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We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Two specimen catalogues are highlighted below, but click "View all catalogs" to see a wider range.
Specialty:Bibliographies of Authors, Books about Books, Book Trade, Book Collecting, Bibliographies of Subjects, Library Catalogues, Theory & History of Bibliography, Rudyard Kipling
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Arquivo bibliogra fico de livros raros e curiosos impressos e manuscritos, em Diversas Linguas. Tomo 1 No. 1 [with] Tomo 1 No. 2. [ 2 vols, Livraria Lusitana, bookseller's catalogues, 1915.]
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Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Trade In a letter addressed to the author of the Bibliomania. With notes by Cato Parvus. [Presentation copy]
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A Swinburne Library : a catalogue of printed books, manuscripts and autograph letters, by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
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Biographical catalogue of the pictures at Woburn Abbey. Vol. I. {part only, presentation copy ]
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Love Let Me Not Hunger.
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Thomas de Quincey. A Bibliography based upon the De Quincey Collection in the Moss Side Library.
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Jonathan Swift: A Guide to Biographical and Critical Studies 1750-1950. An Essay Submitted to the Department of English, The University of British Columbia, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Arts by R. C. Alston
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Handbook of Fictitious Names : Being a Guide to Authors, Chiefly in the Lighter Literature of the XIXth Century, Who Have Written under Assumed Names, and to Literary Forgers, Impostors, Plagiarists, and Imitators.
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Plain Tales from the Hills. [ A single volume - Volume I- from The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling ].
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A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow.
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A Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. [Volume 1 only - special edition on handmade paper]
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The paper makers craft : verse by Oliver Bayldon ; illustrations by Rigby Graham.
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Blood Oranges.
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John Baskerville, the Birmingham Printer, His Press, Relations, and Friends. [ 2 vols, complete set ]
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A Bibliographical Catalogue of the published novels and ballads of W.H. Ainsworth.
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Petit Dictionnaire Stendhalien.
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Illustrations from the Life of Bertrand Duguesclin by Jean Cuvelier from a Manuscript of about 1400 A.D. in the Library of Henry Yates Thompson. No. C.
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Judith Paris : a novel.
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Some Noteworthy Firsts in Europe During the Fifteenth Century.
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Souvenir de l'Exposition de Manuscrits Français a Peintures Organisée a la Grenville Library (British Museum) en Janvier-Mars 1932. Etude concernant les 65 manuscrits exposés.
