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1) Zoltan Kemeny

Bern : Kunstmuseum , 1982 Hardcover, 4to, illustrated laminated boards, 88 pages, illustrated, A very fine unmarked, unsoiled copy, text in German/French . more information

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Price: $20.00
2) An Exhibition of Children's Books from the Osborne Collection, Canada

Japan: Asahi Shimbun , 1986 Softcover, 4to, colour illustrated, 95 pages, text in Japanese, with 5 pages of book descriptions in English. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled and uncreased copy . more information

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Price: $30.00
3) Tres Libros De Jineta De Los Siglos XVI Y XVII

Madrid: La Sociedad De Bibliofilos Espanoles , 1951. Hardcover, royal 8vo, tan buckram boards, red leather label, 270 numbered pages, illustrated. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled copy. more information

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Price: $450.00
4) The Bookman's Bible: Books in English 1925-1949

Oakland, Calif: Roskie & Wallace Bookstore, 1963. Hardcover, black cloth, 12mo, a very fine unmarked and unsoiled copy with out dust jacket . more information

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Price: $15.00
5) The Bookman's Bible: Books in English 1900-1924

Oakland, Calif: Roskie & Wallace Bookstore , 1967. Hardcover, black cloth, 12mo. A very fine unmarked and unsoiled copy w/o dust jacket.. more information

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Price: $15.00
6) Libra-Homenaje A Antonio Perez Gomez (2 volumes)

Spain: Cieza, 1978. Softcovers, 2 volumes, 8vo, pages uncut, unopened, text in Spanish. Number 85 of 400 copies issued. Slightly darkened spines, o/w a very fine unmarked, unsoiled and uncreased set. . Limited Edition. more information

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Price: $300.00
7) Collectanea Medica

2000. Hardcover, 4to, illustrated, Cyrillic text, numerous signatures on ffep, o/w a very fine unmarked, unsoiled copy in a like, unmarked dust jacket. 128 books listed, descriptions in the language of the original publisher.. more information

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Price: $25.00
8) The Multilingual Press in Manitoba

Winnipeg, Man.: Canada Press Club , 1974. Hardcover, 8vo, illustrated, 248 pages. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled copy in a like, unmarked dust jacket. . more information

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Price: $15.00
9) Ksiazka Polska Wczoraj I Dzis

Warszawa: Biblioteka Narodowa , 1974. Softcover, in dust jacket, narrow 8vo, illustrated, 65 pages. text in Polish. A fine unmarked, unsoiled copy . more information

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10) Canadian Book of Printing: How Printing Came to Canada and the Story of the Graphic Arts, Told Mainly in Pictures

Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1940 Softcover, 8vo, illustrated, 130 pages. Name on ffep, and inside back cover, o/w fine unmarked, and uncreased. . more information

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11) Impressions: Stories of the Nation's Printer, Early Years to 1900
Aach, Hana K

Ottawa: Supply and Services, Canada , 1990 Square 4to, stiff wraps, illustrated, as new, 178 pages. more information

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Price: $40.00
12) Sing a Song for Sixpence: The English Picture Book Tradition and Randolph Caldercott
Alderson, Brian

Cambridge U. P., 1986 Hardcover, 4to, illustrated, 112. A near-new, unmarked, unsoiled copy in a like, unmarked dist jacket. . more information

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13) Del Origen Y Principio De La Lengua Castellana O Romance Que Oi Se Usa En Espana
Aldrete, Bernardo Jose De

Madrid: C. S. I. C. , 1972. Softcover, royal 8vo, pages uncut, unopened, text in Spanish. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled and uncreased copy . Facsimile. more information

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Price: $60.00
14) La Pub: 30 Ans De Publicite Au Quebec
Allard, Jean-Marie

Montreal: Libre Expression , 1989 Folio, illustrated, cloth, text in French, as new in dust jacket. more information

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Price: $30.00
15) Illuminated Manuscripts
Anderson, Janice

N .Y: Todtri, 1999. 4to, hardcover, mint in dust jacket. more information

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Price: $15.00
16) Pictures and Stories from Forgotten Children's Books
Arnold, Arnold

N .Y: Dover Pub., 1969. Softcover, square 8vo, illustrated. A very fine unmarked, uncreased copy . more information

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Price: $9.00
17) The Illuminated Manuscript
Backhouse, Janet

Oxford: Phaidon, 1979. Hardcover, 4to, name of ffep, o/w a very fine copy in dust jacket . more information

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Price: $15.00
18) King of the World: The Padshahnama, an Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle
Beach, Milo Cleveland

London: Azimuth Editions - Sackler Gallery , 1997. Softcover, elephant folio, colour plates, 248 pages. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled and uncreased copy. more information

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Price: $185.00
19) The Up-To-Date Primer: A First Book of Lessons for Little Political Economists, in the Words of One Syllable with Pictures
Bengough, J. W

Toronto: Peter Martin Assoc., 1975. Softcover, 12mo, yellow wraps, illustrated. A mint, unmarked, unsoiled copy of this reprint of the 1895 edition.. Facimile. more information

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Price: $28.00
20) The Illuminated Naples Bible (Old Testiment): 14th Century Manuscript
Bise, Gabriel

N .Y.: Crescent Books, 1979 Hardcover, 4to, illistrated, 124 pages. A fine unmarked copy in a like dust jacket. . more information

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Price: $15.00
21) The Book of Job
Blake, William

N .Y.: Paddington Press, 1976 Softcover, 4to, illustrated, a very fine unmarked, unsoiled and uncreased copy . more information

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Price: $13.00
22) Boekbinden, Papierverwerking, Cartonnage
Blankenstein, J. C

Stichting Graphilec Te Nijdrecht Hardcover, 8vo, illustrated, 175 pages. A fine unmarked, unsoiled copy in dust jacket. Jacket is chipped on edges, o/w fine. No date or place. . more information

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Price: $18.00
23) How the Heather Looks: A Joyous Journey to the British Sources of Childrens Books
Blodger, Joan

Toronto: M & S, 1999. Hardcover, 8vo, marker slash on bottom edge, o/w a very fine copy in unclipped dust jacket . more information

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Price: $15.00
24) Canadian Directories, 1790-1987: a Bibliography and Place-Name Index/ Annuaires Canadiens, 1790-1987 (3 volumes)
Bond, Mary E

Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1989 Hardcover maroon library boards, 3 volumes, 4to, bi-lingual text. A very good, clean, solid and tight set, with minimal reference library markings. . more information

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Price: $275.00
25) Undercover: An Illustrated History of American Mass Market Paperbacks
Bonn, Thomas L

Penguin, 1982 Softcover, square 8vo, illustrated, 144 pages. A fine unmarked, unsoiled and uncreased copy . more information

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Price: $15.00
26) Ragtime to Wartime: The Best of Good Housekeeping 1922-1939
Braithwaite, Brian (comp.)

London: Leopard Books, 1995. Hardcover, 4to, illustrated, near mint in unclipped dust jacket . more information

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Price: $20.00
27) Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians
Brisebois, Michel

Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1999. Stiff wraps, 4to, illustrated, near mint, unmarked. . more information

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28) The Book of Kells: 48 Pages and Details in Colour from the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin
Brown, Peter

Londfon: Thames and Hudson, 1980. Softcoveer, royal 8vo, 96 pp. A fine unmarked, uncreased copy . more information

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Price: $18.00
29) Teaching Popular Culture: Beyond Radical Pedagogy
Buckingham, David (ed.)

London: Routledge, 2003 Softcover, 8vo, 207 pages. A fine unmarked, uncreased copy . more information

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Price: $22.00
30) A Bibliography of Illinois Imprints, 1814-58
Byrd, Cecil K

University of Chicago Press, 1966 Hardcover, royal 8vo, 601 pages. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled copy in dust jacket. Jacket has 1" tear on top front panel at spine crease, o/w unmarked. . First Edition. more information

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Price: $45.00
31) The Private Press
Cave, Roderick

N.Y.: Watson-Guptill, 1971. Hardcover, royal 8vo, illustrated, 376 pages. A near mint, unmarked, unsoiled copy in a like, and unclipped dust jacket. 1st Amer. Ed.. / . . more information

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Price: $30.00
32) A Tradition Lives: The Story of the Gazette, Montreal, Founded June 3, 1778
Collard, Edgar A

Montreal: Montreal Gazette . Softcover, 4to, line drawings, 56 numbered pages. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled copy in worn and torn glassine dust wrapper. . more information

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Price: $20.00
33) George Meredith: A Bibliography
Collie, Michael

Univ. Of Toronto Press, 1974. Fine/Fine. 8vo. more information

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Price: $12.00
34) America's Library: The Story of the Library of Congress 1800-2000
Conaway, James

Yale U.P., 2000. Large 8vo, cloth, illustrated. Near mint in unclipped dust jacket. more information

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Price: $28.00
35) New Brunswick Newspaper Directory, 1783-1988
Craig, Helen (comp.)

Fredericton, N. B.: Council Of Head Librarians of New Brunswick , 1989 Softcover, 4to, illustrated, 254 pages. A fine unmarked, unsoiled and uncreased copy. more information

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Price: $35.00
36) An Alphabet of Old Friends - and - the Absurd A-B-C
Crane, Walter

N .Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981. Hardcover, royal 8vo, illustrated glossed boards w/o dust jacket, A near mint, unmarked, unsoiled copy. Facsimile. more information

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Price: $15.00
37) Fine Bookbindings from the National Library of Malta and the Magistral Palace Library and Archives Sovereign Military Order of Malta Rome
Critien, Fra' John Edward

Malta: The M. Demanjo Group , 1999 Hardcover, 4to, colour illustrations, 165 pages. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled copy in a like, unmarked dust jacket. . Limited Edition. more information

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Price: $125.00
38) Designing a Book Jacket
Curl, Peter

London: Studio Publications, 1956. Hardcover, royal 8vo, a very fine unmarked copy in lightly chipped dust jacket . First Edition. Illus. by . more information

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Price: $25.00
39) Victorian Book Illustration
Daniels, Morna

London: The British Library, 1988. Softcover, 8vo, illustrated, 80 pages, as new, unmarked, unsoiled and uncreased. . more information

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Price: $18.00
40) Pliegos Poeticos Espanoles De La Biblioteca Publica Municipal de Oporto: Presentacion por Maria Cruz Garcia de Enterria, Doctor en Filosofia y Letras
de Enterria, Maria Cruz Garcia

Madrid: Joyas Bibliograficas , 1976. Contents consiststs of 38 unbound folded 8vo pages, and accompaning book of the same title, softcover, 57 pages. Also included is "Los pliegos poeticos de oporto (Siglo XVI) by A. Rodriguez-Monino, 31 pages. Unbound pages wrapped in printed paper band, and all encased in publisher's maroon printed folding box with ribbon tie. A like-new, unmarked, unsoiled set. more information

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Price: $275.00
41) From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850
Demers, Patricia (ed.)

Toronto: Oxford U. P., 1982. Softcover, 8vo, illustrated, 310 pp. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled and uncreased copy . more information

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Price: $18.00
42) Randolph Caldecott, His Books and Illustrations for Young Readers
Desmarais, Robert J

Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2006 Hardcover, 8vo, colour illustrations, 118 pages. A near-new, unmarked, unsoiled copy in a like, unmarked dust jacket. . more information

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Price: $50.00
43) The Cloisters Apocalypse: A Fourteenth-Century Manuscript in Facsimile (2 volumes)
Deuchler, Florens

N .Y.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. Hardcover, 4to, tan buckram, 2 volumes, illustrated. A near new, unmarked and unsoiled set in publishers slipcase. Very minor rubbing on corners of slipcase. . more information

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Price: $60.00
44) Comedia De Calisto y Melibea, Toledo 1500. "La Celestina" Facsimile
Diaz, Daniel Poyan (intro.)

Cologny-Geneve: Bibliotheca Bodmeriana , 1961. Hardcover, 8vo, illustrated white laminated boards. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled copy . more information

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Price: $50.00
45) Books: Their History, Art, Power, Glory, Infamy and Suffering According to Their Creators, Friends and Enemies
Donaldson, Gerald

N .Y: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981. Square 8vo, cloth boards, near mint in unclipped dust jacket.. more information

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Price: $15.00
46) Age of Opulence: The Belle Epoque in the Paris Herald 1890-1914
Dorsey, Hebe

N .Y.: Abrams, 1986 Beautifully Illustratrared,4to, as new in unmarked, un-clipped D/J. more information

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Price: $18.00
47) Anathema! Medieval Scribes and the History of Book Curses
Drogin, Marc

Totowa, NJ: Allanheld & Schram , 1983. Hardcover, oblong 8vo, illustrated, 137 numbered pages. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled copy in a like, unmarked dust jacket. 1st Printing. more information

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Price: $50.00
48) L'Apocalypse Figuree
Duvet, Jean

London: Eugrammia Press , 1962 Hardcover, folio, quarter leather, Printed boards. A very fine unmarked, unsoiled copy, complete with translation booklet and publisher's prospectus laid in. #307/735 copies. . Facsimile. more information

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Price: $55.00
49) The Wood and the Graver
Eichenberg, Fritz (SIGNED)

Barre, Mass.: Imprint Society, 1977 Hardcover, 4to, quarter red leather, gray boards, illustrated, 199 numbered pages. Number 325 of 500 copies, signed by the artist. Laid in is an engraving, also signed by the artist. This is a near mint, unmarked copy in publishers slip case. Slipcase has some rubbing and wear on bottom edges, o/w solid and fine. Limited Edition. more information

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Price: $350.00
50) The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Eisenstein, Elizabeth L

Cambridge U. P., 1983. Softcover, royal 8vo, illustrated, 297 pages. A fine unmarked, uncreased copy . more information

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Price: $18.00
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