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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Six Different Bookseller Catalogues from the 1960s

1964. 8vo. All catalogues show some wear and soiling to covers and have dates written on front cover. Contents generally unmarked and in very good condition. Sold as a lot of six, only. 'Books on the strange / the unusual / the uknown', Venture Booksup, Evanston, IL (1960), about 30 pages; (2) 'Catalog Number Eight,' World War I Aero Bookshop, Roslindale, MA (1961), about 30 pages [together with] a glossy promotional brochure for Henry B. Parlmer, Jr.'s book 'This Was Air Travel'; (3) 'Aeronautical Books', Putnam & Co. (1962), 15 pages; (4) 'Fall and Winter Edition 1963 Book Catalog', Chimes, Encinitas, CA (1964), 80 pages; (5) 'Books 1964', L. N. Fowler & Co. Ltd. London, 95 pages; (6) 'Foyles Catalogue of Travel Books', W & G Foyle Ltd. London (ND), 44 pages. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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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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ADAMS, Frederick B., Jr.

Printers' Marks in the Pierpont Morgan Library

New York City, The Spiral Press, ND. Wraps. 12mo. Bound in stapled card covers and in near fine condition. Ill.: two colour illustrations.

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Amis, Kingsley

The James Bond Dossier

New York, New American Library, 1965. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. pp. 142. 8vo. Light shelfwear, musty odour. Dustjackert scuffed and darkened; good in good dustjacket. .

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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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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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Aristotle; Horace; Longinus

Classical Literary Criticism; Poetics; Ars Poetica; on the Sublime

London, Penguin Classics, 1988. Paperback. pp. 157. 8vo. Light shelfwear, age toning to pages, sticker ghost to rear cover; very good-. .

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Arnold, Matthew

Culture and Anarchy

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1948. Hardcover. pp. 241. 8vo. General shelfwear and soiling; good. .

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Margaret Atwood

Survival; a Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

Toronto, Anansi, 1972. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear, scuffing to edges, ink name to half-title page; good. .

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Atwood, Margaret

Why Poetry

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Prairie Fire, 2008. Paperback. pp. 128. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. Prairie Fire, A Canadian Magazine of New Writing, Volume 29 No. 2. .

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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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Backscheider, Paula R.; John J. Richetti

Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730; an Anthology

New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1996. Paperback. pp. 336. 8vo. Light general shelfwear, infrequent pencil marginalia; very good-. .

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Keywords: Women's Studies; Women Writers

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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Keywords: Non-Fiction; Literary Criticism; Libraries