San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1973. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 66 pages. Reprint of revised edition. Describes 28 works in the Huntington Library chosen for their content and monumental form given to them by their printers. Illustrated. A fine copy.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about GREAT BOOKS IN GREAT EDITIONS
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San Marino: The Huntington Library, (1966). 8vo. paper wrappers. 66 pages. Second printing of the revised edition. Describes 28 works in the Huntington Library chosen for their content and monumental form given to them by their printers. Illustrated. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. READ MORE about GREAT BOOKS IN GREAT EDITIONS
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 99158
Allendale, MI: Grand Valley State University, 2010. 8vo. paper wrappers. 134 pages. First edition limited to 100 copies of this scarce catalogue. A fine copy. Color illustrations throughout. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about FIFTY AT FIFTY: A CATALOGUE OF INCUNABULA IN THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
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Urbana: Univ. of Chicago Press, (1969). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 611 pages. Second printing. Jacket chipped, else a near fine copy. Contributions to Librarianship, No. 8. Important collection of studies. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY, CURRENT STATE AND FUTURE TRENDS
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New York: Arno Press, 1973. 8vo. silver cloth. (iv), 87, 60, 8, (4) pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1852 EDITION (the 9th edition of Part I and the 5th edition of Part II) (See Roosens & Luc Salu 6367). Part of the Literature of Photography series. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Ex-library copy with markings. READ MORE about PHOTOGENIC MANIPULATION. PART 1 AND II
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Oyster Bay, NY: Binnacle Press, 1962. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. (ii), 18, (4) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies printed for friends of the Binnacle Press. Designed and illustrated by John DePol. The text type is Linotype Times Roman with Bulmer display on Strathmore Text and Ivory Wove Paper. With centerfold chart of the route of the schooner "Stephen Taber" 10 to 15 July, 1961. READ MORE about LOG: FIVE DAYS ABOARD THE SCHOONER "STEPHEN TABER."
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(New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 2003). broadside (12 by 8 3/4 inches). Introduction to portfolio of private press broadsides commemorating Oak Knoll Fest X, New Castle, Delaware. This broadside was printed by Henry Morris, Bird & Bull Press. From an incomplete set of the broadsides published in portfolio form for Fest X. READ MORE about Introduction to Oak Knoll Fest X Portfolio
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 127120
Volume 1 (of two) volumes.
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1834. 8vo. original brown cloth, paper spine label. xxviii, (29)-278, (2), (12) pages. Volume 1 (of two) volumes. First edition of author's first book. (BAL 1152). With a 12 page publisher's catalogue at the end of each volume - being state B in the first volume ("Just Published ... Private Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte"). No priority assigned by BAL. Robert Montgomery Bird was a well-known Delaware author that resided in..... READ MORE about CALAVAR; OR, THE KNIGHT OF THE CONQUEST: A ROMANCE OF MEXICO
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Volume Two (of two).
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. 8vo. original brown cloth, paper spine labels. 8, 256 pages. Volume Two (of two). First edition. (BAL 1155). State B of the paper spine label with text printed in all capitals. Also has an eight page section at the beginning describing new books issued by Carey, Lea, & Blanchard which is not noted by BAL. These ads refer to the second edition of both CAVALAR and THE INFIDEL. BAL..... READ MORE about HAWKS OF HAWK-HOLLOW. A TRADITION OF PENNSYLVANIA
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London: Monotype Corp. 1964. 8vo. later cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. 29 pages plus a frontispiece and eight plates. First edition. (Appleton 346 for Morison). Prefatory note by Frank Francis, Stanley Morison and John Carter. Near fine. READ MORE about PRINTING AND DEMOCRACY
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New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, (1982). small folio. cloth, dust jacket. 405+(1) pages. Table of contents, bibliography, index, photographic credits. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE about AMERICAN DECORATIVE ARTS: 360 YEARS OF CREATIVE DESIGN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 120579
(Los Angeles, CA): Black Sparrow Press, 1973. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. Second printing. March 1973. Monthly periodical of the Black Sparrow Press. Covers printed in black. READ MORE about THE CREATIVE. SPARROW 6
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 127646
(Santa Barbara, CA): Black Sparrow Press, 1976. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. First printing. January 1976. Monthly periodical of the Black Sparrow Press. Covers printed in red and black indicating first printing. READ MORE about WAS THAT A REAL POEM OR DID YOU JUST MAKE IT UP YOURSELF. SPARROW 40
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(Santa Barbara, CA): Black Sparrow Press, 1977. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. First printing. April 1977. Monthly periodical of the Black Sparrow Press. Covers printed in red and black indicating first printing. READ MORE about THE LADY OF. SPARROW 55
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 127697
(Los Angeles, CA): Black Sparrow Press, 1974. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. First printing. May 1974. Monthly periodical of the Black Sparrow Press. Covers printed in red and black indicating first printing. READ MORE about A LINE OF SIGHT. SPARROW 20
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(Los Angeles, CA): Black Sparrow Press, 1972. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. First printing. October 1972. Monthly periodical of the Black Sparrow Press, Covers printed in red and black. READ MORE about THE PASTORALS. SPARROW 1
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(Santa Barbara, CA): Black Sparrow Press, 1976. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. First printing. February 1976. Monthly periodical of the Black Sparrow Press. Covers printed in red and black indicating first printing. READ MORE about SIXTEEN ODES. SPARROW 41
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(Santa Barbara, CA): Black Sparrow Press, 1978. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. First printing. May 1978. Monthly periodical of the Black Sparrow Press. Covers printed in red and black indicating first printing. READ MORE about WHERES. SPARROW 68
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1980). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxii, 283, followed by 236 plates. First edition. Covers the role printmaking played in Blake's development as an artist and poet. Includes information on Blake's apprenticeship, his graphic styles and techniques and his theories of "appropriate form" in the graphic arts. Contains over two hundred illustrations. Important book. Dust jacket toned with tears. READ MORE about WILLIAM BLAKE, PRINTMAKER
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With an Annotated Bibliography
San Francisco: Book Club of California, The, 1983. 8vo. cloth. 84, (4) pages. With an Annotated Bibliography. First edition, limited to 550 copies. Designed and printed by Harold Berliner. With a well-annotated 57-item bibliography of Doxey's publications. Illustrated. With errata slip. READ MORE about WILLIAM DOXEY'S SAN FRANCISCO PUBLISHING VENTURE, AT THE SIGN OF THE LARK
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Austin: Book Club of Texas, The, 1995. 8vo. Orig. gray cloth covered boards, printed spine paper label. 109 pages. One of 300 unnumbered copies. Spine faded, else fine. Illustrated with Wood Engravings from William H. Emory's Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Facsimile of the original title-page and Map of antebellum southwestern Texas, circa 1861. The type is Monotype Walbaum, the paper is Mohawk Letterpress. Designed and printed by Bradley Hutchinson at..... READ MORE about RECOLLECTIONS OF WESTERN TEXAS; DESCRIPTIVE AND NARRATIVE INCLUDING AN INDIAN CAMPAIGN, 1852-55...
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Melbourne, Australia: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. small folio. cloth, gilt on cover and spine, slipcase. (xii), 130 pages. Limited to 215 copies, of which this is one of 200 numbered copies bound thus. Tipped-in illustrations and photographs of Corrigan and the bookplates. Text set in Monotype Baskerville at Whittington Press, England. Includes an exclusive 90 minute interview with Pat Corrigan on DVD. Finely bound by hand in gilt-illustrated full cloth, with slipcase, at The..... READ MORE about BOOKPLATES FOR PAT CORRIGAN & FAMILY
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 132672
Melbourne, Australia: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. small folio. cloth, gilt on cover and spine, slipcase. (xii), 130 pages. Limited to 215 copies, of which this is one of 15 deluxe copies bound in full ostrich skin, contained in a cloth clamshell box, and includes a number of original bookplates signed by the respective artists. Tipped-in illustrations and photographs of Corrigan and the bookplates. Text set in Monotype Baskerville at Whittington Press, England. Includes an..... READ MORE about BOOKPLATES FOR PAT CORRIGAN & FAMILY
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Melun: Librairie d'Argences, 1951. 8vo. later cloth with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. (vii), xxxiv, (iii), 638 pages. A bibliography of French (and other) writings related to the Middle Ages (and earlier) written by a professor at l'École des Chartres (and listed in Totok and Weitzel, p. 151). This copy displays the characteristic markings from previously being part of a public library collection, including a plate on the front free endpaper and a pocket, etc...... READ MORE about MANUEL BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE DE LA LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE DU MOYEN AGE
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Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, 1999. 4to. cloth. v, 299+(1) pages. First edition. Index describes "over 30,700 occurrences of more than 13,900 different formal names of plant and animal taxa that appear in the original editions of the 186 disserations defended by students of Carolus Linnaeus during the period 1743-1776. " READ MORE about INDEX TO SCIENTIFIC NAMES OF ORGANISMS CITED IN THE LINNAEAN DISSERTATIONS TOGETHER WITH A...
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