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    What the Grass Says.
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    The Destination.
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    Worshipful Company of Fletchers: Poems.
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JEFF MASER, Bookseller

JEFF MASER, Bookseller

Specializing in fine & rare books.

3
Your Cart
  • × Placeholder
    SIMIC, Charles.
    What the Grass Says.
    1 × $100.00
  • × The Destination.
    TATE, James.
    The Destination.
    1 × $150.00
  • × Placeholder
    TATE, James.
    Worshipful Company of Fletchers: Poems.
    1 × $15.00

Subtotal: $265.00

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    NELSON, James G.

    The Early Nineties: A View from the Bodley Head.

    $25.00
    Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. First edition. xiv + 387 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket.
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    NETHERY, Wallace.

    Dr. Flewelling & The Hoose Library: Life and Letters of a Man and an Institution.

    $17.50
    Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1976. First edition. 203 pp w/index. Fine in full cloth. One of 500 copies printed by Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Two hundred of the copies were for presentation to members of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs.
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    NEWTON, A. Edward.

    The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections.

    $40.00
    Boston: Atlantic Monthly (1918). First edition. xiii + 373 pp w/index. Foxing to page edges, else near fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper.
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    NOFFFSINGER, James Philip.

    World War I Aviation Books in English: An Annotated Bibliography.

    $20.00
    Metuchen & London: Scarecrow Press, 1987. First edition. 305 pp w/index. Fine in full cloth; no dust jacket, as issued.
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    OLMSTED, Duncan H. ed.

    Seventy Years: A Checklist of Book Club Publications 1914-1983.

    $15.00
    San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1984. First edition. 60 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Introduction by D. Steven Corey. Club Keepsake No. 44, designed by Wesley B. Tanner and printed by him and Will Powers.
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    OVERTON, John.

    The Book Number Three: Paper for Book Production.

    $15.00
    London: National Book League/Cambridge University Press, 1955. First edition. 15 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers and integral printed dust jacket with pasted-on cover label.
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    PATTERSON, Rhodes.

    ZYX: 26 Poetic Portraits.

    $25.00
    Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts, 1989. First edition. Folio. [64 pp]. Fine in full decorated cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Developed and designed by Mark Oldach and Rhonda Taira. Contributions by Seymour Chwast, Ivan Chermayeff, Hermann Zapf, David Lance Goines, and many others.
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  • The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature.
    PERKINS, Michael.

    The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature.

    $25.00
    NY: Morrow (1976). First edition. 227 pp w/index. Very near fine in like dust jacket. A comprehensive treatment.
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    PLOMER, Henry R.

    English Printer’s Ornaments.

    $25.00
    NY: Burt Franklin (nd). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1924). 291 pp w/index. Near fine in full cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.
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    POLLARD, Alfred W.

    Fine Books.

    $20.00
    NY: Cooper Square Publishers, 1964. First printing of this reissue (originally published in 1912). xv + 332 pp w/index. Fine in full buckram.
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    POSNER, Raphael and Israel Ta-Shema.

    The Hebrew Book: An Historical Survey.

    $35.00
    NY: Leon Amiel (1975). First US edition. 4tp. 225 pp w/appendices. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
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    POWELL, LAWRENCE CLARK.

    Bookman’s Progress. The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell. Chosen, with an introduction by William Targ.

    $22.00
    Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. First edition. Very good in vg price-clipped dust jacket that is stained at bottom back edge and foot of spine; delightful essays.
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  • Make Mine a Small One.
    POWELL, Lawrence Clark.

    Make Mine a Small One.

    $20.00
    Berkeley: Peacock Press, 1965. First edition. 16mo. 15 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. An essay on the difficulties created by big books.
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    POWYS, John Cowper.

    One Hundred Best Books with Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading.

    $35.00
    NY: American Library Service, 1922. Later edition. 68 pp. Near fine in full blue cloth with gilt stamping to front cover and spine (spine lettering dull). Lacks dust jacket.
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    REED, Talbot Baines.

    A History of the Old English Letter Foundries with Notes Historical and Bibliographical on the Rise and Progress of English Typography.

    $50.00
    London: Faber & Faber (1952). First printing of this revised & enlarged edition. 4to. xiv + 400 pp w/index. Fine in full green buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Edited and revised by A.F. Johnson.
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    RICHARDSON, Charles F.

    The Choice of Books.

    $40.00
    London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881. First edition. 222 pp w/index. Very good plus in full white parchment-covered boards with the cover printed in black and red. Chip to spine.
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    RITCHIE, Ward.

    Fine Printing: The Los Angeles Tradition.

    $15.00
    Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1987. First edition. 65 pp. Foxing to top edge, else fine in printed wrappers. Preface by John Y. Cole. Illustrated.
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    ROBERTS, Jane W.

    Borders Et Cetera 1982.

    $35.00
    Fitzwilliam: Old-Time Printing, 1982. First edition. 16mo. iv + 80 pp. Fine in comb-bound wappers. One of 90 copies.
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    ROBINSON, Duncan.

    William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and the Kelmscott Chaucer.

    $40.00
    Mt. Kisco: Moyer-Bell (1986). First US edition. 4to. 116 pp w/notes & index. Boards very slightly splayed, else fine in fine dust jacket.
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    ROSART, Jacques-Francois.

    The Type Specimen of Jacques-Rosart Brussels 1768.

    $125.00
    NY: Abner Schram, 1973. First printing of this edition. 82 + [144 pp]. Scratch to rear cover, else near fine in paper-covered boards with inset cover and spine labels. A facsimile with an introduction and notes by Fernand Baudin and Netty Hoeflake.
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    ROSTENBERG, Leona and Madeleine B. Stern.

    Old Books in the Old World: Reminiscences of Book Buying Abroad.

    $17.50
    New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. First edition. viii + 175 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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    ROSTENBERG, Leona and Stern, Madeleine B.

    New Worlds in Old Books.

    $15.00
    New Castle: Oak Knoll, 1999. First edition. 202 pp w/index. Light foxing along top edge, boards slightly splayed. In all, near fine in fine dust jacket.
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    RUTKOW, Ira M. MD.

    The History of Surgery in the United States 1775-1900. Volume I: Textbooks, Monographs, & Treatises.

    $50.00
    San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1988. First edition. 4to. xxi + 488 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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    SALLANDER, Hans - compiler.

    BIBLIOTHECA WALLERIANA: THE BOOKS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE COLLECTED BY DR. ERIK WALLER AND BEQUEATHED TO THE LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF UPPSALA.

    $375.00
    Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1955. Two volumes, small 4to, original blue buckram stamped in burgundy and gilt, 55 plates. Fine copies in unusually fresh dust jackets (a few short tears to each, else nearly fine). A handsome, bibliographically useful catalogue of perhaps the largest and most important medical library ever assembled by a single person. The one-volume reprint of this classic, published in the early 1990's with badly reproduced plates (among other problems), can hardly compare.
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    SCHULLIAN, Dorothy M. and Francis E. Sommer.

    A Catalogue of Incunabula and Manuscripts in the Army Medical Library.

    $75.00
    NY: Henry Schuman (1950). First edition. xiii + 361 pp w/indexes. Fine in full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Ownership signature of Dr. Thomas E. Keys, the distinguished medical historian, whose name appears on the printed list of “Subscribers in Advance of Publication” at the end of this Catalogue.
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    SCHWARTZ, Lynne Sharon.

    Ruined by Reading: A Life in Books.

    $12.50
    Boston: Beacon (1996). First edition. 119 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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    SENEFELDER, Alois.

    The Invention of Lithography.

    $25.00
    (np): Sun Chemical Corporation (1969). First printing of this edition (originally published in 1911). Small 4to. xii + 229 pp w/appendix. Boards slightly bowed, else very near fine in full brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. Translated from the original German by J.W. Muller.
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    SHICKELL, Edward Hampton.

    Bookplates for Libraries.

    $50.00
    [Austin]: Roger Beacham (1968). First edition. Oblong 12mo. [94 pp w/index of typefaces]. Near fine in paper-covered boards with inset printed cover and spine labels. Very good clear acetate dust jacket with two short tears at the crown. Introduction and commentary by William R. Holman. Original prospectus accompanies.
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    SHORTER, Alfred H.

    Paper Making in the British Isles: An Historical and Geographical Survey.

    $40.00
    NY: Barnes & Noble (1972). First US edition. 272 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
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    SILVER, Rollo G.

    Typefounding in America, 1787-1825.

    $22.50
    Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia (1965). First edition. xiii + 139 pp w/index. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine unprinted tissue dust jacket.
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    SIMS, George.

    Last of The Rare Book Game.

    $30.00
    Philadelphia: Holmes Publishing Co., 1990. First edition. 126 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket that is unevenly sunned along the spine. One of 650 copies.
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    SIMS, Geroge.

    The Terrible Door.

    $75.00
    London: Bodley Head (1964). First edition. 176 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to tips of folds and some dampstaining to rear panel. Bookseller Sims’ first novel.
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