Philadelphia: Collins, Printer, 1879. 16mo. self paper wrappers. 28 pages. Part of what appears to be a series of small books on "The Private Libraries of Philadelphia." Childs (1829-1894) was a publisher. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE LIBRARY OF GEORGE W. CHILDS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138485
Hartford, Conn: Trinity College Press, 1966. 4to. cloth. xii, 177 pages. David Watkinson's Library narrates the founding and history of the David Watkinson Library from 1866 to 1966. When David Watkinson died in 1857, the major provisions for the establishment of the library were contained in his will. Watkinson had determined one hundred thousand dollars would be invested and managed by the board of trustees to establish connections with the Connecticut Historical Society as a...... READ MORE about DAVID WATKINSON'S LIBRARY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN HARTFORD CONNECTICUT, 1866-1966
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 1441
Hartford, Conn: Trinity College Press, 1966. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. xii, 177 pages. David Watkinson's Library narrates the founding and history of the David Watkinson Library from 1866 to 1966. When David Watkinson died in 1857, the major provisions for the establishment of the library were contained in his will. Watkinson had determined one hundred thousand dollars would be invested and managed by the board of trustees to establish connections with the Connecticut Historical..... READ MORE about DAVID WATKINSON'S LIBRARY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN HARTFORD CONNECTICUT, 1866-1966
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 105706
(Champaign): University of Illinois, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 259 pages. Being the entire issue of Library Trends, Summer 1987. A fine copy. Includes 15 articles on library trends by authors such as Paul S. Koda, Sidney Berger. Illustrated. READ MORE about RECENT TRENDS IN RARE BOOK LIBRARIANSHIP
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136530
Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 1980. 8vo. paper over boards, paper label on spine. 37+(1) pages. Limited to 200 copies. A lecture read before the Club of Odd Volumes, and again to the Grolier Club in 1978. Also lists the members of both clubs. READ MORE about THE TRIAL OF MRS. LEIGH PERROT, WIFE OF JAMES LEIGH PERROT, ESQ
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 36353
The Robert L. Nikirk Lecture 2000, New Series, Number 1
New York: Grolier Club, 2001. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 23+(1) pages. The Robert L. Nikirk Lecture 2000, New Series, Number 1. Transcript of a lecture about the life of Sydney Carlyle Cockerell given in 2000 as part of the Robert L. Nikirk Lecture Series at the Grolier Club. Booklet designed by Jerry Kelly. Text set in Comenius Roman type designed by Hermann Zapf on Mohawk Vellum paper. READ MORE about SYDNEY CARLYLE COCKERELL
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 92365
Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Information Press, 2006. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 15-30, (3) pages. Volume 31, Numbers 1/2. Feature article "Historical Background of Book Conservation: The Past Forty Years" by Don Etherington, with extensive bibliography. READ MORE about COLLECTION MANAGEMENT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135009
West Lebanon,Me: Robert J. Diefendorf, 1983. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 184 pages. Includes information on frequent library sales, specialized bookshops, and related reference books. Illustrated. A fine copy. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about COLLECTING BOOKS IN NEW ENGLAND
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 34770
(Meriden, CT: The Columbiad Club), n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 15+(1) pages. Limited to 40 copies, this copy not numbered. Keepsake No. 63 of the Columbiad Club. Reprint from The Book Collector, Summer 1958. Contemporary Collectors XVII. Black and white fontispiece, illustrations in text. READ MORE about A COLLECTION OF ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 128533
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1930). 8vo. cloth, paper spine and cover labels, top edge gilt. xx, 221 pages. First edition, limited to 1250 signed and numbered copies. (Webber p.53). Lacking the slipcase, else a fine copy. With fifty-one facsimile title pages; much information on issue points, variant editions, forgeries, etc. READ MORE about COLLECTING AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS, ITS PITFALLS AND ITS PLEASURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 1746
(Hanover, NH): n.p., 1988. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 57+(1) pages. Extra No. 2 of the Library Bulletin commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Friends of the Dartmouth Library. Preface by J. Peter Williamson, Chair of the Friends Executive Committee. Lectures discuss the use of computers, rare books, and collecting books. Frontispiece illustration of Herbert Faulkner West, Dartmouth Class of 1922. READ MORE about THREE LECTURES PRESENTED ON THE OCCASION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FRIENDS OF THE...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 116106
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1986). thick 8vo. cloth. xvi, 383 pages. First edition. Top edge lightly soiled, else a fine copy. Biographical information on 365 significant American book collectors who died before December 31, 1984. Each entry contains the collector's dates, location of the collection and a bibliography of sources. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BOOK COLLECTORS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 29671
New York: Christie's, 1991. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 162 pages. Sale number 7324. Illustrated including some in color. With prices realized loosely inserted. READ MORE about THE PIERRE S. DU PONT III COLLECTION OF NAVIGATION, VOYAGES, CARTOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE OF THE SEA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 42655
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 464 pages. First edition. An extensive annotated list of sights, organized by geographical location, related to the lives and works of writers around the United States. Contains many black-and-white illustrations throughout. Indexed. READ MORE about THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED LITERARY GUIDE TO THE UNITED STATES
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 55980
Philadelphia: Free Library of Philadelphia, 1956. 8vo. paper wrappers. 56 pages. Limited to 750 copies. This copy is inscribed by the author on the half-title page. A fine copy. With a check-list of the Elkins Americana compiled by Howell J. Heaney. READ MORE about PORTRAIT OF A PHILADELPHIA COLLECTOR, WILLIAM McINTIRE ELKINS (1882-1947
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 2602
Hartford, CT: The Watkinson Library, 2012. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 18, (2) pages. Limited to 250 copies. Foreword by Richard J. Ring, essays by Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz and Peter J. Knapp. Frontispiece portrait of Engley. Reflections on a benefactor of the Watkinson Library. READ MORE about DONALD BROWN ENGLEY 1917-2012
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 128372
Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1978. 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), iv, 44,(2) pages. Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition commemorating the centenary of the opening of the Peabody Library building. READ MORE about SURPRISES AND DELIGHTS FROM A CENTURY OF COLLECTING
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 51357
New York: New York University Libraries, 1966. 12mo. self paper wrappers. (12) pages. Short biography of this collector of books. Includes a list of notable books and manuscripts in his collection. READ MORE about DE COURSEY FALES, 1888-1966
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 24799
Volume IV.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1982. 8vo. cloth, printed dust jacket. xlix, 409 pages. Volume IV. First edition. Volume four of Louis Daniel Brodsky's five-volume guide to his own collection of rare William Faulkner books, letters, and manuscripts. Written with the assistance of Robert Hamblin, this volume contains all known drafts of Faulkner's screenplay "Battle Cry." Also included are reproductions of Faulkner's original manuscripts and letters to writer/director Howard Hawks. With an introduction by Brodsky..... READ MORE about FAULKNER: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE BRODSKY COLLECTION
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 60485
Volume III.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, (1984). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxxix, 400 pages. Volume III. First edition. Volume three of Louis Daniel Brodsky's five-volume guide to his own collection of rare William Faulkner books, letters, and manuscripts. This volume contains all known drafts of Faulkner's screenplay "The De Gaulle Story," which tells of General De Gaulle's establishment of Free France. Also included are related documents such as deleted scenes, A French Research Foundation chronology, and..... READ MORE about FAULKNER: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE BRODSKY COLLECTION
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 60614
Philadelphia: (Library Company of Philadelphia, 1936). 8vo. paper wrappers. 72 pages. First edition. A very scarce book. Covers soiled. Second free endpaper loose, yet present. Spine lightly worn. Later published as BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S LIBRARY; A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, 1731-1931. READ MORE about THE FIRST AMERICAN LIBRARY; A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, 1731-1931
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 138319
New York: New York Public Library, 1947. 12mo. paper wrappers. 49+(1) pages. The eleventh R.R. Bowker Memorial Lecture. READ MORE about BOOK-CLUBS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 50822
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1954. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 48 pages. First edition. Foreword by R. Hunter Middleton. Reminiscences by Forgue on the beginning and early days of his career in printing and publishing. READ MORE about POORER RICHARD, AN ALMANAC LONG AFTER FRANKLIN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 4010
Baltimore: Privately printed, 1944. 4to. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 74, (2) pages. Discusses the life of Baltimorean John Garrett, career-diplomat and avid book collector, who bequeathed his magnificent home and library to Johns Hopkins University. A general description of the collection, which includes many important early works, incunables, and rare Americana, follows. Illustrated with many period photographs. Covers age-darkened at edges. Bookplate of Sol Hess on front pastedown. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection..... READ MORE about JOHN WORK GARRETT AND HIS LIBRARY AT EVERGREEN HOUSE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 47573
BSA Occastional Publications, No.1
New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 2007. 8.5 x 11 inches. paperback. 212 pages. BSA Occastional Publications, No.1. Reformation pamphlets (or "Flugschriften") were among the first rare book acquisitions of American libraries. Gatch traces the remarkable history of the Leander van Ess collection purchased by the Union Theological Seminary in 1838, the first and largest collection of these religious tracts to arrive in America. He notes how they were originally obtained by van Ess..... READ MORE about THE LIBRARY OF LEANDER VAN ESS AND THE EARLIEST AMERICAN COLLECTIONS OF REFORMATION PAMPHLETS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 93560
