The BINDING Of BOOKS.
Peoria. The Manual Arts Press. (1940). 160 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Off white, cloth wrapped boards, stamped in dark brown. Tan dust jacket, stamped in dark brown. More
Books - on - Books
A GUIDE To AMERICAN TRADE CATALOGS. 1744 - 1900.
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., (1990). Reprint. xxiii, 422 pp. (including index). 9-1/4" x 6". Soft cover, pictorial wrappers. With order blank laid-in. More
The HOURS Of CATHERINE Of CLEVES.; Introduction and Commentary by John Plummer.
New York: George Braziller, (1975). Second Printing. 359 pp (including index). Color reproductions. 8vo. Gilt stamped binding. Slipcase. Reproduced from the Illuminated Manuscript belonging to the Guennol Collection and The Pierpont Morgan Library. More
COMPLETE CATALOGUE Of The LIBRARY Of JOHN QUINN.; Sold By Auction in Five Parts.
New York. Lemma Publishing Corporation. 1969. Reprint. Vol. 1: viii, 1-634. Vol. 2: iv, 635-1205, [66] pp. 9-1/4" x 6". Black cloth, stamped in gilt to back strip. 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" 21 pp. 10-1/4" x 7". Stiff, gray wrappers, printed in dark pink, stapled. More
The CARE And REPAIR Of BOOKS.
New York. The R. R. Bowker Company. 1935. Later Edition. 131 pp. 2 plates showing tools used. 8-3/4" x 5-2/8". Deep maroon cloth, stamped in gilt to backstrip. In a tan dust jacket with dark brown lettering. More
COCK-A-HOOP. A Sequel to 'Chanticleer, Pertelote, and Cockalorum' Being a Bibliography of the Golden Cockrel Press. January 1950 - December 1961.; With a List of the Prospectuses 1921 - 1962.
Middlesex: Private Libraries Association for the Golden Cockrel Press, (n. d.). Unlimited Edition. 126 pp. Illustrated. Tall 8vo. Blue cloth binding. Blue top edgestain. Grey dust jacket printed in black. More
BIBLIOPHILE In The NURSERY.; A Bookman's Treasury of Collectors' Lore on Old and Rare Chrildren's Books
Cleveland/New York: The World Publishing Company. (1957). 1st Edition (stated). 503 pp. With illustrations. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2". Black cloth, stamped in gilt to upper board and back strip. In dust jacket. More
HARRY CASTLEMON Boy's Own Author. Appreciation and Bibliography.
Waltham, Mass. Mark Press. 1969. 2nd Printing, limited to 300 copies. 142 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Brown cloth binding lettered in gilt to spine. More
WILLA CATHER: A Bibliography.; Foreword by Frederick B. Adams.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1982). 1st Edition. xxviii, 412 pp. Drawing of Cather at front. 8vo. Blue cloth binding. Printed purple paper dust jacket. More
The ENGLISHMAN And His BOOKS In the Early Nineteenth Century.
New York: Thomas Y Crowell Company, (n. d.). Ca 1932. 300, [2] pp (including Index). Bound with the UK sheets. Ilustrated with 32 plates. 8vo. Maroon cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Brown paper dust jacket [Harrap imprint]. Another classic in the genre, along with her work, "The Shaping of..... More
The LONDON BOOKSHOP. Being Part Two of a Pictorial Record of the Antiquarian Book Trade: Portraits & Premises.
(n. p.): Private Libraries Association, 1977. 1st edition. 75, [3] pp. Contents: Francis Edwards Ltd; Frank Hollings; E. Joseph; Maggs Brothers Ltd; Marks & Co; Henry Sotheran Ltd; Harold T. Storey; Thomas Thorp; Corrigenda to Part One. Illustrated from b/w photographs. Oblong 8vo. 7-1/4" x 9-7/8". Original grey cloth with..... More
HARDY And HARDY INVESTIGATIONS.; With Paul Mular.
Rheem Valley, CA: The SynSine Press, 2004. Fifth Edition. 778, [2] pp. A few illustrations. 8vo. 9" x 6". Spiral bound with mylar-encased color printed card-stock paper covers. An invaluable reference, and necessary for anyone who wishes to identify the divers printings of the many Hardy Boy titles. More
A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GHOST REVISITS HIS OLD HAUNTS.; Bibliographical Monograph Series No. 5
Austin: Published by the Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, (1972). 1st Printing, limited to 750 cc. [2 (blank)], 28, [2] pp. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-3/4". Original publisher's mustard colored cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. More
The LEFT BOOK CLUB: An Historical Record.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970. 1st Edition. 163, [1 (blank)] pp. Photographic frontispiece. Facsimilies. 9" x 5". Dust jacket glued to book. A yellow dust jacket with illustration and red title lettering printed to front panel and black title lettering printed to spine. More
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TWO CENTURIES Of BRUCE ROGERS With A PROLOGUE "BR's SECRET PASSION".; [Number 25].
Boston. Philip C. Duschnes. Printed by The Merrymount Press. 1937. Limited Edition of 550 copies. SIGNED by Morley. 43 pp. Frontispiece of Bruce Rogers with facsimile of his signature below. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Original yellow wrappers, printed in black bound in later marbled paper borads, with title label to upper..... More
A SOUTHERN LIBRARY.; A Statement read before the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1859, from notes of a Recent Journey in the South.
[Boston]: 1859. 1st Separate Printing (presumed). 4 pp. 8vo. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4". Lacks wrappers, disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Smet's unidentified visitior from Boston waxes enthusiastically about Smet's library... "And now this collection has come to be, not the largest, but one of the rarest in the..... More
JAMES JOYCE - The CRITICAL HERITAGE. Two Volumes.; Volume One: 1907 - 1927. Volume Two: 1928 - 1941.
London. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1970. Reprint. Divers pages. Both bound in blue cloth, stamped in gilt to back strip with dust jackets. Vol. 1 have an image of Joyce printed in green, Vol. 2 printed in brown. More
CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ of Curious Manuscripts, Early Printed and Other Rare Books; Composing Part of the Library of Mr. A. A. Smets.; Printed for Private Circulation.
Savannah: John M. Cooper & Company, 1860. 1st Printing. [4], 104 pp. 8vo. Lacks wrappers, and becoming disbound. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
JAMES JOYCE REMEMBERED.
New York & London. Oxford University Press. 1968. 1st Edition. 129 pp. 4 plates. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Black cloth boards, stamped in silver. Pictorial dust jacket. More
ULYSSES On The LIFFEY.
New York. Oxford University Press. 1972, 1st edition. xviii, 208 pp (including Index). 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
THREE LANTERN SLIDES.; Books, The Book Trade, and Some Related Phenomena in America: 1876, 1901 and 1926.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1949). 1st edition. xiv, 109, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Hardback. Green top stain. Yellow dust jacket. More
The ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT.
Oxford: Phaidon, 1987. 1st pb edition. 80 pp. 1990 Barnes & Noble receipt laid-in. 70 illustrations, 28 in color. 11" x 8-3/8". Original publisher's glossy black stiff stock paper covers. More
BOOKS & BOOKENDS. Sculptural Approaches. 1989 - 1991 Traveling Exhibition.
Forestville, MD: Published by Popular Kinetics Press. Printed by Anaconda Press, (1990). 1st Edition. SIGNED by Barton & Barrow. 73, [3 (blank)] pp. 5 leaves, of which 3 are folding templates, inserted after p. 72. Profusely illustrated, primarily in color on glossy stock. 6" x 6-1/4". Spiral bound, with dark..... More
A NEW PAPER, Therefore, Entitled, The EVENING ADVERTISER, And UNIVERSAL CORRESPONDENT.
London: J. Payne, Bookseller, at Pope's-Head in Pater - noster - row. 1754. 1st Printing. Bifolium, 4 pages. 8-1/2" x 5-1/4". Printed self-wrappers, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A rare prospectus announcing the advent of Payne's thrice weekly publication, "published Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, in every Week; the..... More