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The Private Library Spring 1999 Fifth Series Volume 2:1 / George Jefferson "The Children's Library" / David Chambers "Kickshaws, Paris" / Thorsten Sjolin "The Thoreau Society" / Recent Private Press Books
David Chambers and Paul W Nash (Editors) / George Jefferson "The Children's Library" / David Chambers "Kickshaws, Paris" / Thorsten Sjolin "The Thoreau Society" / Recent Private Press Books
Published by Private Libraries Association 1999
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. George Jefferson "The Children's Library" / David Chambers "Kickshaws, Paris" / Thorsten Sjolin "The Thoreau Society" / Recent Private Press Books.
Published by Private Libraries Association 1997
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Published by Private Libraries Association, London 1972
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- First Edition
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Add to basketWraps. Condition: Good. No d/w. First Edition. pp. 65-116; With illustrations. With articles by STOLS, A.A.M.(The Halycon Press); LEE, BRIAN NORTH, (Bookplate Collecting); STRACHAN, W.J.,(The World's End Press); PRANCE, CLAUDE A., (Cricket Books); Covers slightly worn else a bright copy; Size: 8vo. Journal.

The Private Library: Third Series Vol 2 No 3 Autumn 1979 / Robin Myers "Bibliographica Papers on Books, their History and Art 1895-1897" / Abe Lerner "Form And Content The Books of the American Private Presses Today" / Denis Thomas "Bernard Barton And His Friends" / Robin Myers "The Library Of Waddesdon Manor"
David Chambers (Hon.Editor) / Robin Myers "Bibliographica Papers on Books, their History and Art 1895-1897" / Abe Lerner "Form And Content The Books of the American Private Presses Today" / Denis Thomas "Bernard Barton And His Friends" / Robin Myers "The Library Of Waddesdon Manor"
Published by The Private Libraries Association, 1979
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Illustarted. Robin Myers "Bibliographica Papers on Books, their History and Art 1895-1897" / Abe Lerner "Form And Content The Books of the American Private Presses Today" / Denis Thomas "Bernard Barton And His Friends" / Robin Myers "The Library Of Waddesdon Manor".

The Private Library Autumn 1967 / Geoffrey Wakeman "Dr Bentley's Proposal For Building A Royal Library" / Juliet Standing "The Private Press Today" / M F Thwaite "John Newberry - publisher and bookseller, 1713-1767"
Roderick Cave (Hon. Editor) / Geoffrey Wakeman "Dr Bentley's Proposal For Building A Royal Library" / Juliet Standing "The Private Press Today" / M F Thwaite "John Newberry - publisher and bookseller, 1713-1767"
Published by The Private Libraries Association 1967
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. Illustrated. Geoffrey Wakeman "Dr Bentley's Proposal For Building A Royal Library" / Juliet Standing "The Private Press Today" / M F Thwaite "John Newberry - publisher and bookseller, 1713-1767".

The Private Library second series Volume 6:2 Summer 1973 / Adagio: the Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr [with a selected checklist], by Gerald Lundeen; Coole Library, by Colin Smythe; Tracking Down the Beats: A Preliminary Survey, by Jim Burns; Reviews and Private Press Books.
John Cotton (Hon. Editor) / Adagio: the Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr [with a selected checklist], by Gerald Lundeen; Coole Library, by Colin Smythe; Tracking Down the Beats: A Preliminary Survey, by Jim Burns; Reviews and Private Press Books.
Published by Private Libraries Association, 1973
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 50 pages. Adagio: the Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr [with a selected checklist], by Gerald Lundeen; Coole Library, by Colin Smythe; Tracking Down the Beats: A Preliminary Survey, by Jim Burns; Reviews and Private Press Books.

The Private Library Winter 1992 Fourth Series Volume 5: 4 Cliff Parfit "An Exlibris Library In Japan". Graham Moss "Staples"/ Recent Private Press Books
David Chambers (Hon. Editor) / Cliff Parfit "An Exlibris Library In Japan". Graham Moss "Staples"/ Recent Private Press Books
Published by The Private Libraries Association 1992
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The Private Library Winter 1986 Third Series Volume 9:4 / Cliff Parfit "A Private Library In Japan" / David C Miller "Owen Jones: Ancient Spanish Ballads" / Frank Broomhead "Early American Bookbinding"
David Chambers (Editor) / Cliff Parfit "A Private Library In Japan" / David C Miller "Owen Jones: Ancient Spanish Ballads" / Frank Broomhead "Early American Bookbinding"
Published by Private Libraries Association 1986
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Cliff Parfit "A Private Library In Japan" / David C Miller "Owen Jones: Ancient Spanish Ballads" / Frank Broomhead "Early American Bookbinding".

Published by Private Libraries Association 1961
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Add to basketBooklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 4 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 22 cms. Category: The Private Library; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care… of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Published by Private Libraries Association 2020
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Published by (SAXMUNDHAM:) Private Libraries Association. Printed in Great Britain by The Dorset Press. (June 2017) [but not issued until November 2017] 2017
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Seller: Paul Orssich HISPANIC STUDIES, OKEFORD FITZPAINE, United KingdomPaul Orssich HISPANIC STUDIES
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Add to basket8vo. Publishers grey paper wraps.pp.193 - 240; facsimiles and B&W photographs in text.Pp.197 - 228 describe the career and life of Philip Ward, whose extraordinary erudition is well known in the Hispanic world as the author of "The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature" (1978) selected as the best reference book of the year by…the Library Association.
Published by Barse & Hopkins, Publ,NY, 1916 1916
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Published by Pinner: Private Libraries Association Spring 1988
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Add to basket8vo, (215x140mm), 48p. illustrations. A good copy in original wrappers. Contains: R B Williams, John Van Voorst: patron publisher of Victorian natural history; George Jefferson, The Pseudonym library; Roderick Cave, Cockerels and Amazons, Letters of Christopher Sandford to Clifford Webb, 1946-7.
More imagesThe Moravian Missions to the Eskimos of Labrador: A Checklist of Manuscripts and Printed Material from 1715 to 1967. Supplemented by Other works on the Eskimo of Canada.
Compiled and Annotated by Lawrence M. Lande from his Private Library
Published by Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, McGill University / [printed by Alfred Van Peteghem] 1973
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited edition of 250 copies signed by Lawrence Lande, this being copy 132. String-tied in blue wrappers with an illustrated front. Deckled edges. Slightly faded along spine; spot of soiling in bottom corner of front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Frontispiece and five full-page illust…rations showing items from the checklist. 32 pages, plus addenda (pp 33-36) laid-in. 28 x 22 cm. A checklist of manuscripts and printed material from 1715 to 1967, relating principally to the work of the Moravian Church's Missions for the Eskimo of Labrador. It includes a goodly portion of items that were formerly in the Hopedale Archives of Labrador.
Published by LONDON: Private Libraries Association. 2001. 2001
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Add to basket8vo. Publishers'wraps.pp.145 - 192; facsimiles and B&W reproductions of prints in text.Paul W. NASH: Pinxit, Sculpsit, Excudit, Etcetera. Some notes on the lettering which appears on prints. Explanations the Latin terminology used; followed by examples of printing techniques.
Published by LONDON: Private Libraries Association. 1997. 1997
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Add to basket8vo. Publishers'wraps.48 pp; facsimiles and B&W photographs in text.John COLLINS: Almost a bibliography a partial account of Peter Fleming in print. (pp.3 - 26) A detailed bibliography of the works of Peter Fleming, brother of Ian, including his Brazilian Adventure , an account of the expedition to trace Colonel Fawcett in the S…outh American jungle.
Published by (SAXMUNDHAM:) Private Libraries Association. Printed in Great Britain by The Dorset Press. (November 2017) [but not issue until March 2019] 2019
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Add to basket8vo. Publishers yellow paper wraps.pp.105 - 152; colour and B&W facsimiles in text.Excellent introduction to the subject by Jim Maslen. Together with a list of available Back Numbers of the Journal 1968 - 1989.
Published by LONDON: Private Libraries Association. 2004. 2004
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Add to basket8vo. Publishers' red paper wraps with golden cockerel symbol on upper cover.pp.145 - 192; facsimiles and B&W reproductions of prints in text.David Chambers - Bohn's Illustrated Library. (pp.149 - 173).
Published by Second Series - Volume 9 : 2 - Summer 1976. 1976
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Add to basketIllustrated wrappers. C.pp32, a very good copy.Includes particularly a 17pp essay by Dreyfus on the series of illustrated British Poets which he had designed for the Limited Editions Club. 'As practically all the Club's members live on the other side of the Atlantic, British readers have rarely been given a chance to see these b…ooks . [I therefore] compiled this short account'. Also includes an Editorial by John Cotton : and Reviews of private press books &c by Iain Bain, David Chambers, and John Cotton. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

Published by Private Libraries Association 2017
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated throughout. Private Library, Third Series Vol 5, No.2. Summer, 1982. Wrappers. Very good.
Published by (SAXMUNDHAM:) Private Libraries Association. Printed in Great Britain by The Dorset Press. (July 2017) [but not issued until November 2017] 2017
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Add to basket8vo. Publishers grey paper wraps.pp.129 - 192; colour illustrations in text.The whole issue is dedicated to a study of the Limited Editions published by the Folio Society. Folio Society publications were aimed at producing 'editions of the world's literature, in a format worthy of the contents, at a price within the reach of eve…ryman' and quickly become synonymous with good production at modest prices. This monograph studies the Society's productions of a more ambitious nature.

Language: English
Published by Arlington Arts Council / Penobcost Press, Camden, Maine 1992
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Arlington Arts Council, 1992. 1st edition. X+176 pages. New Soft cover. 8.5x10.9x0.5 inches. be5. Photographs from the Arlington Historical Society, Robins Library, and private collections (illustrator).

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The Private Library : April 1963 The Quarterly Journal of the Private Libraries Association: Vol. 4 : No 86 / David Chambers "The Cuckoo Hill Press" / Trevor H Hall "A Magical Library 1" / Curt Tillmann "A Book-Jackets Collection" / G E Hamilton "The Exchange Scheme" / Recent Private Press Books
Philip Ward (Hon. Editor) / David Chambers "The Cuckoo Hill Press" / Trevor H Hall "A Magical Library 1" / Curt Tillmann "A Book-Jackets Collection" / G E Hamilton "The Exchange Scheme" / Recent Private Press Books
Published by The Private Libraries Association, 1963
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 20 pages. David Chambers "The Cuckoo Hill Press" / Trevor H Hall "A Magical Library 1" / Curt Tillmann "A Book-Jackets Collection" / G E Hamilton "The Exchange Scheme" / Recent Private Press Books.

The Private Library : January 1963 The Quarterly Journal of the Private Libraries Association: Number 25, Vol. 4 : No 5 / Kim Taylor "The Ark Press" / James Parkes "The Parkes Library" / Sidney Blackmore "Illuminated Manuscripts on Film" / C A Prance "The Farringdon Road Bookstalls" / Recent Private Press Books
Philip Ward (Hon. Editor) / Kim Taylor "The Ark Press" / James Parkes "The Parkes Library" / Sidney Blackmore "Illuminated Manuscripts on Film" / C A Prance "The Farringdon Road Bookstalls" / Recent Private Press Books
Published by The Private Libraries Association, 1963
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 28 pages. Kim Taylor "The Ark Press" / James Parkes "The Parkes Library" / Sidney Blackmore "Illuminated Manuscripts on Film" / C A Prance "The Farringdon Road Bookstalls" / Recent Private Press Books.
Published by Simon & Schuster, New York 1929
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Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, U.S.A.Top Notch Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book is from the collection of Henriette Wyeth Hurd, noted American artist, wife of artist Peter Hurd, signature and date (1929) on fep. Jacket is scuffed, chipped, encased in recent brodart, small pinholes in the brodart. Yellow boards have a thin, browned strip along to…p edge, small stain where brodart logo bled onto front. The pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is tight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed.
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Add to basketpaperback. Condition: Near Fine. Vol.6:1, 6:2, 6:4, 7:1, 7:2, 7:3, 7:4, 8:1, 8:2, 8:3, 8:4. Illustrated. Pinner (Private Libraries Assoc.) 1973-5. Wraps. Fine copies.

The Private Library: Quarterly Journal of the Private Library Association. 20 issue run, 3rd Series Vol. 6, No. 1-Volume 10, No. 4. Spring 1983-Winter, 1987.
The Private Library Association. Walter F. Broome, et al, editors.
Published by UK. The Private Library Association. 1983
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 20 issue run of this quarterly. 5 annual Volumes. Bright, tight, unmarked and almost unread-looking. In-depth illustrated, and timeless articles for the serious book collector. Please consider patronizing a dealer who knows the difference between a volume and an issue. This seems to… be a problem in some quarters.
Published by The Private Library Association 1968
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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, U.S.A.THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst Edition. THE PRIVATE LIBRARY, The Private Library Association, 1968 to 1972, first editions, being Second Series VOLUME 1 NUMBERS 2, 3, 4; VOLUME 2 NUMBERS 2, 3, 4; VOLUME 3 NUMBERS 1, 2, 3, 4; VOLUME 4 NUMBERS 1, 2, 3; VOLUME 5 NUMBER 3, 13 issues, all fine in wraps save one which is vg+ in wraps. From the library of the…former premier Walt Whitman collector, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg. Indeed, Volume 1, Number 2 included above contains a 15 page essay on Feinberg by William White with select photos from his collection.