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A
COLLECTING
ESSENTIAL
(ABCs). Carter,
John & Nicolas Barker. ABC
for book collectors. Eighth
edition with corrections, additions, and a new introduction by Nicolas Barker.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press & the British Library. 8vo. 232, [2] pp.
• Are
you a novice reader of rare book cataloguing who is just beginning to realize
that there might be a difference between a "joint" and a "hinge"? Would you
rather be asked for the proof of "E=MC2" than for the meaning of " *6a-z6A-R6S2**6)(6)()(4T6V-X4 "?
Or are you on the other hand a connoisseur of the bibliographer's terms of
art who savors the very sound and cadence — as well as the exact and enticing
images that the words and sentences raise — in a description like the following: "18th-century
olive morocco; round gilt spines extra without bands; gilt triple-line fillet
frames on covers with gilt corner devices; single gilt rule on board edges;
gilt inner dentelles. Dutch-style printed endpapers with gilt and green stars
and dots on a white field. All edges gilt; all pages ruled in red in the 17th-century
style"?
At once a great basic resource and a rewarding volume for browsing or bibliophilic
pleasure-reading, this classic work by John Carter contains over 490 alphabetical
entries offering definitions and analysis of technical terms as well as the
jargon of book collecting and bibliography — with ample examples. A vice-president
of the Bibliographical Society and Sandars Reader in Bibliography in the
University of Cambridge, its author also worked for Scribner's and Sotheby's,
and over the course of his active career he wrote or edited many well known
and influential books about books. 
With
Percy H. Muir, Carter was a prime mover of the legendary 1963 exhibition
from which was derived that landmark text and guide among guides — Printing
and the Mind of Man.
Carter's ABC (first printed in 1952) was revised and expanded by
Nicolas Barker, his friend and the respected editor of The Book Collector,
making good use of the author's own annotations and bringing to bear his
own great knowledge and brisk style. A new introduction was also provided.
This eighth edition incorporates the "lexicon of new bibliographical
terms" brought into use by the Internet, in addition to other additions
and amendments arising since the publication of the previous revised edition.
The result has been lauded as "the wittiest and most instructive alphabet
for incipient bibliophiles ever compiled" (Books); it has been asserted
that "No better guide to the whole subject has appeared in print" (Chicago
Tribune). 
This
is a book that no purchasing collector or cataloguer should think of as a
frivolous expense, and a book that as a gift to a collector or cataloguer
cannot fail to please.
• New. Complete with printed dust jacket.
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Leaves from a Large 18th-Century CHOIRBOOK (A
Welcome Present)? Leaves from a Graduale romanum.
Venice: Balleoniana, 1729. Folio extra (19.25" x 13.625"). 1 f. 
Click either image for an enlargement. This particular choirbook was printed with 10 lines of text and music per page. Each leaf contains music and words, and is printed in black and red; text is in black, with an occasional small letter in red, and the music is provided for all the antiphons in black square notation on a four-line red staff. Antiphons begin with a tall decorative initial printed in red, as high as the text and music together. The initials vary from leaf to leaf.
• Crisp, wide margined leaf with slightest bleed-through from one side to another. Printed on handmade paper of 100% rag. 
A marvelous display, accent, or gift item.
“Cookery . . . the Economy of Your Grandmothers(Advertising/Cookery). The Metropolitan Life cook book. New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Press, [1922?]. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). 64 pp.
• Brown, Culinary Americana, 2819g. Original printed paper wrappers, in good condition with only very minor wear and one small spot to front coer, spine gently faded. A handful of spots of foxing, inside, mostly concentrated around staples.
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For
Your TravelsLuxurious
or Otherwise
Allen, F. Sturges.
What's what? At home and abroad. New York: Bradley White Co., 1902. 12mo.
122 pp.
• Dare we say it? — a REALLY
strange compendium! This uncommon pocket guide includes
a dictionary of terms found on bills of fare at American restaurants and hotels,
a list of poisonous plants and their remedies, “What to do in case of
accidents,” and a guide to precious stones. Useful (in theory) whether
one is staying at the Ritz and going jewelry shopping, or camping out in the
wilderness!
Allen was a famous lexicographer and was co-editor of the Webster's New International Dictionary; his gastronomical dictionary composes about half the volume, with the other sections also consisting largely if not exclusively of arrays of alphabetical entries.
• Publisher's olive cloth, front cover stamped in dark green and black, spine with title in black; small area of discoloration to lower portion of outer edges, (22220)
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Conduct Books for Girls & Boys American Tract Society. The publications of the American Tract Society. Series I. Vol. II. New York: American Tract Society (D. Fanshaw, printer), [ca. 1832–47]. 32mo (9 cm, 3.5"). [148] pp.; illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. Contents: “Little George and the Apple-Tree,” “History of Beasts,” “The History of Harry Headless; showing how carelessness leads to Trouble,” “The Four Seasons,” “Pretty Stories for Good Children,” “An Alphabet of Lessons for Children,” “Good Child's Soliloquy,” “The Journey,” “The Hymn Book,” “Morning and Evening,” “The Child's Devotion,” “Dialogue Between a Brother and Sister, concerning salvation by Christ.”
• Contemporary gilt-stamped red leather over marbled paper-covered boards. Covers with surface cracks and abrasions; bumped and exposed on corners. Front cover showing evidence of now removed label; back cover with odd lettering(?) in black marker. Waterstaining throughout, very variable. An early gift inscription on front free endpaper. Despite its “visible history,” charming. (23463)
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Inscribed
by
the
Author
Angney, Lydia
F. California and other poems.
Gilroy, CA: Pr. for the author by A.C. Eaton, 1900. 8vo. 96 pp.
“Californianum”
— this copy with a laid-in slip of paper reading “Christmas Greeting
to Frank & Annie, from Aunt Lydia.” Lydia Francis Witham Angney authored
two volumes of poetry, both published in Gilroy, the home of the annual Garlic
Festival, and endured a long widowhood following the death of her husband W.
Z. Angney. W.Z. served in the Mexican War and played a major role in the U.S.
occupation of New Mexico and in the territorial government, then moved on to
California, settling in Gilroy to raise tree fruit in his orchards, but being
sent to the state senate and called on by the governor for other civic duties.
He died in January 1878.
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the interior image for an enlargement.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; light shelf wear to corners and spine extremities. (22223)
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Books with SPECIAL
“Make
Your
Letters Magnetic”
Anonymous. How to write letters that win ... ninth edition. Chicago & New York: The System Co.; London: A.W. Shaw Co., 1911. 12mo. 128 pp. 
• “Ninth edition,” closely following the original printing of 1907. These “247 pointers gathered from a study of 1200 actual letters” are intended for commercial correspondence — making successful business contacts, advertising products appealingly, increasing sales, and convincing reluctant customers.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Publisher's sage-green cloth, front cover with color-printed paper label; binding with small spots of minor discoloration but overall fresh and appealing. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription. Pages clean. (20710)
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Limited Edition Facsimile Antonozzi, Leopardo. De Caratteri. [Rome 1638]. Nieuwkoop: Miland Publishers, 1971. Oblong 4to. 57 pp.
• Publisher's light boards with printed dust wrapper, in Mylar protective jacket. Nearly new. (23241)
For CALLIGRAPHY / WRITING, click here. For ART REFERENCE, click here. For more BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, click here. This also appears in the GENERAL
Chancery Hand Arrighi, Ludovico degli. The first writing book; an English translation & facsimile text of Arrighi's 'Operina', the first manual of the Chancery hand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. Small 8vo. xv, [1], 47, [1] pp.
• Publisher's blue cloth, d/j with several short tears, owner's stamp on top edge of closed book and signature on the front free endpaper. (22702)
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Limited to 303 Copies
(Art).
Babbott, Frank Lusk. The collection of...[,] 1854-1933. New York, 1934.
4to. Unpaginated.
• Ex-library with blind pressure- and rubber-stamps, properly deaccessioned.
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Palatino Arrighi Cataneo Yciar & Others Surveyed Atkins, Kathryn A. Masters of the Italic letter: twenty-two exemplars from the sixteenth century. Boston: David R. Godine, 1988. Oblong 8vo. 183 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Publisher's burgundy cloth; in original dust jacket. A very good copy. (22009)
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“My Style of Drawing Birds”
Audubon, John James. My style of drawing birds by John James Audubon.... Ardsley, NY: Pub. By the Overland Press for the Haydn Foundation, 1979. Tall 8vo. 26 pp., [2] ff., illus., facsims. 
• New. Attractive.
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Great Facsimile of aTruly Rare Book Augustino, da Siena; & Alfred Fairbank. Augustino Da Siena: the 1568 edition of his writing book in facsimile. London: Merrion Press, 1975. Small 4to. 21, [82] pp.
signed by Fairbank, of a limited edition of 750 copies: 300 published by the Merrion Press, copies 301–750 by David Godine.
Prepared to honor Fairbank on his 80th birthday and containing Fairbank's 6000-word introduction to this facsimile of a famed writing manual that as of 1975 survived in only two copies: Opera nella quale si insegna à scriuere varie sorti di lettere;Venetia: Francesco de Tomaso di Salo, 1568. The facsimile is from the copy in the British Library.
• Publisher's French silk cloth with gilt title on spine and gilt decoration on front board. Publisher's dust jacket with protective clear wrapper. Promotional four-page prospectus included. Great copy. (21899)
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Tiny
& CharmingAunt Rose and her nieces. Troy, NY: Moore & Nims, [ca. 1850]. 32mo (5 cm, 2"). 64 pp.
Binding: Publisher’s color-illustrated wrappers, chromolithographed by F. Motas, Philadelphia.
• Binding as above, spine reinforced with cellophane tape, corners and edges worn, back wrapper creased. Sewing going; pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean, with a few corners dog-eared.
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Goosing the GothicAusten, Jane. Northanger Abbey. [Baltimore]: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club, by the Garamond Press, 1971. Folio (27.8 cm, 11"). [4 (1 blank)], v–xi, [5 (3 blank)], 3–210, [3 (2 blank)] pp.; 12 plts. 
• Bibliography of the Fine Books of the Limited Editions Club 1929–1985, 436. Binding as above, clean and unworn, in original glassine wrapper and slipcase; wrapper chipped at head of spine and with small edge tears; spine and top of slipcase sunned, back of case with a small, faint spot of soiling, spine label with some soiling, small scrapes, and a small
chip at bottom edge. A fine, very attractive copy. Heroine
Catherine might have liked the cover fabric here as dress material.
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Scots "Lays" — With Notes
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune.
Lays of the Scottish cavaliers and other poems. New edition. New York: R. Worthington,
1878. 8vo. 230 pp.
• Very good; front cover bright and unmarked, spine notably faded, corners and spine extremities gently worn. All edges gilt. Pages very clean. (1908)
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