Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., (1955). 8vo. half cloth, boards. 253, (3) pages. First edition with these illustrations. Given out as a dividend by the Book-of-the-Month Club. Illustrated by Douglass Gorsline. Lacks dust jacket. READ MORE about PARNASSUS ON WHEELS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 2842
With a Foreword by Frederic G. Melcher.
New York: Court Book Co., (1941). 8vo. cloth. viii, 249 pages. With a Foreword by Frederic G. Melcher. "Special Printing". Melcher says that this is "the first book I have seen to put into the form of vocational fiction a picture of what publishing is to those who are just entering it ..." Covers faded & sun faded. READ MORE about YOUNG MR. STONE, BOOK PUBLISHER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 9702
Council Bluffs, IA: Yellow Barn Press, (1996). 8vo. cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label. xi, 55, (3) pages. Limited to 225 numbered copies. Includes 25 tributes including ones by Simon Brett, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Alan Ross, George Sims and others. Printed by hand by Neil Shaver at his private press. A lovingly produced tribute. READ MORE about JULIAN SYMONS REMEMBERED, TRIBUTES FROM FRIENDS. COLLECTED BY JACK WALSDORF AND KATHLEEN SYMONS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 44687
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1977, small 8vo., quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 350 pages.
New York, Simon and Schuster, 1977, small 8vo., quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 350 pages. First edition. Liberated sexuality, driving ambition, underworld connections, violent confrontation, pleasure and hedonism, mysterious Uncle Lonergan, tragedy, success....(and that's just the dust jacket). Struggles of a magazine publisher. READ MORE about DREAMS DIE FIRST
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 49861
New York: Walker Publ. Co., 1982. small 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 189 pages. First edition. Bookplate of Philip Allen Metzger on front pastedown. Large stain on front free endpaper, date stamp on half-title page. Mark Exeter, publisher of the news weekly "Tomorrow" hires private eye Nick Nicoletti to look into matters relating to the magazine staff and to Exeter's own upcoming divorce. Soon, Nicoletti is also looking into Exeter's murder. READ MORE about MURDER AT TOMORROW
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 49903
New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1974. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 186 pages. Book club edition. Jacket slightly worn and spine is faded. Spot along edge of free endpaper. The whole interview set-up is strange, with remarkably attentive guards hanging about, journalist Jack Seavering decides, and then the interviewee, " America's most famous novelist," writes HELP in the dirt and quickly rubs it out with his shoe before anyone besides Seavering can read it..... READ MORE about THE SEASON OF DANGER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 49911
New York: Norton, 1971. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 312 pages. First edition. Paula Jones, hired to write promotion copy for the well-respected but not so well-off mass magazine Today, enters a world of intrigue, power struggles, and shifting alliances, and learns much about herself and people in general. Bookplate, several pencil marks. With publisher's prospectus loosely inserted. READ MORE about FINAL PROOF
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 49952
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1960. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 468 pages. Author's inscription on front free endpaper. Per front free endpaper, this is no. 723 of "a special autographed edition." Another magazine is failing, actually two this time, loyal employees are worried, the sharks and would-be fixers are starting to gather, conservative board members just don't understand, etc. John Ridgely Warren is brought in keep things going. Money is the problem: How..... READ MORE about THE VIEW FROM THE FORTIETH FLOOR
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 49956
London: MacMillan London Ltd., 1986. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 253 pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. Poets make poems, but what makes poets? In an age of manufactured celebrity, why not the KGB? Dissident poet Evgeny Shar is not what he seems--a new kind of agent? READ MORE about FIRST LOYALTY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 53645
New York: The Mysterious Press, (1987). small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 216 pages. First edition. Literary hunters are prowling the San Francisco streets after a large part of the manuscript of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is found in a murdered women's closet. READ MORE about HUCKLEBERRY FIEND
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 59540
New York: Crown Publishers, 1986. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (x), 437 pages. Book Club edition. Fine in near fine jacket. "Dark-haired, green-eyed Maxi is a wilful hedonist who unexpectedly discovers that her talent for lust is matched by a hunger for hard work when she learns that her late father's magazine empire is about to be destroyed. When her dangerous Uncle Cutter threatens to..." (dust jacket). READ MORE about I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 59831
(Copenhagen: Selskabet Bogvennerne, n.d.). large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 88, (5) pages. First edition, limited to 777 numbered copies. A novel for book collectors, illustrated with the drawings of Mads Stage. Stage is a well known Danish book illustrator, water colorist and graphic artist. Light foxing of front and rear covers. In Danish. Pages unopened. READ MORE about UNIKUM. NOVELLER FOR BOGSAMLERE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 62773
New York: Berkeley Prime Crime`, (1995). 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 281+(1) pages. First Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. With this atmospheric and suspenseful tale, the author introduces us to Joseph Wilder, a struggling novelist whose approach to crime is strictly literary--until his best friend's father is murdered in the West Indies. READ MORE about DANCE OF THE MONGOOSE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 74677
(Rockland, MA: Courier-Gazette, 1981). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (xii), 62 pages. This book is a fictional elaboration of the life of the Brontë's based on historical fact. "It is the author's purpose in this life story to interpret for the younger reader the peculiar strength of individuality and personal initiative against barriers of remoteness and sorrow and disappointment and to show how that spirit entered the art of the writer." Signed by the author. Eight..... READ MORE about A BRONTË TAPESTRY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 88721
London: Michael Joseph, (1991). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 308 pages. First edition. Signed on the title page by the author. Former journalist is plunged into a maze of political cover-ups and violent death which begins innocently enough on a sailing trip with some reforming juvenile delinquents. READ MORE about BLOOD KNOT
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 89653
New York: Mysterious Press, (1988). 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (viii), 182, (2) pages. First edition. Light wear to book and dust jacket. Set on a Caribbean cruise, there is murder and mayhem all around Network vice-president and chief troubleshooter Matt Cobb. All of the Matt Cobb series have Killed in the title. READ MORE about KILLED IN PARADISE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 91877
(Newark): Broken Turtle Books, (2007). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xx, 149 pages. Second edition (first published in 1998). A novel by this Delaware author about "the clash of parallel worlds. Its landscape is eerily familiar while boiling over the heat of vodoun and confused quanta. Written in the post-literate style, icons of American culture go underground in the face of American Nazism." Partially set in Wilmington, Delaware. READ MORE about UNTIME
Price: $19.95 Order nr. 94626
New York: Sixty-fifth Street Bookshop, Inc., 1941. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied, paper cover label. 15, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. A short story by this bibliographer - librarian imaging the conquering of America by the Germans. Format by Richard Ellis. Small booklabel of C. Douglas Barnes on inside front cover. READ MORE about "... AND THE NOT-KNOWN END."
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 95433
A Monograph on a Recent Attempt at Municipal Reform
Minneapolis, MN: Bowman & Russell, 1901. 8vo. leather-backed, stiff paper wrappers. 12, (v)+(1) pages. A Monograph on a Recent Attempt at Municipal Reform. Copy 33 out of an unstated limitation. A facsimile of one of the 24 struck off copies of this monograph with copied signatures of Arthur J. Russell and K.C. Bowman and comical illustrations by Bowman. Typed and autographed note about the facsimile as a retirement present for Harold Lensing. Slight bumping on..... READ MORE about THE PULLING OF EDDIE BROOKS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 96704
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911. 12mo. original publisher's cloth, decorative stamps and gilt title. 319+(1) pages. A mesmerizing novel on a father/daughter relationship. Gift note on front free endpaper. Very slight spine slant, spine ends a bit worn. Some rubbing on covers. READ MORE about THE LEVER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 98417
2 volumes bound together as issued
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. 12mo. original cloth, paper spine label. xii,7-240; 201,2-20 pages. 2 volumes bound together as issued. First American Edition (Kohler 63, Rinderknecht and Bruntjen 25393). Contains a preface as well as a list of "Valuable Works Published by Harper & Brothers, New-York". Wear and rubbing along extremities, corners and spine ends bumped, small tears in cloth binding near spine ends, binding and paper spine label sunned with some paper loss..... READ MORE about THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 100617
Volume I, Number I, Spring 1936. Thompson, John H. and John M. Brinnin (editors)
(Detroit, MI: John H. Thompson and John M. Brinnin), 1936. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Volume I, Number I, Spring 1936. Thompson, John H. and John M. Brinnin (editors). Contains eight contributions. Covers soiled and worn, with creasing, tears, and tanning at extremities. READ MORE about SIGNATURES, WORK IN PROGRESS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 101901
London: E. Archer, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 53+(1) pages. Limited to 900 numbered copies. Covers soiled and sunned, paper loss at head and tail of spine, Spine and first three pages coming loose. Pages lightly soiled. READ MORE about THE SONG OF SONGS AND OTHER STORIES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 102291
Westport: The Redcoat Press, 1961. 12mo. cord-tied wrappers. (ii), 23+(1) pages. Limited to 200 copies. A Christmas greeting printed by the Redcoat Press. Wrappers slightly tanned. title written in ink on the front wrapper. READ MORE about A. DAY OF PLEASANT BREAD
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 105176
Westport: The Redcoat Press, 1963. 12mo. cord-tied wrappers. (ii), 9+(1) pages. A Christmas greeting from the Redcoat Press. Wrappers tanned at the edges. Word in ink on top of front wrapper. READ MORE about FRIENDSHIP
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 105178
Westport: The Redcoat Press, 1965. 12mo. cord-tied wrappers. (ii), 10+(1) pages. A Christmas greeting printed by the Redcoat Press. Wrappers faded. Head and tail of spine bumped. Crease to the wrappers and text. Small ink star on last page. READ MORE about LOOK AT THE WORLD!
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 105180
Washington: Reference Department, The Library of Congress, 1963. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. iv, 12 pages. First edition. A lecture presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clark Whittal Poetry and Literature Fund. Includes a description of the Whittall fund. Listing of other published lectures on inside back wrapper. Letter from Robert F. Metzdorf to Joan Crane, dated February 5, 1972, laid in. READ MORE about RECENT AMERICAN FICTION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 114525
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1984). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 98, (16) pages. Costerus, New Series, Volume 42. A study of "minor fiction" produced in the United States between the two 20th century world wars. Introduction, notes and references, select bibliography, and index. Listing of other Costerus publications. Library stamp indicates this is a Library of Congress duplicate. READ MORE about MINOR AMERICAN FICTION 1920-1940: A SURVEY AND AN INTRODUCTION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 115553
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2014. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 149+(1) pages. Second revised edition. Introductory comments by the author. This monumental work is an annotated bibliography of first editions of mystery fiction set in the world of books. Written by the award-winning mystery expert and editor Otto Penzler, this comprehensive volume covers every title published between 1849-2000 that falls into the bibliomystery sub-genre. In addition to notes of issue on publication, publisher, and..... READ MORE about BIBLIOMYSTERIES: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FIRST EDITIONS OF MYSTERY FICTION SET IN THE WORLD...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 122571
(New York, NY): Viking, (2014). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 308 pages. First edition. A novel based on the allegation that Jane Austen stole the plot of Pride and Prejudice. Author's note and acknowledgments follow text. READ MORE about FIRST IMPRESSIONS: A NOVEL OF OLD BOOKS, UNEXPECTED LOVE, AND JANE AUSTIN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 128940
(New York, NY): Pantheon Books, (1943). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, all edges uncut. 77+(1) pages. Text in French. Eighth in the "French Panthon Books" series. Inside front hinge cracked. READ MORE about LA MARCHE A L'ÉTOILE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 131032
New York: Sixty-fifth Street Bookshop, Inc., 1941. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied, paper cover label. 15, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies. A short story by this bibliographer - librarian imaging the conquering of America by the Germans. Format by Richard Ellis. READ MORE about "... AND THE NOT-KNOWN END."
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 133493
Londres: Le Studio, 1914. 4to. original stiff paper wrappers. vii, 276 pages. First edition, the edition in French. Eight separate chapters on the art of the book for seven countries. Orcutt has covered America with Newdigate on typography in England and Cockerell on bookbinding in England. The other countries covered are France, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Switzerland. Many illustrations. Minor chipping at spine ends. READ MORE about L' ART DU LIVRE ETUDE SUR QUELQUES-UNS DES DERNIERES CREATIONS EN TYPOGRAPHIE, ORNEMENTATION DE...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 3781
London: Collins, 1946. 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 48 pages. First edition. With 8 plates in color and 21 illustrations in black-and-white. Jacket chipped, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about ENGLISH PRINTED BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4498
New York: Arco Publishing, (1985). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 151 pages. First U.S. edition. With 33 color and 82 monochrome illustrations. Discussion of bookbinding starting with Cockerell and Cobden-Sanderson up to present workers. Near fine condition. READ MORE about FINE BOOKBINDING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 7111
London: John Castle, (1925). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiii, 162 pages. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Some facsimiles. Jacket chipped with spine worn at head. Spots on back cover of jacket. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF MODERN AUTHORS (SECOND SERIES) JOHN DAVIDSON, ERNEST DOWSON, KATHERINE...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 7667
Boston: Christian Science Publishing Society, (1950). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 198 pages. First edition. Minor chipping of jacket. Discusses many of the different editions of the works of Mary Baker Eddy. READ MORE about MARY BAKER EDDY AND HER BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 12154
London: Collins, 1948. 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 48 pages. Second edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. With 8 plates in color and 21 illustrations in black-and-white. READ MORE about ENGLISH PRINTED BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 12673
New York: Reinhold Publishing Co., (1967). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 83 pages of text followed by 90 illustrations. First U.S. edition. Many illustrations, including some in color. Some shelfwear. READ MORE about WILLIAM MORRIS AS DESIGNER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 13391
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1988. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers printed in two colors. (16) pages. Reprint of the 1852 magazine article which had appeared in Godey's Magazine with a foreword by Robert Fleck. One of the best references to what a trade binding house looked like in the middle of the 19th century. Enhanced by 17 illustrations by Hinckley showing various scenes in the bindery. The fifth Christmas book issued by Oak Knoll. READ MORE about A DAY AT THE BOOKBINDERY OF LIPPINCOTT, GRAMBO, & CO
Price: $4.00 Order nr. 23227
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1991. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 363-463. Reprinted from the Proceedings. A series of six articles which together give a history of the American Newspaper. Illustrated. READ MORE about THREE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 37006
Kent, OH: Kent State University Libraries, 1969. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 8 pages. Introductory remarks by Robert I. White and a preface by Hyman W. Kritzer. READ MORE about MERE COLLECTORS' ITEMS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 40296
Bombay: The Ankur Project, 1995. square 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 127+(1) pages with 7 bound-in full-page specimens and 107 color photographs. First edition. The industrialization of papermaking has obscured the traditional ways through which handmade paper is produced. However, Off the Deckle Edge reminds us of the longstanding history of papermaking along with the visual and sensual qualities handmade paper possesses. Premchand marries seven bound-in full-page paper specimens with 107 colorful and exotic photographs..... READ MORE about OFF THE DECKLE EDGE, A PAPERMAKING JOURNEY THROUGH INDIA
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 43946
Foreword by Howard M. Nixon.
New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 1996 (but 2008). 5.75 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 386 pages followed by 14 plates. Foreword by Howard M. Nixon. Fourth edition. This is a classic reference work about decorative and commercial English bookbinding techniques written by one of the foremost experts on bookbinding. Each chapter covers various aspects of bookbinding techniques as well as historical information. Each of the chapters describes the..... READ MORE about A HISTORY OF ENGLISH CRAFT BOOKBINDING TECHNIQUE
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 44862
Bethlelem: Special Collections, Lehigh University Information Resources, 1997. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 34, (2) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Three page introduction by Steven Rothman. With six illustrations. To speak of Allen's is to speak of wit, integrity and devotion to the craft of bookselling. This booklet tells its history. READ MORE about HISTORY OF WILLIAM H. ALLEN, BOOKSELLER, 1918-1997
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 49711
New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. liv, 127 pages. First edition. A bibliography of the design work. Spine of jacket slightly faded. 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 in the graphic arts. Over decades of..... READ MORE about THE WORK OF BRUCE ROGERS, JACK OF ALL TRADES MASTER OF ONE: A CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION ... WITH...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 51964
Checklist and Chronology by Martin C. Battestin. Foreword by David L. Vander Meulen.
Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2003. 6.25 x 9.5 inches. cloth. viii, 210 pages. Checklist and Chronology by Martin C. Battestin. Foreword by David L. Vander Meulen. First edition, second printing. Widely acclaimed account of the remarkable career of Fredson Bowers, whose life (1905-1991) spanned the twentieth century and who came to symbolize the fields of analytical and descriptive bibliography, textual criticism, and scholarly editing. READ MORE about THE LIFE AND WORK OF FREDSON BOWERS
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 53830
Luzern: GR, (1999). 8.5 x 10.5 inches. cloth. xv, (v), 319 pages. First edition. Introduction by Merry Wiesner-Hanks. An incredible book covering all aspects of women in the book trade during the 16th century. The first part of the book is a history of books illustrated by women, women in the book trade in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy, and various indexes. The second part contains a well-annotated bibliography of women writers, books with music..... READ MORE about MY GRACIOUS SILENCE, WOMEN IN THE MIRROR OF 16TH CENTURY PRINTING
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 58909
London: The Collector Ltd., 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 559-570. An offprint from The Book Collector, Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter, 1978. Muir's review of the book "Buchkunst und Literatur in Deutschland" by Ernst L. Hauswedell and Christian Voigt. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK IN GERMANY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 59715
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 4to. Cloth w/dust jacket. 540 pages. First edition. In commemoration of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, twenty outstanding scholars have set about to celebrate, with prose and illustration, 2,500 years of Greece's most famous city. This unique work, with its collection of rare drawings and photographs, explores the historical Athens from its Classical beginnings to the city's rebirth as the bustling, modern capitol of the Greek nation..... READ MORE about ATHENS: FROM THE CLASSICAL PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY (5TH CENTURY B.C. - A.D. 2000
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 71774
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press & Library Company of Philadelphia & The British Library, 2006. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 192 pages. Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer begins by focusing on Franklin's career as a printer, from his apprenticeship to his retirement in 1748, by which time he had created the largest printing business in colonial America. His success as a printer was based not only on his newspaper and the popular..... READ MORE about BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, WRITER AND PRINTER
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 90643
New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2007. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 412 pages. First edition. Edward Johnston (1872-1944) was a man of letters - master calligrapher, typeface designer and creator of the lettering and branding for the London Underground. He was also a great teacher and philosopher. Many were, and still are, influenced by his down-to-earth ideas on calligraphy and lettering, and those who studied in his classes at..... READ MORE about EDWARD JOHNSTON: MASTER CALLIGRAPHER
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 92516
New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2008. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 102 pages. This volume offers a new edition of Andrea Krupp's groundbreaking article, which first appeared in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and includes an expanded Catalogue of Bookcloth Grains, with illustrations in a larger format and, for the first time, in color. Sue Allen has written the preface for the book. Ms. Krupp's three-part essay..... READ MORE about BOOKCLOTH IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA, 1823-50
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 94204
Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005
New Castle, Delaware and London, England: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2008. 6 x 9 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 281 pages. Delivered at the Twenty-second Conference on the History of the British Book Trade Birmingham, July 2005. First edition. This ninth volume of the Print Networks series contains twelve exciting chapters from scholars working on the connections between the parties involved in the production of print artifacts; from author to printer, publisher, bookseller..... READ MORE about BOOK TRADE CONNECTIONS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 96655
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. First edition. This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nineteenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis is on the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s..... READ MORE about MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN: TYPOGRAPHIC TASTEMAKERS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 96669
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, (2008). 9 x 12 inches. cloth with dust jacket. 384 pages. First edition, second printing. The literary origins of the American film noir cycle are more convoluted than a plot contrived by Raymond Chandler after a too-long night at Musso and Frank. Kevin Johnson has paired his obsessions with film and literature to illuminate even the murkiest connections. Identifying every 1940s American film noir with a published literary source..... READ MORE about THE DARK PAGE: BOOKS THAT INSPIRED AMERICAN FILM NOIR, 1940-1949
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 98426
With an Epilogue by J. Carter Brown
Providence: The John Carter Brown Library, 2005. 6 x 9 inches. cloth. 368 pages. With an Epilogue by J. Carter Brown. First edition. A meticulously prepared edition of a travel journal kept by John Carter Brown (1797-1874) when he was in Europe for eighteen months as a young man. On this grand tour, Brown, who twenty years later founded the John Carter Brown Library, visited England, Scotland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and above all, Italy..... READ MORE about THE YOUNG JOHN CARTER BROWN IN EUROPE: TRAVEL DIARIES, 1823-1824
Price: $45.00 save 50% $22.50 Order nr. 99379
Foreword by Guy Maddin
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. 9 x 12 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 272 pages. Foreword by Guy Maddin. Following up on his well-received bibliography of first edition sources for American film noir of the 1940s, Kevin Johnson's new bibliography The Dark Page II explores the second half of the classic American period, covering the years 1950-1965. Ground rules for noir style were by this time firmly established in Hollywood, and new techniques and..... READ MORE about THE DARK PAGE II: BOOKS THAT INSPIRED AMERICAN FILM NOIR, 1950-1965
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 100483
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 352 pages. Comprised of 21 interviews of independent bookbinders, The Thread That Binds documents Pamela Leutz's quest to learn about the lives of representatives of this field. Each chapter tells a different story as Leutz discovers the challenges, successes, and "common threads" among each of the binders. Includes images offering a closer look at these bookbinders' studios, as well as photographs of the..... READ MORE about THE THREAD THAT BINDS: INTERVIEWS WITH PRIVATE PRACTICE BOOKBINDERS
Price: $34.95 Order nr. 103885
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 9 x 12 inches. hardcover with dust jacket. 104 pages. "The photography in Historical Types is excellent. The commentary on each type identifies its salient features with expert skill. The result is an anthology that can be put into the hands of a lettering artist or a printer, in the confident expectation that both would learn what gives letterforms in print their distinctive character." - Nicolas Barker "A..... READ MORE about HISTORICAL TYPES FROM GUTENBERG TO ASHENDENE
Price: $39.95 save 50% $19.98 Order nr. 105522
An Introduction to the Seminal Anglo-American Literature and Laws of Domestic Relations up to the Year 1900, with Supporting Bibliography and Comments
Berkeley, CA: Lawrence H. Stotter, 2011. 8.25 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 416 pages. An Introduction to the Seminal Anglo-American Literature and Laws of Domestic Relations up to the Year 1900, with Supporting Bibliography and Comments. Taking its cue from Matthew 19:6, "What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder," this book describes humankind's actions in doing just that. A readable selected history of family law, To Put Asunder traverses more..... READ MORE about TO PUT ASUNDER: THE LAWS OF MATRIMONIAL STRIFE
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 106293
With an introduction by Hermann Zapf
New York: The Grolier Club, 2006. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 48 pages. With an introduction by Hermann Zapf. Gotthard de Beauclair was a leading twentieth-century book designer. A fine copy. He produced some of the finest limited edition books through his craft techniques and use of precious materials. He stands as a model of fine bookmaking. This exhibition catalogue reveals his typography and design work for various German publishers. It includes fifteen color and..... READ MORE about GOTTHARD DE BEAUCLAIR: ART AND LITERATURE THROUGH TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106666
Winterthur and New Castle DE: Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2003. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 100 pages. First edition. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at the Grolier Club in New York and at Winterthur, this beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes essays and entries largely from the private library of Henry Francis du Pont, encompassing more than 87,000 volumes and 500,000 manuscripts and images. With essays and..... READ MORE about THE WINTERTHUR LIBRARY REVEALED: FIVE CENTURIES OF DESIGN AND INSPIRATION
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 107551
A Bibliographic History of the Boys' Periodical in Britain, 1762 - 1950
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2013. 6.75 x 9.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 586 pages. A Bibliographic History of the Boys' Periodical in Britain, 1762 - 1950. This book tells, for the first time, the full history of the British boys' periodical, from its origins in the second half of the 18th century to its decline after the Second World War. It contains 100 black-and-white illustrations and 16 in color..... READ MORE about FROM THE PENNY DREADFUL TO THE HA'PENNY DREADFULLER
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 108513
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. "Matthew Young's book showcases over 80 specimens (full size and in color), and gives a detailed account of the behind-the-scenes machinations that affected the course of the Specimen Exchange.... If you are interested in the history of graphic design, Young's book is a wonderful account of a lesser-known part of the story. It's handsome and lucidly presented and worth..... READ MORE about THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PRINTERS' INTERNATIONAL SPECIMEN EXCHANGE
Price: $59.95 Order nr. 108704
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 192 pages. German-born artist Hellmuth Weissenborn (1898-1982) spent the first half of his life in his native Leipzig and the second in London. He was forced to flee his homeland in early 1939 in the face of Nazi terror and found refuge in Britain. Unlike many of his fellow refugees, he never lost his sense of German heritage. In this biography..... READ MORE about FROM LEIPZIG TO LONDON: THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE ÉMIGRÉ ARTIST HELLMUTH WEISSENBORN
Price: $29.95 Order nr. 109140
New Castle, Delaware and Winterthur, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, 2013. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 200 pages. Charles Magnus (1826-1900) was one of the most prolific American printers of ephemera during the late nineteenth century. A native of Germany, he immigrated to New York City around 1850, where he enjoyed a long, creative career printing ephemera such as songsheets, illustrated stationery, birds eye views, maps, board games..... READ MORE about CHARLES MAGNUS, LITHOGRAPHER: ILLUSTRATING AMERICA'S PAST, 1850-1900
Price: $59.95 Order nr. 110132
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 208 pages. "Sumptuously illustrated, skillfully printed, and well documented." -- Jeffrey Mifflin, Printing History, Winter 2017 "Thompson describes this phenomenon in England, the United States and France; it is an account awash with quotations that reveal how varied and contradictory views of the subject were." -- Sebastian Carter, TLS "Thompson has managed to cover a vast amount of material in a fairly short space..... READ MORE about AESTHETIC TRACTS: INNOVATION IN LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOOK DESIGN
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 119715
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. "It was at heart Landon's hard work and connections that turned the Fisher Library into the world-class rare book and manuscript collection that it is today... These essays are exactly what polite essays should be: full of recondite information attractively expressed, and somehow..... READ MORE about A LONG WAY FROM THE ARMSTRONG BEER PARLOUR - A LIFE IN RARE BOOKS: ESSAYS BY RICHARD LANDON
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 122162
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 9 x 12 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 264 pages. Film Books: A Visual History covers cinema literature from 1895 until the present day. It comprises a 20-page introduction, 140 brief essays on major film books, 360 bibliographical descriptions, and more than 200 colour illustrations. The introduction presents a detailed historical analysis of cinema literature, emphasizing the importance of film books in the history of motion pictures. As the..... READ MORE about FILM BOOKS: A VISUAL HISTORY
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 123420
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2015. 6 x 9.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 500 pages. This volume brings together a selection of the biographical sketches and reviews that G. Thomas Tanselle has written since 1959. These two genres of writing focus on individuals; taken together they show how a biographical approach can serve to characterize a whole field - in this case, the world of books and bibliographical and textual scholarship. Because..... READ MORE about PORTRAITS AND REVIEWS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 123674
Number eleven of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series
Berkeley, California: CODEX Foundation, 2015. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. paperback pamphlet. 28 pages. Number eleven of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. Number eleven of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. The Timeless Art of Allowing Books to Thrive is a dialogue between two theoretically and existentially divergent proponents of reading-executed in the manner of a conversation. Ulises Carrion's ground-breaking 1975 manifesto "The new art of making books" is here presented with interleaved remarks composed 40 years later by..... READ MORE about THE TIMELESS ART OF ALLOWING BOOKS TO THRIVE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 126795
New Castle, Delaware and Pinner, Middlesex, England: Oak Knoll Press & Private Libraries Association, 2016. 7.17 x 10.75. cloth, dust jacket. 216 pages. "Quite simply, a revelation. Lucidly written, with useful illustrations, exploding the myth that dust jackets only came into use in the late nineteenth century." - James Murray, Adrian Harrington Rare Books, London "A fascinating, well-illustrated excursion into the evolution of dust-jackets and the sheaths and wrappers that preceded them." - Jeffrey Mifflin..... READ MORE about NINETEENTH-CENTURY DUST-JACKETS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 127223
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 10.5 x 8 inches. Cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages. "Alastair Johnston's engaging and all-embracing survey of California printing takes us from its early beginnings in the 1870s (San Francisco's first type foundry opened in 1874), and covers all the printers we encountered in California, including himself, and a great many others besides." - John Randle, Matrix "Through the lens of Johnson's expertise, we again see how fine art..... READ MORE about DREAMING ON THE EDGE: POETS AND BOOK ARTISTS IN CALIFORNIA
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 128359
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 6 x 9 inches. cloth, dust jacket. [viii], 195 [1] pages. "In my view, if you're not an optimist, you have no business running a cultural institution in the first place." - from the Preface Growing Up Bookish is a collection of autobiographical essays that stand on their own but together form a professional memoir based on the author's work as a scholar and as a library and..... READ MORE about GROWING UP BOOKISH: AN ANGLO-AMERICAN MEMOIR
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 128975
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.375 x 10.5 inches. Cloth with dust jacket. 208 pages. "This work skillfully demonstrates that the aura of unsurpassed quality around the work of Harold and Meriden was both hard earned and richly deserved.... a handsome book that alludes in choice of type, layout, printing quality, and binding to a Meriden Gravure publication." - Paul M. Wright, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America "Throughout its nearly century-long..... READ MORE about IN THE SERVICE OF SCHOLARSHIP: HAROLD HUGO & THE MERIDEN GRAVURE COMPANY
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 128978
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.375 x 10.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 384 pages. "The Medieval Girdle Book provides rich information about this iconic binding structure and inspiration to those binders (teachers and students alike) who are seeking to replicate the structure and keep alive this branch of book history." - Peter D. Verheyen, PBSA "I highly recommend this book for its wealth of information; a single read-through will not be enough. It..... READ MORE about THE MEDIEVAL GIRDLE BOOK
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 129111
Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection
Baltimore: The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, (2016). 9.2 x 11.625 inches. paperback. 140 pages. Rare Books and Manuscripts from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection. Second edition, revised, of this exhibition catalogue, undertaken after the initial print run of 500 copies of the first edition (2014) sold out by popular demand. This revised edition includes substantive changes in the front matter and initial chapter overview of the collection that have been informed..... READ MORE about FAKES, LIES, AND FORGERIES
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 129201
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 264 pages. "Several checklists appear, one at the end of each chapter, listing all the books discussed and arranged chronologically... to help a reader understand the content of what was printed. Though the text is an enjoyable read from start to finish, the addition of these checklists, as well as the comprehensive bibliography and footnotes, allow readers to..... READ MORE about THE PRIVATELY PRINTED BIBLE: PRIVATE AND FINE PRESS PRINTINGS OF BIBLICAL TEXTS, 1892-2000
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 129283
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2016. small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 120, (2) pages. Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on the humanistic calligraphy of the Renaissance, an even and infinitely various set of lowercase letters that had evolved from the Carolingian minuscules of the ninth century, Jenson's..... READ MORE about THE NOBLEST ROMAN: A HISTORY OF THE CENTAUR TYPES OF BRUCE ROGERS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 129302
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 6 x 9 inches. cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 160 pages. "It is a nice emblem of devotion that Oak Knoll Press has published this gathering of articles by and about A. Edward Newton. Oak Knoll was the manorial name Newton gave to his home in Daylesford, in Philadelphias suburban Main Line, and when Bob Fleck founded Oak Knoll Books and Oak Knoll Press in the 1970s he..... READ MORE about THE UNCOLLECTED A. EDWARD NEWTON
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 129824
New York: The Typophiles, 2016. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 32 pages. Typophiles Monograph, New Series No. 30. The essay was written as a preface to the publication Adrian Frutiger, son oeuvre typographique et ses écrits (Villeurbanne: Maison du livre, de l'image et du son, 1994), for which the German-language original was translated into French. The original German version appeared later that same year in Adrian Frutiger, Denken und Schaffen einer Typografie, released by the..... READ MORE about ADRIAN FRUTIGER (1928-2015
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 130313
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 8.5.x 11 inches. Hardcover, printed paper-covered boards. 232 pages. "Its an essential reference book for collectors of film scripts, and an entertaining read for those who enjoy learning more about the golden age of Hollywood." -Rich Rennicks, The New Antiquarian "Neither bibliography nor collectors guide, it is a well-illustrated description of the many forms a film script may take... Filmmaking is a dauntingly complex process, one quickly learns..... READ MORE about THE CELLULOID PAPER TRAIL: IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FILM SCRIPTS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 130880
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2008. 8vo. cloth. 54 pages, plates. A history of Rogers and the Riverside Press. With a bibliography. Color plates. Acknowledgments. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE FIRST FLOWERING: BRUCE ROGERS AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1896-1912, WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 131329
Malvern East, Australia: Verso Magazine, 2017. 8.25 x 11.75 inches. self cover, saddle stitched. 32 pages. Verso, a magazine for the Book as a Work of Art, is based on the idea that a book may reach the level of art from any origin, impulse, technology, or cultural location. Largely based in Australia and New Zealand, every issue also featured works from the international scene. Verso New Series 1 includes: Marian Crawford on Gwen Harrison..... READ MORE about VERSO NEW SERIES 1: A MAGAZINE FOR THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 133350
Malvern East, Australia: Verso Magazine, 2018. 8.25 x 11.75 inches. self cover, saddle stitched. 32 pages. Verso, a magazine for the Book as a Work of Art, is based on the idea that a book may reach the level of art from any origin, impulse, technology, or cultural location. Largely based in Australia and New Zealand, every issue also featured works from the international scene. Verso New Series 2 includes: Marian Crawford on Lyn Ashby..... READ MORE about VERSO NEW SERIES 2: A MAGAZINE FOR THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 133351
Malvern East, Australia: Verso Magazine, 2018. 8.25 x 11.75 inches. self cover, saddle stitched. 32 pages. Verso, a magazine for the Book as a Work of Art, is based on the idea that a book may reach the level of art from any origin, impulse, technology, or cultural location. Largely based in Australia and New Zealand, every issue also featured works from the international scene. Verso New Series 3 includes: Angela Gardner on Assembling: Mapping..... READ MORE about VERSO NEW SERIES 3: A MAGAZINE FOR THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 133352
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. printed paper-covered boards. 400 pages. Awarded Honourable Mention by the Jury of the 18th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography "Frank Romano's History of Desktop Publishing is an essential book for anyone studying the field and for many just generally interested in the history of printing and typesetting. You will find information in this book on and around desktop publishing that you are unlikely to..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 133473
Baltimore: The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, 2017. 11.75 x 9.2 inches. paperback. xii, 136 pages. This exhibition catalogue highlights the history of collecting great books for the citizens of Baltimore, fueled by a generous gift from George Peabody. The images and essays illuminate some of the most extraordinary volumes, spanning disciplines and centuries, gathered and gifted by librarians and collectors alike. READ MORE about BIBLIOMANIA: 150 YEARS OF COLLECTING RARE BOOKS AT THE GEORGE PEABODY LIBRARY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 133477
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 8.26 x 11 inches. Hardcover. 496 pages. Translated from the Greek by Katerina Spathi. Intellectual Routes of the Greeks explores the role of written documents in the transmission of knowledge and education among the Greek-speaking population and the gradual formation of national conscience, from the Fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the years preceding the Greek War of Independence of 1821-1829. This is the first volume of the..... READ MORE about INTELLECTUAL ROUTES OF THE GREEKS THROUGH THE MANUSCRIPT AND PRINTED BOOK. VOL. I: 13TH TO...
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 133722
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. softcover. 400 pages. Awarded Honourable Mention by the Jury of the 18th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography "Frank Romano's History of Desktop Publishing is an essential book for anyone studying the field and for many just generally interested in the history of printing and typesetting. You will find information in this book on and around desktop publishing that you are unlikely to find anywhere..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Price: $37.50 Order nr. 133734
