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FABES Gilbert H.
Modern First Editions: Points and Values. [First to Third Series complete]. 'POINTS' COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, first volume with errata slip; black buckram, upper boards lettered in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers lightly dust-soiled and chipped at extremities. The set comprises: First Series (No. 230 of 750 copies); Second Series (No. 147 of 1000 copies); Third Series (No. 244 of 750 copies signed by Fabes). A VERY NICE SET OF AN IMPORTANT WORK SELDOM FOUND COMPLETE IN THIS CONDITION.
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FABES Gilbert H.
John Galsworthy. His First Editions, Points and Values. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., First Edition; cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good copy in the dustwrapper, the latter chipped at edges. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES (this copy out of series). Loosely inserted is a disbound copy of 'John Galsworthy. An Appreciation together with a Bibliography' 1926 by Galsworthy's neice Miss Dorothy Easton
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BERTRAM ROTA
[Sale Catalogue of] Fine and Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters. A.T. 'Dusty' Miller, former Proprietor of Frank Hollings' Bookshop. Catalogue 294. [Appreciation by Anthony Rota].
8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, facsimiles and reproductions throughout; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 206 notable items and includes a biographical summary by Dudley Massey and full bibliography of references. As staff member and subsequently proprietor of Frank Hollings bookshop (a career spanning the period 1925-1969), Miller was, with Percy Muir and Bertram Rota, one of the founding fathers of the modern first editions market.
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FABES Gilbert H.
The First Editions of Ralph Hale Mottram. 350 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo., on laid paper, with a portrait frontispiece, a plate and a facsimile; cloth gilt, gilt back, covers just a trifle worn and faded else a good, clean copy of an uncommon work. EDITION LIMITED TO 300 COPIES (this copy out of series). The work also contains an essay by Mottram on the genesis of 'The Spanish Farm' (1924) in which he ackowledges help and guidance from Galsworthy, together with the first reprints of both his first essay and his first short story
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BODLEIAN LIBRARY, Oxford
First-Line Index of English Poetry 1500-1800 in Manuscripts of the Bodleian Library Oxford. Edited by Margaret Crum. NEAR FINE XL SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., roy. 4to., First Edition; original blue buckram, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-downs and neat accession data on title versos. The institutional marks notwithstanding, a lovely set in dustwrappers.
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BONSER Wilfrid
A Romano-British Bibliography (55 BC - AD 449). IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition; original blue buckram, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly age-browned. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-downs, neat accession data on title versos and small stamp on bottom edges. The original edition of this standard reference is scarce, especially in this condition.
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BRITISH MUSEUM
Short-Title Catalogue of Books printed in France and of French Books printed in other Countries from 1470-1600 now in the British Museum. [Second Edition]. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., Second Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, neat accession data on title verso and small stamp on bottom edge. Much-needed reissue of the scarce original edition of 1924. Scarce and valuable standard reference.
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MAHONEY et al B.E.
Illustrators of Children's Books 1744-1945 [with] 1946-1956 [with] 1957-1966. COMPLETE SET IN DUSTWRAPPERS
3 vols., 4to., Mixed Impressions, with numerous reproductions throughout; original cloth, a very good, bright, clean set in the dustwrapper
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MORISON Stanley
A Brief Survey of Printing History and Practice. IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with numerous type-facsimiles in the text, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original boards, cloth corners and backstrip, paper label, boards very lightly rubbed else an unusually bright, clean copy in the scarce dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and chipped with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip. . A small portion of the contents appeared in a more condensed form in a printing supplement issued with the Manchester Guardian, 23 May 1922. Scarce in this condition, especially in the dustwrapper. Appleton 18.
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LEJEUNE Rita
The Legend of Roland in the Middle Ages. COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., roy. 4to., First English Edition, with titles in red and black, with 63 fine tipped-in coloured plates, 510 plates in monochrome and decorative endpapers, fore-edges very lightly age-soiled; original red holland, upper boards blocked in gilt, gilt backs, a very good, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrapper to second volume chipped at headband (just affecting lettering). Nice set of the first English edition of the first detailed study of the iconography of Roland in sculpture, wall painting, the minor arts and, above all, illuminated MSS. First published in Brussels in 1966. Scarce in this condition.
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UNBEGAUN B.O.
A Bibliographical Guide to the Russian Language. With the Collaboration of J. .G. Simmons. NEAR FINE XL COPY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter mildly age-browned at backstrip. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, and small neat stamp on dustwrapper and title verso. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION
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LEJARD A.
The Art of the French Book from Early Manuscripts to the Present Time. Introduction by Philip James.
Roy. 4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome reproductions (many full-page) in the text, small neat signature on front free endpaper; blue cloth, upper board lettered in white, ivory cloth back lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy. With worn dustwrapper loosely inserted.
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[Sale Catalogue of] The Holy Land & Middle East. The Library of a Gentleman. Maps & Books from the Laor Collection. 23 March 1999. Sale: Code LO9203.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with several facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, clean copy. The sale comprises 417 lots.
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FREEMAN Rosemary
English Emblem Books [Second Octagon Edition]. nglish Emblem Books [Second Octagon Edition].
8vo., Second Octagon Edition; original blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Very scarce
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MEISS Millard
The Visconti Hours. Bibliotheca Nazionale, Florence. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous splendid coloured heightened in gold; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case with mounted coloured plate. With extended introduction and bibliography.
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GOLLIN Alfred M.
The Observer and J.L. Garvin 1908-1914. A Study in a Great Editorship.
8vo., First Edition, with a coloured portrait frontispiece and 8 plates; black cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down, markings on front free endpaper, and small blind stamp on title.
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LONGMANS LTD
Three Addresses. An Essay in Publishing Ecology 1939-1947. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black, coloured and monochrome plates and a colour map; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly dust-soiled at extremities else a very good, clean copy. Printed for private circulation.
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BRITISH LIBRARY
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues. Volume 4. English Benedictine Libraries: the Shorter Catalogues. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, vol. 4. VERY SCARCE
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WILSON E.M.
Samuel Pepys's Spanish Plays.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
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REDGRAVE Gilbert R.
Daniel and the Emblem Literature. A Paper read before the Bibliographical Society, February 21, 1910. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
4to., First Edition thus, on laid paper; original printed wrappers, yapped edges, covers mildly worn at edges, fore-yapps flaking else a very good, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
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MORISON Stanley
Four Centuries of Fine Printing. Two Hundred and Seventy-Two Examples of the Work of Presses established between 1465 and 1924. With an Introduction. [Second, revised, Edition].
8vo., on laid paper, with 271 fine plates of facsimiles; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Appleton A35a.
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NATIONAL BOOK LEAGUE
The Italian Book 1465-1900. Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the National Book League and the Italian Institute January to March 1953. Organizer J. Irving Davis.
8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, covers a little dusty, backstrip lightly frayed at head else a very good, clean copy. A major exhibition; the catalogue lists 364 exhibits.
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COX (ed.) E.H.M.
The Library of Edmund Gosse. Being a descriptive and bibliographical Catalogue of a Portion of his Collection, compiled by E.H.M. Cox. With an introductory Essay by Mr. Gosse.
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, page edges lightly browning as usual; black cloth, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip chafed at head and tail else a sound copy of an uncommon work. Sold from an institution with the usual markings. '[An] important and valuable library' (de Ricci). Gosse was a close friend of T.J. Wise (to whom the work is dedicated) and an unwilling purchaser and recipient of several of the latter's forgeries. Wise was instrumental in publicising the successful sale of Gosse's library which realised a total of £26,615 at Sotheby's in 1928-29. See Partington, T.J. Wise in the Original Cloth.
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CRUTCHLEY E.A.
A History and Description of the Pitt Press. Pitt for the Use of the University Printing Press AD 1833, altered and restored AD 1937. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to., First Edition, with folding coloured frontispiece and plates in monochrome; green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, unevenly sunned dustwrapper.
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FORDHAM Sir Herbert George
The Road-Books and Itineraries of Ireland, 1647 to 1850. A Catalogue. Read 30th October 1922. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland. IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, wrappers lightly browned else a very good, clean copy. VERY SCARCE.
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MEISS (intro.) Millard
The Rohan Book of Hours. Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (MS. Latin 9471). Introduction by Millard Meiss. Introduction and Commentary by Marcel Thomas. IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Sm. folio, First Edition thus, with 127 fine plates in gilt and colours; red cloth, upper board and backstrip framed and lettered in gilt, backstrip very lightly faded else a very good, clean copy in publisher's board slip-case, the latter with mounted coloured illustration (repeated from text) and mildly age-soiled.
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UPDIKE D.B.
Printing Types. Their History, Forms, and Use. A Study in Survivals. Second Edition.
2 vols., roy. 8vo., Second Impression thus, with numerous type facsimiles in the text; original buckram, gilt backs, a very good, clean copy in dustwrapper.
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COCKERELL Douglas
A Note on Bookbinding by Douglas Cockerell. With Extracts from the Special Report of the Society of Arts on Leather for Bookbinding. IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS
Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, page edges lightly browned (as usual); original brown wrappers printed in black, sewed as issued, covers mildly dust-soiled else a very good, crisp copy. Published by W H Smith for their bookbinding department. In this copy the postcard has been removed but the gummed addressed label is present. A fragile but important item in binding history. Douglas Cockerell was at this time 'Controller of Bindery' for W.H. Smith, and subsequently one of the first and greatest of the craftsman binders. In this condition a rare survival.
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NICOLL W.R.
A Bookman's Letters. Third Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo., Third Edition, on laid paper, title in red and black; original brown buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt , gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean copy. Much interesting material on Meredith, Emerson, Thackeray, Watts-Dunton, Gissing, Mark Rutherford and others.
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UNWIN Stanley
The Truth about a Publisher. An Autobiographical Record. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, blue top, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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STEELE R.
The Earliest English Music Printing. A Description and Bibliography of English Printed Music to the Close of the Sixteenth Century. [Facsimile reissue]. FINE COPY
4to., Second Edition, with numerous facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. High-quality facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1903.
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[Sale Catalogue of] The Collection of George Cosmatos including Autograph Letters, Manuscripts, Music and Film. 31 March 1998. Sale Code: LN8199 Birgitta. FINE COPY
4to., First Edition, with numerous photographs and facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. The private collection of George Cosmatos, Hollywood screenwriter, comprised 488 lots and included many items relating to Hollywood and the stars of the 'golden age' of studio cinema in addition to a number of scarce and notable historical autographs and documents.
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A List of Books printed in Cambridge at the University Press 1521-1800. FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette; gray boards printed in black, ivory cloth back lettered in black, a fine copy.
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SMITH J.A.
British Armoured Formations 1939-1945. A Bibliography. Annotated and illustrated, incorporating Armoured Regiments, Brigades and Divisions in Service during WWII. FINE COPY
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette; gray boards printed in black, ivory cloth back lettered in black, a fine copy. Excellent and much-needed record filling a long overdue gap in the bibliography of WWII. Annotated and illustrated, it lists all tank and armoured car regiments, and constitutes the sole single-volume reference for tank related histories and memoirs, together with memoirs of tank veterans. An invaluable addition to the literature and a cornerstone of any armoured collection
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BISHOP Philip R.
Thomas Bird Mosher, Pirate Prince of Publishers. A Comprehensive Bibliography and Source Guide to The Mosher Books reflecting England's National Literature and Design. With an Introduction by William E Fredeman. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 4to. First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text; brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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THORNTON John L.
Medical Book Illustration. A Short History. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Folio, First Edition, with frontispiece, and numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; blue cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in silver, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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BELL H.I.
Fragments of an unknown Gospel and other early Christian Papyri.
4to. First Edition, with 5 plates; maroon buckram, gilt back, a very good copy.
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GOLDSCHMIDT L.
Hebrew Incunables. A bibliographical Essay. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo. First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES
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WILSON G.F.
A Bibliography of the Writings of W.H. Hudson. NEAR FINE COPY
8vo. First Edition, on laid paper, with 8 facsimiles, endpapers a little browned; black buckram, gilt back, uncut, a near fine copy.
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DAVIES J.H.
Catalogue of Manuscripts. Volume I. Additional Manuscripts in the Collections of Sir John Williams. 500 COPIES WERE PRINTED; NEAR FINE COPY
Roy. 8vo., ALL PUBLISHED; navy buckram, gilt back, gilt top, UNCUT AND UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES
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OAKESHOTT Walter
The Artists of the Winchester Bible. And an Introduction by Walter Oakeshott.
Roy. 8vo. First Edition, with 44 half-tone plates from photographs; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip a little faded else a very good, clean copy.
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FIFOOT Richard
A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
8vo. First Edition, with three facsimiles; red buckram, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Soho Bibliography XI.
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KEYNES Geoffrey
A Bibliography of Siegfried Sassoon. 1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED
8vo. First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 5 plates and 15 full-page illustrations in the text; original burgundy buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. Soho Bibliographies X. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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SWINNERTON Frank
A London Bookman. IN DUSTWRAPPER
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, fore-edges a little dusty; original red buckram, backstrip with paper label, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. Collects numerous articles and essays originally penned by Swinnerton as the London letter to the New York 'Bookman' between 1920 and 1927. Very elusive in anything like this condition.
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KEYNES Geoffrey
The Gates of Memory. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition, with numerous full-page photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Autobiography of the eminent surgeon and bibliographer of (among others) Austen, Brooke,,Browne, Donne, Evelyn, Hazlitt and Sassoon.
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HARTHAN J.P.
Bookbindings.
8vo. First Edition with 60 fine plates of bindings and 7 plates on 4 shewing technique; original printed wrappers a very good clean copy.
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St. JOHN John
William Heinemann. A Century of Publishing 1890-1990. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
8vo. First Edition on laid paper with numerous plates and several facsimiles and pedigrees in the text; cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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GLENN John
Catalogue of the Francis Trigge Chained Library. St. Wulfram's Church, Grantham. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
4to. First Edition with frontispiece and illustrations in the text; blue cloth backstrip lettered in silver a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE
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CHAMBERLAIN E.
Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. Volume III. Prints and Drawings. Part ii: Portraits. FINE COPY
Sm. folio First Edition; black cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt a fine copy.
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WEINSTEIN H.
Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Cambridge. Volume II. Ballads. Part ii: Indexes. With a Note on the Collection by Richard Luckett. FINE COPY
Sm. folio First Edition; black cloth upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt a fine copy.
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