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Click to enlarge Shelley (Percy Bysshe), Granniss (Ruth S.) A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM OF THE WRITINGS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. Based on a memorial exhibition held at the Grolier Club from April 20 to May 20, 1922. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. xx+134, frontispiece plus 29 plates (2 folding), index; Martino Publishing, Mansfield Centre, CT, 2001. *Originally published in New York in 1923.
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Click to enlarge Shiell (Annette), Stone (Mick) BONZER. Australian comics 1900s-1990s. Checklist compiled by Mick Stone. Pp. xii+188, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Elgua Media, Red Hill South, Victoria, 1998. First trade edition.
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Click to enlarge Short (Peter), Yamada (Akihiro) PETER SHORT: AN ELIZABETHAN PRINTER. Pp. 264+[2](colophon, blank), numerous illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index; cr. 4to; dust wrapper, slightly rubbed; Mie University Press, Mie, Japan, 2002. First edition, limited to 330 numbered copies. *Peter Short's printing house produced, among other notable works, the first two quartos of Shakespeare's Henry IV Part One and editions of The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis. Includes a list of all the books Short printed, plus reproductions of all his title page borders and decorative intials, and most of his flowers, woodcuts, and other ornamental blocks.
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Click to enlarge Sims (George) A LIFE IN CATALOGUES and other essays. Pp. [vi]+158, coloured frontispiece, black & white text illustrations; dust wrapper; Holmes Publishing Co., Philadelphia, 1994. First edition, limited to 650 copies. *The fourth in a series of autobiographical reminiscences by this English bookseller. With chapters on Ernest Dowson, John Gordon, Cyril Connolly, Christopher Millard and Charlotte Mew.
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Click to enlarge Sims (George) MORE OF THE RARE BOOK GAME. Pp. [viii]+132+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece; top fore-corner of upper board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper; Holmes Publishing, Philadelphia, 1988. First edition, limited to 650 copies. *Bookseller's reminiscences, including chapters on Martin Secker, John Buckland Wright, Max Beerbohm, the Benson papers.
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Click to enlarge Sklavenitis (Triantaphyllos E.), Staikos (Konstantinos Sp.) THE PRINTED GREEK BOOK, 15TH-19TH CENTURY. Acts of the International Congress, Delphi, 16-20 May 2001. [Text in English and Greek]. Pp. 708(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), text illustrations, the title page printed in red, brown, & black, headings printed in red, indices; thick med. 8vo; half leather, spine lettered in gilt, cream papered boards, lettered and decorated in red, brown, & black; speckled edges; Oak Knoll Press/Kotinos Publications, New Castle, 2004. First American edition, limited to 1000 copies.
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Click to enlarge Southall (Richard) PRINTER'S TYPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Manufacturing and design methods. Pp. xvi+240(last blank), text illustrations, references, index; narrow cr. 4to; dust wrapper; The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle, 2005. First edition. *Traces the evolution of type manufacture and design from hand punch-cutting through hot-metal and photographic composition to laser image-setting and the PostScript revolution.
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Click to enlarge Spawn (Willman), Kinsella (Thomas E.) AMERICAN SIGNED BINDINGS THROUGH 1876. Pp. 300(last blank), numerous text illustrations, coloured pictorial endpapers, bibliography, indices; demy 4to; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt; Oak Knoll Press/Bryn Mawr College Library, New Castle & Bryn Mawr, 2007. First edition.
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Click to enlarge Spawn (Willman), Kinsella (Thomas E.), Middleton (Bernard C., essay) TICKETED BOOKBINDINGS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. With an essay by Bernard C. Middleton. Pp. 206, illustrated in colour and black & white, indices; demy 4to; Bryn Mawr College Library/Oak Knoll Press, Bryn Mawr & New Castle, 1999. First edition.
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Click to enlarge Staikos (K. Sp.), Fleck (Robert D., introduction) , Cullen (Timothy, translator) THE MIRROR OF THE LIBRARY. Introduction to the Reader by Robert D. Fleck. Translated from the original Greek by Timothy Cullen. Pp. xii+50+[2](colophon, verso blank), printed in red & black, title page vignette, notes, index; roy. 8vo; full brown linen, pictorial paper title label, printed in red & black within gilt border, at centre of upper board, top fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised; uncut; Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, 2006. Edition limited to 900 copies; this one of 700 thus bound. *An essay on the development of the library and the impact it has had on mankind. Issued in conjunction with the 30th anniversity of Oak Knoll.
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