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MCDONALD, Gregory. Fletch, Too.
(New York): Warner, (1986), octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Near mint.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 233   details     inquire
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RAMSDEN, Charles. Bookbinders of the United Kingdom (outside London) 1780-1840.
London: Batsford, (1987), large octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xvi), 250pp. Reprint. A concise presentation of information on bookbinders working in major centers, in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Each section covers principal directories consulted, list of localities and binders, including full addresses and information on business relations, apprenticeships, influence and other matters of interest. With 16 illustrations including bindings by Bailey, Beardsall, Didoge, Ridge, and Sowler. Very fine.
Price: USD 65.00 other currencies   order no. 234   details     inquire
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McCRIMMON, Barbara. Power, Politics and Print. The Publication of the British Museum Catalogue 1881-1900.
Hamden: Linner, 1981, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 186pp. First Edition. The first national library catalogue to be published took form within an atmosphere of struggle and frustrations for the two librarians most responsible, Edward Augustus Bond and Richard Garnett, struggles with the government over money, employees for working conditions, and a pervasive attitude of tradition and inertia in completing such a massive project. Very fine.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 236   details     inquire
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MCDONALD, Gregory. Flynn's In.
New York: Mysterious Press, (1984), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Author's third mystery featuring Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn, and the first to appear in hardcover. Very fine copy.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 237   details     inquire
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ATKINS, Kathryn. Masters of the Italic Letter. Twenty-two Examples from the Sixteenth Century.
Boston: Godine, (1988), oblong quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 183pp. First Edition. With a foreword by James M. Wells. A comprehensive survey of the copybooks of sixteenth-century writing masters with accompanying pictorial displays of their italic letters. The majority of the editions are displayed in the actual size with the scribe's name, the title page, sample exemplar pages, and page enlargements. Fine.
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MOTE, Frederic W. and Hung-lam Chu. Calligraphy and the East Asian Book.
Boston: Shambhala, 1989, quarto, orange cloth in dust jacket. xiv, 248pp. First Edition. Edited by Howard L. Goodman. The traditions of Chinese calligraphy with " their vast range of extension and variation" are traced from the earliest script fragments and scroll books through the long period of block printing to the products of early modern times printed with movable metal type. The emphasis is placed on book production methods, relating calligraphy by hand to the various stages of printing technology. Illustrated with photographs from the collection in the Gest Library at Princeton University.
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MCGINLEY, Patrick. The Devil's Diary.
New York: St. Martin, (1988), octavo, boards in dust jacket. First American Edition. Mint.
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SHELDON, Michael. Friends of Promise. Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989), octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. (xiv), 254pp. First AmericanEdition. Illustrated. Founding editor of "Horizon", Connolly presided over one of the most successful small magazines in British publishing history. Its success after WWII caused so much work that he discontinued publication so as to write novels.
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CRANE, Joan. Willa Cather: A Bibliography.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1982), octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. xxviii, 412pp. First Edition. A comprehensive bibliography. Very fine.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 246   details     inquire
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  BINYON, T. J. 'Murder Will Out'. The Detective in Fiction.
Oxford: Oxford Unviersity Press, (1990), octavo, wrappers. viii, 166pp. 2nd Printing. A history of the detective in fiction from pre-Holmes to the professionals described by P. D. James and those who focus on police procedures. A final list for further reading lists the authors from the text, major writers in the genre from both England and America.
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  NEUBERG, Victor E. Thomas Frognall Dibdin: Selections.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978, octavo, red cloth. viii, 245pp. First Edition. Illustrated. Containing a biographical introduction, excerpts from the works and c checklist of the writings of Dibdin. The third volume in The Great Bibliographers Series. New.
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MCGINLEY, Patrick. Foxprints.
New York: St. Martin, (1983), octavo, boards in dust jacket. First American Edition. Very fine.
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  DOOLEY, Allan C. Author and Printer in Victorian England.
Charlottesville, VA: University of California Press, (1992), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xii, 192pp. First Edition. A title in the Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Dooley claims that the "printing technology" of nineteenth century England "influenced the texts of classic works of English Literature as we read them today." The interaction of author, printer and publisher affected the writing of texts, the printer's efforts to make his work "easier and more profitable by bending the author to [his] own needs."
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MYERSON, Joel. Margaret Fuller: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Pittsburgh: Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1978, octavo, cloth. (xvi), (164)pp. First Edition. Part of the comprehensive Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. Illustrated. New.
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 254   details     inquire
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BENZIE, William. Dr. F. J. Furnivall. Victorian Scholar Adventurer.
Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, (1983), octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 302pp. First Edition. With his immense energy, Furnivall was a central force behind the English literary scene in the nineteenth century, particularly in its scholarly branches, founding many literary societies, contributing to the beginnings of the Oxford English Dictionary, and generally promoting English literary and linguistic scholarship. He maintained a strained relationship with T. J. Wise, who disparaged Furnivall as critic, and bankrupted the Shelley Society by printing too many luxurious facsimile first editions. Very fine.
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MARROT, H. V. A Bibliography of the Works of John Galsworthy.
New York: Franklin, (1968), octavo, cloth. xii, 252pp. Reprint. Books, periodicals and an iconography. Very fine.
Price: USD 40.00 other currencies   order no. 256   details     inquire
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  EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley. Victor Gollancz. A Biography.
London: Gollancz, 1987, octavo, boards in dust jacket. 782pp. First Edition. This biography presents the power of Gollancz's commitments: he founded the Left Book Club, Save Europe Now and the Campaign against Capital Punishment. Illustrated. New.
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KASTNER, Joseph. The Bird Illustrated 1550-1900.
New York: New York Public Library, (1988), quarto, white cloth in dust jacket. 128pp. First Edition. Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson. Illustrated with 45 color plates and 5 4 duotone photographs. In 1551, the first printed book on birds, Conrad Gesner's Historiae animalium was an 800 page volume with wood-cut illustrations. The sheer range and numbers of bird books since is here represented with focus on the exacting nature of ornithological drawing - an attempt at an accurate and life-like representation. With notes by Miriam Gross on the birds depicted and printing processes used. With a bibliographical checklist of the exhibition. Very fine in a very fine jacket.
Price: USD 39.95 other currencies   order no. 265   details     inquire
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EDEL, Leon and Adline R. Tintner, (editors). The Library of Henry James.
Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, (1987), octavo, maroon cloth in dust jacket. (x), 106pp. First Edition. Illustrated with photographs. Divided into three parts, this study discusses the two libraries of Henry James, lists the original inventory with codes identifying present locations, and in a final essay explores the ways in which these books influenced what Jame swrote and what his characters read. Very fine.
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SEYMOUR, Miranda. A Ring of Conspirators. Henry James and His Literary Circle, 1895-1915.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., (1988), octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. (328)pp. First American Edition. Illustrated with photographs. Seymour focuses on the last twenty years of James' life, when he considers himself nearly English, though surrounded by fellow Americans: Ford Madox Ford, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane and others settled in East Sussex.
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JENKINS, John H. Audubon and Other Capers. Confessions of a Texas Bookmaker.
Austin: The Pemberton Press, 1976, quarto, boards in dust jacket. 120pp. First Edition. Illustrated. Jenkins' autobiography, written when he was 35, focuses on the big-time accomplishments of his early career: Hoffman's attempt to sell him the Union College Audubon Plates, the purchase of the Eberstadt Collection and his publishing ventures on Texas history. Fine.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 268   details     inquire
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LAWRENCE, D. H. Letters to Thomas and Adele Seltzer. Edited by Gerald M. Lacy.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976, octavo, printed cloth. xiv, (285)pp. First Edition. Wrappers issue. The intimate and enlightening correspondence between Lawrence and his publisher. Illustrated with photographs of people, places, and books.
Price: USD 12.50 other currencies   order no. 269   details     inquire
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  SULLIVAN, Alvin, (editor). British Literary Magazines. The Modern Age, 1914-1984.
Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, (1986), octavo, maroon cloth. (xxxii), (630). First Edition. Organized by literary period, this volume focuses on the most important literary magazines to appear since 1914. Selections were determined by the importance of editors and contributors as literary figures, and the influence of the magazine during publication.
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BRUCCOLI, Matthew J. Ross Macdonald/Kenneth Millar: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, octavo, blue cloth. (xvi), (260)pp. First Edition. Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. New.
Price: USD 30.00 other currencies   order no. 274   details     inquire
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NELSON, James G. Elkin Mathews. Publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound.
Madison: Univ of Wisconsin Press, (1989), octavo, wrappers. (xiv), (300)pp. First Edition. Mathews'career in publishing "coincided with the transition from Victorian to modern literature, a period which literary historians date from about 1880 to 1920...what makes Mathews unique is the role he played in encouraging new poets..." Well designed, his books featured innovative designers and illustrators. With a checklist. Illustrated. Very fine.
Price: USD 16.95 other currencies   order no. 275   details     inquire
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  DESMOND, Ray. Wonders of Creation. Natural History Drawings in the British Library.
London: The British Library, (1986), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 248pp. First Edition. Illustrated with 50 color plates with facing text about the drawing. Chapters define natural history drawing, flowers in religious art, herbals, the drawings found in travel and exploration literature, the natural history of the Islamic world, and a look at contemporary work. Very fine.
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KNIGHT, David M. Natural Science Books in English 1600-1900.
(London): Portman Books, (1989), octavo, boards in dust jacket. x, 262pp. Reprint. A comprehensive account of all the significant works which have appeared in English during these 300 years. 4 color illustrations, 56 black and white. Very fine.
Price: USD 65.00 other currencies   order no. 278   details     inquire
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WEINTRAUB, Stanley, (editor). The Savoy. Nineties Experiment.
University Park: Penn State University Press, 1966, quarto, boards & cloth in dust jacket. xliv, 294pp. First Edition. Illustrated with reproductions of covers and illustrations from the magazine. Lasting only the year of 1896, "The Savoy" was an effort by Aubrey Beardsley, Arthur Symons, and Leonard Smithers to replace "The Yellow Book". With a lengthy and useful introduction by Weintraub. Very fine.
Price: USD 32.50 other currencies   order no. 279   details     inquire
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BRUCCOLI, Matthew. John O'Hara: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Pittsburgh: Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1978, octavo, cloth. (xvi), 324pp. First Edition. Part of thePittsburgh Series in Bibliography. Illustrated. New.
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ATKINSON, Jennifer. Eugene O'Neill: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Pittsburgh: University Press, 1974, octavo, cloth. (xiv), 410pp. First Edition. Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. A detailed, illustrated bibliography covering Books and Separate Publications; Contributions to Books; Contributions to Periodicals; Miscellany; Translations; Musical Settings; Recordings; Dedicatory Poems and Poems Referring to Stevens; Books about Stevens; Books Partially about Stevens in Periodicals; Book Reviews; Dissertations. New.
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BUISSON, Dominique. The Art of Japanese Paper Masks, Lanterns, Kites, Dolls, Origami.
(Paris): Terrail, (1992), quarto, boards in dust jacket. (224)pp. First Edition. Illustrated with over 260 color photographs. The history and makiing of Japanese Washi that emphasizes the meaning of paper in Japanese culture. Chapters include Paper of the gods, the gods of paper; Paper as ceremonial art; The Craftsman's art; Paper games, etc. Spectacular photographs of the way paper is used in Japan. Very fine.
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  HILLS, Richard L. Papermaking in Britain 1488-1988. A Short History.
London: The Athlone Press, (1988), small quarto, cloth in dust jacket. ix, 249pp. First Edition. Britain's first papermaker, John Tate, began work five hundred years ago. Dr. Hills, a distinguished industrial historian, tells the story of papermaking against the general background of the coming of paper and printing to Britain, through the major developments of the Industrial Revolution, up to the t advances that have made possible today's high- speed paper machines. Dr. Hills is president of the International Paper Historians Association. With chapters on watermarking, the Whatmans, Esparto, etc. Illustrated.
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PHILLIPPS, William. A Partisan View. Five Decades of the Literary Life.
New York: Stein and Day, (1983), octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. 312pp. First Edition. Phillipp's memoir of the first fifty years of editing "The Partisan Review" perhaps the premier intellectual magazine of the mid-twentieth century, publishing fiction, essays and criticism. Very fine.
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FORBES, Heather, (editor). Beautiful Ambrotypes. Early Photographs.
London: Travelling Light, (1989), oblong octavo, orange cloth in dust jacket. 48pp. First Edition. With an Introduction by Paul Cox. Frederick Scott Archer is credited with first describing the ambrotype, a process that reduced the time for developing the negative from minutes to seconds and thus quickly became popular for portraiture. Chapters include the Main Steps to Making an Ambrotype, a Bibliography for further information and cleaning and repairing an ambrotype. Extensively illustrated with portraits, interiors and snapshots.
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HAMILTON, Walter. The Poets Laureate of England.
New York: Burt Franklin, (1970), octavo, black cloth. (xxviii), 308p. Reprint. The station of poet laureate extends back to Chaucer, and includes Spenser, Jonson, Dryden, Southey and Wordsworth. Pre-Jonson are called Volunteer Laureates, men who held the office without pension or legal title, and most who were chosen afterword had more political influence than poetical influence on the course of English literature.
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MANSER, Martin. Printing and Publishing Terms.
Edinburgh: Chambers Commercial Ref., (1991), small octavo, wrappers. (140)pp. First Edition. A dictionary updated to include the most recent computer processes. With a final graph illustrating proof-reader marks for texts, margins and their instructions. Very fine.
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GLYNN, Jennifer. Prince of Publishers. A Biography of George Smith.
London: Alison & Busby, (1986), octavo, boards in dust jacket. 232pp. First Edition. The pre- eminent publisher of Victorian times, and founder of The Dictionary of National Biography, Smith was friend and publisher of Thackeray, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, John Ruskin and many others. Very fine.
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  LAMBERT, J. W. and Michael Ratcliffe. The Bodley Head 1887-1987.
London: The Bodley Head, (1987), octavo, boards in dust jacket. (vii), (366)pp. First Edition. Illustrated with title pages and frontispieces from various publications by the firm, and with photogrpahs. Founded by John Lane in the nineties, and publishing the notable figures of that time, The Bodley Head moved easily into the twentieth century to publish an international list of authors from Maurois to Solzenitsyn to Agatha Christie. This history chronicles the industry's changes - particularly that of ownership change. With a final appendix listing the 24 Bodley Head booklets printed privately for authors and friends of the firm.
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BINYON, Helen. Eric Ravilious. Memoir of an Artist.
New York: Beil, (1983), large octavo, brown boards in dust jacket. (144)pp. First American Edition.Eric Ravilious was one of the best painters to emerge between the wars - and one of the great original wood-engravers, surpassed only by Thoms Bewick himself. His work was wide-ranging and multifaceted, and in the nine years after he left art school he produced an extraordinary amount of work - murals, watercolor paintings, wood-engravings, lithographs, pottery for Wedgewood, and even some pieces of furniture. In the introduction to the book, Richard Morphet places Ravilious in the context of modern-day appreciation of his work and describes the close relationship between Helen Binyon and Eric Ravilious that led her to write this illuminating book. Foreword by John Rothenstein. With 25 full color and 90 black and white illustrations; chronology; bibliography; index. Very fine.
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RICKETTS, Charles. A Defence of the Revival of Printing.
Forest Hills: Battery Park, 1978, octavo, maroon cloth. 37pp. Reprint. Ricketts contributes his definition of fine printing by contrasting "... the work of the great Venetian Printers & of William Morris to my own, not in any rude assumption of rivalry, but merely for convenience, since the achievement in really fine printing is infinitely small and much must be attempted...in full knowledge of those great efforts towards beautiful printing." Very fine.
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DENSON, Alan. Printed Writings by George W. Russell (AE). A Bibliography.
Evanston: Northwestern University, 1961, octavo, cloth. 255pp. First Edition. Classified, part chronological, part alphabetical arrangement of works, manuscripts, ephemera, ana, etc., with discursive collations, locations, and bibliographical notes. Fine.
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KANTRA, Robert. All Things Vain. Religious Satirists and Their Art.
University Park: Penn State University Press, (1984), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xviii, (232)pp.First Edition. Illustrated. Satire in all its manifestations in English literature. With a particularly interesting look at modern satirists such as Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy Sayers and the "unchurched" James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.
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  STEVENS, Henry. Recollections of James Lenox and the formation of his Library.
New York: New York Public Library, 1951, octavo, cloth. xxxvi, 188pp. First printing of this edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. Revised and Elucidated by Victor Hugo Paltsits. The elucidations by Paltsits are annotations at the end of each chapter, further chronicling the formation of one of the great book collections of the nineteenth century. Interesting for the further details on how some of the great books (the 42-line Gutenberg, the "Wicked Bible", etc.) first made it to this country. With a biography of Henry Stevens, Bibliographer and Biblioscoper and an Analytical Index. Illustrated. A fascinating story. Fine.
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  CHRISMAN, Miriam Usher. Bibliography of Strasbourg Imprints, 1480-1599.
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1982), octavo, cloth. (xxiii), 418pp. First Edition. With the purpose of providing a bibliography of the books printed in Strasbourg for the use of sixteenth century scholars, the publications are arranged by subjects: Catholic Publications, Legal Texts, Literature of Antiquity, Biblical Literature, School Texts, Humanist Works, Vernacular Literature, etc. With an Author Index and Printer Index.
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ALLEN, Reginald. Presenting in Word & Song, Score & Deed the Life and Work of Sir Arthur Sullivan...
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, (1975), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xviii, 215pp. First Edition. From the Introduction: "This volume presents the life of Sir Arthur Sullivan as seen in the archives formed first of all by his mother, and then by Sir Arthur himself. The original archive has been supplemented with dozens of autograph manuscripts and letters, printed scores, librettos, posters, drawings, prints, photographs, and memorabilia which came to The Pierpont Morgan Library before the acquisition of the papers of Sir Arthur Sullivan..." Extensively illustrated. Very fine.
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  FRANK, Frederick S. Montague Summers: A Bibliographical Portrait.
Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1988, octavo, brown cloth. xviii, (278)pp. First Edition. With essays on Summers by Father Brocard Sewell, Robert D. Hume, and Devendra P. Varma. The selections from the writings of Summers cover The Restoration Theatre, Demonology and Witchcraft, and The Gothic Novel. Part Three is a Chronology and Annotated Bibliography of the writings of Montague Summers. The Great Bibliographers Series, No. 7. Very fine.
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  TRYON, Warren S. and William Charvat. The Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields and Their Predecessors, 1832-1858.
New York: The Bibliographical Society, 1949, octavo, brown cloth. 50, 508pp. First Edition. With a lengthy introduction and notes by the editors. From the introduction: "The information given includes the size and number of editions, data on printing, stereotyping, paper, presswork, binding, cancels, corrections, illustrations, royalties, prices, profits, and the dates of printing, and publication. Here, in short, is the story of the life of books between their creation by the author and their emergence from the bindery."
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TRACY, Walter. The Typographic Scene.
London: Gordon Fraser, (1988), octavo, brown cloth in dust jacket. (96)pp. First Edition. Observations of the typographic scene from the perspective of sixty years of close involvement with the design and technology of the printed word. Illustrated.
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COLBY, Vineta and Robert A. The Equivocal Virtue. Mrs. Oliphant and the Victorian Literary Market Place.
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1966, octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. xiv, (282)pp. First Edition. Theequivocal virtue turns out to be the "indefatigable industry" needed to produce one hundred published books and as many magazine articles over the course of a career as biographer, novelist, critic, travel writer and more.
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  HAGEN, June Steffenson. Tennyson and His Publishers.
University Park: Penn State University Press, (1979), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 333pp. First American Edition. This study examines the personal and business relationship between Tennyson and his publishers, Kegan Paul, and later Alexander Macmillan. Illustrated. Very fine.
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GRISHAW, James A., Jr. Robert Penn Warren: A Descriptive Bibliography 1922-79.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1981), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xxiii, 494pp. First Edition. Foreword by Robert Penn Warren. Included are transcriptions of title pages and notations on collation, Contents, typography, paper, and binding, with informative notes. A second section includes works of criticism listing more than one thousand books, articles, and reviews of Warren's works. With an extensive index. New.
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ROBERTS, Jane. A Dictionary of Michelangelo's Watermarks.
Milan: Olivetti, (1988), quarto, cloth. (50)pp. First Edition. Illustrated. An interesting discussion in the introduction on the use of watermarks for help in dating old master drawings from the sixteenth century, or help, in fact, in ascribing a drawing to an artist. The dictionary reproduces watermark, location and date with a reference to similar watermarks found in Briquet or Zonghi. Very fine, clean.
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WILLETT, Ralph. A Memoir on the Origin of Printing.
Forest Hills: Battery Park, 1978, octavo, maroon cloth. 72pp. Reprint. An interesting, although subjective, monograph. Very fine.
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WILLIAMS, George Walton. The Craft of Printing and the Publication of Shakespeare's Works.
Washington: Folger Shakespeare Library, (1985), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 103pp. First Edition.This study examines the various techniques and developments of printing in Shakespeare's day with particular emphasis on William Caxton. Contains publication dates of the plays and their reprints. Illustrated.
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GAUR, Albert. A History of Writing.
New York: Cross River Press, (1992), quarto, boards in dust jacket. 236pp. Revised Edition. Extensively illustrated. The text traces chronologically and geographically all the major scripts that have contributed to writing's development. With chapters on Origin and Development of writing; The main groups; their characteristics, history and development; Decipherment; Social attitudes to writing and literacy; Moves towards the future. With a select bibliography and a dictionary of scripts. Very fine.
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BRUCCOLI, Matthew J. James Dickey: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990, octavo, blue cloth. xxii, 423pp. First Edition. With a foreword by Dickey. Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. A detailed, illustrated bibliography covering Books and Separate Publications; Contributions to Books; Contributions to Periodicals; Miscellany; Translations; Musical Settings; Recordings; Dedicatory Poems and Poems Referring to Stevens; Books about Stevens; Books Partially about Stevens in Periodicals; Book Reviews; Dissertations. Very fine.
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MYERSON, Joel. Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Descriptive Bibliography.
Pittsburgh: Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1982, octavo, cloth. xviii, 802pp. First Edition. Part of thecomprehensive Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. Illustrated.
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GORDAN, John D. Letters to an Editor. Georgian Poetry, 1912-1922. An Exhibition from the Berg Collection.
New York: New York Public Library, 1967, octavo, wrappers. 36pp. An exhibition of letters written to Sir Edward Howard Marsh, an editor who helped bring such poets as W. H. Davies, Walter De La Mare, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence and John Masefield to public attention through his series of anthologies of Georgian poets. With a biography of Marsh and biographies of the poets he helped define as Georgian. Very fine, clean.
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GOTTESMAN, Ronald and Charles L. P. Silet. The Literary Manuscripts of Upton Sinclair.
(Columbus): Ohio State University Press, (1972), octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. (xxiv), 470pp. Sinclair left a massive amount of manuscript material, now in the Lilly Library at Indiana. This text examines the literary manuscripts of the published and unpublished works in all of their versions, giving collations and dates of composition as well as publication. With a Guide to the Letters of Upton Sinclair, Related Manuscripts and an index. Jacket dust soiled.
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SLATER, John Rothwell. Printing and the Renaissance: A Paper Read Before the Fortnightly Club of Rochester New York.
Forest Hills: Battery Park Book Company, 1978, octavo, maroon cloth. (36)pp. Reprint. An examination of five great printers of the Renaissance: Aldus Manutius, Robert Estienne, Johann Froben, Anton Koberger, and William Caxton. Illustrated. Very fine.
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WAINWRIGHT, Alexander D., (compiler). Robert Louis Stevenson: A Catalogue of Collections in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections of the Princeton Univ.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971, quarto, cloth. 142pp. First Edition. Illustrated with 8 plates. The collection includes book, manuscripts and letters, contributions to collections and periodicals, as well as books, catalogues and bibliographies about Stevenson. Very fine.
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ROOKLEDGE, Sarah and Ron Eason. Rookledge's International Handbook of Type Designers: A Biographical Directory. Edited by Phil Baines and Gordon Rookledge.
Sarema Press (Publishers), 1991, small octavo, black boards in dust jacket. vi, 209pp. First Edition. One-half page to two page biographies of 175 type designers. Preceding the alphabetical directory, a short essay outlines the main trends in type design. The appendices have two indices by subject and by typeface, and a glossary of technical terms. Illustrated. Very fine.
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JOHNS, Francis. A Bibliography of Arthur Waley.
London: Athlone, (1988), octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xl), 160pp. Second Edition. Revised and Expanded. A final chapter lists material on Waley. Very fine.
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KRAUS, Joe W. A History of Way & Williams With a Bibliography of Their Publications: 1895-1898.
Philadelphia: MacManus, 1984, quarto, cloth. (x), 109pp. First Edition. Illustrated. The companion volume to Kraus's earlier history of Copeland & Day, this book has been issued in the same format. It gives a history of this firm and describes in detail the 66 books which it published. Very fine.
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MARRS, Suzanne. The Welty Collection. A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents...
Jackson: University Press of Mississi, (1988), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. viii, (246)pp. First Edition. Illustrated with photographs taken by Welty. The collection given to the university by Welty includes her manuscripts, professional correspondence and the many photographs she took of a changing Mississippi in the 1930s and 40s. With a Bibliography of Published Work and a list of secondary material. Very fine.
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Walt Whitman. The Oscar Lion Collection.
New York: NYPL, 1953, quarto, cloth. 78pp. First Edition. A useful work listing manuscripts and letters by and about Whitman.
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DE VINNE, Theodore L. Manual of Printing Office Practice. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1883, with an Introductory Notes by Douglas C. McMurtrie.
Forest Hills: Battery Park Book Company, 1978, octavo, brown cloth. iv, 52pp. Reprint. Very fine.
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ALLEN, Woody. Side Effects.
New York: Random House, (1980), octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Very fine.
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ALTHER, Lisa. Other Women.
New York: Knopf, 1984, octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. Author's third novel. Mint.
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AMIS, Kingsley. Jake's Thing.
New York: Viking, (1979), octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. First American Edition. Near mint copy.
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AMIS, Martin. London Fields.
New York: Harmony, (1989), octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. First American Edition. Mint copy.
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ANDERSON, Linda. We Can't All Be Heroes, You Know.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985, octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. First American Edition. Review Copy with publisher's letter laid in. Author's first book. Mint.
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ANGELOU, Maya. Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas.
New York: Random House, (1976), octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Third volume of author's autobiography which began with her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Near mint copy.
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LAUGHLIN, James with Peter Glassgold and Frederick R. Mar... New Directions in Prose and Poetry: 26.
(New York): New Directions, (1972), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Poetry by Cid Corman, Robert Duncan, Kenneth Rexroth; short fiction from Frederick Busch. Very fine copy.
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LAUGHLIN, James, (editor). New Directions in Prose and Poetry: 23.
(New York): New Directions, (1971), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Poems by Robert Bly, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertov and others; also contains an essay by Gary Snyder and short stories by Walter Abish and James Purdy. Very fine copy.
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ASCH, Sholem. Mary.
New York: Putnam, 1949), octavo, cloth. First Edition. Neat internal repair to spine extremities ofjacket. Very fine copy.
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ATWOOD, Margaret. Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986, octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. First American Edition. Veryfine.
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BAINBRIDGE, Beryl. Young Adolf.
New York: Braziller, (1979), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. First American Edition. Near mint.
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