| Examples to Accompany Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books - • Estimated Ship Dimensions : 0.25 inches length x 8.5 inches width x 11 inches height |
$50.00 |
| Books About Books: Philadelphia Rare Books - Binding as above, minor discoloration to central portions of covers, leather of back joint cracking but joint firm. Title-page and one other institutionally pressure-stamped; lower edges rubber-stamped; first preface page with inked provenance notation and stamped numeral; back pastedown with adhesions from card pocket once present. Binding “going to red” as is the wont of this material; still, however, handsome. |
$65.00 |
| Philadelphia Rare Books: Provenance - The title’s use of the word “illuminated” refers not (as usual) to decoration in gold, but both to the huge number of illustrations and to the fact that the half-titles, the title-leaves, and the presentation and birth, death, and marriage leaves are printed using colored inks. Concerning the illustrations, Frank Weitenkampf wrote in The Boston Public Library Quarterly (July, 1958, pp. 154–57): “The engravings after Chapman carefully reproduced the prim line-work method of the Englishman Bewick... |
$2,850.00 |
| Nevil Shute-The Paper Tiger Rare Books - Marazan, Lonely Road, The Mysterious Aviator, Ruined City, What Happened to the Corbetts, Landfall. |
$150.00 |
| Rare Books #7 |
$54.99 |
| The Rare Books of Freemasonry - See Features and Additional Info for more details. |
$6.97 |
| Early Printed Books/1990 (International Rare Books Prices) - See Features and Additional Info for more details. |
$33.00 |
| Rare Look at Rare Books - Discover the Research Library's Rare Book Room and its illustrations of birds, beginning with simplistic illustrations from the 1500s, through the flowering of scientific illustration in the 1700s and up to today. The climax of the evening will be the opportunity to see the rare Double Elephant Folio of Audubon's |
$8.00 |
| Rare Animals: A Chapter Book (True Tales) - • Estimated Ship Dimensions : 7.58 inches length x 6.92 inches width x 0.09 inches height |
$4.95 |
| Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World - After years of competitive extravagance at birthday time, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone decided to limit themselves to $20 each, which is how they came to be in possession of a $10 definitive translation of War and Peace, complete with maps of the major battles and fold-out color illustrations. It is also how they eventually came to be the owners of a $650 edition of Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit. Used and Rare, the Goldstones' tale of the journey from point A to point B, is a joyful celebration... |
$11.16 |
| ENGRAVED BOOKS: Philadelphia Rare Books - The book first appeared in the late 17th century, and while it may well have been reprinted more than once, neither NUC nor RLIN shows any edition other than one of 1695. Moreover, apparently the 1695 copy that appears in both those bibliographical sources is the same incomplete one . |
$4,850.00 |
| FABLES: Philadelphia Rare Books - BAL ; p. 9 gives “presumptuous” in the last line, and p. [233] gives reviews of Uncle Remus ). Harris’s introduction emphasizes his own sense of the stories as ethnological and folkloric gold mines, as well as the most genuine reproductions he could muster of legitimate dialect, rather than “the intolerable misrepresentations of the minstrel stage” (p. 4). The illustrations (eight engraved plates and a number of in-text cuts) were done by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. |
$900.00 |
| Southworth Antiques and Rare Books |
$995.00 |
| A COLLECTION OF 180 RARE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS - A COLLECTION OF 180 RARE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS DATING FROM THE C17TH TO THE C19TH. We are selling as a bulk sale a selection of rare antiquarian books. The complete catalogue can be seen by following this link : .htm |
$9,650.00 |
| Rare Books | Item | 13 - ZANGRILLI, Kate - First edition. Broadside. 8.5" x 11". Fine. Signed by the poet. No limitation stated, but hand-numbered "23." OCLC locates two copies. |
$70.00 |
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