PICKWICK PAPERS An Annotated Bibliography. The Garland Dickens Bibliographies (Vol. 7).
New York: Garland, 1990. 1st edition. 345 pp. 8vo. Green cloth. Issued without dust jacket. More
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HOUSEHOLD WORDS: Table of Contents & List of Contributers & Their Contributions.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1973). 1st edition. x, 534 pp (including Index & Bibliography). Illustrated with 3 plates. Royal 8vo. Maroon cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket. More
POSTER. Classic Bookseller's Book Description.
Minneapolis: Dinkytown Antiquarian Bookstore, (n. d.). 1st trade printing. Signed in the plate by Dingman. Broadside. Large [15" x 13-1/4"] half-tone b/w photographic image of a well-loved book. Poster: 22" x 17" Larry was the founder of Dinkytown Antiquarian Books, as well as the Twin Cities Bookfair. I forget the..... More
LIBRARY ESSAYS About BOOKS, BIBLIOPHILES, WRITERS And KINDRED SUBJECTS.
Boston: Privately Printed, 1924. 1st edition. 194 pp. Facsimile. 8vo. 9-7/8" x 6-5/8". Faux vellum spine with blue cloth boards. Blue card board slipcase. Essays originally published for the Bibliophile Society, primarily before 1913. Essays include one on the discovery of Thoreau's WALDEN Mss & one on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley..... More
DICTIONARY Of The HISTORY Of SCIENCE.
New Jersey: Princeton Untiversity Press, (1981). [34], 494 pp. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Dark green cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Green dust jacket with black title lettering to front pannel and spine. More
CHALCOGRAPHIMANIA: Or, The Portrait-Collector and Printseller's Chronicle, with Infatuations of Every Description. A Humourous Poem. In Four Books. With Copious Notes Explanatory.
London: Printed for R. S. Kirby, 1814. 1st edition. x, [4], 212 pp (including index). Untrimmed edges. Frontis [some foxing & browning]. 8vo. 9-3/8" x 5-3/4". Original paper-wrapped boards (professionally rebacked, with new paper spine label to style). More
CATALOGUE Of The MILFORD FREE LIBRARY, Milford, N. H.
Milford: 1881. 1st Edition. xiii, [3], 84, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 4-3/4". Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to front board. Rare 19th C. catalogue from this small town free library, which was formed in 1868; OCLC records no holdings of this edition, noting..... More
The READER REVEALED.
Washington DC: The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2001. 1st pb edition. 157, [1] pp. Illustrated. 4to. 11" x 8-1/2". Glossy paper wrappers lettered in red & black. "This volume has been published in conjuction with the exhibition, The Reader Revealed, presented at The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, from September 4..... More
PHOTOGRAPHY. 1839 - 1937.; With an Introduction by Beaumont Newhall.
New York: The Museum of Modern Art. Printed by the Spiral Press. (1937). 1st Printing. 131, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). A MOMA order blank, for 1936-37 publications, laid-in at front. Illustrated with suite of plates, on glossy paper, at rear of book, portraying 95 b/w images. 8vo. 10-1/8" x...... More
BIBLIOGRAPHY Of The MUSKHOGEAN LANGUAGES. Smithsonian Institution Bureaau of Ethnology: J. W. Powell, Director.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. 1st edition. 114 pp. 9" x 5-3/4". Light green paper wrappers with black printed lettering to cover. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. More
BOOKBINDING: Its Background and Technique.
New York: Dover, 1980. Reprint, with corrections, of the 1946 1st edition. 2 volumes in one. Illustrated. 5 1/4" x 8 1/4". Pictorial wrappers. Useful reading copy of this quite detailed look at the bookbinding art and history. More
CATALOGUE Of The LIBRARY BELONGING To MR. THOMAS W. FIELD, Author of "An Essay on Indian Bibliography," Etc. Including an Unrivalled Collection of Books Relating to the American Indians, Collections of Historical Societies, and American History and Biography in General. [bound with] SUPPLEMENT To The CATALOGUE Of The LIBRARY Of MR. T. W. FIELD, Including Books Omitted in that List; also, Valuable Manuscripts, and a Collection of Books Relating to America From Another Collection... May 29, 1875.
New York: Bangs Merwin & Co., 1875. 1st edition. viii, 376; 59 pp [2663, 'The Hartley Papers'; 661 lots]. 8vo. Later maroon buckram with black leather spine label. Original buff printed wrappers bound-in. Preliminary notice by J. Sabin & Sons discussing the considerable breadth & depth of this pre-eminent collection..... More
SUITE Of SIX COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS Of ANTHROPOMORPHIC ENGLISH BOOKSELLERS, "BOOKISH PIGS".
[London?]: Ca 1980 (?). Signed in the plate by Hewitt. The images are color half-tone reproductions of watercolor paintings by Miss Hewitt. 16" x 20". All housed in a clear mylar envelope. Prints feature scenes of anthropomorphic pigs interacting with books. Scenes include a book auction, an old scholar buried..... More
The LONDON CATALOGUE Of BOOKS, With Their Sizes, Prices and Publishers. Containing the Books Published in London, and Those Altered in Size or Price, Since the Year MDCCCXIV [1814] to MDCCCXXXIX [1839].
London: Published by Robert Bent, 1839. 1st edition thus. iv, 415, [1] pp. Cut of Bagster's Bible, p. 412. Printer's device, last page. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2" Original publisher's brown vertically-ribbed cloth with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Pale yellow eps. More
A COLLECTOR'S DECABIBLON.; An Address to the Annual Meeting of Gleeson Library Associates April 23, 1972.
San Francisco, California. Designed and Printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. 1972. "1000 Copies Printed. This is One of 600 Specifically Printed for Distribution to Members of the Gleeson Library Associates" [6], 21, [5 (blank)] pp. T.p. printed in red & black. 10-1/4" x 7". Stiff, gray wrappers, printed in..... More
THEMES In AQUATINT.; BCC Publication no. 160.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, (1978). Limited Edition of 500 copies. viii, 104 pp. Includes 16 color plates, reproduced in the size of the original. 14-3/4" x 9-3/4". Maroon quarter-cloth and marbled boards, gilt stamping to spine. More
A TALE Of TWO CITIES An Annotated Bibliography. The Garland Dickens Bibliographies (Vol. 12).
New York: Garland Publishing, 1993. 1st edition. 236 pp (including Index). 8vo. Green cloth binding. No dust jacket, as issued. More
TRADE CATALOGUE. Saunders Books. Medicine. Surgery. Dentistry. Science. Veterinary. Nursing.
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1930. 1st printing thus. [2], 80, [2] pp. Index at rear. Last leaf an unused order blank. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Printed paper covers, stapled. Nursing section, pp. 65 - 72. A useful reference for tracing the history of publications documenting the evolution..... More
The BOOK THROUGH FIVE THOUSAND YEARS. A Survey.
London: Phaidon, (1972). 1st Edition in English. 496 pp. Illustrated, with much in color. 4to. Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. Stiff-stock paper slipcase. Very heavy book, extra postage required. More
CHARLES DICKENS. A Preliminary Catalogue of Works and Books Relating to Him in the Rare Book Collection Lockwood Memorial Library State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo: State University of New York, [1970]. 1st Printing. [4], i, [1], 26 pp. 8vo. 8-7/16" x 5-3/8". Pale green & blue paper covers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "This catalogue is issued in connection with the Dickens Centennary Exhibit in the Lockwood Library, State University of..... More
CHARLES DICKENS 1812-1870. An Anthology.
New York: Arno Press, (1970). 1st edition. 165 pp. Profusely illustrated in b&w. 4to. Hardback. Dust jacket. A selection of Dickens material from the NYPL's Berg collection. More
The PRIVATE PAPERS Of HENRY RYECROFT.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company 31 West Twenty - Third Street, (n. d.). Later US Edition (2nd ?), ca 1912. First published in the US by Dutton in 1903. xii, [4], 279, [3] pp. Last leaf blank. Crown 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-3/8". Original publisher's deep maroon cloth binding..... More
GRAPHIC WORKS Of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1979. xviii, [2], 168, [2] pp. 271 b/w & 8 color illustrations. Folio. 12-1/4"x 9-3/8". Blue and white illustrated wrappers, lettering printed in white. More
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Of The IROQUOIAN LANGUAGES [bound with] BIBLIOGRAPHY Of The MUSKHOGEAN LANGUAGES. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology: J. W. Powell, Director.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888 / 1889. 1st edition(s). [1], vi, 208, v, 114, [1 (blank)] pp. 10" x 6". Old green faux-leather binding. More
BACKLOG STUDIES.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899. 1st edition (BAL 21242; Warde 23). 257 pp. Title page in red & black, designed by Bruce Rogers. illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. 12mo. Green decorative cloth with gilt lettering & gilt andiron cover design. TEG. More