BUCHER UNSERER ZEIT.
Wiesbaden & Frankfurt: Carl Ritter, n.d. (circa 1952). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 21, (3) pages. A speech on the book in our times. Corners bumped. READ MORE about BUCHER UNSERER ZEIT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 50826
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RARE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS, A SELECTION ARRANGED ACCORDING TO SUBJECTS.
New York: Martin Breslauer, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 186 pages. Catalogue 111 from the antiquarian bookseller. 214 detailed entries, beautifully illustrated in black and white and in color. Includes many bookbinding examples. A fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about RARE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS, A SELECTION ARRANGED ACCORDING TO SUBJECTS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 69096
ANDREW BRICE, AND THE EARLY EXETER NEWSPAPER PRESS.
1888. 8vo. paper wrappers with front cover missing. Frontispiece portrait of Brice; 64 pages. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, 1888. Brice authored The Topographic Dictionaryin addition to his important printing work in south-west England during the 18th century. With part of an envelope attached which shows that this copy was mailed to Wilberforce Eames of New York. Partially disbound. READ MORE about ANDREW BRICE, AND THE EARLY EXETER NEWSPAPER PRESS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 43397
PRINTMAKING & PICTURE PRINTING, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO ARTISTIC & INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUES IN BRITAIN, 1750-1900.
Oxford: The Plough Press, 1984. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 250 pages. First edition. Excellent bibliographical guide to technique. Well indexed. Includes nature printing. READ MORE about PRINTMAKING & PICTURE PRINTING, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO ARTISTIC & INDUSTRIAL...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 14216
ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FROM THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF BRIDWELL LIBRARY.
Plano, TX: Bridwell Library, 1976. small 4to. stiff paper wrapper. 73 pages. A select catalogue of the holdings of the Bridwell Library of the Southern Methodist University's Perkins School of Theology. Spine chipped with some loss, else fine. As the cover and title page announce, this selection is "designed to present a profile of the interests of the Bridwell Library," and was "prepared on the occasion of a visit by the Grolier Club." Of the..... READ MORE about ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FROM THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF BRIDWELL LIBRARY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 76950
INTERNATIONAL TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN NO. 2.
(New York, NY: Madison Square Press, 1994). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. Acknowledgments, table of contents, introduction by Neville Brody. Indices of design firms, designers, letterers, and clients. Listing of design firm addresses. The third volume of Brier's series on typography. Color illustrations throughout. Publication press release laid in. READ MORE about INTERNATIONAL TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN NO. 2
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 121842
JOURNALS AND JOURNEYMEN A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS.
Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1950. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 114 pages. First edition. One of the publications of the Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography. No dust jacket. Else near fine. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about JOURNALS AND JOURNEYMEN A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 920
THE MALADY OF THE IDEAL OBERMANN, MAURICE DE GUERIN AND AMIEL.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1947. small 8vo. quarter cloth over paper boards, paper cover label. 88 pages. First edition. Near fine. Preface by Robert E. Spiller. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about THE MALADY OF THE IDEAL OBERMANN, MAURICE DE GUERIN AND AMIEL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 137043
MANUEL COMPLET DE L’IMPRIMEUR LITHOGRAPHE A LA PRESSE A BRAS ET LA MACHINE.
Paris: Libr. Garnier, n.d. 8vo. cloth. vii, 367+(1) pages. New edition - probably late 19th or early 20th century. Includes an historical introduction. Front free endpaper cropped, else a very good copy. READ MORE about MANUEL COMPLET DE L’IMPRIMEUR LITHOGRAPHE A LA PRESSE A BRAS ET LA MACHINE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 80410
MANUEL COMPLET DE L’IMPRIMEUR LITHOGRAPHE A LA PRESSE A BRAS ET LA MACHINE.
Paris: Libr. Garnier, n.d. 8vo. cloth. vii, 367+(1) pages. New edition - probably late 19th or early 20th century. Includes an historical introduction. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Spot on front cover. READ MORE about MANUEL COMPLET DE L’IMPRIMEUR LITHOGRAPHE A LA PRESSE A BRAS ET LA MACHINE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 97787
BOOK AND JOB PRINTING IN CHICAGO, A STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONS OF EMPLOYER S AND THEIR RELATIONS WITH LABOR.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1931). 8vo. cloth. xiii, 363 pages. First edition. Traces the history of labor - management relationships over a fifty year period. This is followed by various appendices giving specific information on number of businesses, laborers, wages, etc. Front hinge cracked. Minor wear ot boards. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about BOOK AND JOB PRINTING IN CHICAGO, A STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONS OF EMPLOYER S AND THEIR RELATIONS WITH...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 19787
DIRECTORY OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING, BOOKSELLING & ALLIED TRADES IN RHODE ISLAND TO 1865.
New York: New York Public Library, 1948. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 211 pages. Lists of bibliographies followed by directory and chronological index of names and newspapers and magazines by city. Lists marblers. READ MORE about DIRECTORY OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING, BOOKSELLING & ALLIED TRADES IN RHODE ISLAND TO 1865
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 19970
TYPOGRAPHICAL WIDOW WHO IS SHE? WHAT IS SHE?
New York: New York Public Library, 1948. 8vo. paper wrappers. 25 pages. Humorous enquiry into the origin of the term "widow" when referrring to a line of print that begins on one page and ends on another. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHICAL WIDOW WHO IS SHE? WHAT IS SHE?
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 937
SAMUEL BROWNE, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBEERG 1655-62.
An offprint from The Library, 1950.
N.P. n.p., 1950. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.14-25, (5). An offprint from The Library, 1950. Author's offprint. Reprinted by Oxford University. A very short biography and list of works printed by a little-known German printer, Samuel Browne, at various locations. Inscription by the author on front cover. From the reference library of H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about SAMUEL BROWNE, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBEERG 1655-62
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 77256
A OFFSET LITHOGRAPHY, A TREATISE ON PRINTING IN THE LITHOGRAPHIC MANNER FROM METAL PLATES ON RUBBER BLANKET OFFSET PRESSES ... A COMPREHENSIVE DIGEST ON PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHY AND ALSO ON TIN PLATE DECORATING.
New York: National Lithographer, 1927. 8vo. cloth. 214 pages. Third edition. Illustrated. Spine lightly faded. Minor soiling to boards. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about A OFFSET LITHOGRAPHY, A TREATISE ON PRINTING IN THE LITHOGRAPHIC MANNER FROM METAL PLATES ON...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 137044
CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS FROM .. BROXBOURNE.
2 volumes.
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1977, 1978. 4to. boards. 215,(5); 260,(36) pages. 2 volumes. With account of the collection. Illustrated. Prices realized loosely inserted in each volume. Some wear at spine ends. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS FROM .. BROXBOURNE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 65507
CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS FROM .. BROXBOURNE.
2 volumes.
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1977, 1978. 4to. boards. 215,(5); 260,(36) pages. 2 volumes. With account of the collection. Illustrated. Estimated price list inserted. Volume two has prices realized written in pencil. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS FROM .. BROXBOURNE
Price: $32.00 Order nr. 65508
LE LIVRE ILLUSTRÉ EN FRANCE AU XVIe SIECLE.
Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2005. large 8vo. cloth. (iv), 336 pages followed by 32 plates. Reprint of the 1930 first edition (Besterman 3010). Brun provides ten chapters followed by an annotated bibliographical catalogue of the principal books illustrated in France during the sixteenth century. Illustrated and indexed. In all, 1250 books are described. Never reprinted, this remains a difficult title to find. Includes 32 illustrations, mostly of title pages. READ MORE about LE LIVRE ILLUSTRÉ EN FRANCE AU XVIe SIECLE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 87551
LE PLUS BEAUX LIVRES DU XVIÈME SIÈCLE.
Paris: Henry Babou, (1931). small 4to. original folding board case with ties. 32 pages and 40 plates. First edition, limited to 650 copies. With 40 full page plates. Spine age darkened. READ MORE about LE PLUS BEAUX LIVRES DU XVIÈME SIÈCLE
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 72509
THE TEXTBOOK OF THE FUTURE.
(New York: H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Co., 1936). 8vo. cloth. 17, (3) pages. First edition. An address given by Bryson at the National Arts Club of New York. 52nd Keepsake of the A.I.G.A. READ MORE about THE TEXTBOOK OF THE FUTURE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 945
BUCHER UND MENSCHEN.
Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann Verlag, (1976). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. A collection of essays on all aspects of the book and its production. Filled with illustrations in color of mostly modern work. READ MORE about BUCHER UND MENSCHEN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 37506
THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE.
London: Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1979. large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 12, (2) pages. Limited to 250 copies. "An Address Given to the Wynkyn de Worde Society on 24 May 1979 at Stationers' Hall, London" on the author's experiences at Oxford University Press. READ MORE about THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 102193
THE EDITION OF THE PRINTED AT PARIS BY MICHEL LE NOIR.
(1950). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 6 pages. Offprint from Gutenberg_Jahrbuch 1950. Cover discolored at edges; paper loss and tearing on back cover at left-hand edge. READ MORE about THE EDITION OF THE <<DITZ MORAULX DES PHILOSOPHES>> PRINTED AT PARIS BY MICHEL LE NOIR
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 88332
THREE EARLY VENETIAN EDITIONS OF AUGUSTINUS DATUS AND THE PRESS OF FLORENTIUS DE ARGENTINA.
N.P. n.p., 1974. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 62-70 pages. Offprint from The Library Chronicle, volume XL, number 1, winter 1974. Part of the bibliographic studies in honor of Rudolf Hirsch. READ MORE about THREE EARLY VENETIAN EDITIONS OF AUGUSTINUS DATUS AND THE PRESS OF FLORENTIUS DE ARGENTINA
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 79703
THE COLLECTANEA TYPOGRAPHICA OF HENRY LEWIS BULLEN 1857-1938 IN THE INLAND PRINTER, 1918-1924, 1926, AND 1928-1931.
Rochester, MN: Doomsday Press, 1961. 12mo. paper wrappers. (vi), 36+(3) pages. Limited to 400 copies printed for the Typophiles as Monograph 66. READ MORE about THE COLLECTANEA TYPOGRAPHICA OF HENRY LEWIS BULLEN 1857-1938 IN THE INLAND PRINTER, 1918-1924,...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 19866