Category: Books about Books

Complete except for vols 5 & 16; no dust jackets & ex libris Washington University, St.Louis (Library stamp on inside cover & cat.No on spine). All volumes are internally clean and unmarked - covers are faded but title and volume no.clearly legible. Price reflects two missing volumes Complete; no dust jackets & ex libris Washington University, St.Louis (Library stamp on inside cover & cat.No on spine). All volumes are internally clean and unmarked - covers are faded but title and volume number clearly legible. Very heavy, and will ship only within the USA; please enquire mailing cost before ...
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Phillip J. Pirages Catalogue Forty-Eight: Fine Books and Manuscripts [48]

By: Various

Price: $14.71

Publisher: McMinnville: January 9999

Seller ID: 54411

ISBN: B005ELXRRS

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most

By: Various

Price: $7.06

Publisher: Berkley Trade: May 2000

Seller ID: 130350

ISBN: 0425172945

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Le LIvre; Paris 1972

By: various

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Biblioteque Nationale: 1972

Seller ID: 231424

ISBN: 281BYD1092966

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century: Contributions Towards a Literary History of the Period (two volumes)

By: W. Robertson Nicoll and Thomas J. Wise (eds.)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hodder & Staughton: 1895

Seller ID: 240870

ISBN: 281BYD1097067

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Two volumes large 8vo, titles in gilt. Vol. I 1895, Vol. II 1896; bindings not uniform. Just Good copies: spines faded, scattered soiling to the cloth, bindings ever so slightly shaken, front hinge of Vol. I cracked.
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The Plot of Bartolome Pages

By: W. Thomas Taylor

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Author: 1990

Seller ID: 240828

ISBN: 281BYD1097050

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

One of 500 copies printed letterpress by the author. A Fine copy.
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The Fortsas Bibliohoax

By: Walter Klinefelter

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Woolly Whale Press: 1942

Seller ID: 240847

ISBN: 281BYD1097058

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

8vo in 1/4 cloth and patterned paper-covered boards. The colophon says 'Composed in the Centaur type designed by Bruce Rogers, an edition of 200 copies has been printed on Whitehead & Alliger All Rag paper by George W. Van Vechten, Jr., the title page decoration was especially desinged by Fritz Kredel. This volume undertaken in the latter part of 1940, has been completed in January 1942.' A Fine copy in clear plastic jacket.
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The History of a Hoax: Edmund Lester Person, John Cotton Dana, and The Old Librarian's Almanack

By: Wayne Wiegand

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Beta Phi Mu: 1979

Seller ID: 240843

ISBN: 281BYD1097055

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Forging Ahead: The True Story of the Upward Progress of Thomas James Wise, Prince of Book Collectors, Bibliographer Extraordinary, and Otherwise

By: Wilfred Partington

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Putnam's: 1939

Seller ID: 240842

ISBN: 281BYD1097054

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

8vo in orange boards. Very Good, lacking the dustjacket, spine mildly sunned.
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Thomas J. Wise in the Original Cloth

By: Wilfred Partington

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: 1946

Seller ID: 240866

ISBN: 281BYD1097064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

8vo in red cloth, gilt title and devices. Just a Good copy: spine faded, front hinge cracked.
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Books for Living

By: Will Schwalbe

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Knopf: December 2016

Seller ID: 218547

ISBN: 0385353545

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ex-library.
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In Quest of the Perfect Book

By: William Dana Orcutt

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Little, Brown: 1926

Seller ID: 202329

ISBN: 9110814663

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

First impression of the first trade edition.Very Good or better: very light rubbing at the corners and spine ends, text block modestly toned, p.o. signature on the front free endpaper, binding tight and square.
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