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    The Printing of Books

    Jackson, Holbrook

    The 1938 first edition, in brown cloth boards with a black cloth spine and gold lettering. The rare "somewhat interesting" ex library copy, this ...

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    The Improper Bohemians

    Churchill, Allen

    A curious little volume chronicling the rich literary life of Greenwich Village in from 1912-1932, including the exploits of Edna St. Vincent Milla...

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    I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

    Snider, Grant

    A charming book of one and two-page literary-themed comics. Fine in bright orange boards with a die cut revealing a man peering out through a bookc...

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    The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the Brtitish Spy Ring in Wartime Washington

    Conant, Jennet

    First printing of this look at the complex life of the beloved children's author. Dahl served in the military during the first part of his life and...

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    Roald Dahl: A Biography

    Treglown, Jeremy

    Stated first edition, price-clipped, in very nice condition. Some bumping to top edge of book and jacket. Section of glossy photos in center of boo...

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    P.G. Wodehouse: A life in letters

    Ratcliffe, Sophie

    Certainly fascinating for the Wodehouse fan, this is an extensive collection of letters ranging from the author's school days in the early 1900s to...

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    The Fabulous Originals: Lives of Extraordinary People Who Inspired Memorable Characters in Fiction

    Wallace, Irving

    Wallace's first book, he would go on to write wildly popular novels throughout the 60s and 70s. This book looks at such figures as Alexander Selkir...

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    Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England

    Summit, Jennifer

    A quite nice copy of this book examining the role of early libraries in medieval and early modern England, and what that would later mean for the m...

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    Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World

    De Hamel, Christopher

    A lovely copy of this title, with exceptional full color plates from 12 of the most significant medieval texts on record. First U.S. printing, fi...

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    The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read

    Kelly, Stuart

    A curious work from an author who's earliest years saw him becoming a completist collector of assorted types of books. This volume offers brief ess...

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    Seeing: Doubletakes

    Robert, Francois

    Signed. Similar to the photographer's title "Faces", this features color and b&w photos of everyday objects that appear to the viewer as faces....

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    Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and Modernism

    McLees, Ainslie Armstrong

    An examination of the boundary-stretching use of language by Baudelaire--he argues that he adapts aspects of caricature for use in his poetry. Firs...

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    Rupert Brooke

    Hassall, Christopher

    Nice clean copy of Hassall's biography of the poet Rupert Brooke. Rust colored cloth with gold lettering to spine. No jacket, first American editio...

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    The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960

    Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher

    Fine unread copy of a look at the experience of expatriate wrters in Paris in the post-war years. Includes anecdotes of Richard Wright, James Baldw...

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    Reflections of a Jacobite

    Auchincloss, Louis

    Auchincloss essays on major literary figures, including Wharton, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Geroge Eliot, Proust, Trollope and Tolstoy. Jacket ve...

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    So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

    Nelson, Sara

    Writer and editor Sara Nelson sets out to catalog a year of her reading, and figure out what it all means. This is a first printing, fine in a fine...

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    Sir John Tenniel (English Masters of Black-and-White)

    Sarzano, Frances

    Quite nice copy of this slim octavo volume, which contains many reproductions from Tenniel's work, focusing on the Alice in Wonderland pieces. Some...

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    Song of Love: The Letters of Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier, 1909-1915

    Harris, Pippa (ed.)

    The letters of poet Rupert Brooke and the schoolgirl with whom he was infatuated, collected by Noel Olivier's granddaughter. This is a very clean c...

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    The Booklover's Almanac

    Brittain, Robert

    The author identified a significant literary event for each day of the year, and chooses an appropriate text to accompany it. With woodcut illustra...

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    Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend

    Fullbrook, Kate; Fullbrook, Edward

    This look at Sartre and Beauvoir's life alleges that many of the key ideas offered by the couple originated with Beauvoir and not Sartre. Very good...

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    Unknown Masterpieces: Writers Rediscover Literature's Hidden Classics

    Frank, Edwin, ed.

    Significant authors contribute essays about favorite overlooked books. Includes pieces from Arthur Danto, Jonathan Lethem, Toni Morrison, Francine ...

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    Richard Doyle: His Life and Work (English Masters of Black-and-White)

    Hambourg, Daria

    Apparent first U.S. Very good, but for oddly creased FFEP--otherwise, just a little yellowed, w/slightly more pronounced discoloration to rear free...

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    E. J. Sullivan (English Masters of Black-and-White)

    Thorpe, James

    No year, apparent first U.S. Light brown boards w/gilt spine lettering, bright green paper wraps Slight damage to front flap where it partially adh...

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    George Cruikshank. His Life and Work as a Book Illustrator (English Masters of Black-and-White).

    McLean, Ruari

    Apparent first U.S. printing of this entry in the "English Masters of Black-And-White". Cruikshank illustrated any number of classics, including Di...

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