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188. Holyband, Claudius. THE FRENCH LITTELTON. THE EDITION OF 1609 WITH AN
INTRODUCTION BY M. ST. CLARE BYRNE. Nieuwkoop: HES & DE GRAAF, 1953, 8vo.,
cloth-backed boards. xxxii, 220 pages. ISBN 9789061948605. $40.00 $30.00
Facsimile of the 1609 printing. The author, whose real name was Claude de Sainliens, was a Bourbon gentleman,
who settled in Elizabethan London and taught French there. His textbook was an essential Elizabethan
introduction to French. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order
No. 103362]
189. Bell, Hazel K. FROM FLOCK BEDS TO PROFESSIONALISM: A HISTORY OF INDEX-
MAKERS. New Castle, Delaware and Hatfield, Hertfordshire: Oak Knoll Press and HKB Press, 2008, 6
x 9 inches, Hardcover, dust jacket. 348 pages. ISBN 9781584562283. $95.00 $71.25
First edition, with a Preface by David Crystal. Hazel Bell presents here brief biographies of 65 individual
practitioners, the makers of indexes, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, considering their working
methods, techniques, training, remuneration, their lives and their personalities. After the biographical section on
the "Lone Workers," Bell outlines in "Banding Together" the history of groups and societies of indexers world-wide
up to 1995, the year she sees as entailing the end of print-only indexing. The book includes photographs of
indexers and of their tokens of recognition. Sales rights: Worldwide except in the UK; available in the UK from
HKB Press. [Order No. 96599]
190. Baudin, Fernand. FROM MECHANICAL TO CYBERNETIC EXERCISES. New York: The
Typophiles, 1997, 8vo., stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (ii), 18, (4) pages. $25.00 $18.75
Typophile Monograph New Series - Number 14. Limited to 500 copies designed, printed and bound by Dan Carr
& Julia Ferrari at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press. Preface by Theo Rehak. Distributed for the Typophiles by
Oak Knoll Press. [Order No. 61928]
191. Di Cesare, Mario A. THE GAME OF CHESS. MARCO GIROLAMO VIDA`S SCACCHIA
LUDUS. WITH ENGLISH VERSE TRANSLATION AND THE TEXT OF THE THREE EAR-
LIER VERSIONS EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES. Nieuwkoop: HES & DE
GRAAF, 1975, 8vo, cloth. 112 pages. ISBN 9789060043356. $65.00 $48.75
This volume presents the four extant versions of Vida`s mythological poem Scacchia Ludus, together with an
Introduction and an English verse translation. (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. XIII). Sales rights:
Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103613]
192. Mattila, Robert W. GEORGE STERLING: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Seattle, WA: Book Club of
Washington, 2004, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, hardcover, cloth. 359 pages. ISBN 096299541X. $30.00 $22.50
First edition. George Sterling (1889-1926) was born in Sag Harbor, NY but eventually was sent to Oakland,
California to work for his uncle. He spent the majority of his time writing poetry and became a major literary
figure. He was friends with Ambrose Bierce, Jack London and Clark Ashton Smith. H.L. Mencken called him the
leading candidate for America's Poet Laureate. Sterling did not lead a long life as he committed suicide in 1926.
[Order No. 87535]
193. Yoshimura, Zentaro. GLOSSARY OF LIBRARY TERMS IN JAPANESE-CHINESE-ENG-
LISH. Tokyo: Yushodo Press Co. Ltd., 1997, small 8vo., limp vinyl wrappers, cardboard slipcase. (vii),
332, (6) pages. ISBN 4841902325. $49.95 $37.46
For those working with books in English, Chinese and Japanese, this extremely useful glossary translates almost
2,000 library and book terms into English, Chinese and Japanese, both in written and spoken forms. These terms
are organized alphabetically into three sections: Japanese-Chinese-English, Chinese-Japanese-English, and
English-Japanese-Chinese. This glossary will be of great benefit to not only librarians, but to book collectors, trade
specialists, publishers and others who work with the printed word in these languages. [Order No. 49823]
194. Pollack, John H. (editor). "THE GOOD EDUCATION OF YOUTH": WORLDS OF
LEARNING IN THE AGE OF FRANKLIN. New Castle, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
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