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Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith (2005).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth. x, 302 pages. Illustrated. Signed by the author. Bookstore sticker. A clean, attractive copy. "Avid readers will be charmed by this intimate look at the bookselling business and will especially appreciate the many book lists included in these pages." - PW

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1924. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Edition limited to 1000 copies. Paper covers. xiii, 96 pp. Illustrated. Name stamp. A solid copy.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Third printing. Paper-covered boards. Top edges gilt. xvii, 451 pp. Illustrated. Index. No dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed initials. A clean copy with little wear.

New York: Greenwich House (1982).. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Green leatherette. 264 pp. Illustrated. Previous owner's embossed stamp. Price-clipped jacket. A clean, attractive book.

Cambridge, MA: The Word Guild (1980).. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Burgundy cloth. 145 pp. Index. Note in ink to title page. A clean, attractive copy.

Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth. x, 126 pages. Illustrated. Index. No dust jacket, as issued. A nice copy with little wear.

Chicago: Chicago Review Press (1986).. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. viii, 197 pp. A solid copy with only light wear. "Discusses the advantages of running an antiquarian book store, and explains how to pick a location, acquire stock, build shelving, arrange for advertising, maintain quality, hire employees, and avoid common mistakes.

Washington, DC: United States Coast Guard, 1982. Soft cover. Very Good. Revised edition. Paper covers. iv, 148 pp. Index. A solid copy with only light wear.

New York: Popular Library (1971).. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. 224 pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. A solid copy with only light wear. "The new, authoritative book that takes the 'search' out of research.

Western Reserve University, 1966. Soft cover. Very Good. Fifth edition. Paper covers. xi, 72 pp. Illustrated. A solid copy with only light wear. "An indispensable guide to children's literature for homes, libraries, and schools.

Chicago: Academy Press (1976).. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. xi, 149 pp. Introduction by Alan Alda. Illustrated. Indices. Previous owner's name. A solid copy with only light wear to covers.

Great Neck, NY: Barron's Educational Series (1963).. Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. 173 pp. Only light wear. "...capsules the content and purpose of 351 of the most widely used reference works...

Indianapolis, IN: International Typographical Union, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Cloth. 236 pp. Boards slightly bowed and a bit soiled. Contents Very Good. "All able workmen must know how to use their tools; and words, sentences, and paragraphs are the tools that the printer must learn how to use properly before he can lay claim to real ability.… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Red cloth with gilt lettering. 388 pp. Bibliographies. No dust jacket. Previous owner's name, fore-edge tears to a couple of pages from being opened carelessly.

Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing (1991).. Soft cover. Very Good. Craig McFarland Brown. Trade paperback. Later printing. ix, 179 pp. Bibliography. Tiniest bit of wear to covers. Contents clean and tight.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts (1967).. Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. viii, 87 pp. Index. Minor wear to covers. This bibliography includes sections on English Romanticism and the following authors: William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas DeQuincey, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Moore, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert… Read more about this item