Book Collecting (41 results)

paper wrappers. Book Collecting (illustrator). tall 8vo. paper wrappers. 80 pages. An exhibition catalogue describing the collections of many of the members of the Long Island Book Collectors and including a number of interesting essays on collecting. Slightly faded.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4 pages. Dealers featured: Omega Book Co / Ross Mackinnon Books / John Boyles / V H Warren / J W McKenzie (SL#108).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 works published (5 pages) / B Hutchison "On Collecting One Title - The Song Of Hiawatha" / A Rival of Tauchnitz - Durr's Collection of Standard American Authors. Leipzig 1854-69 (2 pages0 / Sotheby's October and November 1969 book sales, prices realised (5 pages) / Lord Macaulay "Samuel Johnson - Can't Help Loving That Man".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. William Harrison Ainsworth 1805-82 works published (4 pages) / John Spiers "A George Gissing Bibliography" (6 pages) / Sotheby's 7-8 July 1969 book prices realised (6 pages) / Tauchnitz Edition Centenary Catalogue 1837-1937 / Thomas Hughes "In The U.S.A. 99 Years Ago" / Books For Sale & Wanted lists.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 42 pages. Illustrated. J Rives Childs "Collecting Ange Goudar" / William White "Charles E Feinberg Book Collector" / Peter Hall "Reading Between The Leaves" / Alice Taylor "Chance-Found Friends".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. Illustrated. David Chambers "The Book Collectors' Fair" / Joseph Teplin "Testament Of A Bibliophile" / Rigby Graham "Two Views Of The Norrington Room" / R D Pratt "Collecting Books On Books" / Recent Private Press Books.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 12 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; All Under £15; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages, with UK list of books. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 23 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 6 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; All Under £15; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; All Under £15; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 5 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; All Under £15; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. Michael Adam "Kim Taylor. Book Designer" / Frank Broomhead "The Genesis Of A Book-Collecting Interest".

Paperback. Condition: Good. the main board has become loose from flyleaf but otherwise in very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 100 pages. Illustrated. John Upton "Ian Fleming And The James Bond Books" / Richard Dalby "Book Collecting" / Kevin Jackson "Collecting Penguins" / Edward B Orme "Victorian Small Wars" / Michael McKirdy "Rare Cookery Books" / Eva Smith "Edwardian Children's Books".

A fine copy in dust wrapper. Later edition.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A Fine tight new copy in illustrated glassy paperback binding. "Into the Fold: A Primer for Beginning Book Collectors" is the most comprehensive introduction to the exciting world of book collecting. This valuable resource provides anyone new to book collecting with the fundamentals of building a first class book collection. "Into the Fold" addresses the essential topics which apply to all book collecting categories, including first edition identification, book terminology, condition assessment, valuation, book resources, and much more. A sound understanding of the elemental collecting criteria is essential to successful book collecting, and here the author--a 30-year veteran in the book trade--provides indispensable core strategies and specific examples to help the novice book collector embark on a rewarding personal collecting adventure.

Gilt cloth & illustrated dws. C.pp304, fine copy. With 16pp plates. Admirable guide. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

[0-911182-83-6] 1982. (4to) Very good. Issued without dust jacket. 536pp. Later abridged as Book Collecting, Price Guide Series- & Reference. (Reference).

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Wrappers. First Edition. Nice copy Catalogue of a travelling exhibition of over 60 books, pamphlets, specimen leaves and printed ephemera, organised by the ABA "as an act of homage to the craftsmen and artists of bygone centuries to whom we owe our heritage of books". The second half of the catalogue is taken up by a complete list of members of the ABA.

Number 2 of 150 copies. Bibliophile broadside featuring an original poem by California poet, writer, and reviewer, Ethel Jacobson (1899-1991). This piece, featuring the illustration "The old book shop on Pennsylvania Ave." from 1902, was printed in commemoration of the founding meeting of the Orange County Book Society. 13x20" printed in brown on cream stock, with illustration by TMF. Signed by Jacobson beside her poem. Some toning, mainly to edges, else nicely preserved.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated in black-and-white with photographs of materials in the collection One of 1,000 copies printed at the University of Texas, designed by Kim Taylor 8vo Fine copy A well produced pamphlet celebrating the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 50 pages. Illustrated. Iolo A Williams "On Collecting Book-Illustrations" /Hugh Ross Williamson "A Commentary On T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'" / Charles K Colhoun "Ramon Del Valle-Inclan" / Evelyn Pole "Marguerite, Queen Of Navarre" / Watson Lyle interviews Arthur Bliss / Eleanour Sinslair-Rohde "Early Seventeenth Century Gardening Books" / T Earle Welby reviews "Bolshevism: Theory and Practice", "Lenin" and £The Revolt of the Masses" / Collin Brooks reviews "The History of the Russian Revolution Vol.1: The Overthrow of Tsarism" /E A Osborne "Earlt Reanslations From The Russian 1- Before Pushkin" George Frederic Lees "Recollections Of An Anglo-Parisian Bibliophile" / Alfred Dunning "Writing For Children".

Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Fine copy in somewhat soiled and worn dust-wrapper.

First Edition. End-papers browned and some spotting, mostly at fore-edge, otherwise a nice copy.

(BOOK COLLECTING) OBSERVATIONS ON SEVERAL AUTHORS AND BOOKS IN THE ENGLISH AN FOREIGN LANGUAGES WHICH ARE NECESSARY FOR THE FORMATION OF A SELECT AND SMALL LIBRARY. London: Valpy, 1813. 8vo. Disbound. 279-298 pages. Being an appendix to The Pamphleteer, a strange periodical that reprinted sca tracts of historical interest. This advice on forming a library was written a time of great bibliophilic interest by Thomas Frognall Dibdin and others.

First Edition. One of 1,000 copies Small folio Fine copy in decorated slipcase with printed label on spine Buckram with label label gilt on spine.

Limp cloth gilt. First Edition in English. Cloth a little marked and front free end-paper crudely repaired, otherwise a nice copy; bookplate First published anonymously in 1761 this edition was produced for the Grolier Club.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 100 copies. Small quarto, approx 8 7/8 in tall, 58pp, 11 pochoir illustrations, 8 tailpiece ornaments, in publisher s pictorial turquoise stiff wrappers with flaps (covers faded, wear at edges, minute loss at spine-ends, internally clean and tight, very good). Memoir of the daughter of an art and rare books collector.