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See More... (Bookbinding) A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER, SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF BINDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE IDEALS OF THE LAKESIDE PRESS.
Chicago The Lakeside Press 1928 4to. cloth, leather cover label. 32 pages.
S-K 6997. With 16 plates and 29 figures in the text.
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 5938

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See More... (Bookbinding) A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER, SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF BINDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE IDEALS OF THE LAKESIDE PRESS.
Chicago The Lakeside Press 1928 4to. cloth. 32 pages.
Reprint of the first edition executed via photocopy and put in binding. S-K 6997. With sixteen plates and twenty-nine figures in the text.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 63649

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See More... (Bookbinding) A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER, SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF BINDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE IDEALS OF THE LAKESIDE PRESS.
Chicago The Lakeside Press 1928 4to. cloth, leather cover label. 32 pages.
S-K 6997. With 16 plates and 29 figures in the text. Faint stain along bottom of pages. However, this copy bears a presentation on the front pastedown from the noted binder Alfred de Sauty "Dr. R. Austin-Freeman, With my best wishes, Alfred de Sauty. 8th March '290 (forgive the fireworks!)." Dr. Freeman was the author of the mystery series featuring John Evelyn Thorndyke who used the scientific method to solve crimes.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 64315

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See More... (Bookbinding) A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER, SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF BINDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE IDEALS OF THE LAKESIDE PRESS.
Chicago The Lakeside Press 1928 4to. cloth, leather cover label. 32 pages.
S-K 6997. With 16 plates and 29 figures in the text. Corner bumped and abrased spot on front cover.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 86959

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See More... (Bookbinding) A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER, SOME CONSIDERATIONS OF BINDING WITH REFERENCE TO THE IDEALS OF THE LAKESIDE PRESS.
Chicago The Lakeside Press 1928 4to. cloth, leather cover label. 32 pages.
S-K 6997. With 16 plates and 29 figures in the text. Interesting copy as loosely inserted is T.L.s. from A. de Sauty, the noted fine binder of Donnelley & Sons addressed to George McKay meant to accompany this copy. Attached to it is a handwritten copy of a letter sent by McKay to de Sauty thanking him for this copy. With the clipped mailing label present. Wear at spine ends.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 102233

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  (Bookbinding) Uzanne, Octave FRENCH BOOKBINDERS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Translated by Mabel McIlvaine. Chicago The Caxton Club 1904 4to. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. 133 pages.
First edition, limited to 250 copies. (Mejer no.614; Brenni no.605). With six wash drawings by Paul Avril, 14 facsimile binder's labels and 20 plates of bookbindings. Divided into five chapters; the origin, first attempts at a decorative renaissance, the master binders, prices, tools, raw materials and a special chapter on the use of silk, embroidery, spangles, etc. as decoration. Minor cover rubbing.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 5975

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See More... (Book Catalogue) ILLUSTRATED PRICE CATALOG OF OLD BOOKS WANTED.
Chicago American Book Mart 1936 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. iii, 120 pages.
New and enlarged edition. Contains the prices that the bookseller would pay for books. Examples are Hemingway's IN OUR TIME for $12.50, Poe's TAMERLINEfor $5,000, etc.
Price: $ 6.00 other currencies Order nr. 37393

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See More... (Book Design) AAUP BOOK SHOW 1970
Chicago Association of American University Presses n.d. (but 1971) small square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers not paginated
From the charge to the jury: " The jury is instructed to select twenty-five to thirty books which in their opinion represent the highest standards of bookmaking in both design and production. " This book shows the results of the competition with 30 books showcased .Each is illustrated in black-and-white. A little worn at the edges with the front corners beginning to curl up just a little.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 91410

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See More... (Book Illustration) BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS FROM 1900
Chicago The Arts Club of Chicago 1980 small 4to. paper wrappers. Not paginated.
Introduction by James Wells followed by descriptions of 62 books. Well illustrated. Marks at top of title page.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 16764

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See More... (Bookplates) EX-LIBRIS, A SHOWING OF INTERESTING BOOKPLATES, INCLUDING CHOICE BITS OF PHILOSOPHY BY BRILLIANT SAGES, MOTTOES USED WITH BOOKPLATES AND SELECTED LITERARY GEMS.
Chicago Silver Art Service 1932 8vo. two-toned cloth. 96 pages.
With many illustrations of bookplates.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 34294

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See More... Bostwick, Arthur (editor) POPULAR LIBRARIES OF THE WORLD.
Chicago American Library Association 1933 8vo. cloth (ii), 316 pages
A guide to libraries around the world, with essays on many nations, describing the development of popular libraries in those nations. Many of the essays are by residents. Publisher's preface, table of contents, introduction by the editor, index. Nice presentation on free endpaper "To Lessing Rosenwald, Esq., honored patron of the arts of the book from his friend, the designer of this book, Wm. A. Kittredge, Chicago, March 1, 1934." Boards lightly soiled. Light tanning at edges of text.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 116040

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See More... (Brauner, Victor) VICTOR BRAUNER PAINTINGS FROM 1932 TO 1958.
Chicago Richard L. Feigen & Company 1959 16mo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Limited to 1200 copies. Exhibition of the work of French artist Victor Brauner, includes 24 paintings. Foreword by Richard Feigen. Black and white illustration of each with description in French and English. Catalogue of the exhibition.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 114709

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See More... (Bray, Thomas) Laugher, Charles T. THOMAS BRAY'S GRAND DESIGN, LIBRARIES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN AMER ICA, 1695-1785.
Chicago American Library Association 1973 8vo. cloth. x, 115 pages.
First edition. Much on the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 24595

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See More... (Brett, William Howard) Eastman, Linda A. PORTRAIT OF A LIBRARIAN WILLIAM HOWARD BRETT.
Chicago American Library Association 1940 8vo. cloth. (x), 104, (2) pages.
First edition. A biography of this well-known Cleveland librarian. Ex library copy with markings.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 100804

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See More... Brodhead, Richard H. CULTURES OF LETTERS SCENES OF READING AND WRITING IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA.
Chicago University of Chicago Press (1993) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket x, 245+(1) pages
The author, a Professof of English at Yale, argues that writing reflects its social setting, the "literary worlds" coexisting in 19-century America. Acknowledgments and introduction. Endnotes and index.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 114521

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See More... (Brothers of the Book) Henry, Arthur PETER AND THE FAIRIES.
Chicago Brothers of the Book 1913 large 12mo. quarter vellum with gilt-stamped letters on spine, paper-covered boards. 50, (2) pages.
Printed at The Lakeside Press by R.R. Donnelley & Sons. First published in Lodgings in Town, A.S. Barnes, 1905. Design on title page, floreated chapter initial and page borders. Pages unopened. The little people are still with us.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 70792

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See More... Brown, Bolton LITHOGRAPHY FOR ARTISTS.
Chicago Art Institute of Chicago (1930) small 4to. cloth. x, 102 pages in addition to (10) full-page black and white illustrations.
First edition. Published as part of the sixteenth series of The Scammon Lectures. Covers faded.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 59041

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See More... Brown, James K. PRINTING ROLLERS, WHAT? HOW? WHY?
Chicago, IL Sam'l Bingham's Son Mfg. Co. 1959 4to. self paper wrappers 10 pages
Reprinted from the January and February 1959 issues of "The American Pressman". An article about the printing roller manufacturer. Minor wear and soiling.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 102376

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See More... Butler, Pierce (editor) LIBRARIANS, SCHOLARS AND BOOKSELLERS AT MID-CENTURY
Chicago Univ. of Chicago Press (1953) 8vo. cloth. vii, 107 pages.
First edition. "Papers presented before the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago." Ten chapters including one by Wright Howes on retail bookselling.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 11072

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See More... Butler, Pierce THE ORIGIN OF PRINTING IN EUROPE.
Chicago University of Chicago Press (1940) small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 155 pages.
First edition. (Appleton p.17). Especially interesting for the summary of the various facts known concerning the beginning of printing and the controversy surrounding Gutenberg. Minor wear to jacket.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 99322

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  Cafagna, Marcus THE BROKEN WORLD: POEMS
Urbana and Chicago University of Illinois Press circa 1996
"Fine in printed wrappers. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the title-page to fellow poet Gregory Orr: ""Greg Orr, / With respect for your fine poems! / Marcus Cafagna"". Author's first book. Blurbs by Edward Hirsch, Jim Daniels. Selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as one of five volumes published in 1996 in the National Poetry Series"
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 112503

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  Cafagna, Marcus THE BROKEN WORLD: POEMS
Urbana and Chicago University of Illinois Press circa 1996
"Fine in printed wrappers. First edition. Inscribed on the title-page to a fellow poet: ""For Alicia Ostriker, / In admiration of your fine poems! / Marcus Cafagna"". Blurbs by Edward Hirsch, Jim Daniels. Author's first book. Introductory statement by Yusef Komunyakaa"
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 112504

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See More... (Calligraphy) THE CALLIGRAPHIC STATEMENT, AN EXHIBITION OF WESTERN AND EASTERN CALLIGRAPHY AND PAINTING FROM THE 8TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY.
Chicago Arts Club of Chicago 1970 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers.
Well-illustrated. Describes 104 items.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 6234

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See More... (Calligraphy) Delamotte, F. THE SIGNIST'S BOOK OF MODERN ALPHABETS, PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL, ANCIENT AND MEDIAEVAL, FROM THE EIGHTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WITH NUMERALS.
Chicago Frederick J. Drake & Co. (1906) oblong small 8vo. cloth. Not paginated.
Second edition. Covers rubbed with lettering partially worn off and with wear at spine ends and damaged spots along back hinge and front hinge.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 108348

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See More... (Calligraphy) Standard, Paul CALLIGRAPHY'S FLOWERING, DECAY, AND RESTAURATION WITH HINTS FOR ITS WIDER USE TODAY.
Chicago Society of Typographic Arts 1947 8vo. cloth. 38 pages.
First edition. Contains many illustrations. Covers rubbed.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 1093

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