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The Manuscript Hunter
Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels through Central America and Mexico, 1854-1859
Price:
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194165
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Coupled with Sainson's thoughtful introduction and annotations, these captivating, accessible accounts reveal Brasseur de Bourbourg's true accomplishments and offer an unrivaled view of the birth of Mesoamerican studies in the nineteenth century.
The Last Bookseller
A Life in the Rare Book Trade
Price:
CA$20.99
ISBN: 9781517916619
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade-now in paperback When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he...
Looking at Medieval Books
Learning to See
Price:
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781802078572
Pub Date: July 2023
Unlike books familiar to us from print culture, every medieval book is unique, the product of individual circumstances of planning, execution, and history. This is a fundamental difficulty for study,...
On Browsing
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CA$15.95
ISBN: 9781771965101
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon—and gaining new appreciation—amidst the bins and shelves of bricks-and-mortar shops. Written...
A Factotum in the Book Trade
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771964562
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
A lifelong antiquarian bookseller’s memoir describes the trade from the factotum’s perspective—and in doing so reveals its ticklish underbelly. A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade,...
Bluffing Texas Style
The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806165424
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
How Jenkins, a onetime president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, came to such an unseemly end is one of the mysteries Michael Vinson pursues in this spirited account of a tragic American life. Entrepreneur, con-man, connoisseur, forger, and self-made hero, Jenkins was a Texan who knew how to bluff but not when to fold.
Return of Carvajal
A Mystery
Price:
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9780271084701
Pub Date: October 2019
Imprint: Penn State University Press
The Lilly Library from A to Z
Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection
Price:
CA$45.95
ISBN: 9780253042668
Pub Date: August 2019
What do locks of Edgar Allan Poe's hair, Sylvia Plath's attractive handmade paper dolls, John Ford's Oscars, and Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 cigars have in common? They are just a few of the fascinating...
The Directory for Confessors, 1585
Implementing the Catholic Reformation in New Spain
Price:
CA$87.95
ISBN: 9780806159843
Pub Date: March 2018
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Rendered in clear prose and illuminated with helpful introductory chapters by Poole and John F. Schwaller, extensive annotations, and a glossary of terms, this volume offers unparalleled insights into life and thought in sixteenth-century New Spain.
Edward Eberstadt & Sons
Rare Booksellers of Western Americana
Price:
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780806159645
Pub Date: August 2017
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
From Yale University and the American Antiquarian Society to the Newberry Library and the Huntington Library, the firm of Edward Eberstadt & Sons has left its mark in western Americana repositories across the nation. Told here for the first time, the Eberstadt story reveals how one family's business and legacy have shaped the study of the American West.
The Manuscript Hunter
Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels through Central America and Mexico, 1854-1859
Price:
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780806155029
Pub Date: July 2017
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Coupled with Sainson's thoughtful introduction and annotations, these captivating, accessible accounts reveal Brasseur de Bourbourg's true accomplishments and offer an unrivaled view of the birth of Mesoamerican studies in the nineteenth century.
Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print
Price:
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781421421346
Pub Date: December 2016
Imprint: John Hopkins University
How scrapbooking, book collecting, and other ways of handling print media informed modernist poetry.In Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print, Bartholomew Brinkman argues that an emerging mass...
Edward Eberstadt & Sons
Rare Booksellers of Western Americana
Price:
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780870624384
Pub Date: August 2016
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
From Yale University and the American Antiquarian Society to the Newberry Library and the Huntington Library, the firm of Edward Eberstadt & Sons has left its mark in western Americana repositories across the nation. Told here for the first time, the Eberstadt story reveals how one family's business and legacy have shaped the study of the American West.
William Parks
The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
Price:
CA$81.95
ISBN: 9780271052120
Pub Date: March 2016
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Idea of a New General History of North America
An Account of Colonial Native Mexico
Price:
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780806148335
Pub Date: November 2015
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The volume, completed in 1746 and written almost entirely from memory, is presented here in English for the first time, along with the Catálogo, Boturini's annotated enumeration of the works he had gathered in New Spain.
Graphic Passion
Matisse and the Book Arts
Price:
CA$92.95
ISBN: 9780271071114
Pub Date: October 2015
Imprint: Penn State University Press
The Manuscript Hunter
Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels through Central America and Mexico, 1854-1859
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780806194165
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Last Bookseller
A Life in the Rare Book Trade
CA$20.99
ISBN: 9781517916619
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Looking at Medieval Books
Learning to See
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781802078572
Pub Date: July 2023
On Browsing
CA$15.95
ISBN: 9781771965101
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
A Factotum in the Book Trade
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781771964562
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: Biblioasis
Bluffing Texas Style
The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9780806165424
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Return of Carvajal
A Mystery
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9780271084701
Pub Date: October 2019
Imprint: Penn State University Press
The Lilly Library from A to Z
Intriguing Objects in a World-Class Collection
CA$45.95
ISBN: 9780253042668
Pub Date: August 2019
The Directory for Confessors, 1585
Implementing the Catholic Reformation in New Spain
CA$87.95
ISBN: 9780806159843
Pub Date: March 2018
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Edward Eberstadt & Sons
Rare Booksellers of Western Americana
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9780806159645
Pub Date: August 2017
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
The Manuscript Hunter
Brasseur de Bourbourg's Travels through Central America and Mexico, 1854-1859
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9780806155029
Pub Date: July 2017
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781421421346
Pub Date: December 2016
Imprint: John Hopkins University
Edward Eberstadt & Sons
Rare Booksellers of Western Americana
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780870624384
Pub Date: August 2016
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
William Parks
The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century
CA$81.95
ISBN: 9780271052120
Pub Date: March 2016
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Idea of a New General History of North America
An Account of Colonial Native Mexico
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9780806148335
Pub Date: November 2015
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Graphic Passion
Matisse and the Book Arts
CA$92.95
ISBN: 9780271071114
Pub Date: October 2015
Imprint: Penn State University Press