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Second Annual Report Of the Social Security Board, Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1937
by Arthur J Altmeyer, Chairman Social Security Board
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Books Be My Destiny [Signed]
by Edmonds, Maurice
Published by Author. 1984. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to reverse of front free endpaper. DJ spine slightly sunned. Signed by author. ix, 108 pages. The autobiography of the late Maurie Edmonds a highly regarded Adelaide secondhand & antiquarian bookseller. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$28.00
1975 Catalog of City Lights Publications
by City Lights Books
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1975. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 40 pp. Oblong 8vo. Very slight wear, clean within.
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$25.00
The Seven Stairs
by Brent, Stuart
New York: Touchstone Books, 1989 1st ed. thus. 231pp. illus. paperback 8vo: Good+ [tiny hole in front cover; cover and edges are age browned; small rem. line bottom edge; else a clean, complete & uncreased copy] An "autobiography" of a famous Chicago bookstore.
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$4.99
The Price-Codes of the Book-Trade: A Preliminary Guide
by Jackson, Ian; [Exhumation]
USA: Ian Jackson. Very Good. 2010. First Edition. Paperback. A fascinating historical explanation of the cryptic characters often pencilled by booksellers inside their used books. 31 pages. Index. Laid-in is a one-page sheet entitled "Homeless Price Codes - A list of code-words not known to be in use in the book-trade, published for the assistance of code-seekers whose invention has failed them." Clean and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Author was a...
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$129.95
The Kit-Cat Club. Friends Who Imagined A Nation
by Field, Ophelia
London: Harper Press. 2008. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 524 pages. The Kit-Cat Club was formed in the late 1690s when London bookseller Jacob Tonson forged a partnership with pie-maker Christopher [Kit] Cat. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$18.00
Early Illustrated Books -- A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries
by Alfred W Pollard
1917. Second edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. 253pp, with b&w illustrations. Despite ex-library markings (minimal & mainly confined to prelims & covers), content is unusually tight & cleanwith light foxing prelims. Covers slightly marked but very sound with paper-label-title on spine intact. Heaps of full-page and embedded illustrations -- also nice collector's reference.
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NZ$30.00
Guide to Book Values
by A. Fair (ed.)
Book Auction Records for New Zealand and the Pacific, 1952-1956.
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NZ$20.00
Growing Up With Lawrence Clark Powell
by Ritchie, Ward; Martin, Marylou T. (Introduction)
Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 1987. Limited Edition. Wraps. Fine. The 1986 Coulter Lecture by Ward Ritchie. 18 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy that has never been read. One of 1,000 copies.
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$30.00
Book Collecting
by Seumas Stewart
NZ guide to book collecting from the 1970's with b + w illustrations
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NZ$20.00
William Caxton and His Quincentenary.
by Dreyfus, John
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1976. . 12mo. 54 pp. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt title and spine. Very good. IMostly black and red text. Includes color frontispiece of reproduction of illustration from Caxton’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and overleaf of colophon from The lyf of the holy & blessid vyrgyn saynt Wenefryde, printed by Caxton in 1458. Designed by Abe Lerner and printed in the year of the Caxton Quincentenary. Limited to 700 copies for typographers and 400...
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$50.00
Blackwells 1879 1979 The History of a Family Firm
by Norrington, A. L. P
Blackwell Pub. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0946344000 . Dust jacket with a touch of wear at corner tips; paper clip impression top front edge, possibly from printed slip laid in, "With Compliments, Phil Fecteau, Blackwell North America, Inc." ; Blue cloth in pictorial grey jacket. Illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings. Includes index. ; 9.2 X 6.2 X 0.9 inches; 191 pages .
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$20.00
Suffolk Book Trades: A Biographical Dictionary
by Copsey, Tony
Ipswich: Claude Cox , 2012. Hardback with dust-wrapper, now preserved in a removable protective cover. 467pp. Frontis. Illus. A limited edition of only 116 copies, 100 for sale. Previous owner's small private label to front pastedown only. An excellent copy. (bs51). Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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£32.00
Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.
by Jeremy Mercer
Paperback / softback. New.
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£14.06
The Mystique of Printing: A Half Century of Books Designed By Ward Ritchie
by Powell, Lawrence Clark (Foreword); Ritchie, Ward
Sacramento, CA: California State Library Foundation, 1984. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 1986 Coulter Lecture by Ward Ritchie. One of 2,000 copies. 30 pp. 8vo. Bump to foot of spine, clean within. One of 2,000 copies.
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$15.00
The Bookman’s Bible: Books in English: Volume 1:1850-1899.
by Roskie, Philip M
Oakland: Roskie & Wallace Bookstore, 1963 & 1960. . 12mo. 131 pp. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titling and spine. Very good. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
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$50.00
Next to Mother's Milk..." An Engelhard Lecture on the Book
by Powell, Lawrence Clark
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1987. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. A wonderful address by Powell on the joys of books and libraries. First Printing. 25 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with light age toning at the spine on outer wraps.
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$15.00
Sagittarius: His Book. (From one of 640 copies).
by Harry Miller Lydenberg; Bruce Rogers
New York: Typophiles, 1951.. 12mo. 93 pp. Illustrated cloth covered boards. Very Good+. Illustrations and plates throughout. "Designed by John S. Fass and produced in New York City, excepting the collotype reproductions by Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Conn. Composition: Diamant Typographic Service, Inc. Printing: L.F. White Company. Binding: J.F. Tapley Company"--Colophon. Bookplate on free end paper. Contents: As I knew him / by Harry Miller Lydenberg -- John Archer, editor's friend / by Deoch...
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$65.00
Tales from a Century Before: An Episodic Account of a Journey Undertaken in Youth
by Adams, Dan
Santa Monica, CA: Waverly Books, 2014. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. 171 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
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$15.00
The Private Collector and the Building of the Research Library. An Address by Archibald Hanna Delivered at Central Michigan University at a Dinner Honoring Norman E. Clarke, M.D. April 7, 1967. Limited edition.
by Hanna, Archibald
Mount Pleasant, MI: John Cumming, 1967. . 12mo. 22 pp. Grey cloth-covered wraps with black cloth quarter binding and paste-down title box. Very good. Limited edition. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
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$75.00
Union List of Serials in New Zealand Libraries
by National Library Service
Prepared for Publication by the National Library Centre under the direction of A.G. Bagnall.
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NZ$145.00
The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin, of the Theatres-Royal, Covent-Garden, Drury-Lane, Haymarket And Author of the Cabinet. Volume II.
by Dibdin, Thomas
London: Henry Colburn, 1827. . 8vo. 431 pp. Marbled paper-covered boards with half calf binding and gilt, paneled spine. Good with chipped leather spine, staining and foxing. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
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$100.00
The Ferns of New Zealand and its Immediate Dependencies -- with directions for Their Collection and Cultivation
by H.C. Field
H.C. Field's 1890 Survey of NZ Ferns.
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NZ$60.00
The Universal Self-Instructor: An Epitome of Forms and General Reference Manual. A Facsimile of the 1883 Edition with an introduction by Annette K. Baxter.
by Baxter, Annette K
New York: Winter House Ltd., 1970. . 273 pp. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt spine and color, printed dust jacket in brodart. Very good. Purple endpapers. Black and white original illustrations, including frontispiece. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
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$50.00
A Code for the Collector of Beautiful Books. First edition.
by Robert, Maurice; Warde, Frederic Warde; Miomandre, Francis de (preface); LeClercq, Jacques (trans.)
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. . 4to. 55 pp. Printed orange striped paper-covered boards with blue paste-down title box and blue gilt spine and parchment paper dust jacket. Very good with tearing to jacket. First edition. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
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$50.00
A Press Achieved -- emergence of Auckland University Press 1927-1972
by Dennis McEldowney
2001 1st Edition soft covers 166 pages (high quality paper) VG As new but for sl wear bottom edge & pencilled name fep - VG Auck University Press History - McEldowney 2001
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NZ$25.00
