[Rarebooks] FS: 11 Books on Books, Bookish Topics, as a lot

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

A GROUP OF ELEVEN BOOKS & CATALOGS ON BOOK-RELATED TOPICS
    $50.00 net for the lot, postpaid.


“The Adelman Collection” Bryn Mawr College Library: 1976. A catalog of
highlights from the Seymour Adelman collection of books, manuscripts and
related material on the occasion of its presentation to Bryn Mawr, with
the text of an address given by Adelman at the time. There are sections on
early Americana, the Keats Circle, Edward Fitzgerald, Beardsley &
Beerbohm, Yeats & Hardy, Claud Lovat Fraser, Ralph Hodgson, A.E. Housman
and Lawrence Housman, Heinrich Heine, and Churchill & Roosevelt.
Softcover. 7.5"x10.5", 47 pages, black & white illustrations. Corner bump,
moderate wear. With a warm inscription by Seymour Adelman.  [35312]


Fox, Levi. “In Honour of Shakespeare. The History and Collections of the
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust”  Norwich Jarrold and Sons/Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust:1972. A vast assortment of books, paintings, prints,
relics, period-stuff and more, more, more... 7.5"x10", 128 pages, filled
with b&w illustrations, dj Dj with some wear and a stain, covers with a
few light spots a little soil.  [29185]


“From Columbus to Lincoln. Fifty Distinguished Americana”  New York H.P.
Krause: (1960?) Catalog 92. A decent enough catalog, I suppose, if one is
into flashy stuff like Columbus's printed letter announcing that he
discovered America, his brother's handwritten account of Columbus's fourth
voyage, a copy of the Bill of Rights printed for Thomas Jefferson- you
know, kind of sexy, good beat, I'll bet somebody could dance to it. The
Krause cataloging of this material is up to their usual standards-
thorough, scholarly, detailed (is that different from 'thorough'?) and not
overly laudatory, while keeping in mind that most of this stuff is the
sort of thing your average Americana collector would strip nude and
sacrifice most assorted parts of his anatomy to a Vegomatic for.
Softcover. 7"x10", 69 pages, b/w illustrations and plates. Light wear. 
[8737]


Liebert, Herman W., et al. “The British Look at America During the Age of
Samuel Johnson” Providence The Associates of the John Carter Brown
Library: 1971. An exhibition of the sorts of books and pamphlets related
to America, published between 1720 and 1784, such as "an ordinary
cultivated Englishman" would have bought. The essay examines Johnson's
attitude toward America. Softcover. 7.5"x10.5", 655 pages plus 15 b/w
plates. Elegantly printed at the Stinehour Press light soil, tips thumbed,
etc.  [9363]


Mondlin, Marvin & Roy Meador. “Book Row. An Anecdotal and Pictorial
History of the Antiquarian Book Trade”  >New York; Carroll & Graf: 2004.
2nd prtg.  The story of New York’s famous Fourth Avenue- Book Row from the
1890s to the 1960s. From the Strand Bookstore which began as a bookstall
on 8th, to the legendary George D. Smith, poker and horse player, and
dozens of other colorful, irascible, eccentric, dedicated and
unforgettable characters, the story of antiquarian and used bookselling in
America was epitomized on Fourth Avenue over a period of some seven
decades. Book Row is gone now- a victim of rising rents, chain stores and
redevelopment, but its story lives on in the pages of this book.
Hardcover. 6.5”x9”, 405 pages, b/w illustrations, dj. Fine. [95050]


Mortimer, Ruth. “The Selma Erving Collection -Modern Illustrated Books”
Northampton Smith College Museum of Art: 1977. A fine collection of 20th
century illustrated books, including Baskin, Braque, Bonnard, Chagall,
Dufy, Maillol, Matisse, Picasso, Redon, Rouault, Vuillard, and others.
Softcover. 9"x9", 62 pages, b/w illustrations light wear.  [2317]


Ramsden, Charles. “Book Binders of the United Kingdom (Outside London)
1780-1840”  London B.T. Batsford, 1987. 2nd edition, 2nd printing. First
published in 1954. Arranged in three parts to cover England and Wales,
Scotland, and Ireland, each section includes an alphabetical listing of
binders working in the region, and information on business relations,
apprenticeships, influences and other matters of interest. Hardcover.
7.5"x10", 250 pages, b/w illustrations, dj a fine copy.  [30210]


“Simon Finch, Catalogue 35- Exceptional Literary Autograph and Manuscript
Material, Largely from a Private Collection” London Simon Finch Rare
Books: 1998. Softcover. 8"x11", 119 pages, 146 items, b/w illustrations
with inserted price sheet near fine.  [9954]


“Studies in Bibliography Vol. XXIV -Papers of the Bibliographical Society
of the University of Virginia” Charlottesville University Press of
Virginia: 1971. Includes papers on the John Payne Collier Shakespeare
forgery, “Woozles in Bronteland”, John Beale’s compositors, Pope in
Russian translation, dating Whitman’s early notebooks, and many more
essays of interest to the scholarly bibliophile or the merely curious.
Hardcover. 6.5"x10", 240 pages, b/w illustrations bookplate, else a fine
copy.  [30782]


“Studies in Bibliography Vol. IV -Papers of the Bibliographical Society of
the University of Virginia” Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the
University of Virginia: 1951. Edition of 1000 copies. This volume contains
several Shakespeare-related essays- "Some Bibliographical Irregularities
in the Shakespeare Fourth Folio", "A Supplement to the Bibliography of
'Shakespeare Idolatry' ", “Shakespearean Dated Watermarks", and “The Text
of Romeo and Juliet”. In addition, this volume contains many other essays
of interest to the scholarly bibliophile or the merely curious. Hardcover.
6.5"x10", 237 pages, bookplate, else fine.  [3655]


“Unabridged. Books on Language”  Saint Paul Rulon Miller Books, Catalog
127: 2003. A bookseller's catalog. Softcover. 8.5"x11", 144 pages, color
and b/w illustrations light wear.  [9965]

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