England: Incline Press, 1999. 16mo. paper wrappers. 10, (2) pages. An extract from a talk given to the Typophiles, New York in 1999. A discussion on buying second hand type. Illustrated with letters of the alphabet. READ MORE about I AM NOT A TYPE COLLECTOR
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 58721
Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1933. 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. xxiv, 362 pages. Limited to 850 copies printed by the Lakeside Press. 1794 entries. Spine label rubbed. Bookplate. READ MORE about A CHECK LIST OF FIFTEENTH CENTURY BOOKS IN THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY AND IN OTHER LIBRARIES OF CHICAGO
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 15821
La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1889. 8vo. original paper wrappers. iv, 29 pages. Third supplement to expand the bibliography of fifteenth century books printed in the Netherlands (Besterman 5160). Entries accompanied by brief commentaries. Laid paper, uncut pages. Spine rubbed. Edges of cover slightly discolored and occasionally chipped. READ MORE about ANNALES DE LA TYPOGRAPHIE NEERLANDAISE AU XVe SIECLE, 3rd SUPPLEMENT
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 76907
La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1890. 8vo. original paper wrappers. vi, 5 pages. Fourth supplement to expand the bibliography of fifteenth century books printed in the Netherlands (Besterman 5160). Entries accompanied by brief commentaries. Laid paper, uncut pages. Covers detached and chipped. Edges slightly discolored. READ MORE about ANNALES DE LA TYPOGRAPHIE NEERLANDAISE AU XVe SIECLE, 4th SUPPLEMENT
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 76908
Stockholm: (Almqvist & Wiksells), 1914. folio. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 88 pages. First edition. The plate volume of part I (of three), each volume self contained.This volume contains illustrations from 150 examples of early printing. Wear along edges. Unopened copy. READ MORE about KATALOG DER INKUNABELN DER KGL BIBLIOTHEK IN STOCKHOLM. TIEL 1, TAFELN 1-150
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 123612
Leipzig: Rudolf Haupt, (1907). large 8vo. stiff paper wrapper, unopened pages. xxxviii, 507 pages. First edition (Besterman 5073). Introduction by the author. A brief list of reference material followed by the extensive bibliography of incunabula in the university library of Uppsala, Sweden. With cross references to other incunabula listings, use of type, provenance, etc. READ MORE about KATALOG DER INKUNABELN DER KGL. UNIVERSITÄTS-BIBLIOTHEK ZU UPPSALA
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 76859
Leipzig: Rudolf Haupt, (1907). large 8vo. later cloth with original paper wrappers bound-in, top edge gilt. xxxviii, 507 pages. First edition (Besterman 5073). Introduction by the author. A brief list of reference material followed by the extensive bibliography of incunabula in the university library of Uppsala, Sweden. With cross references to other incunabula listings, use of type, provenance, etc. Spine faded. READ MORE about KATALOG DER INKUNABELN DER KGL. UNIVERSITÄTS-BIBLIOTHEK ZU UPPSALA
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 96491
2 volumes.
Caen: H. Delesques, 1903-1904. 8vo. later full cloth, leather spine labels, original paper wrappers bound in. xiv, 354+(2); cxxxii, 178+(2) pages, plates. 2 volumes. First edition. (Besterman, 5094). A two-volume catalogue of the printing and incunabula in Caen, followed by discussions of printers, booksellers, and noteworthy libraries. Includes 403 bibliographical references. Delisle (1826-1910) was a curator of the manuscripts collection in the Bibliothèque Impériale, and is admired for his scholarship in illuminated manuscripts and early..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE DES LIVRES IMPRIMÉS OU PUBLIÉS À CAEN AVANT LE MILIEU DU XVIe SIÈCLE
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 76167
Klagenfurt: Ferd. Kleinmayr, 1950. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. x, 148 pages and 12 plates. An essay on incunabula including an annotated bibliography describing 132 items. Illustrated with plates of early book illustrations and one period binding. Boards slightly warped. READ MORE about WIEGENDRUCKE IN DER ZEITENWENDE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 43541
Klagenfurt: Ferd. Kleinmayr, 1950. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. x, 148 pages and 12 plates. An essay on incunabula including an annotated bibliography describing 132 items. Illustrated with plates of early book illustrations and one period binding. Wear along outer edge of front board. Boards slightly warped. READ MORE about WIEGENDRUCKE IN DER ZEITENWENDE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 126249
Prague: Státni Pedagogické Nakladatelství, (1974). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 478, (2) pages. Text in Czech. Summary in Russian, English, French and German. Describes incunabula held in libraries, "public property," in southern Bohemia "with reference to the situation after 1945." 1026 entries. Index of published works, alphabetical list of printers of the incunabula, Listing of provenances, and other indices. 33 black and white plates. List of abbreviations attached to rear pastedown. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed..... READ MORE about KATALOG PRVOTISKU JIHOCESKÝCH KNIHOVEN
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 107544
La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1884. 8vo. original paper wrappers. viii, 44 pages. Second supplement to expand the bibliography of fifteenth century books printed in the Netherlands (Besterman 5160). Entries accompanied by brief commentaries. Laid paper, uncut pages. Spine rubbed. Edges of cover slightly discolored and occasionally chipped. READ MORE about ANNALES DE LA TYPOGRAPHIE NEERLANDAISE AU XVe SIECLE, 2nd SUPPLEMENT
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 76906
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, n.d. oblong small folio. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. With a color reproduction of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln owned by the Henry E. Huntington Library and Museum. Demonstration of their color printing work. Full page of text about the portrait and the color printing process. Slightly creased. Dark stain along bottom edge of outer portfolio. READ MORE about MAN FOR THE AGES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 105839
Chicago, IL: The Lakeside Press, n.d. large folio. self paper wrappers with tipped-in color plate. (4) pages. Full color reproduction of this woodcut entitled "Man of Sorrow" and dating from the 1460s is tipped-in to demonstrate the Lakeside Press color printing skills. Inside front cover contains historical text. READ MORE about A UNIQUE FIFTEENTH CENTURY HAND-COLORED WOODCUT
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 105844
Introduction by Bernard M. Rosenthal. With an Original Leaf from Hugo Ripelin's COMPENDIUM THEOLOGIAE VERITATIS (c.1478-81).
Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, 1985. 4to. cloth, paper spine label. ix, 22, (4) pages. Introduction by Bernard M. Rosenthal. With an Original Leaf from Hugo Ripelin's COMPENDIUM THEOLOGIAE VERITATIS (c.1478-81). Limited to 159 copies printed by Patrick Reagh and each containing a leaf (Disbound and Dispersed 183). Information on this early Ulm, Germany, printer. Zainer was printed in Ulm in the last quarter of the 15th century where his press printed over 150 editions..... READ MORE about PETER AMELUNG'S JOHANN ZAINER, THE ELDER & YOUNGER TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY RUTH...
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 78410
With a Census of Signed Copies
New Castle, DE & Chicago, IL: Oak Knoll Press & Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 2009. 6 x 9 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 228 pages. With a Census of Signed Copies. Fifty years ago, David Mearns at the Library of Congress wrote a twenty-page overview of the basic process that led to the publication of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Here, for the first time in a detailed and readable account focusing on Lincoln's personal involvement, Dave Leroy..... READ MORE about MR. LINCOLN'S BOOK: PUBLISHING THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 99275
London: Maggs Bros. 1953. square 8vo. later full brown leather, four raised bands with spine gilt and with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. 141 pages and 29 plates. Catalogue no.816. 391 items described. READ MORE about CENTURY OF PRINTED BOOKS (1462-1562) AND SOME MEDIAEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 123793
New York: Peter Bedrick, (1987). small 4to. paper-covered boards. 29 pages. First American edition. Nicely illustrated children's book relating the story of Martin, a young boy learning the printer's trade in Nuremberg in 1485. READ MORE about A GERMAN PRINTER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 64966
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. 8vo. cloth. xii, 147 pages. Bibliography of Princeton imprints. 519 numbered, chronologically arranged entries. Library holdings are indicated. With secondary bibliography and index. 13 illustrations. READ MORE about PRINTING IN PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, 1786-1876, A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 52860
23 volumes
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographic Society, 1967-1992. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (last 4 volumes with blue covers, others red). variously paginated. 23 volumes. Run of issues from the inception through volume 24. (volume 9 missing) Printed for the Oxford Bibliographic Society, Bodleian Library. Each volume is by a different scholar. Many issues concentrate on formulating a complete bibliography or checklist while others contain a single essay with illustrations. Also included are facsimiles and catalogues of printers'..... READ MORE about OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 79801
N.P. The Oxford Guild of Printers, n.d. 8vo. plastic. unpaginated. A DVD of instruction by demonstration. Edited by Brian Clarke, with a practical demonstration by Graham Moss in the workshop of the Incline Press. READ MORE about LEARNING BY DOING: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ARAB PRINTING MACHINE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 132787
(Princeton: The Typography Studio Princeton University, 1999). 8vo. accordion fold pamphlet. unpaginated. Limited to 300 copies. Extract from Life in "New York, In Doors and Out of Doors" from 1851. An essay concerning women's trades in New York. READ MORE about THE TYPE RUBBER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 105162
1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Volume IX, No.2. A memorial article on Dr. Robert Leslie, Susan Allen on Jane Yetsweirt, Tyrus Harmsen on Robinson Jeffers, Tanselle, Petro on Gwasg Gregynog and Victor Margolin on Paul Theobald. READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOC IATION. Number Eighteen
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 32442
New York: American Printing History Association, 2011. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 63 pages. William Berkson on "Readability and Reval: The Case of Caslon," Betsy Davids on "From Palm Leaf to Book" and Marvin J. Heller on ""Behold, You are Beautiful, My Love: The Use of Ornamental Frames in Hebrew Incunabula." READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. NEW SERIES NO.10
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 110230
New York, NY: The New York Public Library, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. Introductory comments by Miriam Mandelbaum, Rare Book Librarian. Acknowledgments. Catalogue of an exhibition, March-June 1987. Bibliography, illustrations. READ MORE about THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 123830
