Ottawa, ON, Canada: National Library of Canada, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (24) pages. Text in English and French. Ten prominent Canadian book artists, with bibliographic and descriptive information. Color illustrations. Previous owner's name on front wrapper. READ MORE about ARTISTS IN BOOKS, MADE IN CANADA LIVRES D'ARTISTES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134870
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg: Galerie d'Art Municipale, (1980). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 71+(1) pages. Text in French. French works at the Municipal Art Gallery in Luxembourg. Prefatory comments by the mayor, Presiden Valéry Giscard-d'Estaing of France, and the French ambassador to Luxembourg. Includes a sizable section of book arts. Black and white illustrations, color plates. READ MORE about METIERS D'ART EN FRANCE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134873
Middletown, CT: William J. Van Beynum, n.d. 8vo. paper wrappers. 23 pages. Self-published listing of titles relating to New England taken from the original, which was The New England Quarterly, Vol. XLIV, No. 2, June, 1971. READ MORE about A LIST OF NEW ENGLAND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134840
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1967). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 359 pages. Reprint of the second impression which contained corrections. Contains 23 illustrations. One of the best manuals written. Jacket is price clipped. READ MORE about AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR LITERATURE STUDENTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 21436
Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1928). 8vo. cloth. xv, 359+(1) pages. Second impression with corrections. Contains 23 illustrations. One of the best manuals written. Lacking jacket. Front and rear paste downs and free endpapers foxed. READ MORE about AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR LITERATURE STUDENTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 3206
Chicago, IL: F.E. Compton & Company, 1946. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. An introduction, for children, to the use of encyclopedias. Color and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about BOB DISCOVERS A GOOD BOOK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134860
New York: Pitman Corporation, (1975). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 400 pages. First edition. With many plates including some in color. (Brenni no.45). Excellent manual. Jacket spine slightly faded. READ MORE about THE CRAFT OF BOOKBINDING, A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 14123
Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1957. 4to. cloth. xi, 275 pages. S-K 811. An Exhibition Held at the Baltimore Museum of Art. First edition, limited to 3000 copies. 56 pages of plates. A valuable reference book on the subject of binding. Spine sunned, else near fine. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING 525-1950 A.D
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 5813
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, 2010. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 528 pages, 374 illustrations. Books Will Speak Plain is published at a time when the historical book is at risk of being ignored, put away, and forgotten. This handbook combines an overview of the history of the codex with basic information about many of the materials and structures found on historical bindings. The book also includes description-survey guidelines and is supported by a variety of..... READ MORE about BOOKS WILL SPEAK PLAIN: A HANDBOOK FOR IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING HISTORICAL BINDINGS
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 106900
N.P. by the author, 2016. 4to. cloth, leather design on front cover. unpaginated. Second printing. Introduction, acknowledgments. Originally published for the author's family on the occastion of her 90th birthday. Color illustrations with descriptive text of works produced by Stein over her many years as an amateur bookbinder. Frontispiece and color illustrations throughout text. READ MORE about BINDINGS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 134876
Berkeley: University of California, 1966. 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 27 pages. Bowers advances the cause of descriptive bibliography. Bowers's Principles of Bibliographical Descriptions was his first pioneer work. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY & MODERN LIBRARIANSHIP
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 858
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Public Library, 1981. 8vo. paper wrappers. x, 44, (2) pages. A catalogue of the traveling exhibition from the libraries outstanding collection of materials, mostly on the history of Los Angeles and California, issued in the city's Bicentennial Year. Includes memorial address for John Bruckman, late Collection Development Manager for the Los Angeles Public Library, by Jake Zeitlin. Illustrated. READ MORE about L.A. PUB LIBRARY SINCE 1872, A BICENTENNIAL EXHIBITION HONORING JOHN D. BRUCKMAN (1928-1979
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 63514
Smyrna: n.p., (1973). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 92, (4) pages. B2-2269b. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Signed by the author. Filled with reproductions of Delaware post cards. READ MORE about POST CARDS OF YESTERDAY, 1893-1926. DELAWARE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 68214
Boston, MA: MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, (2015). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 159+(1) pages. Director's foreword, prologue, introduction, five scholarly essays by Karina H. Corrigan, Donna Pierce, Mitchell Codding, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, and Dennis Carr. Maps, endnote, bibliography, list of illustrations, acknowledgments, list of contributors, index. Color illustrations throughout. An exhibition at the MFA in Boston. READ MORE about MADE IN THE AMERICAS: THE NEW WORLD DISCOVERS ASIA
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 134868
Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1984. 8vo. cloth. xvi, 492 pages. Revised edition. Sections on the Medieval librarian, the Scriptorium, Universities and the Book, Inventory and cataloguing, use of libraries and country by country surveys of ancient libraries. READ MORE about HANDBOOK OF MEDIEVAL LIBRARY HISTORY. (Revised by Anton Kern). Translated and edited by Theophil...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 23217
n.p. (but Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, The, 2016. 8vo. paper wrappers. (4) pages. Privately printed by Andre Chaves of the Clinker Press. The text is taken from the Yale Literary Magazine in June 1858. READ MORE about LIBRARIA
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 134803
n.p. (but Pasadena, CA): n.p. (but Clinker Press, n.d. oblong folio. broadside. Privately designed and printed by hand by artist Andre Chaves. Features a poem by Helen Lukens Gaut from 1923. READ MORE about THE PRAYER OF A TREE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 134826
n.p. (but Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, The, n.d. folio. broadside. Privately designed and printed by hand by artist Andre Chaves. Features a quote and illustration of Samuel Johnson. READ MORE about VISITORS ARE NO PROPER COMPANIONS IN THE CHAMBER OF SICKNESS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134825
n.p. (but Pasadena, CA): (Clinker Press, 2003-2004. large 8vo. broadside. Privately printed by Andre Chaves of the Clinker Press. Poster for a lecture presented by the Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series for the 2003-2004 season. READ MORE about ICONIC L.A.: STORIES OF L.A. MOST MEMORABLE BUILDINGS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 134804
n.p. (but Pasadena, CA): (Clinker Press), 2006. large 8vo. broadside. Privately designed and printed by hand by artist Andre Chaves to commemorate a lecture by Krew on December 6, 2006 at the University Club of Pasadena. Introduced by Susan M. Allen and sponsored by the Zamorano Club. READ MORE about THE ITALIAN ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
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n.p. (but Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, The, n.d. tall 4to. broadside. Privately printed by Andre Chaves of the Clinker Press. READ MORE about FLORA
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 134806
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, The, 2019. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 294 pages. First edition. Little critical attention has been given to the history of the library and archives conservation field and specialization. Mooring a Field addresses this historical silence, narrating the period from the 1950s through the 1980s, when the nascent profession emerges from the stirrings of a "craft" activity to become an area of advanced study in the academy. Cunningham-Kruppa questions the philosophical..... READ MORE about MOORING A FIELD: PAUL N. BANKS AND THE EDUCATION OF LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CONSERVATORS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 134837
2 volumes.
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 124; 61 pages. 2 volumes. Over 700 items described. Many illustrations with some in color. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE JACK COLE COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND PICTURES ON THE DANCE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 25194
Wilmington, DE: Delaware Tercentenary Commission, 1938. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 55, (3) pages. See B1-1639. Based on various manuscript accounts. Dampstaining along lower corner throughout the book not effecting the text. READ MORE about COLONIAL MILITARY ORGANIZATION IN DELAWARE, 1638-1776
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 31590
With a foreword by Timothy D. Murray & an introduction by David R. Godine
(Jaffrey, NH and Newark, DE): David R. Godine, Publisher in association with The University of Delaware Library, (2004). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 78 pages. With a foreword by Timothy D. Murray & an introduction by David R. Godine. Includes a preface by Susan Brynteson, Director. Oak Knoll Book sold the archives of John DePol to the University of Delaware. Many reproductions of wood engravings. READ MORE about FIVE DECADES OF THE BURIN, THE WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF JOHN DEPOL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 78754
