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London: Humphrey Milford Amen House. Very Good. 1935. First Edition Thus. Stiff Wrappers. 17 pages; A memorial tribute From the Proceedings of the British Academy. Volume XXI. Printed by John Johnson at the University Press, Oxford. OCLC: 40738455 Alfred Chilton Pearson (8 October 1861 – 2 January 1935) was an English classical scholar, noted for his work on Greek tragedy. Despite a life spent outside academia, Pearson was elected in 1919 as the Gladstone Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool, subsequently becoming in 1921 the Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Philadelphia: Rosenbach Company. Very Good+. 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Clean and tight in original pale green wrappers, one tiny chip at top edge of rear wrapper. One of the wonderful catalogues issued by Rosenbach Company filled with treasures very few contemporaries of A. S. W. Rosenbach had the opportunity to handle and most modern booksellers will never see in the trade. This catalogue focuses on historical legal items. OCLC: 7806334 .

Washington: Library of Congress. Very Good. 1940. First Edition. Paperback. 24 pages; Clean and tight in original gray printed wrappers. Representative Collins extolls the virtues of the Library of Congress, recounts some of its history and addresses the relocation of the Army Medical Library. OCLC 503942214 .

Evanston: Douglas C. McMurtrie. Near Fine. 1941. First Edition. Brochure. 4 pages; Large four page brochure designed and printed by Douglas McMurtrie for presentation to his friends for Christmas 1941. The front cover is a reproduction of the fabulous manger scene by Albrecht Durer dated 1511, the interior bears McMurtrie's printed Christmas salutations, the rear panel presents McMurtie's explanatory text on Durer and this woodcut in particular in double columns. A wonderful survivor house in its original stiff card mailing envelope, addressed to Mr. John Vance (Law Librarian) at the Library of Congress. Douglas Crawford McMurtrie (1888 – 1944) was an American typeface designer, graphic designer, historian and bibliographer of printing. .

Washington: The Library of Congress. Near Fine. 1942. First Edition. Paperback. 49 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. This annual report contains information on the administrative and operational activities of the Law Library of the Library of Congress, there is also fascinating information about the acquisitions such as two editions of Gratian's Decretum (Strassburg, 1484 and Venice, 1498); De Romano Imperio (1476?); Malleus Maleficarum (Nurenberg, 1496); Ta Ming Lu - Criminal Code of the Ming Dynasty (1722); Statutes Made in the Reigns of Edward III and Richard II (1327-1398 - manuscript on vellum); An Abridgment of the Publick Laws of Virginia, 1772; etc. .

Bari/Santo Spirito: Edizioni Del Centro Librario. Very Good+. 1970. Paperback. 5 pages; Estratto dalla Rassegna Pugliese, Anno V, nn. 7-9, Luglio-Septtembre 1970. Dennis E. Rhodes was Deputy Keeper in the British Library and a prolific contributor to scholarly study of printing in Italy. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

London: Printed for J. Wright by W. Bulmer and Co.. Good+. 1800. Sixth. Leather Bound. xx, 188 pages; Contents clean and secure in full calf binding. Black leather title label at spine, gilt lettering, ruled compartments and decorative devices at spine. Leather dry, hinges tender. Original owner's signature "P. Hagner" Peter Hagner (1772-1850) was a financier and United States civil servant. Hagner was appointed a clerk in the U.S. Treasury Department by Gen. George Washington in 1793, assistant accountant of the U.S. Department of War in 1797, and third auditor by James Monroe in 1817. He served under every administration for fifty-six consecutive years, retiring in 1849. William Gifford (1756 – 1826), an English critic, editor and poet, was well known as a satirist and controversialist. His first poem published, The Baviad (1791), is a satire critical of the Della Cruscans, a group of sentimental poets, considered by the conservative Gifford to be dangerously… Read More

New York: Bloch Publishing. Very Good-. 1934. Paperback. 79 pages; Introduction in English, bibliographic entries in Hebrew and in German. Contents clean and tight in original yellow wrappers. Wrappers are dust-soiled, former owner's name on front wrapper - Francis Xavier Dwyer, co-author of a widely used textbook: "Introduction to the Study of Law," and a librarian at the Law Library of Harvard University and later for decades at the Law Library of Library of Congress. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Washington, DC: Woodward and Lothrop. Very Good+. 1929. Pamphlet. A folding brochure/catalogue of books offered for sale by Woodward and Lothrop. Delightful cover depicting a couple reading with faint images of adventure and romance hovering in the background. Published in the late 1920s or early 1930s the last of the lists of books include those that had been made into films. Not found in OCLC ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Berlin: Bassenge Buchauktionen. Near Fine. 2016. First Edition. Paperback. 400 pages; Berlin: Near Fine. 2016. First Edition. 400 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. Auction catalogue filled with fabulous rare books, maps, prints, etc. Illustrations throughout. . ; Books on Books, Art and Art History, Most Recent Listing .

Quito: Corporacion de Estudios y Publicaciones. Near Fine. 1968. Third Edition. Hardcover. No. 7; 289 pages; Clean and secure in binding with brown cloth spine & corners over tan boards. Illustrated with many photographs and several folding tables and charts. Text in Spanish. OCLC 1308652868 .

Washington DC: Library of Congress. Very Good. N.D.. First Edition. Hardcover. This volume wholeheartedly confirms the old adage that "you can't judge a book by its cover. But, just to confuse the issue, it was designed and made to be so judged. The spine has a label lettered in gilt on a red leather label, reading: "CARRANZA / ORATORIA / ARGENTINA" Below this is an oval stamp lettered in black: "Library of Congress / Smithsonian Deposit." Below this, at the foot of the spine, also lettered in black: "LA PLATA y Bo. ARIES / 1905." These details do indeed belong to a real book published by the firm of Sesé y Larrañaga Editores -- in the cities of La Plata and Buenos Aries, Argentina. This book was edited by Neptalí Carranza under the title: "Oratoria Argentina : Recopilación cronológica de las proclamas, discursos, manifiestos y documentos importantes, que legaron a la historia de su patria, argentinos… Read More

New York: The Bibliographical Society of America. Very Good. 1948. Paperback. 18 pages; Clean and tight in original blue printed wrappers; toned at lower edge of front wrapper. Limited to 1300 copies printed at the Anthoensen Press. A memorial essay on this noted book collector. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Alexandria, VA: Conservation Of Art On Paper, Inc. Very Good. 2000. First Edition. Printed Wrappers w/ Plastic Comb. 38 pages; Alexandria, VA: Very Good. 2000. First Edition. 38 pages; Contents clean and secure in original printed wrappers with plastic comb spine. Objects can best be preserved by "exhibiting them prudently, storing them carefully, and monitoring them periodically. " An excellent guide for librarians, Collectors and Archivists. .; Art and Art History, Decorative Arts, Most Recent Listing .

Chicago: C. H. Kerr. Very Good. 1900. First Edition. Paperback. 32 pages; Bears stamp of LC Exchange and Gifts on verso of titlepage, otherwise clean and complete in original translucent green glassine wrapper. OCLC 11373730 This copy does not explicitly remark on publisher and place, but the titles listed were pubished by C.H. Kerr. Last page has a message which instructs readers to "Order from the address on first page." There is no such address there and was likely the space reserved for the imprint of whichever local shop was purveying the material from by C. H. Kerr. Likewise, the item is not explicitly dated, but circa 1895-1900. A random sampling of the publications listed produced publication dates in that range. .

Washington DC: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. 329 pages; Washington DC: Very Good. 1915. First Edition. 329 pages; Publisher's brown morocco leather spine over tan cloth boards, top edges gilt, others trimmed rough. An excellent copy; the spine is intact and the gilt lettering fresh, corners and the foot of the spine very slightly bumped, internally clean and free from foxing. Frontispiece portrait of John Boyd Thacher [1847-1909]. Several page facsimiles of fifteenth century books in the LC's Thacher collection, one features a stunning decorative initial letter in red. Thacher's aim as a collector was to attempt to assemble an example from each press active during the period 1455-1500. His success can be gauged by examining his extensive collection carefully catalogued in this volume -- a catalogue which constitutes 840 works -- specimens of over 500 presses. Outstanding items include a vellum copy of Rationale Divinorum Officiorum by… Read More

American Art Association. Very Good. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 98 pages; Annotated with prices realized, otherwise clean and secure in attractive binding of quarter brown claf and marbled boards with gilt lettering and floral image at spine and a different floral image at bottom of front board; original wrappers bound in, corners of boards rubbed. Auction catalogue including 647 titles of which 382 are Harte items. OCLC: 8567137 .

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop. Very Good. 1944. First Edition. Paperback. 48 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. 281 items, including a Manuscript Book of Hours w/ 24 miniatures for $600 and a couple dozen incunabula. .

Washington: Leamington Book Shop. Very Good. 1950. First Edition. Paperback. 32 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. 146 items, including several Aldine Press, many incunabula, A Collection of the Novels, Anecdotes, Travels and Essays formed by Joseph Ingraham in the first part of the 19th century, etc. OCLC: 226922185 .

New York: Barnes & Noble. Good. 1939. First Edition. Paperback. 22 pages; This sixteen page catalogue along with the six page supplement lists collectible books offered for sale by Barnes & Noble in 1939; it was mimeographed on legal size paper, stapled at upper left corner and folded in the middle. There is one tear to the first sheet and general age toning and dust soiling. A fascinating survivor of an earlier era of book collecting. Though in our current age of ever-declining prices for run-of-the-mill First Editions, there are a few titles on offer in this 1939 catalogue that have seen substantial appreciation. For example, Virginia Woolf's Orlando (Signed ltd., 1/800 copies) Mint - $10 ; James Joyce's Annalivia Plurabelle (Signed, Ltd.) - $3 ; Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing (Fine in DJ) - $2 ; Edith Wharton' Decoration of Houses (as new) - $7.50 ; F. Scott Fitzgerld's Tender is The Night (As New in DJ) - $2 ; etc. .