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Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

5924 Shenandoah Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90056-1426, U.S.A.
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	DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT L'encyclopedie Diderot et d'Alembert: Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication: Maconnerie marbrerie Paris: Inter-Livres, no publication date. reprinted from the famous encyclopedia, fine in decorative wrappers (soft cover book). USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 103814 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	DEPARTMENT OF PRINTING AND GRAPHIC ARTS, HOUGHTON LIBRARY The Turn of the Century: 1885-1910, Art Noveau & Jugendstil Books Cambridge: Houghton Library/Harvard University, 1970. small remnant of an earlier price sticker on front end paper otherwise near fine in decorative wrappers (soft cover book). USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 100710 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	DOWDING, GEOFFREY A History of Printing Types: An Illustrated Summary of the Main Stages in the Development of Type Design from 1440 up to the Present Day Clerkenwell: Wace & Co., 1961. 1st printing of 1st edition, slight shelfwear otherwise near fine hard cover book/closed tear in upper corner of front dust jacket panel & edgewear along bottom edge of dust jacket otherwise good+ dust jacket. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 103670 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	FRANCK, HELMUT Jugendstil: Exlibris Edition Leipzig, 1984. fine in decorative boards (hard cover book) in cardboard slipcase/no dust jacket, as issued, A survey of Jugendstil designed bookplates; 147 pages including Literatur, Kunstlerregister, & Auftraggeberregister; illustrated; Text in German. USD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.75 \| £UK 33.25 \| JP¥ 4854] Book number: 100711 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	FRAWLEY, WILLIAM, KENNETH HILL & PAMELA MUNRO EDITORS Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine in plain boards (hard cover book)/no dust jacket, as issued, Examines the theory and practice of Native American lexicography. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 101202 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	FRUGE, AUGUST A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Fruge on University Publishing Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket, Fruge, who transformed the University of California Press from a monographic publisher into one of the largest intellectual publishing houses in America, spent his lifetime admiring, encouraging and, when necessary, battling with the great authors of the. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 100291 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	GILBAR, STEVEN The Book Book NY: St. Martin Press, 1981. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book/closed tear otherwise near fine dust jacket. USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 618] Book number: 24002 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	HIGHET, GILBERT People, Places and Books NY: Oxford University Press, 1953. 3rd printing, shelfwear otherwise very good hard cover book/no dust jacket. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 353] Book number: 24005 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	HIGHET, GILBERT People Places and Books NY: Oxford University Press, 1953. 1st printing of 1st edition, light spine wear otherwise near fine hard cover book/edgewear otherwise very good dust jacket. USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 618] Book number: 24004 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	JOSEPHY, ROBERT Taking Part: A Twentieth Century Life Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993. 1st printing of 1st edition, small ink mark on front pastedown (inside front cover) otherwise near fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 24006 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	MINOR, WENDELL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MCCULLOUGH Wendell Minor: Art for the Written Word: Twenty-Five Years of Book Cover Art NY: Harcourt Brace, 1995. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket, Signed by author on continuation page. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 100322 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	OWENS, L.T. J.H. Mason: 1875-1951: Scholar London: Frederick Muller, 1976. 1st printing of 1st UK edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 24008 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	REYNOLDS, PAUL R. The Middle Man: The Adventures of a Literary Agent NY: Morrow, 1971. 1st printing of 1st edition, light shelfwear otherwise near fine hard cover book/edgewear otherwise very good dust jacket, recollections of his career & of many of the great writers of that time. USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 618] Book number: 24009 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	ROBINSON, IVOR & BERNARD MIDDLETON EDITORS Modern British Bookbinders: An Exhibition of modern British bookbinding by Members of Designer Bookbinders NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972. light egewear otherwise clean, unmarked, complete near fine copy in decorative wrappers (soft cover book), 63 pages, illustrated, 15 bookbinders including Sydney Cockerell, Ivor Robinson,& Philip Smith. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 101118 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	SAYERS, FRANCES CLARK COMPILED BY MARJEANNE JENSEN BLINN & WITH A FOREWORD BY LAWRENCE CLARKE POWELL Summoned by Books NY: Viking, 1965. 1st printing of 1st US edition, previous owner's name on front end paper otherwise fine hard cover book/no dust jacket, Signed by Sayers, Blinn & Powell on front end paper. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 24010 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	SCHOLES, ROBERT Protocols of Reading New Haven, 1989. 1st printing of 1st US edition, fine hard cover book in near fine dust jacket. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 24011 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	THOMAS, ISAIAH The History of Printing in America: with a Biography of Printer & an account of Newspapers NY: Weathervane, 1975. 2nd printing, pages beginning to darken from age & previous owner's name on rear end paper otherwise near fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket, edited by Marcus A. McCorison from the 2nd edition. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 103671 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	WOLFF, GEOFFREY Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby NY: Random House, 1976. 1st printing of 1st edition, light foxing on end papers otherwise very good hard cover book/a closed tear on front dust jacket panel & edgewear otherwise very good price clipped dust jacket, Crosby spent his entire life continuously raising the stakes in the game of life until he took his own life at age of 31. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 102299 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	WROTH, LAWRENCE C. The Colonial Printer NY: Dover, 1994. fine in decorative wrappers (soft cover book), The definitive study of the American printer from 1639, when the first press arrived in the Colonies, to about 1800. The edition is an unabridged republication of the revised and slightly enlarged second edition of the work first published in 1938/. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 103404 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.

19 titles found



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	DIDEROT & D'ALEMBERT L'encyclopedie Diderot et d'Alembert: Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication: Maconnerie marbrerie Paris: Inter-Livres, no publication date. reprinted from the famous encyclopedia, fine in decorative wrappers (soft cover book). USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 103814 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	DEPARTMENT OF PRINTING AND GRAPHIC ARTS, HOUGHTON LIBRARY The Turn of the Century: 1885-1910, Art Noveau & Jugendstil Books Cambridge: Houghton Library/Harvard University, 1970. small remnant of an earlier price sticker on front end paper otherwise near fine in decorative wrappers (soft cover book). USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 100710 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	DOWDING, GEOFFREY A History of Printing Types: An Illustrated Summary of the Main Stages in the Development of Type Design from 1440 up to the Present Day Clerkenwell: Wace & Co., 1961. 1st printing of 1st edition, slight shelfwear otherwise near fine hard cover book/closed tear in upper corner of front dust jacket panel & edgewear along bottom edge of dust jacket otherwise good+ dust jacket. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 103670 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	FRANCK, HELMUT Jugendstil: Exlibris Edition Leipzig, 1984. fine in decorative boards (hard cover book) in cardboard slipcase/no dust jacket, as issued, A survey of Jugendstil designed bookplates; 147 pages including Literatur, Kunstlerregister, & Auftraggeberregister; illustrated; Text in German. USD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.75 \| £UK 33.25 \| JP¥ 4854] Book number: 100711 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	FRAWLEY, WILLIAM, KENNETH HILL & PAMELA MUNRO EDITORS Making Dictionaries: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine in plain boards (hard cover book)/no dust jacket, as issued, Examines the theory and practice of Native American lexicography. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 \| £UK 30.25 \| JP¥ 4413] Book number: 101202 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	FRUGE, AUGUST A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Fruge on University Publishing Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket, Fruge, who transformed the University of California Press from a monographic publisher into one of the largest intellectual publishing houses in America, spent his lifetime admiring, encouraging and, when necessary, battling with the great authors of the. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 100291 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	GILBAR, STEVEN The Book Book NY: St. Martin Press, 1981. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book/closed tear otherwise near fine dust jacket. USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 618] Book number: 24002 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	HIGHET, GILBERT People, Places and Books NY: Oxford University Press, 1953. 3rd printing, shelfwear otherwise very good hard cover book/no dust jacket. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 353] Book number: 24005 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	HIGHET, GILBERT People Places and Books NY: Oxford University Press, 1953. 1st printing of 1st edition, light spine wear otherwise near fine hard cover book/edgewear otherwise very good dust jacket. USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 618] Book number: 24004 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	JOSEPHY, ROBERT Taking Part: A Twentieth Century Life Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993. 1st printing of 1st edition, small ink mark on front pastedown (inside front cover) otherwise near fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 24006 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	MINOR, WENDELL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MCCULLOUGH Wendell Minor: Art for the Written Word: Twenty-Five Years of Book Cover Art NY: Harcourt Brace, 1995. 1st printing of 1st edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket, Signed by author on continuation page. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 100322 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	OWENS, L.T. J.H. Mason: 1875-1951: Scholar London: Frederick Muller, 1976. 1st printing of 1st UK edition, fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 24008 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	REYNOLDS, PAUL R. The Middle Man: The Adventures of a Literary Agent NY: Morrow, 1971. 1st printing of 1st edition, light shelfwear otherwise near fine hard cover book/edgewear otherwise very good dust jacket, recollections of his career & of many of the great writers of that time. USD 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 618] Book number: 24009 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	ROBINSON, IVOR & BERNARD MIDDLETON EDITORS Modern British Bookbinders: An Exhibition of modern British bookbinding by Members of Designer Bookbinders NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972. light egewear otherwise clean, unmarked, complete near fine copy in decorative wrappers (soft cover book), 63 pages, illustrated, 15 bookbinders including Sydney Cockerell, Ivor Robinson,& Philip Smith. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 101118 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	SAYERS, FRANCES CLARK COMPILED BY MARJEANNE JENSEN BLINN & WITH A FOREWORD BY LAWRENCE CLARKE POWELL Summoned by Books NY: Viking, 1965. 1st printing of 1st US edition, previous owner's name on front end paper otherwise fine hard cover book/no dust jacket, Signed by Sayers, Blinn & Powell on front end paper. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 24010 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	SCHOLES, ROBERT Protocols of Reading New Haven, 1989. 1st printing of 1st US edition, fine hard cover book in near fine dust jacket. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 24011 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	THOMAS, ISAIAH The History of Printing in America: with a Biography of Printer & an account of Newspapers NY: Weathervane, 1975. 2nd printing, pages beginning to darken from age & previous owner's name on rear end paper otherwise near fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket, edited by Marcus A. McCorison from the 2nd edition. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 103671 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	WOLFF, GEOFFREY Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby NY: Random House, 1976. 1st printing of 1st edition, light foxing on end papers otherwise very good hard cover book/a closed tear on front dust jacket panel & edgewear otherwise very good price clipped dust jacket, Crosby spent his entire life continuously raising the stakes in the game of life until he took his own life at age of 31. USD 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 794] Book number: 102299 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.
	WROTH, LAWRENCE C. The Colonial Printer NY: Dover, 1994. fine in decorative wrappers (soft cover book), The definitive study of the American printer from 1639, when the first press arrived in the Colonies, to about 1800. The edition is an unabridged republication of the revised and slightly enlarged second edition of the work first published in 1938/. USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 662] Book number: 103404 Click here to order or inquire at Lorrin Wong, Bookseller.