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
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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
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
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
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
The HODGSON FAMILY WISH YOU HAPPINESS In 1914 And EVER AFTER. From Kanyonkrag at the sign of the stone lanterns on Park Hill in Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York. [cover title]
[Yonkers-on-Hudson]: Caspar W. Hodgson, 1913. 8 unnumbered pages. 9 photographic images printed in very dark green ink, of scenes at Kanyonkrag and Sohlohnee. 4-3/16" x 6-1/4". String-bound white self-wrappers printed in very dark green and grey. Caspar Wistar Hodgson was the founder of The World Book Company, as well as..... More
THERE IS Hereby WISHED On YOU A HAPPY 1915 By The HODGSONS Of KANYONKRAG Which Is at the Sign of the Stone Lanterns and the Japanese Gates on Park Hill in Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York. [cover title]
[Yonkers-on-Hudson]: Caspar W. Hodgson, [1914]. 16 unnumbered pages. 16 photographic images printed in very dark green ink. 4-1/4" x 6-3/8". String-bound cream self-wrappers printed in very dark green. Caspar Wistar Hodgson was the founder of The World Book Company, as well as an ardent naturalist and owner of two remarkable..... More
With FRIEND And BOOK In The STUDY And The FIELDS.
London: W. W. Gibbings 18 Bury Street Bloomsbury, 1892. 1st Edition thus. Small paper issue, limited to 240 cc. [10], 78, [8], 84 pp. T.p. printed in red & black. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-3/8". Green cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. TEG. Bevelled boards. Essays on Poe, Fielding, Emerson..... More
The OWL AMONG COLOPHONS. Henry Holt as Publisher and Editor.
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1966. 1st Edition. x, 197, [1] pp. 8vo. Purple cloth stamped in coral and black; orange dj printed in purple and black. More
From SWAN SONNENSCHEIN To GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD.
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1955. 1st Edition. 100 pp. B/w frontis and plate. 8" x 5-1/4". Light blue cloth, navy lettering stamped to spine. Beige dj with dark blue lettering. More
The RISE Of ROBERT DODSLEY. Creating the New Age of Print.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (1996). 1st edition. ix, [3], 339, [1] pp (including index). Frontispiece. 8vo. Maroon cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
A ROUGH LIST Designed as the Basis of a More Complete CATALOGUE Of The LIBRARY Of SAMUEL L. M. BARLOW, Compiled by James Osborne Wright. Americana, 1477 - 1799.
New York: 1885. 1st Edition. #78 / 100 cc printed. 220 printed pages, interleaved with blue-lined paper. Samll folio: 12-3/16" x 8-1/4". Bespoke brown half-sheep over flexible pebbled leather boards. Marbled eps. The finished catalogue would be issued in the year of Barlow's death, 1889. More
VOLUMES In FOLIO.
London / New York: C. Elkin Mathews, At the Sign of the Bodely Head, in Vigo Street, W., 1889. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 1063). Limited to 250 cc. [10], 89, [3] pp. 12mo. 6-5/8" x 5. Original publisher's parchment backed blue paper boards. Printed paper title label to spine. The..... More