AUGUST 2008
NEW CATALOGUES ...
JONATHAN SWIFT.
Catalogues CLXXVII.
206 items, including the Swift Collection of Michael Foot, former leader of the Labour Party. This catalogue has been sold in its entirety to Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame University, Indiana. However, copies are available, as a work of reference, at £5.00 each.
BOOKS & PAMPHLETS OF THE 17TH & 18TH CENTURIES.
Catalogues CLXXIV & CLXXII.
Visit our 17TH & 18TH CENTURY BOOKS & PAMPHLETS page to view current stock available from these, and previous catalogues.
THE MUSEUM, a 19th Century Miscellany.
Catalogues CLXIX & CLXXIII.
Available stock from these catalogues can also be viewed on this website: THE MUSEUM: a 19th Century Miscellany
WOMEN I: BOOKS FOR & ABOUT WOMEN.
Primarily 1800-1920, including sections on Domestic Economy, Education & Conduct, Female Emancipation, Health & Medicine, Religion, Travel.
STREET LITERATURE I.
Broadsides, Slipsongs & Ballads. Catalogue CLXX.
692 items in three sections: I Prose Broadsides, 139 single-sheet items, 1688 - 1979, including all forms of ephemera; II Verse Broadsides, in folio sheets & smaller single-sheet poems, 96 items, 1680 - 1937; III Slipsongs & Quartersheet Ballads, mainly of the 19th century, 457 items, 1709 - 1890. Profusely illustrated, three indexes: Place of Publication, Publishers & Printers, and Subject.
STREET LITERATURE II.
Chapbooks & Tracts. Catalogue CLXXV.
994 items. Profusely illustrated, two indexes: Place of Publication and Publishers & Printers.
OTHER RECENT CATALOGUES:
EUROPEAN LITERATURE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
Over 1,200 items, dating from the late 18th century to the 1920s. First and early editions of translations from 16 languages, primarily French , German, Russian and Scandinavian.
Major authors include:
French: Balzac, Daudet, Dumas, Flaubert, France, Gaboriau, Hugo, Kock, Loti, Sand, Stael Holstein, Stendahl, Sue, Verne, Zola.
German: Fouque, Goethe, Heine, Schiller.
Russian: Chekhov, Dostoevskii, Gorkii, Pushkin, Tolstoi, Turgenev.
Scandinavian: Andersen, Bjornson, Ibsen, Bremer, Strindberg.
and others: Jokai, D'Annunzio, Sienkiewicz, etc.
THE DICKENS CATALOGUE
It is anticipated that the next edition of The Dickens Catalogue will be available in Autumn 2008. Please let us know if you would like a copy.
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THE ROMANTICS
PART FIVE. 'THE ROMANTIC BACKGROUND'
Royalty, Reaction, Reform, Radicalism & Revolution, c.1790-1850. Including Caricature & Satire.
This is our fifth, and final, catalogue of material from the Romantic period, the previous four are listed below:
PART ONE: Blake, Bowles, Byron, Campbell, Clare.
PART TWO: Coleridge, Crabbe, De Quincey, Godwin, Haydon, Hazlitt, Hunt, Keats.
PART THREE: Lamb, Landor, Lewis, Moore, Peacock, Rogers, Scott.
PART FOUR: Shelley, Southey, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, with a Supplement of Annuals & Anthologies.
Each part includes other authors in the relevant alphabetical sequence.
To purchase the complete set of five catalogues, the price is £20 (£25 or $45 overseas by air mail).
Please visit our Catalogues page for other available catalogues.
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Catalogues in preparation:
Women II: Novelists, Essayists & Poets
London & Poverty
Newspapers
George MacDonald
Home Health, Sex Advice & Quackery
Language, Conduct & Education
Trials & Crime
Victorian Verse
Yellowbacks
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FISH WHO ANSWER THE TELEPHONE AND OTHER BIZARRE BOOKS
The latest fully revised and updated edition of Bizarre Books is published by John Murray under the title 'Fish Who Answer the Telephone & Other Bizarre Books' by Russell Ash and Brian Lake. This is hardback, with colour illustrations. Price: £9.99, ISBN 0719560187.
This can be ordered from Jarndyce ... the ideal present for the book collector with a sense of humour.
You can order two copies for the special price of £15.00.
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JARNDYCE will be exhibiting at the following bookfairs in 2008:
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PBFA YORK NATIONAL
Friday 12th to Saturday 13th September
The Racecourse, York.
For further details, visit www.yorkbookfair.com
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ABA CHELSEA
Friday 7th & Saturday 8th November
Chelsea Old Town Hall, London.
For further details, please contact: admin@aba.org.uk
or visit www.chelseabookfair.com
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BLOOMSBURY BOOKSELLERS GUIDE
The 2007-08 Bloomsbury Booksellers Guide is now on-line. Please click on the name on the left-hand side list. Printed copies of the 2008-09 edition available from April 2008.
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