FOLDWELL.
Chicago, IL: Chicago Paper Co., n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Offers advice on advertising. Illustrated. Pages French fold. Illustrated. Covers lightly soiled. READ MORE about FOLDWELL
Price: $120.00 Order nr. 133607
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GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE EXTINCT AND DORMANT BARONETCIES OF ENGLAND, IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.
London: John Russell Smith, 1844. large 8vo. three-quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, gilt rules, elaborate gilt design on spine, five raised bands, top edge gilt. (x), 603+(1) pages. Second Edition. Illustrated throughout with coats-of-arms. The frontis is an engraving of a portrait of James I. Between the frontispiece and the actual title page is a lovely color (chromolithography?) title page from the 1838 edition published by Scott Webster and Geary. It is the..... READ MORE about GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC HISTORY OF THE EXTINCT AND DORMANT BARONETCIES OF ENGLAND, IRELAND AND...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 90073
GAME TRAILS IN IDAHO AND ALASKA.
N.P. n.p., (1940). 8vo. blue-green cloth, brown title panel on front cover. (vi), 43 pages. Limited to 400 numbered copies (Heller 51). Illustrated. Sequal to Game Trails from Alaska to Africa. Only a touch of sunning to the spine, else near fine. READ MORE about GAME TRAILS IN IDAHO AND ALASKA
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 43180
ARTISTS' PIGMENTS: A HANDBOOK OF THEIR HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS.
Washington: National Gallery of Art, (1986). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 300 pages. Volume 1. Reference work about artists' pigments from antiquity to modern times. Suitable for artists, art historians, conservators, curators, and connoisseurs. Preface by J. Carter Brown. Introduction by Robert L. Feller and ten essays by noted scholars. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Two appendices. Ink inscription on inside front wrapper. READ MORE about ARTISTS' PIGMENTS: A HANDBOOK OF THEIR HISTORY AND CHARACTERISTICS
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 106775
HISTOIRE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE.
Paris, France: Baschet et Cie. 1945. folio. quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, decorated endpapers. (viii), 451, (5) pages. Text in French. Foreword by the author, bibliography, index. Table of contents follows text. A chronological and thematic history of photography, setting forth the linkage between technique and the meaning of images. Includes a framed full-page image of a calotype negative and its positive print. Six leaves of color plates, including two tipped-in. Several three-dimensioinal images. Hundreds..... READ MORE about HISTOIRE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 122660
HISTORY OF DESKTOP PUBLISHING.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. printed paper-covered boards. 400 pages. History of Desktop Publishing is a personal and encyclopedic story of how the personal computer, unique applications, and many colorful people changed the creative and print communities. Author Frank Romano has documented the histories of hot metal and phototypesetting and continues the tale of document production in this book. This installment ends as the Internet becomes a primary focus..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 133473
TALL TREE.
N.P. n.p., n.d. broadside (9 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches). Limited to 150 numbered copies. Etching by Japanese artist Tanaka Ryohei (born 1933), a contemporary Japanese print artist. Signed. READ MORE about TALL TREE
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 133188
CHARLES DICKENS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS AND SELECTED SECONDARY WORKS.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 8.125 x 10.75 inches. Hardback with dust jacket. 160 pages. "This meticulously researched volume untangles the complicated and confusing history of American first editions of Dickens. It will be of interest to all students of Dickens, and invaluable for specialists. ... Highly recommended." - J. D. Vann, Choice This bibliography traces the history of Charles Dickens's Christmas books and other works published in America during his lifetime. Meticulously..... READ MORE about CHARLES DICKENS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS, THE CHRISTMAS BOOKS AND SELECTED...
Price: $64.00 Order nr. 133475
BIBLIOGRAPHIE GÉNÉRAL DE L'ASTRONOMIE.
3 volumes.
(Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, n.d. but 2001). 8vo. cloth. vvi, (i), 680; 681-1623; lxxxix, 2225+(1) pages. 3 volumes. Facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1882-1889 first published in Bruxelles. (Besterman 587). A truly exhaustive bibliography, Houzeau and Lancaster's work is recognized as the primary bibliographical source for the history of astronomy from the earliest times up to 1880. Altogether, there are nearly 3,000 pages of text and approximately 42,000 bibliographical citations. Volume I...... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIE GÉNÉRAL DE L'ASTRONOMIE
Price: $285.00 Order nr. 69136
ENGLISH BINDING BEFORE 1500.
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1929. folio. cloth, top edge gilt. (xii), 60 pages followed by 55 full page plates of bindings. Printed in an edition limited to 500 copies for sale by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press (Appleton p.81, S-K 2194). Ex-library. Table of contents, list of plates, acknowledgments, list of plates, eleven appendices. This book is divided into two sections, the Early Bindings, before 1300 and the Gothic Bindings, c.1450-1500. Given..... READ MORE about ENGLISH BINDING BEFORE 1500
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 130533
WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE.
Accompanied by an original copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK.
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts: Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995. 8vo. quarter leather with paste paper over boards, leather spine label. Booklet is stiff paper wrappers held in porfolio. Both inserted in a cloth-covered clamshell box. xxiii, 216 pages. Accompanied by an original copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK. First edition. One of 44 special signed and numbered copies. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the..... READ MORE about WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 129307
COMMUNIST.
Derry, NH and Ridgewood, NJ: Babcock and Koontz, (1987). 8vo. cloth, label on spine. unpaginated. Limited to 240 numbered copies, 40 signed by the author and illustrator, handbound in cloth. This copy is thus. Title page wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec. Printed by the Coffee House Press at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. READ MORE about COMMUNIST
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 123822
KATALOG DER LIPPERHEIDESCHEN KOSTÜMBIBLIOTHEK.
2 volumes.
Berlin: Mann, 1965. 4to. cloth. xix, (iii), 593+(1); ix, (iii), 595-1166, (2) pages with 221 plates. 2 volumes. Second, completely revised from the first edition. Includes 60 years more of collecting activities of Lipperheide'schen Costume Library in Berlin, which "has remained unique as a specialized library in the world." A catalogue of the collection of the costume library, with illustrations taken from illustrated books on costume. Includes a bibliography of all books in the collection..... READ MORE about KATALOG DER LIPPERHEIDESCHEN KOSTÜMBIBLIOTHEK
Price: $399.00 Order nr. 76144
LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE. REVISED EDITION.
Wilmington: Printed by R. Porter and Son, 1829. 8vo. library buckram. vii, 760 pages. B1-2526. Shaw & Shoemaker 38363. With a three page preface by Willard Hall giving a short history of the printing of the Laws of Delaware and summarizing why this "Revised Edition" was issued. Took the first six volumes and 496 pages of the seventh volume and printed only laws still active. Ink stamp of Maine State Library on title page and..... READ MORE about LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE. REVISED EDITION
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 68251
THE CELLULOID PAPER TRAIL: IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FILM SCRIPTS.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 8.5.x 11 inches. Hardcover, printed paper-covered boards. 232 pages. "Now Johnson has authored a deeper, more descriptive guide to film script identification. It's jam-packed with 130 examples of easily recognized American and British films in nearly every genre, documenting phase after phase of script development. ... landmark research and organization." - Kurt Brokaw, The Independent Foreword by Tony Bill, Academy Award-winning producer (The Sting), director and actor. The..... READ MORE about THE CELLULOID PAPER TRAIL: IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FILM SCRIPTS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 130880
GEORGE W. JONES : PRINTER LAUREATE.
(Nottingham/New York): Plough Press / Mark Batty, (2004). 8vo. with 4to. portfolio. half-leather, marbled paper boards, stiff paper portfolio, all in slipcase. (vi), 128 pages. Limited to 45 copies, hand-bound by The Fine Bindery of Wellingborough and containing original samples of George W. Jones' printing. The samples, loosely contained in the separate portfolio, are four leaves from The Canterbury Tales, two leaves from The Georgics of Vergil, two leaves from Two Centuries of Typefounding, one..... READ MORE about GEORGE W. JONES : PRINTER LAUREATE
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 86854
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 This book is an attempt to give a comprehensive sense of Emery Walker as a person, along with his career and achievements, in..... READ MORE about EMERY WALKER: ARTS, CRAFTS, AND A WORLD IN MOTION
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 133470
PRINTING FOR BOOK PRODUCTION: EMERY WALKER'S THREE LECTURES FOR THE SANDARS READERSHIP IN BIBLIOGRAPHY, DELIVERED AT CAMBRIDGE, NOVEMBER 6, 13 & 20, 1924.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) was a leading figure of the Arts and Crafts movement and the inspiration for the revival of fine printing in Britain, the Continent, and America. His November 1888 address to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (summarized in Appendix 1 of this book; the original text of the speech is lost) prompted William Morris to..... READ MORE about PRINTING FOR BOOK PRODUCTION: EMERY WALKER'S THREE LECTURES FOR THE SANDARS READERSHIP IN...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 131955
THE HISTORY OF MARBLED FLOWERS/DIE GESCHICHTE DER MARMORIERTEN BLUMEN.
Tübingen: Jäckle-Sönmez, 1991. miniature (7.5 x 5.5 cm). marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label. 75+(1) pages, 10 plates. Limited to 150 copies. A history of marbled flowers by Sönmez in both English and German, with ten samples of marbled flowers in the back. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF MARBLED FLOWERS/DIE GESCHICHTE DER MARMORIERTEN BLUMEN
Price: $475.00 Order nr. 97761
MARK TWAIN'S NICODEMUS DODGE.
San Diego: Ash Ranch Press, 1989. miniature book (4.8 x 6.6 cm). quarter leather, paper-covered boards, title gilt-stamped on spine, slipcase. 31+(1) pages. Limited to 52 copies, 26 black bonded leather, gold-stamped and numbered. Deluxe edition of 26 bound in special printed and gold-stamped paper over boards with blue-bonded leather spine and slipcase and matching endpapers, signed by publisher Don Hildreth. This is a Deluxe copy. (Bradbury, Ash Ranch Press 13). Author and title gilt-stamped..... READ MORE about MARK TWAIN'S NICODEMUS DODGE
Price: $275.00 Order nr. 116604
AMSTON POND.
N.P. n.p., n.d. broadside (11 by 14 1/4 inches). Signed etching by Thomas W. Nason (1889-1971). Nason was a print maker from Lyme, Connecticut, known as the "poet engraver of New England." Nason became known for his poetic and somber observations of the rural New England landscape. According to a statement on the reverse, this is a limited edition for members of the Society of Pring Connoisseurs of Alexandria, Virginia. READ MORE about AMSTON POND
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 132849
PROVENANCE RESEARCH IN BOOK HISTORY: A HANDBOOK.
New Castle, DE and Oxford, England: Oak Knoll Press and The Bodleian Library, 2019. 6.14 x 9.2 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 448 pages. "Anyone interested in the provenance of books would be well advised to obtain a copy of the new edition, even if they own the previous one... what has changed the most are the increased awareness of its importance as a field of study, and the research tools available, especially online ones. The..... READ MORE about PROVENANCE RESEARCH IN BOOK HISTORY: A HANDBOOK
Price: $86.00 Order nr. 130824
A HOMAGE TO JOHN KEATS.
N.P. The Sarabande Press, (1984). small folio. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut, cloth slipcase. 34, (4) pages. Limited to 250 copies, signed by the author on colophon. Designed by Joe Marc Freedman, display lettering by G.G. Laurens. A collection of poetry. Author's note follows text. READ MORE about A HOMAGE TO JOHN KEATS
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 129083
GOLDEN CHILD, A LIBRETTO BY PAUL ENGLE FOR AN OPERA COMPOSED BY PHILIP BEZANSON.
Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, 1960. 8vo. paper covered boards. 61 pages. Limited to 105 numbered copies signed by both Bezanson and Engle. Printed letterpress by K.K. Merker and Harry Duncan at the Cummington Press. With photographs from the telecast première on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. A tight, bright, and unmarred copy. READ MORE about GOLDEN CHILD, A LIBRETTO BY PAUL ENGLE FOR AN OPERA COMPOSED BY PHILIP BEZANSON
Price: $500.00 Order nr. 132952
CORNWALL, AN INTERIOR VISION.
Lower Marston: Whittington Press, 1992. 4to. ribbon tied stiff paper wrappers, slipcase with paper label on spine. (21) pages. Limited to 135 signed and numbered copies, this being one of a hundred of the trade edition. (Butcher 115). Printed by the artist on F.J. Head hand-made paper, and bound in Japanese style. Contains eight mesmerizing copper engravings by Hanscomb, accompanied by short, verse-like texts which relate to each engraving all which capture the beauty and..... READ MORE about CORNWALL, AN INTERIOR VISION
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 36616
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