books About Books. Sale Jr. William M.
Samuel Richardson: Master Printer.
Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press 1950. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good mild ex-library. Octavo pp. vi 389 indexed. Cornell University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3712
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Books About Books.
Sir Edmund Andros: Original Documents from His Papers.
New York:: H.P. Kraus 1978. Cloth. Fine. 4to. 87 pp. With paper dj: wrinkled with tearing and creasing. Catalogue 150. Documents from the papers of Andros 1637-1714 governor of NY governor of the dominion of New England governor of Virginia. Many with signatures of Charles II James II William III and Mary II. H.P. Kraus, hardcover
Bookseller reference : 49668
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Books About Books. Evans Hilary and Mary.
Sources of Illustration.
Somerset UK: Adams and Dart 1971. First edition. Cloth over Boards. As New in Fine DJ. Octavo pp. 162 richly illustrated w b/w engravings at least one per page. Becoming scarce in such fine condition Adams and Dart hardcover
Bookseller reference : 6365
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