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Fragments of Bookbinding Technique from Articles in "Paper and Print"
by Harrison, T. [ Thomas ]
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1950
- Binding
- Three quarter brown leather over marbeled boards
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$195.00
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London: London School of Printing and Graphic Arts, 1950. First edition. Three quarter brown leather over marbeled boards. Very good. Thin octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Gilt title vertical on spine, with date at heel. (6) 44 (10) p. w/illus. a collection of four articles by the author, previously published : Vellum… Read more about this item Item Price
$195.00
Provenance Research in Book History : a Handbook
by Pearson, David
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- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- Second printing with new introduction
- Published
- 1998
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$45.00
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London & New Haven, CT: Oak Knoll Press / British Library, 1998. Second printing with new introduction. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xiv, 326 p. w/footnotes, appendices, index. Includes an new introduction to the 1998 reprint. Covers inscriptions, book plares, book labels, stamps, binding… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
The Diamond Sutra : the Story of the World's Earliest Printed Book
by Wood, Francis and Mark Barnard
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- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2010
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$60.00
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London: British Library, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tall octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 112 p. w/many color illus., endnotes, index. The story of a Chinese book printed 600 years before the Gutenberg Bible, found in 1907 in a hidden cave at the edge of the Gobi… Read more about this item Item Price
$60.00
Repertorium Bibliographicum or, Some Account of the Most aacelebrated British Libraries
by Clarke, William
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- Used - Very good
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- reprint of 1819 work
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- 2014
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- Trade Paperback
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- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$40.00
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. reprint of 1819 work. Trade Paperback. Very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. xlviii, 673 p. w/index. This a reprint of Clarke's 1819 survey of libaries, with brief descriptions of various collections of national and acaemic importantce, followed by those of learned soceties and private libaries.… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
Bibliotheca Americana : Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Books Printed 1675-1700; WITH Short-Title List of Additions Books Printed 1471-1700 2 volumes
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- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1973
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- Hardcover in full cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$60.00
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Providence, R. I. : John Carter Brown Library, 1973. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. 2 quartos (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight bumping to head and heel of spines.
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$60.00
Foreign Language Printing in London 1500 - 1900
by Taylor, Barry editor
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- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2002
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$30.00
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London: British Library, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of of boards and dust jacket. Corners slightly bumped. vii, 273 p. w/index. 14 scholarly essays consisting of the first systematic attempt fo document and analyze the traditin of London's foreign language presses.
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$30.00
Dictionaries in early Modern Europe : Lexicography and the Making of Heritage
by Considine, John
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- Used - Very good
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- 2011
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- Trade Paperback
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- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$45.00
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. xiv, 393 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, index. Bloody hard to remove stucker residue at rear cover. A study of dictionaries of Western Eureopean langies from the 16th & 17th c., creating social and intellectual history of lexicography by viewing… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
An Active Instrument for Propaganda" : the American Public LIbrary During World War I
by Wiegand, Wayne A.
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- Used - Very good
- Edition
- Later printing
- Published
- 1989
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$50.00
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Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Marginal notes and underlining in ink in the Bibliography ONLY. xii, 193 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, index.
in bks abt bks section Item Price
$50.00
Controlling Time and Shaping the Self : Developments in Autobiographical Writing since the Sixteenth Century
by Baggerman, Arianne, Rudolf Decker, and Michael Masuch, editors
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- Used - Very good
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- First edition
- Published
- 2011
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$115.00
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Leiden: Brill, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. One top corner bumped. xvii, 541 p. w/illus., end of essays bibliographies. 20 scholarly essays.
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$115.00
The Hours of Marie de' Medici. MS. Douce 112, Bodleian Library, Oxford
by Marie de' Meduci. introduction by Eberhard König
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- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2015
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$110.00
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Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Small octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and slipcase. No dj issued. Leather spine with gilt titls over red cloth. Slipcase is red cloth with Illustrated strips on paper at center on each side. 74 p. w/endnotes, bibliography, and appox 320 unnumbered pages of… Read more about this item Item Price
$110.00
The Bookbindings of T. J. Cobden - Sanders : a Study of His Work 1884 - 1893 Based on his TIME BOOK with a Biographical Introduction
by Tidcombe, Marianne
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- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1984
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- Hardcover in full cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$99.50
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London: British Library, 1984. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Quarto (slightly oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and slipcase. xii, 407 p. w/b&w illus (1 fold out), bibliography, apoendices on non-book items and tools, 4 indexes. A broad and detailed survey of his binding work drawn from public and private collections.… Read more about this item Item Price
$99.50
James Weld Towne : Pioneer San Francisco Printer. Publisher, & Paper Purveyor
by Johnson, Bruce L.
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- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2008
- Binding
- Hardcover in full cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$40.00
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2008. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good/very good. Tall octavo (slightly over size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and original clear mylar dust jacket. xiii,,214 p. w/illus., appendices of printed items, index. A thorough survey of Towne and his varied printing, mercantile, and publishing activities from… Read more about this item Item Price
$40.00
Making the Medieval Book : Techniques of Production. Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of the Seminar of the History of the Book to 1500. Oxford July, 1992.
by Brownrigg. Linda L. editor
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- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1995
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$135.00
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Los Altos Hills, CA: Andrson-Lovelae / Red Gull Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tall quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Printed at the Steinhour Press. xiv, 246 p. w/b&w illus, end of essay notes, bibliography. 14 scholarly essays on various particluar works and processes in medieval book production.… Read more about this item Item Price
$135.00
Ian Hamilton Finlay and the Wild Hawthorn Press : a Catalogue Raisonne 1958 - 1990
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- Used - Very good
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- First edition
- Published
- 1990
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- Oversized Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$75.00
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Edinburgh: Graeme Murray Gallery, 1990. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Thin quarto (larger than standard). Slight wear and creasing to cover. 32 p. with addtional 6 page supplementary publications list 1990 - 1991 and letter. Books, cars, broadsides, pamphlets, and more by Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.
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$75.00
Bulletin in Bold Characters : a Bibliography of the Seton Village Press with Commentary by the Propietor
by Taylor, Maurice
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Limited edition
- Published
- 1990
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$95.00
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Santa Fe, NM / San Francisco, CA: Press of the Palace of the Governors, Museum of New Mexico, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Tall octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket issued. Limited edition, #71/165, SIGNED by the author and his wife, founders of the press. Letterpress printed in San Francisco by… Read more about this item Item Price
$95.00
A typographic journey : History of the Greenwood Press and Bibliography, 1934 - 2000
by Stauffacher, Jack Werner. bibliography by Glen Humphreys
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- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1999
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$95.00
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (over size) Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. Head of spine bumped Spine lettering on dust jacket is letterpress printed. Unnumbered limited editon of 450 copies only. 323 p. w/illustrations, selected sources, index. An overview of the various works of… Read more about this item Item Price
$95.00
The California Tradition in Type Design. The Book Club of California 2015 Keepsake
by Bringhurst, Robert and Peter Rutledge Koch
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- Used - Very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2015
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- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$95.00
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2015. First edition. softcover. Very good. Thin, tall octavo (over size) Slight wear to edges of covers. Thirteen unbound printed sheets folded just once, enclosed in a printed paper portfolio. Type specimens, statements and short biographies of six California designers of typefaces. 1,000 copy unnumbered limited edition printed by Peter… Read more about this item Item Price
$95.00
Blake and the Idea of the Book
by Viscomi, Joseph
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- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1993
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$70.00
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Landscape quarto (over size) Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. xxvii, 453 p. w/ b&w and some color illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. A very detailed study of the art and techniques of Blake in creating his Illuminated Books, using facsmilies created… Read more about this item Item Price
$70.00
Bluffing Texas Style : the Arsons, Forgeriesm and High Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins
by Vinson, Michael
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- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2020
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$35.00
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Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. x, 236 p. w/illus, endnotes, bibliography, index. A rollicking biography of bookman on the edge, a specialist in rare Americana, and a high flyer at the gambling tables who's death is… Read more about this item Item Price
$35.00
The Open Book Project
by Atzmon, Lelie and Ryan Malloy, editors.
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- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2014
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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$45.00
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Ypsilanti, MI: Eastern Michigan University galleries, Art Department, Eastern Michigan University , 2014. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers and dust jacket. Dust jacket includes instructions that shows how to make it into a small book. SIGNED and inscribe by both authors with their first names… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
