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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin, Author's third book. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin, Author's third book. More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1972), First English edition, Advance Proof Copy. octavo, printed wrappers with the Cape logo in dust jacket. Jonathan Cape, The back flap of the dust jacket has printed along the blank edge, "Proof Only Provisional Publication Date: Oct 19th 1972." Jacket with light shelf wear along edges..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, (1971), First English Edition. octavo, black boards in dust jacket. Jonathan Cape, Flaking to color of jacket at top and bottom of spine, not price clipped. Book fine. More
London: Batsford, (1987), Reprint. large octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xvi), 250pp. Batsford, A concise presentation of information on bookbinders working in major centers, in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Each section covers principal directories consulted, list of localities and binders, including full addresses and information on business relations, apprenticeships..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins/Walters Art Gallery, (1997), First Edition. large quarto, maroon cloth. xxxii, 352pp.; (366)pp. Johns Hopkins/Walters Art Gallery, This two part set represents the third volume in the Walters Art Gallery catalogue of the collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. From the Preface: "The terrain encompassed by the material..... More
Forest Hills: Battery Park, 1978, Reprint. octavo, maroon cloth. 37pp. Battery Park, Ricketts contributes his definition of fine printing by contrasting "... the work of the great Venetian Printers & of William Morris to my own, not in any rude assumption of rivalry, but merely for convenience, since the achievement..... More
Milan: Olivetti, (1988), First Edition. quarto, printed wrappers. (50)pp. Olivetti, Illustrated. An interesting discussion in the introduction on the use of watermarks for help in dating old master drawings from the sixteenth century, or help, in fact, in ascribing a drawing to an artist. The dictionary reproduces watermark, location and..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1905), First American Edition. quarto, green cloth stamped in gilt. xl, (365) pp. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Illustrated. Part of the Connoisseur's Library. Small spot of wear at bottom of spine. Cloth slightly faded as is gilt stamping. Contents clean. More
New York: Printed by Robert Wilson, for A. Van Hook, 1798, First American Edition - Corrected. octavo, full calf with red leather spine labels. 164; 235 pp. Printed by Robert Wilson, for A. Van Hook, First published in 1795. "Her Mémoires de Madame Roland (1795) were written from prison where..... More
Sarema Press (Publishers), 1991, First Edition. small octavo, black boards in dust jacket. vi, 209pp. Sarema Press (Publishers), One-half page to two page biographies of 175 type designers. Preceding the alphabetical directory, a short essay outlines the main trends in type design. The appendices have two indices by subject and..... More
New York: M. W. Hazen Co, 1888, octavo, red cloth stamped in black and gilt. (viii), 694 pp. M. W. Hazen Co, Hinge at titlepage weak. Bottom 2" of cloth at spine water stained. Scuffing to cloth, but not bad. More
Norman: Pilgrim Books, (1984), First Edition. small octavo, blue cloth. (xvi), 160pp. Pilgrim Books, This edition is in two parts: first, the annotated transcription of the English glosses and then an alphabetical index of the English words and phrases which also includes proper names. It provides a modest increase in..... More
Durham: Duke University Press, 1953, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 337pp. Duke University Press, The Lytton Strachey of Eminent Victorians and Bloomsbury associations came from a prominent English family who owned Sutton Court, helped to colonize Virginia, edit "The Spectator", and govern in India. A history of..... More
Herrsching: Manfred Pawlak, no date, octavo, white boards in dust jackets. 863, (811) pp. Manfred Pawlak, Numerous illustrations. Text in German. Fine in fine dust jackets. More
London: The Athlone Press, (1999), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xii, 206pp. The Athlone Press, The letters collected in this book comprise an important chaper in the life of Waler Pater's literary career. They record in great detail the relations between The Victorian man of letters and his..... More
London: Bibliographical Society, 2017, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth. xxix, 493 pp. Bibliographical Society, Edmund Geste, probably pronounced ‘Guest’, (c. 1515–1577) studied at King’s College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1536 under Henry VIII, rising to become Vice-Provost under Edward VI in 1550 before being expelled under Queen..... More
(Hurst, Berkshire: G. F. Sims Rare Books), n.d. (ca.1960), octavo, wrappers. 16pp. G. F. Sims Rare Books), George Sims rare book catalogue listing 200 manuscripts and notebooks from the estate of Llewelyn Powys: "It is a very rare privilege to issue such a Catalogue as this: indeed it is doubtful..... More
Washington: GPO, 1888, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 180 pp. GPO, Part of the Contributions to American Educational History. Illustrated. Title inked on spine, back wrapper lacking. Very good copy. More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 624pp. Oak Knoll Press, Known mainly as a Shakespearean scholar and collector, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps published nearly six hundred books and pamphlets on everything from literature to the history of science, theology, and much more. In..... More
New York: Random House, (1994), First American Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. xxii, (362)pp. Random House, "...the astonishing but true story of the flamboyant rogue publisher Maurice Girodias, whose Paris-based Olympia Press gave birth to a curious mixture of raffish pornography and some of the most significant..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1994, Reprint. octavo, cloth. Four volumes in three: (iv), xxxi, 391+(1); x, 556; xi, 356, (47)pp. Oak Knoll Press, In 1907, Stauffer's two-volume set of this work was published in a limited edition of 350 copies. It provided biographical sketches and a checklist of..... More
Paris: Alphonse Picard & Fils Editeurs, 1897, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth. xx, 895 pp. Alphonse Picard & Fils Editeurs, A bibliography of bibliographies. With the bookplate of Dr. Eugene S. Flamm, neurosurgeon, bibliophile and former president of the Grolier Club. Brief rubber-stamp to top and bottom edges of text..... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1951, First printing of this edition. Limited to 1,000 copies. octavo, cloth. xxxvi, 188pp. New York Public Library, Revised and Elucidated by Victor Hugo Paltsits. The elucidations by Paltsits are annotations at the end of each chapter, further chronicling the formation of one of..... More
London: John Castle, (1925), First Edition, Limited to 750 numbered copies. octavo, Brown cloth in dsut jacket. (xiv), 162pp. John Castle, Title page transcriptions, collations, and bibliographical notes on the first editions of John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Meynell, Pater, and Francis Thompson. One small chip to bottom..... More