London, United Kingdom: Chapman & Hall, 1891. 8vo. leather, five raised bands, chemise, half leather and cloth slipcase with five raised bands. xx, 160; [1], iii, 161-432 pages. First edition, of which this is one of twenty limited edition copies with over a 130 extra illustrations (many india proofs, steel plate engravings & etchings), 16 of which are hand-colored, five illustrations of the author and Kitton, and signed by the author William R. Hughes. Additionally..... READ MORE about A WEEK'S TRAMP IN DICKENS-LAND. TOGETHER WITH PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE 'INIMITABLE BOZ'...

Price: $7,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134409

(Montreal, QC, Canada): La Griffe D'Acier, (1987). 4to. leather with nested Lacunose, top edge cut, other edges uncut, in cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. unpaginated. Text in French. Limited to 38 numbered copies. Engravings by Louis-Pierre Bougie. Text by Gaston Miron. Signed by the author and engraver on colophon. Signed binding by Monique Lallier, russet goat skin. Pieces of Lacunose nested in the front cover encircled with onlays of green leather. Onlays of..... READ MORE about FORGER L'EFFROI

Price: $4,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134389

Oldham, England: Incline Press, 2002. 4to. leather, decorated endpapers, cloth clamshell box, top edge cut, other edges uncut. 27+(1) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the authors on colophon. Preface, corrigendum. Color illustrations, two tipped-in illustrations precede text, two tipped-in illustrations in text. Signed binding by Monique Lallier, red leather, with inlaid illustrations of animals with natural background on both front and back. Turn-ins with decorated endpapers. READ MORE about THEIR BOOK OF TOYS FROM INDIA

Price: $2,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134443

(Montreal, QC, Canada): n.p., (1977). folio. leather, suede clamshell box, bottom edge uncut. unpaginated. Text in French. Limited to 35 numbered copies, signed by artist Louis Pelletier on colophon. Each copy with nine water color illustrations and one engraving by Pelletier. Each illustration is also signed and numbered, with handwritten descriptive text. Type by Jean Demers on the press of Service Typographique of Montreal. Signed binding by Monique Lallier. Leather binding with leather onlay on..... READ MORE about JE SENS VOLER

Price: $2,250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134480

Paris, France: Éditions de la Banderole, 1922. 8vo. quarter leather, top edge cut, other edges uncut, quarter leather slipcase. 239, (3) pages. Text in French. Limited to 1,025 numbered copies. Copper engravings by Daragnés. Signed Monique Lallier binding. Non-traditional marbled paper-covered boards (by Lallier), leather spine with title and author gilt-stamped. In quarter leather, cardboard dust jacket. Pages 17 through 32 out of sequence. Light foxing on endpapers and in text. READ MORE about PÊCHEUR D'ISLANDE

Price: $2,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134462

Montreal, QC, Canada: La Société des Écrivains Canadiens, (1941). 4to. gilt- and palladium-stamped leather, top edge marbled, other edges uncut, in cloth clamshell box. 405+(1) pages. Text in French. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Biographical sketches of contributors, membership list of The Society of Canadian Writers. Table of contents follows text. Illustrations by Alfred Pellan. Signed binding by Monique Lallier. Leather with an outline of Montreal Island in gilt and the south and north shores..... READ MORE about VILLE, Ô MA VILLE

Price: $1,500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134373

(London): Bradbury, Agnew and Co. Ld. n.d. (but 1851). 8vo. leather, edges gilt, five raised bands, gilt lettering on spine. (iv), xii, 308 pages. First edition (Tooley 298. Not in Field). Illustrated by John Leech with 10 full-colored etchings and 98 woodcut vignettes. John Leech was a staff artist for "Punch" from its early issues in 1841. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was one of the original staff members for "Punch." One of the Victorian era's..... READ MORE about THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME

Price: $1,250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94242

Prague: Typografia, 1959-1971. various sizes, but mostly 4to. monograph is cloth, dust jacket, paper specimens. variously paginated. This archive consists of five (5) pieces that relate or were designed by the famed graphic artist and author, Ladislav Sutnar. Most in pristine condition, with only a few signs of very minor wear. Very rare. Items in the archive include: "the quest for symbols" (1959), reprint of the article New Graphic Design Jazzes Up Ads (originally written..... READ MORE about ARCHIVE OF DESIGN WORK BY THIS WELL RENOWNED ARTIST

Price: $1,250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 138681

Edinburgh, Scotland: for Adam Black, 1827. 8vo. cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped, top edge gilt. xlvi, 331, (3) pages. Third edition. Advertisement to the first edition, table of contents, introduction, author's preface. Notice to the binder follows text. Black and white plates throughout text. Binder's tag on front pastedown attributes binding to the Guild of Women-Binders (Tidcombe 115-130). The Guild of Women-Binders very rarely used cloth covered boards for their bindings, which gives evidence..... READ MORE about AN ESSAY ON NAVAL TACTICS SYSTEMATICAL AND HISTORICAL

Price: $1,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134071

N.P. Longman's Canada, n.d., but circa 1967. small folio. suede, suede and designed paper endpapers. variously paginated. Index. Published to commemorate the centennial of Canadian independence in 1967. Designed and photographed by Roloff Beny. Foreword by Beny, preface by Pierre Dupuy, acknowledgments, closing comments by Marshall McLuhan. A collection of poems and journals selected by the editor. Fifty-six pages in full color, 144 pages in photogravure, ten maps and line drawings. Signed binding by Monique..... READ MORE about TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON

Price: $1,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134452

Glasgow, Scotland: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1771. small 12mo. full calf, with raised bands, red leather labels and gilt stamped devices on spines, all edges marbled. (iv), 176, (1); (1); (iv), 158, (1); (iv), 181, (1); (iv), 163, (1) pages. First Foulis edition (Gaskall 542). A beautifully bound set in full vellum which is gently soiled. Remanence of a bookplate in each volume on the front pastedown. Part of the duodecimo English poets..... READ MORE about THE ILIAD OF HOMER

Price: $995.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135331

45 Volumes
London: Printed for F.C. and J. Rivington, J. Nichols and Co., et. al. 1802. 12mo. full leather, gilt rules, gilt title and decorations on spine, 3 raised bands, gilt turn-ins, all edges marbled, bookmark ribbon. variously paginated. 45 Volumes. With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers, A.M. Collection of the complete runs of eleven eighteenth-century British newspapers. Contains The Spectator(10 vols), Tatler(5 vols), Guardian(3 vols), Rambler(4 vols), Adventurer(3 vols), (4 vols), Connoisseur(3 vols), (2..... READ MORE about THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS

Price: $950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94616

Glasgow, Scotland: Andrew Foulis, 1784. folio. half leather, pebbled cloth over boards, all edges marbled. xxxiv, 256; (ii), 326, (4) pages. Gaskell 672. Two volumes bound in one. Biography of the author, ode on the death of the author by a Mr. Collins, dedication to the Viscountess of Stormont, Endnotes at the conclusion of each volume. List of subscribers at the conclusion of the third volume. Bound by J. Edmond. Bottom outside front joint cracked..... READ MORE about THE POETICAL WORKS

Price: $950.00  other currencies  Order nr. 133800

Glasgow, Scotland: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1772. small 12mo. full calf, with raised bands, red leather labels and gilt stamped devices on spines, all edges marbled. (iv), 172, (1); (iv), 176, (1); (iv), 156, (1) pages. First Foulis edition (Gaskall 528). This copy is lacking the plate in volume one titled Graecia | Homerica. A beautifully bound set in full vellum which is gently soiled. Remanence of a bookplate in each volume on..... READ MORE about THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER

Price: $900.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135330

Volume I, no.1 to Volume XVI, no.3, a complete set,
San Francisco: Fine Print, 1975-1990. small 4to. and 4to. self paper wrappers. Volume I, no.1 to Volume XVI, no.3, a complete set, Complete run of this periodical lacking only the index issue which was published separately by Oak Knoll Press in 2003. Volume I, 1 (1975) to Volume 16, 3 (1990) for a total of 63 issues. Filled with information on the private press, printing, and bookbinding. Early issues were designed and printed by Andrew..... READ MORE about FINE PRINT, A NEWSLETTER FOR THE ARTS OF THE BOOK (Title changed to FINE PRINT, THE REVIEW FOR...

Price: $750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 17887

Paris, France: A. Ferroud-F. Ferroud, 1912. 8vo. leather, front cover gilt-stamped, five raised bands on spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 54, (2) pages. Text in French. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, initialed by the publisher. Table of contents follows text. Frontispiece engraved by G.D.V. Guillonnet. Hand colored emblems on title and front cover of original wrappers. Original wrappers bound in. Later binding, identified on back pastedown, by M. Marshall, believed to have been..... READ MORE about LES NUITS

Price: $750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134073

21 volumes.
Moscow: n.p., 1975-1993. 8vo. cloth. 21 volumes. Twenty-one of the twenty-eight volumes published to-date in this periodical devoted to book collecting, printing, miniature books, bookplates, publishing, and bookselling. Illustrated. The former owner of this set knows of no complete sets in the West. Includes the following volumes: 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 11-13, 15-20, 22-28. READ MORE about AL'MANAKH BIBLIOFILA (THE BIBLIOPHILE'S ALMANACH

Price: $650.00  other currencies  Order nr. 39558

Manor Farm: The Whittington Press, 1986. small 4to. quarter morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, slipcase. (iv), 182 pages. Limited to 900 copies of which this is one of the 100 numbered copies bound this way. Filled with tipped in plates and other illustrations and many fine articles on printing and private press. Has an article on Robert Gibbings, Vance Gerry on the Castle Press, Renee Weber on the pattern papers and woodcuts of John DePol..... READ MORE about MATRIX 06

Price: $650.00  other currencies  Order nr. 17157

Manor Farm: The Whittington Press, 1989. small 4to. quarter leather with marbled paper by Colleen Gryspeerdt over boards. With a reproduction of a "Letter to Colette'' bound in cloth backed boards, all enclosed in a slipcase. (viii), 166, (2) pages. Limited to 925 copies of which this is one of the 105 special copies bound thus and containing a bound reproduction of a "Letter to Colette." (Butcher 92).Filled with tipped in plates and other illustrations..... READ MORE about MATRIX 09

Price: $650.00  other currencies  Order nr. 27805

Paris, France: n.p., 1950. 8vo. quarter leather, decorated paper-covered boards. 22, (2) pages. Text in French. Limited to 200 numbered copies. Compsed and printed by the students at L'École Estienne, Paris. Unsigned binding by Monique Lallier. Leather spine, decorated paper-covered boards. Written for a course the author taught at the school. READ MORE about CONCEPTIONS PERSONNELLES SUR LE PROBLÈME DE LA DÉCORATION DU LIVRE

Price: $650.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134399

Glasgow, Scotland: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1768. 4to. full leather, five raised bands, gilt on spine. (ii), 63, (1) pages. First Glasgow Edition, with the true first edition being the English edition published in the same year. This is the variant with the '*' signatures. (Gaskell 475, Rothschild 1073, Northrup 56). For this edition the Foulis brothers had Alexander Wilson cut a special font of double pica roman type (cf. Updike, Printing Types..... READ MORE about POEMS BY MR. GRAY

Price: $650.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135326

Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1923-1927. 8vo. quarter vellum over boards, top edges gilt. 200; 384,(3); 399+(1); 379+(1); 380; 321+(1); 318,(2); 315,(2); 301+(1); 316,(2); 292; 158,(2) pages. B1-1037. Limited to 250 copies. Twelve volumes. Translated from the French and with an Introduction by B.G. du Pont. Printed by the Craftsmen at Kells. Illustrated. Includes the 12th volume which is the index. Some rubbing and fading of covers. Signed on free endpaper "Eugene du Pont, 1925."..... READ MORE about THE LIFE OF ELEUTHÈRE IRÉNÉE DU PONT FROM CONTEMPORARY CORRESPONDENCE, 1778-1791

Price: $550.00  other currencies  Order nr. 66091

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 8vo. leather, marbled endpapers. (xii), 232 pages. Hanneman A7.a, first edition. Table of contents. Unfinished binding by Monique Lallier, black leather with marbled endpapers. Tanning at edges of text. READ MORE about MEN WITHOUT WOMEN

Price: $500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134425

(Zollikon-Zürich, Switzerland: Kranich Verlag, 2009). 4to. quarter leather, decorated cloth boards. unpaginated. Text in German, French, and English. Limited to 600 copies. Unsigned decorated cloth binding, with gilt stamped red leather spine, by Monique Lallier. Based on the family history of the great German poet. READ MORE about DIE WEISE VON LIEBE UND TOD DES CORNETS CHRISTOPH RILKE

Price: $500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134427

10 Volumes.
London, England: Henry Colburn, 1845. 8vo. later leather, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. variously paginated. 10 Volumes. 20 volumes in 10. Translated from the French and edited by D. Forbes Campbell. Editor's preface, table of contents in each volume. Author was Premier of France in the early years of the Third Republic, and a member of the Académie Française. Frontispiece portrait of the author in first volume. Later binding by Roof and Sons of London..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND THE EMPIRE OF FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON FORMING A SEQUEL TO "THE...

Price: $500.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134997

2 volumes.
Berlin: Deutscher Verein Für Kunstwissenschaft, 1936. folio. half vellum with paper-covered boards. (viii), 188 pages; (xii), 202 plates with 1096 illustrations. 2 volumes. First edition. An examination of the art of the 13th century divided in its study by regional schools with particular attention to stylistic similarities and departures with particular attention to the Upper, Middle, and Lower Rhein regions as well as the schools of Regensburg and Salzburg. Includes supplementary tables of the annual..... READ MORE about DIE LATEINISCHEN ILLUMINIERTEN HANDSCHRIFTEN DES XIII. JAHRHUNDERTS IN DEN LÄNDERN AN RHEIN,...

Price: $475.00  other currencies  Order nr. 75794

23 issues of the superb periodical devoted to the graphic arts.
Zurich: Graphis Press, 1946 to 1951. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 23 issues of the superb periodical devoted to the graphic arts. The run starts with issue 14 (lacks covers) and goes through issue 37 lacking only issue 18. Some covers detached and spine coverings worn. Filled with graphic art illustrations in color. Price is for the run. READ MORE about GRAPHIS, GRAPHIC AND APPLIED ART

Price: $450.00  other currencies  Order nr. 104990

20 volumes, complete.
Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, 1844-1854. 4to. contemporary quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, title, volume, and ornamentation gilt-stamped on spine. variously paginated. 20 volumes, complete. (Union List of Serials 2, 975; New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature 3, 1813). New Series began publication in 1844. Topics included essays, poetry, tales, biographical sketches, "instruction and entertainment," and anecdotes. A weekly 16 page magazine, first series commenced publication in 1832. Jointly edited by brothers William and Robert..... READ MORE about CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL: NEW SERIES

Price: $450.00  other currencies  Order nr. 108931

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 1991. 4to. quarter leather, paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut, paper covered slipcase. (ii), 31, (3) pages. Limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by author and artist on colophon. Fine in fine slipcase. Prospectus loosely inserted. Color wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Set of five loose engravings, housed in a separate portfolio and slipcase. An account of a local baseball celebration. READ MORE about THE FIRST & LAST ANNUAL SIX TOWNS AREA OLD TIMERS' BASEBALL GAME

Price: $450.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136218

2 volumes bound in 1.
Milano: Luigi Alfieri, 1929. folio. quarter leather, leather spine label, marbled paper-covered boards. 196; 23+(1) pages with 20 plates. 2 volumes bound in 1. Text in Italian. Catalogue of 575 items held in the collection of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, including nautical charts, manuscripts, globes and maps. The index volume is also bound-in with 20 black-and-white tipped-in plates. Hand-written corrections have been added to the text in various places. Slight scratching to the spine..... READ MORE about I CODICI AMBROSIANI DI CONTENUTO GEOGRAFICO CON XX TAVOLE FUORI TESTO

Price: $450.00  other currencies  Order nr. 104231

3 volumes.
London: T. Rickaby, 1793. large 4to. full leather, gilt turn-ins, gilt design and lettering on the spine, gilt rules on boards, marbled endpapers. (iv), xxxix, (i), 317+(1); (iv), 322-678, (2), 8; (iv), 495, 18+(1) pages. 3 volumes. Lowndes 1, 336. Limited to only two hundred copies, this copy being one of those with the illustrations in black- chiefly Hogarth cuts. Volumes one and three have engraved frontispieces, and all three have engraved title pages. Volume..... READ MORE about HUDIBRAS

Price: $425.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94543

18 volumes.
Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., 1957-1974. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. various pagination. 18 volumes. Second Series. A complete run of this periodical from Volume One, Number 1 (1957) through Volume 18, Number 4 (1974). The best known German periodical devoted to the book arts. Filled with interesting articles on all aspects of the book and especially its illustration. Very fine set. Each volume of 4 quarterlies is protected by a cardboard case. READ MORE about PHILOBIBLON, EINE VIERTELJAHRSSCHRIFT FÜR BUCH-UND GRAPHIK-SAMMLER

Price: $400.00  other currencies  Order nr. 104061

Kirkwood, MO: The Printery, 2002. small 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards. x, (ii), 50, (2) pages. Limited to an edition of 90. The text is a previously unpublished talk delivered by Alexander S. Lawson as part of the Heritage of the Graphic Arts Lecture Series. The lecture was given on September 23, 1970 and traced the history of English language printer's manuals from 1683 to the twentieth century. Contains an introduction by Kay Michael..... READ MORE about PRINTER'S MANUALS FROM MOXON TO THE PIA

Price: $400.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94638

4 volumes
Paris, France: Imprimerie Impériale, 1858. folio. half cloth, marbled paper-covered boards. xxiv, 575+(1); x, 550, (2); viii, 529, (3) pages; plates. 4 volumes. Text in French. Foreword by the author, table of contents in each volume. Second and third volume include discussion of holdings of major French libraries. Third volume with descriptions of plates, addenda and corrigenda, and index. Fourth volume with 51 facsimile plates. A study of calligraphy, miniatures, and bookbinding from the Carolingian..... READ MORE about HISTOIRE GÉNÉRALE DE PARIS: LE CABINET DES MANUSCRITS DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE IMPÉRIALE

Price: $375.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126292

Five volumes
Schweinfurt: Otto Schäfer, 1995. 4to. spiral bound with plastic covers. variously paginated. Five volumes. Typescript catalogues of the reference library endowed by Otto Schäfer (1912-2000), the world-renowned German collector. Schäfer was particularly interested in graphic arts and hand-printed books. The Bibliothek Otto Schäfer was founded in 1989 in Schweinfurt, Germany. Four short title catalogues divided by subject: general catalogue and almanacs and notebooks; reference books and bibliographies; periodicals; book illustration, printed graphic arts, book illumination..... READ MORE about CATALOGUES OF THE COLLECTION OF OTTO SCHÄFER

Price: $350.00  other currencies  Order nr. 78194

Montreal, QC, Canada: L'Arbre, 1943. 8vo. quarter leather, paper-covered boards. 36 pages, plates. Text in French. A volume in the Collection Art Vivant series. Inscribed by Maurice Gagnon and Pierre Dansereau. Preface by Gagnon. List of illustrations. Biographical note about the author. Black and white frontispiece portrait. Twenty black and white plates follow text. Appendix. A study of the works of artist Alfred Pellan. Unsigned binding by Monique Lallier with gilt-stamped leather spine, and decorated..... READ MORE about PELLAN

Price: $350.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134398

3 volumes.
Wilmington: Published by the Author, 1908. small 4to. cloth. (vi),396; (vi),397- 794; (vi),795-1179 pages. 3 volumes. B1-1491. With numerous plates showing scenes of Delaware and portraits of important people. The author has signed the front free endpaper of volume one. Spine of volume three is spotted. Includes a general history of the state, histories of the counties and hundreds, and biographical sketches of prominent Delawareans. Some pages roughly opened. READ MORE about HISTORY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENTS TO THE YEAR 1907

Price: $350.00  other currencies  Order nr. 28365

New Castle, DE and Worcester, MA: Oak Knoll Press and the American Antiquarian Society, 2005. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, slipcase. 2600 pages. First Edition. This three volume, comprehensive bibliography focuses on the important American wood engraver, Alexander Anderson (1775-1870). The author has selected over 1,000 of Anderson's engravings to illustrate this major bibliography. This work begins with a well written and researched biography of Anderson. There are over 2,322 entries. By the early nineteenth..... READ MORE about ALEXANDER ANDERSON, 1775-1870, WOOD ENGRAVER AND ILLUSTRATOR, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $350.00  other currencies  Order nr. 88121

3 volumes.
Wilmington: Published by the Author, 1908. small 4to. cloth. (vi),396; (vi),397- 794; (vi),795-1179 pages. 3 volumes. B1-1491. With numerous plates showing scenes of Delaware and portraits of important people. The author has signed the front free endpaper of volume one. Spine of volume three is spotted. Includes a general history of the state, histories of the counties and hundreds, and biographical sketches of prominent Delawareans.With the Delaware bookplate of Gertrude Brinckle dated 1948 in each..... READ MORE about HISTORY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENTS TO THE YEAR 1907

Price: $325.00  other currencies  Order nr. 128153

10 Volumes.
Paris, France: L'Illustration, 1925-40. folio. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. 10 Volumes. Text in French. (Union List III, 1837-8). L'llustration was a French weekly periodical which commenced publication in 1843 and ceased in 1944 when its editor was accused of collaboration with the German occupiers during World War II. This is a collection of 10 of the very special Christmas issues published in 1925, 1930-2, 1934, and 1936-40. Each issue with color and black and..... READ MORE about L' ILLUSTRATION

Price: $450.00 save 30% $315.00  other currencies  Order nr. 119891

GLASGOW, Scotland: Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1775. 12mo. full contemporary calf with gilt border on covers, four raised bands on spine in five compartments decorated in gilt, with a leather spine label with 'ADDISO - POEMS' in the second compartment in gilt over a red morocco label. (4), 199 pages. First Foulis edition (Gaskell 575). Heavy offsetting of leather to prelims. and title-page, otherwise clean and unmarked. Some rubbing to spine and wear to hinges..... READ MORE about POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS

Price: $300.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135349

Kingsport: (Kingsport Press), 1943. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord tie. (ii), 32, (2) pages. First and limited edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This extremely scarce wartime speech pamphlet publication of Churchills 11 November 1942 speech to the House of Commons was a limited edition of only 400 copies. According to Churchills bibliographer, Ronald Cohen, as early as 1953 noted Churchill collectors were already looking for copies and unable to find them. This is a lovely..... READ MORE about SPEECH BEFORE THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND ON 11TH NOVEMBER 1942

Price: $300.00  other currencies  Order nr. 18144

Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1925. folio. half red calf over marbled paper covered boards. vii, (i), 47, (1) pages (in Xerox) followed by 100 plates. First edition. (S-K 967) Max Husung has brought together this selection of outstanding bookbindings from the Preussischen Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. Includes 182 illustrations in 100 plates (black-and-white and color). Each illustration is supplemented with a full description. The bindings illustrated range from Byzantine examples inset with carved ivory vignettes to..... READ MORE about BUCHEINBÄNDE AUS DER PREUSSISCHEN STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN

Price: $300.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126710

4 Volumes.
London, England: Chatto and Windus, 1835-53. 12mo. half leather, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers. (viii), 160; (ii), 161-388; (viii), 184; (ii), 185-428 pages. 4 Volumes. First volume with prefatory remarks. Illustrations by George Cruikshank (Cohn 184) and other illustrators. In a signed binding by W. Roach from NY. An assortment of humorous matter. Each volume with frontispiece (a foldout in the third volume). Black and white plates, and illustrations in text, throughout. According to Cohn..... READ MORE about COMIC ALMANACK: AN EPHEMERIS IN JEST CONTAINING MERRY TALES, HUMOROUS POETRY, QUIPS, AND ODDITIES

Price: $300.00  other currencies  Order nr. 127369

With wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec.
Minneapolis, MN: Midnight Paper Sales, 1994. 8vo. quarter cloth with brocaded cloth sides, paper spine label. 62, (4) pages. With wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Limited to 250 numbered copies and signed by the author and printer, of which this is one of 200 copies bound thus. A fine copy. In four essays, Logue relates the chaotic and charming experience of renovating her second home in Stockholm, Minnesota. Accompanied by four spectacular full color woodcuts..... READ MORE about A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY

Price: $280.00  other currencies  Order nr. 41170

2 Volumes.
Dublin, Ireland: Hodges Figgs & Company, 1958. folio. cloth, spine gilt-stamped. xliv, 216; viii, 66 pages. 2 Volumes. Foreword by A. Chester Beatty, preface by the author, list and chronological table of manuscripts, list of plates, introduction on the history of Armenian art, bibliography, general index, index of manuscripts. First volume includes detailed descriptive information. Second volume includes color frontispiece and 67 black and white plates, with list of plates and errata. Covers and spines..... READ MORE about THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY: A CATALOGUE OF THE ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS

Price: $275.00  other currencies  Order nr. 130535

6 volumes bound in 2.
Dover and Wilmington: James Kirk, Printer; Henry Eckel, Printer, 1861, 1862, 1863, 1865, 1865. thick 8vo. library buckram, red and black leather spine labels. 208,(2),34; (211)-266,(2); (267)-404,23; (405)-461,(3); (465)-495+(1); (second volume) (523)-702,(4),26 pages. 6 volumes bound in 2. B1-2526. The Laws of Delaware covering the sessions of 1861 (January and November), 1863, 1864, and 1865, the Civil War Years. The volume printed in 1862 also includes laws passed at the beginning of the year in..... READ MORE about LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, PASSED AT AN ADJOURNED SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, COMMENCED...

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 117925

72 issues of this periodical (about half the issues published over this period) and a complete set of the indexes covering 1951-1970 in 5 volumes.
Mainz: Forschungsstelle Papiergeschichte, 1951-1974. 8vo. self paper wrappers. 72 issues of this periodical (about half the issues published over this period) and a complete set of the indexes covering 1951-1970 in 5 volumes. This periodical is devoted to papermaking history. READ MORE about PAPIER GESCHICHTE

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 100579

28 Volumes.
(Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries, 1986-99). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. 28 Volumes. Complete run of this periodical. Includes articles and comments on recent publications. Many issues include list of exhibition catalogues received. Black and white illustrations. This set includes an index for Vols. 1-10 and a subscription invitation. New editiors took over in 1999 and changed the periodical's name to RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage..... READ MORE about RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126610