London: Bertram Rota, 1987. 1st Edition. 283, [ (blank)] pp. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. Black papered boards with gold design stamped to front and rear boards. Black cloth spine with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. An expose of the Frederic Prokosch pamphlet forgeries, a la Carter & Pollard from... More about The BUTTERFLY BOOKS. An Enquiry onto the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets
New York: Henry Holt, (1987). 1st edition. 175, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardback. Dust jacket. More about DROMKEEN. A Journey into Children's Literature
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. (n. d.). Ca early 1920s. Single sheet, printed, in red, both sides. 6 cuts, 3 per side, accompany the text. 11" x 8-1/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The House of Harper has won the deserved reputation of having on its list... More about ADVENTURE
London and Chesham: Gramol Publications Ltd., (n. d.). 98, [2] pp. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Black card-stock covers. More about BOOK COLLECTING As a Hobby. In a Series of Letters to Everyman
New York: Robert M McBride & Co., 1938. 1st edition. 371, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). 12mo. 7-3/4" x 5" Grey cloth binding. Dust jacket. A survey of the literature of the time. More about The VICTORIANS And AFTER. 1830 - 1914.; With a Chapter on Economics by Guy Chapman
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[Philadelphia]: 1938. 1st printing (Gimble H356; Miller, p. 281). Unpaginated, though 18 pp (including wrappers). 7" x 4-3/4". Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Housed in a custom maroon cloth chemise; gilt stamped black leather title label to spine. The catalogue provides a chronological list of Dickens' works, as found in the Parrish... More about A LIST Of The WRITINGS Of CHARLES DICKENS. [accompanied by] TNs from Parrish to W[illiam]...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. 1st edition. xvii, [1 (blank)], 278 pp (including index). Color frontis. 8vo. Black cloth binding. Purple top stain. Dust jacket. More about PORTRAIT Of An OBSESSION. The Life of Sir Thomas Phillipps, the World's Greatest Book...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. 1st Edition. [12], 351, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More about The POPULAR BOOK. A History of America's Literary Taste
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. 1st edition. xiii, [1 (blank)], 332 pp. Profusely illustrated. 4to. Hardback. Blue patterned paper eps. Dust jacket. More about The OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS And The SPREAD Of LEARNING 1478 - 1978. An Illustrated History.;...
Charlottesville, Virginia: University Printing Office, 1975. 1st Edition. #87 of 100 hardback copies. SIGNED by the compiler, with her corrections throughout. With a PRESENTATION card laid-in. [6], 142, [2] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6" Original publisher's green cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Crane was the UVa curator of the... More about MAN COLLECTING. Manuscripts and Printed Works of WILLIAM FAULKNER in the University of...
Ojai, California: Printed by Norman Clayton for the Zamorano Club, 2018. 1st Edition. #74, limited to 125 cc, this one of 75 bound for sponsors. SIGNED by 10 contributors + the printer on the colophon page. 64 pp. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 6-1/4". Brown leather spine over purple silk moire boards. Marbled eps. More about ZAMORANO CELEBRATES 90: Honoring the Contributions of Women to Books & Book Collecting in...
Chicago: December 12, 1941. Single sheet of letterhead. 16 lines of typed text, ~ 130 words. 11" x 8-1/2". Loose leaf, typed on Walter M. Hill letterhead, signed, by Hill's secretary, in black ink. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. Mr Hill, a prominent Chicago antiquarian bookseller, responds to Miss... More about LETTER [TL] To Miss ANNE TENNEY From WALTER M. HILL, BOOKSELLER
San Francisco: Grabhorn - Hoyem, 1967. 1st Edition. Limited to 225 cc. 125 pp, printed in red & black. Jeffrey Thomas bookslip laid-in 4 color-printed illustrations. 4to. 11-1/4" x 9-3/8". Quarter vellum over blue linen covered boards. This edition the first to have color reproductions of the illustrations appearing in the original manuscript. More about The PEARL.; Newly Translated by John F. Crawford with Andrew Hoyem including the Middle English...
Rochester, N.Y. Sen-Sen Co., 1903. 1st printing thus. Lithographed front board with title in gold, a blue ribbon & "5¢" in a gold medallion. 7-1/8" x 5-1/2". A book-shaped box, AEG, meant to house Sen-Sen Gum. More about CHOOSE The BEST. Sen-Sen Library Edition
Charlottesville, The University Press of Virginia, 2019. 1st printing. 310 pp. 8vo. Grey cloth binding. More about STUDIES In BIBLIOGRAPHY. Volume Sixty. 2018
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 1st Edition. Limited to 425 cc. xx, 139, [1] pp. Illustrated. 4to. Green cloth binding, with gilt stamped spine lettering. Dust jacket. More about CHARLES DICKENS. First American Editions: The Christmas Books and Selected Secondary Works. A...
Boston, Massachusetts. David R. Godine - Publisher (In Association with the Dartmouth College Library). (1977). Reprint. xvi, 250 pp (including index). Illustrated. Tall 8vo. Maroon cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Mustard yellow dust jacket, black lettering. More about The PRINTED BOOK In AMERICA
Cleveland & New York. The World Publishing Company. 1953. 1st edition. (stated). 185 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Maroon cloth binding stamped in gilt. Dust jacket. More about Pi. A Hodge-Podge of Letters, Paper, Addresses, Written During a Period of 60 years
[n. p.]: 1852. 1st printing. Single sheet of silk, with lace embroidered edge trimming. 10-1/4" x 5-1/2". Housed in simple light brown wooden frame [12" x 7-1/2"]. "Gimbel Brothers" framing ticket to verso. "Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy is an 1839 historical play by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It portrays... More about PROGRAMME A PERFORMANCE For MRS. RAY'S BENEFIT, On Wednesday Evening, March 10, 1852.;...
Kalamazoo, Michigan: KVP Company, (1931). 1st printing thus. Goodly number of sheets still present, all gayly colored in green, orange, blue, white floral design. Portfolio: 6-5/8" x 11-1/2". Sheet of Waxed paper: 13" x 11". Housed in the manufactor's portfolio. "Wax paper (also waxed paper or paraffin paper) is paper... More about KVP FANCY WAXED PAPER
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New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, [c. 1941]. One sheet. 8 x 14 cm. Contains a small reproduction of the title page of the book along with ordering & pricing information. More about PROSPECTUS For] 'A Technique for Dealing with Artists'
San Francisco & Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1981. 1st hardback edition. Limited to 300 cc. 158 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Linen cloth binding, decorated in with magazine cover images, lettered with silver stamping. Red pictorial eps. Issued without jacket. More about PKD. A Philip K. Dick Bibliography.; With Annotations by Steven Owen Godersky
New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1975. Revised edition. 136 pp (including Index). Frontispiece. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Issued without dust jacket. More about A BIBLIOGRAPHY Of WORKS By JACK KEROUAC
Newark DE: MAD, 1997. 2nd (revised) printing. 578 pp. Illustrated. 4to. 11" x 8-1/2". Red glossy paper covers printed in black. ESSENTIAL reference for both collector and bookseller. More about A COLLECTOR'S GUIDE To HARDCOVER BOYS' SERIES BOOKS or Tracing the Trail of Harry Hudson
Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1973. Reprint. 124 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Grey cloth binding. More about THOMAS PAINE: A Bibliographical Check List of COMMON SENSE With an Account of Its Publication
