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 - on - Books
Tavistock Books is on vacation from January 21, 2023 to February 7, 2023. Beginning at 4:30 pm today, Saturday January 21st, and until 9am Tuesday, February 7th, I will be in Reno spending time with my family. Orders may certainly be placed, though shipment will be until after my return to Alameda. I thank you for your patience & understanding.
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
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
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
![Item #47036 A LIST Of The WRITINGS Of CHARLES DICKENS. [accompanied by] TNs from Parrish to...](/pictures/thumb/47036.jpg?v=1558135421)
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
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
The PRINTED BOOK In AMERICA.
Boston, Massachusetts. David R. Godine - Publisher (In Association with the Dartmouth College Library). (1977). Reprint. xvi, 250 pp (including index). Illustrated. Tall 8vo. Maroon cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Mustard yellow dust jacket, black lettering. More
Pi. A Hodge-Podge of Letters, Paper, Addresses, Written During a Period of 60 years.
Cleveland & New York. The World Publishing Company. 1953. 1st edition. (stated). 185 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Maroon cloth binding stamped in gilt. Dust jacket. More
PKD. A Philip K. Dick Bibliography.; With Annotations by Steven Owen Godersky.
San Francisco & Columbia, PA: Underwood/Miller, 1981. 1st hardback edition. Limited to 300 cc, though despite the colophon's assertion all hardbound copies are "Signed", this one is not. 158 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Linen cloth binding, decorated in with magazine cover images, lettered with silver stamping. Red pictorial eps. Issued without..... More
PICTUS ORBIS SAMBO. A Publishing History, Checklist and Price Guide for the Story of Little Black Sambo.
Sun City CA: Pictus Orbis Press, 1998. 1st edition. SIGNED by the Author. #220 of 1000 cc. [1 (blank)], xxxiv, [1], 449, [3] pp (including Index). Illustrated 4to. Black & white glossy paper covers. More
TOM SWIFT & COMPANY. "Boys Books" by Stratemeyer and Others.
Jefferson, North Carolina: Published by McFarland & Co., (1982). 1st Edition. viii, 183, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). 4 page suite of book cover illustrations. 8vo. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Issued w/o dj. More
CHEAP BOOK PRODUCTION In The UNITED STATES, 1870 - 1891.
Urbana: University of Illinois Library, 1937. 1st Edition. xi, [1 (blank)], 155, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. More
BOOK HISTORY. Volume 21. 2018.
Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. 1st Edition. vi, [2], 428, [4 (blank)] pp. The occasional illustration. 8vo. Original publisher's blue cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Issued without a dust jacket. More
SOTHERAN'S PRICE CURRENT Of LITERATURE. LOT Of 28 "ANNOTATED And CLASSIFIED" CATALOGUES, 1931 - 1962.; Science, Medicine, Chemistry, Etc.
London: Henry Sotheran Ltd, 1931. 1st printings. Catalogues range in length from 72 pp to 176 pp, most ~96 pp. 8vo. ~8-3/4" x 6". Printed buff paper wrappers. Decade breakdown: 1930s - 5; 1940s - 9; 1950s - 13; 1960s -1. Most catalogues with a thousand to two thousand entries..... More