Books on Book History

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[26]p offprint, plates, bibliography, inscribed: The history of prose adaptations in print

£8.00

Literacy and Orality.

xii 288p yellow paperback, excellent condition with a few light pencil markings to margin, ...

£18.00

A New History of the Book of Common Prayer.

xxiv 699p blue cloth bright, light library markings, nice clean copy

£18.00

American Books Abroad. Toward a National Policy.

£12.00

xxiii 309p cloth, bibliography, index, with a memorandum by director of the National Security ...

£12.00

Musik als Kunst und Ware. Betrachtungen und Begegnungen eines Musikverlegers.

£6.00

279p cloth, jacket, minimal marks of humidity to dustjacket only, nice copy

£6.00

Folger's Choice: Favorites on our Fifty-Fifth Anniversary.

[112]p 28cm, card cover, illustrated throughout, also in colour

£6.00

106p boards, jacket, very good

£6.00

x 228p cloth, dustjacket, nice clean copy: President of Harcourt, Brace etc

£10.00

Michael Joseph. Master of Words.

xviii 238p cloth, dustjacket, index, bibliography, many plates, as new

£5.00

(No Author)

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50p card cover, large format, many plates, fresh and clean copy

£6.00

Kommentierte Bibliographie englischer literarische Testamente, 14 - 20 Jht.

£5.00

50p card cover, introduction, index, as new

£5.00

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xvii 526p hardback with dustjacket, as new

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xxii 192p illustrations, card cover, text in French and English, many illustrations, indices, as new

£14.00

73p hardback, dustjacket, excellent copy: The materialities of communication explained for children

£6.00

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xii 196p cloth, red dustjacket, plates, index, fresh and clean: Editor of the Times from 1817 to ...

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x 99p hardback minor wear, a history of writing in 30 photographic plates

£9.00

The Library of Trinity College Cambridge.

£12.00

136p half leather (spine poorly), plates, very good

£12.00

136p cloth (water damage leading to superficial discolouring of boards only), original

£9.00

A Bibliography of English Corantos and Periodical Newsbooks 1620 - 1642.

£12.00

283p half cloth, many illustrations, with an introduction early newspaper press, as new

£12.00

Index to Selected Bibliographical Journals, 1933 - 1970.

vii 316p 30cm, blue cloth, as new: a consolidated bibliography for the most fruitful period of ...

£10.00

Notes on the Preparing of Copy and the Correcting of Proofs.

11p fresh and clean, stapled, no year given

£6.00

Introduction to: Luke Grave Hansard and his Diary, 1814 - 1841. A Case Study in the Reformation of Patronage.

£5.00

48p offprint, overview of H's publishing activities, with ALS from author laid in

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Buchmesse. A Story in Pictures. Photogr Tim Hielkema.

£8.00

?80p card cover, photographs of the book business

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Deutsche Buchmalerei: Part 1: Vorgotische Zeit, Part 2: Gotische Buchmalerei.

80p 80p cloth with transparent film, from a Cambridge college library, mostly plates, some in ...

£8.00

xiv 327p cloth, dustjacket, index, illustrations, fresh and clean copy from a Cambridge college ...

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140p cloth, index, plates, very good, from a Cambridge college library

£6.00

Written by Hand.

£6.00

72p cloth, dustjacket, many plates, very good

£6.00

A Stephen Crane Collection.

£10.00

xiii 30p cloth, very good, 1/350 copies, from a Cambridge college library

£10.00

The Libraries of Greater London. A Guide.

£9.00

252p cloth, very good copy from a Cambridge college library

£9.00

The Story of the R P A, 1899 - 1949.

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105p cloth, dustjacket, index, tables, fresh and clean: The Rationalist Press Association

£10.00

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79p paperback, index, plate, genealogical table, very good, printed for private circulation

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(No Author)

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59p plus 15p illustrations, card cover, very good

£10.00

Green Isle in the Sea. An Informal History of the Alternative Press, 1960 - 1985.

264p card cover, illustrations, fresh and clean, focus on small US literary magazines

£10.00

[16p] card cover, with a checklist

£7.00

John Masefield OM. A Bibliography.

98p hardback with dustjacket, index, list of subscribers, many plates, very good

£10.00

500 Jahre Buch und Zeitung in Köln. Ausstellung.

£10.00

168p card cover, nice copy. 80p scholarly essay, with illustrations & index and notes on printers, ...

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xxviii 110p cloth label to spine (worn), index, useful copy slightly worn

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40p card stapled, facsimile of MS throughout, from a Cambridge library: Burns Tennyson, Poe, ...

£3.00

Lasting Letters. An Inscription for the Abbots of St Albans.

96p card cover, illustrated throughout, this copy form a library with stamps and crease to front

£8.00

36p plus 80 plates, large format paperback, illustrated throughout, a fresh and clean copy without ...

£36.00

20p pamphlet, from typescript, very good

£4.00

An Unidentified Edition of Galen. (Sonderdruck aus Festschrift für Claus Nissen).

8p offprint, yellow card cover with gift inscription by the author to front, well preserved copy, ...

£8.00

Glossary of Terms, for use in Describing Ornament in Bodleian Library MS.

?80p teal card cover, reproduced from typescript, illustrations, very good, author letter to Lady ...

£12.00

Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, Alphabetically Arranged.

3 volumes (of 4, lacking volume 1) comprehensive index, clean, fresh, tight copy in original cloth ...

£88.00

Literatur für eine neue Wirklichkeit. Bibliographie und Geschichte des Verlags J H W Dietz Nachf, 1881 - 1981.

£14.00

512p cloth, jacket, indices, extensive bibliography, library stamps but very good condition. The ...

£14.00

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154p red cloth, plates, very good, first edition

£6.00

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xv 1849p very thick hardback, appendix, a very big book with essays and bibliogr information about ...

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