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Welcome to our new catalogue of books about books. More accurately, books about the individuals who buy and sell them, about the institutions and individuals who collect them, a nod to those who like to organise them into authoritative lists, unpick jargon and fix prices for them; the shops where these parties would gather; records of exchanges, encounters and disputes between the parties; with an emphasis on those members who have been able and willing to report details of their book searching; those who have produced books and catalogues privately, the former often by hand press; others who have concentrated on the look of the books; and, below the surface, the sometimes unsettling psychology of the members of these groups.
Berkeley, CA: The author. First American edition, 1998.
Illustrations by Ann Arnold. A sardonic alphabet of some of the rare book trade's practices and personalities: 'G is for Grolier Club Bore in Full Blast', 'H are the High-Spots the Bore has Amassed'; explanatory notes re the text and illustrations by the author at rear.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine
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New York: Simon and Schuster. First American edition, 2007.
Harvesting book titles and designs from earlier periods for double entendres or examples of shifts in a word's meaning; 46 titles, described and illustrated in colour.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. First American edition, 2009.
Exhibition catalogue. Thirty-one full page colour reproductions of the artist's oils, prints and mixed media of, mostly, book covers; smaller reproductions with the two authors' essays. Images on tour: from book covers to gallery walls, to covers for, and reproductions inside, a book.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Canberra, ACT: National Library of Australia. First Australian edition, 1965.
Introduction by Pauline Fanning, foreword by A. Grenfell Price and Harold White. Eighty-four items from the Ferguson collection; 4 colour and 2 b&w plates; portrait frontispiece of the bibliographer.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very good.
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Canberra: National Library of Australia. First Australian edition, 2011.
The biography of the New Zealand born collector and bibliographer of Australia; illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Bookplate of the publisher's Ferguson Collection laid in.
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London: Maggs, 2004.
Catalogue of a spectacular 855 items of Beckettiana including the 'Australian' Murphy in its second to last resting place; introduction by Edward Maggs.
Pictorial wrappers comb bound. Presumed price in pencil at top of introduction page. Fine.
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Berkeley: Serendipity Books, [c.1978].
'American Fictions of the 1960s': two thousand one hundred and eight items, Chester Aaron to Curtis Zahn, introduction by Peter Howard; an enduring catalogue.
Pictorial wrappers. Darkened around perimeter. Very good.
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Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 1996.
An unusual visit to the bookshop noted for its unusual visitors; facsimile of the manuscript '... a mere impromptu to amuse a five-year old child ...' Illustrated by Ann Arnold.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine. 500 copies.
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London: Hodder and Stoughton. First English edition, 1989.
The Booker's 21st celebrations, nineteen contributors, all former winners of the prize, either extracts from their novels or poems or short pieces.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: The Booker Prize Foundation. First English edition, 2003.
A Booker giveaway to commemorate 35 years of the award; eighteen pieces, authors include Tom Maschler, Peter Straus, Robert McCrum, Joseph Connolly, Sir Michael Caine and Martyn Goff who has inscribed this copy in 2004; lists of winner, shortlist and judges for 1969-2003.
Printed boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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New York: New York Public Library. First American edition, 1948.
Chronological checklist of books in English published before 1900, beginning with The Gymnasiad or Boxing Match (1744) and ending, 120 titles lates, with The Fight of the Century (1897, a review of the world championship fight between Jim Corbett and Robert Fitzsimmons).
Printed wrappers stapled; bookplate, perimeter darkened. Very good.
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London: The Book Collector, 1998.
Reprinted from The Book Collector, Winter 1998. Tributes from Pierre Berès, Martin Bircher, the Earl of Crawford, Karl Dachs, John Ehrman, Mirjam Foot, Colin Franklin, Anthony Hobson, Oto Schäfer, Roger Stoddard and James Wells; photographs of catalogues, bindings, books; frequent mentions of hospitality, ripostes, ties and hats, auctions and many books.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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New York: The Grolier Club. First American edition, 2014.
Exhibition catalgoue. From Orbis Sensualium Picts (1658) to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), 98 other books in between, all illustrated, in colour where applicable, bibliography and reference works; four essays on Children's Literature by Justin G. Schiller, his on the "gradual legitimacy of collecting rare children's books, Jill Shefrin, Brian W. Alderson and Nick Clark
Qto. Original blue cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. First American edition, 1986.
One hundred and eighty-eight letters between two writers: Flannery O'Connor, 117 letters, at 'Andalusia', near Milledgeville, Georgia and the Cheneys, 71, at 'Cold Chimneys', Smyrna, Tennessee; edited by C.Ralph Stephens.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Oxford: Alembic Press with the Amate Press. First English edition, 1989.
The correspondence between Graham Greene and David Low, the former in that shadowland between collector and bookseller, 'I infinitely prefer 'Incurabula'' (re a possible title for what became With All Faults, the latter's autobiography); #24/50 numbered copies (total edition 250); the 50 copies limitation is not noted in the book but was included in the publishers' prospectus. Foreword by Robin Waterfield.
Quarter-leather and marbled boards. Fine in slipcase as issued.
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Carlton, Vic: The Society of Editors (Vic). First Australian edition, 1991.
Monograph on Beatrice Davis, the Angus and Robertson editor; inscribed by the author to Eric Russell and with a short note from him sending the book.
Pictorial wrappers. Photocopied invitation to a celebration of Beatrice Davis laid in. Very good.
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New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 2016.
The Columbia Review, Simon and Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, The New Yorker - the editor's autobiography.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Enitharmon Press. First English edition, 1998.
Introduction to the Enitharmon Press by Alan Clodd, 'London Days' by Jeremy Reed [a tribute to Alan Clodd] followed by a checklist of publications, private printings, ephemera, ghosts, catalogues of books for sale issued by Alan Clodd. 250 numbered copies (total edition 300), this copy unnumbered.
Original blue cloth. Decorated paper label on front panel and paper label on spine. Fine.
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Columbus, Ohio: Fitzgerald Newsletter. First American edition, 1964.
First printings of books and pamphlets, first book appearances; 'a handlist for book-collectors' according to its author.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine
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New Haven, CT: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. First American editions, 1988, 1998.
Two vols. Adventures in the field: encounters with authors and their papers by the long-serving curator of American Literature at Yale. Pigeons is inscribed to Joan and Chester Kerr, the latter an American publisher of some note, 'my first readers ...' and with a typed letter, signed to them from the author laid in.
Both volumes fine in dustwrappers. The two volumes
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New York: New Directions. First American edition, 1990.
On the trails of manuscripts and books in postwar Paris for himself and the Harry Ransom Center; illustrated.
Spots of foxing to top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Queen Anne Press. First separate edition, 2017.
Reprinted from The Book Collector's special issue on Ian Fleming, Spring 2017. Events around the death of A.S.W. Rosenbach, the 'Doctor' of the title, pre-eminent American bookseller of his generation; letterpress-printed in Monotype Fournier by Stan Lane of Gloucester Typesetting; #29/60 numbered copies signed by Ian Fleming's nephews Fergus Fleming (Queen Anne Press) and James Fleming (The Book Collector).
Black card wrappers. Printed paper label. All fine.
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Windsor: 1984.
Exhibition catalogue. A visit to Eton from ILAB members; and, in their honour, an exhibition of 19th and 20th century books and manuscripts from the School Library's collection: descriptions of items by authors including Wordsworth, Shelley, Dickens, Thomas Hardy and also Henry Green, Anthony Powell and George Orwell; 32pp., some illustrations.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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South Lunenburg, Vermont: Stinehour Editions. Second edition, 2018.
Parts of the interior of 1540 Walnut Street, Berkeley, home of Ian Jackson, Ann Arnold, Aldo, their son, and the objects in the title. Stinehour Editions, Elvira Piedra supervising, issued a small edition of this evocative work in 2012. Ian Jackson died in March 2018, Elvira Piedra produced another small edition with an autobiographical note added. Six photographs, each 10.7 x 13.3cms., plus two of text, in an accordion foldout.
Panel unfolded measures 10.7cms. x 102cms., with tissue guard. In original envelope as issued. All fine.
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Berkeley, CA: Poltroon Press. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 2014.
A memoir of Peter Howard, forewarned by Ian Jackson, photographs; first published in 2010 in an edition of 100 copies.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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[New York]: [c.1927].
Samuel Roth (1893-1974) was a poet, pirate publisher and bookseller during the 1920s. He worked three markets: modernist literature – Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, Andre Gide, racy titles – School Life in Paris, Only a Boy, The Russian Princess, and any possible common ground between them – James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence. He took advantage of the American law that “an English language book did not have American copyright protection unless it was printed on plates manufactured in the United States. All Roth needed to do was reprint British and European titles that hadn’t yet found American publishers.” Ulysses had been effectively banned in the United States from 1921 after the appearances of excerpts in The Little Review. Roth had read these excerpts, was one of the novel's pre-publication private subscribers, and “admired Joyce’s novel so much he decided to steal it.” He published bowdlerised episodes from Ulysses in Two Worlds Monthly from July 1926 until August 1927; Joyce engaged American lawyers to stop publication; decided to hurry the process along and, in collaboration with Sylvia Beach, produced the “International Protest”, a broadside with a text by Archibald MacLeish and Ludwig Lewisohn, revised by Joyce, listing 167 literary and cultural figures organised by Sylvia Beach in support of Joyce's position, and published in English and French editions in Paris on 2 February 1927, Joyce’s birthday. Those two broadsides are well documented and appear irregularly for sale. The origins and producers of this version are unclear: the title has changed, the layout is different to the English and French editions, the paper has a Warren's Olde Style watermark, an American paper stock, there is a copy in the University of Buffalo's James Joyce collection, though with no other background information about its production and that's it. We can't find mention of other copies of this American printing, either held in institutions or offered for sale.
Single quarto sheet, printed both sides, folded once to make 4pp., and measuring 8.5 x 5.5cms. when folded. Fine.
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New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2011.
One hundred and forty-nine items described and priced, tipped in colour photos by David Levinthal; books, letters, association copies, etc.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Bertram Rota, 1941.
Eight Vigo Street. Catalogue 66. 'Bodley Redivivus. ... Bodley House was bombed in October. The upper stories were destroyed by fire and water-damage made the bookshop uninhabitable. ... This catalogue lists some of the books that were rescued from Bodley House ...'; sub-titled 'A Catalogue of First Editions of English Literature Rescued from a Bombed Bookshop and now Seeking Sanctuary'; 32pp.
Printed wrappers, stapled. A little darkened around perimeter, else fine.
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Teheran: The Amate Press. First English edition, 1973.
Deep into London - streets, markets, bookshops - those places' inhabitants and their exchanges; introduction by Graham Greene; inscribed 'mea culpa' on the half-title by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Maggs Bros., 1980.
One hundred items, described, illustrated, priced, 211pp.; introduction and history of the business by Nicolas Barker.
Annotation to front free endpaper re an item purchased from this catalogue, a couple of other pencil annotations, else very good in dustwrapper nicked at the edges and with a short tear at the top of the front panel.
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London: Friends of Bernard Stone. First English edition, 1994.
Reminiscences, documents, printed ephemera and photographs from the Turret Bookshop, in its various locations, and its fabled proprietor; contributors include Anna Steadman, Alan Brownjohn, Dannie Abse, Alan Clodd, Christopher Logue, Julian Nangle and Posy Simmonds.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Pinner, Middlesex and New Castle, Delaware: Private Libraries Association and Oak Knoll Press. First trade editions, 1998, 2002.
'Apart': pieces on the booktrade, type, paper, design, bindings, dustwrappers etc; 'Books': sub-titled 'Memoirs of a Fourth Generation Bookseller' and all the twists and turns of such a fate.
Both volumes fine in dustwrappers. The two volumes
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London: Bertram Rota. First English edition, 2002.
Published privately to celebrate the bookseller's seventieth birthday; contributions include Nicolas Barker, Matthew J. Bruccoli, John Byrne, Anthony Hobson, Marius Kociejowski, Nina and Bill Matheson, 176pp; inscribed by Anthony Rota to a contemporary in the American booktrade.
Printed wrappers. Fine. 101 copies.
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London: Frances Lincoln Limited. First English edition, 2004.
The correspondence between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-1973, the latter from behind the counter, exchanging news of books, friends and enemies, occasions and encounters, between Paris and London; edited by John Saumarez Smith, biographical and general index.
Corner clipped on front free endpaper, very good in fine dustwrapper.
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London: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press. First book edition, 2004.
Sub-titled 'A Brief History with a Checklist of Publications'. First published in The Book Collector vol.50, nos.3-4 and vol.51, no.2 (2001-2002), and here with additions; 93pp.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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London: Frances Lincoln Limited. First English edition, 2006.
Correspondence between Heywood Hill and the editor, the latter also the 'Spy' of the title, between 1966 and 1974 while the spy was an employee of the bookshop.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Princeton Architectural Press. First American edition, 2005.
Not all the German emigres to the United States found their way to Hollywood, Salter continued his career as a designer - typefaces, logos, posters and dustwrappers; foreword by Milton Glaser, illustrated in colour throughout.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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New Zealand: Godwit Book. First New Zealand edition, 2007.
Thirty-six artist designers' work; illustrated throughout; foreword by Gregory O'Brien.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. Second edition, revised and expanded, 2007.
The most versatile of artists finds his way in here because of his book illustrations, dustwrappers and title pages. Sub-titled 'The Inward Laugh', foreword by David Gentleman, afterword by Hermione Lee; 100+ colour reproductions from all areas of his work.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Queen Anne Press. First book edition, 2017.
Beginning with Francis Bacon taking Anne Fleming to a Richard Chopping exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, London, in 1956; colour frontispiece of the dustwrapper illustration; originally published in The Book Collector, Spring 2017; #34/60 numbered copies signed by Fergus and James Fleming, the publishers.
Black card wrappers with printed paper label. Fine.
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[Berkeley, CA]: Burton Weiss and Elliot Schwartz, 1997.
Three point manifesto from the late bookseller; 'For distribution to members of the Roxburghe Club, in loving memory of Ann & Stan Speck'. Designed and printed by Russell Maret at Kuboaa, New York City.
Single sheet, 23 x 46cms., printed in three colours, folded twice. Fine. 150 copies. Mounted and framed.
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Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia. First Australian edition, 1972.
130+pp. of Australian and New Zealand writers' pseudonyms followed by their 'real' identity.
Printed wrappers. Very good.
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Cold Brayfield, nr. Olney, Bucks: Comersgate Limited, 1974.
Issues #1-4. The first issue begins cosmically - 'In no other trade can there be such a unity between dealer and customer as there is in the antiquarian book field. Both customers and dealers exchange roles constantly and even that overwhelming presence in the background, the librarian, frequently flits from role to role in a bewildering way.' - before descending to the more mundane terrain of articles, reviews, 'BookChat' by Paul Minet, other columns, advertisements and tidbits; 24pp. per issue.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. A change of masthead after two issues. Fine. The four issues
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Cirencester, Glos: The Collector Ltd., 2006-20.
A complete run of recent issues from 2006-2020. 'News & Comment', seven or eight substantial articles per issue, the last issue ran to 208pp; plus the indexes for 2005-2016.
Printed wrappers. All fine. The sixty issues
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New York: House of Books, 1961-1983.
18 E60th Street, 667 Madison Avenue; Eleven catalogues issued 1961 (2), 1963, 1965, 1968, 1973, 1974, 1978 and 1983, 2 catalogues without annotations as to the date, including the fiftieth anniversary catalogue, signed by the bookseller; 50-70pp each of influential bookselling, "Our first catalogue (in the same format used ever since) appeared in 1934. It included many books that would be virtually unsaleable today, as well as a fine copy of Hemingway's Three Stories and Ten Poems at $160.00 and a Dos Passos holograph notebook at $150.00. Because book values (or prices, not always the same thing) have increased so much in the last five years, there is little point in citing other increases over the span of fifty years." - introduction to the fiftieth anniversary catalogue.
Printed wrappers, stapled. All very good or better. The eleven vols.
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New York: Full Court Press, [1975].
Publisher at 249 Bleeker Street. Order form for Edwin Denby's Collected Poems, Joe Brainard's I Remember and Allen Ginsberg's First Blues; image is the reverse side, 'A Note on the Press' and 'Contents Not Boring' adjacent to the addressee.
A4 sheet. Printed both sides, fine.
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Candia, New Hampshire: John Le Bow. First American edition, 1997.
Reminiscences and anecdotes about the bookshop at 22 Jones Street in the West Village. Fourteen contributors - including John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Sanders and the editors; checklist of publications of the bookshop; #137/200 numbered copies (total edition 265) signed by Bob Wilson, Diane di Prima, Michael McClure and Amiri Baraka.
Printed wrappers, sewn. Fine
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New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1999.
Books and other merchandise on the streets of Greenwich Village; photographs by Ovie Carter, afterword by Hakim Hassan.
Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Michael deHartington Booksellers, 1972.
Catalogue #3. Primary source material for the co-author's 'Love in Earnest'; 94 items, offered for sale as a collection.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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Berkeley, CA: [1991].
An auspicious moment. The author announces the commencement of his career as an independent bookseller: inclusive, welcoming, working from home, the best coffee in Berkeley; and no mention of the stringent browsing conditions that were enforced once inside.
Printed card measuring 11 x 15cms. Fine.
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Austin, TX: The Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. First American edition, 1971.
Exhibition catalogue. Harry Ransom flexes its institutional, modern muscles with an exhibition of their holdings of and around Cyril Connolly's 100 Modern Books, or his selection from 'England, France and America 1880-1950', missing only a first edition of Darkness at Noon; illustrated, introduction by Cyril Connolly.
Original blue cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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London: WHS Distributors. First English edition, 1980.
Essays on crime fiction, science fiction, other genres, the novel and the cinema, the novel and the book trade and, the clincher, a 150+pp. guide to novelists with a rating system for their keyworks, 30 years before the listicles of today; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine.
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London: Picador. First English edition, 1999.
aka 'The Best 200 Novels in English Since 1950', short entry for each; overlapping with Anthony Burgess' list and continuing on to 1998; beginning with A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie and finishing with The Lady from Guatemala by V.S. Pritchett; numerous appendices of biographies, award winners etc., 253pp.
Faint foxing to extremities, very good in fine dustwrapper.
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London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1938.
'I spoke of his bad habit of sitting in my shop for hours and obstructing the business. ... there were others of the same type, Italians as well as foreginers, who just dropped in there and sat tight and chattered and never bought anything, treating the place as if it were a kind of club.' First published in a limited edition in Florence in 1937; frontispiece portrait of the author by Dame Laura Knight, with tissue guard as issued.
Spots of foxing to foredge, else fine in dustwrapper with a couple of nicks.
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A printed endorsement from Arnold Bennett that nets a select group of buyers with the seductive alternatives, both beneficial, of either reading it or not. I wonder where the card was originally placed? Or, where it could be placed today?
Single card, measures 8 x 12.5cms. Fine.
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Adelaide, SA: Libraries Board of South Australia. First Australian edition, 1962.
Exhibition catalogue for the second Adelaide Festival. One hundred and twenty-three items and 80+ prints; foreword by R.G. Menzies; 36pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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New York: New York Public Library. First American edition, 1968.
Exhibition catalogue. Short descriptions of 165 items, two appendixes of pieces on John Quinn, originally published in 1925 and 1926 respectively; photographs.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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Canberra: National Library of Australia. First Australian edition, 1998.
Exhibition catalogue. Ten essays, all illustrated in colour of the most spectacular, discerning collection and the singular individual who built it.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Paris: Transition Press, [1947].
Prospectus from 96 Rue de l'Universite for the revival of the Transition Press, outlined as: Transition Cahiers - proposed English language review; Transition Word, Transition Documents, Contemporary Pamphlets, Transition Stories, 'Verticalist' Series and James Joyce Year-Book.
Single sheet measuring 19.5 x 26.5cms., folded once to make four pages, printed both sides in two colours. Fine.
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Paris: Librairie Galignani,
Two identical bookmarks from the enduring bookshop at 224 rue de Rivoli, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, and which claims, on this bookmark at least, to be 'the first English Bookshop established on the Continent'.
Bookmarks measure 16 x 6cms. each, printed both sides, see adjacent image. Both fine. The two bookmarks
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New York: Macmillan. First American edition, 1975.
The expatriate cast and crew, or 'American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939' and authoritative on that subject; foreword by Janet Flanner, illustrated, appendixes, checklists of presses' publications; and inscribed by the author in 1988.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper sunned on the spine.
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New York: Conde Nast Publications, 1999.
Profile of Alex Shear, not a book collector, closer to items that may in time become folk art, and useful for identifying the symptoms manifest in the advanced stages of collecting; The New Yorker, 19 July 1999, pp.52-63.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very good.
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London: HarperCollins. First English edition, 1996.
Beginning with nine images from the classical world of individuals reading and then on through the history of varieties of this intimate relationship; illustrated.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Quantuck Lane Press. First American edition, 2005.
Portrait photographs of 104 writers with a piece on the facing page by the subject, authors include: Shirley Hazzard, Peter Carey, William Gaddis, Susan Sontag, Doris Lessing, Maurice Sendak and Lanford Wilson; foreword by Mark Strand
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Richmond, Virginia: Valancourt Books. Second edition, 2013.
Somewhere in the provinces Sir Jeremy Etchingham's library is to be auctioned, a priceless bibliographical rarity therein, the local bookseller formulates his retirement plans, visitors arrive from London: welcome to the dark arts of the antiquarian booktrade; first published in 1957, introduction by John Saumarez Smith.
Pictorial wrappers featuring the illustration from the 1957 edition. Fine.
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Sixteenth American edition, 2010.
With an introduction to Unicode, new to this edition; 1,026pp., including index.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Berkeley: Ian Jackson. First American edition, 2016.
'Notes toward a bibliography of the books that used to be in the Private Case of the British [Museum] Library'; 956 titles, whose threat to society has waned, described; an addendum of 53 titles that remain in the case but were not included in Patrick Kearney's The Private Case (1981); postface by Patrick Kearney (3pp.), authorities consulted.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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Philadelphia, PA: The Rosenbach Company, 1938.
Bookseller's catalogue. Eight hundred and thirty-seven items: books, manuscripts, photographs, letters, maps netting sea travel - fiction and non-fiction - in all its varieties across the centuries; 224pp., 9pp. introduction.
Blue cloth, original front and rear wrappers tipped onto cloth, typed spine label. Corners lightly clipped on a couple of pages introduction, other minor marks. Very good.
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London: Studio Vista, Macdonald Orbis, Little Brown, Orbis. First English editions, 1977-1993.
Five vols. The four editions of price guides for modern first editions - Collecting Modern First Editions (vol.1) and Modern First Editions - Their Value to Collectors (vols.2-4) - and Children's Modern First Editions - Their Value to Collectors; the author's popular price guides which attempt to unite value and price into a harmonious, comprehensible relationship: an algorithm without an internet; illustrations of dustwrappers, anglocentric selection of authors, sometimes only particular titles, and brief summaries of authors' literary worth. Collecting Modern First Editions has laid in an autograph letter, signed from Joseph Connolly to a book collector responding politely to suggestions for authors to be included in future editions.
Extremities darkened in a couple of volumes, else all fine in dustwrappers and each volume containing the bookmark sized slip with the maximum price. The five volumes
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Hurst, Reading: The author,
Flyer for the bookseller listing a summary of spectacular items in stock.
Printed sheet measuring 22.5 x 15.5cms., printed two colours. Fine.
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Melbourne: Christie's, 1991.
Five hundred and twenty-eight items, some illustrated, prices realised; short biographical note and photograph of Margaret Woodhouse.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Macmillan Audio Book,
Talking book. The Ephrussis family in the 19th and 20th centuries and their 264 pieces of netsuke. Complete: read by Michael Maloney, 9cds, 10.5 hours, plus a pdf of photographs from the author's family archive, interview with Edward De Waal.
Nine cds in original printed box. All fine, cds unplayed.
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High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: Rivendale Press. First English edition, 2005.
The Limited Edition, #49/50 numbered copies, containing a separate printing of 'The Buried Life' by Matthew Arnold, #49/50 numbered copies, printed by Alan Anderson and signed by him
Original cloth stamped in gold. Separate folder containing Matthew Arnold poem. Miscellaneous printed Tragara ephemera laid in: prospectus for this book, recent and forthcoming from Tragara annotated by Alan Anderson. All fine in slipcase as issued.
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London: Bloomsbury. Third English edition revised, 1999.
Arranged alphabetically: from Abaton (My Heart's in the Highlands by Sir Thomas Bulfinch) to Zuy (Kingdoms of Elfin by Sylvia Townsend Warner), illustrations where available, index, 755pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Melbourne: The author. First Australian edition, 2013.
Title continues, 'in litho boards & cloth spines gilt. With notes on the 6d. series in litho paper wrappers & Detective & Adventure Stories in two tints picture wrappers'; colour illustrations, index of artists, bibliography; #21/75 numbered copies.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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Settrington, York and St. Paul, Minnesota: Stone Trough Books, Rulon-Miller Books. First English edition, 2017.
A modest, witty account of a summer working at the Whittington Press during 1986.
Plain wrappers. Fine in dustwrapper. 300 copies.
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Edinburgh: [John Calder]. First English edition, 1962.
The 'Programme and Notes for the International Writers' Conference, held in the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh, 20th-24th August, 1962; substantial program for what the publisher's calls 'the first literary festival' in his introduction; longer pieces and statements by Malcolm Bradbury, David Daiches, Edwin Morgan, Raymond Williams, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Colin MacInnes, Nathalie Sarraute, Muriel Spark; and, from this distance, publishers' wonderful period advertisements; 128pp.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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