(1995), From the book's prospectus: "The passion to possess books has never been more widespread or popular than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it. A Gentle Madness is an adventure among the afflicted. Richly anecdotal and fully documented..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1980), First Edition. quarto, blue cloth in dust jacket. 318pp. Harry N. Abrams, From the dust jacket, "The extraordinary range of objects housed in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., is revealed for the first time in this sumptuous volume. Treasures of the Library..... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2016, Ninth Edition, completely revised and reset. small octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 264 pp. Oak Knoll Press, With additional information and illustrated with line drawings and color photographs. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is..... More
New York: Sotheby's, 11.9-10.89, large quarto, cloth. (444)pp, 308 items listed. Sotheby's, This magnificent sale has a 4pp. Foreword by Nicolas Barker followed by a 10pp. Preface by the book collector (as he liked to be addressed), Haven O' More. A fantastic [auto]biographical statement, written in the third person, ends..... More
Concord, NH: The Century Co., April, 1921, large octavo, pictorial wrappers. The Century Co., In this article Arnold discusses his love of association copies and describes his favorites from his library. Wrappers dusty, 3" tear to corner of front wrapper repaired on verso with tape, bottom inch of spine chipped..... More
New Caste, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2006, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 352 pp. Oak Knoll Press, Sir George Grey, governor of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an outstanding British colonial statesman in the nineteenth century. Less well-known of Grey is that we he..... More
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1987, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. vii, (70)pp. Library of Congress, Limited to 1,500 copies. Part of the Engelhard series sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Originally presented on October 2, 1985 as an Engelhard Lecture on the Book. Ward..... More
Washington, D.C. Center for the Book, Library of Congress, (2000), First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. ix, (3), 155 pp. Center for the Book, Library of Congress, Preface by John Cole. Arranged in three major sections: Introduction on the field of book history; How to Locate and Use Sources including information..... More
(Exeter): University of Exeter, 1972, First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (viii), (56)pp. University of Exeter, Illustrated. Leofric was a medieval Bishop of Exeter. He was a bibliophile, and collected many manuscripts; some of these he gave to the cathedral library, including a famous manuscript of poetry, the Exeter..... More
London: British Library, 2005, First Edition. small octavo, printed wrappers. 112pp. British Library, Based on the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library in November 2004, this book looks at the impact of women's educational projects on female reading and book collecting in the royal courts of the 18th century. With..... More
London: British Library, 2004, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xxxvii, 266pp. British Library, Benjamin Disraeli was of the opinion that he was born in a library. The library was reputed to have held about 25,000 tomes, and belonged to his father, Isaac D'Israeli, a prolific and popular author..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1974, First Edition. One of 500 copies printed. octavo, wrappers. 48pp. New York Public Library, Illustrated with four photographic plates of title pages and Ornamental vignettes from various books. A lawyer and CEO of General Electric, Young was collecting in the 1920's, "Young built..... More
Tucson: Univ of Arizona Press, (1986), Second printing. small octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 95pp. Univ of Arizona Press, "John David Marshall has combed Powell's books, articles, essays, and reviews to fashion a collection of quotations that best reflect the man and his intellectual passions." The quotations are grouped..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986, small octavo, wrappers. (viii), (293)p. Oxford University Press, First Printing of this Edition for which Julian Symons has provded an Afterword in which he considers what A.J. might have done had he survived after the war. A most entertaining biography of this founder of the..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1968, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 22pp. New York Public Library, An exhibition catalogue commemorating the gift of Quinn's correspondence and other autograph material given to the New York Public Library after Quinn's death by his niece and goddaughter, Mary Anderson Conroy. The catalogue includes..... More