FINE PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA.
New York: Sotheby's, 1986. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. 372 lots described. Near fine. READ MORE about FINE PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136690
New York: Sotheby's, 1986. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. 372 lots described. Near fine. READ MORE about FINE PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136690
Berkeley, CA: The Arif Press, 1972. small 8vo. cord-tied paper wrappers. (16) pages. Limited to 500 copies printed by Wesley Tanner at his private press; this is one of 350 copies bound thus. Faint fading to spine, else a fine copy. Printed on handmade paper. READ MORE about THE IDEAL BOOK OF BOOK BEAUTIFUL: A TRACT ON CALLIGRAPHY, PRINTING, AND ILLUSTRATION AND ON THE...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 101002
London: William Heinemann, 1921. 4to. publisher's cloth, gilt on cover and spine. vii, followed by 51 plates. First trade edition. Corners of front board lightly bumped, else a fine copy. READ MORE about A SURVEY
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 137230
New York: Harper & Row, (1987). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 1141 pages. Forth edition. A fine copy. READ MORE about READER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 54352
New York: George H. Doran company, 1917. 8vo. cloth. xii, 337+(1) pages. First American edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Boards rubbed. Preliminary pages lightly foxed. Else a very good copy. READ MORE about BOOKS AND PERSONS BEING COMMENTS ON A PAST EPOCH, 1908-1911
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 402
London: Mansell Publishing, (1990). small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 192 pages. First edition, later printing. Provides clear and consise guidelines to assist compilers of bibliographies in all aspects of their craft. Covers how to define the scope of the work, select the citation style and organizational sequence, collect entries and prepare the document for publication. Includes the text of the ALA Criteria for Evaluating a Bibliographyprepared in 1972 and an index. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIES, THEIR AIMS AND METHODS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 63981
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. 8vo. quarter morocco with sides based on a fine decorated paper in the Parks Collection, housed in a lovely clamshell box. 134 pages plus 3 fold-out illustrations and a separate suite of color prints in a portfolio, all enclosed in a slipcase. Limited to 450 copies (Heaney A38). The entire book and slipcase are housed in a lovely later cloth clamshell box. Prospectus loosely inserted. Fore-edge of the..... READ MORE about MR. GLADSTONE'S WASHI, A SURVEY OF REPORTS ON THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER IN JAPAN, THE PARKES...
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 460
N.P. Privately Printed by A. R. Tommasini, (1967). small 12mo. cloth. 37+(1) pages. Limited to 800 numbered copies issued as Tommasini's 20th Christmas keepsake. A fine copy. This little book provides an interesting snapshot of some of the more interesting printers' marks that have been created throughout the years. Illustrated and printed in two colors. Includes a Christmas greeting loosely inserted. READ MORE about PRINTERS' MARKS CURIOUS AND CHALLENGING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 62491
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(Newark): Curtis Paper Company, 1962. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 38, (2) pages. (Newark, De. Ninth in a series of these publications issued by Curtis. Designed by Peter Oldenburg and Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press. READ MORE about AMERICA AT EASE, SOME GLIMPSES OF OUR SPORTING BLOOD AT PLAY IN THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 24552
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1997. large 4to. quarter cloth. xx, 100 pages. Limited to 500 copies. Lightly bumped at top edge of front board. Lightly soiled. Printed at The Stinehour Press. Photofacsimile and transcription of a pereviously unpublished draft of Faulkner's second novel, Mosquitoes. Includes comprehensive introduction, cross-references to corresponding passages of the typescript and first edition, and an appendix presenting in tabular form the relationship of the three major stages..... READ MORE about MOSQUITOES, A FACSIMILE AND TRANSCRIPTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 53834
London: The Folio Society, 1980. 8vo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, decorated endpapers, paper-covered slipcase. 772, (2) pages. Trollope's last Barsetshire novel, with one of the series' most striking characters. Introduction by Julian Symons, drawings by Peter Reddick. Folio Society publication no. 475, in the series binding design. Endpapers bear a map derived from Trollope's own sketch of "Barsetshire." Slipcase lightly rubbed, else near fine. READ MORE about THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 53310
London: Folio Society, 1981. 8vo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, top edge stained maroon, maroon paper-covered slipcase. 276 pages. "The Two Heroines of Plumplington," a novella set in a previously unknown corner of Trollope's Barsetshire, 6 short stories, and a cycle of tales entitled "why Frau Frohmann raised her prices." With an introduction by Julian Symonds and line drawings by Peter Reddick. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE TWO HEROINES OF PLUMPLINGTON AND OTHER STORIES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 53263
Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1891. 12mo. original paper wrappers. 61 pages. Limited to 250 copies. Winnowings in American History, Virginia Tracts No.II. Antique pamphlet containing account of the controversy between Lieutenant-Governor Spotswood and his Council and the House of Burgesses on the appointment of judges on commissions of Oyer and Terminer, 1718. READ MORE about CONTROVERSY BETWEEN LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR SPOTSWOOD AND HIS COUNCIL AND THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES, ON...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 8219
Three Volumes
London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 2000. 4to. paper wrappers. 312; 200; 424 pages. Three Volumes. A complete set of this lovely library by this noted collector. A fine set. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (Part I); Early Continental Books (Part II); English Literature and Manuscript, Travel Books (Part III). The sale realized £12,652,494. The first part of the sale included 93 manuscripts (32 being Books of Hours), many with distinguished provenances including such collectors as Sir..... READ MORE about THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM FOYLE
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 137544
New York: Reynal and Company, n.d. (but circa 1962). 4to. cloth. 36 pages followed by full color plates. Translated from the original manuscript by Jonathan Griffin and with a postscript by Jean Loize. Minor moisture staining to the tail end of the price-clipped dust jacket. Else a fine copy. This account by Gauguin of his first trip to Tahiti remained unknown until 1954 when it was published in facsimile in Paris. READ MORE about NOA NOA, VOYAGE TO TAHITI
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 31261
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. 8vo. Bound in 1/4 linen and cloth boards, original glassine wrapper. xiv, 81 pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. A fine copy. Printed on handmade paper. READ MORE about SONNETS: WITH FOLK SONGS FROM THE SPANISH
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 137223
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1960. folio. paper covered boards, paper spine label. 111 pages. First edition limited to . Very light foxing to preliminary pages, as usual, else near fine. Illustrated by Mary Grabhorn. READ MORE about THE TRAGEDIE OF ANTHONIE AND CLEOPATRA
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 137209
Reprinted from the Revised Version of the Apocrypha with an Introduction by Montague R. James; colour plates after drawings by W. Russell Flint.
London: The Haymarket Press, 1929. small 4to. original limp vellum lettered in gilt with cloth ties, top edge gilt. 47 pages. Reprinted from the Revised Version of the Apocrypha with an Introduction by Montague R. James; colour plates after drawings by W. Russell Flint. Printed in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies. The separate folder with four loose prints is present, as well as the scarce slipcase. Aside from minor wear to the slipcase..... READ MORE about THE BOOK OF TOBIT AND THE HISTORY OF SUSANNA
Price: $900.00 Order nr. 59015
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1880. 8vo. Bound in 3/4 leather decorative gilt panels, leather spine labels, gilt spine title, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. 419 pages. First edition. Endpapers foxed. Minor rubbing to extreminities and hinges, else a near fine copy. With bookplate, "Ex Libris The Robert A. Sigmunds." Printed by The Riverside Press. READ MORE about THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY
Price: $40.00 save 50% $20.00 Order nr. 137840
New York, NY: Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, 1982. 8vo. paper wrappers. unpaginated. First edition. Foreword by Terry Belanger. READ MORE about RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPT THEFTS: A SECURITY SYSTEM FOR LIBRARIANS, BOOKSELLERS, AND COLLECTORS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136875
New York, NY: Sotheby's, 2007. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 128 pages. Auction, December 19, 2007. 246 lots. Table of contents, glossary of terms. Judaica, manuscripts and vessels. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about IMPORTANT JUDAICA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 137075
Edited by Charles Anthon.
New York, NY: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1833. 8vo. Bound in cloth-backed, dark calf bindings; spines with gilt lettering. 1635 pages. Edited by Charles Anthon. A "new Edition" of "Bibliotheca Classica", John Lempriere's best-known work published in two volumes, "enlarged, re-modelled, and extensively improved" by Charles Anthon, American classical scholar at Columbia College. Volume 1 with cover detached. Cloth soiled to both volumes. Leather scratched. Light shelfwear, wear to corners. Minor foxing throughout..... READ MORE about BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA OR, A DICTIONARY OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL NAMES AND TERMS RELATING TO THE...
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 137273
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1957. 8vo. leather-backed paste paper-covered boards, slipcase. liv, 297+(1) pages. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Kredel (LEC 273). Selected and Translated, with an Introduction, by Louis Untermeyer and Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Designed by Georg Salter and printed by Clarke & Way at the Thistle Press. The color illustrations were produced in the studio of Walter Fischer. With Monthly Newsletter / prospectus loosely inserted. Spine lightly rubbed..... READ MORE about POEMS OF HEINRICH HEINE
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 120609
N.P. Masons of Delaware, 1956. 8vo. paper wrappers. Frontispiece; 137, (2) pages. B1-4234. 1956. 151st Annual Communication. Near fine. READ MORE about PROCEEDINGS OF THE MOST WORSHIPFUL GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT, FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF DELAWARE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 137608
New York: George Braziller, 1984. large 4to [32,3 x 25,3 cm]. original vellum-backed chemise and slipcase. Illustrated with 80 colour REPRODUCTIONS. Reprint edition in the original printed wrappers and in the original vellum-backed chemise and slipcase. Fine in fine slipcase. READ MORE about A TOUTE ÉPREUVE
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 137074
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, (1988). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 328 pages. First U.S. edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A study of Morris's life through his own words and work. Contains extracts from his letters, poems, etc. Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 200 color plates. Many of the illustrations have never been reproduced before. A nice book. READ MORE about WILLIAM MORRIS BY HIMSELF, DESIGNS AND WRITINGS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 28457
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. xxi, 356 pages. First edition, lacking the errata slip tipped in at page 268 (Fleck A 4.A.1a). Lacking the dust jacket. Minor age-darkening to the spine. A hint of wear to the corners, else near fine. A monumental work on book collecting from perhaps the most well-known American book-collector-turned-author. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA. READ MORE about THE AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING AND KINDRED AFFECTIONS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 3609
Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press for the Print Club of Cleveland, 1979. 8vo. half green cloth with decorated paper covered boards. 27+(1) pages. Limited to 264 numbered copies signed by Richard Wilbur and Fritz Eichenberg, of which this one is unnumbered and signed "MP" for Mike Peich of Aralia Press. Printed for the Print Club of Cleveland. Introduction by Richard Wilbur; wood engraving by Fritz Eichenberg. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about ELEONORA
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 114480
Cleveland: The Rhymers' Club, (1935). 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. 40 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 500 numbered copies. A collection of poetry from members of the Rhymers' Club, such as Katherine Kelley Taylor, Joseph S. Newman, John French Wilson, William Heermans Wright and others. Copyright by Carr Liggett. READ MORE about THE BOOK OF THE RHYMERS' CLUB
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 60224
New York: MacMillan Company, 1929. 8vo. cloth spine, paper-covered boards, slipcase with paper limitation label. (viii), 103,(3) pages. First limited edition of 500 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page in the book, the limitation label on the slip case has a handwritten number only. Slip case is quite worn at the edges while missing both top and bottom pieces. Overall a lovely copy. READ MORE about CAVENDER'S HOUSE
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 93750
New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. liv, 127 pages. First edition. Prospectus loosely inserted. Spine of jacket faded, else a near fine copy. A bibliography of the design work. The typography is by the notable American book designer Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), who "was appreciated in his lifetime. In addition to several honorary degrees, in 1948 he was awarded a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction..... READ MORE about THE WORK OF BRUCE ROGERS, JACK OF ALL TRADES MASTER OF ONE: A CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION ... WITH...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 19585
Hockessin: North Light Studio, 1984. oblong small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (56) pages. First edition. Written and illustrated by Sawin. Much on the architecture of the area and towns along the canal. Inscribed by Sawin. READ MORE about LOCKS, TRAPS, AND CORNERS ON AND ALONG THE CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 67211
2 volumes.
New York: Sotheby's, 1999. small 4to. cloth, paper cover labels. 370,(2); 394,(2) pages. 2 volumes. 1,080 lots described with the greatest of detail. Part I in fine condition. Part II spotted with the boards warped. Textblock shaken. Author index in the back of volume two. Illustrated throughout including many in color. Contains a two page biography of Siebert by Bailey Bishop. This sale is a must for any reference collection on Americana and will take..... READ MORE about FRANK T. SIEBERT LIBRARY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. PART I & II
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 57781
Illustrated from etchings by Henry Emerson Tuttle.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. xvi, 96 pages. Illustrated from etchings by Henry Emerson Tuttle. Limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Very light foxing to covered boards, else a fine copy. Has a signed proof as a frontispiece and five signed photo-gravures by Tuttle. READ MORE about THE LOST LYRIST
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 33323
London: Monotype Corporation, n.d.(c1950). small 4to. sewn, self paper wrappers. (20) pages. Specimens mostly in texts for Spectrum, a roman bookface commissioned by Joh. Enschedé & Zonen and designed by Jan Van Krimpen, and originally meant for use in small folio Bibles. Near fine. READ MORE about SPECTRUM ROMAN AND ITALIC
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 53383
Pittsburgh: The Typophiles, (1956). 12mo. paper wrappers. 20 pages. Typophile Monograph No.46. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE OUTLOOK FOR GRAPHIC ARTS EDUCATION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 502
Manor Farm: The Whittington Press, 1988. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 166, (2) pages. Limited to 900 copies of which this is one of the 800 copies of the trade edition bound in a pattern paper by Vance Gerry. Dust jacket torn at top edge, with minor loss. Else a fine copy. Filled with tipped-in plates and other illustrations. Articles by Michael Taylor on Douglas Cleverdon, David Butcher on the Curwen Press, Tanya Schmoller..... READ MORE about MATRIX 08
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 124980