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Boston: Bookbuilders of Boston. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly rubbed.. 1987. Hardcover. Many photos, including some in color. A catalogue of this annual book show published on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. Brown cloth. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 116 pages .

Miniature Book Society. Very Good. 1999. Softcover. Illustrated stapled green card covers. Bibliography. Catalogue of a traveling juried miniature books exhibition. Many black and white photos. Measures 5.5 x 4 inches. .

Toronto: Toronto Public Library. Very Good; Spine lightly bumped.. 1993. First Printing. Softcover. 9780920601235 . 1/1500 copies. Black and white and color illustrations, index. An exhibition catalogue featuring the works of artists such as Charles Robinson, Kate Greenaway, Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, Georgie Cave Gaskin, Maud Gonne, and William Strang. Errata slip laid in. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 60 pages .

Philadelphia: The Rosenbach Museum and Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. Softcover. 0939084317 . Essay by Donald Rackin. Edited and with selected entries by Derick Dreher. Softcover with jacket. Further reading, illustrations and photos. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 59 pages .

Berkeley, CA: Ian Jackson. Very Good; Wraps lightly scuffed.. 1997. Softcover. Yellow illustrated stapled card covers. Edward Lear's humorous verse about the Akond of Swat, a mysterious Middle Eastern man, published as a New Year's gift by the late bookseller and publisher, Ian Jackson. Illustrations by his wife, Ann Arnold. Also includes "Appendix Akondiana", six extra verses perhaps written by Lear in J. A. Symonds copy of Lear's Laughable Lyrics, as well as an essay by Jackson. Also includes four photocopied sheets of "A Suppressed Verse for Older Readers" with erotic illustrations by Arnold. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 64 pages .

Kingston, NY: Privately Printed for the Jabberwock By Battledore, Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket; Foxing to page tops.. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 0962711004 . Catalogued by Justin G. Schiller. Illustrated boards. Profusely illustrated. Errata slip laid in. Includes a revised and expanded census of the suppressed 1865 Alice by Selwyn H. Goodacre. Also includes short-title index identifying and locating the original preliminary drawings by John Tenniel for Alice and Looking-Glass. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 110 pages .

Private Printing. Near Fine. 2005. Softcover. Stapled printed cream card covers with French flaps. Illustrations and photos. Measures 11 x 6.5 inches. Foreword by Terry Belanger. Memorial publication of a lecture Allen was to have delivered at the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 32 pages .

Aalst, Brussels: Various. Very Good; Slipcase soiled and stained.. 1973. Softcover. Published by: Aalst, Dirk Martenscomité, Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, and Brussels, Gemeentekrediet. Four softcover volumes in cardboard slipcase. Facsimile editions printed in black and red of the oldest three incunabula printed in the southern Netherlands: Speculum conversionis peccatorum by Dionysius van Rijkel; Manuale de salute sive aspiratione animae ad deum, by Pseudo-Augustinus; and De duobus amantibus, by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini. Forewords by K. Heireman and Herman Libaers. First volume of introduction has text in Dutch, French, German, and English. Most pages of facsimiles uncut. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Madison, OH: Sunrise Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Slipcase lightly rubbed.. 1994. Hardcover. 1881755037 . Dark green cloth housed in green paper-covered slipcase. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author on the colophon page and further inscribed on the front free endpaper. Index, bibliography. " All significant American sporting book series as well as publishers that produced sporting books exclusively are discussed. Each chapter provides a brief history of a specific company and pertinent bibliographic descriptions of each title they produced." Publisher's prospectus laid in. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 325 pages .

Madison, OH: Sunrise Publishing Company. Very Good. 1994. Softcover. 1881755053 . Index, bibliography. " All significant American sporting book series as well as publishers that produced sporting books exclusively are discussed. Each chapter provides a brief history of a specific company and pertinent bibliographic descriptions of each title they produced." ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 325 pages .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Paper labels chipped, boards lightly worn.. 1923. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Survey of ten 20th century authors and their work: John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, Arthur Train, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Bell Wright, Booth Tarkington, Donald Odgen Stewart, Joseph C. Lincoln, Edith Wharton, Christopher Morley. Tipped-in black and white photographs of each of these literary lions. Dark green cloth binding with paper labels on spine and front cover. An interesting book at the "hot" authors of the early 20th century. Index. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 414 pages .

NY: Peter Decker & Co.. Very Good; Covers lightly soiled and creased, pen marks on verso of . preface.. [1936]. Softcover. Printed stapled tan stiff wraps. "Being a series of two hundred reprints of rare items of American history, edited and published by the late William Abbatt for a group of subscribing libraries in the United States and Great Britain, and issued over a period of thirty years in small limited editions of fifty-five copies each, and called the 'Extra Numbers' of the Magazine of History." Catalogue notes prices and numbers of copies remaining. WorldCat locates five copies. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 31 pages .

NY: Burt Franklin. Very Good with no dust jacket; Fore-edges soiled.. N.D.. Reprint. Hardcover. xiv, 423pp. Burgundy cloth. Circa 1967 facsimile reprint of this 1897 history of American book clubs. One of 300 copies. ; Burt Franklin Bibliography and Reference Series; Vol. 77; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped, foxed and worn. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 0442113056 . Black cloth binding. Profusely illustrated with examples of historic wood type, including over 100 type specimens. Bibliography, index. . Includes chapters on wood type designers and printers, manufacturing details, wood type styles, chronological development, and competition with other types of printing illustration. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 350 pages .

NY: William Morrow and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards sunned, jacket toned and worn.. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 0688002722 . Illustrated survey of the role of humanized animals in classic children's literature. Cloth-backed boards. Bibliography, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 336 pages .

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped and tattered.. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. xl, 360pp, illustrations, index. The former FBI Agent compiled a bibliography of 1,126 titles related to American murders, from a 1675 sermon directed at two servants who murdered their employer through titles published in 1900. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Boston: American Library Association. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, library bookplate on front . pastedown endpaper, pages toned, hinges cracked.. 1897. Hardcover. Brown cloth titled in gilt. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 89 pages .

St. Cloud, MN: Land's Edge Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges foxed.. 1999. Hardcover. 096758910X . One of 750 signed and numbered copies. Illustrations, references cited. Detailed bibliography of books about big game hunting in Africa compiled by the antiquarian bookseller and professor. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 181 pages .

Natick, MA: Picture Book Studio. Very Good; Covers rubbed.. 1988. Softcover. 9780887080593 . Text in Italian and English. Silvery illustrated stiff wrappers with French Flaps. 25 illustrators, including Lisbeth Zwerger, and their work featured. Many color illustrations. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 198 pages .