Category: Books About Books

ANNUAL '94. ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS / ILLUSTRATORI DI LIBRI PER RAGAZZI. BOLOGNA.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Italy, North-South Books : 1994

Seller ID: 12781

ISBN-13: 9780887083112

Condition: Very Good+

175 pp, 11" H. Soft cover with self-flaps. Profusely illustrated with wonderful colour and b&w artwork. "(T)he official catalog of (the 1994 Bologna International Children's Book Fair) Exhibition, once again presenting to a widening audience many of the finest children's book artists from around the world. Along with beautifully reproduced examples of the artist's recent work, essential biographical information about each person is listed, making the Annual an ideal reference for illustrators, graphic designers, editors, art directors, children's librarians, and all who appreciate ageless cre...
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ANNUAL '95: FICTION. BOLOGNA. ILLUSTRATORS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS. ILLUSTRATORI DI LIBRI PER RAGAZZI.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Italy, North South Books : 1995

Seller ID: 12738

ISBN-13: 9783851953633

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

190 pp, 11" H. Soft cover with self-flaps. Profusely illustrated in colour. "This is the official catalog of the 1995 Fiction Exhibition (of the Bologna International Children's Book Fair), showcasing recent work by some of the finest illustrators of children's fiction from around the world. The pictures were chosen for their originality, their artistic and technical merit, and their child appeal. Along with the beautifully reproduced artwork, essential biographical information about each artist is listed, making this catalog an ideal reference for all who delight in contemporary children's bo...
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NAVAL & MARITIME HISTORY: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. THIRD EDITION, SECOND SUPPLEMENT, 1966-68.

By: Albion, Robert Greenhalgh.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Mystic, Connecticut, Frank C. Munson Memorial Institute of American Maritime History / Marine Historical Asociation : 1968

Seller ID: 19055

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

60 pp, 10" H. Chapter headings: Reference Works; Merchantmen and Warships; Captains and Crews; Maritime Science, Exploration and Expansion; Commerce and Shipping (including: Fishing and Whaling; Yachting and Small Boat Cruising); Navies; Naval History by Chronological Periods; Special Topics (including: Ports and Port Functions; Passengers and Immigration; Maritime and International Law; Privateering, Piracy and Buccaneering; Marine Distasters; Safety Measures and Salvage); Author Index; Subject Index. Interior - tiny very light stain at top inside of front cover and at top of first page, ot...
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Image for THE COLOPHON: A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN. NEW SERIES - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1: SUMMER 1935, NUMBER 2: AUTUMN 1935, NUMBER 3: WINTER 1936 & NUMBER 4: SPRING 1936 - 4 BOOKS IN TOTAL.

THE COLOPHON: A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN. NEW SERIES - VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1: SUMMER 1935, NUMBER 2: AUTUMN 1935, NUMBER 3: WINTER 1936 & NUMBER 4: SPRING 1936 - 4 BOOKS IN TOTAL.

By: Anderson, Sherwood; Cohn, Louis Henry; Carter, John; Coleman, Carroll D.; Jackson, William Alexander; Newton, A. Edward; Adams, Frederick B., Jr.; Rockwell, Norman; Kent, Rockwell; Winterich, John T., et al.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Pynson Printers : 1935

Seller ID: 28901

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

4 volumes, consecutively paged - No. 1, pp.1-160 / No. 2, pp.161-316 / No. 3, pp.317-480 / No. 4, pp.481-644, 9 1/2" H. Cream-coloured, paper-covered boards with series decoration on front boards, varying in colour (teal, pink, blue, beige). Some b&w illustrations. Articles of interest to bibliophiles, including: America's First Bibles, by Randolph G. Adams; Herman Melville as I Recall Him, by Oscar Wegelin; A Note on Ernest Hemingway, by Louis Henry Cohn; Frank Holme: Newpaper Artist and Designer of Books, by Rudolph Gjelsness; A Frontier Bibliophile, by Howard C. Rice; Proof-Reading in th...
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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE SPREAD OF LEARNING, 1478-1978: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.

By: Barker, Nicholas. Preface by Charles Ryskamp.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press : 1978

Seller ID: 28393

ISBN-13: 9780199510863

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

69 pp, + large b&w plate section (photographs, reproductions), 11 7/8" H. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold crest on front board. "(C)elebrates the quincentenary of the introduction of printing at Oxford with a pictorial history of its subsequent progress, illustrated by the books, documents, and pictures which are its tangible record. The story, although it properly begins with the arrival of Theodoric Rood and the first learned and educational books that he printed, stretches back to the early thirteenth century when scribes, illuminators, and binders of books were alread...
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PRICE GUIDE AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC CHECKLIST FOR CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS FOR THE YEARS 1880-1960.

By: Baumgarten, E. Lee, compiler.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Martinsburg, WV, E.Lee baumgarten Books : 1996

Seller ID: 30272

ISBN-13: 9780964728509

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

8 pp "Introduction", followed by three separately paged sections - 145 pp "Author-Sorted Index / 145 pp "Illustrator- Sorted Index" / 63 pp "Title Cross-Reference". Teal cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and borders on front cover, 11 1/4" H. "The data file for the 1996 edition contains exactly 10,405 records, indexed 3 ways to provide you with an easy method for locating any given book." Although the price guide aspect is out-of-date, the bibligraphical information remains very useful for collectors/booksellers. Light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, 1/2" dia ghost stick...
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Image for THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE: ITS RECORD IN EARLY PRINTED BOOKS PUBLISHED IN FACSIMILE. A CATALOUGE OF THE FIRST 143 VOLUMES NOW OUT, REPRODUCING ALL TITLE-PAGES AND A LIST OF FORTHCOMING VOLUMES OF THE 3rd GROUP (1969).

THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE: ITS RECORD IN EARLY PRINTED BOOKS PUBLISHED IN FACSIMILE. A CATALOUGE OF THE FIRST 143 VOLUMES NOW OUT, REPRODUCING ALL TITLE-PAGES AND A LIST OF FORTHCOMING VOLUMES OF THE 3rd GROUP (1969).

By: Beattie, W., et al, editors.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Amsterdam / New York, Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm / Da Capo Press : 1969

Seller ID: 29231

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

Unpaginated, 9" H. Red cloth, dark blue title blocks with gilt lettering on spine and front board, and gilt overlapping E's (for "English Experience") on front board. Reproduces, in b&w, the title pages of the 143 books reproduced in facsimile for this series (to date of printing) and lists the 69 volumes projected for the Third Group. Faint cigarette odor, previous owner's name/date on front pastedown, small crease/tear at bottom corner of last text page - archivally taped, slight bump at top/bottom of spine, tiny bump/tear at top edge of rear board, small remainder mark on bottom of text ...
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THE RANDOLPH CALDECOTT TREASURY.

By: Billington, Elizabeth T., selected and edited by. Appreciation by Maurice Sendak.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Frederick Warne : 1978

Seller ID: 29935

ISBN-13: 9780723261391

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

288 pp, oblong (9 5/8" H x 10 1/2" D). Profusely illustrated in sepiatone and colour. Contents: Production Notes; Preface; Wood-Engraved Picture of Randolph Caldecott; Randolph Caldecott: An Appreciation, by Maurice Sendak; A Quest For Caldecott; The Caldecott Medal; Randolph Caldecott and Edmund Evans: A Partnership of Equals, by Michael Hutchins; Selections from the Work of Randolph Caldecott (Early Sketches / European Sketches / American Sketches / Baron Bruno / Old Christmas at Bracebridge Hall / Selections from Other Books / Selections from Aesop's Fables); Selections from Magazine Art...
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1584-1984.

By: Black, M.H. Foreword by Geoffrey Cass.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 1984

Seller ID: 28429

ISBN-13: 9780521264730

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

343 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "In 1984 the Press celebrates four hundred years of continuous printing and publishing, and this history gives a readable and not-too-formal introduction to that unique record. It is the story of the development of the printing and publishing arm of the University of Cambridge, from the medieval system of resident stationers who dealt in manuscripts to the present large printing and publishing house which produces computer software and audio cassette tapes as well as books (mostly now computer-set). The narrative is given its proper setting in the devel...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. VOLUME FIVE (5): WASHINGTON IRVING TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

By: Blanck, Jacob, compiler.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press : 1969

Seller ID: 28957

ISBN-13: 9780300010992

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

(xxvi), 643 pp, 10 1/4" H. Black cloth with red title block/gilt lettering and crest on spine. B&w illustrations. Contents: Authors in Volume Five; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; General References; Principal Periodicals Consulted; Location Symbols; Bibliography of American Literature; Initials, Pseudonyms, and Anonyms. Light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. VOLUME FOUR (4): NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE TO JOSEPH HOLT INGRAHAM.

By: Blanck, Jacob, compiler.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press : 1977

Seller ID: 28644

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

(xxiv), 495 pp, 10 1/4" H. Black cloth with red title block/gilt lettering and crest on spine. B&w illustrations. Plain brown paper dust jacket with two cut-outs revealing title and volume number. Contents: Authors in Volume Four; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; General References; Principal Periodicals Consulted; Location Symbols; Bibliography of American Literature; Initials, Pseudonyms, and Anonyms. Minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, slight tiny bump at top corner of boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, tiny edge tear on title cut-out archivally taped.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. VOLUME ONE (1): HENRY ADAMS TO DONN BYRNE.

By: Blanck, Jacob, compiler.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press : 1977

Seller ID: 28641

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

(liv), 474 pp, 10 1/4" H. Black cloth with red title block/gilt lettering and crest on spine. B&w illustrations. Plain brown paper dust jacket with two cut-outs revealing title and volume number. Contents: Genesis and Scope of the Bibliography; Plan of the Bibliography; Form of Entry; Binding; Publication Notes; Comment on Locations; Definitions of Terms; A Personal Note; Acknowledge-ments; General References; Principal Periodicals Consulted; Location Symbols; Bibliography of American Literature; Initials, Pseudonyms, and Anonyms. One slight sorner bump, very light wrinkling at bottom of ...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. VOLUME THREE (3): EDWARD EGGLESTON TO BRET HARTE.

By: Blanck, Jacob, compiler.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press : 1977

Seller ID: 28643

ISBN-13: 9780300003123

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

(xxiv), 482 pp, 10 1/4" H. Black cloth with red title block/gilt lettering and crest on spine. B&w illustrations. Plain brown paper dust jacket with two cut-outs revealing title and volume number. Contents: Authors in Volume Three; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; General References; Principal Periodicals Consulted; Location Symbols; Bibliography of American Literature; Initials, Pseudonyms, and Anonyms. Very light wrinkling at top of spine, light bump at bottom of spine, three very small corner bumps, small tear and tiny chip at bottom edge of first three page leaves - archivally taped. ...
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ENID BLYTON'S ADVENTURE TREASURY.

By: Blyton, Enid. Compiled by Mary Cadogan & Norman Wright. With illustrations by Pat Harrison, E.H. Davie, Eileen Soper, George Brook, G.W. Backhouse, Stuart Tresilian, J. Abbey, H.M. Brock, Stanley Lloyd, Gilbert Dunlop, Beattie, Bruno Kay, et al.)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder Children's Books : 1999

Seller ID: 18236

ISBN-13: 9780340765135

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

371 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H) Integral ribbon bookmark. 'Gameboard' endpapers (at front 'The Way to the Castle', a 'Secret Seven' game, at rear, a 'Famous Five' game), stories and extracts illustrated in colour, plus colour plates showing book covers, magazines, puzzles, boxes. "This glorious treasury contains stories and extracts from the adventures of the 'Famous Five' (1942-63), the 'Secret Seven' (1949-63), the 'Adventure' series (1944-55), the 'Adventurous Four' (1940-52) and the 'Five Find-Outers' (1943 -61), as well as classic out of print stories from the 'Enid Blyton Magazine' and 'Sunny...
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ENID BLYTON'S ADVENTURE TREASURY.

By: Blyton, Enid. Compiled by Mary Cadogan & Norman Wright. With illustrations by Pat Harrison, E.H. Davie, Eileen Soper, George Brook, G.W. Backhouse, Stuart Tresilian, J. Abbey, H.M. Brock, Stanley Lloyd, Gilbert Dunlop, Beattie, Bruno Kay, et al.)

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder Children's Books : 1999

Seller ID: 29705

ISBN-13: 9780340765135

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

371 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H) Integral ribbon bookmark. 'Gameboard' endpapers (at front 'The Way to the Castle', a 'Secret Seven' game, at rear, a 'Famous Five' game), stories and extracts illustrated in colour, plus colour plates showing book covers, magazines, puzzles, boxes. "This glorious treasury contains stories and extracts from the adventures of the 'Famous Five' (1942-63), the 'Secret Seven' (1949-63), the 'Adventure' series (1944-55), the 'Adventurous Four' (1940-52) and the 'Five Find-Outers' (1943 -61), as well as classic out of print stories from the 'Enid Blyton Magazine' and 'Sunny...
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SPORTING TIMES: THE "PINK 'UN" WORLD.

By: Booth, J.B. Foreword by the Earl of Lonsdale.

Price: $125.00 USD

Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie : 1938

Seller ID: 23630

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

284 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). B&w illustrations - collated. "For more than a generation 'The Pink 'Un', as 'The Sporting Times' was familiarly known, occupied a position unique in the journalistic world - a position which no paper to-day has achieved. It was more than a mere journal for the sportsman and man about town; it established itself as a social centre of a highly specialized nature, and its readers constituted a species of home and overseas club, whose bond of fellowship was good humour and good sportsmanship." Chapter headings: The "Pink 'Un" World; The "Pink 'Un" and the Stage; The Acto...
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CIVIL WAR BOOKS: A PRICED CHECKLIST WITH ADVICE. THIRD EDITION.

By: Broadfoot, Tom. Compilers: Janet Hewett, Julia Nichols, Jocelyn Pinson.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Wilmington, North Carolina, Broadfoot : 1992

Seller ID: 24805

ISBN-13: 9780916107857

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

560 pp, small 4to (10 3/16" H) - red spine with black title block and gold lettering, gray boards with gold lettering and black illustration. Contents: Acknowledgement With List of Civil War Dealers; What's In This Guide: How To Use This Guide; Prices; Book Condition; The Civil War Market; Factors Affecting Civil War Book Prices; Reference Works; Book Trade Abbreviations and Terms; Where To Buy Civil War Books; Where To Sell Civil War Books; Civil War Books As An Investment; Advice to Wives and "Significant Others"; Care Of Books; Appraisals - Insurance - Estates - Gifts; General Books; Introd...
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LOTUS SEEDS: CHILDREN, PICTURES, AND BOOKS.

By: Brown, Marcia.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1986

Seller ID: 16789

ISBN-13: 9780684184906

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

216 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "In the course of thirty-five years, the eminent American artist Marcia Brown has written and spoken eloquently concerning children, pictures, and books. This volume brings together thirteen of those major statements, including her three Caldecott acceptance speeches, as well as a moving memoir of her first editor, Alice Dalgliesh. The reader will find here astute comments on books published for children during the past three decades, glimpses of Marcia Brown's early years as a teacher and a storyteller in the New York Public Library, observations...
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LOTUS SEEDS: CHILDREN, PICTURES, AND BOOKS.

By: Brown, Marcia.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1986

Seller ID: 29338

ISBN-13: 9780684184906

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

216 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "In the course of thirty-five years, the eminent American artist Marcia Brown has written and spoken eloquently concerning children, pictures, and books. This volume brings together thirteen of those major statements, including her three Caldecott acceptance speeches, as well as a moving memoir of her first editor, Alice Dalgliesh. The reader will find here astute comments on books published for children during the past three decades, glimpses of Marcia Brown's early years as a teacher and a storyteller in the New York Public Library, observations...
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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-13: 9780394469911

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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