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steidl Fall/Winter 06 07
Gottigen Steidl Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Folio
199 pp. Light wear to blue cloth boards. Internally as new. Catalogue, well illustrated in colour and b/w.
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Steidl Spring/Summer 08
Gottingen, London, Paris Steidl Fine No Jacket (as issued) Quarto
223 pp. As new. Catalogue of new publications, including colour and b/w photos and bibliographic details for all books.
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The Public Library of Victoria 1856 - 1956
Melbourne The Public Library of Victoria 1956 First Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Large 0ctavo
146 pp. Unclipped dustjacket. Small chip to upper edge of half-title page. Faint stain to lower edge of front cloth board. Internally clean, bright, solidly bound. Colour frontis. Plates of book pages and covers in the collection, with commentary.
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Baker, Nicholson Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
London Vintage 2002 0099429039 / 9780099429036 Reprint Paperback Near Fine 12mo
370 pp. Extremely light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. Faint yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. All else as new. Black-and-white plates. "A blistering and thoroughly idiosyncratic exposé of how libraries are destroying our historical records in order to 'save' them. An incantation to bring back the dead." -- New York Times Book Review
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Becker, May Lamberton Choosing Books for Children
London Oxford University Press 1937 First Hard Cover Good Good 12 mo
256 pp. General and edgewear to price-clipped dustjacket. A few chips and stains, spine lightly sunned. Faint stains to worn cloth boards. Foxing to edges of text block. Upper edge tinted. Previous owner's name inked to front free endpaper. A little foxing to first few pages and very occasionally in the text, otherwise internally unmarked; solidly bound. "It is time for parents (and uncles, aunts and godparents) to stop buying cheap and ephemeral books for children."
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Birkerts, Sven The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Ballantine Books 1995 0449910091 / 9780449910092 Reprint Paperback Very Good 12mo
231 pp. Very light general and edgewear to illustrated covers, corners a little curled. Faint yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. "At once a celebration of the complex pleasures of reading and a boldly original challenge to the new information technologies, The Gutenberg Elegies is an essential volume for anyone who cares about the past and future of books."
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Carter, John, and Graham Pollard. Edited by Nicholas Barker and John Collins An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain 19th Century Pamphlets. [Second Edition, with an epilogue]
London and Berkeley Scolar Press 1983 0859676374 / 9780859676373 Second Edition Hard Cover Near Fine No Jacket Octavo
400 pp plus epilogue. This is the 1983 reprint of the 1934 first edition by Carter and Pollard. The 1983 publication included two volumes, the second volume being "A Sequel to an Enquiry..." This is the first volume only. (Just to further confuse matters, this volume comes with a dustjacket, but I'm listing as "no dust jacket" because the dust jacket is actually for the other volume, "A Sequel...") Probably best if you email us (or use the "ask bookseller" button below this listing if you're browsing abebooks) if you're at all interested in this book, and we can sort out whether this is the one you're looking for. Yes. "The book forgery of Thomas James Wise, disclosed in 1934 in John Carter and Graham Pollard's "An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets", is perhaps the most notorious literary scandal of this century."
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Denholm-Young, N. Collected Papers: Cultural, Textual and Biographical Essays on Medieval Topics
Cardiff University of Wales Press 1969 First Hard Cover Very Good Good Octavo
vi, 317 pp. Light general and edgewear to unclipped dj. A few small splotches to upper edge of text block. Internally as new. Essays include "Richard de Bury and the Liber Epistolaris", "The Merchant of Cahors", "Walter of Henley", "The Mappa Mundi of Richard de Haldingham at Hereford", "The Song of Cerlaverock and the Parliamentary Roll of Arms", and many others.
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Fraser, Antonia (editor) The Pleasure of Reading
London Bloomsbury 1992 0747508135 / 9780747508137 First Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Quarto
251 pp. Light wear (small creases) to upper edge of unclipped dustjacket. Tape shadows to front and back free endpapers. Endpapers are decorated with the signatures of all of the contributors -- authors and illustrators -- to the book. (Which could make this a good reference to check on your signed firsts collection.) Internally clean, bright, solidly bound. Contributors include, among many others, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Doris Lessing, Jan Morris, J.G. Ballard, Edna O'Brien, A.S. Byatt, Tom Stoppard, Margaret Atwood, Melvyn Bragg, Alan Hollinghurst, and Jeanette Winterson.
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George, W.L A Novelist on Novels
London Collins 1918 Hard Cover Good No Jacket Octavo
245 pp. General and edgewear to blue cloth boards. Edges of text block browned, with one or two small splotches. Prev. owner's details pencilled to ffep. Small shop sticker ("Maruzen Old Books Dep't") to rear pastedown. Internally unmarked, solidly bound.
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Haight, Anne Lyon Banned Books: Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons at Various Times and in Various Places
London George Allen & Unwin 1955 Revised Hard Cover Very Good Good 12mo
172 pp. General and edgewear to unevenly price-clipped dustjacket. offsetting to endpapers. Faint yellowing to edges of text block. Upper edge of text block tinted blue. Some pencilled notes and previous owner's name inked to front free endpaper. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. "This chronological list of books banned from 387 B.C. to 1954 shows the trend of censorship throughout the years and the change in thought and taste. The cases cited demonstrate that any guess as to the danger of particular books looks silly and vapid in the next decades, especially as the emphasis shifted from heresy to sedition and now to obscenity. Based on the 1935 edition, it is a major contribution to the cause of Freedom for Books. A great deal of interesting and wryly surprising material is included."
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Haviland, Virginia Children and Literature: Views and Reviews
Glenview, Illinois Scott, Foresman 1973 0673076768 / 9780673076762 First Paperback Very Good Octavo
461 pp. Light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. Spine lightly sunned. Faint yellowing to edges of text block and outer page margins. Previous owner's name inked to first page. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. Black-and-white illustrations in the text.
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![An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain 19th Century Pamphlets. [Second Edition, with an epilogue], Carter, John, and Graham Pollard. Edited by Nicholas Barker and John Collins](shop_image/product/005572.JPG "An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain 19th Century Pamphlets. [Second Edition, with an epilogue], Carter, John, and Graham Pollard. Edited by Nicholas Barker and John Collins")
