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Published by The Book-Lover Press, 1903
Seller: Epilonian Books, Manhattan Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Acceptable. The Book-Lover Press. Single Issue Magazine, No. 3, Vol. IV. July- August. 1903, Pages 193-288 plus ads. In acceptable condition, with both front and rear covers detached (but still present) with several large chips and tears along edges of covers. Binding of text block is still tight (staple reinforced). Interior pages have a few small nicks and tears but are otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. Contents include: John Burroughs by Edward B. Clark; Boston's Celebrated Old Corner Book Store; The Old Comer Book Store by George William Curtis; Sonnets in the Library by Thomas Hutchinson; Old Literary and other Notices and Advertisements; An Interesting Study by Emily Wilder. The Term of Copyright; Dickens' Letter to a Boy; Juggling With Type. "Philos." Byron's Home-Coming; Some Reminiscences of Victor Hugo. The First Picture Book. Privately Illustrated Books by Daniel M. Tredwell; Memorandum-Book of George the Third; Books With Paintings on the Fore-edges; Authors and Advertising by Joel Benton; When Virginia was a Royal Province by Edgar Alien Forbes; Boz MIemories by Percy Fitzgerald. Washington's Library. The Plimpton Collection of Italian Literature. by Theodore Wesley Koch. The Gospel of Book-lending by Emma Carleton. A Literary Agent by Owen Oliver. Ink and Pens in the Sixteenth Century; Hopes Afield by Albert Bigelow Paine; A Fourteenth Century Library Rousseau's Copy of the "Imitatio Christi.? by Andrew Lang; The First American Book; Sir Philip Sidney's ?Arcadia?; Types in Fiction?The- Clergyman by Guy Carleton Lee; Studies in Contemporary Biography by James Bryce; Books Bound in Human Skin; To Thomas Moore. Verse. by Lord Byron. Coleridge Swimming in the Strand. Literary Autograph Letters; A Literary Chimney-Sweep; Some Literary Reminiscences by Chas. Warren Stoddard; The Poets at a House Party by Carolyn Wells; The Convict Historian; Every Man His Own Book Doctor; A New York Book Sale of Sixty Years Ago; The Recollections of a Book Collector by J. Fitzgerald; Woman who Loved Oregon by William A. Morris, A Re-discovered Poet. W. D. MacClintock.
Published by Book-Lover Press, New York, 1903
Seller: R & A Petrilla, IOBA, Roosevelt, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. pp iv, 193-284, v-viii ads; frontispiece of John Burrough's seated on a rock at Black Creek. Also here are a feature on Burroughs by Edward B. Clark, and pieces on Boston's Old Corner Book Store, Odd Book Shops, a 14th-century library, and other bookish matters. Bound in tan wrappers, printed in red and green. 12.5" x 9.5".
Published by Book-Lover Press, New York, 1903
Seller: R & A Petrilla, IOBA, Roosevelt, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. pp viii, 97-192, ix-xvi ads; frontispiece photogravure of The Old Manse in Concord. Contains numerous articles on various features of Emerson's life and work. Bound in tan wrappers, printed in red and green. 12.5" x 9.5".
Published by Book-Lover Press, New York, 1903
Seller: R & A Petrilla, IOBA, Roosevelt, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. pp viii, 96, 8 index, ix-xvi ads; frontispiece photogravure of the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage at Fordham, NY, "and numerous other articles and illustrations of and about Poe," including "The Truth about Edgar Allan Poe" by Eugene L. Didier. Also present are articles on The Grolier Library, Book Plates, the Native Literature of Porto Rico, the Art of Extra-Illustration, "No Time for Reading" by Andrew Lang, &c. Bound in tan wrappers, printed in red and green. 12.5" x 9.5". MInor chipping at spine ends. First printing of the Didier article on Poe, which occupies nine pages in this issue.