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Typed Letter Signed (TLS) referencing The Giant Swing

By: Burnett, W. R.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Glendale, California, 1932

Seller ID: 6379

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Typed letter from W. R. Burnett on his letterhead dated October 2, 1932. The letter bears his Hillcroft Road address and reads: My Dear Mr. Clark, If you will leave your book at the house I will be glad to autograph it and return it to you by mail. I have been very busy preparing The Giant Swing for the screen, so must ask you to excuse this delayed reply. Thank you for your nice letter. Yours very sincerely, W. R. Bennett (ink signature). ; 7" x 10-1/2"; The Giant Swing was published in 1932. It was indeed produced as a movie, but would not appear on the screen until 1941. Stanley Rau...
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WATER TECHNOLOGY in the PULP and PAPER INDUSTRY

By: Chamberlin, N. S., et al

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry: 1957

Seller ID: 4388

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

TAPPI Monograph Series - No. 18. Tan wraps, brown cover lettering, perfect bound, illustrated. ; 6" x 9"; 170 pp; Binding cocked, front cover and a few pages lightly creased at upper right corner, pages clean and unmarked.
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[Auction Catalog] THE HASKELL F. NORMAN LIBRARY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE Part II: The Age of Reason

By: Christie's

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Christie's: 1998

Seller ID: 2587

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Blue coated paper boards, gray endpapers, Lots 235 to 882 are described in detail, many with full color images. ; 8-21/2" x 10-1/2"; 475 pp; Cover with the slightest of wear at the tips, internally fine.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MONUMENTS In the Care of the Secretary of State for Scotland

By: Cross, Morag

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow: 1994

Seller ID: 5040

ISBN: 0 85261 458 6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Blue cloth with silver lettering to front cover and spine, entries are organized alphabetically by author within site. Heavy, extra for international postage.; 8-1/4" x 11-1/2"; xxxiv, 602 pp; Bumped at corners and in one spot along bottom edge of front board, solid binding, clean and unmarked within.
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ARTHUR MACHEN: A Bibliography

By: Danielson, Henry; Arthur Machen (Notes, biographcal and critical); Henry Savage (Introduction)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Henry Danielson: 1923

Seller ID: 6056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Blue cloth with gilt lettering, frontispiece portrait of Machen with facsimile? signature below. One from an edition of 500 copies. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; x, 59 pp; Front board bowed outward, frontispiece has tide-mark around edges, otherwise clean and unmarked.
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FRANÇOIS VILLON Recherches sur le Testament

By: Deroy, Dr. J. P. Th.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: The Hague, Mouton & Co.N.V.: 1967

Seller ID: 5078

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Leçon publique donnée le 17 Mai 1967. Light blue wraps, perfect bound, text in French and Dutch. This copy with an inscription penned and initialled by the author. ; 5-1/2" x 8" (14 x 20,6 cm); 27 pp; Signed by Author; Mild wear/soiling to wraps, clean and unmarked within apart from the noted inscription.
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DIDEROT ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Complete Illustrations 1762-1777 (Five volumes in slipcase)

By: Diderot, Denis

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams: 1978

Seller ID: 5171

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Volumes are uniformly bound with light blue cloth boards and dark blue leatherette spines with four raised bands, Introduction by Roger Lewinter, with 3115 full-page plates spread across four volumes, fifth volume is index with 304 pages. All volumes contained within slipcase covered in light blue cloth matching boards. Large (over 9" of books) and heavy, USPS Media Mail as expected, others extra.; 4" x 6-3/4"; Several pages in Volume I have tiny corner creases, small area of rubbing to gilt on spne of Volume IV, creasing to ribbon for lifing books out of slipcase. Volumes and sl...
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BRASH AND REID Booksellers in Glasgow AND THEIR COLLECTION OF POETRY ORIGINAL AND SELECTED

By: Ewing, James, Cameron

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Printed by Robert Maclehose and Co.: 1934

Seller ID: 4901

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, With Three Illustrations (on 2 guarded pp preceding numbered text). Limitation page opposite title page notes this as [Number 48 of] Fifty copies privately reprinted from the records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society.; 8" x 10-1/2"; 20 pp; Small area of fraying along spine else but slight wear.
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BIBLIOGRAFIA Degli STATUTI dei Comuni Dell'Italia Superiore (complete in three volumes)

By: Fontana, Leone (compiler)

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Milano-TORINO-Roma, Fratelli Bocca: 1907

Seller ID: 1577

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Original wraps bound into uniform hardcover bindings with gray pebbled cloth spines, decorative green paper boards, leather spine labels with gilt lettering, Vol. I with frontispiece portrait of the compiler, volumes contain entries organized alphabetically, text in Italian. Set is heavy; extra for Priority or international shipping. ; 7" x 10"; xv, 510+504+524 pp; Boards show light toning and little wear, internal wrappers a bit soiled and foxed with bleeding onto closest leaves, printed on quality paper showing little sign of wear.
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Bibliography of Italian Late Renaissance Art (Il Cinquecento, Seconda Parte, 1540 - 1600)

By: Geck, Francis J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boulder, Colorado, University of Colorado Book Store: 1934

Seller ID: 4480

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

This bibliography ... is one of a series of thirteen booklets [ Volume VIII], now in preparation, covering the entire field of Italian art. Entries are listed by category of decorative or applied art and are primarily "limited to those written in or translated into the English language". Stiff orange wraps with orange cloth spine.; 7" x 9-3/4"; v, 71 pp; Light cover wear/soiling, slight fraying to cloth at top/bottom of spine, pages are clean and unmarked.
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UDSIGT OVER DANMARKS ZOOLOGISKE LITERATUR: med en indledende fremstilling af de Videnskabelige Grundsaitninger for Naturvidenskabens isaer Zoologiens Studium

By: Gosch, C. C. A.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, Hoffensberg, Jespersen & Fr. Traps: 1878

Seller ID: 1379

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Original tan printed wrappers, rebacked with library tape. Text in Danish.; 5 x 8.5"; viii, 558 pp; Wrappers chipped.
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Books and Manuscripts from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Pirie: A Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Grolier Club, February 5 to March 11, 1963

By: Grolier Club

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Grolier Club: 1963

Seller ID: 1616

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Cream stapled wraps, frontispiece, 46 entries. ; 6 x 9"; 11 pp; Covers lightly toned at edges.
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BIBLIOTHECA TYPOGRAPHICA In usum eorum qui Libros amant: A List of Books About Books

By: Hart, Horace

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Printing House of Leo Hart: 1933

Seller ID: 1037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Brown leather spine, gilt titling, tan cloth over beveled boards, top edge gilt. Housed in tan slipcase. Number 96 of the special edition of 250 copies, signed by the author. ; 6 x 9"; 142 pp; Spine leather rubbed in spots, else book is fine. Slipcase browned, edgeworn, splitting along top edge.
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CARIBBEAN WRITERS: A Bio-Bibliographical-Critical Encyclopedia

By: Herdeck, Donald E. (Editor)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., Three Continents Press: 1979

Seller ID: 2443

ISBN: 0-914478-74-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

This book contains biographical information on some 2000 creative writers and bibliographic detail on upwards of 15,000 works. Teal blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, teal and orange publishers dust wrapper, gold map endpapers, b&w illustrations of selected authors and works. No edition or printings noted. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; 943 pp; Book with little wear. Jacket lightly rubbed with small closed tears at upper corners, in clear protective cover.
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Image for CATALOGUE OF BOOKS Ancient and Modern New and Old Comprising the Works of Standard Authors English and Foreign ... All in Good Library Condition, Many in Choice and Elegant Bindings. Now on Sale at the Very Reasonable Prices Affixed by Edward Howell.

CATALOGUE OF BOOKS Ancient and Modern New and Old Comprising the Works of Standard Authors English and Foreign ... All in Good Library Condition, Many in Choice and Elegant Bindings. Now on Sale at the Very Reasonable Prices Affixed by Edward Howell.

By: Howell, Edward

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Liverpool, Edward Howell: 1867

Seller ID: 2009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Single bound volume containing the five catalogues issued by bookseller Edward Howell, Church Street, Liverpool during the year 1867. Volume title page notes broad list of topics: history, voyages, travels, natural history, angling, sporting, gardening, agriculture, votany, antiquities, biography, geology, mineralogy, heraldry, numismatics, language, encyclopedias, early printed books, architecture, illuminated books, picture galleries, sculpture galleries, books of engravings, natural philosophy, astronomy, engineering, &c., and all the standard religious works of the past and present ages. T...
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Lectures on Shakespeare

By: Hubbell, Lindley Williams

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Nan'Un Do:

Seller ID: 5705

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Author was Professor of Englist at Doshisha University. Brownish-red cloth with black spine lettering. Green lettered dust jacket. Publishers lettered slipcase. OCLC notes few holdings of this Tokyo edition and suggests 1960 or 1962 as the date. ; 6" x 8-1/4"; 245 pp; Boards with little wear, solid hinges, a few pages have passages marked. Dust jacket a bit edgeworn and sunned. Slipcase quite toned and starting to split at opening.
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The Library of the Franciscans of the Convent of St. Antony, Padua at the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century

By: Humphreys, K. W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Erasmus Booksellers: 1966

Seller ID: 1451

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Safaho Monographs, Published by the Safaho Foundation for Promotion of Bibliographical Research as Volume 4. Further, issued as Volume 3 of Studies in the History of Libraries and Librarianship. White wraps, 1025 items listed.; 6.5 x 10"; 206 pp; Slightly toned at spine, pages unopened.
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The Anatomy of Bibliomania (Volume 1 only as issued prior to release of Volume II)

By: Jackson, Holbrook

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1931

Seller ID: 1559

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Last page offers synopsis of Volume II including that it "will be accomplished during the month of May, 1931". Red cloth, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. Gray dust jacket with red lettering. ; 6" x 9"; 419 pp; A nice copy. Book in excellent condition. Darkeniing to jacket spine, lightly worn at spine ends, unclipped but with price inked over, in clear protective cover.
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Interior Design and Decoration: A Bibliography

By: Lackschewitz, Gertrud

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, New York Public Library: 1961

Seller ID: 2338

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Compiled for the American Institute of Decorators under the Direction of the American Institute of Interior Designers. Blue wraps, perfect bound, 700+ entries organized by topic. Issued in matching printed blue slipcase covered in blue paper. ; 7" x 10"; 86 pp; Slight cover wear and soiling, printed card tipped in presenting book to SF State College with compliments of The American Institute of Interior Designers, no additional markings. Slipcase lightly rubbed.
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Bio-Bibliographie de La Reine Marie-Antoinette

By: Lescure, A. M. de

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Paris, Imprimerie Parisienne: c1862

Seller ID: 1658

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Scarce unprinted wraps, stitched, Typographie Dupray de la Mahérie. Scarce listing of 248 titles with but a handful of institutional holdings. Undated on title and copyright pages, introductory remarks are dated at Alençon, le 25 novembre 1862, text in French. ; 5.5 x 9"; 62 pp; Lacks rear cover, well worn at spine and corners with some pages partly detached from strings, waterstained at lower right, foxed. Despite the flaws, all text remains readable.
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