Bread Street Press (17 results)

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Bookshop memoir and related essays by local Melbourne author & bookseller, the follow-up to his first title, Trafficking in Old Books. Filled with wonderful and witty bookshop-related anecdotes and book stories (pun intended) surrounding Anthony Marshall's North Carlton bookshop. Contents include an introduction and 37 wide-ranging chapters, with titles such as Peeps into Printing, Op Shop Stop, Elitist Swinery, Grappling with Proust, Millennium Buggery, Storing the Stuff, In Praise of Paperbacks, Bookman in the Bush, & Fluffy Bookshops. From rear cover: "If ever, in the hope of finding treasure, you have rummaged through a heap of old books - at a school fete, a church bazaar or an opportunity shop - then knowingly or not you have fossicked for old books. Welcome to the club! Welcome to the Worshipful Company of Book Fossickers! And welcome to this book which celebrates the delights and dilemmas of book-fossicking as well as other pleasures and pitfalls associated with old books, old bookshops and old booksellers. This book ranges lightly over many bookish - and not so bookish - subjects. Proust, the nabbing of a book thief, Mauritius, eucalypts, Jerusalem, dogs in bookshops, Dr Johnson, paperbacks, Scottish family history, millennium buggery - all human life is here! Following up his first book, the widely-praised and widely-enjoyed Trafficking in Old Books, Anthony Marshall gives us more amusing and thoughtful insights into life behind the counter at Alice's Bookshop. If you are addicted to books and reading, you are sure to be intrigued and entranced by Fossicking for Old Books". Cover illustration by Julia Marshall. Printed in Australia. A LIKE NEW very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 284pp. SB-40.…

xxxii+263pp. 8vo. Original wrappers. A fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Minor mark on front cover.This booklet includes the autobiographies of Jack and Ada Fletcher Holmes, who married in 1935, and were notable long term residents of the Brighton area in Victoria, attending Brighton Grammar School and Firbank respectively.Jack (b. 1909) was a dedicated member of Legacy and worked tirelessly helping war widows, whilst Ada (b. 1912) was an original committee member for the Legacy Wives Association and a helper at Brighton Grammar and Firbank and also an Honorary Life Governor of Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne.Published by their estate. …

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED in full by author Anthony Marshall in blue ink on half-title page. Bookshop memoir and related essays by local Melbourne author & bookseller, the follow-up to his first title, Trafficking in Old Books. Filled with wonderful and witty bookshop-related anecdotes and book stories (pun intended) surrounding Anthony Marshall's North Carlton bookshop. Contents include an introduction and 37 wide-ranging chapters, with titles such as Peeps into Printing, Op Shop Stop, Elitist Swinery, Grappling with Proust, Millennium Buggery, Storing the Stuff, In Praise of Paperbacks, Bookman in the Bush, & Fluffy Bookshops. From rear cover: "If ever, in the hope of finding treasure, you have rummaged through a heap of old books - at a school fete, a church bazaar or an opportunity shop - then knowingly or not you have fossicked for old books. Welcome to the club! Welcome to the Worshipful Company of Book Fossickers! And welcome to this book which celebrates the delights and dilemmas of book-fossicking as well as other pleasures and pitfalls associated with old books, old bookshops and old booksellers. This book ranges lightly over many bookish - and not so bookish - subjects. Proust, the nabbing of a book thief, Mauritius, eucalypts, Jerusalem, dogs in bookshops, Dr Johnson, paperbacks, Scottish family history, millennium buggery - all human life is here! Following up his first book, the widely-praised and widely-enjoyed Trafficking in Old Books, Anthony Marshall gives us more amusing and thoughtful insights into life behind the counter at Alice's Bookshop. If you are addicted to books and reading, you are sure to be intrigued and entranced by Fossicking for Old Books". Cover illustration by Julia Marshall. Printed in Australia. A very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 284pp. Scarce signed copy. SB-14. Signed by Author(s).…

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED in full by author Anthony Marshall in blue ink on half-title page. Bookshop memoir and related essays by local Melbourne author & bookseller, the follow-up to his first title, Trafficking in Old Books. Filled with wonderful and witty bookshop-related anecdotes and book stories (pun intended) surrounding Anthony Marshall's North Carlton bookshop. Contents include an introduction and 37 wide-ranging chapters, with titles such as Peeps into Printing, Op Shop Stop, Elitist Swinery, Grappling with Proust, Millennium Buggery, Storing the Stuff, In Praise of Paperbacks, Bookman in the Bush, & Fluffy Bookshops. From rear cover: "If ever, in the hope of finding treasure, you have rummaged through a heap of old books - at a school fete, a church bazaar or an opportunity shop - then knowingly or not you have fossicked for old books. Welcome to the club! Welcome to the Worshipful Company of Book Fossickers! And welcome to this book which celebrates the delights and dilemmas of book-fossicking as well as other pleasures and pitfalls associated with old books, old bookshops and old booksellers. This book ranges lightly over many bookish - and not so bookish - subjects. Proust, the nabbing of a book thief, Mauritius, eucalypts, Jerusalem, dogs in bookshops, Dr Johnson, paperbacks, Scottish family history, millennium buggery - all human life is here! Following up his first book, the widely-praised and widely-enjoyed Trafficking in Old Books, Anthony Marshall gives us more amusing and thoughtful insights into life behind the counter at Alice's Bookshop. If you are addicted to books and reading, you are sure to be intrigued and entranced by Fossicking for Old Books". Cover illustration by Julia Marshall. Printed in Australia. A LIKE NEW very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 284pp. Scarce signed copy. SB-40. Signed by Author(s).…

Beige wrapper, 15.25x23cm, 64pp. Very good condition. Light wear and scuff marks. This item is light and may attract less postage.

Cream wrappers, 8vo, 64pp. Very good condition. Light wear. This item is light and may attract less postage.

Stiff Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Biography of Jack Fletcher and Ada Holmes, which includes their respective experiences during the second world war. 64 pages, please check with us for an accurate postage cost.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Laminated wraps. 284pp. unmarked.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Bookshop memoir and related essays by local Melbourne author & bookseller, the follow-up to his first title, Trafficking in Old Books. Filled with wonderful and witty bookshop-related anecdotes and book stories (pun intended) surrounding Anthony Marshall's North Carlton bookshop. Contents include an introduction and 37 wide-ranging chapters, with titles such as Peeps into Printing, Op Shop Stop, Elitist Swinery, Grappling with Proust, Millennium Buggery, Storing the Stuff, In Praise of Paperbacks, Bookman in the Bush, & Fluffy Bookshops. From rear cover: "If ever, in the hope of finding treasure, you have rummaged through a heap of old books - at a school fete, a church bazaar or an opportunity shop - then knowingly or not you have fossicked for old books. Welcome to the club! Welcome to the Worshipful Company of Book Fossickers! And welcome to this book which celebrates the delights and dilemmas of book-fossicking as well as other pleasures and pitfalls associated with old books, old bookshops and old booksellers. This book ranges lightly over many bookish - and not so bookish - subjects. Proust, the nabbing of a book thief, Mauritius, eucalypts, Jerusalem, dogs in bookshops, Dr Johnson, paperbacks, Scottish family history, millennium buggery - all human life is here! Following up his first book, the widely-praised and widely-enjoyed Trafficking in Old Books, Anthony Marshall gives us more amusing and thoughtful insights into life behind the counter at Alice's Bookshop. If you are addicted to books and reading, you are sure to be intrigued and entranced by Fossicking for Old Books". Cover illustration by Julia Marshall. Printed in Australia. A LIKE NEW very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 284pp. SB-63.…

Pp. xxxii+264; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; Bread Street Press, South Carlton, Victoria, 2006. *Covers sales held in 2004 and 2005. Includes articles by Mark Casson (Collecting books on economics); Charles Stitz (Beginning 'Books on Dean'), a.o.

8vo. 322 pp. Original boards in dustwrapper, b/w and colour illustrations. A fine copy., First edition.(Limited edition of 500 copies.). The editor is a bookseller from Albury who examined the lives and collections of many bibliophiles of the first 200 years of Australia's history. Arranged alphabetically, and mostly written by Stitz. Interspersed with essays by other writers.…

Hardback large octavo, dustjacket, as new condition (in as new dustjacket), black & white text-photos, few colour plates. Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 322 pp. (Limited edition of 500 copies.) The first authoritative textbook on Australian book collectors. The editor, Charles Stitz, is a bookseller from Albury, NSW. He charts the lives and fascinating collecting careers of over 100 Australian bibliophiles during the first 200 years of Australia's history. Arranged alphabetically, and most entries are written by Stitz. Interspersed with reprinted essays on some of the more famous book collectors. Preface by Wallace Kirsop. (The unstated first volume of a 5-volume set. A limited edition of 500 copies. 1 of 2 available copies. Other volumes also available.).…

Pp. 322, illustrated in colour and black & white, indices; narrow cr. 4to; top fore-corners bruised; dust wrapper; Bread Street Press, Bendigo, Victoria, in association with The Australian Book Auction Records, 2010. Edition limited to 500 copies, this being one of 490 cloth bound.

Some Noted Australian Book Collectors & Collections of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Dust Jacket New 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Cloth New Limited edition of 500 copies, black cloth, gilt titles to front cover and spine, pp. [1-5] 6-322, [i-vi] vii-xx, 1-409, [xxi-xxviii] xxix-xxxiv, 411- 859 incl. indices, illustrated by colour and b&w photographs of collectors and their bookplates and other marks of ownership. The work charts the lives and collecting careers of 250 Australian bibliophiles who lived during the first two centuries of Australia's history. Preface by Professor Wallace Kirsop.…

Some noted Australian book collectors & collections of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 4to. black buckram hardcovers with gilt titles, illustrated by colour and b & w photographs of the collectors and their collections. Five volumes complete, 2010 -2016, volumes and dustwrappers all new. A limited edition of 500 copies.…

Some Noted Australian Book Collectors and Collections of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries Quarto half-morocco over cloth, gilt decoration and leather title labels, pp. 322, uncut and unopened, illustrated. The deluxe edition limited to 10 copies specially bound and signed by the editor. This is No. 1, the first of the five volumes published in the series. A copy of the invitation to the launch of Volumes IV & V laid-in. Signed first edition.…