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Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1974. Very Good condition. Square and tight. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original stiff wraps. 6.25" wide by 9.25" tall. . First Edition. Softcover (stapled wraps). Very Good condition. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 019105

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Thackeray, William Makepeace (illustrator). First American Edition?. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1900. Very Good condition. Light corner wear. Clean, square, and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with 50 black-and-white drawings by Thackeray. Bound in the original blue patterned cloth. Gilt lettering on the spine is still bright and shiny. Top edge gilt. The year of publication, 1900, is printed at the foot of the title page. Copyright is 1899. The bibliography appears on pages 319 through 338. Although the title page says the bibliography covers the years 1843-1848, in fact it describes Thackeray's PUNCH contributions (writings and drawings) from 1842 to 1854, inclusive. It also identifies the cartoons by John Leech and Richard Doyle that were "suggested by Thackeray." Index. . First American Edition? Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Thackeray, William Makepeace. 8vo. xx, 349pp. + 2 pages of ads. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 003406

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good EX-LIBRARY. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Berkeley, CA: Peacock Press, 1965. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. WITHDRAWN stamp on the front free endpaper. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. This revision by Wanda Underhill is the last and best edition. Limited edition. Never reprinted. Contains key pre-1965 data that are missing from Zempel/Verkler and McBride. Still one of the best guides for first edition identification, especially for books published before 1965. Bound in the original maroon cloth, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. . Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket, as issued. 231pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 017024

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Edition. Boston, Massachusetts: Goodspeed's Bookshop, 1956. Near Fine condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are unmarked. A double number. Bound in the original pictorial wraps. 4.5" wide by 7.25" tall. First Edition. Softcover (stapled wraps). Near Fine condition. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 018675

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. Revised Ediition. London: Printing Historical Society, 1991. A beautiful copy. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1991. Revised Edition. Edited with an Introduction by Robin Myers. Bibliography. Index. Handsomely bound in the original green cloth, stamped in bright gold over a black panel on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. . Revised Ediition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. xx, 95pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 019436

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. 1969 reprint of the 1915 original. New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. Brand New in perfect condition (just removed from the publisher's shrink wrap so we could write this description). Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. Not all "odd volumes" are worth only peanuts. What appear to be odd volumes are sometimes all that exist of a work, because additional volumes projected were discontinued due to death, political suppression, discouragement, economics or other reasons. This bibliography identifies and describes uncompleted works by Macaulay, Lord Acton, Bacon, Keats, Spenser, Goldsmith, Thackeray, Dickens, R. L. Stevenson, etc. It is cross referenced to Allibone, the British Museum Catalog, DNB, Lowndes, Upcott, Watt, etc. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Besterman 840. 1969 reprint of the 1915 original. Hardcover. New/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xvi, 255pp.

Seller Inventory # 017181

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1971. Very Good condition. Square and tight. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Bound in the original stiff wraps. 6.25" wide by 9.25" tall. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 019099

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966. Fine condition in a Good dust jacket (price clipped). The jacket is a little wrinkled along its spine, and has one short closed tear. It is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NO chips. NO creases. Sharp corners. Previous owner's bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are creamy white, crisp and unmarked. 1966. First Edition with "First Printing" so stated on the copyright page. Entertaining memoirs of extraordinary finds, great auctions, bookish associations with Thomas J. Wise, Alfred Pollard, Seymour de Ricci, John Pierpont Morgan, Baron Rothschild, the Duke of Windsor, George Bernard Shaw, Edward Ayer, Henry Clay Folger, Henry Huntington, etc. The author's pleasures, rivalries, and passion for books are engagingly described. Bound in the original brown cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine and with a facsimile of the author's signature on the front cover. Complete with dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 220pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 023601

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First U. S. Edition. New York: S. G. Phillips, Inc., 1978. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. NOT price clipped ($35.00). Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. 1978 First American Edition. With 237 illustrations. Bound in the original gilt-stamped black boards. From the dust jacket: "From more than two hundred pictures, one of the widest selections of his work ever brought together, Cruikshank emerges, not just as one of the world's great illustrators, but as a visionary artist whose work reveals a profound sympathy and understanding of human life." 8.25" wide by 11.25" tall. First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 192pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 017983

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1966. 6" wide by 9" tall. Very Good condition. Light cover soil. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. No date of publication indicated (but 1966?). This catalogue of all Limited Editions Club Books, 1929-1966 has 398 priced entries. Original printed wraps. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 31pp + 3 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 025163

Hardcover. Condition: Gray boards. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Not Price Clipped (15.85). First Edition. New York:: Walker and Company, 1988. Fine condition in bright, shiny Near Fine (spine lightly sunned) Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. Pages are fresh and crisp, probably never read. The descriptive annotations are fairly comprehensive, averaging a good-sized paragraph of perhaps 70-100 words per book. Included are both adult and children's material, as well supplementary lists of books on the Cambodian and Armenian genocides. From the Dust Jacket: "HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY selects and describes those books. that best explore the whole range of human responses to the Holocaust, on the part of victims, victimizers, and rescuers. This unique bibliography emphasizes texts that provide the historical background that is essential as a foundation for the understanding of history." Keywords: Jewish Holocaust. WWII. WW2. Nazi Germany. Third Reich. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray boards/DJ Not Price Clipped (15.85). 8vo. (iv), 124pp.

Seller Inventory # 002156

Hardcover. Condition: New condition. Dust Jacket Condition: New dust jacket. First Edition. London: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 2002. 5.25" wide by 8" tall. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (�14.99). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh, crisp, and unmarked -- clearly never read. An A-Z guide that explains the intriguing and surprising stories behind over 1500 curious and noteworthy titles -- novels, poems, plays, paintings, and musical compositions. A feast of allusion, quotation, and hidden meaning. . First Edition. Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. ix, 548pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 004889

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DJ (short closed tears). First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (7.95). No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. From the Dust Jacket: "This is a study based on answers to a questionnaire [about reading of books and magazines] sent to over 3,000 high school students [in both public and parochial schools]. The author concluded that 'we do have evidence that reading can effect socially acceptable or anti-social behavior' .This survey. is particularly timely in view of three present-day factors -- the paperback 'explosion,' the spread of pornographic material and the question of censorship." Bound in the original blue cloth, lettered in silver and black on the spine. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./VG DJ (short closed tears). 8vo. xii, 303pp.

Seller Inventory # 003911

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. Boston, Massachusetts: The Bibliophile Society, 1930. Very Good condition. No owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Square, tight, and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. The feature article by Henry H. Harper is CHARLES LAMB, BEFORE AND AFTER HIS RETIREMENT (21 pages). It has transcriptions of several Lamb letters, including his unsuccessful proposal of marriage to the actress Miss Fanny Kelly in 1819. Also includes a list of members and a bibliography of the Society's publications from 1901-1929. Printed at the Torch Press in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Bound in the original cream-color boards with printed paper label. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket, as issued. 8vo. 92pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 002126

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dust jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1991. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Not a Book Club edition. Not price clipped (24.95). A few words underlined (on 4 pages only) else Fine condition. Dust Jacket corners are tape reinforced. Frontispiece portrait and a few other illustrations. Essays by this important German publisher. The final third of the book consists of correspondence from Gunter Grass, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Pasternak, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Edited and with a Foreword by Michael Ermarth. Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. Laid in the New York Times Book review. Has a Kurt Wolfe Bibliography. Selected Titles from the Publishing Houses of Kurt Wolfe. Glossary of Selected Names. Index . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good dust jacket. 8vo. xxviii, 223pp .

Seller Inventory # 010006

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1960. 6" wide by 9" tall. Date stamp and staple holes on the front. Light cover soil. No date of publication indicated (but 1960). This catalogue of rare books has 314 entries. Laid-in is a business reply envelope to Duschnes at his new address on Lexington Avenue. Original printed wraps. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 34pp .

Seller Inventory # 009755

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ jacket. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. Near Fine condition in a bright, shiny, Very Good+ dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($4.95). NO fading. Small tear (1 inch long) at edge of jacket along fold. Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. A clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. A few tiny brown speckles (minor foxing) on the endpapers only. Otherwise all pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. First printing of this Bibliomystery, with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Bound in the original dark gray cloth, lettered in bright orange on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Martin and Fielding, New York publishers receive a manuscript which proves to be a startling blueprint of a three-million-pound train robbery that occurred in England two days before." Warren Fielding travels to London and Scotland, falls in love, and repeatedly risks his life in the solution of this sensational crime. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good+ jacket. 8vo. (viii), 216pp.

Seller Inventory # 015911

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. New York: Chiswick Book Shop, 1964. 6" wide by 9" tall. Date stamp on the front. Light cover soil. No date of publication indicated (but 1964). This catalogue of rare books has 191 entries. Original printed wraps. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 32pp.

Seller Inventory # 009757

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. First Edition. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1975. A gorgeous, pristine copy in perfect condition. Brand New. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp. Obviously never read. 1975. First Edition. Contains 5,307 entries on German-American history and German life and influences in America. Organized by subject, e. g. immigration, acculturation, the history in each U.S. state, language, literature, book trade, printing, religion, culture, business, biographies, etc. Bound in the original brown cloth, stamped in shiny gold. First Edition. Hardcover. New/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xi, 384pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 017457

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. First Edition. New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1975. Unread copy. Fine condition. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. 1975. First Edition. Complements the SHORT TITLE CATALOGUE. Also identifies many works of British authors published abroad but not in the British Isles. Locates copies. Bound in the original gilt-stamped dark blue cloth. 7.5" wide by 10" tall. Sheehy AA808. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. xx, 168pp.

Seller Inventory # 017596

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition. New York & Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1974. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. NOT price clipped ($10.00). Clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are creamy white and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. A history of The Library of Congress. Illustrated with 8 pages of photos. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original silver-stamped light blue cloth. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. ix, 293pp. + 8 plates.

Seller Inventory # 017740

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. London: Charles Rare Books 6" wide by 9" tall. 29pp No date of publication indicated (but 1960s). This catalogue of rare books has 729 entries. Original printed wraps. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 32pp.

Seller Inventory # 009758

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. First Printing of the First Edition. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice - Hall, Inc., 1969. Near Fine condition. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. 7" wide by 10" tall. Text is fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrations throughout, including several full color plates. A history and survey of children books. Includes useful and well annotated bibliographies of the best books on each subject -- picture books, verse, folk tales, fairy tale, fables and legends, fantasy, history, etc. Bibliographical references. Author and Illustrator Index. Subject and Title Index. Bound in the original white cloth. The front cover features 9 full color paintings from books by Kate Greenaway, Beatrix Potter, etc. First printing with complete number row (10 987654321) on the copyright page. First Printing of the First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. 513pp.

Seller Inventory # 014406

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dust jacket. First U. S. Edition. New York: The Overlook Press, 1977. Very Good+ condition in a Very Good+ dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($12.95). A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are creamy white and crisp -- probably never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Translated from the Swedish by George Bisset. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "Mr. Gedin describes the progress of the book trade in modern times, relating it to the prosperity and decline of bourgeois society and culture. He connects the trade's boom periods and also its crises to the forces of social change. The result is an entirely new look particularly on the field of fiction, and much light is shed on the fortunes and misfortunes of some very famous publishing names.". First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+ condition/Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo. 211pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 016294

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. Reprint of the 1951 original. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1977. Fine condition. NOT a library discard. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Well illustrated with 36 portraits and facsimile titlepages. A study of medical libraries, book selling, and bibliographers from Galen & Gesner to Osler & Keynes. Includes useful appendices listing their works and important medical sale catalogues. Footnotes. Index. Bound in the original reddish-orange cloth, stamped in bright white. Garrison-Morton 6785: "Gives details of the life and work of all the outstanding contributors to medical bibliography." . Reprint of the 1951 original. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xv, 107pp. + 36 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 017195

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1966. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. Perfect condition. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. NOT price clipped ($10.00). Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp. Obviously never read. 1966 First Edition. Mrs. Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) wrote some 125 books, including biographies, literary history, criticism, travel books and at least 95 novels. She also contributed prodigiously to the magazines of her time. This is an account of her life and work. It includes a checklist of her 1st editions in book form that adds to and corrects Coghill. Sadleir's 19TH CENTURY FICTION identifies only 62 of her novels. The "equivocal virtue" of the title is Mrs. Oliphant's rueful description of her compulsion to write indefatigably. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. xiv, 281pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 017329

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: in publisher's shrinkwrap. First Edition. New York: Abaris Books, 1977. A beautiful, pristine copy. Brand New in perfect condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. With 193 reproductions of 17th century woodcuts and broadsides. A well-illustrated and researched study of a neglected subject. Has chapters on chiaroscuro, emblem books, herbals, broadsides, Christoffel van Sichems, Andreas Alciati, Christoffel Jegher and other masters from Germany, the Netherlands, France, etc. An appendix identifying artists' monograms is useful for attributions. Bound in the original gray cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. New/in publisher's shrinkwrap. 282pp.

Seller Inventory # 017439

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine dust jacket. First American edition (so stated). New York & Toronto: Methuen, 1980. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($29.95). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp and unmarked. Lavishly illustrated, including a few beautiful full color plates. Bound in the original gilt-stamped black boards. From the dust jacket: "In the 1890s [Charles Ricketts] ranked with Aubrey Beardsley as a powerful influence on book illustrators. In his work for the theatre he rivaled Edward Gordon Craig In THE WORLD OF CHARLES RICKETTS Joseph Darracott explores and illustrates Ricketts's major areas of artistic commitment and considers his significance in relation both to contemporaries and to later generations His illustrations for The Vale Press are remarkable". First American edition (so stated). Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 200pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 018023

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1962. 6" wide by 9" tall. Date stamp and staple holes on the front. Light cover soil. No date of publication indicated (but 1962). This catalogue of rare books has 383 entries. Original printed wraps. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 47pp .

Seller Inventory # 009756

Hardcover. Condition: Good, sound reading copy. First Printing of the First Edition. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923. Square and tight. Boards are lightly soiled and worn at the extremities. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Frontispiece is a full-color, tissue-guarded portrait of Dr. Johnson by Reynolds. Eight other plates: James Boswell, Mrs. Thrale, Oliver Goldsmith, General Paoli, Fanny Burney, Mr. Piozzi, Mrs. Siddons, and Sir Joshua Reynolds. A charming play about Samuel Johnson, pioneering lexicographer and the greatest conversationalist of the 18th century. By the author of The Amenities of Book Collecting. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press (Smith 586). Original green-cloth spine and bright red paper-covered boards. Printed paper labels on the front cover and spine. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Good, sound reading copy. 4to. xvii, 120pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Seller Inventory # 009768