Oak Knoll

Balsamo, Luigi.

BIBLIOGRAPHY, HISTORY OF TRADITION.

Translated by William A. Pettas.
Berkeley, CA: Bernard M. Rosenthal, 1990. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. iii, 209 pages. Translated by William A. Pettas. First U.S. edition. Originally published in Italian as LA BIBLIOGRAFIA, STORIA DI UNA TRADIZIONE IN 1984. Explains the circumstances and objectives behind the evolution of bibliographies. Includes chapters on books and book distribution in the Middle Ages, the introduction of printing, seventeenth century libraries, and the bibliography of librarians and historians in the nineteenth century. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY, HISTORY OF TRADITION

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 30553

Beckham, Stephen Dow.

THE LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ESSAYS.

Portland, OR: Lewis & Clark College, (2003). 8 x 12 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 316 pages. Introduction and essays by the author; bibliography after the text by Doug Erickson, Jeremy Skinner and Paul Merchant. This first comprehensive bibliography of Lewis and Clark expedition publications in a century is based on the world-class collection of materials at the Aubrey R. Watzak Library of Lewis & Clark College. The book is divided into seven sections: the expedition's..... READ MORE about THE LITERATURE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION, A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ESSAYS

Price: $75.00 Order nr. 73443

Cohen, Ben.

THE THAMES 1580-1980: A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. cloth. 400 pages. Reprint of the out-of-print 1985 first edition with the addition of an index which was lacking from the first edition. This book represents the first bibliographic attempt to record the vast amount of literature on the River Thames written between 1580 and 1980. Annotations are grouped by topic and arranged alphabetically by author, when available. Topics include floods, bridges, fishing, frost..... READ MORE about THE THAMES 1580-1980: A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $125.00 Order nr. 95870

Parks, Roger (editor).

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF NEW ENGLAND HISTORY. FURTHER ADDITIONS, TO 1994.

Hanover: University Press of New England for the Committee for a New England Bibliography, (1995). small 4to. cloth. xviii, 299 pages. Volume Nine of the Series entitled Bibliographies of New England History. Introduction by Parks. 4,231 entries. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF NEW ENGLAND HISTORY. FURTHER ADDITIONS, TO 1994

Price: $85.00 Order nr. 57064

Parks, Roger (editor).

WRITINGS ON NEW ENGLAND HISTORY: ADDITIONS TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF NEW ENGLAND HISTORY SERIES (TO 2001).

Worcester, Ma: Committee for a New England Bibliography, 2003. small 4to. cloth. xvii, 372 pages. This 10th volume of the New England Bibliographies series represents the efforts of the Committee for a New England Bibliography and its editor, Roger Parks, to keep the series of bibliographies of New England towns, states, and the region current. It combines the entries of Volume 10, parts A, B, and C which were published for subscribers in 1998, 2000..... READ MORE about WRITINGS ON NEW ENGLAND HISTORY: ADDITIONS TO THE BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF NEW ENGLAND HISTORY SERIES...

Price: $85.00 Order nr. 75798

Ryder, John.

PRINTING FOR PLEASURE, A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR AMATEURS.

With a foreword by Vivian Ridler.
London: The Bodley Head, (1976). 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 130, (14) pages. With a foreword by Vivian Ridler. Revised edition. Printing can be one of the most enjoyable and creative hobbies and since its first publication, this book has brought this fascinating art to hundreds of people. Ryder's book is a primer on printing for the amateur, covering the choice and purchase of press, type, paper and ink plus the planning, designing and production of..... READ MORE about PRINTING FOR PLEASURE, A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR AMATEURS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5214

Swenson, May.

A BASIN OF EGGS.

(New Haven, CT): Yale University, 1982. broadside (17 x 12 inches). Limited to 50 numbered copies. A Bibliographical Press Poetry Broadside issued by the library. Broadside of the poem A Basin of Eggs by May Swenson printed on hand-made paper for the occasion of the Bollingen Prize Reading which she won in 1981. May Swenson was an American poet and playwright with much of her work being devoted to children. READ MORE about A BASIN OF EGGS

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 99717

Twyman, Michael.

EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF IMPROPER BOOKS IN THE AGE OF THE HAND PRESS, WITH A CATALOGUE.

London: Farrand Press & Private Libraries Association, (1990). small 4to. cloth. 374 pages. First edition. Includes chapters on Lithographic incunables, Military manuals, The Lithographic Publications of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Books on Accounting, and Books with pictures. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF IMPROPER BOOKS IN THE AGE OF...

Price: $49.95 Order nr. 31987

Webster, Edward.

PRINT UNCHAINED: FIFTY YEARS OF DIGITAL PRINTING, 1950-2000 AND BEYOND - A SAGA OF INVENTION AND ENTERPRISE.

West Dover, VT: Dra of Vermont, Inc., (2000). oblong 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xv, (iii), 253+(1) pages. First edition. Written to fill a perceived gap in technology history, the author seeks not only to document but also to celebrate the role digital printing has taken in the dissemination of ideas and images. Containing background and instructional material, Part One first examines the roots of digital printing and then the various technologies, applications and broad changes..... READ MORE about PRINT UNCHAINED: FIFTY YEARS OF DIGITAL PRINTING, 1950-2000 AND BEYOND - A SAGA OF INVENTION AND...

Price: $49.95 Order nr. 76200

Wilson, Adrian.

TWO AGAINST THE TIDE A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR IN WORLD WAR II, SELECTED LETTERS, 1941-1948.

Edited and with commentary by Joyce Lancester Wilson.
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1990. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. xii, 198, (2) pages. Edited and with commentary by Joyce Lancester Wilson. Limited to 850 copies and printed from Monotype Ehrhardt at the press of W. Thomas Taylor. Adrian Wilson (1923-1988) was internationally known as a designer and printer of fine books. During his career, he produced over 200 titles, authored a standard text, The Design of Books for his field, wrote two important..... READ MORE about TWO AGAINST THE TIDE A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR IN WORLD WAR II, SELECTED LETTERS, 1941-1948

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 42169

(Allingham, William). Lasner, Mark Samuels.

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY.

Philadelphia: Holmes Publishing Co., 1993. 8vo. unbound signatures. 88 pages. First edition, a set of unbound signatures. This book is the revised and illustrated bibliographical study of this English poet and man of letters. Included is a lengthy introductory comment on Allingham and his works, along with full collations of his first editions, a section of illustrations, and an index. Distributed for Holmes Publishing Co. READ MORE about WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 54057

(Bird & Bull Press). Pfeiffer, Gordon (editor).

AN ANTHOLOGY OF DELAWARE PAPERMAKING.

With an introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer and four wood engravings by John DePol.
New Castle, DE: Delaware Bibliophiles and Oak Knoll Books, 1991. 8vo. quarter cloth, printed paper over boards, leather spine label. 81, (3) pages. With an introduction by Gordon A. Pfeiffer and four wood engravings by John DePol. Limited to 200 numbered copies; this copy is out of series (Berger B40). Set in Bell and printed on mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. This work is based on an original article..... READ MORE about AN ANTHOLOGY OF DELAWARE PAPERMAKING

Price: $175.00 Order nr. 52522

(Bookbinding). Foot, Mirjam M.

THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT: A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS (VOL. II).

Volume II: A Catalogue of North-European Bindings.
London: The British Library, (1983). 8.5 x 10.75 inches. cloth with leather spine label. 368 pages. Volume II: A Catalogue of North-European Bindings. First edition. The Henry Davis Gift, A Collection of Bookbindings, Volume II covers bindings made in the British Isles, the Netherlands (including Belgium), Germany, Austria and Denmark. There are 368 entries, arranged by country of origin, as well as chronologically, with excellent bibliographical notes on each binding and the binders who executed..... READ MORE about THE HENRY DAVIS GIFT: A COLLECTION OF BOOKBINDINGS (VOL. II

Price: $140.00 Order nr. 104824

(Bookbinding). Lindsay, Jen.

FINE BOOKBINDING: A TECHNICAL GUIDE.

New Castle, Delaware, and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2009. 9 x 9.75 inches. paperback. 216 pages. The laminated covers are bubbled but this doesn't really effect the book in a negative way. However, the price is now reduced from the published price. The purpose of this book is to guide the reader through the sequence of operations involved in creating a book bound in leather, or a "fine binding." The author..... READ MORE about FINE BOOKBINDING: A TECHNICAL GUIDE

Price: $50.00 Order nr. 127801

(British Museum). Ellis, Edward F.

THE BRITISH MUSEUM IN FICTION; A CHECKLIST.

Buffalo: Privately printed, 1981. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 193, (2) pages. First edition, one of 500 copies. This is an incredible bibliography listing fictional works in which the British Museum is mentioned. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author with an index by title. Each book is accompanied by a short statement or quote from the book as to its reference to the British Museum. Printed at The Anthoensen Press. READ MORE about THE BRITISH MUSEUM IN FICTION; A CHECKLIST

Price: $29.00 Order nr. 3509

Carter, John & Nicolas Barker.

ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS.

Eighth US Edition With Corrections, Additions and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, (2013). tall 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages. Eighth US Edition With Corrections, Additions and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. Eighth edition, completely revised and re-set, with additional information and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is the book for you! John Carter's ABC for Book Collectors has long been established as the most enjoyable..... READ MORE about ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 75338

(Colines, Simon De). Schreiber, Fred.

SIMON DE COLINES, AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF 230 EXAMPLES OF HIS PRESS 1520-1546.

Provo: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1995. small 4to. sewn unbound sheets. lxxxiv, 242, (4) pages. First edition, limited to 750 copies. Unbound in sheets. READ MORE about SIMON DE COLINES, AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF 230 EXAMPLES OF HIS PRESS 1520-1546

Price: $100.00 Order nr. 45505

(Connecticut). Parks, Roger (editor).

CONNECTICUT, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITS HISTORY.

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: $85.00 Order nr. 57058

(Emerson, Ralph Waldo). Burkholder, Robert E. and Joel Myerson.

EMERSON, AN ANNOTATED SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985. thick 8vo. cloth. xiv, 842, (4) pages. First edition. A must for the Emerson scholar. READ MORE about EMERSON, AN ANNOTATED SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $19.95 Order nr. 53797

(Etherington, Don). Landon, Richard; Marie E. Korey (editor).

A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON.

With an Introduction by Marie Elena Korey
New Castle, DE and Toronto: Oak Knoll Press and The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2014. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 440 pages. With an Introduction by Marie Elena Korey. First edition, with this particular copy is a full unsigned leather binding by Don Etherington. Full leather, with decorated leather onlays on the front panel. Leather spine label onlayed onto the spine with title in gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Cloth covered clamshell..... READ MORE about A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON

Price: $400.00 Order nr. 134379

Goldman, Paul.

BEYOND DECORATION, THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS.

New Castle, Delaware & London, England & Middlesex, England: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library & Private Libraries Association, 2005. 7 x 12 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 337 pages. First edition. John Everett Millais is admired as one of the most celebrated of Pre-Raphaelite painters. Perhaps less known is the major contribution he made both to book and periodical illustration between 1852 and 1883. Many of these book illustrations remain little known today, largely..... READ MORE about BEYOND DECORATION, THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS

Price: $65.00 Order nr. 76550

(Goudy, Frederic W.). Goudy, Frederic W.

GOUDY'S TYPE DESIGNS, HIS STORY AND SPECIMENS.

New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, 1978. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 285+(1) pages. This book is not only Goudy's autobiography, but it is the most complete record to date of his typographic contribution, which has had a major worldwide effect. First published in 1946 as one of the Typophile Chapbooks XIII and XIV, entitled A HALF-CENTURY OF TYPE DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHY, this second edition is available as the student and professional typographer's working tool, as..... READ MORE about GOUDY'S TYPE DESIGNS, HIS STORY AND SPECIMENS

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 47019

(Hyde, Donald and Mary). Austin, Gabriel (editor).

FOUR OAKS LIBRARY.

Somerville: Privately printed, 1967. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. xiii,136 pages. Well-illustrated descriptions. The library has become a renowned source repository of material relating to English literature (especially Samuel Johnson) of the 18th century. READ MORE about FOUR OAKS LIBRARY

Price: $50.00 Order nr. 79759

(Lallier, Monique). Leutz, Pamela Train.

THE THREAD THAT BINDS: INTERVIEWS WITH PRIVATE PRACTICE BOOKBINDERS.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 6 x 9 inches. later snake binding, folding clamshell box. 352 pages. First edition, in a lovely signed Monique Lallier binding. Full snakeskin binding with pastepaper pastedowns and endpapers. Housed in a magnetic clamshell box with a strip of snakeskin laid down on the folding flap. Box has leather spine label with author and title stamped in white. Comprised of 21 interviews of independent bookbinders, The Thread That..... READ MORE about THE THREAD THAT BINDS: INTERVIEWS WITH PRIVATE PRACTICE BOOKBINDERS

Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 134378

(Lawrence, D.H.). Ross, Charles L.

COMPOSITION OF THE RAINBOW AND WOMEN IN LOVE: A HISTORY.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, (1979). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 168 pages. First edition. A study of the sequence of writing and revision of these two D.H. Lawrence novels. Includes the history of Lawrence's involvement with the drafts of each novel and the impact of literary agents and publishers on the novels. READ MORE about COMPOSITION OF THE RAINBOW AND WOMEN IN LOVE: A HISTORY

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 53825

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