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London: The Ulysses Bookshop. VG/NONE. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookshop stamp to front and rear pastedown. Cover shown wear at corners. ; 8vo; 95 p. .

New York, NY: St. Martins. NF/VG. 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a VG DJ with a closed tear to rear panel of DJ; Publishing history of Secker Warburg; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 p. .

Austin, TX. 1992. Softcover. Fine; Perplexed Scene by Decherd Turner, Replanting the Seed by Alastir Johnston. Reviews of Press Books; Softcover; 4to; No DJ .

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library. NF/NONE. 1986. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine; Well illustrated in b&w and in color; 9.10 X 6 X 0.80 inches; 189 p. .

New York, NY: The Grolier Club. 1959. Hardcover. VG+ in Good slipcase with one edge rubbed; Biographies of noted bookmen and booksellers. Rosenbach, AE Newton, and many more; Ltd to 1000 Copies; Red cloth; Imperial 8vo; No DJ .

Paris, France: Librarie Aristide Quillet. G/NONE. (1925). First Edition. Hardcover. Good, Volume I with cracked hinge at title page, strongly attached but threads visible. Volume II cloth bubbling at front cover and on spine edge, hinge starting. ; Text in French. Includes facsimile letters from noted authors such as DeFoe, Lord Byron. Preface by Maxime Gorki. Interesting resource. Two volume set. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

New York, NY: American Art Association. G/NONE. 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Good, edges of wrappers worn, No markings. Sticker affixed to inside front cover indicates this was the copy held by the Library of Estelle Doheny at 8 Chester Place, Los Angeles. No other markings. ; Foreword by Seymour de Ricci. With facsimile reproructions in b&w (four in color) , mostly in the exact size of the originals. Important sale held January 27 and 28, 1932. Doheny library copy. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Honolulu, HI: Printing Industries of Hawaii. 1973. First Edition. Stapled Booklet. Fine; Includes selected bibliography; First; Stapled Booklet; 8vo; No DJ .

Stuttgart, Germany: Max Hettler Verlag. 1955. Softcover. VG, minor edge wear only; In envelope from Directorate General of Posts, Taipei, addressed to author, Prof. Thompson. ; Softcover; Tall 8vo; 111 p.; No DJ .

Austin, TX: University of Texas. VG/No dust jacket As Issued. 1995. Softcover. VG, light brown stain to front cover. No names or markings. Softcover. ; Interesting history of the Knopf publishing house. ; Nos 1 and 2; Vol. 26; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276 p. .

New York, NY: Duschenes Crawford, Inc.. F/NONE. 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition, no names or markings. Hardcover, no DJ. ; Cover illustration on tan cloth by Fritz Kredel. One of 2500 copies printed by Peter Beilenson. Hersolt on Hans Christian Andersen's First Book, Balfour on The Hanging Judge, Fields on the Known Signatures of Button Gwinnett, Blanck on Huckleberry Finn, Schad on the Estelle Doheny Collection, McKay on Books about Books: 1949 and more. ; 4to; 375 p. .

London, England: The British Library. 1978. Softcover. 0714103985 . NF, minor edge wear only; Published in connection with the British Library's commemorative exhibition; Softcover; Small 4to; 96 p.; No DJ .

London, England: Faber and Faber. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. VG, eps tanned from DJ offset VG DJ, price clipped, minor wear; Printed at the Curwen Press; First; Grey cloth; Tall 8vo; DJ .

New York, NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries. VG/No dust jacket As Issued. 1947. Softcover. Very good, minor edge wear. No names or markings. ; Auction catalog of an important sale that featured works by Dickens (25) and Fore-Edge paintings (63). Also works by Lamb, Benjamin Franklin, Lincoln manuscripts, etc. Nice copy. WorldCat lists four copies in institutions. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 174 p. .

Manchester, England: The University Press. 1910. Hardcover. VG, board edges and eps lightly tanned, spine edge tanned; Note indicates publications in the series intended to be ltd to 500 copies. Facimile reproduction of incunabula - Ryland; [Ltd]; Cloth backed boards; 8vo; No DJ .

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. VG in a VG DJ that is price-clipped; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the ffep. Brent's first bookshop, The Seven Stairs, opened in Chicago in 1946.; Stated First; Tan cloth; 8vo; DJ; Signed by Author .

Amador City, CA: Quintessence Publications. 1977. Hardcover. 0918466008 . NF, in VG+ DJ, rear free endpaper with crease at lower corner; First edition of 900 copies, unnumbered. Very nice clean copy; Limited Edition; Blue cloth; Oblong 8vo; 299 p.; DJ .

London, England: Sotheby's. 1989. Softcover. NF, very minor edge wear; French Bindings, Architecture Ornament and Design, Science and Medicine, Maps; Softcover; 4to; No DJ .

Cincinnati, OH: Ye Olde Printery. 1981. 0932606024 . Near fine, very slight rub to bottom front board at corner; Lovely marbled paper covered boards with cloth binding. Includes The Iron Hand Press in America, A History of the Platen Jobber and On Making a Printing Press. Ralph Green was a noted printing historian and this collection represents three of his most important works. One of 500 copies of this edition. Each of the titles was previously printed in editions of 160, 495 and 170, respectively. ; Cloth backed boards; 8vo; No DJ .