Cleveland: John T. Zubal, 1982. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxv, 808 pages. Reprint of the revised edition. 2491 entries with annotations. Spine of jacket faded, minor rubbing to edges of the jacket, else near fine. READ MORE about SIX-GUNS AND SADDLE LEATHER, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS ON WESTERN OUTLAWS AND GUNMEN
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 15178
London: Conference of Missionary Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, 1923. 8vo. later cloth, leather spine label, original wrappers bound in. xvi, 135 pages, folded map. First edition. Minor dampstain effecting the top edge of the textblock throughout, but not effecting the text. Else a lovely copy. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 138404
New York: Putnam, (1998). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xii, 769 pages. Reprint of the second edition. Near fine in near fine jacket. The successor to Bradley's Book Collector's Handbook of Values, the handbook is completely updated from the 1991 edition. A very important reference guide for any collector, librarian or dealer, this volume helps collectors identify 20,000 first editions and determine their value. READ MORE about COLLECTED BOOKS, THE GUIDE TO VALUES
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 49713
3 volumes. Foreword by Archibald Hanna.
Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1979. 8vo. cloth. variously paginated. 3 volumes. Foreword by Archibald Hanna. Printed in an edition of 400 copies. Spines soiled, else a near fine set. Reprints catalogues 22-50 which span the years 1944-1963. This period saw the cataloguing of the magnificent Greenly and Fickes collections. Biographical introduction by Peter Decker. The third volume serves as a index to the other two and is reproduced from typescript. READ MORE about PETER DECKER'S CATALOGUES OF AMERICANA
Price: $32.00 Order nr. 72618
Philadelphia: Julius H. Greenstone, 1909. 8vo. library buckram, leather spine label. xviii, 417 pages. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. Exlibrary punch on title page. Spine faded, else very good. Textblock lightly toned. Study of the Soncino and Bomberg families and later printers. Well illustrated. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about MAKERS OF HEBREW BOOKS IN ITALY, BEING CHAPTERS IN THE HISTORY OF THE HEBREW PRINTING PRESS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 78111
Cambridge: The Houghton Library, 1985. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. x, 94, (2) pages. A catalogue from the exhibition held at The Houghton Library in 1985, which featured Spanish and Portuguese books from the sixteenth century. A near fine copy. Almost all of the books were collected and donated by the late Philip Hofer, founding Curator of the Department. This collection provides an overall view of printing and illustration of the time, and documents the..... READ MORE about SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE 16TH CENTURY BOOKS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTING AND GRAPHIC ARTS
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 60766
Boston, MA: Docent Press, 2012. 8vo. illustrated paper wrappers. 52 pages. First and only edition. A fine copy. Includes preface and bibliographical sources. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RAYMOND CLARE ARCHIBALD
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 138432
Buenos Aires: Libreria L'Amateur, 1949. large 8vo. publisher's white illustrated wrappers. 172 pages. A major bookseller's catalogue of rare Argentiniana and other Americana; heavy on the Spanish world but with some "U.S.'ian" entries also. Slightly darkened with vertical crease to front cover. The covers are a little large than the body of the book and consequently the edges are folded in and have small nicks. A good, clean copy. Illustrated with facsimiles and maps. From..... READ MORE about CATALOGO DE LIBROS AMERICANOS. HISTORIA, GEOGRAFIA, VIAJES, ARQUEOLOGIA, LINGÜISTICA, MAPAS Y...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 138428
Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the King's Library, British Library Reference Division, 9 December 1975 to 29 February 1976
London: The British Library Publishing Division, 1975. square 8vo. paper wrappers. unpaginated. Catalogue of an Exhibition Held in the King's Library, British Library Reference Division, 9 December 1975 to 29 February 1976. Uneven soiling to front cover. Ownership inscription in ink inside front cover. Else a nice copy. READ MORE about JANE AUSTEN: 1775-1817
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 138165
New York: Dover Publications, (1977). large 4to. paper wrappers. xii, 212 pages. First edition. Spine faded, else fine condition. This book contains 98 reproductions of autographs, letters, poems, and signed and unsigned manuscripts of 72 prominent American authors. There are informative notes with each entry about the importance of the manuscript and life of the author. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about AMERICAN LITERARY AUTOGRAPHS FROM WASHINGTON IRVING TO HENRY JAMES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 149
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1973). square 8vo. cloth. 95 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Else near fine. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Autograph collections. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about BIG NAME HUNTING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138284
New York: Stein and Day, (1978). small 4to. cloth- backed boards. (xii), 244 pages. First U.S. edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Else fine condition. 1600 autographs from all ages and countries are reproduced with annotations. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about STEIN AND DAY BOOK OF WORLD AUTOGRAPHS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 55511
London: Routledge, 1995. 8vo. paper wrappers. 145 pages. In series: Approaching the Ancient World Series. Near fine condition. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about READING PAPYRI: WRITING ANCIENT HISTORY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138415
Bloomington: The Lilly Library, 1984. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 46 pages. Introduction by William R. Cagle and preface by Keith H. Baker. Near fine condition. Followed by the catalogue describing Eugene O'Neill, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck and others. Illustrated. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about A BAKER'S DOZEN, BEING A SELECTION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS BY ONE ENGLISH AND THIRTEEN...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 65630
Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1973. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 85 pages. Introduction by James D. Hart. Illustrated. Uneven fading to spine and covers, else a fine copy internally. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about SOME TREASURES OF THE BANCROFT LIBRARY CELEBRATING THE DEDICATION OF THE ENLARGED AND REMODELED...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 43615
Escola de Bibliotecàries de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Barcelona: Impremta de la Casa de Caritat, 1936. 8vo. paper wrappers. 64 pages. Escola de Bibliotecàries de la Generalitat de Catalunya. First edition. Exlibrary with markings. Light chipping to outer wrappers at corners. Spine reinforced with heavy tape. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about LES BIBLIOTEQUES PER A CECS A BARCELONA. NOTES PER A LLUR HISTÒRIA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138330
Freiburg, Germany: (Antiquariat Uwe Kolb), 1996. 8vo. cloth, paper front cover label. 88 pages. Text in German. A fine copy. Volume 1. With assistance of Walter Sauer and Hasso Böhme. Foreword by the editor, table of contents, indices of authors, illustrations, titles and secondary literature. A bibliography of works on Struwwelpeter (shock-headed Peter), a German children's book by Heinrich Hoffman. Color and black and white illustrations. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books &..... READ MORE about DER STRUWWELPETER: EIN BILDERBUCH MACHT KARRIERE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 125799
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
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 138398
Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1993. small 8vo. cloth. (viii), 83, (3) pages. Boards lightly soiled, else near fine. From the beginning of James Ford Bell's library, when he kept his collections in his home, to when he presented his collection of rare books to the University of Minnesota is told by the associates of the library. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about JAMES FORD BELL AND HIS BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 56912
An Annotated Catalog of Original Source Materials Relating to the History of European Expansion, 1400-1800
Minneapolis: James Ford Bell Libary, 1994. 4to. cloth. (vi), 622 pages. An Annotated Catalog of Original Source Materials Relating to the History of European Expansion, 1400-1800. This catalogue is the result of over forty years of acquisitions and cataloguing efforts by the curators of the James Ford Bell Library. Near fine condition. Very scarce. The items in this catalogue reflect Bell's curiosity with original source materials relating to the history of European expansion prior to..... READ MORE about JAMES FORD BELL LIBRARY
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 99437
New York: Bennett Book Studios, 1949. 8vo. red cloth. xxi (1), 132, (2) pages. An important listing of American color plate books with well annotated descriptions. Extremities bumped and rubbed, light crease to top corner of front board, spine a bit loose from backing. Hinges cracked but still fairly sturdy. Evidence of readership. Red Stamp on title-page, minor wrinkling to top corner of leaves. "Apart from a certain restless human curiosity which makes book-hunting a...... READ MORE about A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN NINETEENTH CENTURY COLOR PLATE BOOKS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 564
New Haven and London: Yale University, (1996). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 197+(1) pages. Exhibition catalogue for an exhibit at the Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University from March-September 1996. Lightly soiled, else a near fine copy. The exhibit also appeared at Columbia University (November 1996-Feburary 1997), Harvard University (January 1997), and Yale University (February-April 1996). The essay preceding the catalogue covers the changes the Bible underwent during the Reformation as well as the ways in..... READ MORE about THE REFORMATION OF THE BIBLE, THE BIBLE OF THE REFORMATION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 91962
Ossining, NY: William Salloch, n.d. (c. 1980). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 60 pages. Classic Salloch catalogue. Catalogue 332. 196 items. Illustrated. Age soiled. Foxing, writing in the margins of page 2. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about RELIGION: PART I THE BIBLE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138434
Exposicion con motivo del 38.o Congreso Internacioinal y 21.a Feria Internacional de ILAB (The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers).
Madrid: Fundación Lázaro Galdiano, 2008. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 240, (4) pages. Exposicion con motivo del 38.o Congreso Internacioinal y 21.a Feria Internacional de ILAB (The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers). Text in Spanish, with English and French translatins. A fine copy. Introduction by César Antonio Molina, Spanish Minister of Culture, and Michael Steinbach, President of ILAB. A collection of essays on subjects of interest to bibliophiles, including incunabula, manuscripts, bookbinding, cartography and Spanish bibliophilia..... READ MORE about BIBLIOFILIAS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 108427
Firenze: Tipografia Barbera, 1927. small 4to. original orange paper-covered boards, paper spine label, printed parchment dust jacket. xv, 357, (3) pages. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell on front pastedown. Printed parchment dust jacket has been repaired along top corner of front, rear, and spine with newer paper. Minor tears to edges of jacket. Front and rear hinges cracked, but sound. Bumped corners. Minor shelfwear. A bibliography of the printed books..... READ MORE about COMPENDIOSA BIBLIOGRAFIA DI EDIZIONI BODONIANE
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 58378
