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By: Ahearn, Allen and Patricia
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1995
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 2472
ISBN: 0399140492
Condition: Fine
viii.480 pgs. Fine hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked, binding tight. Another timeless handbook for collectors, librarians and booksellers. With 3,500 titles, an additional 2,000 titles have been added to the previous 1989 edition. The 1978, 1986 and 1993 prices are included, as well as new sections on prizes and lists such as Pulitzers, Bookers, Edgars, Hugos, National Book Awards, Caldecotts, PEN/Faulkners, Nebulas, Newberys and Burgess. You are guided on which books to collect, how to identify first editions, evaluate condition and care for your collecti... View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Birmingham, Alabama, The Classics of Medicine Library, Gryphon Editions: 1986
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 2587
ISBN: 3201010774
Condition: Very Fine
4to. 107 pgs. Very Fine condition black leather hardcover with gilt decoration and embossment to covers and spine with die-stamped 22k gold. All edges of textblock gilt. Gold marker ribbon bound into headband, marbled endpapers. Pristine condition of the privately printed English language edition translated from the German by Rosemarie Werba. [from the Austrian Edition, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972). Included is a 23pg booklet of notes from the editors. Table of Contents: Introduction, Metaphysical Healing Theories, The Postulate of the Four Humours, The Tacuinum sanitatis, Magic... View more info
By: Blake, John B.
Price: $33.00
Publisher: Martino Publishing: 1998
Edition: Later Reprint
Seller ID: 2353
ISBN: 1578980860
Condition: As New
501 pgs. Fine condition tan cloth hardcover, As New, clean, crisp, unmarked. Martino Limited Reprint Edition, limited to 100 copies. List of works printed from 1701 through 1800 which are held in the History of medicine Collection of the National Library of Medicine. Approximately 25,000 items, both monographs and serials, are included which had not been recorded in either the Index-Catalogue or The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 imprints. ISBN 1578980860 #2353 View more info
By: Block, Robert
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Schiffer Pub Ltd: 2003
Seller ID: 1735
ISBN: 0764318276
Condition: Fine
158 pgs. Fine condition glossy hardcover, New.. Detailed color photos. Text by renowned marble authority. From the cover: With this book, readers will discover machine-made marbles from the early 1900 to the 1930's that revolutionized the glass marble industry. Over 700 beautiful color photos display marbles produced by the Ohio-based companies M.F. Christensen & Son Company and Christensen Agate Company. Among those displayed are bricks, cobras, guineas, opaques, slags, single pontil slags, swirls, hand-gathered swirls and early slag traditionals. Text includes descriptions, history and metho... View more info
By: Campbell, Killis
Price: $32.00
Publisher: Cambridge Massachusets, Harvard University Press: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2541
Condition: Good
238pgs. Good condition brown cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, usual ex-library markings in the usual places, former owner name on copyright page and preface, otherwise clean throughout, binding tight. Cornerstone biography and literary commentary on Edgar Allan Poe, his personal life, personality, eclectic education and background and his sometimes self-revelatory body of work. Sections: The Mind of Poe, Contemporary Opinion of Poe, The Poe-Griswold Controversy, The Backgrounds of Poe, Self-Revelation in Poe's Poems and Tales, The Origins of Poe and The Poe Canon. #2541... View more info
By: Cauthen, Irby B., Jr.; Dameron, Lasley J.
Price: $38.00
Publisher: Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A., University Press of Virginia: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2135
ISBN: 0813904986
Condition: Near Fine
8vo. xvi. 386 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover, as unread, with a trace of external shelfwear. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front board. Contents: Preface, Abbreviations, Checklist of Poe Criticism Composed in English 1827-1967, Checklist of Poe Criticism in Foreign Languages, 1827-1967, Index. #2135. ISBN 0813904986 View more info
By: Gill, Evan
Price: $38.00
Publisher: Winchester, St. Paul's Bibliographies: 1991
Edition: First Printing of Second (Revised) Editi
Seller ID: 1717
ISBN: 0906795532
Condition: Fine
8vo.xv. 368 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean, unmarked, no chips or tears. Prefaces by Steven Corey and Evan Gill. Contents: I. books, pamphlets, etc. written by Eric Gill, II. books, periodicals, etc., to which Eric Gill was a contributing author. III. books and other publications illustrated by Eric Gill containing wood engravings, title pages, initial letters, tail-pieces, IV. books, journals, etc. containing criticism or reference to his work, V. miscellanea, VI. posters and related items illustrated by Eric Gill. This bibliography is fully indexed and cross-referenced by engravi... View more info
By: Harner, James L.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, G K Hall: 1992
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 1845
ISBN: 0816190887
Condition: Very Good
xiii.185 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, no jacket. Shallow bumping to spine edges and corners, else minimal shelf wear, internally clean and unmarked. Contents: The Author, Preface, Acknowledgments, Bibliographies [15 sources], Anthologies [2 sources], General Studies [72 sources], Authors/Translators/Titles [arranged alphabetically], Index. A continuation of the author's "English Renaissance Prose Fiction, 1500-1660: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism" and its supplement for 1978-1983. The majority of entries are for books and articles published between 1984 and 1990, but als... View more info
By: Hogan, Sean
Price: $148.00
Publisher: Timber Press, Timber Press, Incorporated (Dioscorides Press): 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2570
ISBN: 0881925381
Condition: Fine
Fine condition 2 Volume Hardcover boxed set with CD-Rom and also includes the complementary softcover "Flora's Plant Names". All are in as new condition, and unused. Lavishly illustrated throughout with striking color photography. Page edges have alphabetized tabs for quick searching. The companion volume "Flora's Names" encompasses 20,000 entries indexed by both first and second common. Scientific names are included with the common names. Please note: this large package will weigh over 15 lbs and extra postage will be required. ISBNs 9780881925388, 9780881925388, 0881926051. ... View more info
By: Katharine Kyes Leab, Daniel J. Leab, Marie-Luise Frings, Abigail Leab and Kathleen Thorp, Editors.
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Bancroft-Parkman: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2467
Condition: Fine
adv. xxii. 1100pgs. Fine condition hardcover. Clean, tight, unmarked, prisitne condition. Red cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, endpapers depicting a book auction at Sotheby's circa 1800 by Thomas Rowlandson. Continues to be an essential reference tool for buying, selling and evaluating scarce books, serial publications, maps, autographs, prints based on hammer prices at 35 major auction houses. An introduction and table of abbreviations precedes lists of auction houses, named consignors and season's sales, followed by sections on autographs and manuscripts (Part I) and Books (Part... View more info
By: King, Ross
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Walker & Co: 2001
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 1743
ISBN: 0802733573
Condition: Fine
391 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and Set in Europe following the English Civil War. From the jacket: "A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe, charged with the task of restoring a magnificent library destroyed by the war." Inchbold's life depends on recovering a missing manuscript, in the midst of underworld, spies, ciphers and forgeries. ISBN 0802733573. #1743. View more info
By: Lawall
Price: $43.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1927
Edition: No Additional Printings Indicated
Seller ID: 2553
Condition: Good to Very Good
xv.665 pgs. Good to Very Good. Illustrated with 64 black and white plates including frontis of a section of the Eders papyrus, one of the oldest pharmaceutical works known. Red cloth hard cover, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, top edge of text blockmatching red. Corners and edges rubbed and frayed, binding strong and sound. Faint lettering lower spine and owner name on front endpaper, light foxing to frontis, title page and the backs of some of the illustrations. Contents: I. Ancient Pharmacy and its Earliest Side-Line -Medicine. Science in Embryo. II. Pharmacy During the Greek, Alexa... View more info
By: Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 2470
ISBN: 0312205872
Condition: Fine
215 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, first printing of first edition in pristine condition. A classic read for book lovers, sellers and collectors alike. The authors of Used and Rare continue their adventures in their quest for rare and out-of-print books, delving into ephemera such as Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula, , the Bloomsbury Group, a Sotheby's auction experience, hypermoderns and internet bookselling. See also our book#2469. ISBN# 0312205872. #2470. View more info
![Image for The WoodBook [The Wood Book] in Wooden Box](/assets/images/product/2571.jpg)
By: Leistikow, Klaus Ulrich and Hough, Romeyn B.
Price: $176.00
Publisher: Taschen: 2002
Edition: First Thus, Special Boxed Edition
Seller ID: 2571
ISBN: 3822817422
Condition: As New
864pgs. Fine/As New condition hardcover in original shrinkwrap, enclosed in accompanying wooden box with sliding front panel and original outer cardboard box. A selective compilation of "The American Woods" 1888-1913 which was originally published with actual specimens on cardboard stock.. This edition is illustrated by strikingly detailed photos of the original wood specimen veneers, as well as lithographs by Charles Sprague. The wood of each of 350 species of American trees, some now extinct, is presented in three views: transverse cross-section, radial quarters-awn and tangential f... View more info
Price: $34.00
Publisher: Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1947
Edition: No Additional Printings Stated
Seller ID: 2373
Condition: Near Fine
91 pgs. Near Fine red cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, clean, sound, unmarked, very faint rubbing to cloth at spine corners. First edition, 1947. Frontis portrait of robert Frost and a plate showing an early manuscript version of "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep" in the poet's handwriting. Contents: Robert Frost and the Mertins Collection by Fulmer Mood; Intervals, by Louis Mertins: San Francisco Interval, Lawrence Interval, Derry Interval, Dymock interval, Amherst Interval, Cambridge Interval, Hanover Interval; Bibliography by Esther Mertins: Poems - Lawrence Interval, Derry Inte... View more info
![Image for Ralph Waldo Emerson. A Descriptive Bibliography. [Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography]](/assets/images/product/2355.jpg)
By: Myerson, Joel
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Pittsburg, University of Pittsburgh Press: 1982
Edition: No Additional Printings Indicated
Seller ID: 2355
ISBN: 0822934523
Condition: Fine
xviii.802 pgs. Fine condition hardcover, as new, clean, tight and unmarked. Includes illustrations of Emerson's first edition title and copyright pages, bindings and dust jackets. Sections: Introduction, Separate publications, Collected Editions, Miscellaneous Collections, First Book and Pamplet Appearances, First-Appearance Contributions to Magazines and Newspapers, Books Editited by Emerson, Reprinted Material in Books and Pamphlets, Material Attributed to Emerson, Compiler's Notes, Appendix: Principal Works About Emerson, Index. ISBN 0822934523 #2355. View more info
By: Nurmi, Martin K. Bentlry, G.E.
Price: $33.00
Publisher: Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press: 1964
Edition: No Additional Printings Indicated
Seller ID: 2352
Condition: Very Good+
xix.393 pgs. Very Good+ hardcover in Very Good+ jacket. Clean, sound and unmarked with minimal shelfwear, light rubbing to corners of dustjacket. Laid in and included are a copy of a review of this book and a small card with several notations presumably by a reviewer. Contents divided into six main sections, separated by illustrated vignettes. Table of Contents: Tables of Symbols and Abbreviations; Table of Type-Printed References to Blake Before 1863; Blake's Reputation and Interpreters; Blake's Chronology; Part I. Editions of Blake's Writings: Individual Tiltles, Collections and Selections; ... View more info
By: Robie, Virginia
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, The Century Company Company: 1912
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1182
Condition: Very Good
8vo. 568 pgs. Very Good condition green cloth hardcover with paper illustration on front board of a collector examining an item. Very light shelfwear consisting of some rubbing to cloth at spine ends and a shallow ding to front board near mid-spine. Very light foxing to endpapers otherwise internally very clean and unmarked. Color frontis illustration of Ruth M. Hallock's The Band Box Shop. Illustrated throughout text with 80 black and white photos and numerous line drawings. Chapters: Staffordshire Lanes, Blue Staffordshire High Road, Unbeaten Paths in Staffordshire, Neglected Corners, Shelf ... View more info
By: Rostenberg, Leona and Madeleine B. Stern
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Delaware, Oak Knoll Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 2468
ISBN: 1884718892
Condition: Fine
viii.202pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dustjacket, pristine condition in removable archival cover. In this bibliophile memoir, dedicated "to the Survival of the Printed Book in the Twenty-First Century" the world-renowned authors reveal the new realms and wealth of knowledge waiting to be discovered in the world of old books. Sections: Introduction: Through Our Hands, What's Past Is Prologue, Eye-Witness Reports, United Nations and Utopias, Hidden Americana, Censorship and Suppression, Stratagems of Satan, Feminism, The Jews, The Blacks, The Lure of Firsts, The Press: Exotic and Uncommon,... View more info
![Image for Elizabethan Drama 1558-1642 [Volume Two ]](/assets/images/product/2544.jpg)
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin and Company: 1908
Edition: No Previous Printings Indicated
Seller ID: 2544
Condition: Very Good
x.685pgs. Very Good condition blue cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to spine. This is an original printing, not a modern reproduction, and consists of Volume Two only. Previous owner J.L. Mankiewicz in neat pencil on front endpaper, with cadeuceus bookplate of medical historian Fielding Hudson Garrison on front fixed endpaper. Internally clean, sound, unmarked with faint age toning to edges of text block. Contents of Volume Two: XIII. History and Tragedy on Classical Myth and Story. XIV. The College Drama. XV. The English Masque. XVI. The Pastoral Drama. XVII. Tragicomedy and "Romance"... View more info
