MUCHED LOVED BOOKS.; Best Sellers of the Ages.
New York. Boni and Liveright. 1928. 4th Printing. [xiv], 461 pp. 8-3/4" x 6". Original brown cloth binding, paper onlay on upper board, faded gilt lettering on backstrip. More
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New York: United Litho Corp. [for Grosset & Dunlap], (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1925 - 1930. Broadside, printed in black, brown, blue & orange. Image of 3 boys at top, one in a football helmet [center] and a scout hat [right]. Entire with single rule orange border. 21-1/8" x.... More
[PROSPECTUS For] 'A Technique for Dealing with Artists'.
New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, [c. 1941]. One sheet. 8 x 14 cm. Contains a small reproduction of the title page of the book along with ordering & pricing information. More
A COLLECTOR'S COMMENT On HIS FIRST EDITIONS Of The WORKS Of SIR WALTER SCOTT.
San Francisco: Gelber, Lilienthal, Inc. 1932. 1st ed. Limited to 400 cc (Heller & Magee166). [8], 156, [1] Frontispiece portrait, with 6 plates. 8vo. Cloth backed boards with printed paper label on cover and spine. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. Included, TLs to Iolo Williams [author of ELEMENTS Of BOOK... More
BOOKBINDING AND PRINTING MACHINERY. Catalogue No. 393.; Sixth Educational Graphic Arts Exposition
Chicago: Gane Brothers & Lane, Inc, 1950. 1st Edition. [60] pp Many photographic images 9" x 6" Black faux leather vinyl wrappers, lettering in gilt on upper wrapper. More
THE LITERARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND.; In the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. Vol. I-III.
New York: MacMillan and Co. 1882. 1st Edition. Three vols., vi 328; [vi] 327; vi 340 pp. 8vo., 7-5/8" x 5-1/4" Contemporaneous half dark-purple calf and marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, backstrip with five raised bands, lettered in gilt. Armorial bookplate to each volume: "Ex Libris Fidelis. Lester. 'Still am... More
YOUNG MR. STONE BOOK PUBLISHER. A Dodd, Mead Career Book.; With a Foreword by Frederic G. Melcher, Editor of The Publishers' Weekly.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1939. 1st edition. SIGNED by the author on the ffep. vii, [5], 236 pp. 8vo. Light green cloth binding with dark blue stamping. Green topstain. Green & blue dust jacket. More
EARLY ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.; A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1893. 1st Edition. xvi, 256 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Period brown half leather binding with light brown cloth boards. TEG. Blue marbled paper eps. More
The LIBRARY.; With a Chapter on Modern English Illuatrated Books by Austin Dobson.
London: Macmillan & Co. 1892. Second Edition. "Large Paper Edition", #152 / 300 cc. xxi, [1], 192 pp (including Index). Illustrated. Royal Octavo. 10-1/2" x 7". Original publisher's brown cloth binding. More
OLD BOOKS, RARE FRIENDS.; Two Literary Sleuths and Their Shared Passion.
New York et al: Doubleday, (1997). 1st Edition. xii, 275 pp. B/w illustrations in text. 8vo., 8-1/2" x 5-3/4" Quarter brown cloth and brown paper covered boards, backstrip stamped in gilt, and original pictorial dust jacket. More
THE LONDON BOOK TRADE.; Topographies of Print in the Metropolis From the Sixteenth Century.
New Castle, De, and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2003. 1st Edition. xvi, 185 pp. Numerous b/w illustrations in text. 8vo., 8-1/2" x 6" Original full black cloth stamped in gilt to backstrip, and original pictorial dust jacket. More
The ILLUSTRATION Of BOOKS.
New York: Pantheon Books Inc. 1952. 1st US edition. 160 pp (including Index). Color frontis. B/W illustrations throughout text. 8vo. Pale yellow cloth binding with red stamping. Brown printed dust jacket. More
MYTH, MAGIC, And MYSTERY. One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration.
Boulder, CO: Roberts Rinehart, 1996. 1st pb edition. 242 pp. Illustrated. 4to. Glossy printed wrappers. More
VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. 1850 - 1870. "The Heyday of Wood Engraving."; Selections from the Robin de Beaumont Collection in the British Museum.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1994. 1st US edition. 144 pp (including index). Illustrated. Royal 8vo. Hardback. Red dust jacket. More
MOVABLE TYPE.; Biography of Legh R. Freeman
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1979. 1st ed. viii, 172 pp. Several b/w photo reproductions in text. 8vo., 9-1/4" x 6-1/4" Orange cloth with lettering in black to upper board and backstrip, original pictorial dust jacket. Biography of Legh R. Freeman, frontier printer. More
THREE CENTURIES Of CHILDREN'S BOOKS In EUROPE.; Translated and Edited by Brian W. Alderson.
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 1st English. xviii, 297, [5 (blank)] pp (including Index). Illustrated. 8vo. Yellow cloth binding. Green dust jacket. More
The PRINTING INDUSTRY.
New York: Bowker, (1967). 1st edition. 814 pp. Color/B&W photographs/drawings. 4to. Hardback. Dust jacket. More
The MAKING Of BOOKS.
London: Faber & Faber, (1973). 5th Revised edition. 554 pp (including Index). B/W illustrations throughout text, some from photographs. 8vo. Pale blue cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
NORTHWESTERN APPROACHES. The First Century of Books.
Victoria: The Adelphi Book Shop Ltd, 1969. 1st edition. LIMITED to 750 copies. 67, [1 (blank)] pp. Inserted b/w plates. 9-1/4" x 6". Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering and design printed to spine and cover. More
501 MUST- READ BOOKS.
London: Bounty Books, 2007. Reprint. 544 pp including book title index. Profusely illustrated with photographic images. 9-1/4" x 7-1/2". Photographic image laminated to boards with white title lettering to front board and spine. Matching dust jacket. More
The HUMAN FACE Of The BOOK TRADE. Print Culture and its Creators.
Winchester / Delaware: St. Paul's Bibliographies / Oak Knoll Press, 1999. 1st Edition. x, 228 pp (including Index). 8vo. Glossy composition binding. More
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAW And The PUBLISHER In The REIGN Of QUEEN VICTORIA.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. 1st edition. ix, [3], 109, [1 (blank)] pp. B/w frontis. 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Navy cloth binding, gilt printed lettering to spine. Lavender DJ with navy lettering printed to spine and cover. More
OLD & RARE. Thirty Years in the Book Business.
New York: Abner Schram, 1974. 1st US Edition. [10], 234 pp (including index). 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. Stories from the Grande Dames of the Book Trade. More
SCIENCE FICTION in Old San Francisco. History of the Movement. Volume I.
West Kingston: Donald M. Grant, 1980. 1st Edition. 255, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Steel blue cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
A CENSUS OF AUTOGRAPH MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS OF EUROPEAN COMPOSERS IN AMERICAN LIBRARIES
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953. xvii, 331 pp. 8vo., 9-1/2" x 6-1/4" Full blue cloth stamped in gilt to backstrip. From the Ernst C. Krohn Musicological Library of Washington University, with their bookplate. More