Books About Books from J Styles Books

New York, Alfred Knopf, 2014 [1st edition]; 170 x 245 mm, xx + 250pp., b/w images, Index. Hard Cover - Like New - in a Dustwrapper - also Like New. A superb collection of excerpts from Chandler's writings, interviews and letters.

London, Bloomsbury, 2016 [1st edition]; 140 x 215 mm, Hard Cover in Dustwrapper. Apart from a couple of very small marks and a light indent on the front board, the book is like new - a very nice copy.From the dust jacket: Jane Austen is one of the most beloved writers in the English literary canon. Her novels changed the… Read more about this item

London, the British Library, 1988, 80 pages, 170 x 235 mm. Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition.

San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2017. Hardcover, like new, 130 x 175 mm, 96 pp. I'd Rather Be Reading is a visual love letter to all things bookish. It features beautiful art, photography, and illustrations depicting the pleasures of books - from the likes of Jane Mount, Lisa Congdon, Julia Rothman, and Sophie Blackall - interwoven with poems, quotations, and aphorisms,… Read more about this item

New York, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2012. Octavo, 220 x 150 mm, xiv, 378 pages, grey boards. A fine, clean, hard cover, binding tight, paper cream white - ""Like New"" in a like, dust jacket which is now protected in a mylar sleeve. Leif Parsons (illustrator). 1st Edition. In this enthusiastic, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous ode to bookshops and booksellers,… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Dustwrapper and front free endpaper price-clipped, otherwise a fine, pristine copy of the first edition.

London, Nicholas Vane, 1964 [1st. edition]; 150 x 220 mm, 164 pp; Hard Cover in price-clipped dustwrapper, some light foxing, a VG copy. With a Foreword by Father Brocard Sewell of the Order of Carmelites.

The Book Collectors' Society of Australia, n.p. [Sydney], 1988. ISSN: 01573276, 277th. issue, Vol 13, No.1 - March 1988. 145 x 205 mm, 32 pages, card covers a Fine copy. The packed weight of this publication is about 200 g so, depending on destination, postage may be under the default ABE calculation and if so will be adjusted before processing.