A Primer of Book CollectingGreenberg, 1926 - 206 pagine |
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American Book Prices appeared association books association copies auction house auction rooms autograph letter Badge of Courage Bay Psalm Book bibliography binding Black Riders book collecting bookplate cata catalogues collect books collection value collector collector's items condition cost course Crane books Cutcheon Danielson Desperate Remedies Dickens dozen early edition Encyclopædia English existence fact famous fifty copies figure five dollars flyleaf George Barr McCutcheon Gutenberg Bible hands Hardy hundred copies incunabula inscribed inscription instance Kipling later lector less Little Regiment London Maggie manuscript Mark Twain McCutcheon copy never O'Ruddy original perhaps Phiz Pickwick Pickwick Papers Poems presentation copy printed printer probably published rare rare-book dealer reason Red Badge second-hand book dealer sell sellers Shakespeare shelves Sieppe Smith Stephen Crane suppression Tamerlane Tennyson Thomas Hardy thousand tion Uncle Albert uncut word writers Wynkyn de Worde York
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Pagina 30 - Here endeth the exposycyon of the vij psalmes. Enprynted at London in the fletestrete at the sygne of the sonne, by Wynkyn de Worde prynter vnto the moost excellent pryncesse my lady the kynges graundame. In the yere of our lorde god M.CCCCC and ix the xij daye of the moneth of Juyn.
Pagina 88 - All books are sold as catalogued, and are assumed to be in good SECOND-HAND condition. If material defects are found, not mentioned in the catalogue, the lot may be returned. Notice of such defects must be given promptly and the goods returned within ten days from the date of the sale. No exceptions will be made to this rule.
Pagina 169 - Swift or slow at will he glided, Veered to right or left at pleasure. Then he called aloud to Kwasind, To his friend, the strong man , Kwasind, Saying, "Help me clear this river Of its sunken logs and sand-bars.
Pagina 163 - The war! The war ! They were chasing German-American professors out of Canadian colleges, and making other demonstrations of hostility towards all others having pro-German leanings. I, with my German ancestry on one side and my German name and my German sympathies — what might they not have done to me 1 We didn't go.
Pagina 14 - ... provoke her to lechery.'' That whipping was well known as a sexual stimulant in England in the eighteenth century is sufficiently indicated by the fact that in one of Hogarth's series representing the "Harlot's Progress" a birch rod hangs over the bed.
Pagina 28 - this intellectual movement did not penetrate low enough to create a numerous book-buying public," with the result that many of the craftsmen from the Rhine Valley "worked themselves straight into bankruptcy by printing numerous editions of the literary classics.
Pagina 138 - Maggie, a Girl of the Streets. (A Story of New York.) By Johnston Smith.
Pagina 68 - ... not sell. The key book was Maggie, which a few years before had alone sold well over that figure. What had happened is a curious episode in book collecting history. When a legendary rarity suddenly becomes a common book (or is thought to become so), what is the result? Suppose the printer of Poe's Tamerlane (Boston, 1827) happened one hundred years ago to store away a bundle of the books against future orders which never came. Suppose there were fifty Tamerlanes in that bundle, and that it should...
Pagina 35 - This copy is in the possession of the New York Public Library, and is cared for rather more tenderly than a millionaire's baby.