New York: The New York Public Library, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 44, (42) pages. Text followed by plates showing the typographical design work by Clarke. Printed by the Press of A. Colish. A fine copy. READ MORE about BERT CLARKE - TYPOGRAPHER, A CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF SELECTED WORKS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4967
New York, NY: The Anderson Galleries, n.d., but 1926. 4to. cloth, top edge gilt, fore-edge uncut. unpaginated. McKay 8938. Auction, May 20-21, 1926. Part One of the Elizabethan and early Stuart library of John L. Clawson. 534 lots. Anderson sale number 2077. Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare; black and white illustrations in text. Covers lightly rubbed and scuffed. Realized prices marked in pencil next to each lot. READ MORE about THE SPLENDID ELIZABETHAN & EARLY STUART LIBRARY OF MR. JOHN L. CLAWSON, BUFFALO, N.Y
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 130793
Stamford: Overbrook Press, The, 1949. 8vo. paper wrappers, paper cover label. 32 pages. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. This copy inscribed by the author. Spine lightly sunned. READ MORE about PROGRESS IN THE GRAPHIC ARTS AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY IN CHICAGO ... ON THE...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 132590
Stamford: Overbrook Press, The, 1950. 8vo. paper wrappers. 32 pages. Second edition. Printed by the Overbrook Press in an edition of 1000 copies in 1950. READ MORE about PROGRESS IN THE GRAPHIC ARTS AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY IN CHICAGO ... ON THE...
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 1454
Auction Catalogue Two, Part Three
Austin TX: Dorothy Sloan - Rare Books, 1994. folio. cloth, paper labels on top board and spine. xvi, 132 plates, 106, (2) pages. Auction Catalogue Two, Part Three. Beautiful catalogue for the auction that took place on October 26, 1994 in Los Angeles. In addition to the plates and descriptions, there is an essay by Gary F. Kurutz "Images of El Dorado: The California Pictorial Letter Sheet.." A fine copy. From the private reference library..... READ MORE about THE HENRY H. CLIFFORD COLLECTION, PART THREE: CALIFORNIA PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 96487
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1971. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxi, 249 pages. First edition. In the early 1790s, William Cobbett, an ex-plowboy and soldier, arrived in Philadelphia and set off a journalistic explosion. In an age of slashing and scurrilous pamphleteering, Cobbett, better known under the pseudonym of Peter Porcupine, proved to be the most hard-hitting, fearless, prolific and irrepressible bully-boy with pen and types that America had ever seen or possibly ever was to..... READ MORE about WILLIAM COBBETT AND THE UNITED STATES, 1792-1835. A BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH NOTES AND EXTRACTS
Price: $27.50 Order nr. 12382
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1971. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxi, 249 pages. First edition. Top edge lightly soiled, else a fine copy. In the early 1790s, William Cobbett, an ex-plowboy and soldier, arrived in Philadelphia and set off a journalistic explosion. In an age of slashing and scurrilous pamphleteering, Cobbett, better known under the pseudonym of Peter Porcupine, proved to be the most hard-hitting, fearless, prolific and irrepressible bully-boy with pen and types that America..... READ MORE about WILLIAM COBBETT AND THE UNITED STATES, 1792-1835. A BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH NOTES AND EXTRACTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 69784
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover. 276 pages. First edition. This work is a new bibliography on the Delaware River and Bay by Ben Cohen, the author of similar bibliographies on the Thames and the Clyde. The author first became interested in the Delaware River when he read D.B. Tyler's The Bay and River Delaware, which refers to the Delaware as the "American Clyde." Tyler writes poetically of the..... READ MORE about THE DELAWARE RIVER AND BAY 1600-1999: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 95869
Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1990. 8vo. cloth. viii, 256 pages. The eighth volume in the Great Bibliographers Series. With a biography of Cole, excerpts from his work, a chronological checklist of his work and a checklist of writings about him. READ MORE about GEORGE WATSON COLE, 1850-1939
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 38346
WITH COMMENTS BY FRIENDS
Boston: F.W. Faxon Company, 1936. 8vo. paper wrappers. 28 pages. WITH COMMENTS BY FRIENDS. Bulletin of Bibliography Pamphlets, number 33. Cole was known for his bibliographical work on Americana. Soiling to the wrappers Some creasing to the corners running through the pamphlet. Offsetting to two interior pages due to a newspaper clipping. READ MORE about A LIST OF THE PRINTED PRODUCTIONS OF GEORGE WATSON COLE 1870-1936
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 106062
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, (1968). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 242 pages. First edition. With a bibliography of Collins imprints. Minor wear, else very good. READ MORE about ISAAC COLLINS, A QUAKER PRINTER IN 18TH CENTURY AMERICA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 1639
Denver, CO: Colorado Medical Society, 1971. 4to. brown cloth, dust jacket. 207 pages. First edition limited to 300 numbered copies. Wynar/Depp 8489. Some toning to the dust jacket with light tears around the edges. A very good copy. 205 pages with black and white portraits, plus other historical photos, plus an index. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about A CENTURY OF COLORADO MEDICINE, 1871-1971
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 136450
Denver: Sage Books, (1954). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 151 pages. Per dust jacket, the "first extensive bibliography of the literature about Colorado...published in an edition limited to 500 copies." Besterman (1424) notes earlier bibliographies, but none as extensive. 1250 entries. Excludes periodical and newspaper publications, ephemera, and general works about the West with no particular emphasis on Colorado. Some fiction included. Essentially a bibliography of the development of Colorado, with many Colorado imprints, but not..... READ MORE about COLORADO, A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITS LITERATURE 1858-1952
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 54560
Denver: Sage Books, (1954). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 151 pages. Per dust jacket, the "first extensive bibliography of the literature about Colorado...published in an edition limited to 500 copies." Besterman (1424) notes earlier bibliographies, but none as extensive. 1250 entries. Excludes periodical and newspaper publications, ephemera, and general works about the West with no particular emphasis on Colorado. Some fiction included. Essentially a bibliography of the development of Colorado, with many Colorado imprints, but not..... READ MORE about COLORADO, A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITS LITERATURE 1858-1952
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 127299
New York: Columbia University Libraries, (1985). large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 138, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. A fine copy. Catalogue of the rare book and illuminated manuscript collection of Columbia University, spanning from 2291 B.C. to the twentieth century. Describes 121 items. Indexed. Many illustrations throughout. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about THE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, COLLECTIONS AND TREASURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 97328
N.P. Meriden-Stinehour Press, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 26, (2) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies. Printed on the occasion of the club's fiftieth anniversary. Includes a brief history, a membership history, and a bibliography of published keepsakes, Nos. 56 through 103. READ MORE about COLUMBIAD CLUB OF CONNECTICUT 1935-1985: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF ITS ACTIVITIES & MEMBERSHIP...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 132318
New York: Avon Books, (1992). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 198, 570 pages. 22nd edition. Well-illustrated including a number in full color. READ MORE about COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 61268
Princeton: Princeton University, 1963. 8vo. paper wrappers, paper cover label. 10 pages with 8 pages of illustrations. With a checklist of books in the exhibition. READ MORE about P.J. CONKWRIGHT AND THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOK DESIGN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 8416
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1978. 8vo. cloth. xlviii, 492, (2). According to the Introduction, this book attempts to record over 1,400 of the publications, almost all with exceptions noted, of New London printers from May 1, 1709 through the year 1800. The output of the several presses was surprisingly large because all the printing done between the spring of 1709 and the autumn of 1754 in the Colony of Connecticut was done..... READ MORE about CHECKLIST OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, IMPRINTS 1709-1800
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 44037
Hanover: University Press of New England for the Committee for a New England Bibliography, 1986. small 4to. cloth. xlii, 591 pages. First edition. Volume Six of the series entitled Bibliographies of New England History. Preface by John Borden Armstrong and Foreword by Roger Parks. 9,778 entries. READ MORE about CONNECTICUT, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITS HISTORY
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 57058
Newark: University of Delaware Library, 1994. oblong 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. Frontispiece drawing by David Moyer; 19, (3) pages. First edition, of which this is one of 150 numbered copies containing a signed print by David Moyer inserted in a pocket in the back of the catalogue. Acknowledgements by Susan Brynteson, "The Artist and the Author" by Martha Carothers, "A Note on the Exhibition" by Gary E. Yela and the exhibition descriptions. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS' PRINTS IN BOOKS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 65320
West Lafayette, Indiana: Modern Fiction Studies, 1975. 8vo. Cloth. 136 pages. An index to the first twenty volumes of Modern Fiction Studies. It is divided in two sections listing critical articles about modern fiction and books reviewed about modern fiction. Some shelfwear. READ MORE about A CUMULATIVE INDEX TO MFS (1955-1975
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 97003
West Lafayette, Indiana: Modern Fiction Studies, 1975. 8vo. cloth. 136 pages. Index to the first 20 volumes of Modern Fiction Studies. Some shelfwear. Spine ends worn. READ MORE about A CUMULATIVE INDEX TO MODERN FICTION STUDIES
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Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia, 1974. 8vo. paper wrappers. (xiv), 36, (4) pages. An illustrated exhibition catalogue, well annotated. A fine copy. READ MORE about FICTION OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 1812
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1927. small 8vo. cloth. vi, 104 pages. First edition. Chapters on historical bibliographies, North America, Indians of North America, and other geographical listings by country and continent, including Oceanica, with annotatilons on each entry. READ MORE about GUIDE TO HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES, A CRITICAL AND SYSTEMATIC BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 62972
