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La Gravure Sur Bois Moderne de L'occident. [The Art of Modern Woodcuts]

By: Avermaete, Roger.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Paris: Dorbon Aine: 1928

Seller ID: k18028k

8vo, softcovers rebound in gray cloth. Classic reference on the art of the woodcut, with emphasis on the revival of the art in Western Europe during the first quarter of the 20th century. 239 woodblocks, 9 in color. 177 original illustrations. No. 18 of 1000 copies; a prior owner has neatly written in pencil which woodcuts are originals and which previously published; owner's inked name on front flyleaf, otherwise a fine copy in original paper wraps, subsequently rebound in gray cloth.
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CANCELS / With Eleven Facsimiles in Collotype. A volume in the series: Bibliographia / Studies in Book History and Book Structure 1750-1900. Number 3.

By: Chapman, R.W.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London / New York, Constable & Co / Richard R. Smith: 1930

Seller ID: 07153

8vo, 1/4 vellum marbled boards. 70 pp. Limited to 500 copies. Fine
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A memoir of book design, 1969-2000

By: D'Ambrosio, Joe

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Book Club of California: 2003

Seller ID: 17061918

4to, decorated boards with cloth spine in acetate d/w. Limited to 350 copies. As-new
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Booksellers’ Marks / An Illustrated Book

By: Dingman, Larry

Price: $57.50

Publisher: Dinkytown Antiquarian Bookstore: 1986

Seller ID: 021801

Condition: Fine

1st edition (1986)97 pp. A limited edition of 447 copies, the book contains 444 reproductions of original book store marks, mostly from the late 19th century through World War II. Three original marks are tipped in. With an essay on Booksellers' Marks by Michael Adams and introduction by Dingman. Fine copy without d/w, as issued.
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The Fate of Writing in America

By: Farrell, James T.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, New Directions: 1946

Seller ID: 7363

New York: New Directions, 1946. Stapled Wrappers. 32 pp. essay entitled "Will the commercialization of publishing destroy good writing?" Farrell's observations on the future of books. Very timely for today. Very light 1/4" fade line along outer edge of front cover, otherwise fine.
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AN ESSAY. ON A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC WEST, 1510- 1906 BY ROBERT E. COWAN. With an Original Leaf from the Club's 1914 First Edition.

By: Gary E. Kurutz

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Book Club of California: 1993

Seller ID: vl190723a

Condition: Fine

1st ed. thus, small 4to, 57 pp. One of 390 copies with a tipped in original leaf from the 1914 First Edition of Cowan's work. The Book Club of California, publication 201. Gray cloth boards and paper cover, printed title label on front cover. Pristine copy; gray cloth backed boards with black titles in a fine mylar jacket. This copy inscribed by Kurutz on the front end paper. Prospectus laid in.
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Books once were Men

By: George Barr McCutcheon

Price: $38.50

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co: 1931

Seller ID: k0226c

Condition: Fine

1st ed; Limited to 1000 unnumbered copies. 12mo, Marble boards in acetate d/w and slipcase. Ribbon bookmarker. The book is virtually pristine with just some light toning to front and back flyleaves; slipcase also fine; acetate d/w is near fine but with several small open tears.
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Back-Trailers from the Middle Border [Association copy with signature of Rudyard Kipling]

By: Hamlin Garland

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Macmillan, New York: 1928

Seller ID: k190126c

CONDITION: Good. Covers: front hinge cracked, light surface wear, a little more so at top of spine. Newspaper review affixed to back free end paper has browned and left image transfer on facing page. Signed by Garland on front pastedown; two photographs of Garland and company on the half-title, along with a guest pass to the Regent’s Park Zoological Gardens signed by Rudyard Kipling who, as a member, gave Garland admittance. Another photo of Garland on the verso and a fourth affixed to a blank page facing page 205. Unknown whether the extra items were added by Garland or another.
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Modern Book Production

By: Holme, G.C. [Editor]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, The Studio: 1928

Seller ID: k180306c

Condition: Good+

Quarter vellum, gilt, 4to., vii, 186 pages. Illustrated with one and two color facsimiles and tipped-in color plates and samples. Printed at the Curwen Press. Includes essays on book design in a variety of countries by a variety of authors. Profusely illustrated with samples. Good+. A clean, tight copy overall but with some were to edges and corners and a 1" closed tear in the vellum on spine. Prior owner's signature inside front hinge; bookseller label inside back cover
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THE BORZOI 1920 / Being Sort of a record of Five Years' Publishing

By: Knopf, Alfred A.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1920

Seller ID: 0219032

Small 8vo. First printing. With original contributions by Willa Cather "On Writing Fiction", H. L. Mencken on Cather, selection of poetry by Eliot, Pound and other Borzoi authors with a number of illustrations and photos; and a complete bibliography of the imprint. Fine; light sunning and small stain to back cover; otherwise a pristine copy.
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Bibliographie Instructive Ou Notice de Quelques Livres Rares Singuliers Et Difficiles Trouver, Avec Des Notes Historiques, Pour Connotre Et Distinguer Les Diffrentes Editions, Et Leur Valeur Dans Le Commerce; disposee par Francois de Los-Rios, Libraire a Lyon. [Unique and Hard to Find Rare Books With Historical Notes To Distinguish the Different Editions, And Their Value In The Trade.]

By: Los-Rios, Jean Francois de.

Price: $450.00

Seller ID: 150310

Avigon et Lyon, Seguin et chez l’auteur, 1777. 12mo, full vellum. 207 pp. An early guide to rare-book collecting; a priced-catalog of books sold by Jean-François de Los Rios, with annotations. de Los Rios (1727-1820) was a noted bookseller in Lyon, famously taking advantage of the dispersion of Jesuit libraries after the order was expelled from France in 1764. The Bibliographie instructive was one of his early works, published after more than 17 years as a bookseller in Lyon. The bilbiografía is organized as a directory with 639 entries briefly discussed and 190 references in the included ...
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Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler / A Checklist and Bibliography of Their Paperback Appearances

By: Lovisi, Gary (ed.)

Price: $65.00

Seller ID: 040306

Brooklyn: Gryphon Books, 1994. 8vo, wrappers. 84 pp. Pristine copy; 1st edition of this indispensable reference for Hammett and Chandler collectors. limited to only 500 copies. As-new.
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Books Once Were Men / An Essay for Booklovers

By: McCutcheon, George Barr.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1931

Seller ID: cc1706301

8vo, marbled boards, black cloth spine lettered in gold, t.e.g, ribbon place marker. 1st ed. Limited to 1000 copies. An essay published in tribute to McCutcheon who was a noted collector of first editions and a lover of fine books. Introduction by William Dana Orcutt who designed the
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James Branch Cabell

By: Mencken, H. L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Robert T. McBride & Company: 1927

Seller ID: 022031

First edition. 12mo stapled slate blue wrappers. Simultaneously published in hardcover. 32 pp. biographical and bibliographic study by the noted critic. Published for free distribution to promote the Kalki Edition of Cabell's works. Fine.
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James Branch Cabell

By: Mencken, H.L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: NY, Robert T. McBride & Company: 1927

Seller ID: c1707052

A True Description Of All Trades Published in Frankfort in the Year 1568

By: Merganthaler Linotype Co.

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Brooklyn, NY, Merganthaler Linotype Co: 1930

Seller ID: dg17121606

Condition: Fine

12mo. One of 400 copies printed in Linotype Granjon on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Quarter parchment with marbled paper-covered boards." Reprint of the original which was published in Frankfort in 1568. Six engraved illustrations representing the printing trades: the printer, bookbinder, type-founder, papermaker, draughtsman and woodcutter as well as the original verses by Hans Sachs, a popular Nuremberg poet. With an additional leaf loosely laid in showing the text of two short letters to the publisher explaining the disposition of two copies of this book to the Bodley library. Pristine copy.
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