[Rarebooks] FS - 12 valuable, but affordable, reference items

[Pia Oliver]

12 great reference books, all on different topics, picked only with 
affordability in mind :)

Pia




BAILEY, J.O. Pilgrims Through Space and Time. Trends and Patterns in 
Scientific and Utopian Fiction. New York: Argus Books, (1947). 
Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (spine sunned and 
chipped, with two holes). Fine. First edition.  The pioneer critical 
study of the science fiction genre with emphasis on pre-World War One 
American works. Included are discussions of the works of Edgar Allen 
Poe, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and many others. $50.00

BROAD, C. Lewis and Violet M. Dictionary to the Plays and Novels of 
Bernard Shaw with Bibliography of His Works and of the Literature 
Concerning Him with a Record of the Principal Shavian Play 
Productions. London: A. & C. Black, 1929. Frontispiece portrait. 
Octavo, cloth. Spine sunned, spine ends and corners rubbed, half-inch 
chunk of upper spine end lacking, bookplate on front paste down, ffe 
offset from this. First edition.  Included in the bibliography are 
fugitive pieces, speeches, and letters. $10.00

[CHARTERIS, Leslie]. LOFTS, W. O. G. and ADLEY, Derek.  The Saint and 
Leslie Charteris. London: Hutchinson Library Services, (1971). 
Octavo, blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket 
(front cover very lightly scuffed). Fine. Hutchinson Library Services 
edition.  A very scarce book. $85.00

GREENWOOD, Robert, Editor. California Imprints 1833-1862 A 
Bibliography. Los Gatos: Talisman Press, 1961. 10], xiii-xxxvi, [1], 
38-524, [3] pp.  Illustrated with numerous facsimiles of covers and 
title pages. Octavo, red cloth with printed spine label, pictorial 
dust jacket (minor wear). Fine. One  of 750 copies.  The most 
comprehensive work ever published on California imprints from the 
early printing in Mexican California through 1862. Compiled by Seiko 
June Suzuki and Marjorie Pulliam, and the Historical Records Survey. 
$65.00

GRIERSON, Sir Herbert. The English Bible. London: Collins, 1947. 
Illustrated with eight colour and 21 black and white plates. Octavo, 
original pictorial boards, dust jacket. Fine. $20.00

HUBIN, Allen J. The Bibliography of Crime Fiction 1749-1975. San 
Diego: University of California, San Diego, (1979). Quarto, brown 
cloth lettered in silver, black endpapers. Fine. First edition. 
Entries are listed alphabetically by author; gives original titles 
and by lines with publication date and publishing company; series or 
characters that reappear throughout the works of any author are also 
annotated. $65.00

KIRKPATRICK, B.J. A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. Oxford: Clarendon 
Press, 1980. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth, dust jacket (lightly dust 
soiled, with a few tiny tears to lower margin). Near fine. Second 
edition, revised.  Soho Bibliography IX. Includes translations into 
foreign languages, newspaper and periodical contributions, and 
manuscripts. With an index. $45.00

[MCCULLERS, Carson]. SHAPIRO, Adrian M., BRYER, Jackson R. and FIELD, 
Kathleen.  Carson McCullers. A Descriptive Listing and Annotated 
Bibliography of Criticism. New York: Garland Publishing, 1980. 
Octavo, cloth. Fine. First edition. $20.00

[SHERLOCKIANA]. DE WAAL, Ronald Burt.  The World Bibliography of 
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. A Classified and Annotated List of 
Materials Relating to Their Lives and Adventures. New York: Bramhall 
House, (1974). Illustrated, frontispiece portrait. Quarto, brown 
boards, black cloth spine lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket 
(upper corners minutely rubbed). Fine. First edition thus.  The most 
comprehensive Sherlockian reference source. It is a record of the 
various appearances in periodicals, newspapers, and apocrypha written 
by Doyle between 1887 and 1927, together with translations, 
criticism, writings about the writings, films, musicals, plays, radio 
and television programs, phonograph records, parodies and pastiches, 
and a multitude of other items. With an appendix and indices of names 
and titles. $70.00

TAYLOR, C. Clarke. John Updike. A Bibliography. Kent: Kent State 
University Press, (1968). Octavo, cloth. Spine very lightly sunned, 
else fine.  With John Updike, A Collection. Catalog One. 
(bookseller's catalogue). Brookline. Waiting for Godot Books, circa 
1980. Octavo, wrappers. Wrappers date penned, and very lightly dust 
soiled, else fine. $50.00

TRIENENS, Roger J. Pioneer Imprints From Fifty States. Washington: 
Library of Congress, 1973. Profusely illustrated. Quarto, cloth. 
Spine sunned, covers warped, else fine.  Contains the history of 
early printing in all 50 states, with title page and text pages 
reproduced throughout. $15.00

WEAVER, Warren. Alice in Many Languages. The Translation of Alice in 
Wonderland. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 
1964. Octavo, cloth, pictorial dust jacket (very gently rubbed at 
edges). Fine. First edition, inscribed by the author to David A. 
Randall.  Alice in Wonderland has been translated into more than 
forty languages, including Bengali, Chinese, Swahili, Thai, and 
Welsh. The heart of this book is its translation history, with 
particular attention to the degree of success with which various 
translators have met its challenges. $100.00


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