Advice to Parents on Careers in the Book Trade [Together with] Paper, &C. Book Trade Terms in Rolt's Dictionary (1756)

New York City, 1984. Stapled Wraps. pp. 32 and 22. 8vo. Both bound in stitched stiff blue covers and in near fine cond,These are facsimile publications, 'Advice' being first published in 1747, and 'Paper' about 1756. The pages of 'Advice' are uncut. Sold as a lot of two. Published by the Columbia School of Library Service by members of the 1st semester Descriptive Bibliography Class. .

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The Christmas Number of the Bookman No. 279. Vol. XLVII. December, 1914

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. 1st edition. Limp cloth. Tall 4to. The colour pastedown on the front cover is chipped and torn, and a previous owner has applied transparent tape to the edges. The linen wrappers are turned at the edges, and show a stain on the rear cover (not affecting contents). The stapled contents are detached from the wrappers, but are otherwise complete and in very good condition, with just a hint of age-darkening (mainly to margins). This issue is quite heavy, and we would be pleased to quote costs to ship, if an inquiry is made. Containing 112 pages of fascinating and informative articles, followed by four illustrated supplements: (1) Art, Poetry, and Belles Lettres (pp. 1-36), (2) History, Biography and Travel (pp. 37-88), (3) Fiction and Miscellaneous Literature (pp. 89-112), and (4) Children's Books (pp. 113-157); plus xxvii pages of publisher's and literary advertisements. Contributors to this special volume include Jane T. Stoddart, Harold Massignham, Walter Jerrold, A. St. John Adcock, Walter Sichel, and many others. Tipped-in full colour plates by A. D. McCormick ('Drake's Drum'), Leighton Price ('Poppyland'), Miss Honor Appleton ('A Christmas Carol'), and Norman Wilkinson ('The Combat'), plus a number of full-page b&w plates and many photos of authors. Ill.: colour, b&w plates.

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Book number: 9900023921

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Kent, David A. and Patricia Kennedy (eds.)

Hugh Anson - Cartwright Bookseller; a Celebration

Toronto, St. Thomas Poetry Society, 2000. Hardcover. pp. 224. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth. Lightest shelfwear; near fine. .

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Book number: 086366

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Poetry; book sellers; merchants of books; bibliophile;

Amis, Martin

The Moronic Inferno

London, Jonathan Cape, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 208. 8vo. Light shelfwear. Creasing to dustjacket. Very good+ in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 085881

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Aristotle; Leon Golden [Trans.]; O.B. Hardison

Aristotle's Poetics; a Translation and Commentary for Students of Literature

Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1968. Paperback. pp. ix, 307. 8vo. Light shelfwear, foxing to page edges, rubbing to covers; very good. .

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Book number: 087383

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[Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon]

Lettres de Madame de Maintenon, Tome VII [Bound with] Lettres Du Clerge de France, a Madame de Maintenon, Tome VIII

Amsterdam, 1751. Hardcover. pp. 348, 336.12mo,,Bound in original full leather; contents clean & tight: gd+ cond,Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719) was the second wife of King Louis XIV of France. After Louis's first wife died in 1683, he married her secretly. On the king's death in 1715, she retired to the educational institution for poor noblewomen she had founded in 1686. She was accused of having great influence over the king, especially in regard to the persecution of the Protestants. Two volumes bound into one, with the number '4' on spine. Letters cover the period 1700 to 1725; text is in French. .

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Baker, Nicholson

Double Fold; Libraries and the Assault on Paper

New York, Vintage, 2002. Paperback. pp. xii, 370. Colour illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 069895

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Keywords: Non-Fiction; Literary Criticism; Libraries

Baker, Denys Val (Ed.), et al.

Writers of Today

London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1946. Hardcover. pp. 169. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good, in very good-, spine-sunned dust jacket showing small chips at edges. .

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Book number: 063567

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Barnes, Julian; Sarah Churchwell [Intro.]

Flaubert's Parrot / a History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

New York, Everyman's Library, 2012. Hardcover. pp. xxvii, 447. 8vo. Fold out colour illustrations, gold ribbon page marker. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Bartlett, Brian

All Manner of Tackle; Living with Poetry

Windsor, Palimpsest Press, 2017. Paperback. 8vo. Very good+. .

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Book number: 058641

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Barton, Anne

Ben Jonson; Dramatist

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Ink name on first page, light shelfwear; very good, dustjacket shows short tears on rear panel and light soiling on edges. .

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Book number: 030735

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Basbanes, Nicholas A.

Every Book Its Reader; the Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World

New York, Harper, 2005. Hardcover. pp. 360. 8vo. Gray binding to spine. Black and white photographs. Light edgewear, remainder mark to bottom edge. Dustjacket with some discoloured spots, protected with plastic brodart sleeve; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 082615

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Basbanes, Nicholas A.

A World of Letters; Yale University Press, 1908-2008

New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 2008. Hardcover. pp. 222. 8vo. Brown binding with gilt lettering to spine. Dustjacket lightly shelfworn, protected with brodart sleeve; very good+. .

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Book number: 080890

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Bate, Walter Jackson

From Classic to Romantic; Premise of Taste in Eighteenth-Century England

New York, Harper and Row, 1961. Paperback. pp. 197. 8vo. General shelfwear, light soiling; good. .

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Book number: 089924

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BAY, J. Christian

A Handful of Western Books / a Second Handful of Western Books / a Third Handful of Western Books

Cedar Rapids, IA, Privately printed, 1937. 1st edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. All three books in original binding & original glassine wrappers,yyThe first volume has laid-in loose the publisher's gift card. The third volume has laid-in loose a card which reads: 'With My Best Christmas Wishes / J. Christian Bay'. The binding of the second volume is a bit stressed but still tight. All volumes clean and in very good, to near fine, condition. The delicate glassine wrappers are a bit frayed at the edges, but still in perfectly good condition. Sold as a set of three. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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Book number: 9900038052

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Books on the West;; black-&-white illustrations