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Cuddon, J. A. A Dictionary of Literary Terms London Andre Deutsch 1977 0233967168 / 9780233967165 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Very good brown cloth. Light use, ex-library stamp, missing blank free endpaper. (1977), 8vo, [12], 745pp. Price:
34.98 CAD
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Curran, Terrie All Booked Up New York, New York, U.S.A. Dodd Mead 1987 0396092047 / 9780396092049 First Edition First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Ex-Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING # LINE TO 1. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. "When an extremely rare fifteenth-century book disappears from the shelves of the Smedley Library, along with all traces and records of the volume, and members of the staff become victims of murder, Basil Killingsley and his formidable wife Hortense take charge of the investigation." Very good grey burgundy hardcover. Very good black pictorial price-clipped DJ. Mylar cover. Some wear, usual ex-library markings, stamps, labels. 187pp. Price:
9.95 CAD
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Gettings, Fred; Rackham, Arthur Arthur Rackham New York Macmillan 1976 0025430807 / 9780025430808 First American Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall ILLUSTRATED Fine green cloth. Very good green color pictorial DJ. One tear rear panel. NEW MYLAR COVER (1976), 4to, 192pp. APPENDIX A Bibliography of First Editions for which Rackham provided illustrations APPENDIX B Rackham's early magazine illustrations which appeared in later books. APPENDIX C, D, E and Bibliography Price:
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Gottlieb, Gerald Early Children's Books and Their Illustration New York The Pierpont Morgan Library/Oxford University Press 1975 0195402472 / 9780195402476 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall COLOR PLATE FRONTISPIECE COLOR & B & W ILLUSTRATIONS 225 EXAMPLES "Among the priceless treasures of The Pierpont Morgan Library is a very large collection of early children's books, one of the most important and comprehensive of its kind in the world." Essay by J. H. Plumb. Fine red cloth. Very good blue color pictorial DJ. Some wear and tear to DJ. (1975), 4to, xxx, 263pp. NEW BRODART COVER Price:
77.95 CAD
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Hardie, Martin English Coloured Books London Fitzhouse Books 1990 0713462655 / 9780713462654 First American Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Introduction by James Laver. "The text is enhanced by 28 Plates spanning the history of coloured book illustration techniques." Fine green cloth. Fine green color pictorial DJ. (1990), 4to, xxiv, 340pp. Price:
16.97 CAD
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Jackson, Robert H.; Rothkopf, Carol Z. Book Talk: Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting and Special Collections New Castle, Delaware, USA Oak Knoll Press 2006 1584561882 / 9781584561880 First Edition First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Preface by Robert H. Jackson. Foreword by John C. Carson. Introduction by Lawrence N Siegler. Essays include: The Woodcut in Ferrara in the Late Fifteenth Century by Daniel De Simone Curator Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection of the Library of Congress. Aurora Australis (1908), Edited by Ernest H. Shakleton: A New Description of the First State of the First Book Published on the Antarctic Continent by Martin L. Greene. Fine burgundy cloth. Fine brown color DJ. 2006, 8vo, xvii, 265pp. Price:
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Kaplan, Justin Mark Twain and His World Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 1974 0671214624 / 9780671214623 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall ILLUSTRATED Fine brown illustrated cloth. Fine gold color pictorial DJ. (1974), 4to, [1], 11-224pp. Price:
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Morley, Christopher [Darlington] The Haunted Bookshop New York Grosset & Dunlap 1919 Reprint Edition Hard Cover Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall "If you have not had the great joy of reading this charming book, prepare now to partake of a real mental feast-from appetizer of mystery, through meat of information, crisp salad of romance, to desert of humor." Very good blue cloth. Some edge wear, soiling. stains, very good binding. (1919), 8vo, viii, 289pp. Price:
9.95 CAD
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Newton, A. Edward The Amenities of Book Collecting New York The Modern Library 1935 First Edition Hard Cover Good Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall FIRST EDITION STATED MODERN LIBRARY # 164. AUTHOR FRONTISPIECE & 90 ILLUSTRATIONS "The Amenities of Book-Collecting made it the unanimous choice of the editors of the Modern Library as the first bibliographical volume to be welcomed into the series." Good brown cloth. Some wear, fading to spine, previous owner bookplate. Toledano Spine # 7 Good blue tan pictorial first edition DJ. Inside DJ advertising 239 volumes. Toledano First edition Dust jacket. Original DJ price $0.95. DJ wear and tear, chipped head and foot of spine, and DJ corners. (1935), 12mo, xxvii, 373pp. Bibliography NEW MYLAR COVER Price:
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Raabe, Tom Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction Golden, Colorado, U.S.A. Fulcrum Publishing 1991 1555910807 / 9781555910808 Second Printing Trade Paperback Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall ILLUSTRATED Fine white color pictorial trade paperback. 1991, 8vo, ix, [3], 179pp. Bibliography Price:
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Read, Conyers Bibliography of British History Tudor Period 1485-1603 Oxford, UK Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1933 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Introduction by Edward. P. Cheyney Chairman of the Committee on a Bibliography of Modern British History of the American Historical Society. Very good blue cloth. Slight wear, previous owner name stamp, tanning to endpapers, marginalia. 1933, 8vo, xxiii, 467pp. Price:
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Reid, J. H. Stewart; McNaught, Kenneth; Crowe, Harry S. A Source-Book of Canadian History Selected Documents and Personal Papers Toronto, ON, Canada Longmans, Green & Company 1959 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Signed by Author SIGNED BY AUTHOR J. H. STEWART REID List and contents of 10 documents related to Red River Rebellion and Louis Riel pages 175-180. List and contents of 6 documents related to North-West Rebellion and Louis Riel pages 180-185. Very good blue illustrated cloth. Light wear, previous owner name inside Harry Leonard Sawatzky. Good blue color pictorial DJ. Some wear and tear, chipping to spine head and corners of DJ. (1959), 4to, xvi, 472pp. NEW MYLAR COVER Photograph bookmark maybe of the author J. Reid. Price:
89.95 CAD
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