Series III.
Merchantville, NJ: Between the Covers, 2002. 32mo. plastic case with card loosely inserted. unpaginated. Series III. A set of cards depicting rare and classic books. Joint project by Between the Covers and Biblioctopus of Beverly Hills, California. READ MORE about CLASSIC BOOK CARDS.3
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 108834
London: Sotheby & Co., 1937. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 59-209+(1). The second volume of this important four part sale. Blogie III, 105, 108 for the first two parts - the third part not in Blogie. This second volume contained fine bindings. This set is the illustrated version with 7 plates in color and 13 in monochrome. From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. Wear at spine..... READ MORE about THE CLUMBER LIBRARY, CATALOGUE OF THE MAGNIFICENT LIBRARY, THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE SEVENTH DUKE...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 102427
York: Picaflow, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. vi, 241 pages. Describes 1600 booksellers arranged in separate sections alphabetically and regionally. READ MORE about COLE'S REGISTER OF BRITISH ANTIQUARIAN & SECONDHAND BOOKDEALERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 70285
(Exeter, NH): Friends of the Academy Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, (2003). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A collection of letters of tribute to the Academy Library of the Phillips Exeter Academy. Letters of appreciation, arranged chronologically, from 1973 to 2003. Introduction by chairman Roger N. Shapiro. READ MORE about COLLECT LETTERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133276
Bear, De: John P. Reid, December 1992. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 8 pages. Volume 1, Number 6. December 1992. With an article on Delaware in Fiction, a bibliography of Delaware newspapers of a century ago, etc. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67445
Bear, De: John P. Reid, October 1993. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 2, Number 5. October 1993. With an article on Three Writers to Collect, Harold B. Hancock, Dudley C. Lunt, and John A. Munroe, Delawarean Dealers, "My First Delaware Book" by Jeffrey W. Seemans, "On Book Collecting" by Peggy Creswell and others. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67603
Bear, De: John P. Reid, August 1993. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 2, Number 4. August 1993. With an article on Gertrude Kruse of the Greenwood Bookshop, a study of the Ridgely letters and their portrail of Dover and an article on Frank Stephens, the poet. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67627
Bear, De: John P. Reid, June 1993. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 2, Number 3. June 1993. With an article on Robert Montgomery Bird, Montgomery's REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, the genealogy books of Donald O. Virgin and information on the Delaware authors, John W. Beach and Harvey C. Fenimore, Jr. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67628
Bear, De: John P. Reid, April 1993. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 2, Number 2. April 1993. With an article on George Alfred Townsend (Gath) by Jerry Shields and Peggy Creswell on Ghost Stories. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67629
Bear, De: John P. Reid, April 1994. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 3, Number 2. April 1994. With an article on "The Adventures of a Book Fancier" by Hazel D. Brittingham, a memoir of the Wilmington bookseller, Mort Rosenblatt by Tom Doherty and letters concering Dr. Leon deValinger. Also information on leather making in Delaware. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67930
Bear, De: John P. Reid, December 1994. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 3, Number 6. December 1994. Article by Jeffrey W. Seemans on "the Forest of Appoquinimink", an obituary of Pearl Herlihy Daniels, an article on "Curtis Paper Company Publications" and other information. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67991
Bear, De: John P. Reid, April 1995. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 4, Number 2. April 1995. Articles on the more collectible of Delaware books, one on Richard Griffin's "Bug House Poetry", and an article on Delaware place names. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67993
Bear, De: John P. Reid, August 1995. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 4, Number 4. August 1995. Article on Elisabeth Meg, ghosts on the Delmarva by Ed Okonowicz, and articles on Jane McClellan Herson and Stanford E. Davis. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67995
Bear, De: John P. Reid, February 1996. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 5, Number 1. Article by Jeffrey W. Seemans on " An Evening in January with the Cedar Tree Press", "A Delaware Music Project" by John Reid and others. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68661
Bear, De: John P. Reid, April 01996. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 5, Number 2. Article by Alexander Shalk on "The Making of a Delaware Trivia Book", an article on a new George Alfred Townsend book, and others. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68662
Bear, De: John P. Reid, June 1996. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 5, Number 3. Articles on Hockessin, a listing of all the Papers of the Historical Society, information on fiction, poetry and slavery in Delaware and an article on Dudley Lunt's book on Delaware lawyers. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68663
Bear, De: John P. Reid, Summer 1997. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 6, Number 2. Articles on Everett C. Johnson by Robert C. barnes and Judith Pfeiffer, Delaware Jewish History, Vioetman War protests in Delaware, Delaware Main Streets, etc. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68696
Bear, De: John P. Reid, January 1999. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 7, Number 2. Obituary of Jerry A. Shields by John P. Reid, comments on the various auctions, Writings of James Warner Bellah, and a review of Delaware Aviation History by Jane Reid. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68831
Bear, De: John P. Reid, 1998. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 6, Number 4. Articles on a Delaware postcard by Marvin Balick, "The Blue Hen's Chicken's Cook Book by Peggy Creswell, "Hannah Stilley Gorby, The Oldest Person Daguerreotyped?" by Graydon Gorby, etc. READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68833
Bear, De: John P. Reid, Fall 1997. 4to. self paper wrappers stapled in left hand corner. 10 pages. Volume 6, Number 3. Articles on Francis Vincent, the various auctions of Delaware books, "Three Plays by Bill Frank" and "Caleb Harlan and Green Manure" READ MORE about COLLECTING DELAWARE BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 68834
Philadelphia, PA: The Ampersands, 1942. various. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. A collection of five keepsakes, numbers 1, 2, 6, 8. 9. Most of them limited to 50 copies. Duplicate of number 8 with ink markings and notations on title and verso of title. Number 1 is Goudy's "I am Type." READ MORE about Collection of "The Ampersands" keepsakes
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 125500
N.P. n.p., n.d. (but circa 1910). 4to. half leather, cloth. unpaginated. A collection of engraved illustrations, most unidentified. Some are identified though and are the work of Stephen Sly, (British, fl. 1836-46), noted in Rodney Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Wood Engravers (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1985), 239-40. Engen notes that Sly contributed to Charles Knight's Penny Magazine, Old England, and Old England Worthies.. He also illustrated some of the early issues of the Illustrated London News. Sly..... READ MORE about Collection of engraved illustrations
Price: $800.00 Order nr. 124039
N.P. n.p., various dates. broadsides, variously sized. A collection of 18 etchings, mostly of English individuals living in the 18th century. Those identified include Margaret Woffington, Ellen Gwyn, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Mary Wortley Montague, and Pepys.Some duplicates, some tanned and lightly soiled. READ MORE about Collection of etchings
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 132785
New York, NY: The Colophon Ltd, (1934). 4to. paper-covered boards. not paginated. Part sixteen of the original Colophon series. R.W. Chapman leads off this edition with "Johnsonian Bibliography, 1750-1765." Also included among the ten selections are J.B.Mussey writing on inprint collecting, and "Anthologies of American Literature Before 1861," by Fred Lewis Pattee. With a woodcut by Louis Hechenbleikner, cover and colophon page design by Louis Bouché. Ex-libris, else near fine. READ MORE about THE COLOPHON, A BOOK COLLECTOR'S QUARTERLY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 45394
New York: The Colophon Ltd, 1940. 4to. paper-covered boards. 113, (5) pages. William T. Hastings writes about the Ireland Shakespeare forgeries, also Lawrence Clark Powell on D.H. Lawrence and his critics, and an article on English illustrators by Hellmut Lehman-Haupt that features Cruikshank etchings nicely reproduced in color. Also a woodcut by Paul Landacre as a separate plate, cover and colophon design by Kurt Werth, and index to Numbers One through Four. Bookplate. READ MORE about COLOPHON, N.GR.S., THE Q FOR BKMN, V.I N.4
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 45449
