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![The Art of the Japanese Book [Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/271/971/1587971271.0.m.jpg)
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The Art of the Japanese Book [Two Volumes]
by Jack Hillier
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1987
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$255.00
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Complete in two volumes. Tan cloth covered boards in pictorial dustjackets. Housed in a cloth covered slipcase, with some damage to bottom edge. Illustrated with 225 color plates and numerous black & white illustrations throughout. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Please expect the possibility of additional postage as this is a large &… Read more about this item Item Price
$255.00
![Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy [Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/397/655/1566655397.0.m.jpg)
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Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy [Two Volumes]
by Alexander Turyn
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1972
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$150.00
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Two volume set with Vol. I consisting of text and Vol. II with plates. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles. Minor foxing to edges and first few pages. Nice clean copies with no previous owners' names or other defacements.
pp. Vol. I [liv] 294
pp. Vol. II [xxxi] 265 pages of plates
10.25 x 13.5 inches Item Price
$150.00
![The Editor's Introduction; Reader's Guide; Index to the First Lines of Poems, Songs & Choruses, Hymns & Psalms; General Index, Chronological Index [Harvard Classics]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/693/481/1530481693.0.m.jpg)
The Editor's Introduction; Reader's Guide; Index to the First Lines of Poems, Songs & Choruses, Hymns & Psalms; General Index, Chronological Index [Harvard Classics]
by Edited by Charles W. Eliot
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Millennium Edition
- Published
- 1993
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$85.00
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Red leather with gilt detailing. All edges gilt. Five raised bands, silk ribbon, and moire endpapers. Spotting and some loses to edges. Rubbing to gilt on boards, not affecting spine, but otherwise remains nice in appearance (see image). No previous owners' names or other markings. Item Price
$85.00
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Die Entwicklung der Modernen Buchkunst in Deutschland
by Otto Grautoff
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1901
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$145.00
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String bound paper wraps. Four pages of ads to rear with the rear wrap disconnected. Binding loose. Pastedown to front cover. No previous owners' names or other markings.
7.25 x 10.5 in Item Price
$145.00
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Early Oxford Bindings: Illustrated Monographs No. X
by Strickland Gibson
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1903
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$150.00
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Original brown paper wraps with a tissue wrapping. Forty black/ white plates. No previous owners' names or other markings.
9 x 11.25 in Item Price
$150.00
![Universal Palaeography: Or, Fac-similes of Writings of all Nations and Periods, Copied from the Most Celebrated and Authentic Manuscripts in the Libraries and Archives of France, Italy, Germany, and England. Accompanied by an Historical and Descriptive Text and Introduction. [Four Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/595/693/1509693595.0.m.0.jpg)
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Universal Palaeography: Or, Fac-similes of Writings of all Nations and Periods, Copied from the Most Celebrated and Authentic Manuscripts in the Libraries and Archives of France, Italy, Germany, and England. Accompanied by an Historical and Descriptive Text and Introduction. [Four Volumes]
by M.J.B. Silvestre, Champollion-Figeac, and Aime Champollion. Translated by Sir Frederic Madden.
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- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1850
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$6,000.00
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Four volume complete set, of which two are elephant folio volumes depicting 296 facsimile colored plates and the additional two volumes are 8vo English text descriptions. Half dark blue morocco over blue cloth with six raised bands each. Gilt particulars to spines; all edges gilt. The additional smaller volumes have bright red cloth with gilt titles to spines. Chip to… Read more about this item Item Price
$6,000.00
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama
by C.S. Lewis
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1954
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$500.00
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Blue cloth with very nice accompanying light yellow dustjacket with brown text. Gilt title on spine. First printing with date on title page and no additional printings on copyright page, along with a list of the 12 titles before the title page showing only 3 titles as "Published", not including this title. Rear flap shows the same list of 12… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
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Riyadh International Book Fair 2007-2013
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
- Item Price
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$350.00
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Metallic paper covered boards. Text is in Arabic. A scarce copy with numerous colored photographs throughout of the fair between the years of 2007-2013. Wear to bottom of spine not affecting pages (see image). Small glue remnant to foredge. No previous owner's name or other markings.
11.25 x 12.75 in Item Price
$350.00
![Merriam- Webster's Pocket Dictionary and Thesaurus [Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/264/436/1477436264.0.m.jpg)
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Merriam- Webster's Pocket Dictionary and Thesaurus [Two Volumes]
- Condition
- As New
- Edition
- Collector's Edition
- Published
- 2006
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$110.00
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Two volume set. Virgin copies in publisher's shrink wrap. Blue and red leather boards with uniformed gilt particulars. Two raised bands on each with gilt edges and silk ribbons. Smyth-sewn gatherings.
4 x 6 in each Item Price
$110.00
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French Book-Plates, a handbook for Ex-Libris Collectors.
by Walter Hamilton
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- Used
- Published
- 1892
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$150.00
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Enclosed is a three page letter to Dorothy Furman in which the author confesses his unhappiness with his book as he was "tied down with absurd restrictions as to space, number of plates, cost & c. as though one was building a house or some other useless & prosaic business...." Hamilton concludes: "Thank you also for your tasteful little plate,… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
The Miniature Book Collector Set Volumes 1 and 2 together with inserts.
by Ruth E. Adomeit
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- Used - Fine
- Published
- 1960-1962
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$250.00
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Two complete volumes of 4 parts each + inserts. Multicolor wraps. Vol. I March, 1961 No. 4 includes 3 mini Life Magazines (see image). Scarce copies in exceptional condition without previous owner's names or markings. Published Quarterly. Vol. I June, 1960 No.1. Vol. I September, 1960 No.2. Vol. I December, 1960 No. 3. Vol. I March, 1961 No. 4. Vol.… Read more about this item Item Price
$250.00
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The Map of Tolkien's Beleriand and the Lands to the North; West of the Mountains, East of the Sea: About the Map of Beleriand
by Brian Sibley
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 1999
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$95.00
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Pictorial paper wraps with text. Booklet explaining Beleriand map locations is bound with stapled pictorial paper wraps. Full color fold-out map. No previous owners' names or other markings. Bumping to top edge and bottom corners (see image). Unfolded map is approximately 28 1/2 x 29 inches. Overall folded dims are 5 x 7 3/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority… Read more about this item Item Price
$95.00
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Osterreichisches Jahrbuch fur Ex Libris und Gebrauchsgrafik, Band 340
by Richard Kurt Donin
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- Used
- Published
- 1955
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$85.00
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Wear to edges. 24.3 x 32.1 cm Item Price
$85.00
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Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum. Illustrations of sixty-tree examples selected on account of their beauty or historical interest, with introduction and descriptions by William Younger Fletcher. The plates printed in facsimile by W. Griggs chromo-lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen.
by William Younger Fletcher
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1896
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$325.00
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Blue moire covered boards. Limited to only 500 copies of which this is number 421. A nice tight copy with firm hinges and gutters. Shadow of previous owner's sticker to lower spine. Patterned end papers. Expect extra postage for overseas orders.
Folio 11.75 x 15.25 in
30 x 38.5 cm Item Price
$325.00
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The Miniature Book Collector Set Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
by Ruth E. Adomeit
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- Used - Fine
- Published
- 1960-1962
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$350.00
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Two complete volumes of 4 parts each + index & inserts. Multicolor wraps. Vol. I March, 1961 No. 4 includes 3 mini Life Magazines (see image). Scarce copies in exceptional condition without previous owner's names or markings. Published Quarterly. Vol. I June, 1960 No.1. Vol. I September, 1960 No.2. Vol. I December, 1960 No. 3. Vol. I March, 1961 No.… Read more about this item Item Price
$350.00
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P. Papinii Statii Opera
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Bipont Edition
- Published
- 1785
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$100.00
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Early 19th century half calf; gilt particulars to spine. Red edges. The work of a major Roman poet, ca. A. D. 45-96. One of a famous series of 50 volumes of Greek and Latin classical authors published by the Societas Bipontina, beginning in 1779. Bipontium was the modern Latin name for Zweibrucken (or Deux Ponts) in Bavaria, where the earlier… Read more about this item Item Price
$100.00
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Bibliopegy in the United States and Kindred Subjects.
by William Loring Andrews
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Published
- 1902
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$300.00
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Very Good. 1902. Limited Edition. One of only 141 copies printed on Van Gelder paper. Paper covered boards wth gilt title to front cover; gilt particulars to spine. Coral paper tips; gilt ruling and decorative coral paper along hinges. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge beginning near head and tail of spine.… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
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Paleographie des Chartes et des Manuscrits du XIe au XVIIe Siecle (septieme edition) WITH Dictionnaire des Abreviations Latines et Francaises (quatrieme edition).
by Alphonse Chassant
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1876
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$185.00
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Sumptuous Pat Bruno binding of quarter grained morocco over cloth boards. Particulars in gilt to spine. Notations inked to top margin of Paleographie title page (not affecting text); 10 folding plates. A very nice, clean copy without further markings.; 12mo ; iv, 159; lii, 170 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Item Price
$185.00
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Österreichisches Jahrbuch für ExLibris und Gebrauchsgrafik - Band 40: 1954-55.
by Richard Kurt Donin
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1955
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$90.00
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Vienna: Österreichisches ExLibris-Gesellschaft. Very Good. 1955. Wraps. Includes Hans Ankwicz von Kleehoven: The bookplate of Collalto. Heinrich Neumayer: Friedrich Teubel, a master of copperplate engraving. Hubert Woyty-Wimmer: The graphic designer Wim Zwiers. Kleehoven: Willi Bahner as a typeface and book designer. Richard Braungart: The copperplate engraving in the German utility small graphic of the present.… Read more about this item Item Price
$90.00
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The Process of Marbling Paper. GPO-PIA Joint Research Bulletin. Bindery Series No. 1. B-1. WITH notes on the process of marbleizing papers and book edges for bookbinding uses WITH examples of marbled paper.
by Morris S. Kantrowitz and Ernest W. Spencer
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- c. 1944
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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$360.00
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Morocco three pin binder containing moe than 60 full page original & unique examples on heavy stock ( ca. 15 each) of Italian, comb, peacock and agate marbling techniques. Typed descriptions to versos. Also includes three copies of the bulletin; two letters: one to the vice-president of Graphic Arts Industry, Inc. signed by assistant production manager of… Read more about this item Item Price
$360.00
