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Ford, Paul Leicester . THE MANY-SIDED FRANKLIN (BRAILLE EDITION)
Cincinnati n.d (c.1910) Printed for the Library of Congress by Clovernook Printing House for the Blind, Mt. Healthy, Cincinnati. Braille version (Brailler grade 1-1/2) 4 volumes, complete. Hardcover. Lg.4to., boards. Institution stamps and marks. Good, light wear. 4 volumes. Rare. (a22637)
$250.00
Kawamura, Hiroshi (editor) . INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF LIBRARIES FOR THE BLIND 3RD EDITION
Munich 1990. ISBN 3-598-21781-1. IFLA Publications 51. Sm.8vo., 258pp., printed hardcover. Fine. (a40272)
$85.00
(braille) . UNION CATALOG OF HAND-COPIED BOOKS IN BRAILLE
Washington 1955 Library of Congress. 4to., 581pp., red buckram. Residue of label on spine. Good, inner hinges cracked, light soiling. (a42857)
$35.00
Fraser, G. R. et al. THE CAUSES OF BLINDNESS IN CHILDHOOD A STUDY OF 776 CHILDREN WITH SEVERE VISUAL HANDICAPS
Baltimore 1967 1st Johns Hopkins. Hardcover octavo. 245p. VG in Fair DJ (dj torn and chipped.) (a44920)
$33.00
Rusalem, Herbert. COPING WITH THE UNSEEN ENVIRONMENT AN INTRODUCTION TO THE VOCATIONAL REHABIILITATION OF BLIND PERSONS
NY 1972 1st Teachers College. Hardcover large octavo. 361p. VG, light wear; no owner marks, cover tips worn. no DJ. (a44922)
$24.00
(Wisconsin) . THIRTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE BLIND
Madison 1862 Roberts. Octavo., 28pp., original printed lime green wraps. Good. (a61393)
$30.00
Holmes, Miss Alice A. . LOST VISION
New York 1888 De vinne. Memoir and essays of a blind woman. 12mo., 95pp., brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettering. Medical Society bookplate and small title page stamp. VG. (a65281)
$50.00
Moon, Dr. William . DR. MOON'S ALPHABET FOR THE BLIND (plate only, not a book)
1877. Frontispiece plate from Moon's book, Light for the Blind. Plate shows Dr. Moon's braille-type raised alphabet and phrase "God is Love" in Moon's alphabet. Sheet is 8 x 5 inches. Printed logo on top of page: Under the Patronage of Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen, and below is a printed address: 104, Queen's Road, Brighton, Sussex. A short printed description of the reasoning behind the alphabet is also given. O recto only, back is blank. Near Fine. Plate only, no book. (a68740)
$250.00
Gordon-Cumming, Miss C. F. . THE INVENTOR OF THE NUMERAL TYPE FOR CHINA FOR BLIND AND ILLITERATE PEOPLE
London 1899 a new edition, Downey. Hardcoaver. 12mo. 189pp., photo illustrations, yellow cloth with brown lettering and trim. A few ink notations (possibly by Gordon-Cumming). Tipped in rear: 14th Annual Report of Mission to the Chinese Blind for year 1900 (29p.); same for 1901 (lacks title page, 35p.) Good, a bit soiled. (a70799)
$65.00
Prince, J. H. . PRINTING FOR THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED
1967. Article at pp. 31-48 in Journal of Typographic Research. Complete issue has numerous other related articles. Octavo, 100pp., wraps. VG plus. (a70897a)
$30.00
Wiggins, Richard H. . EFFECTS OF THREE TYPOGRAPHICAL VARIABLES ON SPEED OF READING
1967. Article at pp. 1-30 in Journal of Typographic Research. Complete issue has numerous other related articles. Octavo, 100pp., wraps. VG plus. (a70897b)
$30.00
Sjogren, Torsten and Tage Larsson . MICROPHTHALMOS AND ANOPHTHALMOS WITH OR WITHOUT COINCIDENT OLIGOPHRENIA - A CLINICAL AND GENETIC-STATISTICAL STUDY
Copenhagen 1949 Ejnar Munksgaard. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica Supp. 56. Octavo, 103p., original printed wraps. Medical library name stamp and "duplicate" on cover. VG. (a84878)
$55.00
Artman, William . BEAUTIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE BLIND
Rochester 1882 1st Published for the Authors. Chapters on successful blind writers from Milton to lesser known writers; and a shorter section on blind lawyers, doctors, other professionals. Lovely Biblical quotation is printed in a full page of raised letter blind stamp as frontis (printed by N.B. Kneass, Jr. Philadelphia printer.) Hardcover. Octavo, 387pp., original cloth. Good, light wear. (m9)
$40.00