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1) The Enemies of Books
BLADES, William

Elliot Stock,: 1888. Second edition, revised and enlarged by the author. old full polished calf; gilt panelled spine , t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Bookplate; a few little scuffs to the binding, which is tight, sound, and attractive. 12mo,. A presentation copy, inscribed (not signed) "To Dr. Phene from the author. more information

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Price: $1,250.00
2) The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England's First Printer
BLADES, William

Truebner & Co.,: 1877. First edition. publisher's decorated cloth, neatly rebacked retaining original spine; new endsheets. A little soiling, rubbing and scuffing; tight and sound. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $100.00
3) The Pentateuch of Printing, with a Chapter on Judges
BLADES, William

Elliot Stock,: 1891, With a Memoir of the Author, and List of his Works, by Talbot B. Reed. First edition. publisher's blue gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g. Bumping at corners; light shelf wear; tight and sound. 4to,. more information

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Price: $45.00
4) A History of Book Illustration: The Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book
BLAND, David

Faber and Faber,: [1959]. Second printing. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Bookplate; slight bumping at extremities of the spine; dust jacket price-clipped with a few short tears and light wear. . Large 8vo,. more information

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Price: $50.00
5) The Guide to Supernatural Fiction. A full description of 1,775 books from 1750 to 1960, including ghost stories, weird fiction, stories of supernatural horror, fantasy, Gothic novels, occult fiction, and similar literature
BLEILER, Everett

The Kent State University Press,: [1983]. First edition. publisher's cloth. A few stray marks to the cloth and bottom edge; tight and sound and near fine. Folio,. more information

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Price: $300.00
6) The Checklist of Fantastic Literature
BLEILER, Everett F

Shasta Publishers,: 1948, With a Preface by Melvin Korshak. Second printing. publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. A nice copy in a jacket with a slightly tanned spine and minor use. 12mo,. An association copy inscribed and dated 1 April 1948, by Everett Bleiler to Melvin Korshak. more information

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Price: $450.00
7) Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years. A complete coverage of the genre magazines Amazing, Astounding, Wonder, and others from 1926 through 1936
BLEILER, Everett F. and Richard J

The Kent State University Press,: [1998]. First edition; a review copy with a letter from the publisher laid in. publisher's cloth. Near fine. Folio,. more information

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Price: $45.00
8) Printing: History, Forms and Use. A Catalogue in three parts of the collection formed by Jackson Burke
BLISS, Anthony S. (compiler)

Dawsons Book Shop,: 1975. First edition. publisher's cloth. Bookplate; front free endpaper detached; otherwise near fine. 12mo,. more information

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Price: $10.00
9) Edward Bawden
BLISS, Douglas Percy

The Pendomer Press,: [1979]. First edition; a review copy with publisher's materials laid in. publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket. One small spot to the cloth and dust jacket (nearly undetectable on both); one short tear to the top edge of the jacket; otherwise fine. Folio,. more information

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Price: $125.00
10) The Book Book
BLOND, Anthony

Jonathan Cape,: [1985]. publisher's boards in dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine jacket with a paper-clip indentation affecting the top edge of the front panel. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $15.00
11) The Publishing Game
BLOND, Anthony

Jonathan Cape,: [1971]. First edition. publisher's boards in dust jacket. Bookplate; otherwise fine in a jacket with one tiny tear and one tiny spot. 8vo,. Inscribed (but not signed) by Anthony Blond on the title page. more information

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Price: $10.00
12) Auteurs Juifs en France Medievale: Leur oeuvre imprimee
BLUMENKRANZ, Bernhard

Edouard Privat,: [1975]. First edition; No. 539 of 640 copies. original printed boards. Slight dust-soiling; otherwise very nice. 8vo,. Collection Franco-Judaica. more information

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Price: $45.00
13) The Printed Book in America
BLUMENTHAL, Joseph

David R. Godine,: [1977]. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped jacket. Small folio,. Illustrated. more information

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Price: $25.00
14) Bookmen's Trio: Ventures in Literary Philandering
BLUMENTHAL, Walter Hart

Achille J. St. Onge,: 1961. First edition; one of 500 copies. publisher's marbled boards. Near fine. 12mo,. more information

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Price: $30.00
15) Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley to the University of Oxford 1598-1611
BODLEY, Sir Thomas. WHEELER, G. W. (ed.)

Printed for Private Circulation,: 1927. First edition; No. 47 of 100 copies. publisher's white boards. Some light soiling to boards; otherwise very nice. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $50.00
16) The Birth of a Book
BOHM, Anton

[The Bohm Home Printery],: 1956. First edition. publisher's black cloth. Fine. 12mo,. Presentation inscription by Anton Bohm, with a typed letter signed to the same recipient laid in. more information

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Price: $35.00
17) Proceedings at the Dedication of the Building for the Public Library of the City of Boston. January 1, 1858
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

Prepared and printed by authority of the City Council,: 1858. First edition. later tan cloth. Bookplate roughly removed from pastedown, and another bookplate laid over part of that area; otherwise fine. 8vo,. Boston, July 1858 presentation inscription on flyleaf. more information

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Price: $45.00
18) The Rise of the Book - Plate
BOWDOIN, W. G

A. Wessels Company,: 1901. First edition. publisher's cloth-backed boards. Two bookplates; light dampstain to the fore-edge of most pages; corners bumped and rubbed. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $15.00
19) The Rise of the Book - Plate; Being an Exemplification of the Art, Signified by Various Book-Plates, from its Earliest to its Most Recent Practice
BOWDOIN, W. G

A. Wessels,: 1901. First edition. publisher's cloth-backed boards. Two bookplates on pastedown; very slight rubbing at extremities; an attractive copy. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $85.00
20) Principles of Bibliographical Description
BOWERS, Fredson

Princeton University Press,: 1949. First edition. publisher's cloth. Bookplate; small ownership inscription; very light use to cloth; tight and sound. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $25.00
21) Annals of American Bookselling 1638-1850
BOYNTON, Henry Walcott

John Wiley & Sons,: 1932. First edition. publisher's quarter cloth. Bookpalte; small blind-embossed ownership stamp; cloth rubbed and lightly worn; but tight and sound. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $15.00
22) Two Renaissance Book Hunters: the Letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus de Niccolis
BRACCIOLINI, Poggius and DE NICCOLIS, Nicolaus. GORDON, Phyllis Walter Goodhart, ed

Colubia University Press,: 1974. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Bookplate; otherwise fine in a very near fine jacket. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $15.00
23) The Bibliographer's Manual of American History. Containing an Account of all State, Territory, Town and County Histories Relating to the United States of North America/
BRADFORD, Thomas Lindsley. HENKELS, Stan. V. (ed.)

Stan. V. Henkels & Co.,: 1907-1910. First edition. publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered spine labels. Bookplate on each pastedown; some scattered inoffensive foxing; a few scuffs to the spine labels. Tight and sound. Large 8vo,. more information

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Price: $75.00
24) A History of the Art of Bookbinding, with some Account of the Books of the Ancients
BRASSINGTON, W. Salt

Elliot Stock,: 1894. First edition. publisher's printed brown cloth. Bookplate; very slightly shaken with some rubbing at corners and extremities; but an attractive copy. Folio,. more information

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Price: $250.00
25) Bibliography: Its History and Development
BRESLAUER, Bernard H. and FOLTER, Roland

The Grolier Club,: 1984. First edition. publisher's green cloth. . Bookplate on pastedown; a few tiny light spots to cloth; otherwise a fine copy. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $150.00
26) Fifty Years of Collecting Americana for the Library of The American Antiquarian Society 1908-1959
BRIGHAM, Clarence S

[American Antiquarian Society],: 1958. First edition; one of 1000 copies. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Bookplate; near fine in a lightly soiled jacket with shallow chipping at the top of the spine. 8vo,. Author's printed compliments slip laid in. more information

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Price: $10.00
27) Aboriginal American Authors and their Productions
BRINTON, Daniel G

Checagou Reprints,: 1970. Facsimile reprint of the 1883 edition. publisher's red cloth. Ownership signature; otherwise fine. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $20.00
28) Maryland Imprints 1801-1810
BRISTOL, Roger Pattrell

University of Virginia Press,: 1953. First edition; one of 300 copies. publisher's green cloth. A little bumped and rubbed at corners; tight and sound. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $20.00
29) Printing and the Mind of Man. Assembled at The British Museum and at Earls Court London, 16-27 July 1963
BRITISH MUSEUM

Messrs F. W. Bridges & Sons,: 1963. First edition. original printed wrappers. Light use to wrappers. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $10.00
30) List of Catalogues of English Book Sales 1676-1900 now in the British Museum
BRITISH MUSEUM

Printed by Order of the Trustees,: 1915, [Introduction by Alfred W. Pollard.]. First edition. original red buckram, t.e.g. A few marginal check marks in pencil; white spotting to cloth; spine a little faded; but tight and sound. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $100.00
31) A Bibliography of the Gehenna Press 1942 - 1975
BROOK, Stephen

J. P. Dwyer,: 1976. First edition; review copy XX (edition size 400 copies). publisher's cloth. Near fine. 8vo,. With a typed letter from the publisher laid in. more information

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Price: $50.00
32) Compendiosa Bibliografia di Edizioni Bodoniane
BROOKS, H. C

Tipografia Barbera,: 1927. First edition; No. 19 of 50 copies on handmade Fabriano paper. original orange boards with printed paper label on spine, in dust jacket. A beautiful bright copy with slight bumping at extremities; inoffensive foxing to the frontispiece and its tissue guard; in a dust jacket with some minor spotting, a couple of short closed tears, and a few tiny chips. . Folio,. more information

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Price: $350.00
33) Forty Years Among the Old Booksellers of Philadelphia, with Bibliographical Remarks
BROTHERHEAD, W

A. P. Brotherhead,: 1891. First edition. publisher's red cloth with printed paper label on front panel. Old private library booklabel on pastedown; light use and light soiling to cloth; tight and sound. 12mo,. more information

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Price: $30.00
34) The Venetian Printing Press. An Historical Study based upon documents for the most part hitherto unpublished
BROWN, Horatio F

G. P. Putnam's Sons,: 1891. First edition; No. 350 of 520 copies. publisher's green bevelled cloth, t.e.g. Slight foxing to a few leaves at beginning and end; some tiny light spots and minor use to cloth; tight and sound. 4to,. more information

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35) The Story of Maps
BROWN, Lloyd A

Little, Brown and Company,: 1950 [actually 1953]. Reprint. publisher's printed cloth in dust jacket. Better than very good, in a jacket with some light use at edges. Large 8vo,. more information

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Price: $20.00
36) Boxes for the Protection of Rare Books: Their Design and Construction
BROWN, Margaret; ETHERINGTON, Don and OGDEN, Linda K

Library of Congress,: 1982. First edition; a review copy with press release laid in. looseleaf as issued; in binder. Fine. Folio,. more information

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Price: $175.00
37) A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600
BROWN, Michelle P

University of Toronto Press,: [1990]. A review copy with publisher's slip laid in. publisher's illustrated boards. A little bumped at corners; otherwise very nice. Folio,. more information

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Price: $40.00
38) Newbery and Caldecott Medalists and Honor Book Winners: Bibliographies and Resource Material Through 1991. [With]: Newbery and Caldecott Medal and Honor Books in Other Media
BROWN, Muriel W. and FOUDRAY, Rita Schoch. ROGINSKI, Jim (ed.) SHARKEY, Paulette Bochnig

Neal-Schuman Publishers,: [1992]. Second edition of the first title. . publisher's printed boards. Fine. Folio,. more information

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Price: $25.00
39) The London Bookshop: Being Part One [and Part Two] of a Pictorial Record of the Antiquarian Book Trade: Portraits & Premises with prefatory remarks by Percy Muir
BROWN, Richard and BRETT, Stanley

Private Libraries Association,: 1971-1977. First edition. publisher's cloth. Bookplate on each pastedown; cloth slightly rubbed at corners; tight and sound. . oblong 4to,. more information

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Price: $75.00
40) F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Descriptive Bibliography
BRUCCOLI, Matthew J

University of Pittsburgh Press,: 1972. First edition. publisher's cloth. Near fine. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $15.00
41) Apparatus for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby [Under the Red, White, and Blue]
BRUCCOLI, Matthew J. [FITZGERALD, F. Scott]

University of South Carolina Press,: [1974]. First edition, first printing. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Slight bumping at corners; otherwise fine in a near fine jacket. 8vo,. Publisher's press release laid in. South Carolina Apparatus for Definitive Editions. more information

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42) Guide to the Manuscript Maps in the William L. Clements Library
BRUN, Christian

The University of Michigan,: 1959. First edition. publisher's cloth. Fine. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $10.00
43) Anglo-American First Editions 1826-1900: East to West
BRUSSEL, I. R

Constable & Co.,: 1935, With an Introduction by Graham Pollard. First edition; one of 500 copies. original quarter art vellum and marbled boards. Rubbed at extremities; tight and sound; contents fine. 8vo,. Bibliographia: Studies in Book History and Book Structure; No. 9. more information

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44) The History of Polish Cartography from the 15h to the 18th Century
BUCZEK, Karol

Meridian Publishing Co.,: 1982, Translated by Andrezej Potocki. First edition in English. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Near fine in a jacket with some very slight use at extremities. Folio,. more information

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Price: $250.00
45) Novelle Cinque: Tales from the Veneto. Illustrated with facsimiles from the 16th century manuscript
BUMGARDNER, George H. (ed.)

Imprint Society,: 1974. First edition; Copy No. 718. publisher's cloth-backed boards in slipcase. Fine in a near fine slipcase. . 8vo,. more information

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Price: $10.00
46) Die Drucker und Verleger in Spanien und Portugal con 1501-1536
BURGER, Konrad

Verlag von Karl W. Hiersemann,: 1913. original printed wrappers. Light spotting and use to wrappers; otherwise very nice. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $100.00
47) Prelum to Albion: A History of the Development of the Hand Press from Gutenberg to Morris
BURKE, Jackson

[printed by hand at the Press of Marie Louise and Jackson Burke],: 1940. First edition; one of 250 copies. publisher's quarter linen over boards. Fine. 8vo,. One of the author's own copies: bookplates of Jacob L. Chernofsky and Jackson Burke on pastedown. more information

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Price: $85.00
48) Observations on Trade Book Sales
BURR, Henry I

American Book-Stratford Press,: [1949]. publisher's cloth. Very slightly cocked; tight and sound. 8vo,. more information

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Price: $20.00
49) The Book - Hunter etc
BURTON, John Hill

R. Worthington,: 1883. First US edition; best edition. later cloth with printed paper label on spine. A fine copy in a recent sturdy binding. . 12mo,. more information

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Price: $150.00
50) Collecting National Geographic Magazines
BUXBAUM, Edwin C

The Box Tree Press,: 1935. original pink wrappers with printed paper label. Spotting and dust-soiling to the wrappers. 12mo,. more information

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Price: $20.00
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