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Order Nr. 30144 THE BERLIN COLLECTION, BEING A HISTORY AND EXHIBITION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS...

(Rosenthal, Robert).

THE BERLIN COLLECTION, BEING A HISTORY AND EXHIBITION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS PURCHASED IN BERLIN IN 1891 FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BY WILLIAM RAINER HARPER.

Chicago: University of Chicago, 1979. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 88 pages. Text by Robert Rosenthal. Fascinating tale of the huge acquisition of the stock of S. Calvary & Co. of Berlin. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE BERLIN COLLECTION, BEING A HISTORY AND EXHIBITION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS PURCHASED IN...

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 30144

(Aquinas).

TRADITION OF AQUINAS AND BONAVENTURE, TEXT AND COMMENTARY DURING SEVEN CENTURIES.

Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1974. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (24) pages. An exhibition catalogue. A fine copy. READ MORE about TRADITION OF AQUINAS AND BONAVENTURE, TEXT AND COMMENTARY DURING SEVEN CENTURIES

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 25393

(Clements Library).

HISTORY OF THE WILLIAM L. CLEMENTS LIBRARY, 1923-1973 ITS DEVELOPMENT AND ITS COLLECTIONS.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1973. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 55 pages. Covers faded. Else a very good copy. READ MORE about HISTORY OF THE WILLIAM L. CLEMENTS LIBRARY, 1923-1973 ITS DEVELOPMENT AND ITS COLLECTIONS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 18777

McMurtrie, Douglas C.

PIONEER PRINTING IN OHIO.

Cincinnati: Students of the Printing High School, 1943. 8vo. wrappers. 10 pages. First edition. Small spots along top edge of front cover, else near fine. READ MORE about PIONEER PRINTING IN OHIO

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11527

Winship, George Parker.

THE VOLLBEHR INCUNABULA.

At the National Arts Club of New York from August 23 to September 30, 1926...
New York: National Arts Club, 1926. 8vo. paper wrappers. 17 pages and 2 plates. At the National Arts Club of New York from August 23 to September 30, 1926. Study of this collection of incunabules that was purchased by the United States for the Library of Congress. Near fine condition. Printed for Otto H. F. Vollbehr by the Pynson Printers. Text title: A commentary by... AIGA (keepsake?) to members, no. 20, September, 1926 insert... READ MORE about THE VOLLBEHR INCUNABULA

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11049

Bowers, Fredson.

BIBLIOGRAPHY & MODERN LIBRARIANSHIP.

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. A fine copy. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY & MODERN LIBRARIANSHIP

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 858

Altick, Richard.

LIBRARIANSHIP AND THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH.

N.P. Rutgers University, 1974. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages. Second annual Richard H. Shoemaker Lecture, 1972. Lengthy errata slip inserted. A near fine copy. READ MORE about LIBRARIANSHIP AND THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 61

(Glaister, Donald). Glaister, Donald.

COMPLETE INSRUCTIONS.

Excerpted from the Preface of Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition, First Printing.
Tucson, AZ: Foolsgold Studios, 2022. square 4to. half leather with cherry veneer applied to the boards, cloth clamshell box. 42 pages. Excerpted from the Preface of Leaves of Grass, 1855 Edition, First Printing. Limited to 15 numbered copies, 1 deluxe artists proof variant, 1 prototype and 1 variant saved for fine binding, each signed by the author/publisher on colophon. Complete Instructions is conceived, edited and produced as a response to social and political American life..... READ MORE about COMPLETE INSRUCTIONS

Price: $5,000.00 Order nr. 138150

(Type Specimens). Nicholas, Robin (introduction).

THE MONOTYPE LIBRARY: OPENTYPE EDITION.

(Woburn, MA): Monotype Imaging, Inc., (2006). square 8vo. paper wrappers. 131 pages. A very interesting modern type specimen. Fine condition. Text in English, French, German, and Spanish. READ MORE about THE MONOTYPE LIBRARY: OPENTYPE EDITION

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138560

Carter, Rob, Ben Day, Philip Meggs.

TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN: FORM AND COMMUNICATION.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., (1993). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. ix, 278 pages. Second edition. Covers the evolution of writing, the anatomy of typography, Syntax and Communication, Legibility, Typographic Design, case studies and type specimens. Well illustrated. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN: FORM AND COMMUNICATION

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138558

Ghalib.

POEMS BY GHALIB. TRANSLATED BY AIJAZ AHMAD WITH WILLIAM STAFFORD AND ADRIENNE RICH.

[New York: The Hudson Review, 1969]. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages. First edition. Forenote by Aijaz Ahmad. Compliments sticker of The Asia Society on the inside front wrapper. Soiled yellow printed wrappers. READ MORE about POEMS BY GHALIB. TRANSLATED BY AIJAZ AHMAD WITH WILLIAM STAFFORD AND ADRIENNE RICH

Price: $13.00 Order nr. 112838

(Shakespeare, William). Maitra, Sitansu.

SHAKESPEARE’S COMIC IDEA.

Calcutta: Mukhopadhyay, 1960. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 101 pages. First edition. "This is an attempt to look at the comedies of Shakespeare in a way that may be called new though I am not sure that none of the innumerable critics of Shakespeare has anticipated me." Signed presentation copy to the Editor of The Library. READ MORE about SHAKESPEARE’S COMIC IDEA

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 80448

(Reid, James).

JAMES REID: SELECTED WOOD ENGRAVINGS.

3 volumes.
(Boston, MA): Brier Hill Press, 2013. folio. stiff paper wrappers in clamshell box with label on spine. variously paginated. 3 volumes. Limited to 125 numbered copies, signed by publisher Robert Strossi on colophon. A fine copy. Introductory remarks, with biographical sketch by Strossi. First volume includes frontispiece wood engraving by Reid, tipped-in tissue-protected portrait of Reid, reproductions of Reid woodcuts printed from the original blocks, and the introductory remarks. Second volume is Reid's The Life..... READ MORE about JAMES REID: SELECTED WOOD ENGRAVINGS

Price: $900.00 Order nr. 122881

Order Nr. 88567 EUROPEAN AMERICANA: A CHRONOLOGICAL GUIDE TO WORKS PRINTED IN EUROPE RELATING TO...

Alden, John and Dennis C. Landis (editors).

EUROPEAN AMERICANA: A CHRONOLOGICAL GUIDE TO WORKS PRINTED IN EUROPE RELATING TO THE AMERICAS, 1493-1750.

6 volumes.
Providence and New York: The John Carter Brown Library and Readex Books, 1980-1997. 8 x 10 inches. cloth. liii,467; xlviii,954; 682; 711; 597; 852 pages. 6 volumes. Complete set of six volumes. Entirely superseding Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana, which appeared between 1868 and 1936, European Americana is now, first of all, the most comprehensive bibliographical guide to the entire printed record of European consciousness of the Americas. With more than 30,000 entries. With number of..... READ MORE about EUROPEAN AMERICANA: A CHRONOLOGICAL GUIDE TO WORKS PRINTED IN EUROPE RELATING TO THE AMERICAS,...

Price: $1,650.00 save 50% $825.00 Order nr. 88567

(Laurens, Henri). de Samosate, Lucien.

LOUKIOS OU L'ANE.

Illustrated by Henri Laurens.
Paris: Tériade Éditeur, 1947. small 4to. loose signatures inserted into a folding paper-covered boards chemise, housed in a paper-covered boards slipcase. 88 pages. Illustrated by Henri Laurens. Limited to 270 copies, of whic this is one of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist. Chemise cracked, but holding, along the front and rear hinges. The slipcase shows minor wear to edges and corners. Interior in fine condition. An elegant book. This edition of Loukios ou..... READ MORE about LOUKIOS OU L'ANE

Price: $550.00 Order nr. 138552

(Chevington Press). Wakefield, D.R.

THE DIARY AND OBSERVATIONS OF A TENCH FISHER.

Tiverton, Devon: Chevington Press, The, 1981. Folio (275 x 457mm). Quarter bound in caramel leather over marbled paper-covered boards, title label tipped-on to upper board, spine titled in gilt, housed in a later folding cloth-covered boards case with plastic clasps. "This account of my angling experiences covers the 1980 and 1981 seasons. Shobrooke Park Lake is the sole venue, unless otherwise stated. Also included are several etchings, executed during the same period; these are not..... READ MORE about THE DIARY AND OBSERVATIONS OF A TENCH FISHER

Price: $1,100.00 Order nr. 138551

(Minnesota Center for Book Arts). Bly, Robert.

SATURDAY NIGHTS IN MARIETTA.

Minnesota: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1999. 4to. japanese sewn binding of leather and vellum, over pastepaper covered boards with title in gilt on front cover, handmade paper pastedowns and endpapers, metal and wooden constructed clamshell box with cloth-lined interior. (12) pages. Limited to 200 copies, of which this is one of 26 lettered deluxe copies, signed by the author. This edition, featuring hand-made paper by Mary Hark, is bound by Dennis Ruud with leather..... READ MORE about SATURDAY NIGHTS IN MARIETTA

Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 138550

(Thornwillow Press). Auchincloss, Louis.

CIVIL WARS: THREE TALES OF OLD NEW YORK.

Illustrated by Elliott Banfield.
(New York, NY): Thornwillow Press, 1999. 8vo. half crushed green morocco over paste-paper covered boards, five raised bands, leather tips, gilt on spine, top edge gilt, others uncut, housed in cloth clamshell box. 127, (1) pages. Illustrated by Elliott Banfield. Limited to 175 numbered copies signed by the author, illustrator, and printed. A fine copy in fine clamshell box. A very scarce fine press publication. Author was a noted historian and adviser to President Kennedy..... READ MORE about CIVIL WARS: THREE TALES OF OLD NEW YORK

Price: $700.00 Order nr. 138549

(Stanbrook Abbey Press). Augustine of Hippo and Ignatius of Antioch.

UNLESS THE GRAIN DIE.

Worcester, England: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1961. 4to. quarter leather, decorated paper-covered boards, spine and front cover gilt-stamped. (vi), 18, (2) pages. Limited to 200 copies, of which this is one of 160 numbered copies. A fine copy. From the colophon: "Translated from the Latin & Greek texts by the Benedictines of Stanbrook Abbey. Handset in Spectrum, decorations by Margaret Adams. Printed at the Stanbrook Abbey Press. Bound by George Percival & Rigby Graham." Table of..... READ MORE about UNLESS THE GRAIN DIE

Price: $275.00 Order nr. 131132

(Logan Elm Press). Citino, David.

A LETTER OF COLUMBUS.

Columbus, OH: Logan Elm Press, 1990. 12 1/8 x 9 inches. handmade paper with goatskin spine, yap edges, slipcase with pastepapers made from anchor line and inlaid with a cast paper bas-relief taken of the title page illustration. One of 130 copies, all on handmade paper, each copy signed by Robert Tauber, who designed the book and is Director of Logan Elm, the author, David Citino, and the artist, Anthony Rice. A fine copy in..... READ MORE about A LETTER OF COLUMBUS

Price: $1,350.00 Order nr. 61466

(Whittington Press). Butcher, David.

THE STANBROOK ABBEY PRESS, A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CHECKLIST.

Lower Marston: Whittington Press, (1992). 4to. quarter cloth, marbled paper over boards, slipcase. xvi, 225, (2) pages. Limited to 350 numbered copies signed by Butcher and Jamieson, this being one of 250 bound thus (Leaf Book - Chalmers 199). Fine in fine slipcase. With a memoir of Dame Hildelith Cumming by the Abbess of Stanbrook, Joanna Jamieson OBE, and a foreword by John Dreyfus. Includes many tipped in original leaves from the Stanbrook Abbey Press..... READ MORE about THE STANBROOK ABBEY PRESS, A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND CHECKLIST

Price: $300.00 Order nr. 36514

(Press of Appletree Alley). Stratton, Mary Chenoweth.

MY DEAR GOGARTY.

Being a previously Unpublished Critical Essay Together with Selections Taken from the Correspondence of Oliver St. John Gogarty, Poet, Doctor, Statesman, & his Friends in the Irish Literary Renaissance, All Drawn from the Collection in the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library.
Lewisburg: Bucknell University and the Press of Appletree Alley, 1991. tall 8vo. quarter cloth over pastepaper-covered boards. (ii), 46, (4) pages. Being a previously Unpublished Critical Essay Together with Selections Taken from the Correspondence of Oliver St. John Gogarty, Poet, Doctor, Statesman, & his Friends in the Irish Literary Renaissance, All Drawn from the Collection in the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library. Limited to 150 numbered copies and designed and printed by Barnard Taylor at his..... READ MORE about MY DEAR GOGARTY

Price: $300.00 Order nr. 33956

(St. Teresa's Press).

THE DREAM OF THE ROOD, TAKEN FROM THE NINTH CENTURY ANGLO-SAXON.

Flemington, NJ: St. Teresa's Press, 1966. small 4to. half leather, printed paper over boards. (viii), 13, (3) pages. One of 150 numbered copies. A fine copy. From the colophon: "Handset in Solemnis and Palatino Italic with capitals taken from The Book of Kells printed on English handmade paper, painted and handbound at St. Teresa's Press Carmelite Monastery, Flemington, New Jersey." This is the second book from the press and to many their finest production. The..... READ MORE about THE DREAM OF THE ROOD, TAKEN FROM THE NINTH CENTURY ANGLO-SAXON

Price: $325.00 Order nr. 20098

Order Nr. 138540 SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF WILLIAM BRADFORD, REINIER JANSEN, ANDREW BRADFORD,...

Smith, Joseph.

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF WILLIAM BRADFORD, REINIER JANSEN, ANDREW BRADFORD, AND SAMUEL KEIMER, EARLY PRINTERS IN PENNSYLVANIA.

London: Edward Hicks, 1891. small 8vo. printed wrappers. 21 pages. Scarce first edition. Wrappers chipped with some loss, covers separated but present. READ MORE about SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF WILLIAM BRADFORD, REINIER JANSEN, ANDREW BRADFORD, AND SAMUEL...

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138540

(Bird & Bull Press). Schulz, Ernst.

THE STUDY OF INCUNABLES, PROBLEMS AND AIMS.

Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1977. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. vii, 29 pages. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press (Taylor B8), of which this is one of 300 copies for distribution by Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. READ MORE about THE STUDY OF INCUNABLES, PROBLEMS AND AIMS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4239

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