Hindley, Charles; Leslie Shepard (intro)

Curiosities of Street Literature. Signed & Dated Dedication to Recipient, Frederick Ruffner Inside Cover, by Leslie Shepard

London, UK: The Broadsheet King, 1966. 4to. Plastic Ring Binder. [ca. 50 pp.] Single Volume Edition. .

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Book number: 63-9472

Catalogue: Ephemera

Maeterlinck, Maurice; Leslie Shepard (Foreword)

The Unknown Guest

Secaucus, New Jersey, University Books, Inc. 1975. Hardcover. pp. xiv, 339. Small 8vo. Red textured boards, black lettering to the spine. Minor bump to spine ends, contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ lightly rubbed, price-clipped dustjacket. Overall, very good+. A Novel prize winner's thought-provoking work on the paranormal, Phamtasm of the Living and Dead, Psychometry, Knowledge of the Future.

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Book number: 2401

Catalogue: Spirituality and Magic & Occult

Keywords: parapsychology; ghosts

Shepard, Leslie (ed)

The address of William Harry printer, bookbinder, bookseller stationer and musicseller.

West Stockwith: January Books, 1986. Facsimile. Softcover. Clean, large format, tightly bound paperback, stapled spine, pictorial card covers, no inscriptions, appears little used. 6 pages plus foldout. Very Good.

Aucott & ThomasProfessional seller

Book number: 55561

Catalogue: Music:: Folk

Keywords: Print history Advertisements Broadsheets

Leslie Shepard

Bookselling Through the Ages. 1979 Gale Literary Date Book

Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, [1979]. 4to. [34 pp.]. Brand New. Soft Covers. Staple binding. In the format of a calendar. Color plates throughout, featuring prints from the Frederick Ruffner Collection. Printed mailing envelope present. (The dates on this calendar also correspond to 2018, 2029 and 2035). From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner, Jr. founder of Gale Research, Detroit. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 18-1584

Catalogue: Books

Leslie Shepard

Chapbooks. John Cheap, the Chapman’S Library” the Scottish Chap Literature of Last Century, Classified

Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, [1968]. 16mo. [8 pp.]. Very Good+. First Edition. Soft Covers. Staple binding. Published for Singing Tree Press by Gale Research Company. From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner, Jr. founder of Gale Research, Detroit. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 18-1567

Catalogue: Books

Shepard, Leslie- Editor

The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories

Secaucus, Citadel Press. 1977, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). (ISBN: 0806505656) Hardcover. Book, A square solid tight carefully read copy. This copy has some pagedge soil. The jacket has some rubing wear, edgewear, edge chipping near the top and heel of the spine. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. N-Fine/Good.

Pat Cramer, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 027462

Keywords: 0806505656 /

SHEPARD, Leslie & POWER, Albert (eds)

Dracula - celebrating 100 years

Mentor Press, 1997. Used - Very Good. VG paperback . 1st edition. A bright copy in tight binding Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_6838_jpg.jpg. ISBN: 094754884X

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Book number: BOOKS231470I

SHEPARD (Leslie)

John Pitts; Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844. With a Short Account of his Predecessors in the Ballad & Chapbook Trade.

Private Libraries Association. 1969. First Edition, tall 8vo, 160pp., numerous illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth.

Forest BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 21410

Keywords: CHAPBOOKS BIBLIOGRAPHY

Shepard, Leslie

John Pitts: Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844...a Short Account of his Predecessors in the Ballad & Chapbook Trade

London, Private Libraries Assn. (1969). orig.cloth. 25x16cm, 160 pp. 29pp facsimile illustrations. Some rubbing. VG.
¶ Contents: The Ballad & Chapbook Market Before Pits; John Pitts & the Revival of Street Literature; The Age of Pitts & Catnach; The Ballad Market after Pitts and Catnach; Broadsides & Chapbooks by Pitts & his Contemporaries; Appendices: Genealogy; Obituary of John Pitts; A Short List of Publications by John Pitts; Collection of Pitts Material; Stationers' Company Register of Ballads, 1675; Fortey Collection: Sotheby Sale Records, 1906.

Expatriate Bookshop of DenmarkProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS010059I

Keywords: British Publishing History, England Publisher, Great Britain, London Publishers, Ballad Ballads, Chapbook Chapbooks, Bibliography, John Pitts Printer, Street Literature

Shepard, Leslie.

John Pitts Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844. With a short account of his predecessors in the Ballad & Chapbook Trade.

London: Private Libraries Association, 1969 Ltd Edn of 1600 Copies. 160 pp, numerous plates & illustrations. Original red cloth gilt in glassine protect. 25 cm x 16 cm. Minor rubbing to extremes.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 31871

Shepard, Leslie

John Pitts: Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844, with a Short Account of His Predecessors in the Ballad & Chapbook Trade

London, Private Libraries Association, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear, and protected still in the original glassine wrap; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Special Limited Edition of only 1000 copies of which 700 were for sale. Brick-red cloth, sharp and distinct gilt and black lettering and bordered illustration to front cover. 160 pp., notes, facsimile signature, and black-and-white illustrations. John Pitts was easily the 19th century's preeminent broadside publisher of ballads. He notes that he started collecting broadside ballads many years ago when he saw a batch of them in an antiquarian bookshop and "found that they were good traditional country songs like 'Fare well He', 'Bedlam City', 'Banks of Invarary', and 'Young Riley.'" Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 351005

Catalogue: Books and Bookbinding

Keywords: Leslie Shepard John Pitts England ballads broadsides