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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY LARRY EIGNER 1937-1969
Edition: First printing
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1970. Green cloth. pp [2]. (12), 82. VG+ clean and unworn jacketless copy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 50282More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A BOOKMAN'S CATALOGUE. The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres in the Special Collections of the University of British Columbia...
Edition: First Edition
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987. Two volumes, dark blue cloth without jackets, as issued. (xxxiv), 502; viii, 503-1059 pp. Edited by Tirthankar Bose, with an introduction by William E. Fredeman. Fine copy. An essential reference work for serious dealers and collectors of English and Irish poetry and belles lettres of this period, describing bindings and with bibliographical notes. Especially valuable for its coverage of so many minor writers for whom it is very difficult to find reliable bibliographical references. We use our own copy quite frequently. Note: 3.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required. ; Quarto 0774802074X
Book ID: 41307More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
A CATALOG OF WORKS BY MICHAEL McCLURE 1956-65
Edition: First printing
New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1965. pp (viii), 36, [2]. stapled in beige card covers. Fine copy. A descriptive bibliography. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 50540More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A CENSUS OF VENTURES INTO VERSE. Census of Copies. Second Edition, Revised and Englarged.
Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1972. Second edition, revised (first was in 1965). Octavo, red card covers with white panel printed in tan to front cover. 22, [2] pp, stapled. Fine copy. At the time, 42 copies of the original 100 issued could be located. Includes an analysis at rear by John S. Van E. Kohn.
Book ID: 13120More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
A CENTURY IN PRINT: the story of Hazell's 1839-1939. With a foreword by Ralph C. Hazell
Edition: First Edition
London: Hazell, Watson and Viney, 1939. Green cloth. light green endpapers. pp (xvi), 224 + plate (one folding); many text illustrations. Yellowing to page edges, sunning to green top page edges; small soft bumps to outer corners of covers; else fine. Dust jacket has chips, tears, yellowed spine, large chip tof rear panel; poor. Inscribed Sept., 1959, to a new member of the firm. Laid in is the company's 1959 Christmas card and with comps slip. Nicely made and detailed history of this major firm of British commercial printers.1.5 kg parcel; Quarto
Book ID: 39271More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A CHECK-LIST OF KENNETH HOPKINS
Edition: First printing
Austin: Humanities Research Center / University of Texas, 1961. Inscribed by Author; pp 12, stapled in light blue card covers. Edition of 400 copies. Slight sunning to inner margins and spine fold, else fine. Inscribed by Hopkins to a U of Texas professor in 1961. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 50609More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE and Background Materials 1628-1960. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
University of Toronto Press, (1972). Second and best edition. Brown cloth. xxiv, 1085, pp, index. Page edges lightly yellowed, faintly spotted, with a tan stain to lower fore edges (not penetrating into text margins); very nearly fine otherwise, no owner names. Dust jacket has nicks and tiny chips to tips of bit yellowed spine; creases and mild soiling to rear panel; VG otherwise. The only general list of all known CanLit up to 1960. Despite missing a fair bit, still the best book there is of its kind. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.; Thick octavo. 0802018661
Book ID: 22206More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
A CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE and Background Materials 1628-1960. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
University of Toronto Press, 1972. Second and best edition. Thick octavo. brown cloth. xxiv, 1085, pp, index. Small abrasion to upper margin of front free endpaper, else fine in like jacket, no owner marks. The only general list of all known CanLit up to 1960. Despite missing a fair bit, still the best book there is of its kind. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required. 0802018661
Book ID: 29570More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
A CHECKLIST OF THE HOGARTH PRESS 1917-1938, With a Short History of the Press by Mary E. Gaither
Edition: First Edition
Andes, New York: Woolmer / Brotherson, 1976. Purple cloth. pp (xii), 177. B&w photos, index. Addenda sheet laid in. Yellowing to page edges, else fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo
Book ID: 51738More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A Chronological Bibliography of the Published Works of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, (1872-1962). Comprising books, articles, reviews, and introductions to other works, with an alphabetical index.
Edition: First Edition
Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College Libraries, 1978. Card covers. pp 66 + frontispiece portrait. Spine lightly yellowed, else fine. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 50863More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO L.M. MONTGOMERY FIRSTS
Edition: First Edition
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: Author, 2009. Octavo, card covers. pp (viii), 153. Colour photos. Fine copy. This is an accurate descriptive bibliography of all the US and Canadian first editions (with comment on some later printings) of all of L.M. Montgomery's published books. Not just a dry reference book, it includes an account of the author's experiences over the years in solving the puzzles - particularly the tricky Canadian issues. This the only reference work available today that will reliably enable you to tell a LMM first printing from a later printing. 0981209904
Book ID: 54589More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF H.L. MENCKEN COLLECTIONS IN THE U.S.
Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1967. pp [12], stapled in green card covers. Upper outer corners softly bruised, curled, VG otherwise. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Narrow quarto
Book ID: 50545More details Price: USD $7.95 USD $7.16 -
A JUNIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: With a Preliminary Essay on the Political Background, Text and Identity ; a Contribution to 18th Century Constitutional and Literary History. Revised edition
New York: Burt Franklin, 1974. Maroon cloth without jacket, as issued. pp (10), (xxii), 137. Fine copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50329More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A MAGNIFICENT FARCE and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1922. 4th printing (first was in 1921). (xxii), (268) pp + colour frontispiece with tissue guard and numerous other black & white plates. Yellowing to page edges; shelf rubbing to lower edges of boards; VG jacketless copy otherwise. Chapters include "What is the Matter with the Bookshop?", "Walt Whitman", "Meditation on a Quarto Hamlet", "A Sane View of William Blake" , and more.; Octavo
Book ID: 52089More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ALAN SILLITOE: a bibliography
Edition: First printing
London: Mansell, 1988. Green cloth. pp 175. Text paper yellowing, else fine. ; Octavo 0887361048
Book ID: 50661More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
ALDOUS HUXLEY: a bibliography 1916-1959. With a Foreword by Aldous Huxley
Edition: First printing
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961. Green cloth. pp x, 150. Index. Yellowing to page edges, minor light pencil marginalia, else fine. Dust jacket has some rubbing and small tears, VG-. A checklist of firsts and reprints. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50328More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
ALDUS MANUTIUS AND RENAISSANCE CULTURE: essays in memory of Franklin D.Murphy. Acts of an international conference, Venice and Florence, 14-17 June 1994
Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1998. Tall octavo
Book ID: 55361More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
Alexander von Humboldt: Bibliographie seiner ab 1860 in deutscher Sprache herausgegebenen Werke und der seit 1900 erschienenen Veröffentlichungen über ihn;
Leipzig: Deutsche Bucherei, 1959. Card covers with flaps. pp (47). Tipped in colour portrait. Damp stain and short tear to lower outer corner of front cover; creases to fore corners throughout; bit of wear to head of spine; a good, clean copy otherwise. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Quarto
Book ID: 51054More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
ALLEN TATE: a bibliography
Edition: First Edition
New York: David Lewis, 1969. Brown and yellowish cloth. pp (x), 112, [4]. A fine, jacketless copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50869More details Price: USD $13.95 USD $12.56 -
Amber Dreams: A Roger Zelazny Bibliography. With Annotations by Darrell Schweitzer, Janny Wurts, Jeff Levin and Tom Whitmore.
Edition: First Edition
San Francisco: Underwood / Miller, 1983. Pictorial cloth without jacket, as issued. pp (152). Illustrated. Fine copy. There were 500 copies in hardcover. This is one of the 300 regular copies, and though not called for, it is SIGNED BY ZELAZNY on the title page.; Octavo.; Signed by Author 0934438404
Book ID: 51047More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50