New York: Frederick A. Praeger, (1967). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 512 pages. S-K 761. Fourth edition, revised, U.S. printing. One of the best guides to the history of the production of the book. Covers design, printing, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, etc. Well illustrated. Near fine. READ MORE about THE MAKING OF BOOKS
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 1325
London: Faber & Faber, (1951). 8vo. cloth. 473 pages. First edition. Covers printing and binding and book design. With specific chapters on binding design (Brenni no.32) and the dust jacket (Brenni no.1487). Spine rubbed. READ MORE about THE MAKING OF BOOKS
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 19871
London: Faber & Faber, (1951). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 473 pages. First edition. Covers printing and binding and book design. With specific chapters on binding design (Brenni no.32) and the dust jacket (Brenni no.1487). Jacket spine chipped and faded. With the Randeria bookplate. READ MORE about THE MAKING OF BOOKS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 25113
N.P. Pantheon, (1951). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 473 pages. S-K 761. First U.S. edition. Covers printing and binding and book design. With specific chapters on binding design (Brenni no.32) and the dust jacket (Brenni no.1487). Jacket chipped and soiled. READ MORE about THE MAKING OF BOOKS
Price: $37.50 Order nr. 26712
N.P. Pantheon, (1951). 8vo. cloth. 473 pages. S-K 761. First U.S. edition. Covers printing and binding and book design. With specific chapters on binding design (Brenni no.32) and the dust jacket (Brenni no.1487). Spine rubbed. READ MORE about THE MAKING OF BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 78129
N.P. Pantheon, (1956). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 512 pages with 199 illustrations. Second edition, revised and corrected with new illustrations; the U.S. printing. Covers printing and binding and book design. With specific chapters on binding design (Brenni no.32) and the dust jacket (Brenni no.1487). Jacket has pieces missing at spine ends. Offset from Jacket flaps on endpaeprs. Formerly the property of Roy Stokes with his ink ownership inscription on free endpaper. READ MORE about THE MAKING OF BOOKS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 96522
London: Faber & Faber, (1956). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 512 pages with 199 illustrations. Second edition, revised and corrected with new illustrations. Covers printing and binding and book design. With specific chapters on binding design (Brenni no.32) and the dust jacket (Brenni no.1487). Chipping to dust jacket, else fine. READ MORE about THE MAKING OF BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 131889
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London: n.p. (printed by C. Whittingham), 1845. small 4to. contemporary full calf, boards ruled with foliat and double fillet roll motifs, rims of boards and turn-ins with gilt roll pattern, all edges gilt, five raised bands, red spine label, gilt-tooled spine panels. (198) pages. Printed as an Eton prize book for 1845. Sixteen satires of Juvenal, and six by Persius. Printed by Whittingham (whose device follows the text) at Chiswick. This book is a minor..... READ MORE about DECII JUNII JUVENALIS AQUINATIS SATIRAE DECEM ET SEX [ORNAMENT] AULI PERSII FLACCI SATIRA SEX
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 55179
New York: New York Public Library, 1966. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 59 pages. First separate edition. READ MORE about DIRECTORY OF THE BOOK AND PRINTING INDUSTRIES IN ANTE-BELLUM NASHVILLE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 20595
N.P. Chapin Library, 1995. 8vo. quarter cloth with marbled paper covered boards and with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. 45, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Foreword by Robert L. Volz. Illustrated, including two in color. In later binding. READ MORE about FINISHED BY HAND, DECORATION IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PRINTED BOOKS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 118098
Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1953. 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 250, (2) pages, with 17 illustrations as plates and 18 in the text. Second edition. An introductory guide to the study of library science, including discussions of scripts, printing, binding, and book illustration. Indexed. Jacket chipped. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHEKSWISSENSCHAFT, BUCH- UND BIBLIOTHEKSWESEN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 75567
Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1951. 12mo. cloth. (viii), 250, (2) pages, with 17 illustrations. First edition. An introductory guide to the study of library science, including discussions of scripts, printing, binding, and book illustration. Indexed. Spine and board edges faded. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHEKSWISSENSCHAFT
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 48550
Varsovie: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1985. 8vo. cloth. 172 pages followed by 68 plates. Limited to 800 copies. Ten articles of interest to the book-collector, many of them concerning books in Poland. Includes a number of articles on bookbinding including one by Howard Nixon. READ MORE about VIIIe CONGRES INTERNATIONAL DES BIBLIOPHILES
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 36803
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1946. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 144 pages. Third edition, revised. Advice on typesetting, printing and binding. Indexed. Illustrated and indexed. Covers soiled. READ MORE about SATZ DRUCK EINBAND UND VERWANDTE DINGE
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 49277
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1946. 8vo. later paste paper-covered boards. 144 pages. Third edition, revised. Advice on typesetting, printing and binding. Indexed. Illustrated and indexed. Covers rubbed. READ MORE about SATZ DRUCK EINBAND UND VERWANDTE DINGE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 126097
N.P. n.p., n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 62-66 printed recto only. Off-print of the article from the London Connoisseur, September 1957. Contains ten black-and-white illustrations. A cofferet is a box specially built for a book. Note on first page reads "Gift of C. F. Bühler Sept. 30, 1957." Edges chipped and faded, wrappers soiled in places. READ MORE about NOTES ON A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY COFFERET
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 95574
London: Bickers and Son, n.d. (circa late 19th century). thick small 4to. quarter red leather with cloth. xix, 549 pages. Second edition in English, fourth thousandth. (See Brenni no.366). This English edition was revised and re-arranged by W. Armstrong. Profusely illustrated including 400 wood-engravings and 12 full color plates executed by F. Kellerhoven. Contains a chapter on bindings (pages 372-384). Ex library copy with stamps and perforations and tape repairs to spine. READ MORE about THE ARTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 116290
Hamburg: Hans Christians Verlag, 1974. large 12mo. cloth. 77 pages. Reprint in honor of the 150th birthday of the company F. Laisesz, founded 24. March, 1824, the "Memories" have been published for co-workers, friends and guests of the enterprise. Originally written and published four years after the death of Ferdinand Laeisz, the founder of the enterprise, by nephew Carl Ferdinand. Laeisz was a bookbinder for part of his life. READ MORE about ERINNERUNGEN AUS DEM LEBEN EINES ALTEN HAMBURGERS, DEN FREUNDEN DES VERSTORBENEN GEWIDMET VON...
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 55255
Creative Techniques for Making Beautiful Books, Journals, & Albums
(Asheville, NC): Lark Books, (1995). large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 144 pages. Creative Techniques for Making Beautiful Books, Journals, & Albums. This book gives ideas and instructions for various kinds of interesting bindings. It is heavily illustrated with color pictures of finished bindings and black-and-white diagrams to assist in creating bindings. Fine condition. READ MORE about COVER TO COVER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 95310
Los Angeles: University of California, (1986). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 44 pages. Many illustrations in color. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY DANISH BOOK ART. HELGE ERNST - ILLUSTRATOR; POUL KRISTENSEN - PRINTER; OLE OLSEN -...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 33489
New York: Columbia University Press, (1933). small 8vo. boards. (38) pages. Later printing. Contains a chapter devoted to books on bookbinding. READ MORE about FIFTY BOOKS ABOUT BOOKMAKING
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 6780
New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. 12mo. boards. Not paginated. Third and last edition, expanded from his 70 Books About Bookmaking. Each of the 100 books is described in detail. READ MORE about ONE HUNDRED BOOKS ABOUT BOOKMAKING, A GUIDE TO THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 6784
New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. 12mo. boards. Not paginated. Third and last edition, expanded from his 70 Books About Bookmaking. Each of the 100 books is described in detail. Ink ownership inscription in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about ONE HUNDRED BOOKS ABOUT BOOKMAKING, A GUIDE TO THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 92911
New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. 12mo. boards. Not paginated. Second edition, revised and enlarged edition. Rubbed around edges. READ MORE about SEVENTY BOOKS ABOUT BOOKMAKING, A GUIDE TO THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 11199
New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. 12mo. boards. Not paginated. Second edition, revised and enlarged edition. Presentation from the author on free endpaper. Part of spine covering chipped away. READ MORE about SEVENTY BOOKS ABOUT BOOKMAKING, A GUIDE TO THE STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF PRINTING
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 25499
