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JOHN O'HARA: A CHECKLIST. WITH A PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED SPEECH BY JOHN O'HARA.

By: Bruccoli, Matthew J., compiler. (John O'Hara.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1972

Seller ID: 29918

ISBN: 0394469917

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

136 pp, 8 1/2" H. B&w reproductions. "From the publication of 'Appointment in Samarra' (1934), John O'Hara enjoyed popular acclaim as a novelist and then as a short-story writer, but the close study of his work in literature courses is yet to come. This checklist will facilitate the efforts of scholars and students to make a more serious assessment of his impact on American writing. Not only does Matthew J. Bruccoli list all the books, stories, and articles by O'Hara published in the English language; he also includes public statements, printed letters, and interviews. Detailed bibliographic...
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THE ONE I KNEW THE BEST OF ALL. (A MEMORY OF THE MIND OF A CHILD.)

By: Burnett, F.H., Mrs. (Frances Hodgson Burnett.)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne:

Seller ID: 30552

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

292 pp, 8" H. Brick-coloured boards with gilt & black lettering, color illustration on spine, black lettering, black and color illustrations on front board. Yellow 'crackle' patterned endpapers, b&w illustrations. Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), author of 'Little Lord Fauntleroy', 'Sara Crewe', 'A Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden', here recounts the story of her youth. Calling herself the 'Small Person', she describes her early life in Victorian era England, her family's journey to their new home in the United States in 1865, and concludes with the acceptance for publication of tw...
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MANY LIVES - ONE LOVE.

By: Butcher, Fanny.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1972

Seller ID: 30488

ISBN: 060104023

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

463 pp, 8 5/8" H. Signed: "Fanny Butcher" on front free endpaper. B&w photographs. "This is the extraordinary memoir of the lifelong passion - and the multiple friendships - of one of the outstanding women of (the twentieth century), who has lived her life to the full in the heart of the Midwest and the literary circles of two continents. Young Fanny Butcher began her career just before the dawn of the Chicago literary renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. (S)he got a job as assisant to the woman's editor of the Chicago Tribune, and worked her way to the position of literary editor during the ov...
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THE WILLIAM COMPANION.

By: Cadogan, Mary and Schutte, David. With contributions from Kenneth C. Waller. (Richmal Crompton.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, PAPERMAC / Macmillan: 1990

Seller ID: 27651

ISBN: 033356524X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

239 pp, 9 3/16" H. B&w photographs, drawings. "Richmal Crompton created William Brown just over seventy years ago as a pot-boiler, but his instant and enduring success kept her writing about him for five decades. His name is now part of the language, synonymous with robust and riotous boyhood. Profusely illustrated with the drawings of Thomas Henry, who portrayed William so vividly in all his vicissitudes, this companion provides an A-Z of exactly who's who and what's what in the splendidly witty saga." Contents: Acknowledgements; List of Plates; Sources of Illustrations; A Note on Refere...
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THE ART OF ERIC CARLE.

By: Carle, Eric. (Leonard S. Marcus; Ann Beneduce; Dr. Viktor Christen; Takeshi Matsumoto.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Philomel: 1996

Seller ID: 27805

ISBN: 039922937X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

125 pp, 11 1/4" H. "Eric Carle is one of the world's most beloved artists of children's books. Creator of the classic 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar', he has captured the imagination of millions of children and adults with his bold, colorful collage illustrations. (His) life and work are explored in this comprehensive portrait that includes: more than sixty full-color illustrations from his books; artwork from his student days; a moving autobiographical account of his life, with photographs; anecdotal reflections by Ann Beneduce, his longtime friend and editor of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'...
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SCIENCE FICTION: THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA. (SF)

By: Clute, John.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Canada: 1995

Seller ID: 25258

ISBN: 0771573170

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

312 pp, 4to (11 3/4" H). Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w with photographs, drawings, reproductions of book and magazine covers and author signatures, etc. "Covering the history of the genre in all its forms, and lavishly illustrated with images from books, films, magazines, comics, and graphic novels, (this book) presents one-of-a-kind, decade-by-decade time charts with fascinating insight into the cultural influences that shaped the Science Fiction of each period. In over 100 detailed biographies (it) introduces the world's greatest Science Fiction writers - from Mary Shelley and H.G....
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTED WORKS RELATED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

By: Cordeaux, E.H. and Merry, D.H.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 28512

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

809 pp, 8 3/4" H. "This is an enumerative bibliography classified under some 500 headings. It embraces all aspects of University and College life and institutions and comprises more than 10,000 entries. The compilers are both members of the staff of the Bodleian and they have systematically explored its vast resources as well as taking account of other likely repositories of Oxford material. In addition to books, the Bibliography includes articles from a large number of periodicals and records a mass of eighteenth and nineteenth century ephemeral literature which reflects University policy...
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OF THE DECORATIVE ILLUSTRATION OF BOOKS OLD AND NEW.

By: Crane, Walter.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Bracken: 1984

Seller ID: 29263

ISBN: 0946495416

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

243 pp, 8vo (8" H). B&w illustrations. "Originally published in 1896, this survey of book illustration is both a comprehensive guide to many facets of early work in the field and important evidence of Victorian taste and the influences which shaped it. Walter Crane, as a leading designer and illustrator, was exceptionally well placed to survey the subject - indeed, some of the finest pieces among over 100 drawings reproduced here are those by Crane himself. Crane begins by describing the artist's role in producing manuscripts and early printed books up to the end of the sixteenth century, ...
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GOD'S PLOT & MAN'S STORIES: STUDIES IN THE FICTIONAL IMAGINATION FROM MILTON TO FIELDING.

By: Damrosch, Leopold, Jr.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1985

Seller ID: 20774

ISBN: 0226135799

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

343 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "Combining literary criticsm with psychology, sociology, and the history of ideas, (this book) offers a fresh approach to the often-asserted connection between Puritanism and the rise of the English novel. Its premise is that the Christian myth, far from serving as a simple, unified background to fiction, was paradoxical and full of potential conflicts, and that these were particularly vivid in the Puritan imagination. The extraordinary power of Puritan psychology rests in the control it granted Providence over the individual. Yet as a basis for fiction, Puritani...
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RONALD SEARLE: A BIOGRAPHY.

By: Davies, Russell. (Ronald Searle.)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Sinclair-Stevenson: 1990

Seller ID: 27808

ISBN: 1856190048

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192 pp, 4to (11 1/8" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour with photographs and reproductions. "Born in 1920 in Cambridge, (Ronald Searle) became a regular contributor to the Cambridge Daily News in 1935, financed his own night-school studies in drawing and won an art-school scholarship. The war shattered the university-town idyll. In 1942 Searle was captured by the Japanese at Singapore and later put to work on the terrible 'Death Railway' from Siam to Burma. His remarkable eye-witness drawings, achieved with very scant materials, constitute a uniquely important documentary record ...
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A DESCRIPTIVE CHECK LIST TOGETHER WITH SHORT TITLE INDEX DESCRIBING ALMOST 7500 ITEMS OF WESTERN AMERICANA COMPRISING BOOKS, MAPS AND PAMPHLETS OF THE IMPORTANT LIBRARY (IN FOUR PARTS) FORMED BY GEORGE S. SOLIDAY.

By: Decker, Peter, compiler. (George W. Soliday.)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Antiquarian Press: 1960

Seller ID: 28364

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

One of an edition limited to 550 copies, this copy unnumbered. Dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine, 9 3/4" H. B&w frontispiece. Foreword and brief biographical sketch of Mr. Soliday by Peter Decker. The remainder of the book consists of four parts and an index, each individually paginated, (169 pp, 165 pp, 117 pp, 128 pp, 103 pp). Light wrinkling at top/bottom of hinges, small bump at bottom of rear board near hinge, very light edge wear, faint scratches on rear board, faint rub line on front board, soft crease across spine - near bottom.
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INVENTAIRE CHRONOLOGIQUE DES LIVRES, BROCHURES, JOURNAUX ET REVUES PUBLIES EN LANGUE FRANCAISE DANS LA PROVINCE DE QUEBEC, DEPUIS L'ETABLISSEMENT DE L'IMPRIMERIE AU CANADA JUSQU'A NOS JOURS. TOME I, II, III, IV & PREMIER SUPPLEMENT. IN 2 VOLUMES.

By: Dionne, N.-E.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Burt Franklin: 1969

Seller ID: 28390

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

175 pp, 155 pp, 228 pp, 124 pp, 76 pp, - 4 volumes plus supplement bound in 2 volumes, Red cloth with gold lettering/bandind on spine. Burt Franklin Bibliography & Reference Series 289. Faint erased pencil marks at top of both front free endpapers, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor edge wear plus two tiny edge dents and one tiny edge scuff on vol. II, small light sticker mark on front board of vol. II, light rubbing/soiling - mainly on rear board of vol. I
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BOOKS AND HISTORY. PHINEAS L. WINDSOR LECTURES IN LIBRARIANSHIP, MONOGRAPH NO.. 13.

By: Downs, Robert B. Foreword by Herbert Goldhor.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science: 1974

Seller ID: 29725

ISBN: 0878450394

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

83 pp, 9 1/4" H. Red cloth with black lettering on spine and front board. The text of four Windsor lectures in librarianship. Contents: Who's On First? The Genesis of Certain Great Scientific Concepts; Historical Reputations Reappraised; Impact of Books on American History; The Great American Success Story; Index. Slight bump at three corners, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, very light edge wear, slight fading on front board at fore-edge and top edge, tiny soiling mark on rear board.
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THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR.

By: Doyle, Arthur Conan.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1912

Seller ID: 29476

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

274 pp, + publisher's advertising, 7 3/4" H. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 16 b&w plates (collated). The creator of Sherlock Holmes discusses his favourite authors and books. "Come through the magic door with me, and sit here on the green settee, where you can see the old oak case with its untidy lines of volumes. Smoking is not forbidden. Would you care to hear me talk of them? Well, I ask nothing better, for there is no volume there which is not a dear personal friend, and what can a man talk of more pleasantly than that? The other books are over yonder, but these are my ow...
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WALTER CRANE AS A BOOK ILLUSTRATOR.

By: Engen, Rodney K.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1975

Seller ID: 27648

ISBN: 85670170X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

105 pp, 11 1/2" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour reproductions. "Walter Crane, artist of Kensington, was a man of many talents, but possibly best known for his original and charmingly executed designs which made him the leading illustrator of children's books of the Aesthetic Movement period. In the face of the commercial vulgarity and ugliness of Victorian industrialised society, he created a delicate and escapist fairy world which, with its emphasis on spontaneity and mobility of line, and its clever use of background and colour, popularised a completely new style of tasteful ...
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THE LIFE AND ART OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK 1792-1878.

By: Evans, Hilary and Evans, Mary.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, S.G. Phillips: 1978

Seller ID: 27804

ISBN: 0875992277

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions. "When George Cruikshank died, (over) a hundred years ago, he was admired as an artist, respected as a reformer, loved as a man. But he had lived so long and created so much that few could discern any unity underlying the diverse creations of his seventy-year working life - creations ranging from a thumbnail caricature of Napoleon III ('it never reigns but it bores!') to the four-metres-wide 'Worship of Bacchus' which now hangs, dusty and neglected, in the storerooms of the Tate Gallery. For some he was the artist who showed u...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.

By: Ferguson, Eugene S.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Society for the History of Technology / M.I.T. Press: 1968

Seller ID: 28371

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

347 pp, 9 1/4" H. "A personal, readable, and thorough book, (it) presents annotated entries giving both the strong points and short-comings of the works listed. Mr. Ferguson's extensive work can well be expected to emerge as the major source book on its subject for many years to come." Section headings: General Works; General Bibliographies and Library Lists; Directories of Technical, Academic, and Business Organizations; Early Source Books and Manuscripts; Encyclopaedias, Compendia, and Dictionaries of Technology; Biography; Government Publications and Records; Manuscripts; Illustrations; ...
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WHO'S WHO IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS: A TREASURY OF THE FAMILIAR CHARACTERS OF CHILDHOOD.

By: Fisher, Margery.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1975

Seller ID: 27678

ISBN: 0030150914

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

399 pp, 10" H. Pictorial endpapers, profusely illustrated throughout with b&w drawings and colour plates. "Who does not have vivid memories of characters from the books of childhood? Alice in Wonderland, Brer Rabbit, Dr Dolittle, Paddington Bear, the Railway Children, Winnie the Pooh, Tom Sawyer - the list is endless. Many names are so familiar - favourites from generation to generation - that they need no repeating; others are half forgotten; some may be almost unknown. This book is for everyone who wishes to recapture those memories and to find fresh inspiration for reading. It is a pe...
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UPPER CANADIAN IMPRINTS, 1801-1841: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.

By: Fleming, Patricia Lockhart. Foreword by Marianne Scott.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1988

Seller ID: 28249

ISBN: 0802025854

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

556 pp, 11" H. Tan cloth with black and red lettering/banding on spine and front board - no dust jacket (as issued). "(T)he first comprehensive analytical bibliography of Upper Canadian imprints, providing a full range of descriptive bibliographical information taken from originals located in more than fifty collections in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. The bibiliography identifies all types of material - books, pamphlets, government documents, serials, broadsides, and printed ephemera - and contains extensive notes, valuable to the support of many types of Canadian reseach....
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Image for THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 1. EARLY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: PREHISTORIC, ROMAN, AND EARLY MEDIEVAL.)

THE CAMBRIDGE CULTURAL HISTORY OF BRITAIN. VOLUME 1. EARLY BRITAIN. (FIRST PUBLISHED AS THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO THE ARTS IN BRITAIN: PREHISTORIC, ROMAN, AND EARLY MEDIEVAL.)

By: Ford, Boris, ed. Jacquetta Hawkes, Peter Salway, Barry Cunliffe, Sheppard Frere, Janet Huskinson, Roger Ling, Richard Bailey, Mildred Budny, Michael Alexander, Martin Biddle, Isabel Henderson, Richard Gem, Christopher Page, R. Allen Brown, Cherry Lavell

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for The Folio Society: 1995

Seller ID: 29877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

289 pp, 10" H. Bound in full dark blue cloth with title and shield in gold on spine. B&w illustrations and colour plates. Contents: General Introduction / Prehistoric Britain: Stone Age to Iron Age / Roman Britain: The Cultural and Social Setting; Studies in the Individual Arts (Architecture; Verulamium: Social and Artistic Development; The Visual Arts and Crafts; Lullingstone Villa) / Early Medieval Britain: The Cultural and Social Setting; Studies in the Individual Arts (The Visual Arts and Crafts; Old English Literature; Winchester: The Rise of an Early Capital; The Arts of Late Celtic ...
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