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GREENWOOD, Thomas.
Public Libraries: A history of the Movement and a Manual for the Management of Rate-Supported Libraries.
London: Cassell, 1891, Fourth Edition, Revised. octavo, gray cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. (xxxii), 604, (16 pp. ads). Cassell, Illustrated. Several preliminary leaves and ending leaves with advertisements for library equipment and supplies. Name on front endpaper. Shelf wear to extremities, inner hinges weak, but still... Item #26310
Price: $45.00
STAIKOS, K. Sp.
Libraries. From Antiquity to the Renaissance and Major Humanist and Monastery Libraries (3000 BC - AD 1600).
Athens: 1997, First Edition. quarto, printed boards. (xiv), 281 pp. In two parts: 48 entries for tablets, manuscripts and early printed books, generally in Greek, from ancient times to 1500, with an intermittent text discussing the libraries recorded and unrecorded, which may have been or were associated with these items... Item #17936
Price: $35.00
STAIKOS, Konstantinos.
Libraries. From Antiquity to the Renaissance and Major Humanist and Monastery Libraries - 3000-BC to 1600-AD.
No place: Kotinos Editions, 1997, First Edition. quarto, boards. 306 PP. Kotinos Editions, This excellent English/Greek language exhibition catalog illustrates 174 rare cuneiform tablets, manuscripts and early printed books associated with well-known libraries, both ancient and contemporary. Most of the works cited were published in Greek. Each library is discussed... Item #11976
Price: $35.00
Sale Catalogues of the Libraries of Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale (Mrs. Piozzi) and James Boswell.
New Castle: Oak Knoll, 1993, octavo, Oak Knoll, quarter leather and boards. (vii), 320pp. First Edition, Limited to 210 numbered copies. With an informative introduction by Donald D. Eddy which provides analysis of the sales and a description of some of the highspots. Ascensius Press has printed the introduction by... Item #7717
Price: $215.00
ANGHELESCU, Hermina G.B. and Martine Poulain, (editors).
Books, Libraries, Reading & Publishing in the Cold War.
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2002, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 298 pp. Library of Congress, This historic and important work is based on a series of papers presented at the 1998 International Federation of Library Associations conference in Paris. The work contains 26 essays focusing on the... Item #11977
Price: $25.00
ASTBURY, Raymond (editor).
Libraries & The Book Trade in Britain.
(Hamden, CT): Archon Books, (1968), First American Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 194pp. Archon Books, The edited proceedings of a three-day conference held in Liverpool in 1967 for the members of the book trade. Publishing, censorship and bookselling are the themes of the discussions regarding present and future trends... Item #26331
Price: $20.00
BENNETT, Melba Berry.
Historical Libraries of Austria.
Palm Springs, CA: Privately Printed by the Welwood Murray Memorial Library, 1964, First Edition. octavo, printed paper wrappers. 10pp., stapled. Privately Printed by the Welwood Murray Memorial Library, A travelling tour of Austrian libraries. Name inside front endpaper, otherwise fine. Item #26427
Price: $10.00
BLACK, Alistair and Peter Hoare.
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland. Volume 3: 1850–2000.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2006), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 762 pp. Cambridge University Press, The Public Libraries Act of 1850 founded a tradition of public provision and service which continues today, and national and academic libraries have grown and multiplied accordingly. Libraries have become an industry rather... Item #26316
Price: $150.00
BURLINGHAM, Cynthia and Bruce Whiteman (editors).
The World from Here. Masterpieces from Los Angeles Libraries.
San Marino: Getty Museum, 2001, First Edition. octavo, cloth. 448pp. Getty Museum, Featuring more than 300 selections, this book explores the treasure trove of rare books and ephemera in Los Angeles libraries: Autry Museum of Western Heritage; California Institute of the Arts Library; Getty Library; Huntington Library; Libraries of the... Item #12054
Price: $30.00
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
Price: $5.00
CHAMBERS, David, editor.
A Modest Collection: Private Libraries Association, 1956-2006.
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 2007, First Edition, one of 1,100 copies printed, of which 400 are for sale. octavo, green cloth. 378 pp. Private Libraries Association, Here, in the guise of a history of the Private Libraries Association, is an account of the friendships of its members over the past... Item #17731
Price: $60.00
CHAMPNEYS, Amian L.
Public Libraries. A Treatise on Their Design, Construction, and Fittings.
London: B. T. Batsford, 1907, First Edition. quarto, maroon cloth. (xiv), 183, (ii), 24 pp. B. T. Batsford, Covers Materials and Construction; Installations and Apparatus; Shelving and Accessories; Fittings, Furniture, and Appliances; Book Rooms; Lending Department, and more. Illustrated. Ex-Library from New York's Mercantile Library with a small rubber stamp... Item #26298
Price: $45.00
COOK, Christopher D.
Incunabula in the Westminster Abbey and Westminster School Libraries.
London: The Bibliographical Society, 2013, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth. 185 pp. The Bibliographical Society, Westminster Abbey is closely connected with the early history of printing in England: England's first printer, William Caxton, had his workshop within the monastery walls. Both the Abbey and the adjacent Westminster School have profited... Item #23062
Price: $75.00
DANA, John Cotton and Henry W. Kent.
Literature and Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1967, Reprint. octavo, tan cloth. Scarecrow, This reprint combines the original six volumes into one. Tipped to back endpaper is an autograph letter signed by Ralph R. Shaw, the founder of Scarecrow Press. Although not an ex-blibrary book, a library catalogue card for this title has also... Item #26431
Price: $20.00
DURKAN, John and Anthony Ross.
Early Scottish Libraries.
Glasgow: John S. Burns & Sons, 1961, First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth in dust jacket. 196 pp. John S. Burns & Sons, This volume brings together inforation about fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed books, existing in the libraries of Great Britain, which can be proved to have been in Scottish libraries... Item #26297
Price: $45.00
DYKSTRA, Gail B.
A Bibliography of Legal Materials for Non-Law Libraries.
Toronto: York University Law Library, (1975), First Edition. quarto, orange cloth. 55 pp. York University Law Library, Reproduced typescript. Fine. Item #26005
Price: $20.00
EDWARDS, Edward.
Memoirs of Libraries; Including a Handbook of Library Economy. Two volumes.
New York: Burt Franklin, no date [circa 1966], Reprint. small quarto, red cloth. xxviii, 841; xxxvii, 1,104 pp. Burt Franklin, This monumental work, first published in 1859, covers the history of libraries from classical times to the mid-nineteenth century, in Britain, Europe and America. The author was influential in founding... Item #26294
Price: $125.00
FERRARI, Mirella.
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... Item #11634
Price: $7.50
GREENHALGH, Liz, Ken Worpole with Charles Landry.
Libraries in a world of cultural change.
(London): UCL Press, (1995), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth. x, 182pp. UCL Press, Very slight fold to upper right corner of title page, otherwsie fine. Item #26429
Price: $12.50
HEBRON, Stephen.
Marks of Genius. Masterpieces From the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries.
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2015, "Collector's Edition" Limited to 350 numbered and signed copies. quarto, quarterbound in Nigerian goatskin with gold tooling and blind blocking on the spine and front cover, in a matching blocked, lined slipcase. 360 pp. Bodleian Library, Marks of Genius pays tribute to some of the most... Item #25322
Price: $150.00
KELLER, Dean H. and Cara Gilgenbach.
A Catalogue of the B. George Ulizio Collection in the Kent State University Libraries.
(New Castle, DE; Kent, OH): Oak Knoll Press; Kent State University Libraries, 2006, First Edition. quarto, blue cloth. 246pp. Oak Knoll Press; Kent State University Libraries, Ulizio had built and disposed of three libraries prior to this collection acquired by Kent State in a purchase/donation agreement in 1969. "This catalogue... Item #15436
Price: $45.00
KER, N. R.
Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries. Volume III: Lampeter-Oxford.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (2003), Reprint originally published in 1983. octavo, black boards. xxxvi, 735 pp. Clarendon Press, A well compiled catalogue of medieval manuscripts residing in specified institutional libraries, of which many have never been catalogued previous to this edition. An important finding aid. Very fine and clean. Item #13517
Price: $75.00
LEEDHAM-GREEN, Elizabeth and Teresa Webber, editors.
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland. Volume 1: To 1640.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 708 pp. Cambridge University Press, This volume is the first detailed survey of libraries in Britain and Ireland up to the Civil War. It traces the transition from collections of books without a fixed local habitation to the... Item #26314
Price: $150.00
MANDELBROTE, Giles and K. A. Manley.
The Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland. Volume 2: 1640–1850.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2006), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 588 pp. Cambridge University Press, A History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland describes the development of libraries in Great Britain and Ireland over some 1500 years, and their role as a part of the social, intellectual and... Item #26315
Price: $150.00
MASON, Thomas.
Public and Private Libraries of Glasgow.
Glasgow: Thomas D. Morison, 1885, First Edition Printed for Subscribers and for Private Circulation, 450 copies printed. large octavo, gray-green cloth with printed paper label on spine. 448pp. plus 8pp. ads. Thomas D. Morison, An extensive survey and content description of many important libraries and book collections in Glasgow as... Item #26305
Price: $125.00
