Bear, De: John P. Reid, April 1993. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 2, Number 2. April 1993. With an article on George Alfred Townsend (Gath) by Jerry Shields and Peggy Creswell on Ghost Stories. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67629
Bear, De: John P. Reid, April 1994. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 3, Number 2. April 1994. With an article on "The Adventures of a Book Fancier" by Hazel D. Brittingham, a memoir of the Wilmington bookseller, Mort Rosenblatt by Tom Doherty and letters concering Dr. Leon deValinger. Also information on leather making in Delaware. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67930
Bear, De: John P. Reid, December 1994. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 3, Number 6. December 1994. Article by Jeffrey W. Seemans on "the Forest of Appoquinimink", an obituary of Pearl Herlihy Daniels, an article on "Curtis Paper Company Publications" and other information. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67991
Bear, De: John P. Reid, April 1995. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 4, Number 2. April 1995. Articles on the more collectible of Delaware books, one on Richard Griffin's "Bug House Poetry", and an article on Delaware place names. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67993
Bear, De: John P. Reid, August 1995. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 4, Number 4. August 1995. Article on Elisabeth Meg, ghosts on the Delmarva by Ed Okonowicz, and articles on Jane McClellan Herson and Stanford E. Davis. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67995
Bear, De: John P. Reid, February 1996. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 5, Number 1. Article by Jeffrey W. Seemans on " An Evening in January with the Cedar Tree Press", "A Delaware Music Project" by John Reid and others. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68661
Bear, De: John P. Reid, April 01996. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 5, Number 2. Article by Alexander Shalk on "The Making of a Delaware Trivia Book", an article on a new George Alfred Townsend book, and others. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68662
Bear, De: John P. Reid, June 1996. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 5, Number 3. Articles on Hockessin, a listing of all the Papers of the Historical Society, information on fiction, poetry and slavery in Delaware and an article on Dudley Lunt's book on Delaware lawyers. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68663
Bear, De: John P. Reid, Summer 1997. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 6, Number 2. Articles on Everett C. Johnson by Robert C. barnes and Judith Pfeiffer, Delaware Jewish History, Vioetman War protests in Delaware, Delaware Main Streets, etc. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68696
Bear, De: John P. Reid, January 1999. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 7, Number 2. Obituary of Jerry A. Shields by John P. Reid, comments on the various auctions, Writings of James Warner Bellah, and a review of Delaware Aviation History by Jane Reid. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68831
Bear, De: John P. Reid, 1998. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 6, Number 4. Articles on a Delaware postcard by Marvin Balick, "The Blue Hen's Chicken's Cook Book by Peggy Creswell, "Hannah Stilley Gorby, The Oldest Person Daguerreotyped?" by Graydon Gorby, etc. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68833
Bear, De: John P. Reid, Fall 1997. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 6, Number 3. Articles on Francis Vincent, the various auctions of Delaware books, "Three Plays by Bill Frank" and "Caleb Harlan and Green Manure" READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68834
Philadelphia, PA: The Ampersands, 1942. various. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. A collection of five keepsakes, numbers 1, 2, 6, 8. 9. Most of them limited to 50 copies. Duplicate of number 8 with ink markings and notations on title and verso of title. Number 1 is Goudy's "I am Type." READ MORE about Collection of "The Ampersands" keepsakes
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 125500
N.P. n.p., n.d. (but circa 1910). 4to. half leather, cloth. unpaginated. A collection of engraved illustrations, most unidentified. Some are identified though and are the work of Stephen Sly, (British, fl. 1836-46), noted in Rodney Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1985), 239-40. Engen notes that Sly contributed to Charles Knight's Penny Magazine, Old England, and Old England Worthies.. He also illustrated some of the early issues of the Illustrated London News. Sly..... READ MORE about Collection of engraved illustrations
Price: $800.00 Order nr. 124039
N.P. n.p., various dates. broadsides, variously sized. A collection of 18 etchings, mostly of English individuals living in the 18th century. Those identified include Margaret Woffington, Ellen Gwyn, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Mary Wortley Montague, and Pepys.Some duplicates, some tanned and lightly soiled. READ MORE about Collection of etchings
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 132785
New York, NY: The Colophon Ltd, (1934). 4to. paper-covered boards. not paginated. Part sixteen of the original Colophon series. R.W. Chapman leads off this edition with "Johnsonian Bibliography, 1750-1765." Also included among the ten selections are J.B.Mussey writing on inprint collecting, and "Anthologies of American Literature Before 1861," by Fred Lewis Pattee. With a woodcut by Louis Hechenbleikner, cover and colophon page design by Louis Bouché. Ex-libris, else near fine. READ MORE about THE COLOPHON, A BOOK COLLECTOR'S QUARTERLY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 45394
New York: The Colophon Ltd, 1940. 4to. paper-covered boards. 113, (5) pages. William T. Hastings writes about the Ireland Shakespeare forgeries, also Lawrence Clark Powell on D.H. Lawrence and his critics, and an article on English illustrators by Hellmut Lehman-Haupt that features Cruikshank etchings nicely reproduced in color. Also a woodcut by Paul Landacre as a separate plate, cover and colophon design by Kurt Werth, and index to Numbers One through Four. Bookplate. READ MORE about COLOPHON, N.GR.S., THE Q FOR BKMN, V.I N.4
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 45449
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1949. 8vo. paper wrappers. 196 pages. Account of a committee appointed to examine the distribution of French books abroad, both commercially and non-commercially. Yellowed. READ MORE about COMMISSION NATIONALE DU LIVRE FRANCAIS A L'ETRANGER RAPPORT GENERAL
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 49181
(New York, NY: The Cooper Union), 1994. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. A brochure published in connection with the exhibition "From Gutenberg to the Government." Commentary by William Bevington. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about CONCISE INFORMATION: A GENERAL SURVEY OF CONCISION: TYPOGRAPIC, EDITORIAL, AND VISUAL
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131768
80 volumes. Volumes 1-63,81,83,85,86,92-104
London: Connoisseur Ltd., 1901-1939. 4to. half-leather with marbled paper-covered boards (vols.1-3,5-11,13-28) or with cloth-covered boards (vols.4,12,29-63,81,83); half-cloth with marbled paper-covered boards (vols.85,86); and cloth (vols.92-104). variously paginated. 80 volumes. Volumes 1-63,81,83,85,86,92-104. This periodical for collectors of art and decorative arts features illustrations in monochrome and in color, including some that are tipped-in and some that fold out. Beyond the articles that it published, the magazine is also noteworthy for its stylish design. In many cases..... READ MORE about THE CONNOISSEUR: AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS
Price: $2,750.00 Order nr. 86924
London: Connoisseur Ltd., 1902. 4to. half-leather with marbled paper-covered boards. Bound volume IV of this periodical. This periodical for collectors of art and decorative arts features illustrations in monochrome and in color, including some that are tipped-in and some that fold out. Beyond the articles that it published, the magazine is also noteworthy for its stylish design. Spine faded; rubbed along hinges. Foxing. READ MORE about THE CONNOISSEUR: AN ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 108108
Boston, MA: The National Economic League, 1931. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 45+(1) pages. Volume XVI, No. 2. Includes articles "The Causes of the Present Economic Depression" and "The Desirability of an International Economic Conference." Table of contents, and membership list of a committee studying the matter. Wrappers tanned and chipped at edges. READ MORE about THE CONSENSUS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 129338
2 volumes. Catalogue 78, Part One: A-L and Part Two: M-Z/Addenda
Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, Inc., (1992). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 100; 104 pages. 2 volumes. Catalogue 78, Part One: A-L and Part Two: M-Z/Addenda. A bookseller's catalogue of antiquarian books about art and photography, in particular the conservation and preservations of art, artist's manuals, colors and color theory, and more. READ MORE about CONSERVATION & THE SCIENCE OF ART
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106140
Austin, TX: The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 1985. 4to. self paper wrappers, mylar see-through binder. (ii), 162 pages. Eleven papers presented at the Fourth Annual Seminar, 1985. Listing of supplies and suppliers included. Three appendices. READ MORE about CONSERVATION OF ARCHIVAL MATERIALS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 107056
Washington: Library of Congress, 1987. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. v, (iii), 44 pages. First edition. Fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Consultantship in Poetry. Program for the evening's readings laid in. Contains a photograph of and poem by all of the consultants serving from 1937-1987. Fine. READ MORE about CONSULTANTS' REUNION 1987, A KEEPSAKE ANTHOLOGY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 112606
