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Australasian Bibliography. Catalogue of Books in the Free Public Library, Sydney, relating to, or published in, Australasia. Reference Library, 1869-1888.

By: N/A

Price: $160.00

Publisher: Sydney, Government Printer: 1893

Seller ID: 24261

Part I: Authors, editors, or reference. Part II: Colonies, &c. Part III: Classified subject and title. 4to; x, 436; (vi), 584 & (iv), 226pp, frontispiece. Later navy blue cloth, spine titles in gilt, a few slight marks. Very good.
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Bizarre Books.

By: ASH, Russell & Brian Lake.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1985

Seller ID: 34947

180pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0333383125
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William Balston, papermaker, 1759-1849.

By: BALSTON, Thomas.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: London, Methuen: 1954

Seller ID: 27262

First edition. 172pp, 20 illustrations. Printed on mould-made J. Whatman paper manufactured by W. & R. Balston. Original cloth with dustwrapper (light soiling, spine dulled and with some chips, now in protective sleeve). Top edges a little spotted, the others uncut. Owner's signature of A.E. Werner, the conservator, of the British Museum. A very good copy in a good dustwrapper.
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Studies in Bibliography. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Volume XXIV.

By: Bibliography: BOWERS, Fredson (ed)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Charlottesville VA, University Press of Virginia: 1971

Seller ID: 24216

240pp. Original blue cloth. Very good. ***Papers include 'John Payne's Great Forgery' (Dawson) & 'Woozles in Bronteland: a cautionary tale' (Stevens).
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Studies in Bibliography. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Volume XXIX.

By: Bibliography: BOWERS, Fredson (ed)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Charlottesville VA, University Press of Virginia: 1976

Seller ID: 24260

395pp. Original brown cloth. Very good. ***Papers include 'John Murray's Famil Library and the cheapening of books in early 19thC Britain' (Bennett) & 'The Role of Formulas in the dissemination of a Middle English alliterative romance' (Duggan).
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Studies in Bibliography. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Volume XXVI.

By: Bibliography: BOWERS, Fredson (ed)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Charlottesville VA, University Press of Virginia: 1973

Seller ID: 24259

296pp. Original green cloth. Very good. ***Papers include 'Marlowe's Doctor Faustus: the 1602 additions' (Bowers) & 'A Bibliographic History of Tennyson's Idylls of the King' (Pfordresher).
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Studies in Bibliography. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Volume XXVII.

By: Bibliography: BOWERS, Fredson (ed)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Charlottesville VA, University Press of Virginia: 1974

Seller ID: 24217

325pp. Original blue cloth. Very good. ***Papers include 'Towards a critical text of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' (Gabler) & 'The American edition of Mrs 'Dalloway' (Shields).
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The Country Life Book of Book Collecting.

By: BOOTH, Richard (ed).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Country Life Books: 1976

Seller ID: 36241

4to. 192pp, well illustrated in b&w and colour. Brown cloth with dustwrapper. Extremities of the boards a trifle flecked, otherwise a good to very good clean copy. Small ink stamp on half-title (a bandicoot if I'm not mistaken). ISBN 0600313786
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The House of Longman 1724-1924.

By: COX, Harold & John E. Chandler.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Longmans: 1925

Seller ID: 24720

94pp, frontis, 1 b&w plate. Original cloth-backed papered boards, head of spine slightly frayed, light liquid stain at the foot. Ex-Library, with label taped botttom left corner of front cover, stamp on front pasted endpaper and page edges, sleeve pasted on back endpaper and slip on back free endpaper. Good.
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Private Presses and Australia : with a check-list [AND] Private Presses and Australia : a first supplement.

By: FARMER, Geoffrey.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Hawthorn Press: 1972/ 1976

Seller ID: 22792

450 copies. Small 8vo. 68pp. Decorated papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy, signed by the author. SUPPLEMENT: 350 copies published by the author (Hobart, 1976); with his limitation inscription, and an additional personal inscription.
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A Miscellany for Bibliophiles.

By: FLETCHER, H. George (ed).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Grastorf & Ling: 1979

Seller ID: 35158

xvi, 304pp, illustrated, errata slip tipped-in at rear. Grey cloth with clear wrapper. Top corners a trfile bumped, owner's name. A very good clean copy. ***Includes 'Of Dealers and Collectors' (Robert Taylor), 'Looking into provenance' (Robert Nikirk) & 'Identifying and classifying fine bindings' (Jamie Shalleck).
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Slightly Chipped : footnotes in booklore.

By: GOLDSTONE, Lawrence & Nancy.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, St Martin's Press: 1999

Seller ID: 35166

214pp. Papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0312205872
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts, to c.1600, in Christ Church, Oxford.

By: HANNA, Ralph & David Rundle; using materials collected by Jeremy J. Griffiths.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford Bibliographical Society: 2017

Seller ID: 36134

4to. 474pp, colour and b&w illustrations, 48 coloured plates at rear. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0901420611
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Private Impressions: a collection of eight monographs about printing and other book arts (with Introductions and prospectuses).

By: HUDSON, Mike & Jadwiga Jarvis.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Katoomba, The Wayzgoose Press: 1995-2001.

Seller ID: 28543

Illustrated throughout by Mike Hudson, including wood engravings. A complete set of the eight monographs and two Introductions (to numbers 1-4 and 5-8 respectively), and the two prospectuses (1995 and 2000 respectively). All parts are signed by Hudson and Jarvis and numbered. Parts 1 to 4 are all #26 of 50 copies, with the Introduction #15 of 45. Parts 5 to 8 and the Introduction are all #18 of 60 copies. The design and typography befitting the subject. Printed on Mohawk Superfine 148gsm paper; the first Introduction sewn into Canson 160gsm covers; Parts 1-8 and the second Introduction sewn in...
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Wayzgoose : the Australian Journal of Book Arts. Number One. WITH: The Wayzgoose Press : a prospectus.

By: JARVIS, Jadwiga.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Sydney, The Wayzgoose Press: 1985

Seller ID: 36184

#122 of 400 copies thus (nos 51-450). 4to. [viii], 2-93pp,[4],[4]pp adverts, numerous coloured and b&w illustrations, many as tipped-in plates; highly decorative errata slip ('Solecism') printed in red and black loosely inserted. Heavy wrappers with French flaps over Fabiano boards and Bemboka Oatmeal endpapers; the text printed letterpress on Goatskin Parchment 160gsm. The top edges of the wrappers a trifle rubbed, otherwise a fine clean copy. The Prospectus (which is for this Journal rather than the Press itself) is #94 of 100 copies. 4to. [8]pp, tipped-in colour plate, b&w engravings; the c...
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At John Murray's : records of a literary circle 1843-1892.

By: PASTON, George.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1932

Seller ID: 24264

Preface by the Rt. Hon. Lord Ernle. First edition xvi, 320pp, 16 black & white plates. Original dark blue cloth with spine label (slight bump on back at head of spine, trifling rubbing on back, small mark on front). Offsetting on free endpapers. Top edges dark blue, half a dozen spots on fore-edges. Interior clean and fresh. Very good.
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In Praise of Letterpress : ten broadsides designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press.

By: Rampant Lions Press.

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Rampant Lions Press: 2001

Seller ID: 34990

#79 of 140 copies. 4to. 4pp (single folded sheet) title and contents, 10 sheets (of various colours, printed in colour on the rectos only) in card folder, all housed in a slim grey cloth solander case, with title label. ISBN 0902591320
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A Licence to Print : Alec Bolton and the Brindabella Press.

By: RICHARDS, Michael.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Canberra, Friends of the National Library of Australia: 1993

Seller ID: 34834

Square 8vo. 42pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff wrappers, as issued. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0646161504 ***Loosely inserted is a manuscript letter from Bolton to 'Geoffrey' [Farmer, the bibliographer] which evidently accompanied this presentation copy.
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A Licence to Print : Alec Bolton and the Brindabella Press.

By: RICHARDS, Michael.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Canberra, Friends of the National Library of Australia: 1993

Seller ID: 35134

Square 8vo. 42pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff wrappers, as issued. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0646161504
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The Craft of the Book. Exhibition 1.12.78 - 11.2.79. National Gallery of Victoria.

By: RIDDETT, Robyn.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria: 1978

Seller ID: 23460

Small 4to. 56pp, illus. Soft covers. Very good. ISBN 0724100539 *** 111 items fully described, 7 full-page illustrations, bibliography.
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Book Sales of 1897-8. A record of the most important books sold at auction and the prices realized, with introduction, notes and index by Temple Scott.

By: Scott, Temple (ed)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London and New York, George Bell and Sons/Macmillan: 1899

Seller ID: 24267

xvii, 341pp. Original cloth with gilt titling on top board and spine (the cloth dulled, corners bumped). Top edges gilt, fore-edges discoloured, tail edges lightly spotted, and a little spotting on early and late pages. Good.
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The British Library in the 1990s.

By: SMETHURST, Brian.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association: 1990

Seller ID: 25045

8vo. 31pp, pages untrimmed. Soft covers. Very good. ***The first Alice Brett Memorial Lecture, given on 10 October 1989 by Michael Smethurst, Director General of Humanities and Social Sciences at the British Library.
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Nineteenth Century Australian Periodicals : an annotated bibliography.

By: STUART, Lurline.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sydney, Hale & Iremonger: 1979

Seller ID: 34499

8vo. 200pp, illustrated in b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. ISBN 0908094531
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Bibliopola : pictures and text about the book trade.

By: TAUBERT, Sigfred.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: London, Allen Lane/The Penguin Press: 1966

Seller ID: 34882

Two volumes. 4to. [I] xxvi, 126pp, 317 text illustrations, 2 facsimiles. [II] x, 526pp, 258 plates (42 in colour), 2 facsimiles. Canvas cloth with spine labels; spines and labels slightly sunned and with a few light splashes. A good to very good clean set.
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From Manuscript to Print.

By: THOMPSON, Rodney M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hobart, UTAS: 2008

Seller ID: 32844

Design and picture research by Gillian Ward. 4to. 128pp, profusely illustrated in colour. Soft covers. Very good. ISBN 1862954836 ***Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Morris Miller Library, University of Tasmania, Hobart, December 2008 - January 2009. "A description of all western manuscripts and early printed books to 1600 held in the University of Tasmania Library, the State Library of Tasmania and St David's Cathedral, Hobart".
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The Fox and the Bees : the early library of Corpus Christi College Oxford. The Lowe Lectures 2017.

By: THOMSON, R.M.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, D.S. Brewer, for Corpus Christi College: 2018

Seller ID: 36012

4to. 96pp, illustrated in colour. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1843844850
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

By: THOMSON, R.M.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, D.S. Brewer, for Peterhouse: 2016

Seller ID: 36013

4to. 230pp, frontis, 52 pp of colour plates at rear. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1843844419
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford : Western manuscripts.

By: THOMSON, R.M.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, D.S. Brewer, for Corpus Christi College: 2011

Seller ID: 36014

4to. 210pp, 92pp of colour and b&w plates. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 184384284X
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Corpus of Medieval Library Catalogues 16 : The University and College Libraries of Oxford.

By: THOMSON, Rodney M. (ed), with the assistance of James G. Clark.

Price: $165.00

Publisher: London, The British Library in association with The British Academy: 2015

Seller ID: 35754

Two volumes. [1] Introduction, University Library to Lincoln College (xlvi, 742pp, 8 b&w plates). [2] Magdalen College to University College; Donors and former owners; indexes (743-1728pp). Red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, gilt device on the upper boards, with clear mylar dustwrappers. A fine clean set. ISBN 0712357602
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Confessions of a Book-Lover.

By: WALTERS, E. Walter.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Charles H. Kelly: 1913

Seller ID: 22830

Introduction by Coulson Kernahan. 138pp, publisher's advertisements. Original red cloth (silverfished, spine a little faded, lower corners lightly bumped). Top edges gilt, remaining edges untrimmed. Very light spotting and offsetting on endpapers and first and last leaves, interior clean and fresh. Good.
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Australian Rare Books 1788-1900.

By: WANTRUP, Jonathan.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Sydney, Hordern House: 1987

Seller ID: 35833

Small thick 4to. 468pp, tipped-in colour frontispiece, black & white illustrations, map endpapers. Cloth with dustwrapper (spine slightly faded, now in protective sleeve). Top edges lightly spotted; lower corners of pp325-40 a little creased; otherwise a very good clean copy. ***The definitive study.
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The Directory of Company Histories of the Book Industries.

By: WEGNER, J.P.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Beecroft NSW, Brandywine Press & Archive: 1981-1989.

Seller ID: 32641

Issued in a series of seven 'lieferung' [instalments, or issues], the first six of which are unbound sheets (205x155mm), the seventh sewn in stiff wrappers; stiff cover sheet for the series, its verso numbered 2/100 and initialled by (presumably) the editor. Fine.
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Prices of Books: an inquiry into the changes in the price of books which have occurred in England at different periods.

By: WHEATLEY, Henry B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, George Allen: 1898

Seller ID: 24682

(The Library Series, no. IV.) 275pp. Index. Original cloth. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, faint spotting on edges. Very good.
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