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19101298560Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1910. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo; VG-/no-DJ; green and tan spine with black text; cover has rubbing age toning staining on front edgewear writing on spine spine slightly shaken; textblock has age toning edgewear ex library materials on front pastedown and back endpaper writing on front endpaper markings mostly in pencil throughout some sporadic staining all text is clear; pp 184. 1298560. Full-priced Rockville. The Clarendon Press hardcover books
198816433Gwynedd PA: American Protestants for Truth About Ireland 1988. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers; 15pp. Clean and unmarked; Near Fine. American Protestants for Truth About Ireland unknown books
20131320415Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution/National Portrait Gallery 2013. Softcover. Thin Small Octavo; pp 80; VG/paperback; gray/blue/orange pictorial spines with black text; covers clean; faux flap; intact panels; text blocks clean; profusely illustrated; arts - Collection;. 1320415. FP New Rockville Stock. Smithsonian Institution/National Portrait Gallery unknown books
1949628271949. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. FRENCH ART OF THE BOOK. San Francisco Palace of the Legion of Honor 1949. Original printed wrappers. 7 tipped in plates printed on both sides of book illustrations. Errata slip. Wear and soil to wraps internally bright and clean. unknown books
1992608021992. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: Rare Books and Special Collections. An Illustrated Guide. Washington DC: Library of Congress 1992. Oblong 8vo. paper wrappers. Fine. unknown books
186247895Paris: Hachette 1862. Deuxieme edition. 12mo. Morocco over marbled boards; 273pp. Spine leather dry and slightly flaking else a tight Good or better reading copy. Hachette unknown books
1958733321958. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. EARLY PRINTED BOOKS OF THE LOW COUNTRIES. From the Ledding J. Rosenwald Collection. An exhibition at the Library of COngress April 2 1958-August 311959. Washington: L.O.C. 1958. 8vo. wrappers; 37 pp. Mild soil. wear to wraps; clean internally. A very good copy. unknown books
1961668031961. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. PROPOSALS IN THE JOHN JOHNSON COLLECTION. Index to Proposals for English Books up to 1800. Oxford: University Press 1960. Oblong 8vo. stapled wrappers xerox typescript pages 21 with 5 additional stapled leaves laid in "Additions January 1961." Slightly bumped creased with wear to edges of wraps. Very good. unknown books
194172676Philadelphia: Tax Institute 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. index viii 344p. 23cm. No jacket. <br/><br/> Tax Institute hardcover books
1962667531962. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION: Catalogue of Publications Issued and in Preparation 1928-1962. Dublin: Stationery Office c. 1962. 8vo. wrappers. Sunned with a bump to the crown and some minor pencil underlining; typed list of publications through 1964 taped in at one leaf. About very good. unknown books
1876181174Paris. : Calmann Levy. 1876. 10th edition. 1/4 leather. Very good plus light wear to covers contents fine. 18x11.5 cm. . French text. An attractively bound copy of the popular French novel. weight: 0.8 lb. Calmann Levy. hardcover books
000397New York Macmillan 1926. Lilac cloth with some soiling and faded spine else very good. Hand-colored frontispiece and other illustrations. First edition. New York Macmillan 1926. hardcover books
628New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press in Association with the Haddon Craftsmen 1942. . Tall 8vo blue buckram; light parallel scratching to front cover visible in raking light ONE OF 1500 COPIES. "Being a Collection of Essays by: Beatrice Warde Richard Ellis Carl Purington Rollins Bennett A. Cerf George Stevens Philip Van Doren Stern Earl Schenck Miers Lewis Gannett Lawrance Thompson Laurence Gomme Arthur W. Rushmore." New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press in Association with the Haddon Craftsmen, 1942. hardcover books
1875WRCLIT72133Durham CT: Printed for Walter Chauncey Fowler 1875. 4pp. Folded leaflet 24 x 15 cm. Faint tanning at edges minor smudges but very good or better. A contemporary account in verse of an altercation during the Fall term of 1815 involving Yale students at a tavern in Dragon now Fair Haven Heights. Hill read the poem at a meeting of the Scientific Club and sixty years later after his death his classmate W.C. Fowler caused it to be printed with the final page turned over to a densely set explanatory "Note." Hill published at least two volumes of verse during his lifetime was anthologized by E.C. Stedman and edited an anthology of British poets. The publisher William Chauncey Fowler 1793 -1881 was Noah Webster's son-in-law and led a full life as educator pastor author and lexicographer. OCLC/Worldcat which reports an erroneous death date for Fowler locates four copies: Yale AAS Princeton and Brown. OCLC: 28243710. Printed for Walter Chauncey Fowler unknown books
1967410161967. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES on one hundred books famous in English literature. Compiled by Henry W. Kent. New York: Grolier Club 1903. New York: Kraus Reprint edition 1967. 4to. grey cloth. Fine. unknown books
193984206Cairo except for No. 6 which was published in London: Various publishers 1939. Paperback. Very Good. Shortest is 8 pages longest about 40 pages. Original wrappers. Generally about 25cm. Later owner's labels identify each pamphlet as having come from the library of Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb. <br/><br/> Various publishers paperback books
66689Takeley: Elkin Mathews nd. Four parts bound in one volume. Fine in full cloth with gilt-stamped leather spine label. Takeley: Elkin Mathews hardcover books
186535156Paris: Hachette 1865. First Edition. Octavo. Contemporary gilt-decorated morocco over marbled boards spine in six compartments; 424 2pp. Bookplate private shelf label and ownership signature of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Thomas Jefferson's great-grandson and minister plenipotentiary to France from 1892-1893. Slight rubbing to board edges; sun-darkening to spine with a bit of dryness and minor flaking to leather; still a nicely preserved copy Very Good or better. First title in About's trilogy "La Vieille Roche" which attacked the conventional morals of Parisian society and of the Roman Catholic church. VICAIRE Manuel de L'Amateur 1:p.9. Hachette unknown books
185756217New York: Dix Edwards 1857. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Good. Translated. 360p. Original cloth. 18cm. Spine lettering indistinct. Ends of backstrip frayed. <br/><br/> Dix, Edwards hardcover books
1874118264New York: Henry Holt and Company 1874. Octavo pp. 1-8 1 2-240 fly leaves at front and rear original decorated tan cloth front spine and rear panels stamped in black publisher's ads printed in red on endpapers. First U.S. edition of this translation. "The Notary's Nose" was published earlier in the U.S. as THE NOSE OF A NOTARY Boston: Loring 1863. This Holt edition includes a short story "Uncle and Nephew." Part of Holt's "Leisure Hour Series." A short and somewhat humorous science-fiction novel about the consequences of a medical operation in which a man who has lost his nose in a duel has a new one fashioned out of the flesh of another man's arm. The nose retains an occult connection with its former owner and complications ensue. A variation on the idea that transplants of tissue and organs would also in effect transplant personality a trope that goes back to FRANKENSTEIN. Leypoldt and Holt had earlier published About's THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN EAR the second of three short science-fiction novels written by About. Reginald 00014A. Versins Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de Science Fiction p. 12. Slight spine lean some age-darkening and light soiling to cloth a good sound copy. #118264 Henry Holt and Company unknown books
1970724691970. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: FALES LIBRARY CHECKLIST. In two volumes. Revised and edited by Theodore Grieder. New York: AMS Press Inc. 1970. 4to. blue cloth. Slightly rubbed with one opening corner bumped and one volume just skewed. Clean tight copies; very good plus. unknown books
1889000863Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie 1889. Bound by Pagnant in 3/4 teal morocco over marbled boards. Limited to 900 copies this is #675. Issued with a double suite of illustrations by Felicien de Myrbach. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine has five raised bands with elaborate gilt panels. Wide margined text in French. Light overall wear with an occasional nick else a thoroughly handsome clean tight volume. 224pp. . Limited Edition. Quarto. Librairie Hachette et Cie hardcover books
188221938Wien Pest Leipzig: A. Hartlebens Verlag 1882. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with 14 wonderful chromolithogrphs and full page black and white plates some folding. 806 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco with contrasting leather labels t.e.g. Fine. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with 14 wonderful chromolithogrphs and full page black and white plates some folding. 806 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. A wonderful book. A. Hartlebens Verlag unknown books
19472459Paris 1947. All copies except that of journal issue no. 2 are #1348 of 1700 on various papers Boucher Lana or Schwindenhammer from a total of either 1900 or 1920. 4to; handsomely rebound in 3/4 black first vol. or ruby red remaining three vols. morocco and marbled paper boards spines with gilt lettering marbled endpapers t.e.g. original wrappers with special front and rear designs bound in. Binding of first vol. is slightly worn; else fine. With numerous plates text illustrations and ornaments the latter usually commissioned especially for the issue all relating to the visual arts of the book typographic and illustrative. unknown books
1199London: Elliot Stock 1907. . 8vo blue cloth worn. Volumes for the years 1913-1928; plus index volume 1907-1916. Price includes shipping by book rate with the contiguous USA London: Elliot Stock, 1907. hardcover books
