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Nicolas Louis Robert and His Endless Wire Papermaking Machine, With Facsimiles of the Inventor's Original Drawings of the First Paper Machine

By: Morris, Henry

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Newton, PA, Bird & Bull Press: 2000

Seller ID: CAL019

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

includes a chapter on the papermaking historian Leonard B. Schlosser; paper was first made by machine in an endless web, in France, in 1798; five original color drawings of the first machine are reproduced for this work on full-size 12" X 16 3/4" card stock are are held in a separate board portfolio; the accompanying 47p., cloth-bound book provides background material on the inventor and his machine; the portfolio and book are contained in a cloth-covered clamshell case with leather spine label; immaculate and unread.
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Vignettes Volume II: An Eclectic Assemblage of Anecdotes About Papermaking, the Private Press, Printing and Its History, Book Collecting, Numismata Typographica and Much More

By: Morris, Henry

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Newton, PA, Bird & Bull Press: 1999

Seller ID: 22317

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

No. 99 of 155 copies; As New in slipcase, with prospectus laid in; 77p., including eleven pages of black and white illustrations and two pages of color inserts; a 7 X 11" sample sheet of the original 1958 Bird & Bull handmade paper is tipped in along with twenty additional tip-ins, most of which are in color. An adjunct to the article "Better Late Than Never" is a pair of clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals. The seals date from 1900-1600 BC, and the two clay impressions, about 1 X 2" in size, are in a re...
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My Log & Diary 1994-2005: Interspersed with Anecdotes and Observations on Book Collecting, Printing, Private Presses and Other Bookish Matters

By: Morris, Henry

Price: $395.00

Publisher: Newton, Bird & Bull Press: 2005

Seller ID: CAL017

Binding: Quarter Morocco, Cloth Sides

Condition: Fine

Number 126 of 160 copies; immaculate, unread copy in slip-case, This book is a continuation of the entries of "Two Birds With One Stone", published in 1994; 106p.; Fine Condition.
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The Private Press-Man's Tale

By: Morris, Henry (compiler & editor)

Price: $160.00

Publisher: Newton, Bird & Bull Press: 1990

Seller ID: 22145

Binding: Quarter Cloth, Paper Sides

Condition: Fine

Number 20 of 150 copies; printed on Arches mouldmade paper, with text composed in Van Dijck types by Michael Bixler; a perfect, unread copy; maroon cloth spine with gilt paste-paper sides and leather spine label, bound by Barbara Blumenthal; 63pp., prospectus laid-in, along with a printed, single-sided broadside, entitled "Adlai Stevenson's Cat Bill Veto".
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Frankly, George or Letters to a Publisher from an Author Whose First Book is About to Appear

By: Morton, Charles W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1951

Seller ID: SJ5248

Binding: Green Cloth

Condition: Very Good+

Textblock is very clean and tight; no dust jacket; light shelf and corner wear. 23pp.
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Points 1874-1930; Being Extracts from a Bibliographer's Note-Book

By: Muir, Percy H.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Constable & Co., Ltd.: 1931

Seller ID: SJ5389

Binding: Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good

one of 500; lightly foxed, otherwise textblock is clean and tight. Sunned spine, small chip at head of spine, moderately edge and corner worn; no dust jacket; 168pp.; including index.
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Literary New Mexico: Essays from Book Talk

By: Myers, Dwight and Carol (editors)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, New Mexico Book League/Ancient City Press: 1998

Seller ID: SB4418

ISBN: 1580960014

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

head of the spine lightly creased, with slight spine fade, else Gift Quality; Author's ink signature on limitation page. No. 106 of 300 copies. slip case very clean and only slightly edge worn; 208pp.
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A Tourist In Spite Of Himself

By: Newton, A. Edward

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1930

Seller ID: 00085

Binding: Green Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Ex-library with minimal markings; front board illustrated; Lacks dust jacket.
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The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections

By: Newton, A. Edward

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, John Lane, the Bodley Head: 1920

Seller ID: SJ5224

Binding: Boards, Cloth Spine

Condition: Very Good

textblock is clean and tight. Lightly bumped corners; no dust jacket; 373pp., including index.
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The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections

By: Newton, A. Edward

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press: 1918

Seller ID: SB11002

Binding: Cloth Spine w/paper Boards

Condition: Very Good

Author's inked signature and inscription on ffep. Dust jacket remnants laid in. Slightly aged and toned, else textblock is clean and tight. Top edge gilt. Brown cloth spine, paper title paste down on spine, brown paper boards, minimally shelf worn. 373pp., including index.
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Manuscripts and Books on Medicine, Magic, Astrology and Natural Sciences Arranged in Chronological Order and Portraits and Autographs of Eminent Physicians and Scientists (No. 582)

By: No Author Indicated

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Maggs Bros.: 1933

Seller ID: SB6664

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Foxed textblock and binding. Else textblock is clean and tight. Several creases down the spine and slightly bumped corners. 236pp. Indices at end.
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China Born: Adventures of a Maverick Bookman

By: Noyes, Henry

Price: $8.00

Publisher: South San Francisco, California, U.S.A., China Books & Periodicals: 1989

Seller ID: C062

ISBN: 0835121984

Binding: Paper Boards

Condition: Near Fine

Clean and tight with minimal wear. DJ has slight creasing to bottom of spine and one closed-tear. 224 pp., including glossary and index.
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Ninth Report of the Free Public Library Commission of Massachusetts; Public Document No. 44

By: Olin, WM. M. (secretary)

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Company: 1899

Seller ID: SJ3799

Binding: Brick-Red Cloth

Condition: Very Good

465pp.; including list of illustrations; light to moderately foxed preliminary pages, else textblock is clean and tight; no dust jacket; spine titling faded; bumped corners, as well as head and foot of spine. Light edge wear.
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A New Chronicle of The Compleat Angler

By: Oliver, Peter

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY, The Paisley Press, Inc./Williams & Norgate Ltd.: 1936

Seller ID: SB11708

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Collectible copy; First Edition. Frontispiece with protective tissue covering. Light age toning down the front and back gutter, else textblock is very clean and tight. All page edges are crisp. 301pp., including appendix and index.
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The King James Bible Translators

By: Opfell, Olga S.

Price: $89.00

Publisher: Jefferson & London, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers: 1982

Seller ID: SB2042

ISBN: 0899500412

Binding: Grey Cloth

Condition: Very Good

retired Pikes Peak Library District copy with usual stamps, stickers, and labels; textblock is clean and tight. Light shelf wear to binding; no dust jacket; 173p., including bibliograpy and index.
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Oral Book Reviewing: A Practical Gujide in Technique for Lecture and Broadcast

By: Oppenheimer, Evelyn

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Metuchen NJ, The Scarecrow Press, Inc.: 1980

Seller ID: 09937

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Former library book with usual stamps and markings. Book block clean and tight; Binding rubbed; edges and corners bumped, lightly scuffed.
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L'art de vivre en sante Images et recettes du moyen age: Le Tacuinum Sanitatis (manuscript 1041) de la Bibliotheque de l'Universite de Liege

By: Opsomer, Carmelia

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Editions Du Perron: 1991

Seller ID: SB7149

ISBN: 2871140545

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Text in French. A beautiful copy! Immaculately clean and tight textblock. Dark green cloth with gilt letting stamped on front and spine. Unclipped, lightly edge-worn dust jacket with chip to foot of spine and couple small tears to head of spine, mylar sleeved. 207p.
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Illuminatied Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford: 2 Italian School

By: Pacht, Otto; Alexander, J. J. G.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press: 1970

Seller ID: SB993

ISBN: 198171692

Binding: Blue Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Textblock and binding is very clean and tight. Unclipped dust jacket with edge tear on back cover near head of spine; jacket edges worn, spine sunned; 161p., including indexes. Plates at end.
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