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Principles Of Bibliographical Description
by Fredson Bowers
From the text: "The craze for first impressions of first editions, and first issues of first impressions of first editions, and first states of first impressions of first editions, has occasionally resulted in speculation and bibliographical absurdity among collectors and dealers.... Any minor change made in the course of the original printing is immediately seized on as constituting an 'issue.' A trial binding used for perhaps twenty copies of salesmen's samples becomes a rare 'first issue.'"
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![Bibliopola: Bilder und Texte aus der Welt des Buchhandels / Pictures and Texts about the Book Trade / Images et Textes sur la Librairie [2 Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/522/740/1577740522.0.b.jpg)
Bibliopola: Bilder und Texte aus der Welt des Buchhandels / Pictures and Texts about the Book Trade / Images et Textes sur la Librairie [2 Volumes]
by Sigfred Taubert
Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co / Allen Lane The Penguin Press. 2 volume set. 1st printing (1966). 123+523pp. Original oatmeal linen with red leather title labels with gilt lettering. Triple language: German/English/French. Both vols VG copies, bindings square and tight, both have some toning to cloth covers, vol.1 title label chipped, vol.2 has a small dent and a small mark to spine, internally excellent with all plates present, vol.1 has single "Editorial File Copy" stamp on ffep, no...
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CA$34.60
The printed book in America
by Blumenthal, Joseph
London: Scolar Press, in association with the Dartmouth College Library, 1977. First British edition, 4to, pp. xvi, 250, [1]; 70 full-page illustrations; bottom spine end bumped, with resulting creases in cloth and dust jacket, else very good.
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CA$47.71
The Ward Ritchie Press and Anderson, Ritchie & Simon
by Ritchie, Ward
[Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press], 1961. Edition ltd. to 1300 copies, this being one of 1000 copies in the trade edition; 8vo, x, 156, [1]; title page printed in brown and turquoise, 28 full-page illustrations printed in various colors, other decorations in the text; fine in original blindstamped black cloth and paper label on spine. Bookplate of James Ekman. A bibliography of books designed and printed by Ward Ritchie.
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CA$23.86
The Design of Books
by Adrian Wilson
Studio Vista, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1967. 159 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Beige pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Tape marks to endpapers and pastedowns. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine...
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CA$13.79
The Story of Frederic W. Goudy
by Beilenson, Peter
[Marlborough, NY]: The Distaff Side, 1939. Edition limited to 300, 8vo, 58, [12]; largely unopened; title-page portrait, 8 full-page litho prints at back; near in blue-green paper-covered boards, paper labels on spine and upper cover. From the library of Kim Merker. Printed in honor of Goudy's 74th birthday.
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CA$95.43
The printed book in America
by Blumenthal, Joseph
Hanover and London: University Press of New England for Dartmouth College Library, 1989. 4to, pp. xvi, 250, [2]; 70 full-page illustrations; fine in original red cloth, in a near fine dust jacket with small break at the top of the spine.
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CA$55.67
Papermaking through eighteen centuries
by Hunter, Dard
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First trade edition, with additional material over that of the limited edition of 1923; 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 358; folding frontispiece and over 200 illustrations throughout; previous owner's inscription else a fine copy in original brown cloth gilt, t.e.g.
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CA$238.57
This book-collecting game
by NEWTON, A. EDWARD
Boston: Little, Brown, 1928. Edition limited to 990 signed copies on large paper, large 8vo, pp. [16], 410-[411]; color frontis, numerous plates and illus. in text, some in color; preserving the original tissue dust jacket (chipped and with some tears), else a fine copy in orig. yellow buckram-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on spine, publisher's slipcase.
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CA$278.33
Printing types: their history, forms and use. A study in survivals
by Updike, Daniel Berkeley
London: Oxford University Press, 1937. Second printing of the second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xl, 292; xix, [1], 326; 367 plates (some folding) showing examples of the use of type from Gutenberg through the early 20th century; very good in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spines, in dust jackets with short chips, splits, and tears. From the library of Kim Merker.
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CA$119.28
This book-collecting game
by NEWTON, A. EDWARD
Boston: Little, Brown, 1928. First trade edition, 8vo, pp. [14], 410, [2]; color frontis, numerous plates and illus. in text; dust jacket with a fingernail-size chip out at the bottom of the spine, one or two crease tears, else a very good copy with the publisher's slipcase (missing the top and bottom, and acting more like a chemise). Fifteen essays, including one on The Auction Room and another on the 100 best novels.
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CA$103.38
History Of Printing In America: With a Biography of Printers & an Account of Newspapers
by Thomas, Isaiah
Gramercy, 1988-12-12. Reprint . Hardcover. Clean & Unmarked/Very Good. 9x6x2. A very clean and straight copy in like dust jacket. 650 pp.
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CA$34.58
Fine Print: a review for the arts of the book
by Kirshenbaum, Sandra
San Francisco, 1990. A complete file of this influential journal, 64 issues in all. Folio, original pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout; generally fine throughout. Volume I, no, 1 to volume XVI, no. 4 [all published]. Includes the last number, The Complete Index to Fine Print, 1975-1990, often missing.
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CA$1,510.93
This book-collecting game
by NEWTON, A. EDWARD
Boston: Little, Brown, 1928. Edition limited to 990 signed copies on large paper, large 8vo, pp. [16], 410-[411]; color frontis, numerous plates and illus. in text, some in color; a few minor imperfections, else a fine copy in orig. yellow buckram-backed paper-covered boards, paper label on spine, publisher's slipcase peeling along one joint.
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CA$238.57
The Presence of the Past: T. S. Eliot's Victorian Inheritance (Studies in Modern Literature, No. 8)
by Tobin, David Ned
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1983. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0835714136 . Covers slightly worn at corners and spine ends. Former owner's info penned to ffep. Otherwise, clean and tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 180 pages .
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CA$48.40
A manual of the art of bookbinding: containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing. Also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper. The whole designed for the practical workman, the amateur, and the book-collector
by Nicholson, James B
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1871. Stereotyped edition (first published in 1856), 8vo, pp. 318, 23 (ads); frontispiece, 7 samples of marbled paper inserted, as issued, 11 plates of binding designs and a few wood-engravings in the text; original black cloth, gilt title direct on spine, bookseller's ticket on front pastedown; upper joint split, text block shaken, several gatherings extended, spine ends a bit chipped; good. James Bartram Nicholson (1820-1901) spent most of his life in Philadelphia in...
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CA$318.09
Papermaking through eighteen centuries
by Hunter, Dard
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First trade edition, with additional material over that of the limited edition of 1923; 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 358; folding frontispiece and over 200 illustrations throughout, fine copy in original brown cloth gilt, t.e.g., red morocco label on spine lettered in gilt, without the dust jacket. Standard history of the subject. This copy with a typed letter from Dard Hunter (signed with his Library of Papermaking rubberstamp) laid in. Hunter apologizes for the delay in...
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CA$357.85
The Story of Frederic W. Goudy
by Beilenson, Peter
Mt. Vernon, N.Y.: printed for the Goudy Centennial at the Peter Pauper Press, 1965. Edition limited to 1950 copies, small 8vo, pp. 68, [2]; portrait illustration of Goudy on title page; fine in original terracotta cloth. From the library of Kim Merker. Goudy's "favorite biography," this account was previously published in the magazine, Inland Printer, in 1933-34 and by the author, with revisions, in 1939. Typophile Chapbook no. 41.
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CA$39.76
A manual of the art of bookbinding
by Nicholson, James B
Sussex, N.J.: Iris Nevins, 1986. Edition limited to 300 copies (this, no. 37) signed by the publisher; 12mo, pp. [4], 318; a facsimile of the 1874 edition, with additions; 18 marbled paper specimens by Nevins according to directions given in the text, 12 facsimiles of the original plates; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, marbled paper onlay on upper cover; fine. James Bartram Nicholson (1820-1901) spent most of his life in Philadelphia in partnership with the English binder,...
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CA$238.57
The design of books
by Wilson, Adrian
Salt Lake and Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, Inc, 1974. 4to, pp. 159, [1]; endpapers with Nuremberg Chronicle facsimiles, and the book itself profusely illustrated; original wrappers; back cover and last 20 leaves dampstained; all else very good. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed: "For Kim Merker, fellow printer, Adrian."
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CA$119.28
Papermaking: the history and technique of an ancient craft. Second edition, revised and enlarged
by Hunter, Dard
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. Third printing of the best edition, 8vo, xxiv, 611, [1], xxxvii, [3]; folding map, folding plate, 317 illustrations in the text; a fine, bright copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and a slightly chipped, price-clipped dust jacket.
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CA$119.28
English Poetic Theory 1825-1865 (Princeton Studies in English, No. 29)
by Warren, Alba H. Jr
Princeton: Princeton University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers worn lightly at edge. Former owner's info on ffep. Jacket worn and soiled at edges and folds with a few small creases and tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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CA$13.83
A Guide to Psychiatric Books in English
by Menninger, Karl A
Grune & Stratton. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1972. Third Edition. Hardcover. Full page inscription from Jan and Karl Menninger to Jim and Geneva Folsom, in Karl Menningers writing, dated 1976. Blue cloth covers show light speckling along spine and top board; Spine ends are very lightly rubbed; Volume is otherwise fine; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 238 pages; Signed by Author .
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CA$27.66
The magic of the book
by ORCUTT, WILLIAM DANA
Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. First trade edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 314, [2]; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; fine copy in a slightly chipped jacket. Presentation copy "Inscribed for Elmer L. Andersen with the author's kindest regards, William Dana Orcutt, Boston, 5 November, 1945."
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CA$238.57
Behind the type: the life story of Frederic W. Goudy
by Lewis, Bernard
Pittsburgh: Dept. of Printing, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1941. Edition ltd. to 1600 copies, 8vo, pp. [12], 113, [1]; portrait frontispiece & illustrations in text; fine in original blue paper-covered, cloth-backed boards gilt. Printed in Monotype Goudy Village 410.
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CA$31.81
Life in Boxes: Comic Art & Artifacts
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Very Good; Covers worn.. 2009. Softcover. 145785936X . Catalogue of a October 27, 2008 - March 22, 2009 exhibition selected from the Steven Rothman Collection of Comics, Cartoons, and Graphic Novels, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, curated by Steven Rothman. Artwork by Andrea Gottschalk and students from John Moore’s 2008 Graduate Drawing Seminar. Stapled illustrated glossy wraps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages .
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CA$20.74
