Of The Uses of Books
Jackson, Holbrook
Publication Date: 1936
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. 8vo, 29 pp. Text printed within red borders; marginal notes and illustrations printed in blue. Quarter red cloth and blue paper-covered boards. Board corners lightly worn, text unmarked; a very good copy. § A chapter taken from Jackson's longer work The Anatomy of Bibliomania, first published in 1930, here attractively reprinted by The Limited Editions Club and presented to its members as a New Year's offering. Jackson discusses wryly the many things we do with books, other than sit down and read them. Seller Inventory # 125074
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Title: Of The Uses of Books
Publication Date: 1936
Binding: Hardcover
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Of the Uses of Books
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The Limited Editions Club, 1937
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Hardcover
Seller: The Old Sage Bookshop, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Hardcover with red cloth spine; boards covered in blue wave-patterned paper; 30 pages; unnumbered limited edition of 1500. Very good minus condition: spine and edges of boards faded; wear to edges of boards with some loss of paper; straight; hinges strong; clean and unmarked. Publisher's bifold laid oin. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 131386
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Of the Uses of Books.
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The Limited Editions Club, [New York, 1937
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Hardcover
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Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
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29 [1] pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed decorated boards, in chipped glassine wrapper. First separate edition; one of 1500 copies. Some light use to edges of boards; plain glassine wrapper chipped. Publisher's flyer laid in. Seller Inventory # 78260
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OF THE USES OF BOOKS
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Limited Editions Club, 1937
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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
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First Edition. OF THE USES OF BOOKS, Limited Editions Club, 1937, first edition, some wear to the fore edge corner tips, lightening to the boards fore edges and top page edges, else a tight vg+ in a somewhat worn and chipped glassine dust-wrapper. 1/1,500 copies. Seller Inventory # 14557
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OF THE USES OF BOOKS
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Limited Editions Club ( 1937 ), No place, 1937
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Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frederic Warde (illustrator). 1st Separate edition. 8vo, 29 pages, clothbacked pastepaper boards, tips worn Limited to 1500 copies. Excerpted from THE ANATOMY OF BIBLIOMANIA. Seller Inventory # DEMO001249I
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Of the Uses of Books
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Limited Editions Club
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Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
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Condition: Used - Very Good. 1937. Half cloth over paper-covered boards, 29 pp., illus. One of 1500 copies printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club. Printed by Helen Macy using Goudy type. Some edgewear to boards; internally very nice. Seller Inventory # Q04247
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On the Uses of Books
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The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1937
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Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Published. Limited Edition. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1937 29 pp. "Of the Uses of Books" is one amusing and informative part of one chapter out of the two-volume work by Holbrook Jackson, "The Anatomy of Bibliomania" published by The Soncino Press in London in 1930. This elegantly printed and annotated book was sent as a Christmas present to members of The Limited Editions Club in 1937. A slip greeting members is enclosed. Text is clean, tight, unmarked. Purple boards with red cloth spine are sun-faded, as is spine. There are two puncture wounds in the back board that dent but don't penetrate the last few pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition. Decorative Paper. Good/No Jacket as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Privately Printed. Seller Inventory # 300113
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Of the Uses of Books
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The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1937
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Hardcover
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Seller: North Books: Used & Rare, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. First Edition, Limited to 1500 copies. 7.25 x 9.5in. 29pp. Publisher's spine cloth over paper-covered boards. VERY GOOD. Shows the edges somewhat shelf rubbed with surface losses, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured. Seller Inventory # 31557
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OF THE USES OF BOOKS
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Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
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Large 8vo, pp. 29. One of 1500 copies, sent to Club members as a New Year's gift. Paper over boards. Edges little worn, slightly worped, o/w VG. A part of a chapter from The anatomy of bibliomania. Seller Inventory # 34113
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Of the uses of books by Holbrook Jackson.
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{Helen & George Macy}, [New York], 1957
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Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
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"One hundred and fity copies of this printing are presented to their friends by Helen and George Macy to greet the New Year 1937"-- Colophon. Good condition, in worn gray cloth, padded front cover. Seller Inventory # 46851
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Of the Uses of Books
Published by
The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1937
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Hardcover
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering and purple patterned paper over boards. 29pp. Decorations; text pages ruled in red with margin notes printed in blue. Very good. Boards per usual a bit edgeworn, though internally tight and fine. Nice copy of this "Special Publications" volume of the LEC, an extract from Jackson's popular 1930 "The Anatomy of Bibliomania" -- an amusing essay on alternative uses for books. This copy bears a iunique frontispiece, for tipped in facing the title page is a fine, heavy stock leaf, a facsimile of a 16th century woodblock engraving depicting a medieval gent (likely clergy) writing in a book in his library while rows of persons seated behind him hold up open books, caption beneath reading "Gentlemen look more like gentlemen when fine books are spread out in rich magnificence before them." Verso of this high-quality prints notes, "Woodblock from 'Decretum Gratiani' printed by Francois Fradin, Lyons. c. 1510" and "Text from 'Bibliophobia, or Remarks on the Present Depression in the State of Literature and the Book Trade, 1832' by Thomas Frognall Dibdin" (source of this modern print unknown). Rear colophon notes limitation of 1500 copies "presented to the members of The Limited Editions Club by the Directors of the Club to greet them at the New Year." NEWMAN A-8. Seller Inventory # 49918
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