MODERN METHODS Of ILLUSTRATING BOOKS.; The Book-Lovers Library.
London: Elliot Stock, 62 Paternoster Row, 1886. 1st Edition. vii, [1], 247, [1 (blank)] pp (Index at rear). 12mo. Tan buckram over brown paper wrapped boards. Bevelled edges. More
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BOOKS HAVE THEIR FATES.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 1st Edition. 199, [1] pp. The occasional illustration. 9-1/4" x 6-1/8" Green cloth binding. Green dust jacket. More
The ART And CRAFT Of PRINTING.; A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, Together with a Short Description of the Press by S. C. Cockerell, and An Annotated List of the Books Printed Thereat.
New Rochelle, New York: Printed by Clarke Conwell at the Elston Press, 1902. 1st edition (Walsdorf 93). Limited to 210 cc. [6], 44, [2], 19, [12] pp. Deckle edges. Unpaginated divisional t.p. for "The Ideal Book"; divisional t.p. for "An Essay on Printing". Laid-on are two samples of red-patterned wallpaper..... More
RUSSIAN CLASSICS In SOVIET JACKETS.
New York / London: Coloumbia University Press, 1962. 228 pp. 9-1/4" x 6-1/2". Blue cloth binding with black title lettering stamped to spine. White dust jacket with blue title lettering printed to front cover and spine. More
CAXTON. England's First Publisher.
London: Osprey Publishing, 1976. 1st edition. [12], 220 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Light green cloth binding. Orange & light green dust jacket. More
OYEZ PRESS. Recent Titles. Forthcoming.
Berkeley: Oyez Press, [1974]. 1st printing. Single sheet of pale yellow paper, printed recto only. 7" x 9-1/2". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
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[PUBLISHER'S PROSPECTUS For] H.M.S. SULPHUR At California, 1837 and 1839.; Being the accounts of Midshipman Francis Guillemard Simplinson and Captain Edweard Belcher.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1969. C. f., Olmsted 132. One sheet, folded, forming an unpaginated 4 page brochure, last page blank. Map vignette to p. 1. 25 x 16.5 cm. Self-wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. PLEASE NOTE: this is the publisher's Prospectus, NOT the..... More
COBWEBS To CATCH FLIES. Illustrated books for the Nursery and Schoolroom 1700 - 1900.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1975. 1st Edition. 163, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. Royal 8vo. 10" x 7-1/2". Blue cloth binding with gilt title title stamped to spine. Blue dust jacket with illustration and white title lettering printed to front panel and spine. More
From PRIMER To PLEASURE In READING. An Introduction to the History of Children's Books in England from the Invention of Printing to 1900.
Boston: Horn Book Co., 1972. 1st US Edition. x, 340 pp. Illustrated. Royal 8vo. 10" x 7-3/8" Grey linen cloth binding. Pictorial eps. Brown paper dust jacket printed in green. More
CRUIKSHANK'S WATER COLOURS.; With an Introduction by Joseph Grego.
London: A. & C. Black, 1903. 1st Edition. xxvi, [4], 325, [3] pp. Profusely illustrated with inserted color plates. 9" x 6-3/4". Brown cloth binding with gilt titel lettering stamped to front board and spine. TEG. More
BERNARD M. ROSENTHAL. 5 May 1920 - 14 January 2017.; A Biographical and Bibliographical Account by Ian Jackson in the style of the Dictionnaire historique et critique of Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706).
Berkeley: Printed for the Wednesday Table, 2017. 1st Edition. Limited to 400 cc. 11, [3] pp. Printed letterpress by Richard Seibert, Berkeley, California. Frontis photograph of Barney, taken by Elvira Piedra on 23 July 2008 in his Berkeley shop. Folio. 17-5/8" x 11-1/2". Grey paper wrappers, printed in silver, sewn..... More
From BRICKS To BOOKS. A Miscellany
London: Grafton & Co., 1949. 1st edition. 160 pp (including Index). 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Brown & white dust jacket. More
BOOKS In My BAGGAGE. Adventures in Reading and Collecting.
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, (1960). 1st edition. 255, [3] pp. Title page illustration. 8-1/2" x 5-7/8" Hardback. Dust jacket. More
The VICTORIANS And Their READING.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Third Printing. 444 pp (including Index). 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Black cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Red dust jacket. Another classic in the genre, along with her work, "The Shaping of English Literature." More
MUDIE'S CIRCULATING LIBRARY And the Victorian Novel.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1970). 1st edition. xii, [2], 272 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with silver spine lettering. Dust jacket. More
MOORE'S WHOLESALE PRICE LIST Of NEWSPAPERS And MAGAZINES. Spring, 1884. No. 10.; Contains a List of 2,500 American and Foreign Newspapers and Magazines, at Wholesale Rates to Agents, Postmasters, Ass't Postmasters, Booksellers and Publishers. W. H. Moore, Manager and Proprietor. Brockport, Monroe County, N. Y.
Rochester, N. Y. Post-Express Print, 1884. 1st Printing. Not found in Romaine. 36 pp. Adverts illustrated with cuts. 9-1/8" x 5-7/8". Original publisher's pale orange paper covers, printed in black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Somewhat uncommon publication documenting periodical publications in the late 19th C. OCLC records..... More
SOUTHWEST CLASSICS. The Creative Literature of the Arid Lands. Essays on Books and Their Writers.
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1974. 1st edition. 370 pp (including index). Illustrated. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Black cloth binding. Dustwrapper. More
The STORY Of ENRIQUEZ. Chu Chu. The Devotion of Enriquez. The Passing of Enriquez.
San Francisco: Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for Herbert Lionel Rothchild, 1924. 1st edition thus (BAL 7556; Magee 70). Limited to 100 cc. 194, [4] pp. Title printed in black & brown, three initials in brown. Preface by James Tufts. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/8". Black cloth spine, gilt lettering..... More
OXFORD BOOKS. A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to the University and City of Oxford or Printed or Publishied There. With Annals and Appendixes. Volume 3. Oxford Literature 1651 - 1680.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1931. 1st edition. xlvii, [1], 621 pp (including index). 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4" Original maroon publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Uncommon. More
OXFORD BOOKS. A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to the University and City of Oxford or Printed or Publishied There. With Appendixes, Annals, and Illustrations. Volume 2. Oxford Literature 1450 - 1640, and 1641 - 1650.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1912. 1st edition. xvi, 712 pp (including index). Illustrated with 3 plates. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4" Original maroon publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Uncommon. More
JOHN LEECH And The VICTORIAN SCENE.
(n. p.): Antique Collecters' Club, (1984). 1st Edition. 265, [3] pp including appendix, bibliography, and index. Profusely illustrated with b/w and color drawings. 11" x 8-3/4". Red cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to front board and spine. Illustrated eps. Red dust jacket with white title lettering to front..... More
CATALOGUE Of SOME FIVE HUNDRED EXAMPLES Of The PRINTING Of EDWIN & ROBERT GRABHORN, 1917 - 1960. Two Gentlemen from Indiana Now Resident in California.; Offered for Sale at the Book Shop of David Magee
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, [1961]. 1st softcover edition. xv, [1], 63, [5] pp. Laid-in a printed leaflet advertising the availability of a limited hardcover edition, which has "twelve illustrations from original photographs by Mary Farquhar". 4to. 11-3/4" x 9-1/4". Printed wrappers. Yapp edges. More
UPTON SINCLAIR. An Annotated Checklist.
(n. p.): The Kent State University Press, (1973). 1st edition. 544 pp (including Index). 8vo. Brown cloth binding. More
The LIFE Of MR. THOMAS GENT, Printer, of York; Written by Himself.
London: Printed for Thomas Thorpe, 1832. 1st Edition (Bigmore & Wyman I, 260). 208 pp. Frontispiece by Augustus Fox. 8vo. Later pebbled half-calf with marbled paper boards & eps (front board professionally reattached). TEG. Marbled eps. "Gent was a printer and writer, born in Ireland, who spent most of his..... More
'YOU HAVE IT, MADAM,' The PURCHASE Of The SUEZ CANAL SHARES By DISRAELI And BARON LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD.
London: 1980. 1st edition. 62 pp [including index]. Small 4to. 27.5 cm x 18 cm. Blue wrappers, gilt stamped spine and cover. More