Howes wright compiled by (6 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Revised and Enlarged Edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Binding is cracked preceding the half-tile page. ; Contents pages are interleaved with blank pages. Previous owner has written "Reference Only Not for Sale" on front and rear endpapers.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Revised and enlarged edition. 652pp. Boards rubbed with bottom corners abraded, rear hinge cracked, very good, without a dust jacket as issued.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. tall8vo, 25.3cm, First Edition, 656p., double-column, original dark blue buckram, gilt spine titles, some general wear on the binding, very good condition. (bks) The indispensable reference for Americana.Bob Paulsen told me that someone in the book trade (I forget who) new to the trade had approached Wright Howes and offered to work for free thinking he could learn the trade from the best practitioner. Howes listened, considered and then replied "Young man, its taken me fifty years to learn to relax in the booktrade, and now you want to put me back to work. no thanks". Bob Paulsen was another great citizen in the trade in the sixty, seventies and into the eighties who was well known as the expert on Rockwell Kentiana.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Revised Edition. "A selective bibliography in which are described 11,620 uncommon and significant book relating to the continental portion of the United States", published for the Newberry Library. 652 pages. Has some exterior edge wear and rub marks, some creases on free endpapers. Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket as issued. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Large 8vo. 652 pp. R. R. Bowker Company for The Newberry Library, 1962. Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean and white. 6.75" x 10.25". Double-column in original brown buckram covers with gilt lettering to spine. Size: Quarto. Book.…