Alleman, Gellert S., Gwin J. Kolb, Curt A. Zimansky, Henry K. Miller, Charles N. Fifer, and Donald T. Torchiana

English Literature 1660-1800: A Bibliography of Modern Studies, Founded by Ronald S. Crane, Compiled for Philological Quarterly, Volume V, 1961-1965

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of Mr. Robert Allen as conveyed to me by his widow, Ms Priscilla (Brownie) Allen, he having been a noted bookseller and appraiser and also editor of a number of volumes of the The Eighteenth Century: a current bibliography series in a project headed at the University of Southern California. His ink-stamp at first free endpaper, which is vertically creased. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn though sunned at spine, protected by a plastic coat. Contributions by Gellert S. Alleman, Gwin J. Kolb, Curt A. Zimansky, Henry K. Miller, Charles N. Fifer, Donald T. Torchiana. Foreword by Curt A. Zimansky. xi [1], 1-386 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Allen, Robert R., General Editor

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. No. 4, 1978

New York, Printed for the American Bibliographical Society, by the A.M.S. Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Mauve colored cloth, clean, unmarked interior, no rubbing to extremities, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. First Edition. From the personal library of the bookseller and appraiser, Robert R. Allen, of Altadena, California. A volume devoted to printing and typographical studies, studies devoted to social, historical and economic factors, the Fine Arts, literary studies, individual authors and more. [4], 2-526 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . New

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Allen, Robert R., General Editor

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. No. 3, 1977

New York, Printed for the American Bibliographical Society, by the A.M.S. Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the dark green cloth covers, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, bright interior, unmarked. Unmarked interior, no rubbing to extremities, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. First Edition. From the personal library of the bookseller and appraiser, Robert R. Allen, of Altadena, California. A volume devoted to printing and typographical studies, studies devoted to social, historical and economic factors, the Fine Arts, literary studies, individual authors and more. [7], 2-318 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 356019

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Allen, Robert R., General Editor

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. No. 3, 1977

New York, Printed for the American Bibliographical Society, by the A.M.S. Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Little discernible wear to the dark green cloth covers, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, bright interior, unmarked, no rubbing to extremities, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. First Edition. From the personal library of the bookseller and appraiser, Robert R. Allen, of Altadena, California. A volume devoted to printing and typographical studies, studies devoted to social, historical and economic factors, the Fine Arts, literary studies, individual authors and more. [7], 2-318 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . New

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Allen, Robert R., General Editor

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography for 1974

Iowa City, Iowa, Printed for the American Bibliographical Society, by the University of Iowa Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the light purple cloth covers, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, bright interior, scattered pencil markings, as this was the owner's working copy, no rubbing to extremities. First Edition. From the personal library of the bookseller and appraiser, Robert R. Allen, of Altadena, California. A volume devoted to printing and typographical studies, studies devoted to social, historical and economic factors, the Fine Arts, literary studies, individual authors and more. For the first time, an issue of The Philological Quarterly, 54(4), Fall, 1975. 711-1107 2-318 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Allen, Robert R.

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography for 1973

Iowa City, Iowa, The University of Iowa Press for the Bibliographical Society of America, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, an issue in The Philological Quarterly, 53(4), Fall, 1974, and a working copy from the personal library of the former owner, the General Editor, Robert R. Allen, with some scattered pencil notations here and there. A volume devoted to printing and typographical studies, studies devoted to social, historical and economic factors, the Fine Arts, literary studies, individual authors and more. Frontis matter, 447-851 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Allen, Robert R., General Editor

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. No. 2, 1976

, Printed for the American Bibliographical Society, by the A.M.S. Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. BFine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the pastel blue covers, bright interior, unmarked, no rubbing to extremities, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. First Edition. From the personal library of the bookseller and appraiser, Robert R. Allen, of Altadena, California. A volume devoted to printing and typographical studies, studies devoted to social, historical and economic factors, the Fine Arts, literary studies, individual authors and more. Frontis matter, 2-448 pp. plus a note of errata.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Allibone, S. Austin

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteeth Century. Three Volumespublished by , Detroit, 1965

Detroit, Michigan, The Gale Research Company, 1965. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound set of three blue buckram cloth-bound hardcover copies, with clean, unmarked interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities, and still sharp and distinct gilt lettering to darker blue labels. Volume I, A-L: [3], 4-1154 pp., and a split rear pastedown; Volume II, M-S: 1155-2326 pp.; Volume III, T-Z: 2327-3140 pp. Three big, fat octavo format hardcovers, with light smudging to bottom tips. A fine reprint edition based upon the 1858-1870 true first editions. Produced on what is called "300-year paper" via photolithography. Double-column texts for easy reading. Samuel Austin Allibone (April 17, 1816 – September 2, 1889) was an American author, editor, and bibliographer. His Wikipedia entry notes his birth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, being a descendant of French Huguenots and Quakers. Privately educated, not successful in business, he turned back to books and bibliography from his vast knowledge of English literature. This A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors was copyrighted first in 1854 and went through multiple editions. The first edition (of only three letters) was put out for reviews, and then in 1859, the second volume appeared in print of a few more letters. "In quick succession the whole of Allibone’s Critical Dictionary then appeared: volume 1 in 1870, expanded to encompass A through L; also in 1870 volume 2 for M through S; and finally volume 3 in 1871, with the 'forty indexes of subjects' that had been promised on the title page of each printing since 1858." Over 40,000 different entries eventually appeared.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Freeman, Arthur and Janet Ing Freeman

John Payne Collier: Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Produced by two independent scholars who lived in London putting together this fascinating bio-bibliography. Fine-looking, structurally sound set of red cloth-bound hardcovers, complete in two volumes, little discernible wear thereto, with bright interiors, unmarked. Sharp and distinct gilt lettering to front covers and spines. Housed in a paper label-covered slipcase, slight furling along one edge, else about Near Fine in condition. Fine pencil drawing of John Payne Collier at frontis to Volume I. 17 illustrations thereafter. Volume II has another frontis portrait of the subject, and another nine illustrations. 1532 pp. all in, across the two volumes. John Payne Collier (1789 - 1883) was just as prolific a scholar of drama, poetry, and popular prose of William Shakespeare's age as he was also a spectacular forger and provider of false evidence, seriously messing up Shakespeare scholarship. The publisher writes, "This monumental two-volume work addresses the whole of Collier's activity, systematically sorting out his genuine achievements from his impostures. The authors also survey the broader history of literary forgery in Great Britain and consider why so talented a man not only yielded to its temptations but also persisted in it throughout his life." Collier's Wikipedia entry is just impossibly fascinating to read, the sheer output, on the one hand, and the disturbingly dishonest forgeries. As a sidenote, the Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman papers, housed at the Johns Hopkins University, are described thus: "Starting on a shoestring budget as a graduate student at Harvard, where he also entered the antiquarian book trade as co-founder of Ximenes Rare Books in 1961, Arthur began to collect for himself, generally in the area of his academic specialty, Elizabethan drama, focusing in particular on the long career of the nineteenth-century English scholar-forger John Payne Collier an interest later revived through close collaboration with Arthur's wife, co-author, and business partner Janet Ing Freeman. Together they completed, after twenty more years of collecting and research, a two-volume, 1500-page bio-bibliography of Collier, published by the Yale University Press in 2004. This was awarded the prestigious International Bibliography Prize of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers for the years 2002-2006, and remains the authoritative account of that controversial figure. In the process of assembling and exploiting their Collier collection, they also widened their scope and began to collect all forms of literary forgery they could reasonably identify. The Freemans constructed their own canons of inclusion, defining practical limits--as, for example, where traditional pseudepigraphy might border on deliberate and tendentious misattribution, or where true narrative impostures converge on conventional fiction, or whimsical hoaxes give way to immediate disclaimer. The collection includes letters and other materials documenting the history of literary forgery, 1778-1970." Apparently unread, spines still crackle.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Waverly Auctions

Auction Catalogue 149, Maps and Atlases, Book Miscellany, Travel and Exploration, Photography and Graphics

Bethesda, Maryland, Waverly Auctions, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the tan printed, illustrated wraps. Auction held in Bethesda, Maryland, September 17, 1998. 755 items described there, with a range of plentiful illustrations in black-and-white including early cheesecake photographs of her.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Balsamo, Luigi

Bibliography: History of a Tradition

Berkeley, California, Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc., 1990. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear, and protected by a stiff Mylar jacket. A fine and readable, accessible and in translation by William A. Pettas, of books and book distribution in the Middle Ages, 15th-century bibliography and the Introduction of Printing, 17th-century libraries and literary journals, the return of journalists and academics in the 18th century, and ditto for the 19th century. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxx + 209 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Balsamo, Luigi

Bibliography: History of a Tradition

New York, Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1999. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Translated William A. Pettas from the 1984 edition in Italian into English of a work of stark originality, as engrossing as influential, and features a fascinating account of the meeting of Richard de Bury and Petrarch at Avignon in 1333. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Measures 7" x 10" in width and height, respectively. [6] + iv + 209 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Barr, Louise Farrow

Presses of Northern California and Their Books 1900-1933

Berkeley, California, The Book Arts Club, University of California, 1934. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and useful source bibliography with index, including a full list of titles of books printed by more than two dozen California presses. Measures 7" x 10 1/4" in width and height, respectively, bound in green cloth. Leather spine labelis abraded, but gilt title is still sharp. Per author Barr in her Introduction: "In the following compilation the writer has attempted to assemble certain facts about the presses of Northern California, in the form of brief descriptive sketches of the presses, and accompanying bibliographies of the books they have printed." Designed by the members of the Book Arts Club, University of California in Collaboration with Samuel T. Farquhar, University Printer. Copy #53 of 400 copies printed. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Chapters devoted to leading California presses, Grabhorn to Lawton R. Kennedy, John Henry Nash to Ricardo J. Orozco, The Westgate Press, The Windsor Press, Helen Gentry the Eucalyptus Press and many others. 276 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Berkowitz, David Sandler

In Remembrance of Creation: Evolution of Art and Scholarship in the Medieval and Renaissance Bible

Waltham, Massachusetts, The Brandeis University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Spectacularly interesting, illuminating presentation of documents from Hebrew-Amorite, Hebrew, Syriac, Armenian, Greek, Latin, English, French, Arabic and Neo-Hebrew. Warm and loving gift inscription to the previous owner. From the personal library of Mr. Robert Allen as conveyed to me by his widow, Ms Priscilla (Brownie) Allen, he having been a noted bookseller and appraiser and also editor of a number of volumes of the The Eighteenth Century: a current bibliography series in a project headed at the University of Southern California. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, bright interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, though with a dent to front hinge, unobtrusive, light scuffing to spine bottom. xviii [2], 2-211 pp..Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Auguste Blaizot et fils

Bibliotheque de M. Louis Barthous de L'Academie Francaise, Livres Et Manuscrits, in Four Volumes: Premiere Partie, Seconde Partie, Troisieme Partie; Quatrieme Partie

Faubourg Saint-Honore, France, Augusste Blaizot et Fils, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference set of four volumes bound in tall quarto format in sunned and moderately soiled printed wraps, each covered by a stiff piece of Mylar. Nothing fancy, but complete in four parts, and three volumes are still sufficiently sturdy. The wraps are in gate-fold, there is plentiful chipping and edge-wear of, but they are clean of interior, not ex-library, and unmarked. Many unexploded top edges, off-setting opposite owing to gate-fold wraps. An extremely extensive catalog of Livres et Manuscrits sold at auction over the span of three years. Large, almost oversized print, easy-to-read bibliographic entries. Fine and striking black-and-white photograph of M. Louis Barthous from his days at l'Academie Francaise. The front cover to the wraps to Premiere Partie is present but detached completely. It renders the bibliographies to letters of and autographs by such luminaries as Mirabeau, Desmoulins, Voltair, Rousseau, Hug, Flaubert de Musset, Sainte-Beuve, Sand and others. xv [2], 2-275 [1] pp. Seconde Partie is devoted to both the papers and authographs of d'Annunzio, Marres, Berlioz, Daude, France, Huysmans, Lamartine, and others, and then the heraldry and armes; xi [2], 2-312 pp. Troisieme Partie is dedicated to the works of de Banville, Chamfort, Clemenceau, Hug, Loti and others; xi [2], 1-212 pp. Quatrieme Partie is devoted to Romantic authors and history of Romanticism, with important dossiers and autographs from the works of Balzac, de Banville, Barres, Berange Bossuet Colete, Flaubert, Deschamps, Lorrain, Voltaire, Wagner, etc.; [4], 2-158 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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