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New Mexico Book News. Volume I, Number I
by Edited by Jack D. Rittenhouse
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- 1964
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Santa Fe, 1964. First edition. Single sheet folded twice, printed on both sides. Near Fine, faint crease.First issue published by Rittenhouse,noted bookseller of the Southwest, "whose aim is to be 'publication of record' on New Mexico literature" Item Price
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The Art of Paper: From the Holy Land to the Americas
by Caroline Fowler
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- 2019
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover, cloth-backed boards. 174pp. mostly color illustrations. Fine."The untold story of how paper revolutionized art making during the Renaissance, exploring how it shaped broader concepts of authorship, memory, and the transmission of ideas over the course of three centuries In the late medieval and Renaissance period, paper transformed society-not only through… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Design of Books
by Adrian Wilson
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- First printing of this edition
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- 1993
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San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. First printing of this edition . Softcover, glossy french-fold wraps. Quarto. 160pp. Illustrated, including 250 design samples. Near Fine Item Price
$30.00
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American Iron Hand Presses: The Story of the Iron Hand Press in America.
by Stephen O. Saxe. Illustrated with fifteen wood engravings by John DePol
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- 1995
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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995. Softcover, glosst wraps. 108pp. Illustrated. Fine. Item Price
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Stoker's Manuscript
by Royce Prouty
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- 2013
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New York: Putnam, 2013. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, boards. 338pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket, unmarked.When rare-manuscript expert Joseph Barkeley is hired to authenticate and purchase the original draft and notes for Bram Stoker's Dracula, little does he know that the reclusive buyer is a member of the oldest family in Transylvania. Item Price
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Thomas Young Crowell, 1836-1915, a Biographical Sketch with events since 1915
by Publishing
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- Third printing
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- 1965
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1965. Third printing. Hardcover, cloth-backed boards, printed title label. Small octavo. 77pp. Fine in original glassine dust jacket Item Price
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Now, Barabbas
by William Jovanovich
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- 1964
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New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, cloth. Octavo. 228pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket."A distinguished American publisher's observations on many aspects of his craft and on the relation between writer and reader and publisher" Item Price
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William Butler Yeats 1865-1965 A Catalogue of his Works and Associated items in Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Together with an essay by David R Clark '42Durkan, M.J.Published by , Middletown, 1965
by Catalogue by Michael J. Durkan
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- 1965
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Middletown: Olin Library, Wesleyan University, 1965. First edition. Softcover, wraps with integral dust jacket. Octavo. 92pp. Errata slip laid in. Near Fine, minor scuff to spine.Printed and bound at the Dolmen Press in Dublin. Item Price
$25.00
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The Mind on the Wing: A Book for Readers and Collectors
by Herbert Faulkner West
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- 1947
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New York: Coward-McCann, 1947. First edition. Hardcover, mustard cloth. Octavo. 308pp. Near Fine, bookplate, in Near Fine dust jacket.Inscribed by the author.Chapters include: mountaineering, Robert Frost, Henry Miller, H. L. Mencken, literature of war, and reading & collecting Item Price
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Papermaking: Questions and Answers
by H. Hardman & E.J. Cole
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- 1969
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New York: Lockwood Publishing Co., 1969. First edition. Hardcover, cloth. Octavo. 192pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Item Price
$35.00
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The Kelmscott Chaucer: William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, Colouring Book
by Coloring Book
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- 2017
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London / Portland: British Library and Pomegrante, 2017. First edition. Hardcover, pictorial boards. 50 woodcut illustrations to color. Fine. Item Price
$20.00
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Calligraphy: Calligraphia Latina
by Johann Georg Schwandner
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- 1958
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New York: Dover Publications, 1958. First Thus. Hardcover, cloth. Folio. Illustrated throughout with 700 b&w illustrations. Fine, bookplate, in Near Fine dust jacket.Reprints the 1756 edition. Uncommon. Item Price
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Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World's Most Unusual Libraries
by Alex Johnson
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- 2015
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University of Chicago Press, 2015. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 240pp. Over 200 color illustrations. Just about FineA visual feast of some of the places books live. Item Price
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Twenty Western Illuminated Manuscripts from the fifth to the fifteenth century from the library at Donaueschingen.The Property of His Serene Highness the Prince Fürstenberg
by Illuminated Manuscripts
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- 1982
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London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1982. First edition. Hardcover, vellum boards. Quarto. 127pp. illustrated. Fine. Item Price
$25.00
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Frederic Goudy (Masters of American Design)
by D. J. R. Bruckner
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- 1990
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New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. First edition. Hardcover, cloth. Quarto. 144pp. 250 illustrations. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Second volume of the series Masters of American Design.Monograph on this noted typographer. Item Price
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Uncovered: Photographs by Thomas Allen:
by Foreword by Chipp Kidd
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- 2007
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New York: Aperture, 2007. First edition, first printing. Board book. Die-cut stiff boards. 48pp. Near Fine, minor bump at foot of spine"In this darkly delightful first monograph--also a board book--Thomas Allen selects the pulpiest of pulp paperbacks and then lovingly slices out a figure from the cover, gently folds it into position and constructs a witty and oftentimes suggestive… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century
by Richard Polt
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- 2015
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New York: Countryman Press, 2015. First edition, first printing. Softcover, stiff flexible wraps. Quarto. 382pp. Illustrated. Fine."The connoisseur's guide to the typewriter, entertaining and practicalWhat do thousands of kids, makers, poets, artists, steampunks, hipsters, activists, and musicians have in common? They love typewriters the magical, mechanical contraptions that are enjoying a surprising second life in the 21st century, striking… Read more about this item Item Price
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Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-Day Iraq
by Fernando Baez
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- First American edition
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- 2008
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New York: Atlass & Co, 2008. First American edition. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. Hardcover, red boards. 12mo.354pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket."A best-seller in Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil: the first-ever world history of the destruction of books.A product of ten years of research and support from leading American and European universities, A Universal History of the Destruction… Read more about this item Item Price
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys Into the Medieval World
by Christopher de Hamel
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- 2017
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New York: Penguin Press, 2017. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, cloth. 632pp. well illustrated in color. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. "The book is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Tower of Babel
by Canetti, Elias
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- 1947
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First American Edition. Translated from the German by C. V. Wedgewood. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket, some rubbing, shallow chipping to edges, internal tape reinforced edgesDust jacket designed by George Salter. Originally published in German as Die Blendung (1935) and in English as Auto-de fa. Item Price
$100.00