Books on Book History
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Contracts for Stationery. Letter from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Transmitting a Statement of the Manner in which he Entered into Contracts for Stationery.
14p removed from binding, original print, binding a bit precarious, a slim item, without cover, ...
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Documents Submitted by Mr. Wise - to accompany Bill No. 724, to Establish a Government Office for Printing, Binding, and for other Purposes. January 25, 1843. Printed by Order of the House of Representatives.
This is Document No 92 from US House of Representatives, 27th Congress, 3rd Session, House of ...
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Thomas Gordon's Proposal to Print Indices. January 7, 1843.
This is the original Document No 41 from US House of Representatives, 27th Congress, 3rd Session, ...
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Harper & Row Author's Guide.
x 113p spiral bound within a light blue hardback case, fresh and well preserved copy without flaws, ...
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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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The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age.
xiv 427p large format paperback, illustrated cover with light crease, text clean, square and ...
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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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Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
viii 246p hardback, terracotta cloth, good condition, wear commensurate with age, to spine ...
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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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Calligraphy Today.
52p paperback, wood-brown cover, like new condition, little to no wear, binding firm, pages clean ...
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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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Catalogus Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Omnium SS. Patrum, Doctorum, Scriptorumque Ecclesiasticorum, sive latinorum, sive graecorum, qui ab aevo apostolico ad aetatem Innocentii III (Ann. 1216) pro Latinis, et ad concilii Florentini Tempora (Ann. 1439) pr
stapled booklet, listing of all the volumes of the Patrologia and invitation to subscribe, ...
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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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Lives et Écritures en Français et en Occitan au XIIe Siècle. Catalogue Illustré.
lviii 274p paperback, grey cover with illustration, very good condition, minimal wear, name to ...
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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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