Category: Books on Books

Grey boards with black cloth spine are worn at the corners, edges rubbed lightly, spine rubbed head/tail. Presentation bookplate inside cover to a customer of the publisher. A collection of blank and printed cover stock. Some of the ads are: Rookwood Pottery, The Falcon Auto, Rules for Mah Jong, New York Edison. A page appears to have been removed at the rear after a list of distributing dealers, a few dark spots on rear. Preliminary pages designed by Bruce Rogers.
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Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century

By: Chander, Manu Samriti

Price: ~~$75.00~~ $60.00

Publisher: Bucknell University Press : 2017-06-23

Seller ID: 08663

ISBN-13: 9781611488210

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Dust jacket, black cloth boards and book's interior are in fine condition.
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Bibliotheca Corviniana: The Library of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary

By: Csaba Csapodi; Klara Csapodi-Gardonyi; Zsuzsanna Horn [Translator]; Bertha Gaster [Translator];

Price: ~~$113.00~~ $90.40

Publisher: Corvina Press : 1981-01-01

Seller ID: 08275

ISBN-13: 9789631311839

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

Front endpaper is covered with gift inscriptions to US Ambassador Charles Thomas, to Hungary when he retired in 1993. There is edge and surface wear to the dust jacket. Tan cloth boards are lightly rubbed at the edges, spine shows some give and take evidencing use. Front hinge is breaking at the endpaper, beautiful book is clean otherwise.
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Thesauro De Scrittori 1535 (Facsimile)

By: Da Carpi, Ugo

Price: ~~$40.00~~ $32.00

Publisher: Nattali & Maurice : 1968

Seller ID: 10257

ISBN-13: 9780370001692

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Dust jacket is sunned on the edges and spine, wear at corners and head/tail of spine, price clipped. Blue patterned paper boards (numerical design) with white spine are clean, a little crunching at head/tail. Interior fine condition.
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Aldus Manutius: Printer and Publisher of Renaissance Venice

By: Davies, Martin

Price: ~~$60.00~~ $48.00

Publisher: The J. Paul Getty Museum : 1995-08-31

Seller ID: 08364

ISBN-13: 9780892363445

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Very Good

Paperback wraps have light edge wear, rear is a little soiled. Interior fine condition.
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Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political

By: DeGabriele, Peter

Price: ~~$65.00~~ $52.00

Publisher: Bucknell University Press : 2015-07-16

Seller ID: 08683

ISBN-13: 9781611486964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Dust jacket, black cloth boards and book's interior are in fine condition.
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A Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Broadsides Printed at Auburn, NY 1810-1850

By: Douglas C. McMurtrie

Price: ~~$30.00~~ $24.00

Publisher: Grosvenor Library : 1938

Seller ID: 10857

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

Paperback bibliography is folded/bent in the middle, wear on cover. Pen name on title page, some soiling, checkmarks throughout the book.
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Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type

By: Duggan, Mary Kay

Price: ~~$75.00~~ $60.00

Publisher: University of California Press : 1992-11-06

Seller ID: 08264

ISBN-13: 9780520057852

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Dust jacket has light wear, wrinkle at bottom front and one at bottom rear right corner, top edge rear has small tears, spine is sunned, there is light soiling, light corner wear. Burgundy cloth boards are lightly bumped on the two bottom corners and a little rubbed at the extremities. Fine interior. First printing.
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Experiences in Translation: Umberto Eco

By: Eco, Umberto; McEwen, Alastair [Translator]

Price: ~~$35.00~~ $28.00

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 2000-12-15

Seller ID: 09036

ISBN-13: 9780802035332

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Dust jacket has very slight corner rubbing, black cloth boards and book's interior in fine condition. Umberto Eco's subject is the interpretation of the text between the two languages.
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A Lexical Concordance to the Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Ellis, Frederick Startridge

Price: ~~$85.00~~ $68.00

Publisher: Senjo Publishing Co, Ltd : 1963-01-01

Seller ID: 08133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

The slipcase is darkened with age, scuffed and worn on the corners, bent and tearing on the leading edge. The boards are covered with green cloth and leather, the corners are rubbed, tail of spine is worn and some of the gold text is worn off. Interior is clean and nice. Essential reference for the Shelley scholar or lover.
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John Baskerville: of Birmingham Letter-Founder and Printer

By: F. E. Pardoe

Price: ~~$35.00~~ $28.00

Publisher: Frederick Muller Limited : 1975-01-01

Seller ID: 08236

ISBN-13: 9780584103540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

The dust jacket has light corner wear, spine is sunned, price unclipped. Blue boards have light rubbing at the extremities and a tad of sunning at the head of spine. Interior is clean.
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Reading Smell in Eighteenth - Century Fiction

By: Friedman, Emily C.

Price: ~~$75.00~~ $60.00

Publisher: Bucknell University Press : 2016-06-27

Seller ID: 08653

ISBN-13: 9781611487527

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Dust jacket, black cloth boards and book's interior in fine condition.
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The Family, Marriage, and Radicalism in British Women's Novels of the 1790s: Public Affection and Private Affliction

By: Golightly, Jennifer

Price: ~~$53.00~~ $42.40

Publisher: Bucknell University Press : 2011-12-30

Seller ID: 08685

ISBN-13: 9781611483604

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Dust jacket, black cloth boards and book's interior in fine condition.
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American Nights Entertainment by Grant Overton

By: Grant Overton

Price: ~~$45.00~~ $36.00

Publisher: D. Appleton; George Doran; Doubleday & Page; Scribner's : 1923

Seller ID: 10280

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Dust jacket has two tears on the bottom edge front, one 3/4" and one 1.5", edge and shelf wear. Green cloth boards with pastedowns on front and spine are very clean with light corner rubbing and a small tear head of spine. Interior clean. September 1923 first printing. A book about books and current authors, circa 1923.
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Fournier: The Compleat Typographer

By: Hutt, Allen

Price: ~~$30.00~~ $24.00

Publisher: Frederick Muller Limited : 1972-01-01

Seller ID: 08237

ISBN-13: 9780584103502

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

The dust jacket has edge wear, tears on top edge, lightly sunned spine, tear on upper right corner, price has been clipped. Brown cloth boards are rubbed a tad at the extremities, clean interior.
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Accidental Migrations: An Archaeology of Gothic Discourse

By: Jacobs, Edward H.

Price: ~~$40.00~~ $32.00

Publisher: Bucknell University Press : 2000-09-01

Seller ID: 08789

ISBN-13: 9780838754290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Dust jacket, black boards and book's interior in fine condition.
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Bound Collection of Book Catalogs Incl. Indians of America 1908

By: James Tregaskis; Ellis; Karl W. Hierseman

Price: ~~$150.00~~ $120.00

Publisher: The Museum Book Store : 1908

Seller ID: 07638

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Acceptable

We have a collection of eight book catalogs from the early part of the 20th century. Hinge is opening and the catalogs are crumbling - very poor quality paper, you must use with delicacy. The stand-out is "Indians of America on Sale at The Museum Book Store, London" 1908. You could buy George Catlin's 1842 book for 32 shillings. Also includes: Americana - Latin-American Book Company; Caxton Head Catalogue of Portraits - James Tregaskis; A Catalogue of rare portraits and prints - Ellis; Kostume Uniformen - Karl W. Hiersemann; Illustrated Catalogue of Rare mezzotint and other engravings - George...
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