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Subject: Books about Books
Portrait of a chef: The life of Alexis Soyer, sometime chef to the Reform club
Morris, Helen
/ NY/Cambridge: The Macmillan Co./Cambridge University Press 1938
first edition, first printing; xii, 221 pp., plates; original maroon cloth (hardcover), fine in an edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: cook books cookbooks
Item #: 1322481
$68.60
Holiday Greetings from The Limited Editions Club 1966
The Limited Editions Club; Jospeh Addison
/ NY: The Limited Editions Club 1966
single-sheet folded to four pages; Joseph Addison quote from The Spectator to the decorated from cover; fine in the LEC mailer. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books limited editions club
Item #: 1313782
$39.23
Go Forth and be Useful. Valedictory address of the dean to the class of 1962, School of Library Service, University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Clark Powell
/ School of Library Service, University of California, Los Angeles 1962
limited to 150 copies, printed by W. M. Cheney; 8 pp., original string-tied printed paper wrappers, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books office
Item #: 1313781
$55.29
The Ten Great American Classics. Selected by fifty of America's leading literary men
George Macy
/ NY: The Limited Editions Club 1941
18 pp., original paper wrappers, minor soiling to the front cover, else very good; two-page typed letter from George Macy laid in. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1313328
$50.94
Splendor Solis (Artist's Book)
Fred Cray, photographer
/ (New York): Fred Cray 2019
limited to 31 numbered copies, signed by Fred Cray; 105 pp., with 19 original tipped-in color photographs, along with hand colored pages by the artist with gold leaf applied on two; original red cloth, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: art ngx artists' books
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Item #: 1312771
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$460.09
The American Book Collector (formerly The Amateur Book Collector). Volumes 5-8 & 13, 1955-1963
W. B. Thorsen, editor
/ Chicago: W. B. Thorsen 1955
5 complete volumes, all in the original paper wrappers except for vol. 13 which is bound in later red cloth with the original paper wrappers retained; very good. Volumes
Included: 5
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1299658
$70.09
The American Book Collector. A montly magazine for book lovers. Volume 2, Nos. 1-6, July-December 1932
Charles F. Heartman, Harry B. Weiss, editors
/ Metuchen: The American Book Collector 1932
complete volume in six issues; 377 pp. + ads; original printed paper wrappers, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1299657
$53.39
you talkin' to me? (An exhibition catalogue of works by Ugo Rondinone, Tristin Lowe, Vanessa Beercroft, Gabriel Martinez, Virgil Marti, and Anne Sauser-Hall)
Patrick T. Murphy
/ Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1996
approx. 40 pp., incldues 6 slides and record in rear pocket, printed softcover, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: pml art artists' books
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Item #: 1292021
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$175.04
The Holkham Bible Picture Book
W. O. Hassall
/ London: The Dropmore Press 1954
limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the author; small folio, vii, 191, [1] pp., plates; illustrated full red leather by W. M. Smith & Son, top raised band bumped and now lacking the leather covering, else near fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books sam15 office
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Item #: 1290529
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$440.90
The Pentateuch of Printing. With a chapter on Judges. With a memoir of the author, and list of his works, by Talbot B. Reed
William Blades
/ Chicago: A. C. McClurg 1891
first American edition, published by A. C. McClurg in 1891; xxvii, 117 pp., original gilt stamped blue cloth, corners and edges worn, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1283484
$10.36
The Reformed Librarie-Keeper, or Two Copies of Letters Concerning the Place of Office of a Librarie-Keeper. Literature of Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
John Dury
/ Chicago: A. C. McClurg, printed at The Merrymount Press 1906
large-paper edition, limited to 25 numbered copies printed at The Merrymount Press; 71 pp., original marbled boards & black cloth backstrip (hardcover), spine lightly rubbed, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literature books about books
Item #: 1283481
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$416.20
The Greatest Book in the World and Other Papers
Newton, A. Edward
/ Little, Brown & Co. 1925
fourth edition, inscribed by A. Edward Newton at the front free endpaper; xvii, 451 pp., color frontis., b&w plates; original boards & cloth backstrip (hardcover), very good in a worn slipcase. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1283159
$57.26
Bibliotheca Grenvilliana; Part the Third, completing the Catalogue of the Library bequeathed to the British Museum by the late Right Hon. Thomas Grenville. With a general index
(Thomas Grenville)
/ London: The British Museum 1872
219 pp., frontis., early 20th century cloth (hardcover), top of the front joint rubbed, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1283158
$32.37
Door County Plat Book and Index to Owners
Schinkten, Adolph
/ Bayprint, Inc. 1969
this is the 1969 printing, 50 pp., paperback, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: jkt maps wisconsin plat book
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Item #: 1282860
$14.68
Let's Find Out about Heat, Weather and Air. A Picture Science Book
Nina Schneider; Herman Schneider
/ William B. Scott Inc. 1946
38 pp., Hardcover, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: jkt children's science book
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Item #: 1281970
$9.14
Temperance Tales for Young Readers
James Ballantyne
/ Edinburgh: A. Muirhead 1850
measures 8 x 13 cm., 128 pp., frontis.; original gilt & blind stamped full leather, a.e.g., spine rubbed, book plate to the front paste down and front free endpaper, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: temperance alcohol gbl office miniature books
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Item #: 1278371
$52.78
20 Poems from the Book of Hours. Translated by Joan M. Erikson. Woodcuts by Erik H. Erikson
Rainer Maria Rilke
/ Taucross Farm Press 1988
limited to 225 copies, signed by Joan M. Erickson, printed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press; [26] pp., original boards & cloth backstrip (hardcover), fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: poetry small press books
Item #: 1267348
$65.12
The Adagio Press - Ephemera
Leonard F. Bahr
/ Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio Press 1968
9 promotional pieces issued by the press, viz.: Typographic Doodling; Antique, Decorated & Kindred Types; The Artist of Kouroo by Thoreau; The Adagio Press (on yellow paper); Adagio: The private press of Leonard F. Bahr; Announcing an interesting new publication...; The Evolution of Printing Presses from Wood to Metal: An essay in tribute to Paul A. Bennett; Man errs so long as he strives...Goethe, Faust; Adagio: The private press of Leonard F. Bahr, MLA Quarterly, a private press profile; all folded single sheets, except for the Bennett tribute which is 8 pages in green paper wrappers; all on high quality paper of various colors; fine in the publisher's printed envelope. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books fine presses ngx
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Item #: 1267339
$65.06
Cartografia dei sentimenti
Donatella Franchi, Madeleine de Scudery, Angela Cattaneo
/ Donatella Franchi 2004
Limite to 100 numbered coies. Paper box contains one spool of ribbon with text. On sides of paper spool: a colored pencil drawing of a compass & on the verso a stamp "Lascito Madeleine de ScudeÌ?ry" with edition number & signature of the artist. Two sheets of instructions rolled & tied with string. One sheet with a poem "Mes amies" by Angela Cattaneo, dated agosto 2004, also rolled & tied. One folded map (17 x 17 cm) entitled: "La carta du pays de tendre, Madeleine de Scudery." Map includes title & author information and the date, Maggio 2004. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: officeglass artists books ngx
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Item #: 1263072
$84.54
Perhaps the greatest incomparable autobiography in the world
Matthews, Jack
/ Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society 1986
15 pp., softcover, limited to 150 signed and numbered copies, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books booksellers bibliophiles
Item #: 1259433
$8.45