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Rare books - Addresses, essays, lectures

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William H. Bond, ed., Records of a Bibliographer: Selected Papers of William Alexander Jackson, Cambridge, 1967, small fol., publisher's black cloth gilt, dust jacket


Hanes Lectures: (1) Ruth Mortimer, A Portrait of the Author in Sixteenth Century France, 1980 - - (2) G. Thomas Tanselle, The History of Books as a Field of Study, 1981 - - (3) William B. Todd, The Guttenberg Bible: New Evidence of the Original Printing, 1982 - - (4) Fred Schreiber, The Hanes Collection of Estienne Publications, 1984 - - (5) Alan Fern, Off the Wall: Research into the Art of the Poster, 1985 - - (6) Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Print Culture and Enlightenment Thought, 1986 - - (7) Paul Needham, The Bradshaw Method, 1988 - - (8) Jonathan Williams, Uncle Gus Flaubert Rates The Jargon Society, 1989 - - (9) Michael Winship, Ticknor and Fields: The Business of Literary Publishing in the United States of the Nineteenth Century, 1992, all Chapel Hill, 8vo., pamphlets, 9 vols.


George Herbert Powell, Excursions in Libraria, being retrospective reviews and bibliographical notes, London, Lawrence and Bullen, 1895, 8vo., publisher's green cloth


G. Thomas Tanselle, The Pleasures of Being a Scholar‐Collector (The Nikirk Lectures, New Series, Number 5), New York, Grolier Club, 2006, 4to., pamphlet, publisher's green paper wrappers


Varlam Chalamov, Mes bibliothèques (translated by Sophie Benech), Paris, Éditions Interférences, 1992, 8vo., publisher's stiff paper wrapper


Anthony Grafton, Codex in Crisis ["Portions of this piece originally appeared in the New Yorker"], New York, Crumpled Press, 2011, 8vo., publisher's red paper wrappers


Alice D. Schreyer, William S. Reese & Robert H. Jackson, Collectors & Special Collections. Three Talks, Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 2002, 4to., publisher's wrappers


Louis B. Wright & Gordon N. Ray, The Private Collector and the Support of Scholarship, Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, April 5, 1969, Los Angeles, 1969, 4to., publisher's brick‐red paper wrappers, inscription on title "Florence & Gabriel Austin from Gordon N. Ray, 17 November 1969"


Phyllis Goodhart Gordon, Of What Use Are Old Books: A talk by Phillis Goodhart Gordan, of April 1972, Bryn Mawr College Library, Stinehour Press, 1973, 4to., publisher's printed wrappers, bookplate of Reference Library of H.P. Kraus


Robert H. Jackson & Carol Z. Rothkopf, Book Talk: Essays on Books, Booksellers, Collecting, and Special Collections, New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 2006, 4to., publisher's 3/4 simulated calf over marbled boards


William Warner Bishop, The Backs of Books, and Other Essays in Librarianship, Baltimore, 1926, 8vo., publisher's brown cloth


William Blades, Books in Chains and Other Bibliographical Papers, London, Elliot Stock, 1892, 8vo., green cloth gilt


Michael Maria Rabenlechner, Streifzüge eines Bibliophilen durch die deutsche Dichtung Österreichs der letzten hundertfünfzig Jahre, Vienna, Wiener Bibliophilengesellschaft, 1931, 4to., grey paperboards


Gordon N. Ray, Books as a Way of Life: Essays by Gordon N. Ray (ed. G.T. Tanselle), New York, 1988, 4to., publisher's red cloth, dust jacket


Robert Rosenthal, Posterity's Marketplace: A View of the Rare Book Trade, Providence, 1985, 8vo., pamphlet, green printed wrappers


Roger E. Stoddard, A Library‐Keeper's Business: Essays by Roger E. Stoddard, Curator of Rare Books in the Harvard College Library, New Castle, DE, Oak Knoll Press, 2002, 4to., publisher's red cloth gilt


George Parker Winship, Books as People: An Address at a Reception to Open an Exhibition of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century at the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 31, 1940, Philadelphia, 1940, 4to., pamphlet, publisher's printed wrappers


William Beloe, Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, London, 1807‐1812, 6v., 3/4 green roan over marbled boards, bookplates of Donald Beaty Bloch and Philip van Doren Stern (1900‐1984)


Alfred W. Pollard, Old Picture Books, with Other Essays on Bookish Subjects, London, 1902, 4to., publisher's blue cloth gilt


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