Sherlock Meredith (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Burwood, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 2009. Large octavo, 268 pages with several tables and illustrations plus a colour frontispiece. Colour-pictorial card covers; a fine copy. 'Script and Print' Special Issue, Volume 33, Numbers 1-4. Harold Love (1937-2007), 'Australian literary historian, critic, and editor, especially of the literature of Restoration England' (Oxford Reference website).

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 271pp. Colour frontispiece portrait and b/w ills. Fine. 1st ed. "Ian Willison, whose professional life was spent in the British Museum Library, played a leading part in the development of book history studies in the English-peaking world.

4to (25.5x17.5cm), hardback, x + 273pp. Very good condition in good+ dustwrapper (light wear, a little bumped and creased at lower right front edge). Mild wear only. A selection of essays and studies by some of Willison's many friends, colleagues annd associates in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Germany.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 54 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Purina Poultry Chows inside front cover; Comment by E.T. Meredith; Our Vacation by the Gasoline Route - great photo-illustrated article about vacationing with car and tent; How I Built My Home in Spare Time - photo-illustrated article by Frank I. Hanson; How to Grow Asters Successfully; Perfect Privacy with Lattice Fences - photo-illustrated article; Have You Tried These Vegetables? - Cardoons, a variety of eggplant, a Japanese burdock, rocket salad, Chinese white cabbage, Shui-Tsai - with photos; Electricity in the Small Home; Radio is making the home the most interesting place to be; How We Finished Our Dream House - article with photos; Houses of Famous Americans - photo-illustrated article about "Hardscrabble" - the cabin home of Ulysses S. Grant; A Backyard Garden in June - with suggestiions for your city lot; The Society of Little Gardens - photo-illustrated article about an organization fostering the correct improvement of yards; Growing Sweet Corn Successfully; Nice one-page ad for Johnson's Polishing Wax; Tips to make your June work count; Nice one-page ad for Hupmobile cars; Great vintage one-page ad for Goodrich Silvertown Cord Tires; Successful Home Canning of Vegetables - article with photos; Half-page ad for The New Overland car; How to Adjust Your (Push) Lawn Mower - great illustrated article; How to build your own garage - illustrated article; Ads for oak flooring and the use of birch wood in homes; 2/3-page ad for The Davenport Bed; Has Music Led Us Astray?; The Novel of the Year - 'Trodden Gold'; Summer Care of Growing Stock (chickens); Nice half-page Coke ad; Two Compfortable Home Plans; Faust Coffee ad; Ad for the Iron Horse Cold Pack Canner; Illustrated embroidery article; Nice photo-illustrated one-page ad for Munsingwear underwear for ladies; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Dolly Gray of New York; Inside back cover is a fantastic two-color illustrated ad for Harris Brothers Co. of Chicago who sell many home building products; Nice back cover ad for the New Phaeton Reo car (partially covered by address label). Above-average wear. Coverfold mostly open. A worthy vintage copy.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Hinton (cover illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. 50 pages. Features: Charming cover illustration of children with wishbone; Color ad for Purina chicken chow inside front cover; Nice one-page ad for Victrolas features illustrations of Geraldine Farrar, Gigli and Heifetz; Photo-illustrated article on the John and Prisciilla Alden House at Duxbury, MA, near Plymouth; How the Center-Soll Community has brought its neighborhood together - photo-illustrated article; Amaryllis - a Desirable House Plant; Two subscribers tell how they financed their own homes - article by Rebecca Du Pont and Charles A. Hartley; Good seed potatoes for the home garden; Shrub suggestions for southern gardens - article with photos; Screening the undesireable; "Edgevale" flat-roof house plan; Hot water heaters; Nice 'Say it with Flowers' one-page ad appears to be a predecessor to FTD ads; Books for use and decoration; An Old-Time Thanksgiving Dinner; 2/3-page ad encouraging people to buy land in Canada; How to Buy and Cook Meats; The What and How of Veal; Backyard fruit experiences; A chicken ranch in a loft; Music for every home - Music from the air; Embroideries suitable for gift or bazaar. Above-average wear and soiling. Covers present - almost detached. Openings to page 10. Center page loose but present. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue.; Magazine; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, November 1924, Vol. 3, No. 3 - The John Alden Home children with wishbone; Color ad for Purina chicken chow inside front cover; Nice one-page ad for Victrolas features illustrations of Geraldine Farrar, Gigli and Heifetz.

First Edition. Pp. x+274(last blank), coloured frontispiece portrait, black & white text illustrations; med. 8vo; blue boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Centre for the Book, Monash University, Melbourne, 2007. First edition. *'Ian Willison, whose professional life was spent in the British Museum Library, later the British Library, has played a leading part in the development of book-history studies in the English-speaking world . The present volume brings together a selection of essays and studies by some of Willison's many friends, colleagues and associates . The topics covered - on book history, libraries, archives and scholarship - reflect the breadth of his interests and the scope of his curiosity' [wrapper blurb].