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Amer Library Assn, 1971-06. Hardcover. Good.

London: The Library Association / Chaucer House, Malet Place, 1954., 1954.. Very good. - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are lightly rubbed and soiled, the spine darkened and title faded. x & 288 pages, illustrated with 12 plates. The endpapers and pastedowns are darkened and foxed. Very good. <p>First edition.

London: The Library Association, 1978. Full red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, pages age toned, jacket is not price clipped but has a hint of wear. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall an EXCELLENT book in an EXCELLENT brodart protected dust jacket. A good gift. . Full Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

London: The Library Association, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second printing. Octavo. 288pp. Blue cloth gilt. Discreet ex-library copy with bookplate and stamp, pocket removed and shelf number removed from spine, else a sound very good or better copy.

GB: Library Association, 1954. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. BUT endpapers browned and spine a little dull.. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/No DW.

Library Association, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Third, revised edition. Unmarked save for signature on endpaper. A stout, unworn hardback with just a little discolouration at bottom edge of brown cloth boards. The dj is unclipped and scarcely worn.

LONDON: The Library Association, 1956 Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. x + 288pp, 12 plates as called for. Bibliography of Scientific Literature from the Earliest Times.[ Before the invention of printing / Incunabula / Rise scientific Studies / Growth Periodical literature, Publishing and Bookselling through through Scientific libraries at the time of publication. First published in 1954 the copy offered by us is a 1956 reprint. VG no d/j Boards- no notable shelf wear or soiling. Small bump to top front corner. Neat ink inscsp.to ffep., light offset tanning to free end papers.Binding sound with no other notable defects. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

GB: The Library Association, 1975. Brown cloth, gilt. Text edges lightly browned, small crescent shaped loss of surface to front cover, otherwise Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is a little dust marked in places and spine is lightlybrowned with small chip and light creasing to the top.. Reprint with Minor Corrections. Hardback. nrFine/VG DW.

London, The Library Association, 1971. . Third, Revised Edition; 8vo; pp. ix, 508, frontispiece, 16 pages of b/w plates, bibliography, index; original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, minor marks to front, otherwise a very good copy.

London: The Library Association, 1962 Cloth. 8vo. Second edition, revised. 406 pp. Very good +, in like dust jacket. Frontispiece and 16 black & white full page illustrations.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Very good +/Very Good.

London : Library Association, (1975). A reprint (with minor corrections) of the 1971 third edition. A fine history of the production, distribution and accessibility of scientific literature - with chapters on scientific incunabula, scientific books before 1600, the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, the rise of scientific societies, scientific periodicals, scientific bibliographies and bibliographers, private libraries, science publishing, etc. With an extensive bibliography. Demy 8vo (23cm). (x),508,[ii]pp. Plates. Original cloth; a few very minor signs of age and use, but a very good copy.

Scolar Pr, 2000. Hardcover. New. 4th sub edition. 405 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches.