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PRINTING AND DEMOCRACY

BIRLEY, Robert · 1964

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

London. Monotype Corp. First Edition. Printed wraps; 29 pages and 9 plates. Prined by the University Press, Oxford. Preface by Frank Francis, Stanley Morison, and John Carter. The text of a lecture on the exhibition Printing and the Mind of Man whose subject was the contributi...

TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF THE ANTHOENSEN PRESS

DANA, Edward [ed.] · 1971

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

Portland, ME. Anthoensen Press. First Edition. Octavo, 75 pages. Limited to 500 copies. With a note inserted.. Facsimiles. Very Good

TYPEFOUNDING IN AMERICA, 1787-1825

SILVER, Rollo · 0

$43.80 (€39.74 | £33.15 | ¥6,992)

Charlottesville. University Press of Virginia. First Edition. xiii, 139 pages. Fine guide to early American printing and production of type. Illustrated with facsimiles.. Near Fine in glassine

THE HORSE KNOWS THE WAY

O'HARA, John · 0

$187.50 (€170.11 | £141.92 | ¥29,932)

New York. Random House. First Edition. INSCRIBED "with best wishes" on May 17, 1965, and SIGNED by the author on the first blank. A presentation in an unknown hand to the same person is below O'Hara's presentation. Books inscribed by O'Hara are increasingly uncommon.. Very Goo...

ERIKA: POEMS OF THE HOLOCAUST

HEYEN, William · 0

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

New York. The Vanguard Press, Inc. First Edition. Copy #90 of 126 numbered and SIGNED copies of what many acknowledge as Heyen's greatest achievement. This is a superb association copy with Heyen's INSCRIPTION to W. D. Snodgrass, using his familiar name, who also wrote about t...

THE YELLOW PAGES

MERRILL, James · 1974

$56.30 (€51.08 | £42.61 | ¥8,988)

Cambridge. Temple Bar Bookshop. First Edition. One of 800 copies in wraps of a total edition of 850.. Slight crease bottom rear corner. Near Fine

THE KINGFISHER

CLAMPITT, Amy · 1983

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Review copy with slip inserted of New Yorker poet's first trade book.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

[PICTURES & PORTRAITS OF THE LIFE AND LAND OF BURNS]

[SCOTLAND] · 1839

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

London. George Virtue. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in one full gilt-decorated morocco leather volume. Illustrated with two steel-engaved title pages, three portraits, and 84 engraved views and engravings after paintings. Many of the engravings are views by W. H...

THE BLACK HOUSE

THEROUX, Paul · 1974

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. First Edition. A ghost story, and more.. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing to the spine tips

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER

STYRON, William · 0

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

New York. Random House. First Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper.. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

COLLECTING OLD PHOTOGRAPHS

HALLER, Margaret · 0

$37.50 (€34.02 | £28.38 | ¥5,986)

New York. Arco. First Edition. Octavo, 264 pages. . Photos. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

A FROLIC OF HIS OWN

GADDIS, William · 0

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

New York. Poseidon Press. First Edition. National Book Award winner.. Remainder stripe on the bottom edge. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper

THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

GERNSHEIM, Helmut & Alison · 0

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

New York. McGraw-Hill. First Edition. Quarto, 599 pages. A new revised and expanded edition of this monumental reference work, illustrated with 390 photographs and engravings.. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

COLONEL CARTER'S CHRISTMAS

SMITH, F. Hopkinson · 1903

$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Decorated paper-covered boards with yapped edges; xiv, 159 pages. Illustrated with color plates by F. C. Yohn. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Smith.. F. C. Yohn. Backstrip darkened, frayed along edge. Still Very Good

HISTORY OF THE DONNER PARTY

McGLASHAN, C. F. · 1885

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

Sacramento. H. S. Crocker. Fifth Edition. Bound in stitched plain wraps of heavier, darker paper with the rear leaf blank and the front recto blank with the frontispiece of Donner Lake on the verso. Octavo, 261 pages. Illustrated with plates. Zamorano 53; Graff 2610; Howes M-1...

ON DISTANT GROUND

BUTLER, Robert Olen · 1985

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Considered one of the better novels about the Vietnam conflict.. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper

SWISS PICTURES DRAWN WITH PEN AND PENCIL

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$93.80 (€85.10 | £71.00 | ¥14,974)

London. Religious Tract Society. New Edition. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 11-1/4") in original gilt-decorated cloth. Generously illustrated by Whymper and others with numerous wood engravings and with two color lithographs of Mont Blanc and the Summit of the Aiguille Verte. Much on...

TALKING GOD

HILLERMAN, Tony · 0

$18.80 (€17.06 | £14.23 | ¥3,001)

New York. Harper & Row. First Edition. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps.. Very slight spotting to bulked text edges. About Fine

WORLD OF WONDERS

DAVIES, Robertson · 0

$31.30 (€28.40 | £23.69 | ¥4,997)

New York. THe Viking Press. First Edition. Advance Reading Copy of the First American Edition in printed orange wraps.. Spine slightly sunned; textblock cocked. Very Good

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN: A SCREENPLAY

PINTER, Harold (FOWLES, John) · 0

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

Boston. Little Brown. First Edition. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by both Pinter and John Fowles who wrote the introduction.. New in slipcase, still shrinkwrapped