New York: The Grolier Club and the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1988. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxiii, 432 pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. Edited and selected by Thomas Tanselle and with an introduction by him. A collection of essays by this well known book-collector. READ MORE about BOOKS AS A WAY OF LIFE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 31316
With an Introduction by Marie Elena Korey
New Castle, DE and Toronto: Oak Knoll Press and The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2014. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 440 pages. With an Introduction by Marie Elena Korey. First edition, with this particular copy is a full unsigned leather binding by Don Etherington. Full leather, with decorated leather onlays on the front panel. Leather spine label onlayed onto the spine with title in gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Cloth covered clamshell..... READ MORE about A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 134379
St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Mercantile Library, 2021. large 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxii, 23-256, (1) pages. First edition limited to 500 copies. A small bump to the bottom edge of the front board, else a fine copy in fine jacket. A scarce book. From the front flap: "A Nation, a City, and its First Library: Americana as a Way of Life at the St. Louis Mercantile Library for 175 Years marks an important anniversary..... READ MORE about A NATION, A CITY, AND ITS FIRST LIBRARY: AMERICANA AS A WAY OF LIFE AT THE ST. LOUIS MERCANTILE...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 138406
Los Angeles & Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press. A collection of forty-five (45) Black Sparrow Press publications, four New Year's Greeting cards, and a nearly complete set of Sparrow, the monthly newsletter of the Black Sparrow Press from October 1972 to September 1978. All volumes are the paperback editions and unsigned. A complete list of items are below. Black Sparrow Press was founded in 1966 by John Martin as a way to help promote..... READ MORE about A collection of Black Sparrow Press publications
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 138328
Covent Garden, London: Bertram Rota, 2005. large 4to. quarter green oasis niger over yellow cloth boards, gilt on cover and spine, quarter leather over marbled boards folding case with handmade paper linings incorporating flowers into the paper, original publisher's acetate dustjacket, decorated paper-covered slipcase. 43, (1) pages, nine color prints, of which three are double-page and six are full page. Printed in an edition limited to 48 numbered copies signed by the author/artist, of which..... READ MORE about THE REALM OF NATURE MINE
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 138499
Minneapolis, MN: Indulgence Press, 2011. 13 x 12 x 7 inches. wooden box with lifting lid, sliding drawer with two brass knobs, brass latch, leather handle, glass. Fine. One of 20 copies. Arthur & Barbara is a portrait of art critic/philosopher Arthur Danto and artist Barbara Westman as seen reflected in the space of their New York City apartment on Riverside Drive. This book embodies their life and work in symbolic forms of thoughtful play..... READ MORE about ARTHUR & BARBARA
Price: $2,000.00 Order nr. 135844
