English Royal Signatures.
London: HMSO, (1981), Second impression. quarto, wrappers. (12)pp. HMSO, With 33 signatures illustrated and catalogued. More
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'Murder Will Out'. The Detective in Fiction.
Oxford: Oxford Unviersity Press, (1990), 2nd Printing. octavo, wrappers. viii, 166pp. Oxford Unviersity Press, A history of the detective in fiction from pre-Holmes to the professionals described by P. D. James and those who focus on police procedures. A final list for further reading lists the authors from the text..... More
The Big Book of Big Little Books.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1997), First Edition. octavo, boards. 121 pp. Chronicle Books, The chapters of this book are broken into genre: Funnies, Space, Adventure, Movies, Crime, Wild West, and Aviation. Extensively illustrated in color. Very fine copy. More
Of Making Many Books. A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing and Publishing.
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, (1996), Reprint of earlier edition. octavo, black cloth. (xxxvi), 347pp. The Pennsylvania State University Press, One in a series in Penn State Reprints in Book History giving second life to classic works in the field of publishing history. This reprint, with a new..... More
Licensed by Authority. Ben Jonson and the Discourses of Censorship.
Ithaca: Cornell Univ Press, (1993), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xx), 227pp. Cornell Univ Press, From the jacket: "A dramatist whose own works were repeatedly censored early in his career and who later stood in succession to the office of court censor himself, Ben jonson embodies the contradictions..... More
Printed Writings by George W. Russell (AE). A Bibliography.
Evanston: Northwestern University, 1961, First Edition. octavo, cloth. 255pp. Northwestern University, Classified, part chronological, part alphabetical arrangement of works, manuscripts, ephemera, ana, etc., with discursive collations, locations, and bibliographical notes. Fine. More
Modes of Production of Victorian Novels.
Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 125pp. Univ of Chicago Press, "In this sophisticated application of modern Marxist thought, N. N. Feltes demonstrates the determining influence of nineteenth-century publishing practices on the Victorian novel. His dialectical analysis leads to a comprehensive explanation of the development of..... More
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in California Libraries. University of California, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, (1991), First Edition. octavo, cloth. (188)pp. followed by 32pp. of photographic plates. Univ. of California Press, Edited by R. H. Rouse. These manuscripts in the library of the University of California, Los Angeles, include psalters, books of hours, collections of sermons and law books..... More
Cyril Connolly. The Life and Times of England's Most Controversial Literary Critic.
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1996), First American Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. St. Martin's Press, "Revered for his intellect, feared for his acerbic wit..." Author of Enemies of Promise and The Unquiet Grave, and, perhaps most importantly, founding editor of "Horizon" literary magazine. A man of..... More
John Masefield's Salt-Water Ballads.
New York: New York Public Library, 1952, octavo, wrappers. 26pp. New York Public Library, This exhibition presented drafts of thirty-two of the first fifty poems published in the first edition, many to change considerably before the final version appeared in print. Notes describe the evolution of the poems, describe the..... More
Letters to an Editor. Georgian Poetry, 1912-1922. An Exhibition from the Berg Collection.
New York: New York Public Library, 1967, octavo, wrappers. 36pp. New York Public Library, An exhibition of letters written to Sir Edward Howard Marsh, an editor who helped bring such poets as W. H. Davies, Walter De La Mare, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence and John Masefield to public attention..... More
Tennyson and His Publishers.
University Park: Penn State University Press, (1979), First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 333pp. Penn State University Press, This study examines the personal and business relationship between Tennyson and his publishers, Kegan Paul, and later Alexander Macmillan. Illustrated. Very fine. More
Hugh Walpole. An Appreciation.
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1919), First Edition. small octavo, boards. (66 pp.). George H. Doran Company, In his appreciation, the author states that "Mr. Walpole possesses almost entirely the qualities which seem to me the base, the absolute foundation, of a beauty without which creative writing is empty."..... More
Thomas Nelson and Sons. Memories of an Edinburgh Publishing House.
(East Linton): Tuckwell Press, (2001), First Edition. small octavo, pictorial wrappers. (xxiv), 130pp. Tuckwell Press, A book about the experiences of four men who worked at Thomas Nelson and Sons, one of the largest printing and publishing houses in Edinburgh. They speak of their work practices, techniques, customs and traditions..... More
English Literary Manuscripts.
(London): British Library, (1995), Reprint. octavo, wrappers. 80pp. British Library, Beowulf, Piers Plowman, The Canterbury Tales, Le Morte d'Arthur, the play of Sir Thomas More, Urn-burial, Gray's Elegy, A Sentimental Journey, Kubla Khan, Don Juan, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Pygmalion, Mrs Dalloway, Finnegan's Wake... These, with many..... More
Twisting in the Wind. The Murderess and the English Press.
Toronto: Univ of Toronto Press, (1998), First Edition, wrappers issue. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (xxviii), 322p. Univ of Toronto Press, Women as serial killers and their treatment by the popular press. Illustrated. Very fine. More
The Context of English Literature: The Victorians.
New York: Holmes & Meier, (1978), First American Edition. small octavo, wrappers. xii, 228pp. Holmes & Meier, Illustrated. In five separate essays, English professors from the University of Sussex take on Victorian society and finally trying "to show something of the complexity of relating a work of literature to its..... More
The Gutenberg Revolution. The story of a genius and an invention that changed the world.
[London]: Review, (2003), Second printing of paperback issue. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (320)pp. Review, In 1450, all of Europe's books were handcopied and amounted to no more than a few thousand. By 1500, they were printed and numbered in the millions. This because of the invention of the movable type by..... More
Effective Typography and Economy. Reproducing a Speech made before Atlanta Printers.
Offprint from "The Southern Printer", 1932, quarto, single sheet folded once to make (4)pp. Limited to 300 copies. More
Elkin Mathews. Publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound.
Madison: Univ of Wisconsin Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. (xiv), (300)pp. Univ of Wisconsin Press, Mathews' career in publishing "coincided with the transition from Victorian to modern literature, a period which literary historians date from about 1880 to 1920...what makes Mathews unique is the role he played in encouraging..... More
Early Autograph Albums in the British Museum.
London: British Museum, 1970, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. (32)pp. British Museum, With four plates in color and 16 in black and white. Bibliography. An interesting study which includes a list of albums in the British Museum. More
Britannica's Typesetters. Women Compositors in Edwardian Edinburgh.
(Edinburgh): Edinburgh Univ Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. viii, 170pp. Edinburgh Univ Press, "The printing trade has traditionally reserved its skilled jobs for men - yet for over thirty years in Edinburgh women were being actively recruited to work as compositors and were even responsible for the typesetting of..... More
English Glosses from British Library Additional Manuscript 37075.
Norman: Pilgrim Books, (1984), First Edition. small octavo, blue cloth. (xvi), 160pp. Pilgrim Books, This edition is in two parts: first, the annotated transcription of the English glosses and then an alphabetical index of the English words and phrases which also includes proper names. It provides a modest increase in..... More
Cambridge Street Literature.
Cambridge, England: Oleander Press, (1978), First Edition. octavo, boards. 64pp. Oleander Press, Street literature here includes almanacs, broadsheets, ballads, chapbooks, posters, handbills and any ephemeral piece found in poorer homes, and which Ward terms "the ambassadors of literacy" to a wider population. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions of items. Fine..... More
And Gladly Teach. A Hanover Holiday Address.
No place (Hanover, NH), June 11, 1962, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 26pp. An "off the cuff" address by West as the Professor of Comparative Literature at Dartmouth University. More