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AUSTIN, A.E.
Elizabeth Bowen.
New York: Twayne Publishers, (1971), First Edition. octavo, cloth. 134pp. Twayne Publishers, Item #10328
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BINYON, T. J.
'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... Item #247
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BURDETT, Osbert.
William Blake.
New York: Macmillan, 1926, First Edition. small octavo, grey cloth. viii, 199 pp. Macmillan, Name on endpaper, top edge spotted. Item #23926
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BURLINGAME, Roger.
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... Item #14592
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CASSON, Lionel.
Libraries in the Ancient World.
New Haven: Yale Univ Press, 2001, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 192pp. Yale Univ Press, Casson recounts the development of ancient library buildings, systems, holdings, and patrons, addressing questions on a wide variety of topics, such as: What was the connection between the rise in education and literacy... Item #11027
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CAVANAGH, J. Albert.
Lettering and Alphabets.
New York: Dover Publications, no date, Reprint. oblong octavo, pictorial wrappers. 121 pp. Dover Publications, 85 complete alphabets. Fine. Item #25000
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CRASKE, Matthew.
William Hogarth.
(Princeton): Princeton University Press, (2000), First American Edition. small quarto, pictorial paper wrappers. 80pp. Princeton University Press, Hogarth was one of the most famous, innovative and influential artists of the 18th century. This new survey provides an account of his creative personality through a discussion of aspects of 18th century... Item #14458
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DARNTON, Robert.
The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France.
(London): Fontana Press, (1997), octavo, wrappers. (xxiv), 440pp. Fontana Press, "Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past. His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancient regime France. The... Item #7565
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FELTES, N. N.
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... Item #9740
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GORDAN, John D.
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... Item #10032
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GORDAN, John D.
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... Item #333
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GORDAN, John D.
William Makepeace Thackeray. An Exhibition from the Berg Collection. First Editions, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Drawings.
New York: New York Public Library, 1947, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. (42)pp. New York Public Library, In celebration of the One-Hundredth Anniversary of Vanity Fair. A well- annotated and very informative catalogue. Item #3714
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HAMER, Richard.
Manuscript Index to the "Index of Middle English Verse"
(London): British Library, (1995), First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 62pp. British Library, The "Index of Middle English Verse" (1947) by Charleton Brown and Russell Hope Robbins with its Supplement (1965) by Robbins and John C. Cutler, remains a valuable aid to Middle English studies; but its compilers did not supply... Item #14986
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JAMES, Elizabeth.
Charles Dickens.
(New York): Oxford University Press, (2004), First American Edition. quarto, pictorial boards. 128pp. Oxford University Press, One in the series of The British Library Writers' Lives. A revealing portrait of Charles Dickens from his early childhood, through his years as a parliamentary journalist and legal clerk, his magazine Household Words... Item #14745
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KELLIHER, Hilton and Sally Brown.
English Literary Manuscripts.
(London): British Library, (1986), First Edition. 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... Item #11064
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KNELMAN, Judith.
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. Item #14590
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KNOPF, Alfred A.
Publishing Then and Now 1912-1964.
New York: NYPL, 1965, Second Printing. quarto, wrappers. (24)pp. NYPL, Twenty-first of the R. R. Bowker Memorial Lectures. An interesting memoir by this influential publisher. Very fine. Item #7641
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LANE, Margaret.
Edgar Wallace. A Biography.
London: William Heinemann, n.d. (ca. 1940), Later Printing. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xii, 423 pp. William Heinemann, Edges of jacket heavily chipped, title page foxed, edges of pages foxed. Item #12691
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LEHMANN, John.
Virginia Woolf.
(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1975), First wrappers issue. octavo, wrappers. 128 pp. Thames and Hudson, John Lehmann worked for many years with the Hogarth Press, the publishing firm founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in 1917. This critical biography is also a unique visual record of Virginia Woolf herself... Item #12006
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LERNER, Laurence, (editor).
The Context of English Literature: The Victorians.
New York: Holmes & Meier, (1978), First American Edition. small 8vo, 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... Item #7607
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MAN, John.
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... Item #16151
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McMURTRIE, Douglas C.
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. Item #9797
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MILLGATE, Jane.
Scott's Last Edition. A Study in Publishing History.
Edinburgh: University Press, (1987), First Edition. small 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. x, 154pp. University Press, "The 1829/33 version of the Waverley Novels made publishing history. Here, for the first time, Professor Jane Millgate gives a full account of the genesis, preparation, publication and subsequent influence of what Scott called... Item #8937
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MIZENER, Arthur.
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1972), Reprint. octavo, wrappers. 128 pp. Thames and Hudson, A richly illustrated biographical work. Item #12007
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NICKSON, M. A. E.
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. Item #10304
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