Category: Books on Books

A History of the Book in America, Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : December 1999

Seller ID: 55362

ISBN-13: 9780521482561

A square, tight and unmarked copy with text which appears unread. Very light fading to spine of dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.
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Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections

Price: $30.00

Publisher: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College : October 2016

Seller ID: 69092

ISBN-13: 9781892850287

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Some signs of shelf wear. Otherwise a square, tight, and unmarked copy.
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Carving the Elements: A Companion to the Fragments of Parmenides

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Editions Koch : 2004

Seller ID: 41442

ISBN-13: 9780974971407

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

8vo; 138pp. Just a hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock, otherwise 'as new'. Includes Kock list of publications, laid in.
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Edward Eberstadt & Sons: Rare Booksellers of Western Americana

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Arthur Clark : 2016

Seller ID: 41392

ISBN-13: 9780870624384

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

8vo; 165pp.
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The Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler, Inventor of the Linotype (Oak Knoll Series on the History of the Book)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oak Knoll Pr : June 1989

Seller ID: 44675

ISBN-13: 9780938768128

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A square, tight and unmarked text which appears unread.
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The Dawn of Wisdom: Selections from the Japanese Collection of the Cotsen Children's Library

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cotsen Occasional Pr : January 2000

Seller ID: 33505

ISBN-13: 9780966608441

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Stanley Morison

By: Barker, Nicolas

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : January 1972

Seller ID: 69374

ISBN-13: 9780674834255

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A square, tight, and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.
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Patience & Fortitude: A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture

By: Basbanes, Nicholas A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Harper : October 2001

Seller ID: 69652

ISBN-13: 9780060196950

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Inscribed to half title. A square, tight, and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removeable mylar.
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Recalling Peter: The Life and Times of Peter Beilenson and His Peter Pauper Press

By: Beilenson], [Peter

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Typophiles : 1964

Seller ID: 37988

ISBN: 281BSY1003194

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

16mo; 86pp. Limited to 700 copies. Glassine dj with tiny chips and short close tears at extremities.
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Thomas Bird Mosher: Pirate Prince of Publishers

By: Bishop, Philip R.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Oak Knoll Pr : October 1998

Seller ID: 33290

ISBN-13: 9781884718496

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Zamorano Select

By: Burgess, Larry, el al.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: The Zamorano Club : 2010

Seller ID: 37934

ISBN: 281BSY1003105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

8vo; 169pp. Slight spine lean. Includes the original invoice from The Zamorano Club, to Californaina collector, John Patrick Ford. The book is now covered in a removable mylar cover.
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The Strawberry Hill Press & Its Printing House

By: Clarke, Stephen

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : 2011

Seller ID: 37467

ISBN-13: 9780300170405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

8vo; 142pp. Mildly rubbed dj, now protected in a removable mylar cover. Appears unread.
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Revolutions from Grub Street: A History of Magazine Publishing in Britain

By: Cox, Howard,Mowatt, Simon

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : November 2015

Seller ID: 54621

ISBN-13: 9780198755456

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Revolutions from Grub Street charts the evolution of Britain's popular magazine industry from its seventeenth century origins through to the modern digital age. Following the reforms engendered by the Glorious Revolution of 1688 the Grub Street area of London, which later transmuted into the cluster of venerable publishing houses centred on Fleet Street, spawned a vibrant culture of commercial writers and small-scale printing houses. Exploiting the commercial potential offered by improvements to the system of letterpress printing, and allied to a growing demand for popular forms of reading mat...
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Arte sutilísima, por la cual se enseña a escribir perfectamente (1550) (sin colección) (Spanish Edition)

By: De Iciar Vizcaino, Juan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Editorial Complutense, S.A. : January 2008

Seller ID: 65856

ISBN-13: 9788474919011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

A square, tight and unmarked copy. Dust jacket now protected in removable mylar.
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Into Print: Selected Writings on Printing History, Typography and Book Production

By: Dreyfus, John

Price: $95.00

Publisher: The British Library : 1994

Seller ID: 37514

ISBN-13: 9780712303439

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

8vo; 339pp. A square, tight and unmarked copy, in unclipped and lightly rubbed dj, with spine toned (however, the red lettering remains bright, strange!). The dj is now protected in a removable mylar cover.
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Matrix II, Number Eleven, Winter 1991

By: Dreyfus, John et al., and Matrix

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Risbury, The Whittington Press : 1991

Seller ID: 37955

ISBN: 281BSY1003140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

4to; 207pp. Limited to 850 copies bound in stiff covers, of a total edition of 955 copies. Top edge of textblock foxed and stiff boards bumped a bit, in unclipped dj. Other than these issues this copy appears as new, and the dj is now protected in a removable mylar cover. Laid in is a prospectus for Matrix 12, as well as one for a reprint of Matrix 2.
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Typographical Partnership: Ten letters Between Bruce Rogers and Emery Walker, 1907-31, Together with an Unpublished Fragment of Bruce Roger's Bye-ways of Book-making

By: Dreyfus, John, ed.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation : 1971

Seller ID: 37942

ISBN: 281BSY1003122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Large 8vo; 45pp. Limited to 350 copies. Bookplate of The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, front pastedown. Just a trace of rubbing to the board corners, otherwise Fine.
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A History of the Nonesuch Press...& A Descriptive Catalogue

By: Dreyfus, John; McKitterick, David, and Rendall, Simon

Price: $250.00

Publisher: The Nonesuch Press : 1981

Seller ID: 37471

ISBN-13: 9780370303970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

4to; 320pp. Limited Edition, copy no. 827 of 950. Light foxing to textblock edges and prelims. In unclipped dj (no price) with a 3' crease to upper inside corner of front flap and a fairly large publisher/bookstore label on rear flap (distributed by John Howell-Books in the United States). Book is square, tight and unmarked and is now protected in a removable mylar cover.
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In Pursuit of a Vision: Two Centuries of Collecting at the American Antiquarian Society

By: Dunlap, Ellen S., Preface

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Worcester, American Antiquarian Society : 2012

Seller ID: 69383

ISBN-13: 9781929545698

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A square, tight, and unmarked copy.
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

By: Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : February 1993

Seller ID: 33328

ISBN-13: 9780521447706

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Although the importance of the advent of printing for Western civilisation has long been recognised, it was Professor Eisenstein, in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This illustrated and abridged edition of Professor Eisenstein's study gives a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century. It begins with a discussion of the general implications of the introduction of printing, and then explores how the shift from script to print entered into the three major movem...
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Category: Books on Books