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Allen, Charles Dexter American Book-Plates: a guide to their study
New York Hacker Art Books, 1968 Reprint Edition Hardcover Very Good Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Handsomely produced reprint of the original, 1895 First Edition. xiv + 437 pp. and including bibliography by E.N. Hewins, plus plentiful illustrations. Octavo format, blue buckram cloth, slight torque to spine, else clean and unmarked, tightly bound and bright of interior. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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9.00 USD
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Betham-Edwards, Miss French Men Women and Books
Chicago A.C. McClurg & Co., 1911 First Edition Hardcover Good Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bumping to spine head and foot. Tissue-guarded portrait at frontispiece. Faded gilt lettering to spine, sharper gilt lettering and illustration to cover, some half-toning to endpapers. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Heavy paper, rough-cut edges. viii + 291 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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10.00 USD
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Carrington, Fitzroy, ed. Prints and Their Makers: essays on engravers and etchers old and modern
Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917 First Edition Hardcover Good Hardcover Large 8vo 9" - 10
Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bumping to spine head and foot, light rubbing to gilt letters on spine, mild soiling to cvers, some untrimmed page edges, else a tightly bound, sturdy, lovely copy. Rough-cut page edges. Lovely black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. xiv + 268 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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11.00 USD
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Chappell, Warren A Short History of the Printed Word
New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1979 Hardcover Very Good No Dust Jacket Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, and only minimal wear to covers and tips, including some smudging and soiling to fore-edge and bottom edge of text block, rubbing to gilt lettered spine. Stated First Edition. 244 pp. + xv pp. in the index. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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9.75 USD
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Cooper, James Fenimore Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief, by James Fenimore Cooper
Chapel Hill Privately printed, 1949 Limited Edition Hardcover Near Fine Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Vanilla-color paper over boards, blue cloth-backed, with gilt lettering to spine. A lovely copy of a special festschrift published on behalf of the graduate students of Gregory Lansing Paine, who taught English at the University of North Carolina for 25 years, and with their note of compliments laid in. Only 300 copies ever printed, of which only 100 were for sale. 160 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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20.00 USD
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DeWitt, Donald L., ed. Articles Describing Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States: an Annotated Bibliography
Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press, 1997 0313295980 / 9780313295980 First Edition, First Printing Hardcover Very Good No Dust Jacket Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Red cloth binding, with black spine and front cover labels lettered in gold; binding is almost imperceptibly rubbed at its spine ends and cover corners. It will cost more than the standard rate to ship this large book by Priority Mail or to places outside the U. S. Sections pertaining to General Collections, Business Collections, Ethnic Minorities and Women, and so on. xi + 458 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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30.00 USD
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Dickinson, Donald C. John Carter: the taste and technique of a bookman
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press, 2004 1584561378 / 9781584561378 First Edition Hardcover As New Fine Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Gift-quality condition inside and out. Sebastien Dickenson provides a lovely, loving Introduction. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxi + 416 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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18.00 USD
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Doubleday, F.N. Memoirs of a Publisher
Garden City, New York Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Good Hardcover 16mo 6" - 7" tall
Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear, not price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix + 304 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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7.00 USD
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Mansfield, Edgar, Introduction British Bookbinding Today
Perthshire K.D. Duval, 1975 First Edition Softcover Near Fine Softcover 4to 11" - 13" tall
Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy, with a lovely Introduction by Edgar Mansfield, and in a quarto size paperback, 67 pp., offering plentiful color plates and black and white illustrations. Printed card covers, designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. Overall, a lovely copy. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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20.00 USD
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Mansfield, Edgar, Introduction British Bookbinding Today
Bloomington, Indiana The Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1976 First Edition Softcover Very Good Softcover 4to 11" - 13" tall
Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy, with a lovely Introduction by Edgar Mansfield, and in a quarto size paperback, 67 pp., offering plentiful color plates and black and white illustrations. Printed card covers, designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, and with photographs by Tom Scott. Overall, a lovely copy. Laid in is a Foreword by William Cagle, and an Errata sheet. Possible endpaper removal. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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20.00 USD
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Mansfield, Edgar, Introduction British Bookbinding Today
Bloomington, Indiana The Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1976 First Edition Softcover Near Fine Softcover 4to 11" - 13" tall
Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy, with a lovely Introduction by Edgar Mansfield, and in a quarto size paperback, 67 pp., offering plentiful color plates and black and white illustrations. Printed card covers, designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, and with photographs by Tom Scott. Overall, a lovely copy. Laid in is a Foreword by William Cagle, and an Errata sheet. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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20.00 USD
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Matthew Joseph Bruccoli The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman
San Diego Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986 0151326711 / 9780151326716 Hardcover Very Good Very Good Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, and only minimal wear to covers and tips. Remainder mark in bottom gutter. Crisp, bright, evenly-colored dust jacket with one tiny closed tear. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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5.60 USD
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McClellan, Bruce Artifacts '48
York, Pennsylvania The Maple Press Company, 1949 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Published by The Maple Press Company, York, Pennsylvania, 1949. Number 939 of 1,700 copies published, and laid in is a nice note of thanks from the publisher. Octavo format, green spine with silver label, light flaking to edges. 116 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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11.00 USD
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Meiss, Millard; Kirsch, Edith W. Les Heures de Visconti: Bibliotheque nationale, Florence
Vilo-Paris Draeger Freres, 1972 Hardcover Fine Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Colorful paper label, silver lettering to spine, and stuffed with gorgeous color illustrations, many full-page. Heavy cream paper. French language text. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 262 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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50.00 USD
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Mencken, H.L. Menckeniana
New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1949 First Edition Softcover Good Softcover 12mo 7" - 7
Promotional brochure from the publisher Alfred A. Knopf, announcing the publication of A Mencken Chrestomathy, and laid in is a nice note from the Publicity Director, William Cole. Sunned and slightly soiled printed wrappers, binding in a stapled pamphlet of the highlights of this upcoming volume. Forenote by George Jean Nathan. Stapled, and with abraded gold paper label on cover, some stains on the front cover. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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12.00 USD
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Minnis, Alastair Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages
Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009 0812212576 / 9780812212570 Second Edition Softcover Very Good Softcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Another fine contribution to the series, The Middle Ages Series. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Address label from the previous owner, the Medieval Studies scholar, Robert Correale. xxv + 323 + publisher's ads. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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17.00 USD
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Morley, Christopher Friends of the Library: a soliloquy uttered by Christopher Morley
New York The Marchbanks Press, (1937) Softcover Very Good Softcover 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall
Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block. Pamplet of printed wraps tied in string, reprinting a speech given by Morley at a meeting of the Friends of the Library in New York City, June 23, 1937. Text unmarked; light marginal discoloration to wraps. 10 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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23.00 USD
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National Geographic Society National Geographic Index, 1947-1963
Washington, D.C. National Geographic Society, 1964 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Good Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Dust jacket fully intact, not price-clipped, showing moderate shelf- and edge-wear, chipping, scuffing a bit. Previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper. Octavo format, with lists of expeditions, researches, and awards, and with a Foreword by Melville Bell Grosvenor. 308 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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6.00 USD
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Newton, Edward End Papers: literary recreations
Boston Little, Brown, and Company, 1933 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Hardcover 8vo 8" - 9" tall Signed by Author
Full-color portrait of the author, an "imagined portrait," by H.J. Brothers, of the Book-Collector as Master of Hounds. Most fetching, there is pasted inside the rear flap, in splendid condition, a folding facsimile bifolium of the Charles Lamb essay, "Dream-Children." Really, quite a lovely book and in Very Good, signed condition and state, respectively. Signed and inscribed by the author at the page of limitation, this being #904 of 1,351 signed, numbered copies of this accessible, fascinating memoir of a bookseller's life, comprising 13 chapters. The inscription reads, "A woman, the magnet of other days, no longer draws us, she merely shucks us. A. Edward Newton," who was born in the third year of the Civil War and who passed away in 1940. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Blue paper over boards, cream-colored buckram cloth-backed, with fancy bas relief illustration to cover, blue lettered title and author on spine. Deckled fore-edges. Light soiling to covers, spotting, previous owner's bookplate inside front flap. 235 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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29.00 USD
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Notlep, Robert The Autograph Collector: a new guide
New York Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968 Hardcover Very Good Good Hardcover 12mo 7" - 7
Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, and only minimal wear to covers and tips, mostly bumping to spine head and foot. Dust jacket fully intact, still bright and shiny, price-clipped, and in a protective Kapco sleeve; scuffing and shelf-wear to rear cover. 240 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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9.00 USD
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