On this page you will find 268 BOOKS ON BOOKS that are available as of September 15, 2007. Thank you for visiting this page, and remember, make a note of the Order No(s) you wish to purchase because Ordering is easy from Ray Boas, Bookseller in Walpole, New Hampshre. Thank you, RAY
1. BOOKS FROM ARKHAM HOUSE 1949 AND LATER, Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1949, 4pp of B&W illustrations, 37pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), "In presenting our new catalogue, we are projecting a list of books which we hope to publish as quickly as possible after the resumption of our publishing program late in 1949." A great little catalog from this fantasy publisher listing books with synopsis, author bios, prices, ordering information, and more., (Order No: 45473 ), $30.00
2. BOOK-PRICES CURRENT - 1900 THROUGH 1908; INDEX (1908-1909) AND 1913 - TEN VOLUME COLLECTION -- SEE NOTES FOR DETAILS, Elliot Stock, London, "Record of the prices at which books have been sold at auction." Collection of ten volumes, includes: VOL XIV Season 1899-1900 (hinges cracked needs rebacking), 731pp; VOL XV Season 1900- 1901, very good rebound blue buckram, 788pp; VOL XVI Season 1901-1902, very good rebound blue buckram, 762pp; VOL XVII Season 1902-1903, good+ rebacked blue buckram, 687pp; VOL XVIII Season 1903-1904, good+ rebacked blue buckram, 675pp; VOL XIX Season 1905-1905, good+ rebacked blue buckram, 598pp; VOL XX Season 1905-1906, good, original blue cloth w/edgewear, 745pp; VOL XXII Season 1907-1908, good, original blue cloth, 796pp; 1908 - 1909 INDEX, very good rebound boue buckram, 763pp; and, VOL XXVII Season 1912-1913, good rebacked blue buckram, 850pp., (Order No: 30675 ), $225.00
3. A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER: SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF BINDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE IDEALS OF THE LAKESIDE PRESS, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, IL, 1928, B&W illustrations, 32pp, good+, decorated black cloth (hardcover), The subject matter of this book treats binding from a new angle, describing those book binding details concerning which mistaken ideas exist or in which bad binding practices are prevalent. These notes were written from the standpoint of the causes of defects developed in a binding when on the bookshelf in an American home., (Order No: 42219 ), $12.50
4. THE BRIDWELL DEBELLIS COLLECTION OF FIFTEENTH CENTURY PRINTING, Southern Methodist Univ., 1962, unpaginated, very good, wraps (softcover), Catalogue of the collection, documenting the skill of Mr. Frank V. DeBellis as a bookman and collector, and the vision of Mr. J. S. Bridwell for the Institution which bears his name - the Bridwello Library, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University., (Order No: 43790 ), $12.50
5. FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BECK GRAVURE IN RELATION TO ITS BACKGROUND, TECHNIQUE & APPLICATION AS A MEDIUM OF FINE PRINTING, The Beck Engraving Company, New York, (1950), B&W and color illustrations, unpaginated, fine, pictorial gold boards (hardcover) in good+ slipcase, (Order No: 49909 ), $20.00
6. CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF SELECTED WORKS OF THE POETS LAUREATE OF ENGLAND, The Grolier Club, New York, 1901, B&W frontis, 81pp, good, paper covered boards (hardcover) wear top of spine/boards, Prospectus laid in along with an order form and invitation (unused) to the exhibition. One of an edition of 300 on hand-made paper., (Order No: 19163 ), $35.00
7. FIFTY BOOKS OF THE YEAR 1949, 1950 EXHIBITION, Amer. Inst. of Graphic Arts, New York, (1950), color illustrations, unpaginated, good, green cloth spine, black cloth covered boards (hardcover), 28TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OPENING APRIL 4, 1950 IN BOSTON, CHICAGO, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, SAN FRANCISCO, AND WASHINGTON., (Order No: 30255 ), $8.00
8. THE FRANKLIN CRIER FOR JANUARY 1928 - VOL. IV, NO. 3 - COMMEMORATING THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR ..., Franklin Printing Company, Philadelphia, PA, (1928), B&W illustrations, unpaginated, very good, tan spine, brown decorated boards (hardcover), "...SINCE THE FOUNDING OF THE FRANKLIN PRINTING COMPANY BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN 1728." "Wherein are shown Reproductions from the first House Organ of the Franklin Printing Company, the famous 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' together with some quaint and humorous Material therefrom...", (Order No: 41487 ), $20.00
9. THE HARPER CENTENNIAL, 1817-1917: A FEW OF THE GREETINGS AND CONGRATULATIONS, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, (1917), 106pp, good, tan paper covered boards (crack in paper on spine), Limited to 1250 copies., (Order No: 28898 ), $17.50
10. INTERTYPE FACES ARRANGED BY POINT SIZE - ONE-LINE SPECIMENS - BOOK NUMBER SIX, Intertype Corp., Brooklyn, NY, 1955, 225pp, good, green cloth spine, stiff boards (hardcover), "One-Line Specimens.", (Order No: 1402 ), $7.50
11. INTERTYPE FACES - ONE-LINE SPECIMENS ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY POINT SIZE, Intertype Company, Brooklyn, NY, 1958, 234pp, good, red cloth spine, stiff boards (hardcover), (Order No: 1403 ), $7.50
12. LITERARY LECTURES: PRESENTED AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1973, 602pp, very good+, brown cloth (hardcover), ISBN 084440084X Lectures by Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, R. P. Blackmur, Archibald Henderson, Irving Stone, John O'Hara, MacKinlay Kantor, John Crowe Ransom, Delmore Schwartz, John Hall Wheelock, Robert Hillver, Pierre Emmanuel, Cleanth Brooks, Richard Wilbur, Leon Edel, Alain Bosquet, Hans Egon Holthusen, Erich Heller, Marc Slonim, Lin Yutang, Giose Rimanelli, Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Stephen Spender, Saul Bellow, Louis Untermeyer, Ralph Ellison, Karl Shapiro, and, Reed Whittemore., (Order No: 34103 ), $15.00
13. TREASURES FROM THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY: FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION 1957, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, (1957), B&W and color plates, 48pp, plates, very good, wraps (softcover), The Pierpont Morgan Library is neither a library, in the strict sense of the term, nor a museum of works of art, but an unusual combination of the two. Here are representative examples from the collection for this Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition., (Order No: 28349 ), $15.00
14. TREASURES FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, The New York Public Library, New York, (1985), B&W and color ill., 132pp, good, wraps (softcover) - crease in front cover, ISBN 087104286X Individual rarities and significant groupings have been drawn from throughout the Library, particularly the Special Collections, to illustrate both collecting strengths and the range of materials available for research and enjoyment., (Order No: 35200 ), $12.00
15. XVI CENTURY MINIATURES ILLUSTRATING MANUSCRIPT COPIES OF THE WORKS OF JAMI FROM THE USSR COLLECTIONS, Moscow, (1966), color illustrations, 91pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) one chip on dustjacket, Lavish illustrations, text in Russian and English., (Order No: 46875 ), $45.00
16. Abbott, T. K., CATALOGUE OF FIFTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN; AND IN MARSH'S LIBRARY, DUBLIN, Burt Franklin, New York, (1970), 11 B&W plates, 225pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover), Originally published in 1905. Burt Franklin Bibliography & Reference Series 360., (Order No: 14990 ), $18.50
17. Adams, Frederick B. (an address by), RADICAL LITERATURE IN AMERICA, Overbrook Press, Stamford, CT, 1939, B&W illustrations, 62pp, index, very good, red cloth (hardcover) (darkened spine) worn slipcase, "To Which is Appended a Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Grolier Club in New York City." Limited to 650 copies., (Order No: 3542 ), $75.00
18. Adams, Laura (compiled by); Lucid, Robert F. (introduction by), NORMAN MAILER: A COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY -- THE SCARECROW AUTHOR BIBLIOGRAPHIES, NO. 20, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1974, 131pp, very good++, brown cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0810807718, (Order No: 51901 ), $5.00
19. Adelman, Seymour, FRANCIS LEWIS RANDOLPH 1951-1974, Sutter House, n.p., (1979), 8pp, fine, wraps (softcover), Reprinted from STUDIES FOR A BYRON BIBLIOGRAPHY., (Order No: 35196 ), $10.00
20. Ahmad-ul-umri (translated with introduction & notes together with twenty-six poems done into verse by L. M. Crump), THE LADY OF THE LOTUS, RUP MATI QUEEN OF MANDU: A STRANGE TALE OF FAITHFULNESS, Oxford University Press, London, 1926, B&W and Color illustrations, 96pp, ill., good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 40020 ), $40.00
21. Anderson Galleries, Inc., THE SPENDID LIBRARY AND COLLECTION OF HISTORICAL AND LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS OF THE LATE MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM A. READ - 1936, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, 1936, 287pp, good, paper covered boards (hardcover), Sale 4217, January 8 and 9, 1936, which included a set of the First Four Folio Editions of Shakespeare, first editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Goldsmith, Burns, and other famous authors; historical autographs and manuscripts including 125 letters by General Nathanael Greene; and highly important letters by George Washington and Benedict Arnold, and a remarkable collection of witchcraft manuscripts. Most of the letters and manuscripts are quoted in all or part., (Order No: 46185 ), $12.50
22. Anderson, Robert Roland, SPANISH AMERICAN MODERNISM - A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, (1970), 167pp, very good, orange cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, ISBN 0816501939 A selected bibliography of books, articles, and pamphlets concerning the literary production of eighteen authors generally considered to be representative of the period of Spanish American literature known as Modernism., (Order No: 52084 ), $7.00
23. Arellanes, Audrey Spencer, BOOKPLATES: A SELECTIVE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PERIODICAL LITERATURE, Gale Research Company, Detroit, MI, (1971), 471pp, very good+, red cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 31335 ), $45.00
24. Babington, Percy L., BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS - EDITION LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES, John Castle, London, 1925, B&W frontis, 244pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover), Contents include: EDITIONES PRINCIPES, ETC. 1860-1895; BOOKS EDITED, OR CONTRIBUTED TO, BY SYMONDS. 1859-1898; CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS: BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 1862-1893; SOME LATER EDITIONS AND REPRINTS. 1895-1925; SOME AMERICAN ISSUES OF BOOKS, ARTICLES, ETC. BY SYMONDS. 1880-1921; SOME EUROPEAN TRANSLATIONS AND REPRINTS. 1879-1905; SOME BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL BOOKS AND NOTICES. 1890-1925., (Order No: 34432 ), $75.00
25. Banks, Doris H., MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT BOOKMAKING: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1989, 282pp, fine, green cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 0810822741 Contents include: Books in the Middle Ages; Medieval Libraries; The Manuscript Book and the Church; Universities and Books; Economic and Social Conditions and Their Impact on Books; Science and Technology; and, Bibliography., (Order No: 49288 ), $75.00
26. Barker, Nicolas (preface by Charles Ryskamp), THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE SPREAD OF LEARNING, 1478-1978: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, Oxford University Press, London, 1978, B&W ill., 332pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0199510865 This volume celebrates the quincentenary of the introduction of printing at Oxford with a pictorial history of its subsequent progress, illustrated by the books, documents, and pictures which are its tangible record., (Order No: 33942 ), $45.00
27. Barnes, James J., FREE TRADE IN BOOKS: A STUDY OF THE LONDON BOOK TRADE SINCE 1800, Oxford at the Clarendon Pr., London, 1964, 199pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), An intensive study of Victorian bookselling and publishing, with special emphasis on book trade organization and resale price maintenance after 1800., (Order No: 33912 ), $20.00
28. Beeson, Nora Sigerist (selected and translated by), HENRY E. SIGERIST: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS, McGill University Press, Montreal, 1966, 247pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), A vivid and lively portrait of the famous medical historian., (Order No: 33641 ), $10.00
29. Benkovitz, Miriam J., A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RONALD FIRBANK, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1963, B&W ill., 103pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), SOHO Bibliograpies Series., (Order No: 33819 ), $25.00
30. Binns, Betty (with typeset examples by Kathie Brown of US Litho), BETTER TYPE, Watson-Guptill Publications, Worcester, MA, (1989) 1st ptg, 192pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0823004848 Learn to see subtle distinctions in the faces and spaces of text type. Achieve legible, beautiful, and expressive type every time., (Order No: 49710 ), $7.50
31. Black, M. H., CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1584-1984, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, (1984), B&W illustrations, 343pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0521264731 In 1984 the Press celebrates four hundred years of continuous printing and publishing, and this history gives a readable and not-too-formal introduction to that unique record., (Order No: 23879 ), $12.50
32. Bloom, Allan, GIANTS AND DWARFS: ESSAYS 1960-1990, Simon and Schuster, New York, (1990) 1st ptg, 397pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0671707779 A far-ranging volume of essays on teachers, books, and education., (Order No: 39845 ), $6.00
33. Bloom, Harold (General Editor), THE CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE: VOLUME 5 - GEORGIAN - CHELSEA HOUSE LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1987, p2565-p3225, very good+, gray cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0877547947 From a series of Twentieth-century criticism of British and American Literature to 1904., (Order No: 45534 ), $40.00
34. Bloom, Harold (General Editor), THE CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE: VOLUME 6 - LATE GEORGIAN - ROMANTIC - CHELSEA HOUSE LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1988, p3227-p3858, fine, gray cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0877547955 From a series of Twentieth-century criticism of British and American Literature to 1904., (Order No: 45535 ), $40.00
35. Bloom, Harold (General Editor), THE CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE: VOLUME 7 - EARLY VICTORIAN - CHELSEA HOUSE LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1988, p3859-p4478, fine, gray cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0877547963 From a series of Twentieth-century criticism of British and American Literature to 1904., (Order No: 45536 ), $40.00
36. Bloom, Harold (General Editor), THE CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE: VOLUME 8 - MID-VICTORIAN - CHELSEA HOUSE LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1989, p4479-p5109, fine, gray cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0877547971 From a series of Twentieth-Century Criticism of British and American Literature to 1904., (Order No: 45537 ), $50.00
37. Bloom, Harold (General Editor), THE CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE: VOLUME 9 - LATE VICTORIAN - CHELSEA HOUSE LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1989, p5111-p5751, fine, gray cloth (hardcover), ISBN 087754798X From a series of Twentieth-Century Criticism of British and American Literatureto 1904., (Order No: 45538 ), $50.00
38. Bloom, Harold (General Editor), THE CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE: VOLUME 10 - EDWARDIAN - CHELSEA HOUSE LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1989, p5753-p6388, fine, gray cloth (hardcover), ISBN 1555467741 From a series of Twentieth-Century Criticism of British and American Literature to 1904., (Order No: 45539 ), $45.00
39. Bloom, Harold (General Editor), THE CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE: VOLUME 11 - BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT & INDEX - CHELSEA HOUSE LIBRARY OF LITERARY CRITICISM, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1989, p6391-p6591, fine, gray cloth (hardcover), ISBN 1555467741 From a series of Twentieth-Century Criticism of British and American Literature to 1904., (Order No: 45540 ), $40.00
40. Bohn, Henry G. (New Introduction by Francesco Cordasco), A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS (1841) - THE "GUINEA CATALOGUE", AMS Press, New York, 1974, 1948pp, ads, very good+, blue buckram cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0404116108 Reprint (in two volumes) of the original two volume set published in 1841. The famous "Guinea Catalogue" commonly acknowledged as one of the great book catalogues of all times, it is classed by subject and describes 23,208 books. Compiled by the bibliographical genius, William Lowndes, Cordasco calls it a universal, copiously annotated bibliography of all titles of value available to the mid 19th century., (Order No: 15765 ), $95.00
41. Borneman, Henry S., PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN BOOKPLATES: A STUDY, Pennsylvania German Society, Philadelphia, 1953, 24 bookplates ill. in color, 171pp, very good+, red cloth spine, (hardcover) inscribed by the author, Volume 54 of the Publications by Pennsylvania German Society., (Order No: 6833 ), $60.00
42. Bradley, Van Allen, THE BOOK COLLECTOR'S HANDBOOK OF VALUES: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RARE BOOKS FOR COLLECTORS, DEALERS AND LIBRARIANS, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1972) 3rd ptg, 569pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0399109056 Predecessor to Ahern's guide, still useful for bibliographic info, price trends, etc., (Order No: 299 ), $6.50
43. Bradley, Van Allen, THE NEW GOLD IN YOUR ATTIC, Fleet Press Corporation, New York, (1968) 2nd ed, 280pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 4253 ), $5.00
44. Brent, Stuart, THE SEVEN STAIRS - THE ADVENTUROUS WORLDS OF BOOKS AND TV - AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SUCCESS, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1962 1st ptg, 205pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author, Autobiography of a bookseller, his bookshop and the Chicago TV program on books that he hosted., (Order No: 50178 ), $6.00
45. Brewer, Jeutonne (foreword by Anthony Burgess), ANTHONY BURGESS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1980, 175pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as issued), ISBN 081081286X The quantity and quality of Burgess's writing demand a comprehensive bibliography. During the decades covered by this bibliography Burgess wrote more than two dozen novels, in addition to critical works, books about language, Shakespeare, and Hemingway, and over four hundred articles and reviews., (Order No: 14530 ), $5.00
46. Bruccoli, Matthew J., THE FORTUNES OF MITCHELL KENNERLEY, BOOKMAN, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, (1986) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 337pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0151326711 The search for Kennerley led Matthew Bruccoli thousands of miles, in the United States and in England, on an exhaustive journey to newspaper morgues, libraries, bookshops, dusty archives, and to scores of interviews with people who knew about the elusive dramatis personae. What emerged was a portrait in time and place as well as in personality., (Order No: 12306 ), $4.00
47. Burlingame, Roger, OF MAKING MANY BOOKS: A HUNDRED YEARS OF READING, WRITING AND PUBLISHING, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1946, 347pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), This book marks the 100th anniversary of the Scribner's publishing house, (Order No: 8835 ), $4.00
48. Burlingame, Roger, ENDLESS FRONTIERS: THE STORY OF MCGRAW-HILL, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, (1959) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 506pp, very good+ (hardcover) in good slipcase, (Order No: 37093 ), $12.00
49. Burr, Nelson R., A NARRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEW JERSEY, D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ, 1964, 266pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) - ink price on dustjacket, Volume 21 of The New Jersey Historical Series., (Order No: 8656 ), $7.50
50. Bussy, R. Kenneth (edited by), PHILADELPHIA'S PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS: AN INFORMAL HISTORY, Philadelphia Book Clinic, Philadelphia, 1976, B&W illustrations, 121pp, very good+, brown "leatherette" (hardcover) signed by author, Includes chapters on: The American Philosophical Society, Lea & Febiger, Judson Press, J.B. Lippincott, Westminster, The Maple Press, Haverford House, and much more. No dustjacket as published., (Order No: 11626 ), $25.00
51. Carter, Harry, WOLVERCOTE MILL: A STUDY IN PAPER-MAKING AT OXFORD, Oxford at the Clarendon Pr., London, 1957, color frontis, B&W ill., 80pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A contribution towards the little-known history of English paper-making and a new chapter in the history of the press at Oxford., (Order No: 34164 ), $35.00
52. Christian, Henry A., LOUIS ADAMIC: A CHECKLIST, Kent State University Press, Kent, OH, (1971) 1st ed, 164pp, good+, light green cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0873381157 The Serif Series - Bibliographies and Checklists, Number 20., (Order No: 15165 ), $7.50
53. Christie, Manson & Woods International, Inc., THE ESTELLE DOHENY COLLECTION FROM THE EDWARD LAURENCE DOHENY MEMORIAL LIBRARY - 7 VOLUME SET, Christie, Manson & Woods Int, New York, B&W and color illustrations, fine, red cloth (hardcover), Part I: FIFTEENTH-CENTURY BOOKS INCLUDING THE GUTENBERG BIBLE, October 22, 1987, 302pp; Part II: MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS, December 2, 1987, 126pp; Part III: PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDING WESTERN AMERICANA, February 1-2, 1988, 320pp; Part IV: PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDING EARLY PRINTING, LITERATURE AND FINE BINDINGS, October 17-18, 1988, 344pp; Part V: PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDING AMERICANA, LITERATURE AND FINE BINDINGS, February 21-22, 1989, 316pp; Part VI: PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS CONCERNING WILLIAM MORRIS AND HIS CIRCLE, May 19, 1989, 103pp; and, INDEX AND PRICE LISTS Volume, 99pp volumed by bound price lists. Separate price lists sheets are also laid in Volumes I-VI. A handsome set., (Order No: 51745 ), $300.00
54. Clair, Colin, A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN BRITAIN, Oxford University Press, New York, 1966, B&W illustrations, 314pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) small bump top corners, First general history of printing in England published in the 20th century which is both strong on detail and immensely readable., (Order No: 34229 ), $30.00
55. Cleaton, Irene and Cleaton, Allen, BOOKS & BATTLES: AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1920-1930, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1937, B&W illustrations, 282pp, good, salmon colored cloth (hardcover) dustjacket panels laid in, A history of American literature from 1920 to 1930., (Order No: 26518 ), $7.50
56. Colby, Elbridge, THE PLATES OF THE WINTHROP BOOKS, The New York Public Library, New York, 1918, 6pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 26953 ), $25.00
57. Colby, Elbridge, BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THEODORE WINTHROP, The New York Public Library, New York, 1917, 13pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 26954 ), $20.00
58. Cole, Michael (ed), INTERNATION RARE BOOK PRICES: EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, The Clique, London, fine, pictorial boards (hardcover), Two years available: 1992, and 1993. Priced at $5 per year. In 1993 the name of this series was changed from International Rare Book Prices., (Order No: 8551 ), $5.00
59. Cole, Michael (ed), INTERNATIONAL RARE BOOK PRICES - THE ARTS & ARCHITECTURE, The Clique, London, fine, pictorial boards (hardcover), Three years are available: 1992, 1993, and 1994. In 1993 the series' name was changed to Annual Register of Book Values. Priced at $5 per year., (Order No: 8553 ), $5.00
60. Collie, Michael (compiled by), GEORGE MEREDITH: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, Wm. Dawson & Sons, Ltd., Toronto, (1974), 290pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0712906363 George Meredith was a major late nineteenth-century novelist who went out of fashion when the era of the three-decker novel and the Olympian author ended., (Order No: 30091 ), $10.00
61. Collie, Michael, GEORGE MEREDITH - A BIBLIOGRAPHY, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, (1974), 290pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0802021069 George Meredith was a major late nineteenth-century novelist who went out of fashion when the era of the three-decker novel and the Olympian author ended., (Order No: 49364 ), $8.50
62. Collins, A. S., THE PROFESSION OF LETTERS: A STUDY OF THE RELATION OF AUTHOR TO PATRON PUBLISHER, AND PUBLIC, 1780-1832, E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1929, 279pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "In this book I have sought to continue the history of the profession of letters which in AUTHORSHIP IN THE DAYS OF JOHNSON I left at about the year 1780.", (Order No: 33883 ), $30.00
63. Collison, Robert L., INDEXES AND INDEXING - FOURTH REVISED EDITION, Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1972, 232pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0510457223 First published in 1953. Guide to the Indexing of Books, and Collections of Books, Periodicals, Music, Recordings, Films, and other Material, with a Reference Section and Suggestions for Further Reading., (Order No: 50070 ), $7.50
64. Comfort, Claudette Hegel, THE NEWBERY AND CALDECOTT BOOKS IN THE CLASSROOM, Incentive Publications, Inc., Nashville, TN, (1991), B&W illustrations, 151pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0865301786 Attention all reading teachers, librarians, and literature lovers! This may be the most complete guide to exploring Newbery and Caldecott titles ever published!, (Order No: 42600 ), $12.00
65. Cordier, Mary Hurlbut and Perez-Stable, Maria A., PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAN WEST: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES THROUGH CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1989, 230pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0810822407 In this bibliography, 100 historical fiction and other trade books for children have been selected that will expand and enrich children's historical understanding through the accessible lives of real people., (Order No: 37671 ), $27.50
66. Craig, Alex (foreword by Morris L. Ernst), SUPPRESSED BOOKS - A HISTORY OF THE CONCEPTION OF LITERARY OBSCENITY, The World Publishing Co., Cleveland, OH, (1963) 1st ed, 285pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 48267 ), $9.50
67. Crane, Joan St. C. (compiled by) (with a foreword by Margaret Sandburg), CARL SANDBURG, PHILIP GREEN WRIGHT, AND THE ASGARD PRESS, 1900-1910, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (1975), B&W illustrations, 132pp, good+, maroon cloth spine, brown cloth boards (hardcover), ISBN 0813905656 A Descriptive Catalogue of Early Books, Manuscripts, and Letters in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library., (Order No: 23300 ), $20.00
68. Crane, Walter, THE DECORATIVE ILLUSTRATION OF BOOKS, Senate / Studio Editions, London, (1994), B&W illustrations, 243pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1859580599 Reprint of the 1896 edition., (Order No: 39479 ), $5.00
69. Crawford, Walt and Gorman, Michael, FUTURE LIBRARIES: DREAMS, MADNESS, & REALITY, American Library Association, Chicago, IL, 1995, B&W figures, 200pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0838906478 This book is about the present and the future of libraries. The authors deal with the enduring values of libraries and librarianship and offer a vision of ways in which librarians may use new ideas and new technologies to advance continuing goals rooted in those values., (Order No: 45366 ), $15.00
70. Dana, John Cotton, LIBRARIES: ADDRESSES AND ESSAYS, Books for Libraries Books, Freeport, NY, (1969), 299pp, very good+, gray cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0836913299 First published in 1916. "The first of the addresses here printed was delivered in 1896, the last in 1915, and they thus cover twenty years of my experience as librarian in three cities.", (Order No: 35349 ), $15.00
71. de Angeli, Marguerite, BUTTER AT THE OLD PRICE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARGUERITE DE ANGELI, Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, (1971) 1st ed, B&W and color illustrations, 258pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author, The autobiography of one of the pioneers of American children's book publishing. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR in 1971 on the dedication page., (Order No: 2857 ), $100.00
72. de Lopatecki, Eugene, TYPOGRAPHER'S DESK MANUAL, The Ronald Press Company, NY, (1949) rev ptg, 95pp, good, black cloth with some light edgewear, "Identifying, measuring, combining and specifying type faces. Using type effectively for text and display. Selecting type to interpret copy, to harmonize with illustrations and to print well on paper specified.", (Order No: 17989 ), $12.50
73. Dethloff, Henry C., A BOOKMARK: TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS, Texam A&M University Press, College Station, TX, (1999) 1st ed, B&W and Color illustrations, 161pp, very good+, black cloth spine (hardcover), ISBN 0890968780 Chapters include: The Beginning; Air, Earth, Fire, and Water; Up from the Ashes; Making Books; and Strategic Planning., (Order No: 41623 ), $25.00
74. Dingman, Larry, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LIMITED AND SIGNED EDITIONS IN LITERATURE, TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS, James Cummings Bookseller, Stillwater, Minnesota, (1973), 285pp, fine, red cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 49455 ), $12.50
75. Dix, E. R. McC., PRINTING IN DUBLIN PRIOR TO 1601 - SECOND EDITION, Burt Franklin, New York, (1971), B&W ill. follow text, 41pp, plates, very good++, blue cloth (hardcover), Reprint of the edition of 1932., (Order No: 49958 ), $12.50
76. Dobson, Austin, WILLIAM HOGARTH - NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION, The McClure Company, New York, 1907, 76 B&W illustrations, 310pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), First published in 1891. Contents include: I. Memoir of William Hogarth; II. Bibliography and Catalogues of his work., (Order No: 36926 ), $20.00
77. Dole, Nathan Haskell, TENTH ANNIVERSARY NUMBER 1911 - TENTH YEAR BOOK - THE BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY BOSTON, The Bibliophile Society, Boston, MA, 1911, B&W illustrations, 196pp, good+, velium spine, tan cloth boards (hardcover), Clean and tight copy, some light occasional foxing. Wonderful engravings of bookplates, etc., (Order No: 40644 ), $30.00
78. Dreier, Thomas, THE POWER OF PRINT - AND MEN: 1936, COMMEMORATING THE FIFTY YEARS OF LINOTYPE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PRINTING AND PUBLISHING, Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Brooklyn, NY, (1936), 165pp, very good, black cloth spine (hardcover), TOGETHER WITH THE TEXT OF A SALUTE TO THE MODERN NEWSPAPER PRODUCED AND BROADCAST BY THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY., (Order No: 25323 ), $7.50
79. Driver, Clive E. (compiled & described by), A SELECTION FROM OUR SHELVES: BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE PHILIP H. & A. S. W. ROSENBACH FOUNDATION MUSEUM, Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 1973, 210 B&W ill., unpaginated, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 32142 ), $20.00
80. Dunne, Diane M (managing editor), THE PRINTER - FALL 1989 - 125 YEARS R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY, THE LAKESIDE PRESS 1864-1989, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, IL, 1989, B&W and color illustrations, 72pp, fine, bound in padded maroon "leatherette", The company's quarterly publication, the Fall 1989 issue being devoted to the 125th Anniversary of the R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, and The Lakeside Press., (Order No: 27190 ), $25.00
81. Eames, Wilberforce, EARLY NEW ENGLAND CATECHISMS, Burt Franklin, New York, orig pub 1898, 111pp, fine, maroon cloth (hardcover), A Bibliographical Account of Some Catechisms Published Before the Year 1800, For Use in New England. Burt Franklin Bibliography and Reference Series #78., (Order No: 41594 ), $17.50
82. Ebersol, Charles E., CLIPPINGS: THE SYSTEM AND INDEX, Newspaper Clipping Co., Pub., Ottawa, IL, (1907), B&W illustrations, 142pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover), AN INEXPENSIVE, SIMPLE, UNLIMITED YET ACCURATE NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE CLIPPING SYSTEM. This is from the days before computers, when there was less information to sort through, and life was much simpler., (Order No: 39721 ), $30.00
83. Ellis, Richard, A PRIMER OF TYPES: NUMBER ONE - BEMBO - BASKERVILLE - BELL, The Haddon Craftsmen, Camden, NJ, (1936), 26pp, very good, wraps (softcover), "A Showing of Three English Monotype Book Faces, together with A Note on their History & an Analysis of the Characteristics of each Letter.", (Order No: 49987 ), $25.00
84. Ellis, Richard, A PRIMER OF TYPES - NUMBER 2 - GIAMBATTISTA BODONI 1740-1813, The Haddon Craftsmen, Camden, NJ, 1937, B&W frontis, 46pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 49988 ), $25.00
85. Emerson, O. B. and Michael, Marion C., SOUTHERN LITERARY CULTURE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MASTERS' AND DOCTORS' THESES, REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION, Univ. of Alabama Press, University, AL, (1979) rev ed, 400pp, very good+, brown cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0817395148, (Order No: 35385 ), $15.00
86. Engen, Rodney K., RANDOLPH CALDECOTT - 'LORD OF THE NURSERY', Bloomsbury Books, London, (1988), over 100 B&W and color ill., 104pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1870630459 Originally published in 1976. A comprehensive selection of Caldecott's work including a complete catalogue., (Order No: 5715 ), $7.50
87. Ernst, Morris L. and Schwartz, Alan U. (with an introduction by Philip Scharper), CENSORSHIP: THE SEARCH FOR THE OBSCENE, The Macmillan Company, New York, (1964) 1st ptg, 288pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover) card signed by author laid in, "Milestones of Law Series", (Order No: 25913 ), $5.00
88. Exman, Eugene, THE HOUSE OF HARPER: ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF PUBLISHING, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1967) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 326pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), Not only the story of a distinquished publishing house but also an account of American life and letters through one hundred and fifty years., (Order No: 37092 ), $10.00
89. Fahy, Everett (introduction by) and McTigue, Bernard (fables translated from the Greek by), THE MEDICI AESOP: SPENCER MS 50 FROM THE SPENCER COLLECTION OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Pub., New York, (1989), color illustrations, 175pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0810915421 On the pages of this enchanting volume are inscribed and portrayed a variety of fables or tales that recount incidents or conversations between animals who speak like human beings, or between either animals or people and gods, or involving just people. Each fable is intended to make a point in morality or worldliness., (Order No: 48298 ), $35.00
90. Feaver, William, WHEN WE WERE YOUNG: TWO CENTURIES OF CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATION, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, (1977), B&W and color ill., 96pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0030203015 A comprehensive, international survey from William Blake to the advent of the television era in 1950., (Order No: 35343 ), $12.50
91. Felcone, Joseph J., NEW JERSEYANA 1668-1984 - CATALOGUE 28 - PARTS I THROUGH X COMPLETE, Felcone Inc., Rare Books, Princeton, NJ, 1988, 290pp total, very good, ten parts in wraps (softcover), "Being a catalogue of 4,328 rare and out-of-print books and pamphlets, authograph letters and documents, newspapers, prints, and ephemera." Parts I-VI Books Printed after 1860; Part VII Books Printed before 1861; Part VII Manuscripts, ephemera; Part IX Supplement; and, Part X Index. Useful bibliographically, and for relative values., (Order No: 12660 ), $20.00
92. Fersin, Nicholas (translated into English by), THE FLORENTINE FIOR DI VIRTU OF 1491, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1953, B&W illustrations, 120pp, very good, wraps (softcover - Invicta Parchment), Inscribed by Lessing J. Rosenwald., (Order No: 17038 ), $20.00
93. Fifoot, Richard, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDITH, OSBERT AND SACHEVERELL SITWELL - SECOND EDITION, REVISED, Rupert Hart-Davis, London, (1971) 2nd ed, 432pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) (small nick lower edge), ISBN 0246640227 The three Sitwells, Edith (1887-1964), Osbert (1862-1969) and Sacheverell (born 1897) have for many years been among the most discussed of twentieth-century British writers., (Order No: 30097 ), $7.50
94. Foley, Martha (edited, and with an introduction and afterword by Jay Neugeboren), THE STORY OF STORY MAGAZINE: A MEMOIR, W. W. Norton & Company, London, (1980) 1st ed, 288pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), In this memoir, Martha Foley relates the magazine's struggles and achievements, from its origin in Vienna to its final destination in New York, where the magazine's offices became a haven for dejected writers such as Cornell Woolrich, Malcolm Lowry, and Nelson Algren., (Order No: 31318 ), $10.00
95. Ford, James L., THE LITERARY SHOP: AND OTHER TALES, Geo. H. Richmond & Co., New York, 1894, 298pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover) clean and tight copy, (Order No: 25557 ), $12.50
96. Ford, James L., FORTY-ODD YEARS IN THE LITERARY SHOP, E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, (1921), B&W illustrations, 362pp, good, dark blue cloth (hardcover) light corner wear, "Fully aware of all this I hasten to assure my readers that these memoirs of an inconspicuous career will not deal with my own accomplishments but with the men and women whom I have known and the paths along which I have strayed.", (Order No: 40048 ), $7.50
97. Fowler, Mary (compiled by - Curator of the Dante and Petrarch Collections), CATALOGUE OF THE PETRARCH COLLECTION BEQUEATHED BY WILLARD FISKE, Oxford University Press, London, 1916, 547pp, good, blue cloth (EX-LIB) new spine, original reapplied, New endpapers in addition to the new spine., (Order No: 30889 ), $225.00
98. Freeman, J. Stuart, TOWARD A THIRD CENTURY OF EXCELLENCE, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, (1992) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 122pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0397512988 An Informal History of the J.B. Lippincott Company on the Occasion of Its Two-Hundredth Anniversary., (Order No: 39561 ), $12.50
99. Frye, Prosser Hall, ROMANCE & TRAGEDY, Marshall Jones Company, Boston, MA, 1922 1st ed, 341pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover), Contents include: Literature and Criticism; The Terms Classic and Romantic; German Romanticism; Nietzsche; The Idea of Greek Tragedy; Racine; Shakespeare and Sophocles; and, Structure and Style., (Order No: 29874 ), $20.00
100. Fuller, Margaret; Bean, Judith Mattson and Myerson, Joel (edited by), MARGARET FULLER, CRITIC - WRITINGS FROM THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE, 1844-1846 - WITH SEARCHABLE CD, Columbia University Press, New York, (2000) 1st ptg, 491pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231111320 The first reliable and complete reprint of all of Margaret Fuller's writings from the NEW-YORK TRIBUNE, where she was the first literary editor, and one of the most influential personalities of her day., (Order No: 40933 ), $45.00
101. Gabler, James M. (with a foreword by Maynard A. Amerine), WINE INTO WORDS: A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WINE BOOKS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, Bacchus Press Ltd., Baltimore, MD, (1985) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 403pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0961352507 This volume contains information on virtually every wine book ever published in English (there are over 3,200 entries), biographical sketches of prominent wine writers and hundreds of wine facts that span thousands of years., (Order No: 48624 ), $8.50
102. Gallup, Donald C., WHAT MAD PURSUITS!: MORE MEMORIES OF A YALE LIBRARIAN, Beinecke Rare Book Library, New Haven, CT, (1998), B&W illustrations, 316pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0845731327 In this second instalment of his memories, Yale librarian Donald Gallup explains how his Lear collection was formed, gradually in England in the early 1940s. Here, too, are accounts of other collections he has given or is in the process of turning over to Yale: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and the British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell., (Order No: 34812 ), $25.00
103. Gassett, Henry, CATALOGUE OF BOOKS ON THE MASONIC INSTITUTION, IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES OF TWENTY-EIGHT STATES OF THE UNION ..., Damrell & Moore, Boston, MA, 1852, 270pp, very good, rebacked new cloth spine (hardcover) author inscribed, "... ANTIMASONIC IN ARGUMENTS AND CONCLUSIONS. BY DISTINGUISHED LITERARY GENTLEMEN, CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES. WITH INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, AND A COMPILATION OF RECORDS AND REMARKS, BY A MEMBER OF THE SUFFOLK COMMITEE OF 1829." Exceptionally nice clean and tight copy. We have had this copy rebacked with a new cloth spine retaining the original boards and endpapers. There is only light wear to the corners. Inscribed by the author., (Order No: 41853 ), $250.00
104. Gettmann, Royal A., A VICTORIAN PUBLISHER: A STUDY OF THE BENTLEY PAPERS, Cambridge University Press, London, 1960, B&W illustrations, 272pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This is a study of the rise and activity of the London publishing house which started in 1829 as Bentley and Colburn and was finally absorbed by Macmillan in 1898., (Order No: 34161 ), $45.00
105. Gilbar, Steven, THE BOOK BOOK: A COMPENDIUM OF LISTS, QUIZZES, & TRIVIA ABOUT BOOKS, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1981) 1st ed, 229pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312088035, (Order No: 7539 ), $5.00
106. Gillis, Ruth Jeannette, INDIANA BOOKS BY INDIANA AUTHORS: A GUIDE TO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1990), B&W frontis, 122pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0253325838 A comprehensive annotated bibliography of writing for children and young adults on Hoosier subjects written by Indiana authors., (Order No: 13684 ), $10.00
107. Glenn, Lois, CHARLES W. S. WILLIAMS: A CHECKLIST - THE SERIF SERIES: NUMBER 33, Kent State University Press, (1975), 128pp, very good+, blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0873381793 A complete and correct bibliography of Williams' published works., (Order No: 13326 ), $8.50
108. Goldman, Paul, VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS 1850-1870: THE HEYDAY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING - THE ROBIN DE BEAUMONT COLLECTION, David R. Godine Publishers, Boston, MA, (1994) 1st Amer, B&W and color illustrations, 144pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review letter laid in, ISBN 1567920144 Containing a checklist of all 366 books and one hundred illustrations, drawings, and preliminary sketches, this book presents a fully illustrated commentary on a collection of books that is outstanding for both its condition and the range of materials it holds., (Order No: 50476 ), $20.00
109. Goulart, Ron, OVER 50 YEARS OF AMERICAN COMIC BOOKS, Mallard Press, Lincolnwood, IL, (1991), color illustrations, 320pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0792454502 The complete story of this vibrant, uniquely American art form in lively text and hundreds of vivid, full-color pictures., (Order No: 42880 ), $14.50
110. Grimshaw, Anne, THE HORSE - A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRITISH BOOKS 1851- 1976, The Library Association, London, (1982) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 474pp, fine, red cloth (hardcover) signed and numbered by the author, ISBN 0853655332 "With a narrative commentary on the role of the horse in British social history, as revealed by the contemporary literature.", (Order No: 47214 ), $75.00
111. Groesbeck, Harry A., THE PROCESS AND PRACTICE OF PHOTO-ENGRAVING, Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NY, 1924 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 260pp, good, blue cloth, (hardcover) light edgewear, "The purpose of this book is to enable the buyer to know all of the conditions under which photo-engravings of various types are produced.", (Order No: 28018 ), $20.00
112. Groesbeck, Harry A., A PRIMER OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING, Colton Press, Inc. Pub., New York, (1950), 174pp, very good, wraps (softcover), "Including Composition, Electrotyping, Paper, Presses and Ink.", (Order No: 39573 ), $10.00
113. Grove, Lee Edmonds, OF BROOKS & BOOKS, Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, (1945), B&W illustrations, 85pp, good w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover), The story of Edmund D. Brooks, whose career as Minnesota's greatest bookseller forms a fascinating and little-known chapter of the state's cultural history. Limited to 1500 numbered copies., (Order No: 25439 ), $7.50
114. Hackett, Alice Payne, FIFTY YEARS OF BEST SELLERS, 1895-1945, R. R. Bowker Co., New York, 1945 2nd ptg, 140pp, good, maroon cloth (hardcover), inscribed by the author, "Perhaps students of literary history will try to chart the evolution of public taste from these records and writers of tomorrow's best sellers find, in these titles of the past, some clue to the perennial elements of popular appeal.", (Order No: 30258 ), $5.00
115. Halter, Ernest J. (foreword by Samuel I. Rosenman), COLLECTING FIRST EDITIONS OF FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT: CONTRIBUTIONS TO AN FDR BIBLIOGRAPHY, Privately Printed by Author, Chicago, IL, (1949), 194pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), Subscribers' Advance Edition - limited to 77 copies of which 75 were for subscribers and 2 copies for copyright., (Order No: 37382 ), $150.00
116. Hand, Richard A., A BOOKMAN'S GUIDE TO HUNTING, SHOOTING, ANGLING, AND RELATED SUBJECTS, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1991, 1176pp, fine, brown cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 0810823330 A Compilation of Over 13,450 Catalogue Entries with Prices, and Annotations, both Bibliographical and Descriptive., (Order No: 49865 ), $125.00
117. Hand, Richard A., A BOOKMAN'S GUIDE TO THE INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1989, 750pp, fine, brown cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 0810821826 A Compilation of Over 10,000 Catalogue Entries with Prices and Annotations, Both Bibliographical and Descriptive., (Order No: 49866 ), $45.00
118. Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey (a bibliography and eighty-first birthday tribute compiled by), JOHN MASEFIELD, O.M.: THE QUEEN'S POET LAUREATE, The Cranbrook Tower Press, London, (1960), B&W illustrations, 96pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A poet of vivid life, in men and animals; of the earth and of the sea; and of spirit-powers., (Order No: 38213 ), $15.00
119. Harrah, Barbara K., SPORTS BOOKS FOR CHILDREN: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1978, 526pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB with Usual Markings, ISBN 0810811545, (Order No: 49366 ), $10.00
120. Harrison, James L. (Public Printer), 100 GPO YEARS, 1861-1961: A HISTORY OF UNITED STATES PUBLIC PRINTING, U.S. Government Printing Off, Washington, D.C., (1961), B&W illustrations, 164pp, good+, wraps (softcover), "The history of U.S. public printing and the Government Printing Office has been prepared under my direction and that of former Public Printer Raymond Blattenberger in connection with the celebration of the Office's centennial.", (Order No: 27892 ), $15.00
121. Hay, Ian, "THE LIBERRY", Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1924, frontis by Kleber Hall, 78pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 34772 ), $40.00
122. Hazen, A. T., A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HORACE WALPOLE, Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1973, 189pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0064927601 First published in 1948. A. T. Hazen, stated, "It is impossible to think of a bibliography of the writings of Horace Walpole apart from the works of his private press at Strawberry hill, since so many of his own books were printed there, or, to reverse the point of view, since so many of the books printed at the Press were written or edited by Walpole.", (Order No: 30095 ), $15.00
123. Hazlitt, W. Carew, GLEANINGS IN OLD GARDEN LITERATURE - THE BOOK LOVER'S LIBRARY, Elliot Stock, London, [1887], 263pp, good+, olive green cloth (hardcover), A great deal of information about gardening books, including a "Bibliography of Gardening Literature (1603-1800), and of Herbals and Bee Culture., (Order No: 33917 ), $45.00
124. Heard, J. Norman; Hoover, Jimmie H.; and, Hamsa, Charles F., BOOKMAN'S GUIDE TO AMERICANA - 7TH EDITION, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1977, 403pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) (EX-LIB - no external marks), ISBN 0810810077 8559, alphabetically listed and priced items of Americana., (Order No: 15287 ), $5.00
125. Heard, J. Norman, BOOKMAN'S GUIDE TO AMERICANA - PART II - LITERATURE, The Scarecrow Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1956, 254pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 48210 ), $5.00
126. Heller, Jules, PAPER-MAKING, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, (1997), B&W and color ill., 216pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), HOW TO MAKE HANDMADE PAPER FOR PRINTMAKING, DRAWING, PAINTING, RELIEF AND CAST FORMS, BOOK ARTS, AND MIXED MEDIA., (Order No: 30604 ), $12.50
127. Hergesheimer, Joseph, HUGH WALPOLE - AN APPRECIATION - TOGETHER WITH NOTES AND COMMENTS ON THE NOVELS OF HUGH WALPOLE, George H. Doran Company, New York, (1919), B&W frontis, 65pp, good+, tan boards (hardcover), (Order No: 41492 ), $7.50
128. Hessel, Alfred (translated, with supplementary material, by Reuben Peiss), A HISTORY OF LIBRARIES, The Scarecrow Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1955, 198pp, good, green cloth (hardcover) small bump bottom edge, (Order No: 50018 ), $7.50
129. Heuterman, Thomas H., MOVABLE TYPE: BIOGRAPHY OF LEGH R. FREEMAN, The Iowa State Univ. Press, Ames, IA, (1979) 1st ed, B&W ill., 172pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813808901 This volume is more than just an account of Freeman's experience--the author also gives us a critical evaluation of existing literature on frontier journalism and examines frontier humor and "tall-tales" in journalism as a part of American literary culture., (Order No: 35368 ), $10.00
130. Hofer, Philip (introduction by), THE ARTIST & THE BOOK: 1860-1960 IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, (1961), B&W and color illustrations, 232pp, very good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This exhibition (held May 4 - July 16, 1961 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) shows what major artists of Western Europe and the United States have contributed in book form during the last hundred years., (Order No: 49633 ), $50.00
131. Holley, Edward G., CHARLES EVANS: AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHER, Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, 1963, B&W illustrations, 343pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), Here is one of the first comprehensive biographies of an American librarian and bibliographer., (Order No: 44390 ), $7.50
132. Holley, Edward G., RAKING THE HISTORIC COALS - THE A.L.A. SCRAPBOOK OF 1876, Beta Phi Mu, n.p., 1967, 142pp, very good++, blue cloth spine (hardcover), This is the eighth in a series of chapbooks published by Beta Phi Mu, national library science honorary fraternity, as a contribution to the art of book design and the literature of books and libraries., (Order No: 48216 ), $3.50
133. Horne, Alan and Landon, Richard, THE TELLING LINE - IMAGE AND TEXT IN TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, (1994), B&W and color illustrations, 84pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0772760128 Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, April 18 - June 30, 1994. Exhibit attempted to display and explicate the relationship between images and texts in twentieth century British books., (Order No: 51857 ), $25.00
134. Howell, Warren R., EARLY NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS OF CALIFORNIA AND THE WEST - CATALOGUE 39, John Howell Books, San Francisco, CA, 1970, B&W illustrations, 115pp, good, wraps (softcover), "...Including the only known copy of the first volume of the CALIFORNIAN the state's first newspaper, and more than a century's run of the PLACER HERALD.", (Order No: 44163 ), $10.00
135. Hutton, Laurence, LITERARY LANDMARKS OF JERUSALEM, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1895, B&W illustrations, 74pp, ads, very good+, green cloth (hardocver) inscribed by the author, "The Literary Landmarks of Jerusalem are among the most important, the most interesting, and the most sacred in the whole history of the literature of the world." Illustrations are the work of Mr. Frank V. Du Mond, who went to Jerusalem in the spring of 1894 for the especial purpose of making them., (Order No: 30423 ), $35.00
136. Jackson, C. E., BIRD ILLUSTRATORS: SOME ARTISTS IN EARLY LITHOGRAPHY, H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, London, (1975), Color illustrations, 133pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0854931031 Some magnificently illustrated bird books were published in the Victorian era, in response to the demand for accurate coloured pictures of our own native birds and the new, often exotic, species which at that time were being discovered in all parts of the world. How these books came to be written, and the story of the authors, artists and craftsmen who produced them, is the subject of this book., (Order No: 42088 ), $100.00
137. Jackson, Holbrook, THE READING OF BOOKS, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1947 1st ed, 292pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Holbrook believes, "To get his full measure of enjoyment from a book, the reader must understand the intellectual and emotional motivations of both the author and himself.", (Order No: 25148 ), $7.00
138. Jackson, Holbrook (compiled by), BOOKMAN'S PLEASURE: A RECREATION FOR BOOKLOVERS, Farrar, Straus and Company, New York, 1947 1st Amer, 264pp, good, green cloth w/faint staining (hardcover), This anthology shows what writers of books think of their predecessors, their contemporaries, and themselves., (Order No: 30254 ), $6.00
139. Jefferys, Charles W., A CATALOGUE OF THE SIGMUND SAMUEL COLLECTION: CANADIANA AND AMERICANA, The Ryerson Press, Toronto, Canada, (1948), B&W ill., color frontis, 180pp, very good, black cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 37917 ), $20.00
140. Joline, Adrian Hoffman, EDGEHILL ESSAYS, The Gorham Press, Boston, MA, 1911, 226pp, very good, black paper covered boards (hardcover) dj laid in, Contents include: About the Bookshelves; The Quest of the Autograph; Reflections of an Autograph Lover; A Certain Affectation of the Great; A Georgian Poet; A Famous Reviewer; Manners Makyth Man; and The War on the Colleges., (Order No: 32934 ), $22.50
141. King, Dorothy, CHECK LIST OF THE INCUNABULA IN THE WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON LIBRARY, Friends of Smith College Lib, Northampton, MA, 1975, B&W illustrations, unpaginated, very good+, wraps (softcover), The fifty-five books presented here are from Germany, Italy, France, and Holland, with a preponderance of Italian imprints., (Order No: 46444 ), $12.50
142. Kingman, Lee (edited by), NEWBERY AND CALDECOTT MEDAL BOOKS: 1956-1965, The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston, MA, 1965, B&W illustrations, 300pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "with Acceptance Papers, Biographies & Related Material chiefly from the HORN BOOK MAGAZINE.", (Order No: 49794 ), $14.50
143. Klinefelter, Walter; Heckman, Marlin L.; Braun, Fritz; and, Weiser, Frederick S., PUBLICATIONS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN SOCIETY, VOLUME VII, The Pennsylvania German Soc., Breinigsville, PA, 1973, B&W ill., 299pp, fine, decorated tan cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, Contents include: The ABC Books of the Pennsylvania Germans; Abraham Harley Cassel, Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania German American Book Collector; and, Marriages performed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity, Lancaster, 1748-1767., (Order No: 34881 ), $45.00
144. Korey, Marie Elena, THE WOLF YEARS - THE RENASCENCE OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA 1952-1984, Library Company of Phil., Philadelphia, PA, 1984, B&W illustrations, 30pp, fine, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 44162 ), $6.00
145. Kubler, George A., HISTORICAL TREATISES ABSTRACTS & PAPERS ON STEREOTYPING, C. D. M. C., New York, 1936, B&W illustrations, 169pp, good+, gray spine (hardcover) inscribed by the author, Contents include: Armand Gaston Camus; Baron Willem Hendrik Jacob van Westreenen van Tiellandt; Louis-Etienne Herhan; M. Darcet; Marquis Jean Philippe de Paroy; William Ged; Lieutenant-Governor Dr. C. D. Colden., (Order No: 49162 ), $9.50
146. Lambeck, Frederick, PARTY: A LITERARY NIGHTMARE, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., New York, 1936, 60pp, good+, red paper covered boards (hardcover), Prepared for the New York Times National Book Fair, Rockefeller Center, November, 1936., (Order No: 32160 ), $10.00
147. Langfeld, William R. (brought together from various sources by), THE POEMS OF WASHINGTON IRVING, The New York Public Library, New York, 1931, 19pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 26956 ), $25.00
148. Langfeld, William R. (compiled by) (with the Bibliographic Assistance of Philip C. Blackburn), WASHINGTON IRVING: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, The New York Public Library, New York, 1933 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 90pp, very good+, black cloth (hardcover), Chronological list of works and much more., (Order No: 51418 ), $20.00
149. Larned, J. N., A TALK ABOUT BOOKS, The Peter Paul Book Co., Buffalo, NY, (1897), 36pp, good+, green cloth spine (hardcover), Addressed originally to the students of the Central High School, Buffalo., (Order No: 42144 ), $20.00
150. Lawrence, Richard Hoe (compiled under the direction of); assisted by: Colt, Harris D., and Stokes, I. N. Phelps, HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY OF ICONPHILES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK MDCCXCV - MCMXXX 1895-1930, Published by the Society, New York, 1930, B&W ill., color frontis, 290pp, very good, 1/2 leather, teg (hardcover) light wear to spine, "AND CATALOGUE OF ITS PUBLICATIONS WITH HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, ETC." One of 186 copies. Extensive list of engravings and books issued by the society, and lists of books and engravings presented to the sociey along with biographical notes of the artists who have engraved plates for the society. Included with this copy are remnants of the original dustjacket and slipcase. Light wear/cracks to the leather spine., (Order No: 51740 ), $185.00
151. Leary, Lewis, THE BOOK-PEDDLING PARSON, Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC, 1984, B&W illustrations, 158pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0912697091 "An account of the life and works of Mason Locke Weems, patriot, pitchman, author and purveyor of morality to the citizenry of the early United States of America.", (Order No: 36911 ), $10.00
152. Leavitt, Robert Keith, NOAH'S ARK, NEW ENGLAND YANKEES, AND THE ENDLESS QUEST, G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield, MA, 1947, B&W illustrations, 108pp, very good, brown cloth (hardcover), A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL WEBSTER DICTIONARIES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THEIR FIRST HUNDRED YEARS AS PUBLICATIONS OF G.&C. MERRIAM COMPANY., (Order No: 38853 ), $10.00
153. Lilly, Teri Ann; Pitt-Catsouphes, Marcie; and, Googins, Bradley K. (compiled by), WORK-FAMILY RESEARCH: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, (1997) 1st ptg, 315pp, very good+, gray cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0313303223 A collection of 934 entries providing bibliographic information and annotations for selected articles, books, chapters in books, reports and papers that present information about work and family research., (Order No: 38012 ), $40.00
154. Livingston, Flora V. (wonderful association set - see note), BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING AND SUPPLEMENT TO BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING - TWO VOLUME SET, very good, brown cloth (hardcover), Two Volume Set includes: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING, Edgar H. Wells and Company, New York, 1927, 523pp; and SUPPLEMENT TO BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING (1927), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1938, 333pp. This set is warmly inscribed in the first volume by Marston E. Drake (one of the founders of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America - ABAA) to Edward Lazare, the former editor of American Book Prices Current - ABPC. In his inscription, dated March 20, 1950, Drake praises Flora Livingston and her husband. The supplemental volume also is inscribed from Drake to Lazare. A truly unique set., (Order No: 30712 ), $150.00
155. Lorimer, George C. (with an introduction by William M. Lawrence), WHAT I KNOW ABOUT BOOKS AND HOW TO USE THEM, James H. Earle, Publisher, Boston, MA, 1892, 110pp, good, soiled white cloth (hardcover), Interesting period treatise., (Order No: 30257 ), $10.00
156. Lothrop, Margaret M., THE WAYSIDE: HOME OF AUTHORS, American Book Company, New York, (1940) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 202pp, good, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) signed by author, (Order No: 40937 ), $10.00
157. Lowman, Al (compiled by) (with an essay by William R. Holman), PRINTER AT THE PASS: THE WORK OF CARL HERTZOG, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, 1972, B&W illustrations, 123pp, good, black cloth spine (hardcover) EX-LIB with usual markings, Biography, bibliography, and catalog of the works by and about Carl Hertzog, Printer., (Order No: 28829 ), $30.00
158. Macdonald, Augustin S., LITTLE LITERARY LIGHTS: PERSONAL PREFERENCES IN ART, LITERATURE, FLOWERS, MUSIC, John J. Newbegin, San Francisco, CA, 1915, 59pp, good, black cloth spine, paper covered boards (hardcover), Essays on: art, poetry, etchers and etchings, books, music, novels, and the author's garden., (Order No: 32127 ), $15.00
159. Madison, Charles A., IRVING TO IRVING: AUTHOR-PUBLISHER RELATIONS 1800-1974, R. R. Bowker Company, New York, 1974, 279pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0835207722 The author delves deeply into relationships between publishers and their fabled clients., (Order No: 25915 ), $5.00
160. Maggs Bros., ENGLISH LITERATURE & PRINTING FROM THE 15TH TO THE 18TH CENTURY PART I AND PART II - TWO VOLUME SET, Maggs Bros., London, 1928, very good, original wraps recased in cloth bindings (hardcover), Part I (A-L), Catalogue 503, and Part II (M-Z), Catalogue 505. Both parts have been bound in brown cloth, but unfortunately the bindings are not the same. A useful reference, and well preserved in these cloth bindings., (Order No: 15789 ), $45.00
161. Mallon, Thomas, STOLEN WORDS: FORAYS INTO THE ORIGINS AND RAVAGES OF PLAGIARISM, Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1989 1st ptg, 300pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0899193935 The reader accompanies Mallon as he reveals some outrageous deeds and personalities and sheds light on the way we deal--and fail to deal--with written robbery., (Order No: 45286 ), $6.00
162. Mandeville, Mildred S., THE USED BOOK PRICE GUIDE - 1977 SUPPLEMENT TO THE 5 YEAR EDITION, Price Guide Publishers, Kenmore, WA, 1977, 479pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), ISBN 09111827617 Although now dated, still useful for bibligraphic and relative valuations., (Order No: 8545 ), $10.00
163. Marrot, H. V., A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF JOHN GALSWORTHY, Burt Franklin, New York, (1968), 252pp, very good+, gray cloth (hardcover), Originally published in 1928. "Burt Franklin: Bibliography and Reference Series #184.", (Order No: 30007 ), $10.00
164. Maser, Mary Louise Jarden and Maser, Frederick E. (essays by) (foreword by James Tanis), CHRISTINA ROSSETTI IN THE MASER COLLECTION - INCLUDING A GROUP OF CHRISTINA'S LETTERS, Bryn Mawr College Library, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1991, B&W illustrations, 123pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 30005 ), $35.00
165. Mattila, Robert W. (with an introductory essay by Evelyn Stefansson Nef), A CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLISHED WORKS OF VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON, (1879-1962), Dartmouth College Libraries, Hanover, NH, (1978), B&W frontis, 66pp, very good, wraps (softcover), Comprising Books, Articles, Reviews, and Introductions to other Works with an Alphabetical Index., (Order No: 35206 ), $30.00
166. McGarry, Daniel D. and White, Sarah Harriman, HISTORICAL FICTION GUIDE: AN ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL AND TOPICAL LIST OF SELECTED HISTORICAL NOVELS, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., New York, 1963 1st ed, 628pp, good, green cloth (hardcover), "Five Thousand Selected Historical Novels.", (Order No: 35369 ), $17.50
167. McMurtrie, Douglas C., THE GOLDEN BOOK: THE STORY OF FINE BOOKS AND BOOKMAKING - PAST & PRESENT, Pascal Covici, Publisher, Chicago, IL, 1927 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 406pp, good+, decorated blue cloth, teg (hardcover), This edition limited to 2,000 copies. Inscribed by Edwin E. Willoughby, author of "A Printer of Shakespeare.", (Order No: 37256 ), $45.00
168. Meisel, Max, BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY - THE PIONEER CENTURY 1769-1865 -- THREE VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Maurizio Martino Publisher, Mansfield Centre, CT, 1994, fine, red cloth (hardcover) still in original shrinkwrap, ISBN 1578980291 Quality reprint of the 1924-1928 edition. Thousands of detailed annotated bibliographic entries of all publications relating to American natural history published through 1924 on the Pioner Century. Limited to 100 sets: Volume I, 244pp; Volume II, 741pp; and, Volume III, 749pp., (Order No: 51143 ), $150.00
169. Melcher, Frederic G.; Goodspeed, Charles E.; Chambers, D. Laurance; Hansen, Harry; Gage, Harry L.; (et al), FREDERIC G. MELCHER: FRIENDLY REMINISCENCES OF A HALF CENTURY AMONG BOOKS & BOOKMEN, The Book Publishers' Bureau, New York, 1945, B&W illustrations, 59pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), A tribute to Frederic G. Melcher. The American Institute of Graphic Arts - Keepsake No. 77., (Order No: 27351 ), $12.50
170. Michel, Pierre, JAMES GOULD COZZENS: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST, Kent State University Press, Kent,OH, (1971), 123pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 087338122X, (Order No: 49365 ), $8.50
171. Miller, Bertha Mahony; and, Field, Elinor Whitney (edited by), CALDECOTT MEDAL BOOKS: 1938-1957, The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston, MA, 1957, B&W illustrations, 329pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "with the Artist's Acceptance Papers & Related Material chiefly from the HORN BOOK MAGAZINE - Horn Book Papers, Volume II.", (Order No: 49793 ), $10.00
172. Miller, Genevieve (edited by), A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF HENRY E. SIGERIST, McGill University Press, Montreal, 1966, B&W frontis, 113pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The bibliography contains 520 items and is a complete list of Sigerist's numerous published works., (Order No: 33642 ), $25.00
173. Molinaro, Julius A. (compiled by), A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN VERSE COLLECTIONS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARY, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, (1969), B&W ill., 126pp, very good, decorated orange cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0802016324, (Order No: 35388 ), $20.00
174. Moore, Isabel, TALKS IN A LIBRARY WITH LAURENCE HUTTON, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1905, B&W ill., 458pp, ads, good+, gray cloth (hardcover), Almost everything in Mr. Hutton's library was associated with some notable person or interesting event. Mrs. Moore describes this rare collection in a bright entertaining way and brings up many pleasant memories of this genial and cultivated owner., (Order No: 32231 ), $12.50
175. Morley, Christopher, THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP, Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1919 (1919), 289pp, good+, light brown cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, A nice clean and tight copy of this bookselling classic., (Order No: 50794 ), $7.50
176. Nakamura, Joyce (editor), SOMETHING ABOUT THE AUTHOR: AUTOBIOGRAPHY SERIES - VOLUME 18, Gale Research, Inc., Detroit, MI, (1994) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 398pp, very good++, decorated red cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0810344661 Autobiographies include: George Ancona; Rachel Anderson; Paul Biegel; Carol Carrick; Alden R. Carter; Janina Domanska; Mary Ann Hoberman; Johanna Hurwitz; Paul B. Janeczko; Barbara Ker Wilson; R. R. Knudson; Elizabeth Levy; Christobel Mattingly; Lorus J. and Margery Milne; Shirley Rousseau Murphy; Amy Schwartz; and, Zoa Sherburne., (Order No: 36200 ), $25.00
177. Naval Education and Training Program Development Center - Naval Education and Training Command, LITHOGRAPHER 3 & 2 - NAVEDTRA 10452-D, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981, B&W illustrations, 557pp, tests, fine, wraps (softcover), This Rate Training Manual and Nonresident Career Course (RTM/NRCC) form a self-study package that will enable ambitious Third Class and Second Class Lithographers to help themselves fulfill the requirements of their rating., (Order No: 50067 ), $12.50
178. Naval Education and Training Program Development Center - Naval Education and Training Command; prepared by LICS David A. Murray, LITHOGRAPHER 1 & C - NAVEDTRA 10454-C, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980, B&W illustrations, fine, wraps (softcover), This Rate Training Manual and Nonresident Career Course (RTM/NRCC) is a self-study package providing the subject matter relating to the occupational standards of Litographers, First Clas and Chief Petty Officer., (Order No: 50068 ), $12.50
179. Nevill, Ralph, OLD ENGLISH SPORTING BOOKS, The Studio Limited, London, 1924, 107 plates (24 are colored), 34pp of text, good++, teg, orange cloth (hardcover) spine lightly sunned, Limited to 1500 copies., (Order No: 10195 ), $85.00
180. Nevins, Allan, THE PRICE OF SURVIVAL, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1967) 1st ed, 31pp, very good+, blue cloth spine (hardcover) (no dj as published), Nevins address at the opening of an exhibition, "The House of Harper, 150 Years of Publishing in America, " at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York on May 25, 1967., (Order No: 34412 ), $10.00
181. Newton, A. Edward, A MAGNIFICENT FARCE; AND OTHER DIVERSIONS OF A BOOK-COLLECTOR, The Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, (1921) 4th ptg, B&W illustrations, 267pp, very good, teg (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 20145 ), $7.50
182. O'Connor, Evangeline M., AN INDEX TO THE WORKS OF SHAKSPERE (SHAKESPEARE), Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London, 1887, 420pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), GIVING REFERENCES, BY TOPICS, TO NOTABLE PASSAGES AND SIGNIFICANT EXPRESSIONS; BRIEF HISTORIES OF THE PLAYS; GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES, AND HISTORICAL INCIDENTS; MENTION OF ALL CHARACTERS, AND SKETCHES OF IMPORTANT ONES; TOGETHER WITH EXPLANATION OF ALLUSIONS AND OBSCURE AND OBSOLETE WORDS AND PHRASES., (Order No: 29878 ), $17.50
183. O'Neill, Patrick, GUNTER GRASS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1955-1975, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, (1976), 108pp, fine, green cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0802053629, (Order No: 35347 ), $12.50
184. Orcutt, William Dana, THE KINGDOM OF BOOKS, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1927 1st trade, B&W ill, color frontis, 290pp, good+, teg (hardcover) (no dustjacket), Table of Contents from this classic is: Prime Ministers to the Book; Modern Masters of Typography; Books "Al Fresco"; Books in the Cradle; The Book in Full Dress: The Clothing of Books; and, A Personality and a Shrine., (Order No: 17091 ), $10.00
185. Orcutt, William Dana, IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK: REMINISCENCES & REFLECTIONS OF A BOOKMAN, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1926 1st trade, B&W illustrations, 316pp, very good, decoracted brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), AN EXCEPTIONALLY NICE COPY !!!, (Order No: 18562 ), $10.00
186. Osley, A. S. (texts from the Writing-Masters selected, introduced and translated by), SCRIBES AND SOURCES: HANDBOOK OF THE CHANCERY HAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, David R. Godine Publisher, Boston, MA, (1980), B&W illustrations, 291pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0879232978 With an account of John de Beauchesne by Berthold Wolpe. After two dialogues on handwriting as seen through the eyes of the educationalists, Erasmus and Vives, the book is then devoted entirely to the writing-masters themselves and the way they taught the italic hand., (Order No: 23367 ), $22.50
187. Painter, George D., WILLIAM CAXTON: A BIOGRAPHY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1977) 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 227pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0399118888 Every known Caxton document and edition is described and discussed; the many established and unsuspected errors of fact or interpretation are rectified for the first time; and all aspects of Caxton's career are illuminated by fresh evidence and enriched by new conclusions., (Order No: 32953 ), $14.50
188. Paltsits, Victor Hugo, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SEPARATE AND COLLECTED WORKS OF PHILIP FRENEAU; TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS NEWSPAPERS, Burt Franklin, New York, (1968), B&W illustrations, 96pp, fine, teal colored cloth (hardcover), Originally published in 1903. Burt Franklin: Bibliography and Reference Series #185., (Order No: 31469 ), $17.50
189. Parker, Peter (editor) and Kermode, Frank (consultant editor), A READER'S GUIDE TO THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY NOVEL, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995, 748pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195211537 A unique and invaluable guide to modern fiction., (Order No: 49642 ), $10.00
190. Patten, Gilbert, FRANK MERRIWELL'S "FATHER": AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY GILBERT PATTEN ("BURT L. STANDISH"), University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, (1964), B&W illustrations, 331pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Autobiography of Burt L. Standish, the author of the Frank and Dick Merriwell stories of the late 1800s., (Order No: 3656 ), $10.00
191. Pearl, M. L. (foreword by G. D. H. Cole), WILLIAM COBBETT: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE AND TIMES, Oxford University Press, London, 1953, 266pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), review slip, The occasion of this book was the acquisition by Nuffield College of the very full collection of Cobbett's writings amassed by Professor G. D. H. Cole. It is a combination of bibliography and biography, built around a fuller and more complete account of Cobbett's voluminous writings, in both England and American, than has yet been given., (Order No: 30102 ), $85.00
192. Perman, Dagmar Horna (edited by), BIBLIOGRAPHY AND THE HISTORIAN, Clio Press, Santa Barbara, CA, (1968), B&W figures, 176pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The Conference at Belmont of the Joint Committee on Bibliographical Services to History, May 1967. In this volume, historians, bibliographers, librarians and information scientists have joined to analyze the problem that bibliographical tools are no longer adequate., (Order No: 39879 ), $10.00
193. Pitz, Henry C., A TREASURY OF AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATION, American Studio Books, New York, (1947), B&W and color illustrations, 128pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Accumulates the greatest talents in the field and reproduces an important cross section of published and unpublished work in America., (Order No: 36915 ), $35.00
194. Prideaux, Colonel W. F., NOTES FOR A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD FITZGERALD, Frank Hollings, London, 1901, B&W frontis, 88pp, good, brown cloth w/some edgewear (hardcover), These Bibliographical Notes, which, in their original form, were published in NOTES AND QUERIES during the spring of 1900, were compiled, partly from a wish to present in a compendious form a list of FitzGerald's works, accompanied by such information as was available regarding the circumstances under which they were respectively written, and partly in the hope that they might form a stepping-stone to a more general acquaintance with the writings in question., (Order No: 34793 ), $35.00
195. Purdy, Sean (with a biographical sketch of Robert S. Kenny by Tom Reid), RADICALS AND REVOLUTIONARIES: THE HISTORY OF CANADIAN COMMUNISM FROM THE ROBERT S. KENNY COLLECTION, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, (1998), B&W and color illustrations, 68pp, very good+, wraps (softcover) few ink notes on half-title page, ISBN 0772760268 An Exhibition Held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, April 27, 1998 - July 10, 1998." RADICALS AND REVOLUTIONARIES explores a significant yet neglected area in Canadian history - the experiences of the radical workers' movement and the Communist Party of Canada. Labour historian Sean Purdy curated the exhibition, selecting items from the Robert S. Kenny collection. This collection contains extensive holdings of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and other printed ephemera, including buttons, ribbons, and posters, as well as non-print itmes such as photographs and manuscript material. The collection was donated to the Thomas Fisher Library by CPC member and avid collector, Robert S. Kenny (1905-1993)., (Order No: 31300 ), $20.00
196. Putnam, Geo. Haven, BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES: VOLUME II. 1500-1709 -- ONLY VOLUME II, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1897 1st ed, 538pp, good, maroon cloth, teg (hardcover), A STUDY OF THE CONDITIONS OF THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF LITERATURE FROM THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, Volume II - Only !!!, (Order No: 25893 ), $25.00
197. Queen, Ellery, THE DETECTIVE STORY - A BIBLIOGRAPHY, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1942 1st ed, 146pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), "A detective story is a tale of ratiocination, complete with crime and/or mystery, suspects, investigation, clues, deduction, and solution; in its purest form, the chief character should be a detective, amateur or profesional, who devotes most of his (or her) time to the problems of detection.", (Order No: 48398 ), $100.00
198. Quinby, Henry Cole, RICHARD HARDING DAVIS - A BIBLIOGRAPHY, E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, (1924), B&W illustrations, 294pp, very good, green cloth, teg (hardcover) small stain foreedge, "Being a record of his literary life, of his achievements as a correspondent in six years, and his efforts in behalf of the Allies in the Great War.", (Order No: 46484 ), $30.00
199. Quinn, Arthur Hobson, AMERICAN FICTION - AN HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL SURVEY, D. Appleton-Century Company, New York, (1936) 1st ed, 805pp, good, maroon cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 48189 ), $7.00
200. Rabinowicz, Harry M., THE JEWISH LITERARY TREASURES OF ENGLAND AND AMERICA, Thomas Yoseloff, New York, (1962), B&W ill., 166pp, good w/lightly edgeworn dustjacket (hardcover), Detailing the history and development of seventeen famous libraries in England and the United States, Dr. Rabinowicz gives fascinating, concise, and accurate information on the priceless Hebrew literary treasures they contain., (Order No: 35019 ), $12.00
201. Revenga, Luis (editor), TESOROS DE ESPANA: TEN CENTURIES OF SPANISH BOOKS, The New York Public Library, New York, (1985), B&W and color ill., 440pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 8439849605 The New York Public Library hosted Tesoros de Espana, October 12 - December 30, 1985, drawn from the major repositories in Spain. This exhibition is an homage to books, to the book itself, and to the book as an object., (Order No: 26983 ), $12.50
202. Reynolds, Paul R., THE MIDDLE MAN: THE ADVENTURES OF A LITERARY AGENT, William Morrow & Company, New York, 1972, 223pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Paul R. Reynolds has been a literary agent since 1927, and since 1968 he has served as president of the Society of Authors' Representatives., (Order No: 33814 ), $8.50
203. Richardson, Charles F., THE CHOICE OF BOOKS, E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, n.d. c1910, 208pp, very good, vellum spine, green cloth boards (hardcover), All about how to develop the habit of reading., (Order No: 46817 ), $10.00
204. Ringwalt, J. Luther (edited by), AMERICAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PRINTING, Menamin & Ringwalt, Philadelphia, 1871', B&W ill, color litho frontis, 512pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover) light edgewear, An exceptionally nice clean and tight copy of this classic book on early printing in the United States., (Order No: 49383 ), $400.00
205. Rink, Evald, PRINTING IN DELAWARE: 1761-1800, Eleutherian Mills Hist. Soc., Wilmington, DE, 1969, 214pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), The most complete list of 18th century Delaware publications yet compiled., (Order No: 13663 ), $7.50
206. Rock, James A. (compiled by), WHO GOES THERE: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF PSEUDONYMOUS LITERATURE IN THE FIELDS OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, James A. Rock & Co., Bloomington, IN, 1979, B&W ill., 202pp, good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0918736056 Being a guide to the works of authors who have contributed to the literature of fantasy and science fiction, and who have published some or all of their work pseudonymously., (Order No: 33371 ), $17.50
207. Romer, Frank, 100 YEARS OF BOOKS, 1842-1942, The Davey Company, Jersey City, NJ, (1942), B&W illustrations, 72pp, ill., very good, blue cloth spine, paper covered boards (hardcover), A tribute in print to the graphic arts in America, portraying the pageantry of its progress for the past century, done into a book about books to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of The Davey Company., (Order No: 29839 ), $6.00
208. Rosen, Ben, DIGITAL TYPE SPECIMENS: THE DESIGNER'S COMPUTER TYPE BOOK, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, (1991), 534pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by author, ISBN 0442235011 A book of 2,741 showings of display and text specimens, selected for excellence of design and general availability. A rich selection of excellent digital faces that are tastefully designed, visually distinct, skillfully produced and generally available in the U.S. marketplace. "One of a limited edition of twenty-five hard cover copies" signed by author, and again inscribed and signed by the author., (Order No: 35768 ), $60.00
209. Rostenberg, Leona (preface by A. Hyatt Mayor), ENGLISH PUBLISHERS IN THE GRAPHIC ARTS 1599-1700, Burt Franklin, New York, 1963, 40 B&W plates follow text, 128pp of text, very good+, maroon buckram cloth (hardcover), "A Study of the Printsellers & Publishers of Engravings, Art & Architectural Manuals, Maps & Copy-Books.", (Order No: 38397 ), $30.00
210. Rothenberg, Albert and Bette Greenberg, THE INDEX OF SCIENTIFIC WRITINGS ON CREATIVITY: CREATIVE MEN AND WOMEN, Archon Books, Hamden, CT, (1974), 117pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The first comprehensive bibliography of its kind, this book should help historians, philosophers, psychoanalysts, scientists, biographers, critics, and students in their approaches to the phenomenon of creativity--through what scientists have written since the late 1800's on the lives and works of creative people., (Order No: 36064 ), $14.50
211. Rudge, William Edwin, THE RUDGE RUBRIC - NUMBER FIVE - SEPTEMBER 1931, William Edwin Rudge, Publ., New York, 1931, 16pp, fine, wraps (softcover), A small booklet "Issued now and then by William Edwin Rudge, Publisher.", (Order No: 44821 ), $15.00
212. Ryskamp, Charles (edited by), EIGHTEENTH REPORT TO THE FELLOWS OF THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY 1975-1977, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1978, 421pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 087598066X A comprehensive list of acquisitions with essays., (Order No: 36260 ), $12.00
213. Salaman, Malcolm C. (edited by Geoffrey Holme), BRITISH BOOK ILLUSTRATION YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY, The Studio, Ltd., London, 1923, B&W and color illustrations, 175pp, good, black cloth (hardcover), Forty pages of text followed by full page illustrations covering all aspects of book illustration in England., (Order No: 43022 ), $65.00
214. Schucking, Levin L., THE PURITAN FAMILY: A SOCIAL STUDY FROM THE LITERARY SOURCES, Schocken Books, New York, (1970), 196pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), First published in Germany in 1929. An investigation between literature and social values through a study of the effects of Puritanism, and particularly the Puritan family, upon the development of literary taste during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries., (Order No: 5634 ), $12.50
215. Scott, Temple (edited with an introduction, by), THE FRIENDSHIP OF BOOKS, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1926, ill. Harold Nelson, 246pp, good+, orange cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), First published in 1911. Contents include: Friends at home, Inspirers of the Heart, Educators of the Mind, Teachers in Life, Companions in Pleasure, and Silent Friendly Spirits., (Order No: 29183 ), $14.50
216. Scull, Penrose, PAPERMAKING IN THE BERKSHIRES, Hurlbut Paper Company, South Lee, MA, [1956], B&W illustrations, 42pp, good, wraps (softcover), The story of the Hurlbut Paper Company published in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Company in April, 1806., (Order No: 49715 ), $25.00
217. Shaw, Edward P., PROBLEMS AND POLICIES OF MALESHERBES AS DIRECTEUR DE LA LIBRAIRIE IN FRANCE (1750-1763), State University of New York, Albany, NY, (1966), 164pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) signed by the author, In this study, Professor Shaw has concentrated on the means and manner by which Malesherbes interpreted the loose and complex legal codes governing publishing, and threaded his way among conflicting pressures from the trade, the court, and the intellectual community., (Order No: 35370 ), $25.00
218. Shaw, H., A GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPAL MANUSCRIPTS EARLY PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS ETC. CONTAINED IN THE AUCKLAND FREE PUBLIC LIB, Brett Printing & Publishing, Auckland, New Zealand, 1908, 70pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover) light rubbing front board, Items contained in the Auckland New Zealand Free Public Library., (Order No: 49299 ), $35.00
219. Shaylor, Joseph (compiled by); Lang, Andrew (introduction by), THE PLEASURES OF LITERATURE AND THE SOLACE OF BOOKS, The Literary Collector Co., New York, 1902, B&W illustrations, 143pp, good+, olive green cloth w/some fading, teg (hardcover), A collection of author's comments on the pleasures of books., (Order No: 36929 ), $20.00
220. Silverman, Al (edited by), THE BOOK OF THE MONTH: SIXTY YEARS OF BOOKS IN AMERICAN LIFE, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, (1986), 335pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) BCE of course!, ISBN 0316101192 A collection of reviews, essays, articles, and author portraits from the Club's monthly NEWS, here is an unusual and highly entertaining literary history of the twentieth century., (Order No: 27724 ), $4.00
221. Slauson, Allan B. (compiled under the direction of) - Library of Congress Periodical Division, A CHECK LIST OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1901, 291pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover) light bump to corners, Check list by states; Alphabetical Index of Titles; Alphabetical Index of Cities., (Order No: 44155 ), $75.00
222. Smith, William Jay, THE SPECTRA HOAX, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, (1961) 1st ed, 158pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The story of the century's most successful literary spoof--how two talented and irreverent young men invented a new poetic "school" that set the critical world by its ears. With THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL SPECTRA and many later Spectric poems., (Order No: 43180 ), $12.00
223. Sotheby's, THE LIBRARY OF IRWIN SILVER - TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2005, Sotheby's, New York, 2005, color illustrations, 180pp, fine, wraps (softcover), 142 lots beautifully illustrated and described., (Order No: 45897 ), $10.00
224. Spencer, Herbert, VARIOUS FRAGMENTS, D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1898, 209pp, good+, 3/4 leather, marbled boards, teg (hardcover), Contents include: The Bookselling-Question; An Element in Method; Professor Cairnes's Criticisms; Views Concerning Copyright; A Rejoinder to Mr. McLennan; Prof. Tait on the Formula of Evolution; Ability versus Information; Book-Distribution; and other chapters., (Order No: 30667 ), $25.00
225. Spielmann, M. H., and Jerrold, Walter, HUGH THOMSON: HIS ART, HIS LETTERS, HIS HUMOUR, AND HIS CHARM, A. & C. Black, Ltd., London, 1931, B&W and color illustrations, 269pp, good, red cloth (hardcover) light fade to cloth, clean & tight, The life of Hugh Thomson, artist and book illustrator., (Order No: 37045 ), $75.00
226. Spitzer, Doreen Canaday (introducing the collector); Adelman, Seymour (introducing the collection), THE ADELMAN COLLECTION, Bryn Mawr College Library, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1976, B&W illustrations, 48pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), Catalog of the Seymour Adelman collection at Bryn Mawr College., (Order No: 35198 ), $20.00
227. Staff of American Book Collector, DIRECTORY OF SPECIALIZED AMERICAN BOOKDEALERS 1987-1988, The Moretus Press, Inc., New York, (1987), 520pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0896790134, (Order No: 42632 ), $10.00
228. Stanley, Edmund A., OF MEN AND DREAMS, Bowne & Co., Inc., New York, (1975), B&W ill, 83pp, good, red cloth (hardcover), The story of the people of Bowne & Co. and the fulfillment of their dreams in the company's 200 years from 1775 to 1975., (Order No: 35090 ), $15.00
229. Stein, Donna (curated and with an essay by); Garvey, Eleanor (introduction by), A CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE FIRST 26 BOOKS PUBLISHED BY VINCENT FITZGERALD & COMPANY FROM 1981-1992, Vincent FitzGerald & Co., n.p., (1992), B&W and color illustrations, 91pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 40529 ), $35.00
230. Stein, Gordon, ROBERT G. INGERSOLL: A CHECKLIST, Kent State University Press, Kent, OH, (1969) 1st ed, 128pp, very good+, brown cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 0873380479 An Ingersoll bibliography divided into six major catagories: (1) Separately Published Works by Ingersoll, (2) Works with Contributions by Ingersoll, (3) Ingersoll's Contributions to Periodicals, (4) Collected Essays and Works by Ingersoll, (5) Translations of Works by Ingersoll, (6) Works About Ingersoll., (Order No: 13324 ), $7.50
231. Stern, Madeleine B., IMPRINTS ON HISTORY: BOOK PUBLISHERS AND AMERICAN FRONTIERS, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1956, B&W illustrations, 492pp, good+, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket) EX-LIB, Here, a few printers, and their allies, the publishers and booksellers, live again, recording the history they helped to make., (Order No: 39225 ), $12.50
232. Strauss, Victor (editor), THE LITHOGRAPHERS MANUAL: A COMPENDIUM OF LITHOGRAPHY IN TWO VOLUMES - 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, Waltwin Publishing Company, New York, (1958), 2 volumes, good, black cloth (hardcover), Contents include: History; the Founding of LTF; Flow of Lithographic Production; the Creative Art Department; Camera Department; and much more., (Order No: 16874 ), $25.00
233. Summer, Celia, WITH A BOOK IN MY HAND, Stein and Day Publishers, New York, (1977), 164pp, good+ w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), From the dustjacket, "Ms. Summer has been selling books for more than a decade at New York's prestigious Scribner Book Store where she has befriended the celebrities who visit Scribner's as customers; has becomes the 'house-mother-advisor' to authors who stop in to see how their books are doing; and has won the confidence and adoration of some of America's best known men and women.", (Order No: 50599 ), $6.00
234. Sutermeister, Edwin, THE STORY OF PAPERMAKING, S. D. Warren Co., Boston, 1954, B&W illustrations, 209pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover), A basic introduction to the process of papermaking., (Order No: 31 ), $10.00
235. Sutton, Walter, THE WESTERN BOOK TRADE, Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH, 1961, 360pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), CINCINNATI AS A NINETEENTH-CENTURY PUBLISHING AND BOOK-TRADE CENTER, CONTAINING A DIRECTORY OF CINCINNATI PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, AND MEMBERS OF ALLIED TRADES, 1796-1880 AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY. This lively account of the spirited age in which Cincinnati flourished as a publishing and book-trade center is the first definitive treatment of the activities that earned the city the epithet "Literary Emporium of the West.", (Order No: 35373 ), $20.00
236. Swinnerton, Frank, THE BOOKMAN'S LONDON: AN AFFECTIONATE JOURNEY THROUGH THE BOOK WORLD OF LONDON, Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1952, B&W illustrations, 161pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Covers: the London Scene, London authors, London publishers, London Booksellers, Literary Homes, and Haunts of Writers., (Order No: 4699 ), $7.00
237. Tanaka, Shuji (Greetings from); Ruch, Barbara (Foreword by), A CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUARIAN AND RARE BOOKS - SHIBUNKAKU - VOLUME 12 OF THE ZEMPON-TOKUSHI CATALOGUE, Shibunkaku Publishing Co., Kyoto, Japan, (2000), color illustrations, 256pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 44825 ), $45.00
238. Targ, William (edited with and introduction and notes by), BIBLIOPHILE IN THE NURSERY: A BOOKMAN'S TREASURY OF COLLECTORS' LORE ON OLD AND RARE CHILDREN'S BOOKS, The World Publishing Co., Cleveland, (1957) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 503pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), "A Bookman's Treasury of Collectors' Lore on Old and Rare Children's Books.", (Order No: 3658 ), $20.00
239. Tebbel, John, PAPERBACK BOOKS: A POCKET HISTORY, Pocket Books, Inc., New York, (1964) 1st ptg, 70pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 32468 ), $20.00
240. The Interlaken Mills, FAMOUS BOOKS AND THE INTERLAKEN CLOTHS IN WHICH THEY ARE BOUND, The Interlaken Mills, Providence, RI, [1931], B&W illustrations, 15pp, very good, dark blue cloth (hardcover), "This book is a convenient collection of the cloths which have been used for the binding of some of America's most famous non-fiction and reference works. ... This book reproduces advertisements which have been appearing for some time past ... opposite each advertisement is a sample of the INTERLAKEN cloth in which the book or books shown, is bound. We offer it as a permanent reference for the man who has to decide on 'What cloth to use?'" The books and their cloths shown include: THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE; NEW INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA; DUN'S REFERENCE BOOK BRADSTREET'S RATINGS; RAND MCNALLY COMMERCIAL ATLAS; MOODY'S MANUAL; SWEET'S ENGINEERING CATALOGUES; SCRIBNER'S ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS; LITERATURE & LIFE SERIES; GREGG SHORTHAND; NATIONAL DIARY; WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA; STEINMETZ' ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; OXFORD BIBLE; CROWELL'S THESAURUS FUNK & WAGNAL'S DICTIONARY; and' GEN. PERSHING'S MEMOIRS. An Uncommon Item for your book binding or books on books collection., (Order No: 43288 ), $125.00
241. The New York Public Library: Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, THE SPENCER COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, The New York Public Library, New York, 1928, B&W illustrations, 88pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 26957 ), $30.00
242. The Research Laboratories of the International Printing Ink Corporation, MONOGRAPHS ON COLOR: COLOR CHEMISTRY - COLOR AS LIGHT - COLOR IN USE -- THREE VOLUME SET COMPLETE, Int. Printing Ink Corp., New York, (1935), B&W and color illustrations, very good+, black cloth (hardcover) tissue jackets good slipcase, Nice set including: COLOR CHEMISTRY, 18pp; COLOR AS LIGHT, 21pp; and COLOR IN USE, 18pp followed by 40 examples of color relationships with color hue masks laid in., (Order No: 50173 ), $20.00
243. Thomas, Alan G., FINE BOOKS - PLEASURES AND TREASURES SERIES, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, (1967), B&W and color illustrations, 120pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, Engaging and informative volume that deals with four particular aspects of the broad subject of the production of fine books. Inscribed by the author in 1971., (Order No: 36920 ), $7.50
244. Thomas, Mary Augusta (foreword by Nancy E. Gwinn) (essays by Michael Dirda and Storrs L. Olson), AN ODYSSEY IN PRINT - ADVENTURES IN THE SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES, Smithsonian Institution Pr., Washington, DC, (2002) 2nd ptg, color illustrations, 179pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1588340368, (Order No: 46601 ), $6.00
245. Thornton, Willis, NEWTON D. BAKER: AND HIS BOOKS, Pr. of Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, (1954) 1st ptg, B&W frontis, 85pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The volumes from Newton D. Baker's personal library cited in this book represent a small selection from a much larger collection. The selection is limited to those books from which Mr. Baker's marginal and fly-leaf notes were drawn., (Order No: 26020 ), $5.00
246. Thwaite, Mary F., FROM PRIMER TO PLEASURE IN READING, The Horn Book, Inc., Boston, MA, (1972) 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 340pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 087675275X An introduction to the history of children's books in England from the invention of printing to 1914 with an outline of some devlopments in other countries., (Order No: 45183 ), $10.00
247. Todd, William B. (edited by); Bowden, Ann (Associate Editor), THE PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA - VOLUME SEVENTY- FOUR 1980, Bibliographical Soc. of Amer, New York, 1980, very good+, blue buckram cloth (hardcover), ISSN 0006-128X Volume 74 Nos 1, 2, 3, and 4 bound into one hardcover volume., (Order No: 34540 ), $20.00
248. Tryon, W. S., PARNASSUS CORNER: A LIFE OF JAMES T. FIELDS, PUBLISHER TO THE VICTORIANS, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, 1963 1st ptg, 445pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, Here is the life story of James T. Fields whose literary taste, shrewd publishing ability and urbane charm built up the publishing activities associated with Boston's Old Corner Bookstore, known to its contemporaries as "Parnassus Corner.", (Order No: 27773 ), $6.00
249. Tufts, Bronson B. (editor), THE PAPER MAKER - VOLUME 21 - 1952 - NUMBER ONE, Hercules Powder Company, Wilmington, DE, 1952, B&W illustrations, 72pp, good, wraps, spiralbound (softcover), Articles include: HANDMADE PAPER IN JAPANESE CULTURE by Robert J. Seidl; EARLY PAPERMAKING IN CANADA by Desmond Reilly; PRESENT-DAY PAPER MILLS IN HOLLAND by Henk Voorn; THE OLDEST PAPER MILL IN THE WESTERN WORLD AND ITS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND by Harrison Elliott; PAPERMAKING IN WALES by Denis Kelleher; and, THE PAPER MILL AT FLORISTON IN THE HEART OF THE SIERRAS by Florence Donnelly., (Order No: 49478 ), $25.00
250. Unwin, Stanley, THE TRUTH ABOUT A PUBLISHER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, (1960), B&W ill., 455pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), An autobiography which tells us not only a great deal more about the adventure of publishing, but also about a many-sided character with an enormous capacity for enjoying everything he does., (Order No: 34182 ), $10.00
251. Urness, Carol (foreword by), JAMES FORD BELL AND HIS BOOKS: THE NUCLEUS OF A LIBRARY, Associates James Ford Bell, Minneappolis, MN, 1993, 85pp, very good++, black cloth and reddish boards (hardcover), Contributors include: Charles H. Bell; Brad Oftelie; James Ford Bell; Edward B. Stanford; John Parker., (Order No: 44232 ), $7.50
252. Waldman, Milton, AMERICANA: THE LITERATURE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1925, 14 B&W ill., 271pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), From the foreword, the author became interested in, and has written here about, "...the old and rare books which contain the earliest printed sources of American history." Covered are early exploration, settlements, the 18th century, and early printing., (Order No: 8471 ), $14.50
253. Wallace, Emily Mitchell, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, (1968) 1st ed, 354pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "The varied writings of William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) are today more widely read and more seriously studied than ever before." This bibliography includes: books, pamphilets, portfolios, periodicals, musical settings, recordings, radio scripts, statements, and translations., (Order No: 29997 ), $25.00
254. Weber, Nicholas Fox, THE ART OF BABAR: THE WORK OF JEAN AND LAURENT DE BRUNHOFF, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, (1989), B&W and color illustrations, 191pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0810918935 The author has worked with Laurent de Brunhoff to recapture aspects of the artist's childhood in France and the values that he grew up with., (Order No: 36828 ), $15.00
255. Weitenkampf, Frank, ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE PAST FOUR CENTURIES, The New York Public Library, New York, 1920, 42pp, very good, wraps (softcover), A Record of the Exhibition Held in the Print Gallery of The New York Public Library in 1919., (Order No: 26950 ), $15.00
256. Weitenkampf, Frank, THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: THE CRADLE OF MODERN BOOK ILLUSTRATION, The New York Public Library, New York, 1938, B&W illustrations, 19pp, very good, wraps (softcover), Book Illustration Before Duerer - An Exhibition and List., (Order No: 26951 ), $30.00
257. West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, WESTVACO INSPIRATIONS FOR PRINTERS: 1953 1954 1955 - NUMBERS 191 THROUGH 202 COMPLETE, WESTVACO, B&W and color illustrations, very good, black leather spine (hardcover), Bound in one handsome volume are numbers 191 through 202 of WESTVACO INSPIRATIONS FOR PRINTERS for the years 1953, 1954, and 1955. This comprises pages 3801 to 4040 of their publication. Preceeding the issues are the contents and indexes including: Contents; Index to West Virginia Papers; Artists and Photographers; Illustrations; Subject Headings; Engraving Processes; Type Faces., (Order No: 49717 ), $200.00
258. West, Herbert Faulkner, THE IMPECUNIOUS AMATEUR LOOKS BACK - THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BOOKMAN, Westholm Publications, Hanover, NH, 1966, B&W frontis, 233pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), One of 500 signed copies. "This book is an attempt to tell the story of the life of a man in the world of books: as a teacher of Comparative Literature, as founder and director of the Friends of Dartmouth Library, as book collector, as traveller seeking rare books, as a rare book dealer, and as the publisher of Westholm Publications.", (Order No: 50655 ), $40.00
259. White, Gleeson (edited by) - The Book-Lover's Library edited by Henry B. Wheatley, BOOK-SONG: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POEMS AND BOOKS AND BOOKMEN FROM MODERN AUTHORS, Elliot Stock, London, 1893 1st ed, 179pp, index, very good, dark green cloth (hardcover), BAL 717. Tributes to the "love of books.", (Order No: 29211 ), $45.00
260. Wilberforce, Eames, THE FIRST YEAR OF PRINTING IN NEW-YORK: MAY, 1693 TO APRIL, 1694, The New York Public Library, New York, 1928, B&W illustrations, 25pp, very good, wraps (softcover), (Order No: 26949 ), $25.00
261. Willoughby, Edwin Eliott, A PRINTER OF SHAKESPEARE: THE BOOKS AND TIMES OF WILLIAM JAGGARD, Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., London, 1934 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 304pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) inscribed by author, An exceptionally nice copy!!, (Order No: 36140 ), $75.00
262. Winterich, John T., EARLY AMERICAN BOOKS & PRINTING, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, (1981), 8 B&W illustrations, 253pp, very good+, wraps (softcover) owner's name, ISBN 0486241718 First published in 1935., (Order No: 48202 ), $4.50
263. Wise, Thomas J. (edited by Todd B. William; essays by John Carter; Graham Pollard; and, William B. Todd), THOMAS J. WISE: CENTENARY STUDIES, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, (1959) 2nd ptg, 128pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Included are Wise's original Introduction to the BROWNING LIBRARY, his letters to bookseller J. E. Cornish, his extraordinary letter to Sir Edmund Gosse, and a note to H. Buxton Forman. Wise is perhaps remembered today as the greatest malefactor in all of literary history., (Order No: 34369 ), $20.00
264. Wright, Lyle H., AMERICAN FICTION 1774-1850: A CONTRIBUTION TOWARD A BIBLIOGRAPHY, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 1969 2nd rev ed, 411pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), The 1969 edition of American Fiction 1774-1850 is the first revision of this standard bibliographical work in twenty years. Important and extensive changes have been added which required the publication of this new book, which now contains approximately 3,500 entries., (Order No: 13040 ), $4.50
265. Wroth, Lawrence C., THE COLONIAL PRINTER, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (1964), 368pp, very good, wraps (softcover) owner's inscription, First published in 1931., (Order No: 39664 ), $6.00
266. Young, Arthur P., BOOKS FOR SAMMIES: THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION AND WORLD WAR I, Beta Phi Mu, Pittsburgh, PA, 1981, B&W illustrations, 149pp, fine, green cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0910230153 Beta Phi Mu Chapbood Number Fifteen. A definitive study of the American Library Association's activities during World War I., (Order No: 38071 ), $7.50
267. Zeisel, William (editor), CENSORSHIP: 500 YEARS OF CONFLICT, The New York Public Library, New York, (1984), B&W and color ill., 144pp, good+, wraps (softcover), This volume was published to accompany the inaugural exhibition in The New York Public Library's D. Samuel and Jean H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall. The most comprehensive exhibition ever mounted on the subject, it was designed to examine, interpret, and illustrate landmark struggles of censorship from the advent of printing to the present day., (Order No: 23129 ), $25.00
268. Zempel, Edward N. & Verkler, Linda A., BOOK PRICES: USED AND RARE 1993, The Spoon River Press, Peoria, IL, (1993), 613pp, good, maroon cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0930358104 Athough now date, still a very useful reference for bibliographic information and relative values., (Order No: 8546 ), $10.00