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Felt Like the Hurt Was a Common Step, Signed Limited Edition
by Joseph Lappie  Notes Portland: Peptic Robot Press, 2004. #4 of an edition of 15, accordian style folding book of six captioned, black & white line etchings with aquatint. Ivory cloth over boards stamped in brown, captions stamped in blind, signed in pencil on front board by...
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Rare Books: $350.00 Set Hardcover
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Die Buchillustration in Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz seit 1945: 3 Volumes
by Wolfgang Tiessen Notes 3 vols plus 2 bibliographic appendices; ltd to 150 copies. Neu-Isenburg: Verlag der Buchhandlung Wolfgang Tiessen [1968/1972] vols 1 and 2 issued [1968]; vol 3, [1972] 19.5 x 21.75 cm each vol; 1*-19*, 1-50 (vol 1); 51-95, 1-47(vol 2); 1*-9*, 96-150, 1...
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Rare Books: $1200.00 Leather
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words Are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations... 5th Edition
by Samuel Johnson Notes London: W & A Strahan, 1784. Fifth edition. 2 volumes, folio. 42cm high. Full brown calf, rebacked. Title pages in red & black. Volume 1 with the Preface, History of the English Language & Grammar of the English Tongue preceeding the Dictionary. Bindings...
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Rare Books: $115.00 Leather
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A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the Lives and Writings... 3rd Edition, Corrected
by Stephen Jones Notes London: G G and J Robinson, 1799. Full straight grained red morocco, ruled in gilt, aeg., inner gilt dentelles. 3.25"x5". Title page cropped just a bit short. A handsome copy in a fine, unsigned, binding. GWBA...
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Rare Books: $400.00 Trade Paper
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Collectanea Cliffordiana, In Three Parts, 1st Edition
by Arthur Clifford Notes Paris: Printed by M. Nouzou, 1817. 8vo, 210x150mm. vii + [i] + iii + 7-218pp + [ii] + 145pp + [2]. First edition. Bound in contemporary wrappers, but unfortunately with later homemade french wraps amateurishly glued over the original wrappers. Edges...
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Rare Books: $250.00 Leather
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Old Ream Wrappers: An Essay on Early Ream Wrappers of Antiquarian Interest Limited
by Henk Voorn Notes North Hills, PA, Bird & Bull Press, 1969. Limited #138/375. Some edgewear. Sans seperate portfolio. Very Good/NI RWrw...
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Rare Books: $100.00 Hardcover
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American Picturebooks from Noahs Ark to The Beast Within
by Barbara Bader Notes New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1976. 4to, 615pp, Brown cloth with dust jacket. Text includes nearly 700 illustrations, of which 130 are in full color. One of the first histories of children's picture books from the United States. Excellent condition...
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Rare Books: $175.00 Hardcover
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Dictionary of Symbols and Imagery
by Ad de Vries Notes Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, (1984). Octavo, 15x23cm. [xvi] + 515pp. Third printing of the revised edition. Original tan leatherette, front board and spine stamped in silver. No dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped. Light external rubbing....
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Rare Books: $100.00 Leather
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Svenskt och Engelskt Lexicon, efter Kongl. Secreteraren Sahlstedts Svenska Ordbok, forfattadt af Gustaf Widegren, och Pa des Bekostnad Utgifvet: 1st Edition
by Gustaf Widegren Notes Stockholm: Johan A. Carlbohm, 1788. Quarto, 18x22cm. [x],897pp,[1p]. First edition. Contemporary half calf, speckled paper over boards, spine decorated in gilt and with a morocco label. Double column text printed in Swedish and English. Front board...
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Rare Books: $100.00 Leather
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Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holidays Throughout the Year
by John Keble Notes London: Henry Frowde Oxford University Press Warehouse, Amen Corner (no date, circa 1895) Miniature book, 4 1/2 x 5 1/2mm. in gilt stamped leather w/all edges gilt, frontis portrait of Christ; 480pp. including index. Front cover a bit bowed, upper corner...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Hardcover
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Albert Schloss's Bijou Almanacs 1839-1843 Limited Edition
by Iain Bain Notes London: Nattali & Maurice, 1969. Quarto, 215x285mm. 19pp + [plates]. Limited edition, one of 150 copies, unnumbered. Original japon vellum spine lettered in gilt, red paper over boards. In a price-clipped dust jacket. Numerous plates, including a single...
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Rare Books: $100.00 Hardcover
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Some Books With Illustrations by Paul Landacre Signed Limited Edition
by Ward Ritchie Notes [No place}: Santa Susanna Press, 1978. Octavo, 160x244mm. 31pp. Limited edition, number 2 of 199 copies, signed by Ward Ritchie on the colophon page. Original dark blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Small...
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Rare Books: $150.00 Leather
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Le Marie Magique, Limited Edition
by J.-C. Mardrus Notes No Place: Societe des Bibliophiles Franco-Suisse, 1930. Quarto. 3/4 calf with wood grain-patterned paper coverd boards; raised bands; top edge gilt. Corners bumped; rubbing to edges and spine. 87pp. Wood grain-patterned endpapers; illustrated with 42...
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Rare Books: $400.00 Hardcover
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Typographical Antiquities: Being an Historical Account of Printing In England: With some Memoirs of our Antient Printers and A Register of the Books printed by them from the year 1471 to the year 1600
by Joseph Ames Notes London: W. Faden, 1749. Quarto bound in black cloth with title in white type on the spine (library binding) (xvii),598; Index (26 pgs) of Authors, Printers and other Persons mentioned in this History. Title page, dedication page and final leaf repaired...
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Rare Books: $400.00 Hardcover
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English Binding Before 1500
by G D Hobson Notes Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1929. First Edition, folio (38 x 25cm), 58pp. plus 56 plates (plate 41a makes total 56). Full turquoise cloth with gilt-blocked title on spine. Spine head, foot, and corners all slightly bumped. Bookplate of...
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Rare Books: $3000.00 Leather
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Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton of the Weald of Kent; The First Printer in England
by John Lewis Notes London: not designated, 1737 First edition, in original gilt ruled full leather, w/five raised bands, gilt stamped black morocco label on spine, engraved frontis portrait; xxii, 156pp. including index, errata, two pages of plates of watermarks (Lotte...
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Rare Books: $125.00 Hardcover
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English Cursive Book Hands 1250-1500
by M. B. Parkes Notes Berkeley: University of California Press, (1980). Quarto. 21.5x29cm. xxxii, 26pp. First thus. Maroon cloth covered boards with yellow endpapers. Former owner's name written on front free endpaper. Slight discoloration along top edge and spine. Dust...
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Rare Books: $75.00 Hardcover
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Printers' Mottoes: A Collection of Sentiments Taken from Title-Pages and Colophons of Books Issued by Printers and Publishers, Booksellers, Artists and Patrons from the 15th Century to the Present
by Bella Landauer Notes NY: Privately Printed, 1926. 4to, 122pp, brown paper boards over black cloth. One of 175 printed, this one unnumbered. Both hinges cracked but binding still solid. Corners bumped but covers otherwise very good. Good. hb....
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Rare Books: $125.00 Hardcover
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Thirty Bindings Selected from the First Edition Club's Seventh Exhibition, Held at 25 Park Lane, by Permission of Sir Phillip Sassoon, Bart.
by G. D. Hobson Notes London: The First Edition Club, 1926. Quarto. Red cloth with decorative gilt borders to boards. Top edge gilt. Fraying to head and foot of spine. Boards and joints lightly rubbed. xii, 68pp. With 30 color, tinted, and black & white plates. Edition...
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Rare Books: $450.00 Leather
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Grammaticarum institutionum: libri IIII
by Aldus Manutius Notes Venetiis, Mariae de Lenis, 1581 Later edition. Small 8vo, later 1/4 vellum over marbled boards, leather label, 218 numbered pages (actually 437 with title page). Some worming to prelims, not affecting text, and final few pages with slight affect. Slight...
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