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Wemyss, Stanley: The General Guide to Rare Americana. with Auction Records and Prices. Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1950. New and enlarged edition. Description: 323 p. With chronological and regional inventories of early printed books in the United States and a key to American Imprints 1639-1889. Fine cloth copy in mylar sleeved dust jacket with moderate edge wear to the jacket. Remains… Read more about this item

Roorbach, Orville A. ADDENDA TO THE BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA, A CATALOGUE OF AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS (REPRINTS AND ORIGINAL WORKS,) FROM MAY, 1855, TO MARCH, 1858. New York, NY: Wiley & Halsted, 1858. 8vo. cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine. viii, 256, 8 pages. A list of works published in the U.S., including price and publisher. Arranged alphabetically. Lists of abbreviations and publishers. List… Read more about this item

Walsh, James E. Arno Werner master bookbinder. An exhibition at the Houghton Library. The Houghton Library. 1981. "First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 33; full page black & white illustrations; fine in original decorated wrappers. Descriptions of 63 examples of Werner's work along with illustrations of several."

Keitt, Lawrence; An Annotated Bibliography of Bibliographies of Statutory Materials; Harvard University Press:, 1934. 191 pages. This is Volume II of the Harvard Series of Legal Bibliographies.

Shea, Joseph B. The Library Collected by the Late Joseph B. Shea, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Part I: Americana [American Art Assoc./Anderson Galleries auction, 1-2 Dec. 1937]; New York: American Art Association/Anderson Galleries, 1937. Light gray wraps, lettered in black. Extended cover edges typically rubbed, covers a bit toned by age. Firm, square binding. 212 pp., 674 catalogued lots. First Edition.… Read more about this item

Bartlett, John Russell, Bibliography of Rhode Island, a Catalogue of Books and Other Publications Relating to the State of Rhode Island, with Notes, Historical, Biographical and Critical; Providence: State of Rhode Island, 1864. original cloth-backed boards. Rhode Island. 8vo. original cloth-backed boards. 287 pages. First edition (Besterman 5391). Two page preface by Bartlett followed by the bibliography.

Boon, Edward P. Catalog of books and pamphlets principally relating to America. New York 1870. Sold May 16th, 1870, by Leavitt, Strebeigh & co. 597 pp, 8vo, 24 cm. Edward P. Boon was a bookseller with an address of 86 Nassau St. New York. McKay 1554. This publication is 597 pages stuffed with information. Reprints are available but this is… Read more about this item

Chippenham, Wiltshire: for EMO Press by Antony Rowe Ltd.,, 1990. Prepared for the British Academy. Octavo. A detailed bibliography of publications on Economics from 1751 to 1775 that includes many of the controversial issues surrounding taxation, the state, the Monarchy etc. Original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. Spine a little faded, some small spots to lower board and a… Read more about this item

R.R. Bowker Co. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Very Good First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition bound in green cloth. Bookplate of F. M. O'Brien; Antiquarian Bookdealer. A compendium of information relating to the production and distribution of books.

Rochester: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1947. cloth, dust jacket. UPDIKE. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 141 pages. First edition. Jacket chipped. A tribute to Updike and review of his work, and that of the Merrymount Press.

Boynton, Henry Walcott (1869-1947) Annals of American Bookselling 1638-1850. 1932, 8vo, 209 pp; New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman & Hall, Limited; Printed in US by The HaddonCraftsmen, Camden, N. J. First Edition, First Issue. No Dust Jacket. Nice tight copy with some corner wear, paper boards with cloth spine and some soiling of the spine. "Boynton was… Read more about this item

Philip Greely Brown (1855-1934) was an avid book collector and amature historian and albeit, publisher. He helped collect and published his brother's memoirs on the settlement of the West. His brother, Clifford Brown served under a variety of leaders, some quite famous. This is a bibliography of all of James Russell Lowell' works up to 1906. Mr. Brown would have… Read more about this item