COLLEGIATE BOOK ARTS PRESSES. A New Census of Printing Presses in American Colleges & Universities.
San Francisco: Fine Print, 1982. 45, [3] pp. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Stapled grey wrappers printed in yellow and darker grey. More
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The WORLD BEAUTIFUL In BOOKS.
Boston: Little Brown, 1901. 1st edition. 415 pp (including index). 4 pp of publisher adverts at rear. Partially unopened. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". White faux-vellum lettered & decorated in gilt. TEG. More
SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 44. Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Literature.
[Berkeley, CA]: Serendiptiy Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca early 1980s. Unpaginated, though 65 pp [including inner rear cover]. 8vo. 10" x 7". White paper covers printed in red & black. 501 entries, from Abbott's FLATLAND to a number of Virginia Woolf items. More
SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 14. Modern Literature.
Berkeley, CA: Serendiptiy Books, 1578 Le Roy Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca mid-1960s. 76 pp. 8vo. 8-5/16" x 5-5/16". White paper covers printed in black, stapled. 1800 entries, with the introductory note stating "books listed herein are in reasonable but not perfect alphabetical order." More
SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 26. Modern Literature.
[Berkeley, CA]: Serendiptiy Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca early 1970s. 77, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-5/16" x 5-5/16". White paper covers printed in red & black, stapled. 643 entries, beginning with Abrahams (William) and concluding with Zukofsky (Louis). More
SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 28. Literary Criticism.
[Berkeley, CA]: Serendiptiy Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca early 1970s. [2], 40, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". White paper covers printed in red & black, stapled. 538 entries. "This catalogue contains out-of-print literary criticism, including biography, bibliography, etymology, linguistics, classical studies, philology, edited texts... More
SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 30. Modern Literature.
[Berkeley, CA]: Serendiptiy Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca mid 1970s. 33 pp [including inner rear cover]. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". White paper covers printed in red & black, stapled. 266 entries, concluding with a multi-volume lot of B. Traven material, the entire catalogue presented in Serendipity's typical minimalist format. More
SERENDIPITY BOOKS. Catalogue 33. Modern Literature.
[Berkeley, CA]: Serendiptiy Books, 1790 Shattuck Avenue, (n. d.). 1st Printing, ca mid 1970s. 113, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". White paper covers printed in red & black, stapled. 999 entries, presented in Serendipity's typical minimalist format. More
SPECIMEN BOOK For the SPECIAL AUTHORIZED EDITION Of The COMPLETE WORKS Of CHARLES DICKENS.
London: The Waverly Book Co., Ltd. (n. d.). 1st printing. Ca 1900. Divers paginations. Illustrated with sample plates. 8vo. Green cloth binding, with sample binding styles in front & rear. A sample book for this subscriber edition of Dickens' works... "Taken as a whole, the Special Authorized Edition offers to... More
NAPOLEON In HIS OWN DEFENCE. Being a Reprint of Certain Letters Written by Napoleon from St. Helena to Lady Clavering, and a Reply by Theodore Hook. With Which Are Incorporated Notes and an Essay on Napoleon as a Man of Letters.
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1910. xliv, 283, [1] pp. Five b/w plates including frontispiece. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6-1/8". Navy cloth stamped in gilt with gilt ornaments, t.e.g. More
NAPOLEONIC PROPAGANDA.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1950). xv, [1], 272 pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6". Burgundy cloth stamped in gilt to the spine. Deep green dust jacket printed in orange and white. More
A CATALOGUE Of BOOKS, PAMPHLETS & BROADSIDES, PRINTS, PAINTINGS & PHOTOGRAPHS PERTAINING To YOSEMITE And The CALIFORNIA BIG TREE 1839 - 1900. No. 124. 1949.; Chronologically Arranged with an Alphabetical Index and Offered for Sale by Edward Eberstat & Sons.
New York: 1949. 1st printing. 8 pages. Front wrapper with cut depicting the base of a big tree. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-7/8". Printed green paper wrappers, stapled. The catalogue lists 60 items, with the first item, from 1839, Zenas Leonard's Narrative, the most costly, $2000. A *real* bargain today. Uncommon catalogue... More
NEW ECHOTA BIRTHPLACE Of The AMERICAN INDIAN PRESS. National Park Service Popular Study Series. History No. 6.
Washington, D. C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941. 1st printing. 21, [1] pp. Five black and white images, including reproductions of Cherokee newspapers and Bible excerpts. 7" x 4-3/4". Stapled tan paper wrappers printed in black. More
ONE HUNDRED BOOKS FAMOUS In CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.
New York, NY: The Grolier Club, 2014. 1st edition, deluxe issue. LIMITED to 50 copies, this #6. 318, [10] pp. At rear, an original leaf from the true first edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Advertising broadside laid-in. Many color illustrations (some folding) throughout. 11-1/4" x 8-5/8". Quarter... More
LIMP VELLUM BINDING. And Its Potential as a Conservation Type Structure for the Rebinding of Early Printed Books. A Break with Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Rebinding Attitudes and Practices.
Oxford: Published by Christopher Clarkson, 2005. 2nd Edition, with an Introduction and Corrections. xii, [2 (blank)], 23, [3 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with drawings. 8vo. 9-7/8" x 6-1/2". Printed paper wrappers. More
NINETEENTH CENTURY ILLUSTRATORS Of CALIFORNIA SIGHTS & SCENES. The Friends of the Bancroft Library Keepsake #34.; A Selection Works by Pioneer Graphic Artists with an Introduction and Notes by Lawrence Dinnean.
Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, Univeristy of California. 1986. 72 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Pale blue wrappers. More
INDIANS Of CALIFORNIA.
[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, (1973). 1st edition, limited to 1050 copies [Olmsted p. 57]. Twelve folders of 4 unnumbered pgs each. Body of text printed in two columns to inner pgs. Each folder illustrated with a reproduction of a b/w photograph or engraving. 10" x 8-1/2". Slipcase... More
AFTER THIS, SEA. Part Six of the California Poetry Folios.
[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, June 1947. Limited edition of 750 copies. Single sheet folded twice, body of text printed to 2 interior pgs. 10" x 6-3/4". Cream paper printed in black with blue title lettering and woodcut. Part Six of the BCC's 11th keepsake series, which consisted... More
The CALIFORNIA POETRY FOLIOS.
[San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, (1947). Limited edition of 750 copies. 12 folders, most having 2 pgs of printed text. Folders: 10" x 6-3/4". Slipcase: 10-1/2" x 7-1/4". Most folders a single sheet folded twice; one sewn self-wrappers. In blue chemise and quarter-leather blue slipcase. No. 11 of... More
CATALOGUE 192. Bibliographes Bibliographies. 1494 - 1802.
Paris: Librairie Paul Jammes, (n. d.). Unpaginated. Index at rear. Text in French. 9-3/8" x 4-1/8". Pictorial wrappers on glossy, thick stock. 362 entries, arranged chronologically. More
PRACTICAL PAPER-MAKING. A Manual for Paper-Makers and Owners and Managers of Paper Mills.; To Which are Appended Useful Tables, Calculations, Data, Etc.
London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1894. 1st edition. 208 pp (including index) + publisher catalogue at rear. Illustrated. 8vo. Original brown publisher's cloth w/ spine lettered in gilt & boards blocked in black. More
ERIC GILL 1882 - 1940.; With an Introduction by Evan R. Gill.
[Palo Alto CA]: Stanford University Library, 1954. 1st edition. Ltd to 500cc. Presentation copy. 23 pp, illustrated, 8vo. Salmon-colored paper-wrapped boards with paper label on front board. An exhibition at Stanford 11/7/54 - 12/11/54, primarily from the collection of Albert Sperisen. This copy inscribed by J. Terry Bender, the Special... More
CONUNDRUMS REPRINT PROSPECTUS. "Why is an angry person like a loaf? Why is a bee-hive like a spectator? Why is a conundrum like a monkey?".
El Cerrito, CA: the Skeptical Press, (n. d.). 1st edition thus. Single sheet folded once. 4-7/8" x 3-3/4". Color printed paper. More
FINE HAND BOOKBINDINGS For BOOK CLUB Of CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS. Keepsake for 2001.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, (2001). 30, [2] pp. Printed Publication Committee letter laid in. Color photographic images. 10" x 8-1/4". Wrappers printed in patterned pink and black with blue printed band, lettered in white and black. A catalogue from an exhibition at The Book Club of California, Jan. 10 - Feb. 26, 2001. More
TREASURES Of The BOOK CLUB LIBRARY. Part Two. The Book Club of California Keepsake 2000.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2000. 13 folders. Color and b/w illustrations. 10-1/4" x 8-1/8". Offwhite paper portfolio printed in red with b/w illustrations, cardstock folders laid in. Includes an introduction by Gary F. Kurutz and examples of 12 of the library's treasures. More