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Asten-Hill Mfg. Co. The Story of Yang-Yin, The Chinese Symbol Adopted for The Asten Dryer Felt Trademark. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Asten-Hill, 1940. 4to (large book). Unpaged. Illustrations. Printed on left-hand side of double-folded pages. Very good pictorial rice-paper on stiff wrappers (soft cover), bound with string. #16509. $17.50
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Banks, W. H., editor. Halftone Printing. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of Printing Research Institutes held in London, 1963. New York: Macmillan, 1964. 1st edition. xii, 423 pages. Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations. Advances in Printing Science and Technology, 8. A Pergamon Press Book. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps on top, fore and bottom edges, stamp inside front cover, on copyright page; pocket inside rear cover. #26361. $25
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Belknap, George. Oregon Imprints, 1845-1870. Eugene: University of Oregon Books, 1968. 305 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper illustrations. Very good pictorial green and black hardcover in Very good brown dust jacket. #16503. $12.50
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Berger, Abraham, Lawrence Marwick, and Isidore S. Meyer, editors. The Joshua Block Memorial Volume: Studies in Booklore and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1960. 1st printing. xix, 219 pages. Index. Bibliography. Inscribed by Berger. Includes a bibliography of the writings of Joshua Bloch. Good hardcover. #19460. $40
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Bible. Old Testament. Psalms. English. Authorized. 1936. The Psalms of David. Decorated by Valenti Angelo. Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, 1936. 1 of 950 copies printed on Linweave paper at the Walpole Printing Office, Mount Vernon, N.Y., signed by Valenti Angelo. 16mo (small book). 282 pages. Decorations. Slightly worn, but good hardcover. #23714. $75
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Book of the Dead. The Book of the Dead: A Collection of Spells. Edited and translated by Raymond O. Faulkner. New York: Printed for Members of The Limited Editions Club at the Curwen Press in London, 1972. Copy 93 of an edition of 1500. 4to (large books). 2 volumes. (xxv, 157, [1] pages, [1] accordion folded leaf of color plates. Volume 1: Texts; Volume 2: Plates. Translation from the Ani papyri manuscripts in the British Museum. Very good pictorial cloth bindings in glassine wrappers in slightly rubbed and worn slipcase. #25695. $140
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Bradford, Ralph. Bright Star and Other Sonnets of the Christ Story. Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, 1953. 30 pages. Illustrations. 'Designed by Ralph Patterson and supervised by John H. Davis at the Printing House of Judd & Detweiler, Inc., Washington, D.C., December, 1953.' - Colophon. Good hardcover. #16185. $27.50
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Bradford, Ralph. Reprieve: A Christmas Story of 1863. Drawings by Charles Dunn. Washington: Printing House of Rufus H. Darby, 1940. 1st edition. Small 4to (medium-large book). 52 pages. Illustrations. Signed by Lester Douglas on colophon. This first edition ... designed and directed by Lester Douglas, has been printed under the supervision of Otis H. Johnson at the Printing House of Rufus H. Darby. - Colophon. Very good hardcover in glassine wrapper. #17500. $12.50
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Bradford, Ralph. Three Men of Persia. Drawings by Charles Dunn. Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, 1935. 1 of 650 copies. Small 4to (medium-large book). 72 pages. Illustrations. Printed pictorial 'Greeting ' with Lester Douglas's name laid in. Designed and directed by Lester Douglas, printed under the supervision of John Davis at the Printing House of Judd & Detweiler, Inc. in Washington, December 1935. Good hardcover, edges slightly sunned. #17525. $20
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Braunworth & Co., Brooklyn, N.Y. The Braunworth Type Book, Showing Monotype and Linotype Faces, Special Characters, Accents, Borders, Ornaments, and Complicated type Settings. Brooklyn, New York: Braunworth, 1931. xii, 353 pages. Presentation copy No. 213. Very good hardcover, covers slightly worn and mottled. #23495. $30
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Clapperton, George. Practical Paper-Making. A Manual for Paper-Makers and Owners and Managers of Paper Mills. To Which are Appended Useful Tables, Calculations, Data. Etc. London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1929. 3d edition, revised and partly re-written. Second impression. 12mo (small book). xii, 220 pages. Index. Illustrations. Lockwood's Manuals. Good hardcover. #24080. $20
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Cordier, Mathurin, 1479-1564. Corderii Colloquiorum Centuria Selecta: or a Select Century... English Translation ... by John Clarke. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1777. 22d edition. 170 pages. 17 centimeters. Evans Suppl. mp.43240. Leather. Lacks front and rear endpapers. #15658. $140
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Craig, Ellen Gordon, edited and introduction by Edward Craig. Edward Gordon Craig: The Last Eight Years, 1958-1966. Letter from Ellen Gordon Craig. 2 woodcuts by John Craig. Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, England: Whittington Press, 1983. Copy 173 of 345. Large 8vo (regular size). 49 pages. Illustrations. Frontispiece signed by Edward Craig. Marbled hardcover binding. Fine. ISBN 0904845370. #15873. $150
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Crombie, John, designed and written by. Only Connect. Paris: Kickshaws, 1984. Copy 195 of 300. Oblong 8vo. No pagination. A portfolio of 32 interleaved pages sown into self-wrapping covers. Hand set and printed in Nicolas Cochin on Arches rag paper. Very good self wrappers in Very good slipcase. #24091. $110
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Cushing, George H. The Human Story of Coal. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1924. 121 pages. Very good hardcover with paper title label on front cover. #17831. $22.50
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Diringer, David. The Alphabet: A Key to the History of Mankind. Revised with the assistance of Reinhold Regensburger. Foreword by Ellis Minns. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. 3d edition, completely revised in two volumes. 2 volumes. (xxi, 473; 452 pages). Index. Bibliographical references. Illustrations (in volume 2). A history of writing systems, including non-alphabet writing, such as the great systems of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China and Central America, and the various ideographic systems. Good hardcover books. Exlibrary. Spine labels removed, leaving some clear tape on edges; raised blind stamp on title pages, stamps on top and bottom edges, Contents page; barcode label and pocket on rear free endpaper of both volumes. #24985. $70
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Eckel, John C. The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens, Their Points and Values. A Bibliography. New York: Maurice Inman; London: Maggs Brothers, 1932. Copy 715 of 750 printed on Strathmore Emissary paper. Revised and enlarged. xvi, 272 pages. Index. Frontispiece. Illustrations and Facsimile title pages. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Small chip in bottom of tissue guard sheet between frontispiece and title page. Backstrip of dust jacket sunned. Top-edge gilt. In slightly worn and faded plain slipcase. #22244. $175
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Friedman, Joan M. Color Printing in England, 1468-1870. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1978. Small 4to (medium-large book). ix, 72 pages. 72 pages of color and black-and-white plates. Index. An Exhibition, 20 April to 25 June 1978. Decorative stiff paper wrappers. Very good. ISBN 0930606124. #17955. $60
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Funk, Wilfred. Selections from Love, Life and Laughter. No place: No publisher, No date. 12mo (small book). 32 pages. Printed note on page following flyleaf: 'Merry Christmas, Eleanor and Fred Funk'. At bottom of title page: Copyright, 1942, by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Very good cloth-covered hardcover with paper title label in worn and slightly torn original glassine wrappers. #17574. $17.50
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Funk, Wilfred. Two Travelers in Spain. New York?: Funk & Wagnalls? [Privately Printed?], No date. 12mo (small book). 30 pages. This book lacks a formal title page. No copies located in either Library of Congress or New York Public Library. 'Christmas Greetings ... Some years ago ... we took a journey through Spain. These rough notes give a few reflections of the splendors that we saw, but we send them to you with best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.' Signed in ink 'Eleanor and Wilfred Funk.' - Preliminary page. Very good green hardcover with paper cover label. #17566. $25
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