A SHAPING JOY
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971. Hardcover. xix, 393 pp. Thumbed, some rubbing, clean and unmarked otherwise. DJ some rubbing, wrapped in mylar.
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LES BIBLIOTHEQUES ARABES
Damas: Institut Francais de Damas, 1967. xxxvi, 447 pp. Bound in black boards backed in black leather over original printed wraps, silver gilt lettering and borders. Tips rubbed, fore tail a bit bumped, clean and sharp otherwise.
THE ALEF-BEIT: Jewish Thought Revealed Through the Hebrew Letters
Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1991. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. xiii, 501 pp. Black cloth, gilt titling to spine and front cover. Paperclip impression to early pages, pristine copy otherwise. DJ crisp and bright.
ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
London: Routledge, 2006. Paperback. 340 pp. Owner's name inside front cover, tips rubbed, sound and unmarked otherwise.
IN THE VINEYARD OF THE TEXT
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Paperback. 154 pp. Neat pen to early pages, clean and sound otherwise.
THE OFFSET PROCESS: Home Study Course
Pressmen's Home, Tennessee: Technical Trade School, 1939-1941. Hardcover. Sammelband volume of 11 individual booklets. 8vo, burgundy finished cloth, gilt spine lettered and ruled. From the library of the International Pressmen's Union with their lending pouch and spine notation. Later owner's stamps and labels to FPEP, name embossed to front cover.....
SIGN, SYMBOL AND SCRIPT
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1970. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 613 pp. Large 8vo, yellow cloth, black stamped spine lettering and rosetta stone to front cover. Pristine copy, entirely clean and sharp; DJ price clipped, crisp and bright otherwise.
ON THE ART OF READING
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920. Hardcover. viii, 237pp. Second impression of the first edition. 12mo, navy cloth, bright gilt title publisher's crest to spine, deckled edges. Some light rubbing to extremities, front hinge starting about 1" from head. A very clean, smart copy.
The Bible of Saint Louis, Volume II: Commentary Volume
Barcelona: Moleiro, 2004. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 493 pp. 4to, grey cloth, printed endpapers, red place ribbon. Extensively illustrated throughout with in-text color images from the ms and full-page leaf facsimiles. Comprised of 9 essays by leading scholars in all fields pertaining to the meaning and import of the Bible.....
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
New York: Sheed & Ward, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. SIGNED by the author on half-title. viii, 374 pp. Paper over boards, backed in rust cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Short pen notation to FFEP, the faintest rubbing to tips, very clean and sharp otherwise. DJ.....
THE ORDER OF MINIMS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 367 pp. 8vo, green cloth. A bit thumbed, sound and unmarked otherwise; DJ shows some hand soiling and small splotch to front, tips worn with some loss at spine extremities.
READER, COME HOME
New York: Harper, 2019. Paperback. New Book. 288 pp. The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent.....
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