London, England: E.P. Goldschmidt, n.d. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 96 pages. Goldschmidt Catalogue 166. Includes European and American illustrated works. 100 items. Color and black and white illustrations. Index. READ MORE about ILLUSTRATED AND OTHER RARE BOOKS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 134898
New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 1988. 8vo. cloth. viii, 241+(1) pages. Table of contents, preface by the editors, bibliography, geographical and subject indices. READ MORE about ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134908
Chicago, IL: Albert Whitman & Company, (1952). 8vo. cloth, illustrated endpapers. 47+(1) pages. Acknowledgments, dedication, color illustrations. Targeted to children, encouraging the use of mobile library facilities. READ MORE about HERE COMES THE BOOKMOBILE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 134862
New York: The Grolier Club, 2009. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. paperback. 240 pages. Contains an alphabetical list of all members past and present, and a chronological lists of officers, council members, and committees. Compiled by Carolyn L. Smith for the Grolier Club's 125th anniversary, as an update of Members of the Grolier Club 1884-1984 (issued for the Club's 100th anniversary). READ MORE about MEMBERS OF THE GROLIER CLUB, 1884-2009
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106673
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1883. 8vo. original light brown cloth stamped in gilt and decorated in dark brown. 262, (2) pages. First edition. A novel placed in Delaware by this Delaware author. Has an advertisement for his ELFLORA as the last leaf. Ownership inscription on front pastedown in pencil. Light soiling to spine, else near fine. READ MORE about THE FATE OF MARCEL
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 67784
Basel, Switzerland: Haus der Bücher, (1977(. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in German, with English translation of introductory note. 850 items. Endnotes, index. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about REFORMATION: CATALOGUE OF THE EMANUEL STICKELBERGER COLLECTION PURCHASED BY THE FOLGER...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134888
New York, NY: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1965. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 29+(1) pages. Prefatory note by the author. An address first delivered in Geneva in French, 1964. READ MORE about THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE MASS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134914
Philadelphia: Penn Libraries/Kislak Center, 2020. 8.5 x 11 inches. Paperback with French flaps. 352 pages. This exhibition catalogue examines the making of the hand-written and hand-illuminated book during a time of great political, religious, and technological transformation in Europe. Through approximately forty loans from ten regional institutions, as well another forty items from Penn's own collections, the exhibition examines the full intellectual and artistic depth of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through a varied selection..... READ MORE about MAKING THE RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPT: DISCOVERIES FROM PHILADELPHIA LIBRARIES
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 134574
Riverside, CA: Polytechnic High School and Junior College, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 49+(1) pages. Introduction by N.O. Moore. Based on Moore's extensive collections. A brief survey of printed works before Gutenberg with more detailed treatment of progress thereafter. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF PRINTING ILLUSTRATED BY BOOKS AND SPECIMENS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134877
Stevens Point, WI: Decline and Fall, n.d., but 1994. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 93, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Decline and Fall Catalogue Fourteen. Foreword. 380 items. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about ALDOUS HUXLEY 1894-1963: A CENTENARY CATALOGUE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134884
N.P. Seuil Jeunesse, (2007). oblong 8vo. illustrated paper-covered boards. 60 pages. Text in French. Originally published in Japanese as Ruriyru Ojisan. A children's book. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about SOPHIE ET LE RELIEUR
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 134905
Firenze (Florence), Italy: Leo S. Olschki, 1979. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, edges uncut. 186 pages. Biblioteca di Bibliografia Italiana LXXXIX. Preface by the author. Includes list of works relevant to more than one festival. Addenda. Indices of artists, authors, titles, and sources. Table of contents. READ MORE about ITALIAN CIVIC PAGEANTRY IN THE HIGH RENAISSANCE: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TRIUMPHAL ENTRIES...
Price: $24.00 Order nr. 134903
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, (1998). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 480 pages. Catalogue of an exhibition of 17th-19th century Japanese art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Table of contents, list of lenders, foreword, preface and acknowledgments, select bibliography, index. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about EDO: ART IN JAPAN 1615-1868
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134904
(Wellingborough, Northants, England: Skelton's Press), 1984. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Introduction by librarian Michael Meredith. Black and white illustrations. A catalogue of an exhibition at the Eton School. READ MORE about LAST TWO HUNDRED YEARS: AN EXHIBITION OF NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134861
London: Field and Tuer (Ye Leadenhalle Presse), 1884. 12mo. original glassine wrappers. 94, (2) pages. A book of printing humor and anecdote edited by Andrew W. Tuer and printed by him at his Leadenhalle Presse. Includes a Glossary of printing terms. Wrappers chipped with small pieces missing. READ MORE about QUADS, FOR AUTHORS, EDITORS & DEVILS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 43026
Wilmington: Jack Lewis, 1940 (circa 1961). 4to. cloth, paper cover label, dust jacket. Not paginated. See B2-1999. Third edition, one of an undetermined number of limited signed copies. With a foreword by Walden Pell II and an introduction by N.C. Wyeth. Text and reproductions of Lewis's paintings including 12 tipped-in plates. READ MORE about THE DELAWARE SCENE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 75201
(Dover: Woodwend Studio, 1970). 4to. cloth with full color paper cover label, dust jacket. 224 pages. First edition, number "474" of a limited edition. Preface by William O. Douglas. Filled with reproductions of Lewis's art work including many in full color. Graphic design and printing by Graphic Design Associates of Dover, Delaware. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about POTOMAC
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 72927
2 Volumes.
Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Library, 1943. 8vo. cloth, spine gilt-stamped. xlvi, 519+(1); xii, 560 pages. 2 Volumes. Volumes XXI and XXII of the Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Bibliographical Series, Volumes IV and V. Table of contents, foreword by James G. Randall, introduction, list of location symbols. Includes English and foreign language titles (chronologically arranged), undated titles, and then recently discovered titles, index. Corners of covers very slightly rubbed and scuffed. READ MORE about LINCOLN BIBLIOGRAPHY 1839-1939
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 134863
N.P. (The Cuneiform Press, 2004). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Acknowledgments, introduction by Steve Clay. Based on a lecture delivered at SUNY Buffalo in 2003 discussing book arts. Covers slightly worn along spine. READ MORE about MEDITATIO: THE PAPER PRINTED MANIFESTO
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134865
(Huckelhoven): Verlag Anadolu, (1996). 4to. paper-covered boards, dustjacket. (v), 151, (10) pages. First edition in English translation. The book is divided into three main parts: The History of Marbling, The Technique of Marbling & The Patterns. There is also an extensive bibliography. As expected, there is a lavish amount of photographs throughout - both color and black & white. Sönmez is one of the leading marblers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries... READ MORE about EBRU - THE TURKISH ART OF MARBLING
Price: $115.00 Order nr. 86850
University of Kansas Publications Library Series, 40
Lawrence: University of Kansas Libraries, 1976. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.29-40. University of Kansas Publications Library Series, 40. An article in Vol. 40, Bibliographical Contributions, University of Kansas Libraries, 1976. Essay by Mason discusses increasing attention given to 18th century English books by collectors and librarians. Wrappers tanned at the edges. Top corner bumped. "With compliments" slip laid in. READ MORE about " CATESBY, CURLL, AND COOK: OR, THE LIBRARIAN AND THE 18TH CENTURY ENGLI SH BOOK."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106558
Chicago: privately printed, 1934. 12mo. paper wrappers. 6 pages. First separate edition, limited to 200 copies. READ MORE about UPPER AND LOWER CASE PAYS
Price: $8.50 Order nr. 11612
Evanston, IL: Alphabets, Inc., 1988. 4to. self paper wrappers. 27+(1) pages. Vol. II, No. 1 & 2. Features articles about type setting and type faces. Three book reviews. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about MICE TYPE: A TYPOGRAPHIC NEWSLETTER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134880
New Britain, CT: REM Miniatures, 1962. miniature book (7.4 x 5 cm). full purple leather, all edges gilt. 51+(1) pages. The first REM miniature, limited to 2000 copies (Bradbury, REM, 1). The bibliography doesn't mention this full leather binding variant. Robert E. Massmann was Director of the Elihu Burritt Library at this time. Covers slightly faded on spine. READ MORE about ELIHU BURRITT, AS MUCH A BROTHER
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 116708
Davis, California: University of California, Davis, 1972. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 17+(1) pages. Limited to 700 copies. Keepsake Number 5 in a series issued by the Library Associates of the University Library, Davis. Foreword by Herman J. Phaff. Black and white illustration. READ MORE about ENVIRONMENT, FOOD, AND SAFETY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134886
