Books on Book History
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Documents Littéraires. Études et Portraits.
419p paperback, a yellow decorative cover, clean pages with rough cut edges, some shelf wear to ...
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Print Materials for Nonreaders: Experiences in Family Planning and Health.
38p red paperback with many b/w illustrations, very good condition
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Romane vom Fliessband: Die imperialistische Massenliteratur in Westdeutschland.
326p yellow paperback, tables, appendices, index, very good
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Daniel Chodowiecki (1726 - 1801): Kupferstecher, Illustrator, Kaufmann.
x 265p red paperback, excellent clean copy, many illustrations throughout, no names or stamps
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The Physical World Encompassed. Catalogue No 250.
80p letter format, paperback, many illustrations, very good
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Zeitlin and Ver Brugge: Our First Half Century. (Catalogue 246)
120p A4 format, illustrations, very good
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Catalogue 232, 1972: Rare Books in many Fields. Including Literature, Philosophy, Economics, Geography, Voyages, Natural History and Science, with Sections of outstanding Works on the Medical Sciences and an unusual collection of Botanical Works.
148p large format paperback, a few colour plates and many b/w illustrations, listing of 165 items, ...
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A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public.
xxii 325p hardback with dustjacket, excellent copy, as new
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Istoriia russkoi zhurnalistiki XVIII-XIX vekov.
544p cloth with illustrated dustjacket, nice clean copy
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Elisione e Sovrapposizione nella Littera Textualis.
42p stapled booklet, white cover, many plates and illustrations in the text, well preserved, clean ...
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Le Devote Carte. Esegesi, Devozione, Culto Mariano nei Manoscritti di Enti Ecclesiastici Pistoiesi.
35p stapled booklet, white cover, colour plates, well preserved, clean and tight copy, exhibition ...
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Le Beatus de Saint-Sever a travers sa Composition Matérielle es ses Généalogies Bibliques.
15p large format offprint, light blue cover, with illustrations, related offprint (Dijon) inserted
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Manuscrits Enluminés de Dijon.
xv 388p large format hardback, taller than A4, black illustrated dustjacket present, colour ...
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800.
vii 279p hardback with dustjacket, a clean and tight copy, jacket a little aged
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Selected Works from the Museum of the Book and Printing of Ukraine. In Honour of the 8th Anniversary of the Birth of Volodymyr Yurchyshyn. Dual Language - Ukranian and English.
90p large format paperback, white cover with border designs, like new condition, binding tight, ...
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Books. From the Manuscript to the Bookseller.
117p small hardback, dustjacket present, very good with library bookplate
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The Revered Master Deep Willows and the Hall of Deep Willows. (East Asian Library Journal Autumn 2006 Volume 12 Number 2)
35p article, for sale is the entire issue which includes another article also on the subject of ...
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F T Marinetti and Futurism. (= Yale University Library Gazette, April 1983)
this is a 32p catalogue of a Futurismo exhibition, lists 121 items, for sale is the complete issue ...
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Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to Kittel-Kahle's Biblica Hebraica.
xi 173p brown cloth, nice clean copy, from a Cambridge college library, "given by the translator"
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Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions. Oriental Series.
One very very large and very heavy volume (8 kilos), 50cm tall, bound half morocco, black boards, ...
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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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Cambridge Review. A Journal of University Life and Thought. 25 October 1969.
40p A4 format, white cover, stapled, Autumn Book Issue, very good condition
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Catalogue of the London Library. 3 Volumes.
3 volumes 1626p large volumes bound in plain buckram cloth, tight and firm, clean and unused set, ...
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The Coptic Manuscripts in the Freer Collection.
xxvi 396p large format, green cloth fresh, binding tight and firm, frontispiece, plates, very clean ...
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Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. An Exhibition 1966.
52p plus 32plates, paperback, very good copy
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The Survival of Anglo-Saxon Illumination after the Norman Conquest. Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy.
19p sewn, grey paper cover, 9 b/w plates in back, library stamp, nice fresh copy
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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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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. Volumen Primum - Quintum. Plus many later issues.
5 "volumen" bound in one blue cloth volume, approx 600p, folding plates in the back, library ...
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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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Der Fliegende Holländer. Eine Seemannsage.
191p burgundy cloth, gilt lettering on cover, 41. Tausend, the book has been fitted with a unique ...
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Untersuchungen zur Literatursoziologie des deutschen Buches im Mittelalter.
200p A4 format, large paperback, this is a bound photocopy of the original typescript, the work has ...
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Vinland's Saga Recalled.
this is a 28 page essay in a single issue of the Yale University library Gazette, well preserved, ...
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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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Gedruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn. 100 Bücher aus der Frankfurter Druck- und Verlagsgeschichte 1511 - 1930. Eine Auswahl aus der Sammlung Frankfurt der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main.
A4 format, yellow card cover, black spine, 100 items, well preserved, grey paper
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Die europäischen Handschriften der Bibliothek Diez: Teil 1 und Teil 2. (Das Handschriften-Verzeichnis der Deutschen Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Neue Folge)
iv 142p 126p tall format hardback, burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, larger ...
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Hermann Kesten im Exil (1933-1940): Sein politisches und künstlerisches Selbstverständnis und seine Tätigkeit als Lektor.
304p black paperback, reproduced from typescript, clean firm copy
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History (and Related Subjects). Catalogue No 101.
74p 1534 item, orange card cover, well preserved
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Figures of Speech. American Writers and the Literary Marketplace, from Benjamin Franklin to Emily Dickinson.
xv 295p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm binding, a very good copy, unused
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A Survey of the Important Editions of one of the Outstanding Book Rarities of the 19th Century.
(xii) 41p booklet, cover in red and black, fresh and tight copy, limited edition, this is copy # 8, ...
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The British Museum and Its Public.
16p stapled booklet with grey illustrated cover, many illustrations, well preserved, nice copy
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Records of the Papal Right of Spoil, 1316 - 1412.
vii 254p large format paperback, larger than A4, green paper cover, reproduced from typescript, a ...
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The Penguin Story, MCMXXXV - MCMLVI.
124p period paperback, colour cover, spine poor, listing in back extensively annotated in pencil ...
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News and Newspapers.
95p hardback with green illustrated jacket, hardly used first edition, pages clean with photographs ...
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Kate Douglas Wiggin. Special Issue of The Bookman, July 1910. With Presentation Plate Portrait of Kate Douglas Wiggin.
paginated 144 - 186, tall format, stapled issue of journal, red printed paper cover, printed with ...
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Der Dichter und Jugend.
approx 24p hardback, printed on coarse paper, well produced Eggebrecht Presse, Eggerbrecht pamphlet ...
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Gutenberg - Jahrbuch 1970.
417p large format hardback, various contributors, many illustrations, very good: Die ...
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A Short Account of the Charity and Library Established under the Will of the Late Rev. Daniel Williams, D.D.
vi 147p hardback, navy cloth with gilt lettering, very good condition, minimal wear, binding very ...
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The Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection. A Check-List of the Books from the Press of Aldo Pio Manuzio.
viii 27p stapled booklet, with illustrations, excellent
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Curious Objects.
36p stapled booklet, exhibition catalogue, colour illustrated throughout, very good indeed
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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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