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147 pp, folio. Quarter cloth. Lt scuffing/soil to boards, faint sunning to head of rear board. Heavy bump w/ fraying and board exposure to head of rear joint. Interior clean and crisp, binding tight. B&w illustrations. "Published on the Occasion of the Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Founding of the John Carter Brown Library."
I Found It at the JCB:: Scholars and Sources
The John Carter Brown Library.
Providence, RI: The John Carter Brown Library, 1996.
Price: $20.00
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28 pp, 8vo. Stapled booklet w/ flaps. Published in conjunction with the 18th annual conference of the American Printing History Association. "Honoring Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press: 1893-1993." Short crease to front joint, else fine. Clean and crisp.
The Humanist Printer:: Exhibitions and a Conference
Beckwith, Alice H. R. H.
Providence, RI: American Printing History Association, 1993.
Price: $15.00
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444 pp, 8vo. Cloth in dj. Lightly shelfworn, upper front corner bumped, minor soil to textblock. Interior clean and crisp, binding tight. Dj lightly edgeworn, scratch to rear panel. The British Library Studies in the History of the Book.
Literary Cultures and the Material Book.
Eliot, Simon, Andrew Nash and Ian Willison (eds).
London: The British Library, 2007.
Price: $40.00
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26 pp introduction + 139 plates w/ commentary. 4to. Cloth in slipcase. Light wear to spine ends and upper corner, spine lt. sunned, faint spotting to boards and bottom edge. Lt. musty odor. Tiny ink mark to foot, seems accidental rather than remainder mark. Interior clean, binding tight. Slipcase sunned, scuffed, and edgeworn w/ short chip/tear to sp. joint, lt. rippling to head of side panel.
The Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry.
Longnon, Jean and Raymond Cazelles (introduction and legends).
New York: George Brazilier, 1969.
Price: $25.00
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221 pp, 8vo. Cloth. Signed limited edition, t.e.g. Lightly edgeworn, spine sunned w/ scuffing and sm chips to label edges, spotting to front board. Soil/foxing to eps and some margins, evidence of heavy tape removal to front hinge, 1" tear to head of ffep. Front/ rear hinges split, repaired as much as possible by seller. No. 834 of 1250 signed and numbered copies.
Collecting American First Editions:: Its Pifalls and Its Pleasures
Curle, Richard.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1930.
Price: $28.00
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234 pp, 8vo. Cloth in dj. Inscribed by both authors on ffep. Lightly shaken, minimal shelfwear, lt. tanning to textblock and ep edges. Light soil to textblock, eps and a few scattered margins. Dj lightly edgeworn w/ short tear/crease to head of front panel, faint dampstaining to interior side of spine head/top edge.
Old and Rare:: Thirty Years in the Book Business
Rostenberg, Leona and Madeleine B. Stern.
New York and London: Abner Schram/ George Prior, 1974.
Price: $27.50
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912 pp, 8vo. Cloth. Ex-library w/ minimal markings to textblock and copyright pg. Minor shelfwear to boards. Text clean, binding tight. "Index to British Literary Bibliography, Vol. VII."
British Literary Bibliography, 1970-1979:: A Bibliography
Howard-Hill, T. H.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Price: $40.00
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223 pp, 8vo. Cloth. Like new. Clean and tight.
Members of The Grolier Club 1884-2009.
The Grolier Club.
New York: The Grolier Club, 2009.
Price: $20.00
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506 pp, 8vo (large). First edition. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, minor soil and age-toning to textblock. Binding lightly shaken. Pages clean and crisp. Dj edgeworn and lightly scuffed, spine and edges sunned, short tear to front joint. "A Treasure of Bookish Lore, Wit & Wisdom, Tales, Poetry & Narratives & Certain Curious Studies of Interest to Bookmen & Collectors."
Bouillabaisse for Bibliophiles.
Targ, William (ed).
Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1955.
Price: $25.00
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American First Editions: Bibliographic Check Lists of the Works of One Hundred and Five American Authors.
Johnson, Merle, ed.
NY: R.R. Bowker Co., 1929.
Price: $65.00
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The Story of Picture Printing in England during the Nineteenth Century or Forty Years of Wood and Stone.
Lewis, C.T. Courtney.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., 1928.
Price: $160.00
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Sir Edmund Andros: Original Documents from His Papers.
(Books About Books).
New York: H.P. Kraus, 1978.
Price: $35.00
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The Reverend Thomas Bray: A Selection from His Papers.
(Books About Books).
New York: H.P. Kraus, 1978.
Price: $25.00
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The Manuscript: A Guide for Its Preparation, With Instructions for Handling Proof.
(Books About Books).
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1941.
Price: $15.00
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A Century of Books For All the Mind's Journeys: Celebrating the Centennial of the North Kingstown Free Library.
Aylward, Susan and Susan Berman.
North Kingstown, RI: North Kingstown Free Library, 1998.
Price: $17.00
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Logbooks and Leviathans: An Account of the Nicholson Whaling Collection.
Sherman, Stuart C.
Price: $15.00
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The Annotated McGuffey: Selections from the McGuffey Eclectic Readers 1836-1920.
Lindberg, Stanley W.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1976.
Price: $17.00
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The Houghton Library 1942-1982: A Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition.
(Books About Books).
Cambridge: The Harvard College Library, 1982.
Price: $18.00
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Incunabula: Books of the Fifteenth Century from the Presses of One Hundred Towns, Part 1.
(Books about Books).
London: Maggs Bros., 1930.
Price: $52.00
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Catalogue of the Famous Library of Printed Books, Illuminated Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Engravings Collected by Henry Ruth.
(Books about books).
London: Dryden Press, 1920.
Price: $80.00
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