Buffalo: State University of New York, [1970]. 1st Printing. [4], i, [1], 26 pp. 8vo. 8-7/16" x 5-3/8". Pale green & blue paper covers, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "This catalogue is issued in connection with the Dickens Centennary Exhibit in the Lockwood Library, State University of..... More
London: Ward Lock & Co., 1954. 1st Edition. 108 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Dust jacket. More
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1984). 1st printing of the 2nd edition. 271, [1 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. Fully illustrated with much in color. 11-3/8" x 3-1/2". Brown glossy stock paper covers, with front cover printed in color. More
Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1972. 1st edition. Limited to 200cc. 47, [1] pp. 8vo. Brown cloth binding. Grey paper dust jacket, printed in orange & black. More
New York: The Grolier Club, (1990). 1st Edition. Unpaginated. Useful "Index to Binders" at rear, with short bio for each individual. Profusely illustrated, with much in color. Square 8vo, 8" x 8". Maroon wrappers printed in white. More
Wylam: Allenholme Press, 1965. 1st Printing. 12 pp. Fold-out illustration. 7-1/2" x 5". Grey paper covers printed in black & orange, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
New York: Grolier Club, [2008]. 1st Printing. 20 pp. Intratextual color illustrations. 7-1/8" x 4-1/2". Color printed paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A printed version of a talk delivered by Ms Allen as the 2007 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture of the American Printing History Association..... More
Rochester: 2009. Later printing. SIGNED by the author. 116 pp (including Index). Illustrated. Laid-in chart: IDENTIFICATION FLOW-CHART. 4to. Yellow glossy stock paper covers. More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1923. 1st edition (Heller & Magee 58; Olmsted 19). #334/400 cc. Printed at the Grabhorn Press. [15], 119, [7], [4 (blank)] pp. Untrimmed. Title page design by H. Von Schmidt. Frontispiece photograph by Dorothea Lange from a painting of Oscar Weil by Olga M...... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 1st Edition. xiii, [2], 299, [3] pp. Profusely illustrated, mostly in color. 8-1/4" x 8-1/4". Black cloth spine over full color glossy composite boards. Issued without dust jacket. More
New Castle DE: Oak Knoll Books, 2002. 1st edition. 616 pp (including index). A few illustrations. Royal 8vo. Red cloth binding. Red dust jacket. More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1990. 1st Printing. Limited to 910 cc. ASSOCIATION COPY. x, [2], 198, [2] pp. With the publication prospectus laid in [4 pp]. Western Books Exhibition submission slip laid-in [submitted by W. Thomas Taylor]. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/8". Green cloth binding with printed paper..... More
New York: Bennett Book Studios Inc., 1929. 1st edition. #695 / 750cc. [10], 114, [12 (blank, for "Notes")] pp. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 6-1/4". Blue three-quarter Turkey morocco binding with marbled boards & eps. Gilt stamping to spine. TEG. More
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1967. 1st Edition. [14], 189, [5] pp including index. Few b/w images. 10" x 7". Grey cloth boards with black cloth binding. Gilt initals stamped to front board and gilt title lettering stapmed to spine. No dust jacket. More
New York: (1978). 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 20 pp. Rear cover interior with an original [as-in created for this catalogue which, no doubt, was printed in 100s of copies], Tom Bloom comic strip [advertisement] entitled, "Maropa Institute Presents This Winter Ginsberg's Blake" 8-7/16" x 5-3/8" Printed white card stock covers..... More
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1978. Xerox sheets, bound with a single staple at upper corner. 11" x 8-1/2". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
London: Alison & Busby, 1986. 1st edition. 232 pp (including Index). 8vo. Brown cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Dust jacket. Biography of the Victorian George Smith, publisher of Charlotte Bronte. More
Oakland: The Holmes Book Company, 1967. 1st edition. xxiv, 257, [3 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth binding. Bay area bookseller tickets provide endpaper design. Grey & white printed dust jacket. Fascinating history of one of the 20th C preeminent West Coast booksellers. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., (1963). 1st Edition. x, [2], 276 pp (including Index). 8vo. Red cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine. Photographic eps. Dust jacket. More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. 1st Edition. ix, [1 (blank)], 161, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Black cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering. Black pictorial eps. Pale blue dust jacket. More
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1963). 1st Edition. 230 pp (including index). Illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1960. 1st edition. x, 154 pp (including Index). 8vo. Gunmetal blue cloth binding. Printed buff paper dust jacket. More
London: The Enitharmon Press, [1971]. 1st printing. Single sheet of pale grey paper, printed in black, recto only. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "In December 1971 the Enitharmon Press will publish two books by HUGO MANNING." The leaflet then gives publication details for "Encounter in..... More
[Berkeley, California]: Pequod Press, 1971. 1st printing, 1 / 15 cc. Single sheet of yellow card stock, printed recto only. The top portion with a quote from Anthony and Cleopatra: "Age cannot wither you, nor custom / stale your infinite variety; other wo- / men cloy the appetites they feed..... More
Dublin, Republic of Ireland: Printed for the William Morris Society at the Dolmen Press, 1961. 1st Printing. 16 pp. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2". Original tan paper covers, printed in red, stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
