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
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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. Small 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
DICKENS and DICKENSIANA: A Catalogue of the Richard Gimbel Collection in the Yale University Library.
New Haven: Yale University Library, 1980. 1st edition. 570 pp (including Index). Frontis. 8vo. Green cloth binding. Paper spine label. Issued w/o dj. Essential to any collector, or seller, of Dickens works. More
The LOCALIZATION Of BOOKS By Their BINDINGS.; Reprinted from The Library (N. S.) V-2, 1901 by E. A. Thompson.
Santa Barbara: E. A. Thompson, [1974?]. 1st separate printing (presumed). SIGNED PRESENTATION copy from Thompson to Dorothy Hutchinson. [25] - 38, [2] pp. Colophon annotated as to the piece coming from the "Bibliographical Society of London Transactions, v. 8, Oct. 1905 - Mar. 1906, pp. 25 - 38. Printed in..... More
A CHECK LIST Of ALABAMA IMPRINTS 1807 - 1870.
University of Alabama Press, 1946. 1st printing. 151, [3 (blank)] pp. 8vo. Printed red stiff-stock paper wrappers. More
ONE HUNDRED YEARS Of PUBLISHING 1837 - 1937.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1937. 1st Edition. [10], 83, [3] pp. 8vo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Brown cloth stamped in gilt. Tan dj printed in black, orange rule and flourishes. More
FINE PRINT. Vol. 14 No. 2 April 1988.; The Review for the Arts of the Book.
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1988. 1st Printing. 52 - 97 pp. with slips. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, card stock wrappers, printed in pale yellow, orange and black. Stapled. With a mail-in subscription envelope, an announcement about discounted back issues and an 8 page leaflet with advertisements and events... More
FINE PRINT. Vol. 8 No. 4 October 1982.; A Review for the Arts of the Book. Focus on Calligraphy
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1982. 1st Printing. 122 - 159 pp. with slip. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, paper wrappers, printed in pink, lavender and black. Stapled. More
FINE PRINT. Vol. 8 No. 3 July 1982.; A Review for the Arts of the Book. Eric Gill Centenary Issue.
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1982. 1st Printing. 82 - 119 pp. with slip. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, paper wrappers, printed in red and black. Stapled. With an 4 page leaflet containing advertisements & events. More
FINE PRINT. Vol. 8 No. 2 April 1982.; A Review for the Arts of the Book.
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1982. 1st Printing. 42 - 79 pp. with slip. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, paper wrappers, printed in orange, green and black. Stapled. With an 4 page leaflet containing advertisements & events. More
FINE PRINT. Vol. 8 No. 1 January 1982.; A Review for the Arts of the Book.
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1982. 1st Printing. 39 pp. with slips. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, thin card stock wrappers, printed in yellow and black. Stapled. With an 6 page leaflet containing advertisements & events. A one page erratum correcting the new address for the magazine. More
FINE PRINT. Vol. 7 No. 4 October 1981.; A Review for the Arts of the Book.
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1981. 1st Printing. 114 - 150 pp. with slips. Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, thin card stock wrappers, printed in red, orange and black. Stapled. With an 6 page leaflet containing advertisements & events. A one page erratum correcting an image that originally printed upside down..... More
FINE PRINT. Vol. 9 No. 1 January 1983.; A Review for the Arts of the Book.
San Francisco. Sandra Kirshenbaum. 1983. 1st Printing. 39 pp. with slip Illustrated. 12" x 9". Printed, paper wrappers, printed in red, blue and black. Stapled. With an 4 page "classified advertisements" More