Ray, Gordon N.

BOOKS AS A WAY OF LIFE.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2017. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. xxxiii, 432 pp. Gordon N. Ray (1915-1986), professor of English at the University of Illinois from 1946 to 1960 and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation from 1963 to 1985, was one of the major book and manuscript collectors of his time. His two great Morgan Library catalogues, on English and French book illustration, are..... READ MORE about BOOKS AS A WAY OF LIFE

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129887

(Etherington, Don). Landon, Richard; Marie E. Korey (editor).

A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON.

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  other currencies  Order nr. 134379

(Baldwin, Christopher Columbus). Larkin, Jack and Caroline Sloat (editors).

A PLACE IN MY CHRONICLE: A NEW EDITION OF THE DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BALDWIN, 1829-1835.

Introduction and Transcription by Jack Larkin
Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society, 2010. 8.5 x 11.5. hardcover, dust jacket. 322 pages. Introduction and Transcription by Jack Larkin. The text of Baldwin's diary is a virtual trip back in time, and this edition with its lively illustrations and helpful identification of the hundreds of people he meets along the way, takes the reader back into Massachusetts in the years between 1829 and 1835. Numerous illustrations and pictures expand the descriptions Baldwin gives readers..... READ MORE about A PLACE IN MY CHRONICLE: A NEW EDITION OF THE DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BALDWIN, 1829-1835

Price: $55.00  other currencies  Order nr. 104667

PARENTHESIS 29: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION.

Oldham, England: Fine Press Book Association, 2015. 4to. quarter cloth over paste-paper covered boards, paper spine label, portfolio of prints, slipcase. 63+(1) pages. Limited to 900 copies, of which this is one of the deluxe editions with a separate portfolio of printer's specimens, hardbound, and inserted into a slipcase. Number 29. Includes articles, book reviews, biographical sketches of contributors. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Fall 2015 / Number 29 / Robert McCamant, Editor..... READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 29: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION

Price: $225.00  other currencies  Order nr. 137479

Wolfe, Richard J. (translator).

DER VOLLKOMMNE PAPIERFÄRBER: THE ACCOMPLISHED PAPER COLORER.

A facsimile reproduction and translation into English of the earliest extant German treatise on paper marbling and decoration, together with an introductory discussion of the earliest specialized literature in Germany on the marbling and decoration of paper (by Richard J. Wolfe).
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 5.25 x 7.5. cloth bound with a cover-paper reproduction of an early German decorated paper. 180 pages. A facsimile reproduction and translation into English of the earliest extant German treatise on paper marbling and decoration, together with an introductory discussion of the earliest specialized literature in Germany on the marbling and decoration of paper (by Richard J. Wolfe). This new work, limited to 300 copies of which 275..... READ MORE about DER VOLLKOMMNE PAPIERFÄRBER: THE ACCOMPLISHED PAPER COLORER

Price: $60.00  other currencies  Order nr. 99499