Cambridge: University Press, 1941. 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 141+(1) pages and 14 illustrations. Second edition, revised by John Carter and E.A. Crutchley. Excellent short guide to the history of printing. Jacket is tape repaired with red fabric tape at spine ends. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 126848
London: Monotype Corp. 1964. 8vo. later cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. 29 pages plus a frontispiece and eight plates. First edition. (Appleton 346 for Morison). Prefatory note by Frank Francis, Stanley Morison and John Carter. Near fine. READ MORE about PRINTING AND DEMOCRACY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 84577
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 5 x 8 inches. Cloth, dust jacket. 264 pages. "Not to be missed, both because it is a beautiful material object but also because it holds important new information. The ninth edition of ABC for Book Collectors is greatly enhanced by the inclusion of images: some beautiful full-color photographs, others clearly labeled black-and-white reference drawings. I know I will be turning to this reference work for years to..... READ MORE about ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS 9TH ED
Price: $29.95 Order nr. 120362
New York: ABPC, (1957). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. lxii, 465 pages. John Carter's copy. Loosely inserted is a presentation slip made out to John Carter by Edward Lazare and the typescript of the review Carter wrote of this volume for the TLS in one page. READ MORE about AMERICAN BOOK-PRICES CURRENT 1957 Edited by Edward Lazare
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 259
Munich: Prestel-Verlag, (1968). 12mo. cloth, paper cover and spine labels, later transparent plastic covering. 789+(1) pages. First German edition of PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN. Lists over 400 books that changed the world from Gutenberg to Churchill, with a short essay on each. Edited by John Carter and Percy H. Muir, with contributions from Nicolas Barker, H.A. Feisenberger, Howard Nixon, S. H. Steinberg, and Denys Hay; German edition edited by Kurt Busse. Indexed. Ink..... READ MORE about BÜCHER DIE DIE WELT VERÄNDERN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 47877
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1976. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 78 pages. With prices estimated inserted. The version of this catalogue that does not contain the portrait of Carter. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE VALUABLE COLLECTION OF PRINTED BOOKS THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE JOHN CARTER, CBE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 36655
N.P. n.p., 1963. small 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. A keepsake for the visitors to the exhibition of the "Printing and the Mind of Man" exhibition. READ MORE about A KEEPSAKE FOR VISITORS TO THE EXHIBITION OF PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 56510
N.P. National Book League, 1951. small 8vo. paper wrappers. vi, 69, vii-xii pages. Three page preface by Carter. Lightly soiled along spine, else fine. Held to coincide with the Festival of Britain, this exhibition copmprised one hundred manuscripts, first editions and inscribed copies of books by modern British authors and one hundred books "chosen to illustrate the renascence of book design in Great Britain." READ MORE about MODERN BOOKS AND WRITERS, THE CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION HELD AT SEVEN ALBEMARLE STREET, APRIL TO...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 15718
Compiled and Edited by John Carter & Percy H. Muir.
London and New York: Cassell and Co. and Holt, Rinehart, Winston. (1967). 4to. cloth, dust jacket, xxxvi, 280 pages. Compiled and Edited by John Carter & Percy H. Muir. First U.S. edition. One of the most important exhibitions held in the last century. Jacket price clipped. Else near fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 123328
With the Collaboration of Michael Sadleir.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (for the National Book League), 1947. tall 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. xiii, 50 pages. With the Collaboration of Michael Sadleir. No plates in this edition. READ MORE about VICTORIAN FICTION, AN EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 2917
New York: The Colophon Ltd, 1935. 8vo. paper-covered boards. (vi), 167-315+(1) pages. John Carter on "Off-Subject Books," articles about William Davy, "The Parson-Printer of Lustleigh," and the artist-designer Frank Holme, William Alexander Jackson on proof-reading in the 16th and 17th centuries and "The Haunted Book: Concerning Huckleberry Finn," by Irving S. Underhill are some of this issue's topics. READ MORE about COLOPHON, N.S., A Q FOR BKMEN, V.I N.2
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 45426
New York: The Colophon Ltd, 1938. 8vo. cloth. 164 pages. John Carter writes about collecting A.E. Housman, an article by Cedric Lawson about genealogical publications in America, a long and fascinating reminiscence by John Farrar entitled "Footnotes to a Publisher's Sunday," plus several other articles, and the usual Notes and Quotes. READ MORE about COLOPHON, N.S., A Q FOR BKMEN, V.III N.1
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 45439
Philadelphia: Library Company, 1955. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. The early reports were compiled by Edwin Wolf III. READ MORE about ANNUAL REPORT (1955) OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 99789
London: Sotheby & Co., 1962. square 4to. paper-covered boards. 63+(1) pages. A catalogue for the auction at Sotheby & Co., which offered a collection of impressionist and modern pictures owned by W. Somerset Maugham. Artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and more were featured. This copy is from John Carter's library, bearing his autograph signatures on the upper cover and front free endpaper. A price list and a newspaper..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN PICTURES
Price: $96.00 Order nr. 59849
With additions and Corrections to the Original Handlist by John Carter.
Bishop's Stortford: Elkin Mathews Ltd., (1959). 4to. blue paper wrappers, stapled with paper cover label. pp.(51)-57. With additions and Corrections to the Original Handlist by John Carter. Reprinted from Motif 3 and published by the Shenval Press Ltd. (Appleton no.212). Issued on the 70th birthday of Morison. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON, A SECOND HANDLIST, 1950-1959
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 4564
Manchester: Libraries Committee, 1964. square 8vo. paper wrappers. xii, 86 pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Contains a two page foreword by John Carter. The majority of the material came from Maurice Pariser's collection. READ MORE about WISE AFTER THE EVENT A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MANUSCRIPTS AND LETTERS RELATING TO THOMAS...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 2708
