Books on Book History
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The Revolution of the Pen: Iranian Underground Publications, 1963 - 1978.
10p stapled pamphlet, black card cover, well preserved
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Samuel Richardson: Master Printer.
vii 398p green cloth fresh, many illustrations, excellent copy without name or stamps, first edition
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Indexes: Reprinted from 'Chicago Manual of Style'. Thirteenth Edition
48p stapled booklet, bright red cover, fresh clean copy
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Inscriptions of Roman Britain. Lactor 4. Third Edition.
160p paperback, canary yellow cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, spine ...
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The Metamorphoses of the University of California Press.
24p stapled booklet with burgundy wrapper, excellent copy, letter inserted,
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Cardinal Ximenes: Statesman, Ecclesiastic, Soldier and Man of Letters with an Account of the Complutensian Polyglot Bible.
119p worn and aged hardcover, spine tearing and board edges rubbed with loss, ex library with ...
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The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period.
xxix 765p large paperback, illustrated cover, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, a ...
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Middle Eastern Studies. Volume 5, No 2, May 1969.
single issue of this journal edited by Elie Kedourie, includes essays on Iranian Politics 1900 - ...
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L'Italia Futurista (1916 - 1918)
416p thick paperback, white cover with blue rule, this is a well used ex library copy with yielding ...
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Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig.
88p slim paperback, square format, illustrated in colour throughout, excellent clean copy
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JAMA. Journal of the American Medical Association. Annual Book Number. Volume 220, No. 1, April 1972.
81p large format issue of journal, colour illustration to front (Jerome), editorial signed LSK, ...
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Rare Book Librarianship. Second Edition.
162p hardback, grass-green cloth with jacket, good condition, minimal wear, binding tight, library ...
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Spravochnik po pravopisaniiu i punktuatsii dlia rabotnikov pechati.
343p hardback, mustard paper covered boards with gilt lettering to cloth spine, good condition, ...
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Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana. Treasures of Jewish Booklore.
129p large format hardback, dark pink dustjacket, very well preserved, publication marking the ...
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The Literature of Destruction. Jewish Responses to Catastrophe.
xi 652p large hardback with very well protected blue dustjacket, excellent copy of the first ...
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The Magazines of the 1980's. A Chapter in the History of English Periodicals; being a Critical Study of the Albemarle, the Yellow Book, and the Savoy, with a Brief Description of other Literary Magazines of the 1890's,
39p slim booklet, poor condition, spine supported with cloth tape and staples, paper yellowing and ...
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Tyrants and Typewriters. Communiques in the Struggle for Truth.
xiv 208p hardback, black cloth with illustrated white jacket, very good condition, light sunning to ...
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Organisation und Partei.
approx 200p paperback, no imprint, front and spine spells author as Lukacz, text reprints a variety ...
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The Abbey Library of Saint Gall: The History, the Baroque Hall and the Collections of the Abbey Library
128p paperback, blue illustrated cover with wraps, colour plates throughout, excellent copy, as new
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Journal of the Printing Historical Society. New Series. Number 11 (2008).
108p large format paperback, many illustrations, also in colour, excellent copy: Palmer on ...
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Brief Chronicles: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Authorship Studies. Volume 2, 2010.
268p large format paperback, ivory card cover, with illustrations, excellent copy, as new
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Vox Paginae. An Oral Dimension of Texts.
73p large format paperback with ivory cover, portrait frontispiece, colour plate, excellent fresh ...
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The Mandarin Union Version, A Classic Chinese Biblical Translation. Special Issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.
175p single issue of journal special issue on Mandarin Union Version, many essays about various ...
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Building a Library: The Arabic and Persian Manuscript Collection of Sir William Jones.
70p essay in the journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, with illustrations, as new, excellent, ...
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British Press and Germany, 1936 - 1939.
xii 314p dark blue cloth fresh, light library markings, pencil marks to initial pages only, else a ...
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The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era.
397p hardback, dustjacket, as new, publisher's notice inserted
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Freud's Footnotes.
253p paperback, photographic cover, very good condition, minimal wear to edges, pages clean and ...
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The House of Walderne: A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars.
viii 247p plus 32p publisher's catalogue in the back, portrait frontispiece, a rather worn and ...
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Die Silberbibliothek des Herzogs Albrecht in Königsberg.
large format paperback, approx 25 pages, striking typographic title, many plates, introductory ...
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The Development of the Late Phoenician Scripts.
233p hardback, navy cloth with steel-grey jacket, very good condition, some light wear and sunning ...
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Literary Blunders. A Chapter in the "History of Human Error". Popular Edition
xi 226p small format hardback, green paper-covered boards, cloth spine, this copy a little worn ...
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Goethe und seine Freunde im Briefwechsel. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Richard Meyer. Three Volumes.
three large volumes in a private hardback binding with marginally worn title label to spine, very ...
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Essays. Last Essays and In a Strange Land. Introduction by Mary Gill.
252p hardback, fresh dustjacket with old repair to inside of jacket, private page maker band, text ...
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La Tradició de l'Epigrafia Romana al Renaixement. Patrimoni Bibliogràfic Català.
99p paperback, pink cover with flaps, very good condition, minimal wear, binding firm, spine a ...
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Manuel d'Épigraphie Akkadienne. Third Edition.
326p large hardback, white cloth with grey spine, good condition, light wear commensurate with age, ...
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History (and Related Subjects). Catalogue No 101.
74p 1534 item, orange card cover, well preserved
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Lasting Letters. An Inscription for the Abbots of St Albans.
96p white card cover, tall format, illustrated throughout, clean copy fresh and tight
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Montaigne Library of Gilbert de Botton at Cambridge University Library.
86p large format paperback, illustrated throughout, excellent copy, as new
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Libri, Editori e Pubblico del Mondo Antico. Guida Storica e Critica.
xxiv164p paperback, colour illustrated cover, plates in the back, a clean and tight copy, never ...
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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Volumen Decimum.
176p paperback, slight signs of wear and age, well preserved, clean and useful copy with some notes ...
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Localizacion, Autoria y Fecha de una Fabula Mitologica atribuida a Collado del Hierro.
12p stapled offprint, author inscription, very good
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The Art of the Woodcut in the Italian Renaissance Book.
24p stapled booklet, gren card cover with illustration, nice clean copy, fresh and tight
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Unpublished Parts of the Ormulum Printed from MS Lambeth 783.
this is a 22 page essay published in Medium Aevum, for sale is the entire issue of the journal with ...
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Lo Inganno de gl'Occhi.
152p large format paperback with decorative paper cover, reprint of the edition of 1625, many ...
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The New Book Illustration in France - Special Winter Number of "The Studio" 1924.
168p large format paperback, illustrated cover, illustrations throughout, excellent copy, spine ...
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Nordisk Exlibris Tidsskrift. Number 169 - 210.
this is a collection of 26 issues of this journal, many issued as double numbers, many contain ...
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Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights.
lxi 630p thick paperback, ink stamp and library markings from private legal practice, this copy ...
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Introduction to Intellectual Property Law.
xxx 310p paperback, green card cover, excellent fresh copy, advertised under its full and correct ...
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Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information: Essays in Honour of Sir David Williams.
lvii 421p hardback, blue laminated boards as new, excellent fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps
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Ex Libris Bucheignerzeichen Kleingraphik. Jahresschrift des Schweizerischen Ex Libris Clubs. Nr. 35, 1995.
66p paperback journal, brown and black cover, very good condition, minimal wear, pages very clear ...
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