Books on Book History
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Students and Books.
x 213p hardback, yellow dustjacket, afresh copy, library bookplate, no traces of use at all
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The Presentation of Technical Information.
xi 147p green cloth, a fresh and clean copy of the first edition
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Chaucer. A Bibliographical Manual.
x 579p original cloth, first edition, nice firm clean copy from a Cambridge college library
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An Introduction to the World of Children's Books.
189p hardback, bright red dustjacket, minimal library markings, very good copy
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Miss Massie is a Librarian.
48p laminated board, picture book for very young children, very good copy with library shelfmark
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Catalogue of French, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Yugoslav and Slavonic Manuscripts from the Celebrated Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillips. (Bibliotheca Phillippica, New Series, Part 6).
ii 149p large paperback with olive card covers, frontispiece, photographic plates throughout, ...
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Preparing Art for Printing.
199p large paperback, photographs throughout text, very good
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Typefaces for Books.
288p large paperback, small curl to corner of back cover, photographs and facsimiles throughout ...
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Fiction in the Archives. Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France.
xii 217p hardback cloth with grey illustrated dustjacket, a fresh copy, hardly used
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The Book Beautiful: Walter Pater and the House of Macmillan.
206p Hardcover, this is almost a new copy without any traces of use, but a bit dusty perhaps
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Computers and Language.
v 159p paperback, illustrated, index, clean unmarked pages, very good, from a Cambridge college ...
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Illustrated German Broadsides of the 17th Century. (British Library Journal, Vol 2, No 1, 1976).
whole issue of the journal, includes papers on Magna Carta, Wyndham Payne Crucifixion, Guest Papers ...
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The Malory Manuscript. (British Library Journal, Vol 3, No 2, 1977).
whole issue of the journal, includes other papers: Paisey on unrecorded German Periodical, Awag ...
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Authors and Publishers. A Study in Mutual Esteem. With a Foreword by Hugh R Dent.
55p first edition, small blue quarter calf with marbled boards, gilt lettering on cover, spine a ...
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Modern Book Binding. A Survey and Prospect. (The Fifth Dent Memorial Lecture). With a Foreword by Hugh R Dent.
63p first edition, small green quarter calf with marbled boards, gilt lettering on cover, spine a ...
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Book Illustration. A Review of the Art as it is Today. The Seventh Dent Memorial Lecture Delivered at the London School of Printing on 1st October 1937. With a Foreword by Hugh R Dent.
45p first edition, small beige quarter calf with marbled boards, gilt lettering on cover, spine a ...
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Printing Review. Special Cartographic Number. (Volume 16, No 57, Winter 1951 - 1952).
40p + xxxv well preserved first edition journal, large size, pages clean and unmarked, includes ...
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A Guide for Authors of Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society.
6p stapled booklet, annotated by owner in red ink, cover a little yellowed, pages clean
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The Vulture.
Unpaginated small sewn booklet with paper cover, pages clean and unmarked, 1of 3000 copies printed, ...
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Bookish Quotations.
Unpaginated paper, sewn into card cover, with pink lettering, pages fractionally smaller than cover ...
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Salt in Our Blood. A Contribution to Our Understanding of the Times of Caxton.
13p stapled card cover with large gilt motif of ship, pages clean and unmarked, very good
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Week Ends With Tom Cleland.
12p stapled paperback with affixed portrait of Cleland on cover, b/w frontispiece, pages clean and ...
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January Inventory.
Unpaginated stapled booklet with card cover, pages fractionally smaller than cover, top edges of ...
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The Poetry of Alice Meynell from 'Family Poetry'. A Talk Broadcast on the BBC Home Service on Easter Day 1962.
Unpaginated large sewn paper with silk style paper wrapper with leather monogram (FM80) to front, ...
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The First Century of Magna Carta: Why It Persisted as a Document.
123p paperback with card cover, from a Cambridge college library, spine taped and cover a little ...
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The Building of the Library of Congress.
17p removed from bound volume: Annual Report of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to July ...
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The Press.
68p pamphlet, clean unmarked pages, black and white photographs throughout, very good
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Book shaped real olive wood object, polished and oiled, 54 x 33 mm.
Three double bands on spine, decorated edges, approx 2 mm thick, bound together with red ribbon ...
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Aus dem Archiv des Verlages Walter de Gruyter. Briefe, Urkunden, Dokumente.
135p large paperback, illustrations (reproduced letters and facsimiles), as new, very good indeed
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The Private Collector and the Support of Scholarship. (Papers Read at the Clark Library Seminar 1969).
vii 90p burgundy wrapper, stapled, fresh and clean copy, very good indeed
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Modern Fine Printing. (Papers Read at the Clark Library Seminar, 1967)
iv 44p stapled booklet, grey wrapper, sunning to cover, nicely produced, very good
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The Task of the Editor. (Papers Read at the Clark Library Seminar, 1969)
iv 55p stapled booklet, green wrapper with black lettering, notes, bibliography, excellent copy
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Methods of Textual Editing. (A Paper delivered at a meeting at the Clark Library Seminar 1962).
35p stapled booklet, red card cover with white lettering, wrapper, excellent condition
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Introduction to Book Publishing.
64p stapled pamphlet with illustrated cover, corners slightly scuffed but pages clean and unmarked, ...
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Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society. A collection of ten issues.
10 issues: Vol 9, parts 1, 2, 4, 5, Vol 12 part 1, 2, 3, 4, Vol 10 part 1, Vol Part 5, price for ...
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Peace, Print and Protestantism, 1450 - 1558.
[x] 365p hardback, dustjacket, map, tables, bibliography, index, very good, jacket a bit dusty, ...
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Author's Guide.
16p stapled paperback booklet with red card cover, unused, pages clean and unmarked, very good
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The Gates of Memory.
428p hardback, dustjacket, plates, index, some cuttings inserted, name in ink
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Peter Owen 1994. Publisher's Catalogue.
12p stapled catalogue, illustrated cover, pages clean and unmarked, text is double columned, ...
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Different Faces: Growing Up with Books in a Multicultural Society.
277p hardback, dustjacket, from a Cambridge college library, very good
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Sir Michael Sadler. A Bibliography of His Published Works.
78p green paperback with black lettering, from a Cambridge college library, pages clean, very good
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Kurt Wolff / Ernst Rowohlt. Bearbeitet von Friedrich Pfäfflin.
167p paperback, illustrated brown cover with protective film, from a Cambridge college library with ...
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Marxism Versus Sociology: A Guide to Reading.
Unpaginated yellow paperback with card cover, little use, pages clean, very good
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H G Wells: Hoffnung auf Frieden. Buchankündigung.
folded advertisment, announcement for forthcoming titles: Hoffung auf Frieden, reverse: Wir Wollen ...
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Eine Eigenartige Reklameneuheit / von dauerndem Wert ist heute - eine Zeit wo alles auf Sensation eingestellt - gesucht.
Folded sheet, creased from folding twice, presenting Bucheinbanddecke (Metallspiegel im ...
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Paradigm. Journal of the Textbook Colloquium. Collection of approx. 10 issues from 1995 - 2002.
ten single issues, format varies, very good set, includes index
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Silvine Memo Book, British Made.
red water-silk effect stapled paper cover, slight crease through title, lined pages unused, empty ...
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Mainline Brand 6D Memo Book. Ref No 5111.
Red water-silk effect stapled paper cover, lined pages, very slight scuff to edges, some notes to ...
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Firenze e la Toscana attraverso I Secoli. (Catalogo Ser 4, No 27, Inverno 1985/86)
188p card cover, bookseller catalogue, hardly used, excellent condition
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