DEVICE < Back to Terminology List DEVICE Feature The printer’s device is a design used as a printer’s logo. Classic examples include the “Aldine’s Anchor and Dolphin,” the “Estiennes’ Tree of Knowledge,” or the “Elzeviers’ Globe.” Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE PJK Books and Such Inc. OWNER: Paul Knust Member since: 2022 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: % COUPON CODE (if applicable): pjkbooksandsuch@gmail.com 631-786-1725 631-750-3430 742 Mink Ave, #236, Murrells Inlet, SC, 29576, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

PLATE < Back to Terminology List PLATE Feature A special page containing an illustration or other extra information. Usually produced on higher quality paper and unprinted on the reverse. Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Brian DiMambro Rare Books & Maps OWNER: Brian DiMambro Member since: 2011 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 30 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): 30% OFF all purchases $50+ on our own website mapsbooks@comcast.net 603-866-2899 567 Central Ave, Dover, NH, 03820, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale We welcome and appreciate trade orders! We offer a generous 30% discount on our website for any order over $50. Orders over $250 qualify for a 40% discount! Contact us for current discount code to use at check-out. New Arrivals added daily. We are very active full-time merchants of antiquarian material of all types (especially colorful ephemera) with a strong visual aspect.

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Desert Wind Rare Books OWNER: Christian Fassbender Member since: 2023 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: % COUPON CODE (if applicable): Desertwindrarebooks@gmail.com 17752471430 1526 Westfield Ave, Reno, NV, 89509, United States More about this bookseller 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Scorpio Books OWNER: Lorna Quorn Member since: 2023 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 10 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): scorpiobooks@fastmail.com 01986 896169 07736908336 85 Loddon Road, Ditchingham, Norfolk, NR35 2RA, United Kingdom More about this bookseller We are second-hand and antiquarian booksellers and have a combined bookselling history of over half a century. Apart from our specialist subjects we have a large general stock. In the unlikely event of a book found not to be as described it may be returned for a full refund inclusive of return postage. However, we would ask that we are notified by email or telephone of your decision to return a book within 14 days of receipt. 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

DICKENS, Charles. Complete Set of "Christmas Books" - 5 Volumes, 1845-1848 PRICE $ 4995 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Complete Set of Charles Dickens's "Christmas Books" - 5 Volumes, 1845-1848. Signed binding by Dickers & Sons of London, circa 1900-1920s. Three quarter red leather with red cloth and matching gilt. Page edges all gilt, all volumes have marbled endpapers. Each with original cover and spine bound into the back of the volume. Each with a bookplate of Sir Charles Philip Huntington, 3rd Baronet. He died in 1928 so that helps with the dating. “The Chimes: A Goblin Story or Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In” [Chapman & Hill, 1845]. Twelfth Edition. Illustrated. One scratch to spine, else Fine. “A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas” [Chapman & Hall, 1845]. Twelfth Edition. Illustrated by John Leech in both color and black & white. Minor wear to lower portion of frontispiece, else Fine. “The Cricket on the Hearth, A Fairy Tale of Home” [Bradbury & Evans, 1846]. Sixth edition. Illustrated. Fine “The Battle of Life, A Love Story” [Bradbury & Evans, 1846]. First edition. Illustrated. Fine. “The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, A Fancy For Christmas-Time” [Bradbury & Evans, 1848]. First edition. Illustrated. Fine. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Buzz Bookstore DICKENS, Charles. Complete Set of "Christmas Books" - 5 Volumes, 1845-1848 See Item DUMAS, Alexandre "Le Comte de Monte-Cristo" [Michel Lévy Frères, 1850] See Item SHELLEY, Mary "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" [H.G. Daggers, 1845] 2nd US Edition See Item STOKER, Bram "Dracula" [Doubleday & McClure, 1899] 1st American Edition See Item

INCUNABULA < Back to Terminology List INCUNABULA General Books printed between Gutenberg’s invention of moveable type and the year 1500, coined from the Latin word cunae, meaning “cradle”. Previous Next

VARIANT < Back to Terminology List VARIANT General A copy of a book that varies in some way from the ideal copy. Can refer to binding color, illustrations, etc. Previous Next

Continue VISIT WEBSITE Bruce Cave Fine Fly Fishing Books OWNER: Bruce Cave Member since: 2008 (only displayed to logged-in members) MEMBER-TO-MEMBER DISCOUNT: 10 % COUPON CODE (if applicable): robertbrucecave@outlook.com 279.202.5359 279.202.5359 7924 Arcade Lake Lane, Citrus Heights, CA, 95610, United States More about this bookseller Hello Folks, I sell books on fly fishing and also fishing bibliographies. And related ephemera on nearly anything related to fly fishing. What I don't sell are books on hunting (aka Track & Smack books), guns, or related stuff. I like catch and release, and that gives my quarry a chance to live another day. 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 Featured Items Terms of Sale

DOXEY'S GUIDE to SAN FRANCISCO and the Pleasure Resorts of California. San Francisco: William Doxey PRICE USD $650 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Beige wraps. Issued as Pacific Series, No. 1, dated July 1, 1897. This copy with inscription penned and signed "The Author" at The "Book Shop" in year of publication. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Andrew Langer, Bookseller CRABS headlining for Commander Cody - Flyer for 1970 Berkeley show See Item Retrospective on Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin & Jim Morrison See Item A satirical and humorous look at Medical School from the eyes of a student See Item DOXEY'S GUIDE to SAN FRANCISCO and the Pleasure Resorts of California. San Francisco: William Doxey See Item United Air Lines flyer promoting Flights over San Francisco at GGIE exposition See Item

BIBLIOGRAPHY < Back to Terminology List BIBLIOGRAPHY General A reference work detailing published titles on a given subject or by a given author; used by book sellers and collectors to verify the authenticity of an edition or issue of a given title. The image depicts a bibliography of The Golden Cockerel Press, one of many issued by the press to document its work by period of issue. Previous Next