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
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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
EXHIBITION Of FIRST EDITIONS Of EPOCHAL ACHIEVEMENTS In The HISTORY Of SCIENCE.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1934. 1st edition. 48 pp. One b/w intratextual illustration. 6-3/4" x 5". Grey stiff printed paper wrappers. Stapled. "Sponsored by a committee of the History of Science Club of the University of California and arranged for the American Association for the Advancement of Science on..... 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
VICTORIAN FICTION. An Exhibition of Original Editions at 7 Albemarle Street, London January to February 1947.
Cambridge: Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, 1947. 1st printing. 49, [1] pp. 16 plates. 8-1/2" x 5". Black cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. No dust jacket. More
The TELLING LINE. Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1990. 1st edition. 320 pp (including index). Illustrated (much in color). 4to. Grey cloth binding. White dust jacket. More
The TELLING LINE. Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1990. 1st edition. 320 pp (including index). Illustrated (much in color). 4to. Grey cloth binding. White dust jacket. More
An ESSAY By GARY F. KURUTZ On A BIBLIOGRAPHY Of CALIFORNIA And The PACIFIC WEST, 1510 - 1906 By ROBERT E. COWAN. With an Original Leaf from the Club's 1914 First Edition.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. A single sheet folded once to make a pamphlet. 10-1/2" x 8". White paper with back and red title lettering printed to front panel. Currently housed in a myalr sleeve. With original mailing envelope. Please note: this is just the prospectus for..... More
ARTFUL DEEDS. In The Life of The Felon, Grovenor Layton... A Tale of the California Gold Rush.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1998. A single sheet folded twice to make a pamphlet. One b/w illustration. 10-1/2" x 7-1/4". White paper with red and black title lettering printed to front panel. Currently housed in a mylar sleeve. Please note: this is just the prospectus for this..... More
LAYAWAY PURCHASE RECEIPT. P. F. Collier, Publisher, 14 Dupont Street, San Francisco. 2. 19 . 1887.
San Francisco: 1887. A fill-in-the-blanks job-printed receipt for this California publisher, detailing layaway terms. Verso with blanks to record customer's payment record. 3-7/8" x 10". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. One Francis Cutting has deposited One Dollar, as of February 19, 1887, towards purchase of "1 Set Dickens"..... More
PAYOT, UPHAM & CO. Established 1854. Stationers, Booksellers, Engravers, Printers, Bookbinders; 100 Battery Street Cor. Pine
San Francisco: 1904. Unsigned. Single sheet, letterhed printed at top. 19 lines, double-spaced. ~ 200 words. Text concludes mid-sentence, implying a second sheet present at one time. Woodcut graphic, to left, depicting the firm's building [which was destroyed in the 1906 fire]. 10-3/4" x 8-1/4". Now housed in an archival..... More
The BUTTERFLY BOOKS. An Enquiry onto the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets.
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
DROMKEEN. A Journey into Children's Literature.
New York: Henry Holt, (1987). 1st edition. 175, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
ADVENTURE.
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
BOOK COLLECTING As a Hobby. In a Series of Letters to Everyman.
London and Chesham: Gramol Publications Ltd., (n. d.). 98, [2] pp. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Black card-stock covers. More
The VICTORIANS And AFTER. 1830 - 1914.; With a Chapter on Economics by Guy Chapman.
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
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A LIST Of The WRITINGS Of CHARLES DICKENS. [accompanied by] TNs from Parrish to W[illiam] Miller.; Compiled from the Collection at Dormy House, Pine Vally, New Jersey. Exhibition at The LIBRARY COMPANY Of PHILADELPHIA February 17 to March 10, 1938.
[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
PORTRAIT Of An OBSESSION. The Life of Sir Thomas Phillipps, the World's Greatest Book Collector.; Adapted by Nicolas Barker from the Five Volumes of Phillipps Studies.
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
The POPULAR BOOK. A History of America's Literary Taste.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. 1st Edition. [12], 351, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
The OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS And The SPREAD Of LEARNING 1478 - 1978. An Illustrated History.; With a Preface by Charles Ryskamp.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. 1st edition. xiii, [1 (blank)], 332 pp. Profusely illustrated. 4to. Hardback. Blue patterned paper eps. Dust jacket. More
MAN COLLECTING. Manuscripts and Printed Works of WILLIAM FAULKNER in the University of Virginia.; On Exhibition in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Departments of the University of Virginia Library Charlottesville Virginia. Honoring Linton Reynolds Massey 1900 - 1974.
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
STUDIES In BIBLIOGRAPHY. Volume Sixty. 2018.
Charlottesville, The University Press of Virginia, 2019. 1st printing. 310 pp. 8vo. Grey cloth binding. More
SOME THOUGHTS On The ORNAMENTED MSS. Of The MIDDLE AGES.; By William Morris. Printed on his Albion Hand Press, with an Account of its Travels from the Closing of the Kelmscott Press to the Present Day. Issued on the One-Hundredth Anniversary of William Morris' Birth March 24th, 1934.
New York: Privately Printed. Press of the Woolly Whale, (1934). 1st edition thus. [8], 20, [2] pp. Drawing of the press by Warren Chappell. 8vo. Vellum spine over stamped grey paper boards. This the first book to be hand printed on [Morris'] Kelmscott 'Chaucer' Press by the Press of the..... More
CHARLES DICKENS. First American Editions: The Christmas Books and Selected Secondary Works. A Bibliography.
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