243 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). "This new, extremely comprehensive annotated reference work covers the history of British fascism from its beginnings in 1923 to the present time (early 1977). This is the first bibliography to cover British fascism, and is intended to provide a source book for the study of the subject and of Sir Oswald Mosley. It begins with the foundation of the British fascisti by Rotha Linton-Orman in 1923 and is fully up-to-date. Philip Rees's aim has been to include as wide as possible a range of publications including the actual literature of the various movements, the opinions ... View More...
304 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). B&w illustrations. "All your old favourites are here along with plenty of facts, details and insights into over a thousand of Enid Blyton's most memorable and enduring characters. In this most comprehensive guide to Enid Blyton's characters to date, Eva Rice brings us a fascinating and humorous look into the imagination of Britain's most well-loved storyteller." Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Adventure Stories (The Adventure Books / The Famous Five/ The Secret Seven / The Adventurous Four / The Put-Em-Rights / The Five Find-Outers / The 'Barney' Mystery Se... View More...
304 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). B&w illustrations. "All your old favourites are here along with plenty of facts, details and insights into over a thousand of Enid Blyton's most memorable and enduring characters. In this most comprehensive guide to Enid Blyton's characters to date, Eva Rice brings us a fascinating and humorous look into the imagination of Britain's most well-loved storyteller." Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Adventure Stories (The Adventure Books / The Famous Five/ The Secret Seven / The Adventurous Four / The Put-Em-Rights / The Five Find-Outers / The 'Barney' Mystery... View More...
9 3/4" H plastic binder, containing self-addressed, self-sealing order form pad and two 9 1/4" H booklets - Books from Canada: English Language and Books from Canada: French Language. The binder was prepared for the 16th USA International Book Exhibition in conjunction with the 90th Annual Conference of the American Library Association, Dallas, Texas - June 20-24, 1971. Light browning to the top 3" of the spine of the French Language booklet, slight toning to the covers of both booklets. View More...
175 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "(A) charming account of postwar book buying abroad by the 'Holmes and Watson' of antiquarian books. After the (Second World War), Americans went abroad for European culture, food and art, but Rostenberg & Stern, the Grand Dames of the antiquarian book-selling world, went to Europe to buy old books. (This book) glows with the details of their book-buying trips abroad between 1947 and 1957. Filled with tales of steamships, cobblestone streets and dusty rare bookshops, this illustrated journal draws from original diaries and letters and contemporary recoll... View More...
272 pp, 8 1/8" H. "For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world, to become a better person, and to find the answers to the big (and small) questions about how to live his life. In this delightful celebration of reading, Schwalbe invites us along on his quest for books that speak to the specific challenges of living in our modern world, with all its noise and distractions. In each chapter, he discusses a particular book - what brought him to it (or vice versa), the people in his life he associates with it, and how it became a part of his understa... View More...
276 pp, 8 7/8" H. "Many distinguished scholars and critics are in substantial agreement that Hart Crane is one of the most important American poets of the first half of the twentieth century, ranking along with T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Frost. Professor Schwartz has included in his bibliography not only the books and articles exclusively about Crane, but also those which make only brief or passing references to Crane or his work. This is the first annotated critical bibliography of Hart Crane. The appendix is a chronological index of all works about Crane arranged b... View More...
96 pp, 8vo (8 3/16" H). Signed on the title page: "H. Robinson Shipherd / July 26, 1960". "Here is the story of a busy, useful, and dynamic life - the story of a smalltown boy from Long Island whose alert interest in life and the world has carried him from one happy and rewarding professional experience to another." Typesetter, teacher, minister, editor, printer, publisher. "In this warm, intimate volume is a treasure chest of fascinating, behind-the-scenes information about the art of making books." Contents: In the Country; In the Big Town; To College; In the Big World; In Print; In Fra... View More...
210 pp, 8 1/2" H. "Skogemann goes through the whole of Tolkien's work - characters, landscapes, and events - to determine what kind of archetypes and basic situations from the collective unconscious are appearing. And she does it with enormous zest." Anne Knudsen, 'Weekendavisen'. Contents: Introduction; Faery or the Collective Unconscious; The Archetype of Consciousness: The Hobbits; The Journey Out: Archetypes of Transformation; The Trickster; The Hero; The Anima; The Love Story: Eowyn and Faramir; The Old King; The Spirit; The One Ring and the Three Elven Rings; The Collective Shadow; The ... View More...
56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: If You Can't Read Them, Why Buy Them?: The Pleasures of Collecting Foreign Translations; Great Grand-son of You Don't Need a License to Be a Bookseller (catalogue bloopers, etc.); Collecting Alice Walker; Alice Walker: A Selected Checklist with Approximate Values for First Editions in Collector's Condition; Are Best-Sellers Collectable? Part Three - 1962-1972; New York Times Fiction Best Sellers, August 1962-August 1972; Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Viking); Books into Film ('Schindler's List'). Int... View More...
56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Fifteen Collectable Film Books; When Books are Seen in Films (Prop Books); Collecting Nathanael West (with informal checklist); A Talk with Stephen Longstreet; Points ; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Boni & Liveright); Books into Film (The Stunt Man). Interior - soft crease down middle of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles, soft crease down middle of covers. View More...
56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: The Best of the British: Collecting British Novelists of the Nineties (with an informal checklist of first editions); Remainders of the Day, Part I: What are Remainders?; Collecting Evelyn Waugh (with an informal checklist); Finding Edgar Allan Poe (a previously undiscovered poem); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (G.P. Putnam's Sons); Books into Film ('The Horses Mouth'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, minor rubbing/soiling, two 2" liquid stains ... View More...
60 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Shapers of American Culture (Malcolm Cowley and Edmund Wilson - with selected checklists); Lewis and Clark, Fact and Fiction; Collecting Aldous Huxley (with selected checklist); Are Best-Sellers Collectable? - Part 2; New York Times Fiction Best-Sellers, August 1952-August 1962; Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Bobbs-Merrill); Books into Film (MASH). Interior - very small bump to top corner of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, very light rubbing,... View More...
56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Kinsey Milhone's Uncharted Itinerary; Bibliomysteries; Collecting Tony Hillerman (with informal checklist); Mystery Lineup (recent mystery writers); Points; A Collector' s Guide to Publishers (Simon and Schuster); Books into Film ('Build My Gallows High' - 'Out of the Past') Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, very light rubbing on rear cover, a few small very soft wrinkles, two small corner creases, soft crease down front cover. View More...
60 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Searching the Limits of the Form (Douglas C. Jones - with checklist); The Arthur H. Clark Company (a Western Americana press); Collecting Wallace Stegner (with informal checklist); The Future of the Western; Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Duell, Sloan and Pearce); Books into Film ('The Searchers') Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, light rubbing on rear cover, a few small very soft wrinkles, one tiny corner crease. View More...
60 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Beyond the Genre: Kenneth and Margaret Millar (Kenneth Millar, best known as Ross Macdonald, and his wife Margaret, mystery and detective authors - with informal checklists); Guilty Pleasures (readers write about favorite books); Collecting Lawrence Block; Lawrence Block: A Selected Checklist of Fiction and Nonfiction, 1961-1994; Crime in Canada (Canadian crime writers); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Macmillan); Books into Film (The Big Clock). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership mar... View More...
48 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Are Best-Sellers Collectable?; New York Times #1 Best Sellers, Fiction List 1942-1952; Collecting Chester Himes (with informal checklist); An Exploration of Captain James Cook; Books into Film (Midnight Cowboy). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles. View More...
56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Giants in Our Midst (new science fiction writers); The Young Giants: A Selected Checklist; Collecting Philip K. Dick: So It Would Be Funny; The Good Days (excerpt from Ann R. Dick's book); Philip K. Dick: An Informal Checklist; Michael Whelan: A Sense of Wonder (fantasy artist); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Little, Brown); Books into Film (The Andromeda Strain). Interior - two small ink notations on page 28, otherwsie clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor r... View More...
76 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: The Civilization of the American Indian: A Landmark Series from the University of Oklahoma; A Checklist of The Civilization of the American Indian Series; Collecting A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (with checklist); A Tribute to Jeff C. Dykes (collector, educator, bookman - with checklist); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (The Dial Press); Books into Film ('Giant' by Edna Ferber - film by George Stevens). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few sma... View More...
76 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Collectors' Blue Chips, Part One (Hemingway & Steinbeck); Transcendant Gastronomy: Savoring the Works of M.F.K. Fisher; M.F.K. Fisher: A Checklist; Take Me Back to the Ball Game (nonfiction baseball books); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (W.W. Norton); Books into Film ('The Razor's Edge'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles. View More...
