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1984ref. 22557Boston: Little Brown & Co 1984. Unstated Edition. Softcover. SIGNED on title page by author/artist Breathed near fine in uncreased illustrated covers; a clean tight bright copy signed at the 2007 L.A. Times Festival of Books Little, Brown & Co paperback
ref. 2083002115900921Shinchosha N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 266p Size: 16cm Shinchosha paperback
2012ref. DBS-9781845938475cabi 2012. 4th. Hardcover. New. cabi hardcover
2012ref. DBS-9781845938475cabi 2012. 4th. Hardcover. New. cabi hardcover
2020ref. CBS-9780815352914Taylor & Francis ExclusiveCbs 2020. New. Taylor & Francis Exclusive(Cbs) unknown
2020ref. CBS-9780815352914Taylor & Francis ExclusiveCbs 2020. New. Taylor & Francis Exclusive(Cbs) unknown
1945ref. 867With Near Fine Dust Jacket. Dust jacket cover by Roswell Keller. Pocket 307 paperback
ref. 21468Negro Universities Press. Very Good. Brown cloth boards. Book is in very nice condition text is unmarked and pages are tight. Negro Universities Press hardcover
1990ref. C1780Harmonia Mundi France 1990-09-14. Audio CD. Like New. 3 CDs case liner and booklet all in Excellent condition. Very slight edge wear to slipcase. Harmonia Mundi (France) unknown
1951ref. 8877HARDBACK "TWO VOLUME SET" SHIPPED FROM THE UK Edition: 2nd . Thus. Impression: 2nd. Date of Publication: 1951 Publisher: Harvard University Press. Binding and cover condition: Crimson cloth gilt title to spines only. Minimal bumps & rubs light wear to bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. No marks to boards or other visible faults. VG. Jacket condition: Both volumes have dust wrappers. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing a shelf price of $12.50 for 2 vols. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and particularly to head & tail of spine. Minor losses now re-inforced and both jackets in clear un-attached archival wrappers. GD Contents condition: Ex library with a few small stamps and labels. Clean crisp & tight with no reading wear & no marks to text. Minimal paper colouration throughout especially to page edges otherwise no visible faults. VG. Illustrations: B/w facsimile prints and print examples throughout. One two-page print sample to volume I and one three-page fold-out table of type-faces to volume II. Pages: 276 276 pp. text. xvi l pp. supplementary notes to both volumes & index at rear. Description: In his comprehensive study of types from the earliest times to the twentieth century Mr Updike founder of the famous Merrymount Press of Boston traces the sequence of development in typography and discusses the relative importance of each period and the lesson that it holds for the modern printer. The 367 illustrations reproduce carefully selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these specimens which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. Two NEAR VG text copies with NO MAJOR FAULTS in rather tatty dust jackets now re-inforced and in un-attached protective wrappers. Harvard University Press hardcover
1946ref. 26231Chicago: Ziff-Davis 1946. 1st edition. Magazine in color-illus wraps art by Arnold Kohn side-stapled. VeryGood bright vivid cover backstrrip intact small chip on rear wrap not much wear. This pulp fiction magazine was published between 1945 and 1951; this is the 5th issue. The featured novelet is Gambling Guns by Williams plus a short novel another novelet four short stories none other features. Nice bright collectors copy. 7 x 10 178 pp b/w illus & ads. Ziff-Davis paperback
1946ref. 26242Chicago: Ziff-Davis 1946. 1st edition. Magazine in color-illus wraps art by Arnold Kohn side-stapled. VeryGood bright vivid cover backstrrip intact not much wear. Rare 2nd issue of this pulp fiction magazine. Contains one novel two novelettes two short stories featured is Traders in Death by Blade 8 other features. Nice bright collectors copy. 7 x 10 178 pp b/w illus & ads. Ziff-Davis paperback
1946ref. 24220Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publ 1946. Pulp Magazine in color illus wraps inside side-stapled. VeryGood unmarked bright wraps no spine creases very light edgewear small chip at lower spine. Pulp fiction magazine. Includes seven stories numerous Features. Overall a bright clean copy. Scarce issue. 7 x 10 178 pp b/w illus & ads. Ziff-Davis Publ paperback
1924ref. 0008442Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 69 pages marbled cloth frayed a bit at head of spine unopened. Ex libris printer John Frank Connor of R. H. Connor & Co. Buffalo NY and with a business card. Copy no. 86 of only 260 copies thus. Three essays by this master printer with facsimiles Harvard University Press hardcover
1972ref. 202G3971New York: The New York Times & Arno Press 1972. Book. Illus. by Karlsson Ewert cover; Krementz Jill; Jacobi Lotte; Harbutt Charles; Polumbaum Ted; Fehl Fred; Stewart Hap; Webener Alfred; Dobkeen Joyce; Rastelli Vittoriano. Fair. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 88 pages. Features: Dual turntable ad inside front cover; Many lovely color fashion ads; Vantage cigarette ad features photo of Lester Schreiber of Tampa; Nixon Kissinger and the Peking Beijing Summit - Is This Trip Necessary; What Women Phychoanalysts Say About Women's Liberation; The Snowmobile is an American Dream Machine - article with photo of Bill Ward and his family of Steep Falls ME; "Writing Plays is Absolutely Senseless - But I Love It" - Arthur Miller; How Rich is a Rich Apache - they have transformed themselves from a primitive defeated people to a modern cooperative commonwealth; One-page ad for the 3000 Acre Smallwood Estates development; Photo of poor black mother and children in NAACP Emergency Relief Fund Food Coupon ad; Roman Star - fashion photos; Elegant Austerity - photos of a project by architect Gae Aulenti in Milan; Many camp ads. Four-inch taped repair and faint ink stamp to back cover. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. The New York Times & Arno Press Paperback
1871ref. 486806Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1871. Hardcover in acceptable condition. No jacket. First edition. Ex-library. Xviii 672 pages with 12 page publisher's catalogue at rear. Boards and spine are stained sunned and worn. Leading corners and spine ends are bumped and torn. One centimetre tears on front upper edge and spine ends. Page block and rough-cut pages are tanned and marked. Label on front pastedown. Front pastedown hinge is split but binding remains intact. Minor pen on half title page. Creases throughout pages. Text is clear throughout. HCW. Hardcover. Acceptable. Used. The Clarendon Press Hardcover
1860ref. 11410London: Lovell Reeve. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1860. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. The top of the spine is rubbed as are the bottom corners and one small spot on the back hinge. Very tight & clean inside. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Lovell Reeve hardcover
1937ref. 12396DACambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1937. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Previous owner's name on front paste-down. DJ lightly soiled w/ light chipping to spine ends; spine sunned. Contents nice. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harvard University Press Hardcover
1971ref. 014204Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1971. First printing so stated. Inscribed by the author to previous owner on the front free endpaper. A fine copy in a square tight binding. The dust jacket is sunned on the spine and around the folds. The price $5.95 is present on the front flap. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover
1951ref. 142006Harvard University Press 1951. Hardcover. Top edges foxed corners lightly bumped else very good clean & tight condition / dust jackets sunned price clipped chipped & slightly torn but still useful. Second edition. Two volumes. 292pp. 326pp. Harvard University Press hardcover
1950ref. 1280London: J. & W. Chester 1950. Very Good. Folio. 79 pp. Folio Full score with piano reduction at the base of each system. Plate JWC 9744. Chipped at middle and bottom of spine else very good. Dedicated to Benjamin Britten. The cover design is a reproduction of a 13th century statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Naumberg Cathedral Germany. J. & W. Chester
1927ref. 21741London: The Rifle Brigade Club 1927. Volume One August 1914 - December 1916. xvi 245pp 12 halftone plates 22 maps. Covers slightly faded sometime rebacked. Volume Two January 1917 - June 1919. Published in 1936. xv 409pp 16 halftone plates 31 maps. Both volumes in blue cloth with silver gilt insignia to front cover. Comprehensive!. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 255x190mm. The Rifle Brigade Club Hardcover
1750ref. JC14358London: Printed for J. Whiston. R. Dodsley. and W. Russel. / W. Innys and C. Hitch. and C. Davis. / W. Innys C. Davis C. Hitch W. Bowyer. / M. Cooper 1750 et al see below. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary calf handsomely rebacked with gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label in second compartment 5 raised bands; four works bound together in one volume 8vo; TIME 1750 First Edition pp. xxvii 1 130 2 ads; SIRIS 1747 London reprint of the Dublin edition pp. 174 1 contents; QUERIST 1750 First Edition pp. 4 83 1; MORALS 1751 First Edition pp. 30. Boards scratched and scuffed. Contemporary handwritten notes on FFEP listing the volume's contents; contermporary ownership signature on title-page of TIME and QUERIST; contemporary marginalia in QUERIST. Otherwise an excellent clean copy nice and tight text block just a bit tanned and brittle along the edges more pronounced on first and last few leaves. Printed for J. Whiston... R. Dodsley... and W. Russel... / W. Innys, and C. Hitch... and C. Davis... / W. Innys, C. Davis, C. Hi hardcover
1966ref. 73058Cambridge:: Harvard University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. B00AH5CY4I . Complete in two volumes. With illustrations. Second printing of the third edition. Both volumes are very good in a very good price clipped dust jackets. . Harvard University Press, hardcover
1966ref. 11933Harvard University Press 1966. Second Printing of the Third Edi. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. This Two Volume Set with dust jackets is clean solid and in great shape! These are hardcover books with a total of about 600 pages including many illustrations. The bindings are strong with all pages firmly attached. The pages are clean with no soiling writing or tears. The title pages show 1966 as the published date and the copyright page states Second Printing of the Third Edition. These are definitely Not former library books. The dust jackets are also in great shape with just a hint of edgewear and some very light soiling No Chips. I have placed the DJs in fresh mylar jackets and this Two Volume Set looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box! Harvard University Press hardcover