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 about The ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT
San Francisco: John Howell - Books, 1982. 1st Printing. [10], 186, [4] pp. Warren Howell 'Compliments' card laid-in. Price list laid-in. Bifolium "The Rosselli Oval Planispere" laid-in. Illustrated with plates, some color. Royal 8vo. Blue paper covers, gilt stamped lettering, firm device embossed to front cover. More about ANNIVERSARY CATALOGUE. 1912 - 1982. JOHN HOWELL - BOOKS.; One Hundred and Twenty Fine Books,...
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 about BOOKS & BOOKENDS. Sculptural Approaches. 1989 - 1991 Traveling Exhibition
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1934. 1st edition. 48 pp. One b/w intratextual illustration. 6-3/4" x 5". Grey stiff printed paper wrappers. Stapled. "Sponsored by a committee of the History of Science Club of the University of California and arranged for the American Association for the Advancement of Science on... More about EXHIBITION Of FIRST EDITIONS Of EPOCHAL ACHIEVEMENTS In The HISTORY Of SCIENCE
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 about A NEW PAPER, Therefore, Entitled, The EVENING ADVERTISER, And UNIVERSAL CORRESPONDENT
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 about VICTORIAN FICTION. An Exhibition of Original Editions at 7 Albemarle Street, London January to...
New York: Delacorte Press, 1990. 1st edition. 320 pp (including index). Illustrated (much in color). 4to. Grey cloth binding. White dust jacket. More about 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 about The TELLING LINE. Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators
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 about An ESSAY By GARY F. KURUTZ On A BIBLIOGRAPHY Of CALIFORNIA And The PACIFIC WEST, 1510 - 1906 By...
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 about ARTFUL DEEDS. In The Life of The Felon, Grovenor Layton... A Tale of the California Gold Rush
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 about LAYAWAY PURCHASE RECEIPT. P. F. Collier, Publisher, 14 Dupont Street, San Francisco. 2. 19 . 1887
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 about PAYOT, UPHAM & CO. Established 1854. Stationers, Booksellers, Engravers, Printers,...
London: Bertram Rota, 1987. 1st Edition. 283, [ (blank)] pp. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. Black papered boards with gold design stamped to front and rear boards. Black cloth spine with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. An expose of the Frederic Prokosch pamphlet forgeries, a la Carter & Pollard from... More about The BUTTERFLY BOOKS. An Enquiry onto the Nature of Certain Twentieth Century Pamphlets
New York: Henry Holt, (1987). 1st edition. 175, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 4to. Hardback. Dust jacket. More about DROMKEEN. A Journey into Children's Literature
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 about ADVENTURE
London and Chesham: Gramol Publications Ltd., (n. d.). 98, [2] pp. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Black card-stock covers. More about BOOK COLLECTING As a Hobby. In a Series of Letters to Everyman
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 about The VICTORIANS And AFTER. 1830 - 1914.; With a Chapter on Economics by Guy Chapman
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[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 about A LIST Of The WRITINGS Of CHARLES DICKENS. [accompanied by] TNs from Parrish to W[illiam]...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. 1st edition. xvii, [1 (blank)], 278 pp (including index). Color frontis. 8vo. Black cloth binding. Purple top stain. Dust jacket. More about PORTRAIT Of An OBSESSION. The Life of Sir Thomas Phillipps, the World's Greatest Book...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. 1st Edition. [12], 351, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardback. Dust jacket. More about The POPULAR BOOK. A History of America's Literary Taste
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. 1st edition. xiii, [1 (blank)], 332 pp. Profusely illustrated. 4to. Hardback. Blue patterned paper eps. Dust jacket. More about The OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS And The SPREAD Of LEARNING 1478 - 1978. An Illustrated History.;...
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 about MAN COLLECTING. Manuscripts and Printed Works of WILLIAM FAULKNER in the University of...
San Francisco: Grabhorn - Hoyem, 1967. 1st Edition. Limited to 225 cc. 125 pp, printed in red & black. Jeffrey Thomas bookslip laid-in 4 color-printed illustrations. 4to. 11-1/4" x 9-3/8". Quarter vellum over blue linen covered boards. This edition the first to have color reproductions of the illustrations appearing in the original manuscript. More about The PEARL.; Newly Translated by John F. Crawford with Andrew Hoyem including the Middle English...
Charlottesville, The University Press of Virginia, 2019. 1st printing. 310 pp. 8vo. Grey cloth binding. More about STUDIES In BIBLIOGRAPHY. Volume Sixty. 2018
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 1st Edition. Limited to 425 cc. xx, 139, [1] pp. Illustrated. 4to. Green cloth binding, with gilt stamped spine lettering. Dust jacket. More about CHARLES DICKENS. First American Editions: The Christmas Books and Selected Secondary Works. A...
