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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The STORY Of ENRIQUEZ. Chu Chu. The Devotion of Enriquez. The Passing of Enriquez.
San Francisco: Printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn for Herbert Lionel Rothchild, 1924. 1st edition thus (BAL 7556; Magee 70). Limited to 100 cc. 194, [4] pp. Title printed in black & brown, three initials in brown. Preface by James Tufts. 8vo. 8" x 5-1/8". Black cloth spine, gilt lettering..... More
CARE And IDENTIFICATION OF 19TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS.
Rochester: 2009. Later printing. SIGNED by the author. 116 pp (including Index). Illustrated. Laid-in chart: IDENTIFICATION FLOW-CHART. 4to. Yellow slick-paper covers. More
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 MAKING & UNMAKING Of QUE VIVA MEXICO!
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1970). 1st edition. xxix, [1 (blank)], 449, [1 (blank)] pp (including Index). Frontis. Map. Suite of b/w photographic images. 8vo. Blue cloth binding. Blue dust jacket. "This fascinating study presents for the first time the full story of Eisenstein's disastrous attempt to make a great film..... More
UPTON SINCLAIR. An Annotated Checklist.
(n. p.): The Kent State University Press, (1973). 1st edition. 544 pp (including Index). 8vo. Brown cloth binding. 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
'YOU HAVE IT, MADAM,' The PURCHASE Of The SUEZ CANAL SHARES By DISRAELI And BARON LIONEL DE ROTHSCHILD.
London: 1980. 1st edition. 62 pp [including index]. Small 4to. 27.5 cm x 18 cm. Blue wrappers, gilt stamped spine and cover. 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
BERNARD M. ROSENTHAL. 5 May 1920 - 14 January 2017.; A Biographical and Bibliographical Account by Ian Jackson in the style of the Dictionnaire historique et critique of Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706).
Berkeley: Printed for the Wednesday Table, 2017. 1st Edition. Limited to 400 cc. 11, [3] pp. Printed letterpress by Richard Seibert, Berkeley, California. Frontis photograph of Barney, taken by Elvira Piedra on 23 July 2008 in his Berkeley shop. Folio. 17-5/8" x 11-1/2". Grey paper wrappers, printed in silver, sewn..... More
The LITERARY CHARACTER, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius, Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions.; By the Author of "Curiosities of Literature."
New - York: Published by James Eastburn and Co. at the Literary Rooms, Broadway, Corner of Pine-street. Printed by J & J Harper. 1818. 1st edition thus (American Imprints 43864 [incorrectly noting 502 p]). 302, [4] pp. Table of Contents page follows text. 12mo, signed in 6s. 7-3/8" x 4-1/8"..... More
A HISTORY Of ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1986. 1st US Edition. 256 pp. Profusely illustrated with images in color. 11-1/2" x 9". Blue cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Dust jacket with blue title lettering printed to front panel and spine. 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. Samll 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