Etching.
N.P. n.p., n.d. broadside (19 by 13 inches). Etching of a laborer, artist unknown. Chipped at edges. READ MORE about Etching
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 133446
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BIBLIOTHECA THEOLOGICA, A SELECT AND CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THEOLOGY AND GENERAL RELIGIOUS LITERATURE.
New York: Charles Scribner's, 1883. 8vo. later library buckram. xvi, 417 pages. One of the finest bibliographes produced in the nineteenth century in America. Hurst covers exegetical theology, historical theology, systematic theology and practical theology. Over 6,000 titles given. Ex library copy with markings and library name perforated on the title page. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA THEOLOGICA, A SELECT AND CLASSIFIED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THEOLOGY AND GENERAL RELIGIOUS...
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 107785
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[COLLECTION OF CATALOGUES].
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1873-1933. small 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. Over forty catalogues from the Dutch subscription agent and book dealer Martinus Nijhoff, produced over a fifty year period. Martinus Nijhoff was founded in The Hague in 1853. It began as a small shop specializing in rare books and broadened in the ensuing years to include supplying and procuring books for academic libraries. Catalogues are printed in either Dutch, English, German or..... READ MORE about COLLECTION OF CATALOGUES
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 76233
VICTORIAN YELLOWBACKS & PAPERBACKS, 1849-1905. VOLUME I. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE.
Denver: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop, 1993. thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 557 pages. This is the first volume in what will be a multi volume set devoted to a bibliography of over 25 publishers of Victorian yellowbacks and paperbacks. It represents an expansion of the work of Michael Sadleir and the catalogue of the Robert Wolff collection. Includes information on the first English and first American editions along with other important editions, a section of..... READ MORE about VICTORIAN YELLOWBACKS & PAPERBACKS, 1849-1905. VOLUME I. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 38120
A TYPE MISCELLANY, TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY BROADSIDE PORTFOLIO.
N.P. American Printing History Association, 1994. folio. clam-shell box with paper cover label containing a four-page printed introduction by Michael Peich, a printed broadside listing participants and 29 broadside contributions by different private presses. Limited to 200 sets, A Type Miscellany, Twentieth Anniversary Broadside Portfolio was designed by Jerry Kelly with preliminary pages printed by The Stinehour Press. Contributions made by Dwight Agner, Mark Argetsinger, Lowell Bodger, John DePol, Morris Gelfand, Darrell Hyder, Steve Miller..... READ MORE about A TYPE MISCELLANY, TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY BROADSIDE PORTFOLIO
Price: $650.00 Order nr. 41174
THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHING OF THE DOMESTIC BOOKROOM.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2021. 7 x 10 inches. cloth with dust jacket. xii, 540 pages. Please note: This is a Pre-Order listing for the Second Printing, with Corrections. Expected to ship mid-February 2022. "Excavating deeply into design history, and the ways the past is continuously reinterpreted, can suggest paths to fresh ideas . . . writer and bibliophile Reid Byers has pored through centuries of evolving concepts. . . ." -Eve Kahn..... READ MORE about THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHING OF THE DOMESTIC BOOKROOM
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 134228
A CATALOGUE OF THE COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY: COMPREHENSIVE INDEX.
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Library, 2021. 12.375 x 9 inches. light gray Japanese cloth with front covers stamped in gold, with illustrated endpapers. 2 vol.: [xiii], 622, [2]; [6], 623-1252, [2]. The Comprehensive Index volumes cover all 20,082 descriptive entries published in the previous six volumes, all well illustrated: Twentieth Century (2 vol.: 12,403 entries, v.1 issued in 2000 and v.2 issued in 2003), Nineteenth Century (2 vol.: 6,370 entries, issued in 2019) and..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF THE COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY: COMPREHENSIVE INDEX
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 136109
THE CODEX PAPERS: VOLUME 2.
Berkeley, CA: CODEX Foundation, The, 2020. 6.75 x 8.5 inches. Smythe sewn, letterpress printed wrapper. 144 pages. This issue features reviews of books and exhibitions, a profile on the French bookbinder Louise Bescond, a photo essay on the Bixler Typefoundry, book shopping in Paris, an artists insights to her own process, a curators favorite artists books, and a booksellers perspective on book collecting. With contributions from: Megan Adie, Tatjana Bergelt, Michael Bixler, Deirdre Brollo, Carolee..... READ MORE about THE CODEX PAPERS: VOLUME 2
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 134848
L' ILLUSTRATION DES PSAUTIERS GRECS DU MOYEN AGE.
Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1966. 4to. paper-covered boards. 66, (2) with plates. Text in French. No. I in the Bibliothèque des Cahiers Archéologiques series, published under the direction of André Grabar and Jean Hubert. A study of three medieval Greek psalters: Pantocrator 61, Paris Grec 20 and British Museum 40731. Preface by Grabar. Foreword and bibliography. Description of the general characteristics of each psalter, with detailed descriptive information on each folio. Two pages of color..... READ MORE about L' ILLUSTRATION DES PSAUTIERS GRECS DU MOYEN AGE
Price: $145.00 Order nr. 109436
MODELES DES CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DES AUTRES CHOSES NECESSAIRES AUDIT ART. NOUVELLEMENT GRAVES. With an Introduction to Pierre Simon Fournier's MODELES ... by James Mosely.
2 volumes.
London, England: Eugrammia Press, 1965. oblong 4to. cloth, paper wrappers, both volumes enclosed in a slipcase. Facsimile of the 1742 manual accompanied by the 20 page introduction. 2 volumes. Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies. Reproduced from the copy in the Printing Library of the St. Bride Institute. Thirty-three plates depict samples of the types cut by Fournier c. 1742, which then appeared in his Manuel Typographique. A consummate artist and craftsman, Fournier..... READ MORE about MODELES DES CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DES AUTRES CHOSES NECESSAIRES AUDIT ART. NOUVELLEMENT...
Price: $850.00 Order nr. 4119
CHICAGO MODERNISM AND THE LUDLOW TYPOGRAPH: DOUGLAS C MCMURTRIE AND ROBERT HUNTER MIDDLETON AT WORK.
Australia: Opifex, 2020. 6 × 9 inches. Paperback. 144 pages. "Chicago Modernism and the Ludlow Typograph is copiously illustrated... Gehl's writing is lucid and jargon-free. His fluent and engaging manner makes the book a pleasure to read." - Paul Shaw, Journal of Design History, Vol. XX No. XX "At the core of Gehl's fascinating account of a most improbable yet successful typographic partnership is America's tentative steps toward Modernism at a time when revivalism remained..... READ MORE about CHICAGO MODERNISM AND THE LUDLOW TYPOGRAPH: DOUGLAS C MCMURTRIE AND ROBERT HUNTER MIDDLETON AT WORK
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 135039
SONGS & FABLES, WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY VINCENT TORRE.
New York: The Inkwell Press, 1990. small 4to. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards. (x), 118, (2) pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies signed by Torre. The second book in Torre's series of three books on fables. Printed by hand on American etching paper with illustrations printed from the block and colored. Bound by hand. Twenty-one fables and tales each accompanied by a colored woodcut. While serving in the US Navy, 1951-1954, stationed on the USS Orion..... READ MORE about SONGS & FABLES, WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY VINCENT TORRE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 39823
RAAMATTU.
Helsinki, Finland: Werner Soderström Osakeyhtiö, 1992. 8vo. quarter leather, decorated paper-covered boards. 1523+(1) pages, maps. Text in Finnish. The version of the Bible authorized by the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church. Includes table of contents, guide to monetary values in Biblical times, chronological table, glossary, and six maps. Signed binding by Monique Lallier. Leather spine with paper label. Paper-covered boards with. READ MORE about RAAMATTU
Price: $600.00 Order nr. 134400
THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE.
Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Introduction by Frank Swinnerton.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1964. thick 8vo. quarter leather, slipcase. xvi, 317, (3) pages. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Introduction by Frank Swinnerton. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Parker (LEC 353); this copy is not numbered and has "office copy" written in and the initials "g.c." (Gordon Carroll) and has an embossed stamp on the colophon page indicating that this is one of 25 Presentation Copies. Printed at..... READ MORE about THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 125936
EMERY WALKER: ARTS, CRAFTS, AND A WORLD IN MOTION.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 7.125 x 9.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 216 pages. "This new study offers an insight into his work, the personality that drove his long career, and the fascinating, highly-charged social and political backgrounds against which that career was played out." - William Morris Society Magazine, Spring 2020 "Correspondence forms forms the backbone of Loxley's recent book Emery Walker: Arts, crafts and a world in motion, and builds a...... READ MORE about EMERY WALKER: ARTS, CRAFTS, AND A WORLD IN MOTION
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 133470
A HISTORY OF THE NONESUCH PRESS.
With an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes & Descriptive Catalogue by David McKitterick, Simon Rendell & John Dreyfus.
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1981. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 319, (3) pages. With an Introduction by Geoffrey Keynes & Descriptive Catalogue by David McKitterick, Simon Rendell & John Dreyfus. Limited to 950 numbered copies. A beautifully printed history and bibliography of the Nonesuch Press. Set, printed and bound at the University Press, Cambridge on specially made paper from the Dalmore Mill of William Sommerville, Edinburgh. Many illustrations, some black and white, a few with..... READ MORE about A HISTORY OF THE NONESUCH PRESS
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 17386
JOURNEY OF THOMAS THE RHYMER.
Llandogo, Monmouthshire, England: The Old Stile Press, (2000). large 8vo. printed paper-covered boards, cloth slipcase with printed pictorial label. 38, (4) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 220 numbered and signed copies. Finely illustrated with original wood engravings by Angela Lemaire. The title page and the colophon page are attractively printed in two colors. READ MORE about JOURNEY OF THOMAS THE RHYMER
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 61959
FOR ROBERT PENN WARREN: 24.IV.80.
(Winston-Salem, NC: Palaemon Press), 1980. folio. cloth, paper cover label. Text and broadsides loosely inserted in portolio in a cloth-backed marbled paper covered slipcase with paper spine label. Limited to 75 numbered sets, of which 55 are for sale. Loosely inserted in the portfolio are: four page folder entitled, "RPW by Ann Carter Pollard," which contains a woodcut portrait of Warren signed and numbered by Pollard; ten poetry broadsides by A.R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, James..... READ MORE about FOR ROBERT PENN WARREN: 24.IV.80
Price: $750.00 Order nr. 108930
ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR PHYSIK.
Berlin, Germany: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1926. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 803=950+(1) pages. Text in German. Volume 36, No. 11/12. Table of contents on inside front cover. Nine scholarly articles, including Enrico Fermi, "Zur Quantelund des Idealen Cinatomigen Gases." Bibliography follows text. Charts and graphs. Covers lightly soiled and chipped at edges. Previous owner's name on front cover. READ MORE about ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR PHYSIK
Price: $900.00 Order nr. 133615
SEVEN CHARACTERS.
(Colorado Springs): The Press at Colorado College, 1980. oblong 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 75 numbered copies. Designed, printed, and bound by James Trissel. A collection of seven short stories by authors Beth Collison, Lane Hall, Katherine Walter, Walter H. Howerton, Jr., David Mason, Joan Stone and Alastair Reed. READ MORE about SEVEN CHARACTERS
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 114208
MEMORIALS OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. CROSS AND ALMS HOUSE OF NOBLE POVERTY.
Winchester and London: William Savage and Messrs. Parker & Co., 1868. 4to. cloth, gilt-decorated, all edges gilt. 96, (2) pages. Dedication to Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester. Preface, table of contents. Lists of woodcuts and photographs. Includes a history of the hospital and alms house, a description of the buildings at the time of publication and a discussion of future prospects. Publisher's gilt-decorated cloth by Burn & Co. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Illustrated with..... READ MORE about MEMORIALS OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. CROSS AND ALMS HOUSE OF NOBLE POVERTY
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 109462
LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANK G. SPECK, 1881-1950.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, (1991). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 127 pages. First edition. With chapters by John Witthoft, William N. Fenton, Ernest S. Dodge, C.A. Weslager, Edmund S. Carpenter, Anthony F.C. Wallace and Claudia Medoff. Speck wrote on the Indians of Delaware. READ MORE about LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANK G. SPECK, 1881-1950
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 67892
DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2020. 6.125 x 9.25 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 630 pages plus 8 pages of illustrations. "A masterwork. ...Tanselle has gathered his own fact-rich essays from a lifetime's worth of reflection on the physical nature of books. The result is a true summa of bibliographical insight, information and guidance. There are, for example, chapters about paper, typography and layout, typesetting and presswork, bindings, endpapers and dust jackets. Throughout..... READ MORE about DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 134700
EXLIBRIS DESIGNS FOR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS.
Tideline Press, 2010. 8vo. cloth covered boards, paper spine, 4 leather cords over spine. 53 pages. One of 21 copies. Signed by Leonard Seastone. READ MORE about EXLIBRIS DESIGNS FOR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Price: $800.00 Order nr. 108202
SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE.
Philadelphia: Allen, Lane & Scott, 1909. tall 8vo. cloth. (iv), 387 pages. B1-1700. History of the beginning of the settlement of this Delaware county in 1631 to the 20th century. Illustrated. Wear at spine ends. Shaken. Material in the back traces the Futcher family which is sited in the index. READ MORE about SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE
Price: $140.00 Order nr. 28923
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