Category: Books on Books

A lot of 11 Bookseller's catalogues (1930s and 1940s) - contents clean and tight in original printed wrappers with some dust toning. Listings for more than 5,000 items.
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MICHIGAN THROUGH THREE CENTURIES - A Guide to an Exhibition of Books, Maps and Manuscripts in the William L. Clements Library

By: Adams, Randolph G.

Price: $6.94

Publisher: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press: 1937

Seller ID: 38756

Condition: Very Good+

20 pages; A nicely produced catalogue of the 50 items on display in the exhibition commemorating the centennial of the University of Michigan. Clean and tight in original light blue printed wrappers.
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JAMES SMITH REID 1846-1926

By: Adcock, F. E

Price: $6.94

Publisher: London, Humphrey Milford Amen House: 1929

Seller ID: 36953

Condition: Very Good

13 pages; A memorial tribute From the Proceedings of the British Academy. Volume XIII. Printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford. OCLC: 20124307 Reid was a classical scholar and historian; He served as Professor of Ancient History and a Fellow and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Reid was also the editor of Cicero's. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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UKRAINSKA HRAFIKA XI-POCHATKU XX ST Albom

By: Andrij Oleksijovic V'unik

Price: $74.94

Publisher: Kiev, Mystetstvo: 1994

Seller ID: 40251

ISBN: 5771506214

Condition: Very Good+

Ukrainian Edition; 326 pages; Former owner's name on ffep, otherwsie clean and tight in original pictorial boards. Text in Ukrainian. Profusely illustrated in black & white. OCLC 751297842 Summary and list of illustrations in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-317)
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SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY ON JAPAN

By: Anesaki, Masahuru

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Tokyo, Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai: 1934

Seller ID: 41310

Condition: Very Good+

38 pages; Clean and tight in original black wrappers with gilt lettering and design on front wrapper. OCLC: 6685518 "The following list of books (in English) is selected primarily to facilitate the study or general reading on things Japanese by those who are relatively unfamiliar with Japan..." ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Image for Les Privileges Du Cocuage, Ouvrage Utile et Necessaire tant aux Cornards Actuels, qu'aux Cocus eu Herbe A Vicon, chez Jean Cornichon, à l'enseigne du Coucou, 1682

Les Privileges Du Cocuage, Ouvrage Utile et Necessaire tant aux Cornards Actuels, qu'aux Cocus eu Herbe A Vicon, chez Jean Cornichon, à l'enseigne du Coucou, 1682

By: Anonymous; [attributed variously to Eustache Le Noble ; Samuel Chappuzeau ; P. L. Jacob]

Price: $174.99

Publisher: (Bruxelles), (J. Gay): 1860

Seller ID: 42462

Condition: Near Fine

139 pages; Réimpression faite à Bruxelles, par J. Gay, 1860, avec une notice bibliographique de P. Lacroix. [Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. Emile Desmazières] Reimpression faite a 200 exemplaires sur papier de Hollande. No. 63 [of 200] Original plain blue-green wrappers in glassine jacket. Very Good+ This nicely produced reissue of this satirical exposition of the 'privileges' of cuckoldry takes the form of lengthy dialogue between Le Cocu and Le Jaloux. OCLC 1063428053 "THE BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES OF CUCKOLDS, Shewing the little Disgrace there is in being one, and the O...
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Image for The Charles Meeker Kozlay Collection Of Bret Harte First Editions Rare Ephemera ... To Which Are Added Mr. Kozlay's Collection Of First Editions Of Modern Authors ... [to Be Sold Thursday, March 18, 1926]

The Charles Meeker Kozlay Collection Of Bret Harte First Editions Rare Ephemera ... To Which Are Added Mr. Kozlay's Collection Of First Editions Of Modern Authors ... [to Be Sold Thursday, March 18, 1926]

By: Association, American Art

Price: $49.94

Publisher: American Art Association: 1926

Seller ID: 39444

Condition: Very Good

98 pages; Annotated with prices realized, otherwise clean and secure in attractive binding of quarter brown claf and marbled boards with gilt lettering and floral image at spine and a different floral image at bottom of front board; original wrappers bound in, corners of boards rubbed. Auction catalogue including 647 titles of which 382 are Harte items. OCLC: 8567137
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Good Books for the Collector and the Librarian - Catalogue Number 30

By: Atlas Book Shop

Price: $9.94

Publisher: New York, Atlas Book Shop: 1940

Seller ID: 40832

Condition: Very Good

24 pages; Clean and tight in original printed self-wrappers. Part I: Americana; Part II: Art and Illustrated Books; Part III: Miscellany ; Part IV: Books about Books. No date printed on catalogue, but approximatley 1940. This estimate is based on the following: Atlas Book Shop was active from 1915 until 1959; the recipient of this catalogue (address label on rear wrapper) lived in Cambridge from 1927 until 1941; and the catalogues surrounding this in Mr. Dwyer's shelved collection were all dated 1939 or 1940. 421 items included.
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Americana - Catalogue Number 29

By: Atlas Book Shop

Price: $9.94

Publisher: New York, Atlas Book Shop: 1939

Seller ID: 40833

Condition: Very Good

24 pages; Clean and tight in original printed self-wrappers. No date printed on catalogue, but approximatley 1939. This estimate is based on the following: Atlas Book Shop was active from 1915 until 1959; the recipient of this catalogue (address label on rear wrapper) lived in Cambridge from 1927 until 1941; and the catalogues surrounding this in Mr. Dwyer's shelved collection were all dated 1939 or 1940. 606 items included.
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Image for HAND-LIST OF LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS AND SESSION LAWS, Statutory Revisions, Compilations, Codes, Etc., And Constitutional Conventions of the United States and its possessions and of the several states to May, 1912

HAND-LIST OF LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS AND SESSION LAWS, Statutory Revisions, Compilations, Codes, Etc., And Constitutional Conventions of the United States and its possessions and of the several states to May, 1912

By: Babbitt, Charles J. ; Prepared Under the Direction of Charles F. D. Belden

Price: $399.95

Publisher: Boston, State Library of Massachusetts: 1912

Seller ID: 40123

Condition: Very Good

634+ pages; Blue library-style buckram binding with gilt lettering at spine, a specially bound copy interleaved with blank pages many of which have extensive annotations by the former owner Francis X. Dwyer regarding additions and corrections, some with vendors and prices. Also tipped-in to the interleaved blanks and laid-in are typed notes of additional materials located/acquired. Dwyer's name is written across top edge of text block and is also imprinted in gilt at the base of the spine. OCLC: 1863111 Francis X. Dwyer served in the Law Libraries at Harvard, and later, as librarian at the La...
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SOME NOTES ON PRINTING & PUBLISHING IN RENAISSANCE VENICE

By: Bajetta, C. M.

Price: $14.94

Publisher: New York, The Typophiles: 2000

Seller ID: 41122

Condition: Fine

15 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. A beautifully designed and printed book with four pages of illustrations reproducing examples of Renaissance printing from Venice. Limited to 500 copies. Typophile Monograph, New Series, Number 16. Composed in English Monotype Poliphilus and Blado by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Illustrated. Designed and printed by Roland A. Hoover. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE SPREAD OF LEARNING 1478 - 1978 An Illustrated History

By: Barker, Nicolas

Price: $24.94

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1978

Seller ID: 41383

ISBN: 0199510865

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

xiv, 332 pages; Superficial stain to top page edge, else Fine in Fine dustwrapper; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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First Editions - List 193 and List 193A

By: Barnes & Noble

Price: $29.94

Publisher: New York, Barnes & Noble: 1939

Seller ID: 42090

Condition: Good

22 pages; This sixteen page catalogue along with the six page supplement lists collectible books offered for sale by Barnes & Noble in 1939; it was mimeographed on legal size paper, stapled at upper left corner and folded in the middle. There is one tear to the first sheet and general age toning and dust soiling. A fascinating survivor of an earlier era of book collecting. Though in our current age of ever-declining prices for run-of-the-mill First Editions, there are a few titles on offer in this 1939 catalogue that have seen substantial appreciation. For example, Virginia Woolf's Orlando...
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A Relic of Stuart Popery - Prayers for Queen Mary Beatrice, anno 1680 in Bodleian Library Record - Volume VIII, Number 5 (June 1971)

By: Beddard, Robert

Price: $7.94

Publisher: Oxford, Bodleian Library: 1971

Seller ID: 38417

Condition: Fine

Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. Articles include: Catholics and Bodley by Alan Davidson; Bindings from Oxford Libraries IV: 17th Century Straw Bindings by Giles Barber and David Rogers; Dr. Samuel Johnson and the Principal of St. Mary Hall by David Greenwood; etc. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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THE GYPSIES - Romans from Little Egypt

By: Biddle, Moncure

Price: $9.94

Publisher: Philadelphia, Moncure Biddle & Company: 1940

Seller ID: 38661

Condition: Very Good

37 pages; Clean and tight in original tan printed wrappers. Colour frontispiece and fourteen additional b&w full page illustrations (one folding). Printed at the press of George Buchanan under the direction of Joseph A. Gutekunst. Moncure Biddle, from the famous Philadelphia Biddle family, was an investment banker. a famous bibliophile, a connoisseur of editions of the classics and, by reputation, an eccentric. During the 1940s Biddle published an annual "Christmas Letter" on a topic of literary or bibliographic interest. This book, issued for Christmas 1940, addresses The Gypsies...
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JAY T. SNIDER COLLECTION - New York, November 19, 2008; featuring the History of Philadelphia and Important Americans

By: Bloomsbury Auctions

Price: $19.94

Publisher: New York, Bloomsbury Auctions: 2008

Seller ID: 41778

Condition: Fine

As New in original shipping box. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Friedrich Koenig. Der Erfinder der Druckmaschine, ein Pionier der deutschen Maschinenindustrie

By: Bolza, Albrecht

Price: $9.93

Publisher: Berlin, Deutsches Museum, Abhandlungen und Berichte: 1933

Seller ID: 41866

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

30 pages; 5. Jahrgang, Heft 1, 1930. Illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings of machinery. Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers; publisher's advertising material laid in.
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CARROLL ATWOOD WILSON, 1886-1947

By: C., P. C.

Price: $9.94

Publisher: New York, The Bibliographical Society of America: 1948

Seller ID: 41695

Condition: Very Good

18 pages; Clean and tight in original blue printed wrappers; toned at lower edge of front wrapper. Limited to 1300 copies printed at the Anthoensen Press. A memorial essay on this noted book collector. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Category: Books on Books