North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1979. 12mo. paper wrappers. 16 pages. Limited to 200 copies (Taylor C20). A fine copy. A paper delivered at a meeting of the Double Crown Club in London, September 28, 1978. With information on many private press figures including Henry Morris and Richard Bigus. READ MORE about ASSAULT ON THE BOOK, A CRITIQUE OF FINE PRINTING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 11963
Los Angeles: Cotsen Occasional Press, 2004. 14.25 x 11.25 (landscape). cloth. 190 pages. In November 2004 the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University became the home of Mr. Lloyd Cotsen's extensive collection of Beatrix Potter manuscripts, original art, photographs, and related ephemera. To mark the occasion of this very special gift, the Cotsen Occasional Press produced this lavish, oversized catalogue full of illustrations and photographs of the diverse items in the collection. Part I of..... READ MORE about THE BEATRIX POTTER COLLECTION OF LLOYD COTSEN: PUBLISHED ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 75TH BIRTHDAY
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Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1966. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 68 pages. Describes about one hundred books. Illustrated. Near fine. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHESAURI, OR, JEWELS FROM THE SHELVES OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, BEING A...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 35495
London: British Museum, 1911. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages and 8 plates. 107 items described in detail. (Besterman p.760). Written by Alfred W. Pollard and H. Idris Bell. Wrappers chipped along spine, else very good. READ MORE about GUIDE TO THE MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS EXHIBITED IN CELEBRATION OF THE TERCENTENARY OF THE...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 21355
Haverhill, MA: Museum of Printing, 2022. square 8vo. softcover. xvi, 509 pages. First edition. Co-published with Pear Tree Publishing. This is the story of an iconic device for hot metal typesetting. Born at the beginning of the 20th century, its active production lifespan lasted just over 80 years, and is still in use by letterpress printers around the world. Author Frank Romano has dug deep to discover more than has ever been published about the..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF THE LUDLOW TYPOGRAPH
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 137128
Haverhill, MA: Museum of Printing, 2022. square 8vo. pictorial paper covered boards. xvi, 509 pages. First edition. Co-published with Pear Tree Publishing. This is the story of an iconic device for hot metal typesetting. Born at the beginning of the 20th century, its active production lifespan lasted just over 80 years, and is still in use by letterpress printers around the world. Author Frank Romano has dug deep to discover more than has ever been..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF THE LUDLOW TYPOGRAPH
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 137127
(Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493). broadside, framed (47.75 cm x 34.5 cm). This is a hand-colored leaf from the Liber Chronicarum. The leaft shows only small scattered amounts of foxing and spotting, with the The first woodcut featured on the CXXXI leaf is Saint Paul of Thebes, or Saint Paul the First Hermit. He is wearing robes with his hands crossing his torso. The text speaks of Paul's recollections of his life, including his upbringing and..... READ MORE about Framed Colored Leaf CXXXI from The Nuremberg Chronicle
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 137126
Dayton, OH: Volk and Huxley & Craftsman Type, n.d. (but 1972). broadside (40.75 cm x 30.5 cm). An advertising poster printed by Volk & Huxley. Issued as an insert in Champion Papers' The Printing Salesman Herald, Book 30, Special Issue on Typography. On Chamption Papers "Camerata Text, Ivory". This poster features "...many fine typefaces...Fourteen of them are truly landmarks in the history of typography. In a real sense, they are typography's classic typefaces." The fourteen..... READ MORE about THE CLASSIC TYPEFACES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 137124
Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007, 2009, 2010. 8vo. paper wrappers. variously paginated. Three volumes, all in fine condition:French Illuminated Manuscripts (2007); Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe (2009); and Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands (2010). READ MORE about Three titles on Illuminated Manuscripts
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 136594
Translated out of the Greek with Introductory Analyses by Benjamin Jowett. With a Preface by Huntington Cairns and Illustrations by Hans Erni.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. xiii, 274, (4) pages. Translated out of the Greek with Introductory Analyses by Benjamin Jowett. With a Preface by Huntington Cairns and Illustrations by Hans Erni. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Giovanni Mardersteig and Erni (LEC 338). With Monthly Letter / prospectus loosely inserted. Bookplate on free endpaper and spine label on slipcase chipped. READ MORE about THE TRIAL AND DEATH OF SOCRATES
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 120951
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2016. large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 496 pages. In Waters Rising: Letters from Florence, renowned calligrapher Sheila Waters recounts the story of the role that her husband Peter Waters (1930-2003) played as the person in charge of organizing the monumental efforts to save severely damaged books in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Library, Florence) after the devastating flood in 1966 fifty years ago. To give the most..... READ MORE about WATERS RISING: LETTERS FROM FLORENCE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 132196
Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1954. small 8vo. cloth. 67 pages. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Essays by Theodore C. Blegen, James Ford Bell, Stanley Pargellis, Colton Storm, & Lewis B. Wright. Sunned spine. READ MORE about BOOK COLLECTING AND SCHOLARSHIP
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 718
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 229 pages. First edition. "A fascinating compendium of literary lore ..." Has information on the different prize winning books. Corner bumped. READ MORE about THE BOOK BOOK
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 1537
Hartford: McBride Publisher, 2012. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 112 pages. Seventh edition, revised. A handy guide to the way different publishers identify their first editions. READ MORE about A POCKET GUIDE TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF FIRST EDITIONS
Price: $19.95 Order nr. 109384
New York: Privately printed by F.A. and M.B. Conningham, 1930. 8vo. cloth. (vi), 301 pages. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. Spine faded. With supplement No. One. READ MORE about ALPHABETICAL LIST OF 5735 TITLES OF N. CURRIER AND CURRIER & IVES PRIN TS, WITH DATES OF...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 33894
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021. large 8vo. paperback. 208 pages. Paperback edition. With a history of well over 1,500 years, Korean handmade paper, known as hanji, is familiar to Koreans but a mystery outside its home country. This lustrous paper that comes in a wide array of thickness, color, dimension, and translucency was once a coveted item inside and beyond Korean borders. Made by farmers and artisans during bitter cold winters,hanji was a...... READ MORE about HANJI UNFURLED: ONE JOURNEY INTO KOREAN PAPERMAKING
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 135613
Marbach: Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, 1979. 12mo. paper wrappers. 238, (10) pages. Second edition; originally a special issue of the Marbacher Magazin. READ MORE about MARBACHER CHRONIK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48551
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2018. 8vo. two-toned paper covered boards. 351 pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. Signed by both Preston and Child on the second blank page. READ MORE about VERSES FOR THE DEAD
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 137011
New York: Random House, 1941. small 4to. cloth. 566 pages. With wood engravings by Hans Alexander Mueller, most in two colors. Translated by Peter Motteux. Designed by George Salter. Lacking the slipcase. Minor rubbing to spine and boards. Else near fine. READ MORE about THE FIRST PART OF THE LIFE AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE RENOWNED DON QUIOXTE OF THE MANCHA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 35577
Exploring Our Visual History on the Peninsula. Volume One: An Illustrated Introduction.
n.p. self published, n.d. (but 2022). 4to. paper wrappers. 52 pages. Exploring Our Visual History on the Peninsula. Volume One: An Illustrated Introduction. First edition. A fine copy. Color illustrations throughout. Preface by the author: "Like any stories, our lives include a beginning, a middle, and an end. If we can anticipate and plan for the end, we are lucky. More so are those who are given a chance to share their memories and insignts..... READ MORE about DEPARTING DELMARVA
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 137005
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2020. 8vo. paper wrappers. 340 pages with 220 color illustrations. First edition. This collaboration, edited by Dr. Cathleen Baker and Rebecca M. Chung, brings together various essays that provide an introduction to the history of women in the production of printed texts. The text, in particular the final essay, cover all the way up to the present time period (2016-2019), making this a valuable reference book for current academic..... READ MORE about MAKING IMPRESSIONS: WOMEN IN PRINTING AND PUBLISHING
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 135438
34 volumes.
London, England: Hodder and Stoughton, 1893, 1900-34. 4to. half leather, original limp buckram, and original stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. 34 volumes. Union List I, 741. Set of 34 volumes of this periodical. All with numerous inserts and illustrations by many of the famous illustrators of the day, many mounted, many in color. Includes Christmas supplements 1893, 1900 and 1902-34. Also has the bound set for Volumes XIX (October 1900-March 1901), XX (April-September 1901), XXI..... READ MORE about THE BOOKMAN, CHRISTMAS NUMBERS
Price: $1,650.00 Order nr. 124229
N.P. The Limited Editions Club, (1940). 4to. cloth. 82 pages. Contains "The Book as Literature" by John T. Winterich, a bibliography and index by Will Ransom and other articles. Covers rubbed, else near fine. READ MORE about TEN YEARS AND WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A SURVEY OF THE PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES OF THE LIMITED EDITIONS...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 16180
(Mt. Horeb, WI): The Perishable Press, (1973). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 120 numbered copies (Hamady 61). Slight sunning to top third of front cover, and along the spine of both the front and rear cover, else a fine copy. First of a series of playful books, perhaps a parody of the structure and parts of a book. Handset type on a variety of Shadwell papers of different sizes. Handsewn into blue..... READ MORE about INTERMINABLE GABBERJABBS
Price: $3,000.00 Order nr. 120398
