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PLOUGHMAN OF THE MOON: An Adventure Into Memory

By: Service, Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1945

Seller ID: 6071

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Mustard cloth with brown lettering, frontispiece portrait of author with facsimile signature below. ; 5-3/4" x 8-1/4"; vii, 472 pp; Covers lightly soiled and with some faint spots of staining, mild corner wear, bookseller ticket (The Personal Shop. Boston) on FFEP otherwise clean and unmarked.
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RUSSIAN SCIENCE FICTION 1956 - 1974: A BIBLIOGRAPHY Original Books, Translated Books, and an Annotated Checklist of Criticism; with an Appendix on Criticism of Russian SF Before 1956

By: Suvin, Darko

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Elizabethtown, New York, Dragon Press: (1976)

Seller ID: 5034

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

The present book, besides correcting the errors in the 1971 guide and adding the appendix, expands the first three parts about 50%; of the present 720 items, 300 are new (in round numbers). Publishers blue cloth with silver spine lettering.; 7" x 10"; vi, 73 pp; Slight scuffing to cover, solid binding, clean and unmarked within.
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New Adventures Among Old Books: An Essay in Eighteenth Century Bibliography

By: Todd, William B.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Libraries: 1958

Seller ID: 1438

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Library Series Number 4, yellow stapled card wraps. ; 6" x 9"; 33 pp; Slight cover and page wear at corners, light rust to staples..
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The Gutenberg Bible: New Evidence of the Original Printing

By: Todd, William B.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Hanes Foundation, University of North Carolina: 1982

Seller ID: 1610

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

The Third Hanes Lecture - sponsored by the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Developement of the Book, white pictorial stapled wraps. ; 6 x 9"; 25 pp; Pages faintly creased, slightly soiled.
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ENGLISH BOOKS with COLOURED PLATES 1790 to 1860. A Bibliographical Account of the most Important Books illustrated by English Artists in Colour Aquatint and Colour Lithography.

By: Tooley, R.V.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, B. T. Batsford: 1954 (1935)

Seller ID: 1348

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Detailed collations for 517 titles (over 200 more titles than the original 1935 edition). Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. ; 7.5 x 10"; vii, 424 pp; Spine cocked, bumped lower right, cloth lifted on reverse, pages clean, without tears, though with the occasional remark.
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A Handbook of Science Fiction and Fantasy

By: Tuck, Donald H. (Compiler)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmania, 1954

Seller ID: 5033

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Annotated bibliography of early science fiction with entries in alphabetica l sequence. Scarce in any edition in the trade, especially for this first edition. ; 7-3/4" x 12-3/4"; 151 pp; Worn at spine with small loss at top of spine, soiled on front cover, toning to rear cover, clean and unmarked within.
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Bibliografia Generale del Cinema; Bibliographie Générale du Cinéma; General Bibliography of Motion Pictures.

By: Vincent, Carl, Riccardo Redi, Franco Venturini, et al

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Rome, Edizioni dell' Ateneo: 1953

Seller ID: 1508

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Original cream colored paper boards, text in Italian, French and English. ; 7 x 10"; 251 pp; Bumped at extremities, paper split at spine, reinforced at corners with clear tape, pages bumped and paper toned.
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Waddleton Chronology of Books with Colour Printed Illustrations or Decorations: 15th to 20th Century

By: Waddleton, Norman

Price: $40.00

Publisher: York, England, Quacks Books: 1993

Seller ID: 5757

ISBN: 0 948333 12 X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Gilt lettering to green cloth. Heavy, extra for international shipping. ; 8-3/4" x 11-3/4"; xviii, 656 pp; Vertical creasing to front group of pages, up to page 60. Otherwise little wear, clean and unmarked.
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THE CARTER-POLLARD DISCLOSURES

By: Wells, Gabriel

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.: 1934

Seller ID: 1607

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Cream covers, stapled wraps, postscript tipped in at rear.; 6 x 9"; 13 pp; Light cover soiling/edge wear.
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Image for RACINE DEPUIS 1885 Bibliographie Raisonnee des Livres--Articles--Comptes-Re ndus Critiques Relatifs a la vie et L'Oeuvre de Jean Racine 1885-1939

RACINE DEPUIS 1885 Bibliographie Raisonnee des Livres--Articles--Comptes-Re ndus Critiques Relatifs a la vie et L'Oeuvre de Jean Racine 1885-1939

By: Williams, Edwin E.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland, The Johns Hopkins Press: 1940

Seller ID: 2594

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Printed by Johns Hopkins, also lists London: Oxford University Press and Societe d'Edition "les Belles Lettres,: Paris as publishers. Originally issued in wrappers, this copy is bound in a period red cloth, gilt spine lettering. Chiefly bibliographic entries, detailed index at rear, text in French. This copy bears a warm inscription penned and signed by the author: "For Miss ______, who taught the author what he knows of bibliography, and who will not, he hopes, be disgraced by the result- Edwin E. Williams." ; 6-3/4" x 10-1/4"; 279 pp; Issued as The Johns Hopkins Studies i...
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An Introduction to Bibliographical and Textual Studies

By: Williams, William Proctor and Craig S. Abbott

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Language Association of America: 1985

Seller ID: 1408

ISBN: 0-87352-133-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Green cloth with yellow lettering, illustrated.; 6 x 9"; 106 pp; No wear of note.
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Catalogue of the Edward E. Ayer Ornithological Library

By: Zimmer, John Todd; Wilfred H. Osgood (Editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History: 1926

Seller ID: 5754

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Reprint, two volumes bound as one. Volumes with separate title pages both dated 1926 - this is a modern printing. Brown cloth with white spine lettering. Detailed bibliographic information for listed works, a few b&w illustrations. ; 5-1/4" x 8-1/4"; x, 1-364 + 365-706 pp; Slight wear to covers, clean and unmarked within.
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A Select Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred W. Pollard

By: [Pollard, Alfred W.]

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Oxford, Printed for the Subscribers at the University Press: 1938

Seller ID: 1516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Black cloth, gilt spine lettering, tissue guarded frontispiece portrait of author. Sewn binding. 260 copies printed with the type distributed. Subscriber list at rear. ; 6 x 8.5"; ix, 69 pp; Stain visible at spine for last few pages which are loose at the spine, faint spotting to endpapers, otherwise fine.
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[New York] WOODSIDE DOES READ! A Survey of the reading interests and habits of a local community

By: [Queens Borough Public Library] Kelley, Grace O. et al

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Jamaica, New York, 1935

Seller ID: 3437

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Conducted under the auspices of the Queens Borough Public Library by Grace O. Kelley, PH.D., assisted by Richard B. Sealock, M.S., Harry B. Devereaux, M.S. and other members of the staff. One of Five Hundred Copies. Stiff brown wraps, perfect bound, black cover lettering, frontispiece map of The Woodside Survey Area in relation to the entire city of New York, addition page of b&w photographs, additional maps, many tables including one fold-out. Author's name signed on cover. FFEP has inscription inked: For ____ _____ ______ - 1979 (mother) / Her Aunt Grace Kelley wrote this book. ; 7" x 1...
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CATALOGUE of Special Books on Christian Missions. Volume II.

By: [Tenri Central Library]

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Tenri, Tenri Central Library: 1955

Seller ID: 5765

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Beige cloth, black printed spine labels with gilt lettering. 230 items described and with title page facsimiles. Tenri Central Library Series No. 20. ; 7-1/2" x 10-1/4"; 313 pp; From the Explanatory Notes: This Second Catalogue is a companion volume to the " Catalogue of Special Books on Christian Missions " published in 1932, and includes new acquisitions during the period extending through March, 1955.; Corners bumped, clean and unmarked within.
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Waddleton Chronology, Supplement I. Books with colour printed illustrations or decorations 15th to 20th Century

By: [Waddleton, Norman]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: York, Quacks Books: 1996

Seller ID: 5758

ISBN: 0 948333 67 7

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

with title index for the supplement and combined indexes of colour printing from the Chronology and the Supplement. Gilt lettering to green cloth, 3 illustrations in color..; 8-3/4" x 11-3/4"; viii, 236 pp; Little wear, clean and unmarked.
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Waddleton Chronology, Supplement II. Books with colour printed illustration s or decorations 15th to 20th Century

By: [Waddleton, Norman]

Price: $60.00

Publisher: York, Quacks Books: 1997

Seller ID: 5759

ISBN: 0 948333 68 5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

with list of Not-in-Collection books and combined title index of all books in the Chronology, Supplements I and II and the NIC list. Gilt lettering to green cloth uniform with other series volumes. Heavy, extra for international shipping. ; 8-3/4" x 11-3/4"; vii, 442 pp; Lightly bumped corners, little wear, clean and unmarked.
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LETTERS, WORDS AND BOOKS An Exhibition of 5000 Years of the Graphic Arts February 28 - April 25, 1940

By: [Walker Art Center of the Minnesota Arts Council]

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center of the Minnesota Arts Council: 1940

Seller ID: 1614

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Includes essay by Frank K. Walter titled The Book and Art, illustrated introduction to the Center. Blue wraps, titled in yellow. ; 8 x 8.5"; 16 pp; Spine slightly lighter in color, faint edgewear.
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