Lincoln, NE: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery-University of Nebraska, 1979. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 14 pages. Presentation by Abeles on title. Introduction by Jon Nelson, prefatory comments by and biogaphical sketch of Abeles, A catalogue of 54 works. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about SIGMUND ABELES: THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 129973
Middlebury: Middlebury College Press, 1940. 8vo. paper wrappers, paper cover label. vii, 291 pages. Contains some foreign translations and works of English writers in addition to the American literature. Strong in Thoreau. Back cover detached and pieces of tape on spine which had been used to hold the back cover to the book. READ MORE about CHECK LIST ABERNETHY LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 202
Middlebury: Middlebury College Press, 1940. 8vo. paper wrappers, paper cover label. vii, 291 pages. Contains some foreign translations and works of English writers in addition to the American literature. Strong in Thoreau. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about CHECK LIST ABERNETHY LIBRARY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 97034
(Los Angeles): ACBA, 1996. small 4to. self paper wrappers. 38pages. Periodical published by the Alliance for Contemporary Book Arts. Being Number 10 (Spring 1996). Special 10th anniversary issue. READ MORE about ABRACADABRA
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N.P. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1995. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 66-82. Offprint from the Yearbook. Nineteen illustrations in the text. READ MORE about VENETIAN XYLOGRAPHIC AT THE JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 75434
New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1974). 8vo. pebbled cloth, dust jacket. 87 pages. First edition. Review copy with review slip, folded publisher's sheet, and uncorrected proof of a review scheduled for Library Journal, July, 1974 laid in. Poet Dave Smith's copy with his ownership signature on the front pastedown. Blurb by Joel Oppenheimer. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. READ MORE about THE POST-AMERICAN CULTURAL CONGRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 112270
Boston: Harry C. Bentley, 1935. 8vo. cloth. x, 408 pages. First edition. Volume II only of two volumes. This volume covers the period 1901-1934. Volume I, published in 1934, covered the 19th Century. Historical interest and has practical value as source of reference. Covers rubbed. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ON ACCOUNTING BY AMERICAN AUTHORS
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2 volumes.
Boston: Harry C. Bentley, 1934, 1935. 8vo. cloth. xxi,197; x,408 pages. 2 volumes. First edition. The first volume covers the period 1796 to 1900 and the second volume covers the early 20th century. With complete index. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ON ACCOUNTING BY AMERICAN AUTHORS
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2 volumes bound in 1.
Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, 2005. tall 8vo. cloth. xxi,197; x,408 pages. 2 volumes bound in 1. Reprint of the first edition of 1934, 1935 originally published by Harry C. Bentley in Boston (Besterman 121). The first volume covers the period 1796 to 1900 and the second volume covers the 20th century to 1934. Over 1500 works described with full title, author, place of publication, date, pagination and frequently an annotation. With complete index. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ON ACCOUNTING BY AMERICAN AUTHORS
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Heidelberg: Wunderhorn-Verlag, (1949). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 280 pages. Fourth edition. On the art of reading; divided into sections according to genre, with examples. Some wear and discoloration of jacket. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about DIE KUNST DES LESENS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 48184
(Columbus, OH): Ohio State University Press, (1963). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 90, (18) pages. The Ohio State University Libraries Publications No. 1. Edited by Paul J. Kann and Rolland E. Stevens. Preface, introduction, table of contents, lists of reference works and abbreviations. Frontispiece. READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF THE TALFOURD P. LINN COLLECTION OF CERVANTES MATERIALS ON DEPOSIT IN THE OHIO...
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Amsterdam, Netherlands: Exlibriskring der W.B-Vereniging, 1956. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in Dutch. Table of contents, introduction by Joh. J. Hanrath. A collection of nineteen wood engravings by Acket and Bulder, loosely inserted in portfolio. READ MORE about DRIE SUITES IN HOUTGRAVURES
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Boston, MA: MFA Publications, (2014). 4to. quarter cloth, illustrated paper-covered boards. 255+(1) pages. Table of contents, acknowledgments, glossary of printmaking techniques, list of printers and printmakers, bibliography, list of figure illustrations, index. Research assistance by Katherine Harper. Color illustrations. An exhibitioin at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. READ MORE about HOLLAND ON PAPER IN THE AGE OF ART NOUVEAU
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N.P. Acorn Press, 1989. broadside (15 x 7 inches). Quote from Beston's The Outermost House with wood engravings by Thomas Bewick, circa 1790. Bent at top. READ MORE about REMOTE FROM UNIVERSAL NATURE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 120585
London and Dulverton, England: The Acorn Press and The Exmoor Predd, (1983). 12mo. cloth, paper front cover label. 126, (2) pages. Limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by the author on colophon. Reprint of 1946 edition. Illustrated with wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Table of contents, introductory essay by the author. Descriptions of numerous flowes found in English literary works with excerpts of poems that mention them. "Sentimental vocabulary" of the flowers follows text. Acknowledgments. READ MORE about A POSY OF WILD FLOWERS GATHERED IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 130907
Washington: March, Milligan & Company, 1976. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 14, (2) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 400 numbered copies. Designed and reprinted by Jean and John Michael at the Acorn Press. Originally printed and sold at the Printing Office in New London in 1767. A rather matter-of-fact first-hand account of Isaac Hollister's captivity by Native Americans beginning in 1763. Surprisingly devoid of details about the people who captured him or the... READ MORE about A BRIEF NARRATION OF THE CAPTIVITY OF ISAAC HOLLISTER, WHO WAS TAKEN BY THE INDIANS, ANNO DOMINI,...
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Forest Park, IL: Acorn Press, (1962). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, front wrapper gilt-stamped. (vi), 29, (3) pages. Limited to 350 copies. Type faces available at the Acorn Press. Foreword and explanation. Indexed. Wrappers faded. READ MORE about ONE LINE SPECIMEN BOOK
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 114780
N.P. (Acorn Press, 1983). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16, (2) pages. Limited to 1000 copies. Eulogy for Kotz, descendant of a pioneer Texas family, by her son Nick. Trump medieval type with Trajanus initials. Foil-stamped on front wrapper. READ MORE about TK: TIBE KALLISON KOTZ NOVEMBER 12, 1903-JULY 26, 1982
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 115558
New York: American Branch of Cambridge University Press, 1969. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. (vi) pages followed by 27 page facsimile of handwritten report. Limited to 1000 copies. Issued on the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the American branch. Acton's report contained the design for the now famous Cambridge series on history. READ MORE about LONGITUDE 30 WEST A CONFIDENTIAL REPORT TO THE SYNDICS OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4
New York: PM Publishing Co., various dates. small 8vo. paper wrappers. Have the following: Vol. III, 2 (October 1936). Vol. V, 1 (June - July 1939). With Dwiggins on Caledonia. Vol. VII, 7 (Dec. - Jan. 1940-41). Covers toned. Vol. VIII, 1 (Oct. - Nov. 1941). Some pasted on paper specimens missing from one page. Price is per issue. READ MORE about AD, AN INTIMATE JOURNAL FOR PRODUCTION MANAGERS, ART DIRECTORS
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 55341
(Harper Woods, MI: The Adagio Press, 1968). 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Brochure describing the installation of a new printing press by the press, a C&P Craftsman Platen. READ MORE about ADAGIO PRESS BROCHURE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 128720
(Harper Woods, Michigan: The Adagio Press), n.d. large 12mo. stiff paper wrapper. unpaginated. Not in Tanner and Alstrom. Bahr's thoughts on the purpose of Adagio Press, influenced by Daniel Berkeley Updike's PRINTING TYPES. READ MORE about ADAGIO
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 94189
being a subdued interpretation of The Chap-Book printed for The Society of Private Printers.
N.P. The Adagio Press, 1984. 12mo. stiff paper wrapper. unpaginated. being a subdued interpretation of The Chap-Book printed for The Society of Private Printers. Tanner and Alstrom 44. An attractively designed and bound selection of quotations about the borrowing and lending of books. Set in various types. READ MORE about VARIOUS ASPECTS OF BORROWED BOOKS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 94056
N.P. Adagio Press, n.d. 4to. unbound. 131 broadside specimen sheets enclosed by heavy paper covers. Ornaments and type faces offered by the Adagio Press. Includes designs by Will Bradley (American Type Founders), D. Stempel, Imre Reiner and Jose Mendoza y Almeida (Typefoundry Amsterdam), Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese, G.C. Lange (H. Berthold), American Type Founders, Monotype, Georg Trump, Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum, designers for Bauersche Giesserei, Hermann Zapf, Jan van Krimpen and others. Illustrations..... READ MORE about THE ADAGIO PRESS
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 109160
AN EPILOGUE TO THE PUBLICATION OF C-S: THE MASTER CRAFTSMAN.
Harper Woods, MI: The Adagio Press, 1971. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (20) pages. AN EPILOGUE TO THE PUBLICATION OF C-S: THE MASTER CRAFTSMAN. First edition, limited to 432 numbered copies. Tanner and Alstrom 24. Concerns a letter from Cobden- Sanderson's daughter and additional information by John Dreyfus. Hand-printed by Leonard Bahr at his private press. READ MORE about A LETTER FROM STELLA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 15428
