[Rarebooks] FS: Lot of books on Book Collecting, Americana, Publishing, &c

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

A DOZEN BOOKS ON BOOKS, BOOK COLLECTING, PUBLISHING, ETC-
OFFERED AS A LOT FOR $85, ppd., net.

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“Beyond the Mississippi. An Exhibition of Western Books Honoring James
Shearer II, the Donor”.  Clements Library, University of Michigan: 1967. 
A catalog of 33 important mostly-mid 19th century books on the American
west, with extensive and interesting notes by Albert T. Klyberg.
Softcover. 6”x9”, 25 pages, black & white portrait of Shearer.  A little
light soil.

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Dibner, Bern.  “Burndy Library in mitosis”.  Burndy Library: 1977.  A
short history and overview of the holdings of this noted science library,
an offprint from the London journal ‘The Book Collector’.
Softcover. 5.5”x8.5”, 32 pages, 17 black & white illustrations.  Minor
wear, but overall clean and nice.

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“The Dictionary of Paper. Including Pupls, Boards, Paper Properties and
Related Papermaking Terms”.  New York, American Paper and Pulp
Association: 1940.  From Abraca (see ‘Manila Hemp’) and Abrasive Paper to
Yoshino and Zinc White, if it has anything to do with paper, its
manufacture, composition or uses, it is here.  Hardcover. 6”x9.5”, 365
pages.  The covers are a bit faded, with a little wear (please see the
photo- frankly, they weren't that bright to begin with...), the book has
an ownership inscription on the front endpaper, but otherwise is clean and
nice, with a tight binding and no marks.

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Exman, Eugene.  "The House of Harper. One Hundred and Fifty Years of
Publishing".  Harper & Row: 1967.  The story of one of America's oldest,
most distinguished publishers.  Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", 326 pages, black &
white illustrations, dust jacket. Light wear, but overall clean and nice.

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Harvey, Miles. "The Island of Lost Maps. A True Story of a Cartographic
Crime".  Random House: 2000.  “This is the story of a curious crime spree:
the theft of irreplaceable centuries-old maps from some of the most
prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The
perpetrator was a nondescript antiques dealer from Florida with a razor
blade in his pocket and the unlikely name of Gilbert Bland Jr. His
cross-country slash-and-dash operation went virtually undetected until he
was caught in 1995 with 150 maps in his possession and another 100 sold to
black market collectors”.  Softcover. 5.25”x7.25”, 405 pages, several
black & white illustrations.  In fine, new condition.

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"Americana, Literature Relating to California and the West including the
collection of H.C. Holmes, Oakland California, Duplicates from the New
Hampshire Historical Society, together with an Important Collection of
Long Island History and Genealogy formed by a Well-Known Historian".  The
catalog for an auction held in New York by the American Art Association on
January 26-27, 1927.  Softcover. 6”x9”, about 250 pages, 989 lots, some
facsimile illustrations.  Somewhat worn- covers with light soil, some
browning, tips thumbed, spine head with small chip, internal margin stain;
light soil, etc.

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The Papers of the Bibliographical Society in America, Vol. 93:2. June,
1999.  Softcover. 6”x9”. Fine.

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Pratt, John Barnes.  "Personal Recollections. Sixty Years of Book
Publishing".  A.S. Barnes: 1942.
John Barnes Pratt went from mail room errand boy to President of A.S.
Barnes. These short memoirs chronicle the numerous ups and downs inherent
in book publishing, the periodic restructuring of the company in order to
maintain its solvency, and finally Pratt's purchase of just one line of
books, along with the Barnes name, which saved the imprint from oblivion. 
Hardcover. 5.5"x8", 67 pages, several black & white plates.  Ex-library
with small stamps on the endpaper and paste-down sheet, a pocket neatly
removed from the rear endpaper, a small white number on the spine, and a
stamp on the title page. Actually much cleaner than that all makes it
sound.  Inscribed by the author on the endpaper.

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"The Reference Libraries of Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, Booksellers".  The
catalog to an auction held in New York by Swann Galleries on September 8,
1998.  Included Americana, art reference, medicine, natural history,
science & general reference.  Softcover. 6.5”x9.5”, 591 lots.  Light wear.
Prices realized sheet.

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Winterich, John T.  "Early American Books & Printing".  Dover
Publications: 1981.  A republication of the classic 1935 book.  Softcover.
5.5”x8.5”, 252 pages, black & white illustrations.  Light wrinkle along
the bottom edge, else nice.

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"Books from the Bibliographical Library of William P. Wreden".  The
catalog to an auction held in New York by Swann Galleries on September
26-27th, 1990.  The great bookseller William P. Wreden bought his first
bibliography in 1938, and by 1990 has accumulated over 2,200 linear feet
of reference materials on a startling variety of subjects. This auction of
some of them consists of over 1,000 lots.  Softcover. 6.5”x9.5”,
unpaginated, 1,023 lots, 1 black & white illustrations.  Light soil.

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“The Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints”.  Library
Company of Philadelphia: 2001.  “Essays from a special Meeting of The
Library Co. of Phila. (LCP), which celebrates the acquisition, by gift and
purchase, of the Michael Zinman Collection of Early Amer. Imprints. The
collection contains hundreds of books otherwise unknown and hundreds of
unique pieces of printed ephemera, as well as thousands of imprints that
are unique because of textual variation, provenance, manuscript
annotations, binding, or other artifactual features that cannot be
conveyed in any microfilm or digital surrogate. Zinman has supplied a
detailed computerized catalog that has allowed LCP to provide full access
to the collection. Essays: "Collecting Early American Prints: From Brinley
to Zinman," by Wm. Reese; and "The Zinman Collection and the LCP," by
James Green”.  Softcover. 6”x9”, 45 pages, black & white illustrations. 
Minor wear, but overall clean and nice.

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