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EARLY HULL PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS. An Account of the Printing, Bookselling and Allied Trades from their Beginnings to 1840.
Kingston-upon-Hull City Council, 1982. Softback with plastic ring spine. 274, lxxxiv pages. Illustrated. Quarto. A very good copy.
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS The Man Who Created Tarzan. Introduction by Ray Bradbury.
Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1975. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Second printing. A fine copy. This book is very heavy and will incur extra postal charges; please contact us directly for a shipping quote. info@davidmilesbooks.com
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EDWARD ARDIZZONE. A Bibliographic Commentary.
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 2003. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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Festival of Britain. Catalogue of an Exhibition of 20th-Century Scottish Books at The Mitchell Library Glasgow.
Glasgow: Scottish Committee of the Festival of Britain, 1951. Softcover. 310 pages. Illustrated. Original decorative covers. Octavo. Name on endpaper, and small reference number at foot of spine; little bumped; else very good.
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History of the Horn-Book. Illustrated. In two volumes.
London: Published by the Leadenhall Press, 1896. Large 8vo. Five of seven replica horn books are enclosed in special compartments, as issued. Loosely laid in publisher's printed slip in volume II advising on the storage of the vellum bindings, ‘away from a fire and under weight, until the vellum binding is perfectly set, which will not be for some weeks.’ Lacks two of the card hornbooks in volume II; vellum bowed; else a very good, clean set of the scarce first edition.
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JAMES JOYCE A Catalogue of His Works.
London.Melvin Rare Books. No date [circa 1950]. 80 items catalogued. Original red wrappers. A fine copy. Change of address card for Melvin Rare Books loosely laid in.
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JOHN BELL, Patron of British Theatrical Portraiture. A Catalog of the Theatrical Portraits in His Editions of Bell's Shakespeare and Bell's British Theatre.
Southern Illinois University Press, 1998. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 286 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original blue cloth, silver gilt. Original Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy.
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John Gould THE BIRDMAN A Chronology and Bibliography.
Melbourne, Sydney, New York, London: Lansdowne Editions, 1982. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper. This book is heavy and may incur extra postal charges. Contact us directly for a shipping quote. info@davidmilesbooks.com
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JOHN NEWBERY AND HIS SUCCESSORS 1740 - 1814.
Wormley.Five Owls Press. 1973. xxxi, [1], 461pp. Tipped-in reproduction of Dutch Floral paper as frontispiece. Illustrated with black& white plates and illustrations within the text. Original cloth gilt. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. As new.
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Kendrew of York and his chapbooks for children with checklist.
The Elmete Press, 1988. Limited to 485 copies, this is number 203. A fine copy contained together with a folder containing three facsimile chapbooks, both contained in a cardboard slipcase.
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KING PENGUINS.
Oxford Polytechnic, 1980. 32 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Octavo. No 6 of a limited edition of only 50 copies inscribed and signed by the author. A fine copy.
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List of The BOOKS OF REFERENCE in The Reading Room of The British Museum. Third edition, revised.
Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1889. 475 [1] pages. Folding plan at start, plus one other. Contemporary pebbled cloth, gilt. Octavo. Head, heel and joint of spine worn, also corners; some light spotting. Presentation Stamp from the Trustees of the British museum to title-page; else very good.
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NOTES ON JOSEPH CONRAD with some unpublished letters.
London: Myers and Co, 1926. 38pp. plus colophon. Portrait frontispiece. Number106 of a limited edition of 250 copies signed by Symons. Original quarter buckram, gilt over grey paper-covered boards with a mounted label on upper cover. Bookplate of former owner. A fine copy with a spare label tipped-in at end.
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PAMPHLET BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Reader's Guide. National Book League.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1948. 22pp. Vignettes on title and cover by Joan Hassall. Ownership name; else a fine copy.
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PARIS IN THE TWENTIES. An Exhibition of Souvenirs of British, French and American Writers, from Shakespeare and Company.
London: Usis Gallery, 1960. 19 pages, including four of reproductions of photographs with printed tissue guards. Original pictorial stapled wrappers. Some light spotting on covers; else a very good copy of a scarce catalogue.
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PENNY PLAIN TWO PENCE COLOURED. A History of the Juvenile Drama. With a Foreword by Charles B. Cochran and Eighty-three Illustrations.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1932. First edition. Re-bound, sometime in the last century, in half morocco gilt over marbles boards. First edition. A very handsome copy.
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RARE & VALAUBLE COLOURED PLATE BOOKS & an extensive Cruikshank Collection from the Library of Sir David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern Salomons, Bart. Parts 1 & 2.
New York: American Art Association, 1930. Both parts with their original wrappers bound as one in cloth backed boards gilt. Corners a little worn; else a very good copy of this important Cruikshank reference.
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RÉGI MAGYAR GYERMEKKÖNYVEK 1538-1875.
Budapest: A Magyar Bibliophil Társaság Kiadása, 1538. Softcover. 133, [2]. Illustrated. Number 346 of a limited edition of 400 copies. Covers a little worn, with a small loss of paper to the heel of spine; else a very good copy of this work on the children's books of Hungary.
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RODOLPHE TOPFFER The Complete Comic Strips. Compiled, translated, and annotated by David Kunzle.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Hardcover. 650 pages. A fine copy.
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SCENERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey. A Biographical Catalogue. LIFE IN ENGLAND in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey.. Architecture, Drawing Books. Art Collections. Magazines. Navy and Army. Panoramas. Etc. TRAVEL in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860 from the Library of J. R. Abbey. Volume I World, Europe, Africa. Volume II Asia, Oceania, Antarctica, America.
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1972. Four hardback volumes, all near fine in original dust-wrappers. An excellent set.
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