Bibliography, Proof Copies and Book Production

Henry James - The Standard Bibliography

Bibliography of Henry James, Third Edition, for sale

Leon Edel and Dan H. Laurence

A Bibliography of Henry James Third Edition

The Soho Bibliographies published by The Clarendon Press
  8vo. 428 pages.  Internally clean and crisp.  The top edge marked when the book closed.
 In the publisher’s cloth, very good.  The dust jacket clean, with a little wear and creasing around the edges.
 

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Price: £16.00
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Pre-publication Proof. Rupert Hart-Davis, publisher

Pre-publication Proof. Rupert Hart-Davis, publisher

Cowper, William

Poetry and Prose.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968.

PUBLISHER'S PROOF. 8vo. 1020 pages. Bound in the publisher's printed paper wrappers. A few handwritten corrections to the introduction. Page numbers in the notes and the Index to 'Cowper's Circle' not inserted. Printed on much thicker paper than the published copies producing a book 10 cm thick. Read more about Pre-publication Proof. Rupert Hart-Davis, publisher

Price: £35.00
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Wise, Thomas & Wheeler S. A Bibliography of ….Walter Savage Landor

London, for the Bibliophile Society, 1919
8vo. (cm), xxiv+422+(4) pages with 12 plates. Slight browning and very slight creasing to a few pages and half a dozen pages with a few small patches of foxing, in no way affecting legibility. Bound in the original binding, grey paper covering the boards and a tan cloth spine with the title etc. in black. Slight wear to the corners, but in very good .condition. £75 Read more about Wise, Thomas & Wheeler S. A Bibliography of ….Walter Savage Landor

Price: £50.00
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Amis, Martin. London Fields .

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The Year-Boke of the Sett of Odd Volumes. 1906-7.

London, for private circulation, 1910. Small 8vo. (14.5x10.5cm), (ii)+xiv+206+(ii) pages, 12 illustrations. Generally very clean, but a crease to the blank corner of the last illustration. Bound in the original gray paper cover, worn on the spine and split for approximately 5cm along the front hinge. Very light marking on the fore-edge of the book penetrating as very small patches of foxing on the blank margins of a few leaves.
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John Donne – Keynes, Goeffrey A Bibliography of John Donne

Cambridge, The University Press, 1932
Limited to 350 copies. 4to. (26 x 19 cm), xvi + 196 pages, a total of 37 illustrations + a vignette portrait on the title page. Very slight foxing and very slight darkening and creasing to the very edge of the preliminary leaves, but generally a fine copy. In the publisher ’ s black cloth binding, decorated in red, the title in gilt on the spine, generally in fine condition, apart from slight bumping at the top of the spine and a small dent in the bottom edge of the front board. Read more about John Donne – Keynes, Goeffrey A Bibliography of John Donne

Price: £80.00

Diaghilev-Lifar Library

Diaghilev-Lifar Library

Monaco: Sotheby-Parke Benet, 1975. Large 8vo. (25.5 x 19 cm), 275 pages, numerous illustrations. A very fine copy in the original binding, slightly worn at the head and the foot of the spine, with the list of prices realised inserted (the price list folded once vertically). Read more about Diaghilev-Lifar Library

Price: £35.00

A Priced Catalogue of the Whole Stock of Theological Books, for the Most Part Secondhand, of the late firm of Dixon and Higham…

A Priced Catalogue of the Whole Stock of Theological Books, for the Most Part Se

A Priced Catalogue of the Whole Stock of Theological Books, for the Most Part Secondhand, of the late firm of Dixon and Higham…

London, Charles Higham, 1878

Limited to 50 copies on thick paper; this is copy number 12, originally presented to Sion College Library, which was dispersed.

Large 8vo. (24.5x15cm), 8 unnumbered pages+216 pages of text, listing 9,670 books. Generally very clean, the pages slightly browned, the endpaper, half title and title page a little marked and the library stamp on the back of the title page. Read more about A Priced Catalogue of the Whole Stock of Theological Books, for the Most Part Secondhand, of the late firm of Dixon and Higham…

Price: £150.00
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Unrecorded Catalogue of Remainders from 1943

Remainder Centre Ltd. Catalogue, for sale

Catalogue of Books of World Wide Interest from Remainder Centre Ltd.

Remainder Centre Ltd. London, 1943

The date is not stated on the catalogue. A book advertised on the back cover is ’Published pre-war’ and inside the front cover this catalogue is numbered 1/43.

This is a fascinating insight into the history of the distribution of remaindered books. The catalogue, which I have never seen before, states specifically that it is for retail customers, and a loose order form is enclosed at the front. Read more about Unrecorded Catalogue of Remainders from 1943

Price: £20.00
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Catalogue of Antiquarian Bibles

Catalogue Antiquarian Bibles

The Oscotian Catalogue of the Old Library Part II: The Bible Collections

New Oscott, St. Marry’s Seminary, 1971
  1st edition.  Paperback, in the original wrappers (24x18cm), xxii + 208 pages.
  Internally crisp and clean.  The wrappers solid, but with some light wear and marking, including a small piece missing at the top of the spine.
  An interesting catalogue of Bibles and related books, from an important Roman Catholic library with useful annotations to the entries.
 

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Price: £17.50
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