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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Sonstige Stichworte: Book history;Printing history;Book trade;;;;;;

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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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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Sonstige Stichworte: 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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Ardizzone, Maria Luisa

Reading As the Angels Read; Speculation and Politics in Dante's 'Banquet'

Toronto, University Of Toronto Press, 2016. Hardcover. pp. 453. 8vo. Bound in gray cloth. Light shelfwear; near fine in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Sonstige Stichworte: Philosophy; Dante Alighieri; Religion;

Arnold, Matthew; J. Dover Wilson (ed.)

Culture and Anarchy

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1955. Hardcover. pp. 241. 8vo. General shelfwear, ink stains to front board, heavy ink lettering to ffep and underlining throughout; fair+. .

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Atwood, Margaret

Second Words; Selected Critical Pose

Toronto, Anansi, 1982. Hardcover. pp. 444. 8vo. Light shelfwear, faint rubber stamp to front flap of dustjacket and ffep; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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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. Two volumes bound into one, with the number '4' on spine. Letters cover the period 1700 to 1725; text is in French. Bound in original full leather; contents clean & tight: good+ condition. 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. .

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Austen, Jane; Donald Gray (ed.)

Pride and Prejudice; an Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism

New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. Paperback. pp. ix, 388. 8vo. Light shelfwear, embossed stamp to rear cover, previous owner's name to ffep, infrequent pen underlining and marginalia; good+. .

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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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Sonstige Stichworte: 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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Barthes, Roland; Richard Howard [trans.]

On Racine

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1992. Paperback. pp. xii, 172, 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Barthes, Roland; Richard Miller (trans.)

The Pleasure of the Text

New York, Hill and Wang, 1975. Paperback. pp. 67. Small 8vo. Light shelfwear, stubborn sticker to rear wrap; very good. .

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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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Barton, Anne

Ben Jonson; Dramatist

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984. Hardcover. pp. 370. 8vo. Light shelfwear, ink name to ffep, ink name on first page, one page dog-eared; very good in very good dustjacket, with short tears on rear panel and light soiling on edges, now protected by plastic Brodart sleeve. .

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