Hart, James D.

The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste

New York, Oxford University Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Dark blue linen weave cloth, with silver and red lettering to front cover and spine. Half-toning to front paste-down where once might have been a newspaper article. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn and with some tape-repair thereto, price-clipped, protected by a plastic coat. Stated First Edition, an octavo with 16 black-and-white illustrations and bibliographic checklist items galore. Discussions of Dickens, Doyle, Grey, Lewis, Steinbeck, Twain and others. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 351 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 356082

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Hazen, A.T.

A Bibliography of Horace Walpole

New York / Folkestone, England, Barnes & Noble / Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1973. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in light black cloth, slight sunning along front top edge, light waffling along top edges of a range of pages near book's end, dissipating inward. Quite bright of interior. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, though a bit tone along rear panel top and spine edges. Frontis matter, 3-189 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,

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Book number: 356338

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Heilbronner, Walter L.

Printing and the Book in Fifteenth-Century England: A Bibliographical Survey

Charlottesville, Virginia, Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, the University Press of Virginia, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine survey of the book trade prior to and between the invention of printing to 1500. Printing came relatively late to England. In 1485, Peter Actors was appointed King's Stationer, but no King's Printer was named, and thus book trading grew very slowly, being dominated by French and Germans. Only in 1554, when the English Parliament limited the rights of foreigners engaged in the book trade, and only when England tried to restrict the importation of foreign books as well, did the book trade take off in England. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, bright red cloth over boards, gilt lettering over front board and spine, generally clean, lightly toned edges of endpapers, minimal rubbing to extremities. xiv [2], 4-105 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 356367

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Hesse, Raymond

Histoire Des Societes de Bibliophiles En France de 1820 a 1930: Les Societes Parisiennes D'Avant-Guerre

Paris, L. Giraud-Badin, 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Preface by Henri Beraldi, being a sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, moderate wear of, slight soiling to covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy, printed in black and red lettering to cover, light soiling to rear panel, short closed tear at rear edge, being a numbered copy (Copy No. 318 of 200 copies printed on papier sur velin). Fine black-and-white photograph of Eugene Paillet at frontis, upper page edges unopened. xix + 102 pp. plus a range of pages also unopened at fore-edges. French language text. This volume provides an excellent overview of the social and literary history of French bibliophile societies. Complete with detailed descriptions of the publications they sponsored.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 346531

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Keywords: Bibliophilia|Raymond Hesse|Henri Beraldo|Societes de Bibliophiles|French bibliophiles|French language

Holt, Guy

James Branch Cabell

Philadelphia, The Centaur Book Shop, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. SIGNED by the compiler, "For Ray, this opusculura, which he need not read. Guy." Another fine contribution to the series The Centaur Bibliographies of American Authors, compiled by Guy Holt about the works of James Branch Cabell. Little hardcover tome, bound simply in brown paper over boards, brown buckram cloth-backed. Printed paper title label over front cover, another to spine, a bit abraded and soiled. Interior clan, unmarked. No. 10 of 500 copies printed, and the third in the series following Joseph Hergesheimer and Stephen Crane. 73 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 356089

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Hurlimann, Bettina

Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe

Cleveland and New York, World Publishing Company, 1968. First American Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound handsomely in brick-red cloth over boards, with sharp and distinct gilt illustration to front cover, lettering to spine. A bit of smudging to bottom page tips. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, machine- but not price-clipped, protected by a plastic coat. Stated First U.S. Edition. Considered still one of the authoritative works on European, especially German and Swiss, children's literature and book illustration. Plentiful black-and-white photographs and some in full-color, full-page. xviii, 1-297 pp. with bibliography, notes and index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Keywords: Bettina Hurlimann children's books European booksellers illustrated books

Carter, John and Graham Pollard

The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co. : Footnote to an Enquiry

London / New York, Rupert Hart-Davis / Charles Scribner, 1948. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Part of this monograph was to be read as a paper contributed to the Bibliographic Society, it being a piercing, engrossing chapter in the bibliography of forgery, being focused on several forgeries of pamphlets alleged to have been written and published by Swinburne but that were proved, in "An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphelts," to have been forged. Two bibliographers at the top of their game, here, and the footnotes are just as fascinating to read as the text. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was an influential English author. Charles Ottley, Landon and Co. was an imaginary organization. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, bound in printed blue softpaper wraps, minor wear of covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Introduction and a Preface and then essays on "The Four Pamphlets," "The Official Story Examined," "The Redway Editions of A Word For the Navy," "Wise and the Redway Editions," plus conclusions and chronology. Three plates in black-and-white. 95 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 357060

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Johnson, Cecil

Bibliography of the Writings of George Sterling

San Francisco, California, The Windsor Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only two additional copies available on-line. First Edition; limited to 300 copies. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Dark blue cloth, rubbed gilt lettering to spine. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii [1], 63 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Katz, Joseph, ed.

Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Volume I, 1971

Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The inaugural edition of a fine series published to enable the work of bibliographers and textual studies mavens everywhere, and from the personal library of Robert Allen of Altadena, California, a noted bookseller and appraiser. His gift inscription there at first free endpaper. Published in Columbia, South Carolina in First Edition state by the University of South Carolina Press, 1971. Illustrated with a color frontispiece in several pages of Herman Melville's contract with his publishers for The Whale (that became Moby-Dick in the U.S.) and additional black-and-white plates galore. Bright red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. 435 pp. One of 1500 copies printed.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 356078

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Keywords: bibliography textual studies Joseph Katz Herman Melville

Sagar, Keith and Stephen Tabor

Ted Hughes: A Bibliography 1946-1980

London, England, Mansell Publishing Limited, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and due homage to and a thorough bibliography of the poet Ted Hughes' output between 1946 and 1980, with full details, year by year, item by item. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright red cloth over boards, sharp and distinct blue lettering over boards. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Fine frontis portrait of Ted Hughes in black-and-white. xiv, 1-260 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Korshin, Paul J., General Editor

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. 5 - for 1979

New York, Published for the Eighteenth-Century Studies by the A.M.S. Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover in black cloth, clean, unmarked interior, minimal 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. xiv [1], 2-643 pp. 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.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Korshin, Paul J., General Editor

The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, N.S. No. 5, 1979

New York, Printed for the American Bibliographical Society, by the A.M.S. Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the black 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. xiv [1], 2-643 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 356018

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Keywords: The Eighteenth CenturyJim Springer Borck The 18th century literary criticism literary biography social studies political studies typography bibliography

Korshin, Paul J.

Typologies in England, 1650-1820

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The author delineates the development of typology from the theological to the secular sphere through a study of abstracted typology, or types, that writers transferred from their customary religious contexts and put into various genres of literature. That included poetry and fables, novels and histories. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in teal cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Very slight stain to bottom edge near spine, larger damp-staining to dust jacket spine bottom, protected by Brodart, lightly sunned along edges, else fully intact, else quite bright and lovely of interior, unmarked. Thirty-four black-and-white plates, printed on high-gloss paper. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvii [2], 3-437 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Good,

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Book number: 356351

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Keywords: Paul J. Korshin typologies typology English font English font foundries

Laasonen, Pentti, Anto Leikola, Tapio Markkanen, Leena Parssinen, Esko Rahikainen, eds.

Mundus Librorum: Essays on Books and the History of Learning

Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki University Library, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine copy of a Finnish language festschrift devoted to the life and work and teaching of Esko Hakli, the master librarian and bibliographer, edited by Pentti Laasonen, Anto Leikola, Tapio Markkanen, Leena Parssinen, Esko Rahikainen, and then with several dozen additional contributions, short and loving. 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; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Extremely handsomely bound in two-tone, blue cloth over boards, blue cloth-backed, and with bright and sharp gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. [6], 7-496 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Lamb, C.M., ed.

The Calligrapher's Handbook

London, Faber and Faber, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Blue cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering at spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, price-clipped. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations, some in facsimile, printed on high-gloss paper. Contributions by the editor and by M.C. Oliver, William Bishop, John Woodcock, Alfred Fairbank, M. Therese Fisher, Sydney M. Cockerell, Margaret L. Hodgson, William M. Gardner, Dorothy Hutton, Berthold Wolpe and Irene Base. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [4], 5-253 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 356341

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Keywords: C.M. Lamb M.C. Oliver William Bishop John WOodcock Alfred Fairbank M. Therese Fisher Sydney M. Cockerell Margaret L. Hodgson William M. Gardner Dorothy Hutton Berthold Wolpe Irene Base