London: Faber & Faber, (1989), First Edition. small octavo, wrappers. x, 118pp. Faber & Faber, "Apart from the people's War concept, my primary theoretical iinterest is in narrative...This study also confronts another form of resistance: that of literary critics to the concept of 'war fiction'." Very fine. More
London / New Castle: British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 2012, First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 224 pp. British Library / Oak Knoll Press, Next in the Publishing Pathways series, Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts examines aspects of the relationship between the business of print and the... More
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1967, First Edition. octavo, wrappers rebound in black cloth. 30 pp. of text followed by unpaginated illustrations. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Very fine. More
Madison, Wisc. Univ of Wisconsin Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth. (300)pp. Univ of Wisconsin Press, Mathews' career in publishing "coincided with the transition from Victorian to modern literature, a period which literary historians date from about 1880 to 1920...what makes Mathews unique is the role he played in... More
Enfield: Guinness, (1991), First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 224 pp. Guinness, The book covers scientific swindlers, literary liars, financial fraudsters, fakers in art and archaeology, imposters and charlatans, false claimants and a host of plausible and often endearing figures from many ages, many coutries and many spheres of human activity... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978), First Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. x, 518 pp. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Nin's first diary started when whe was eleven and ending at age seventeen. With 60 illustrations. A very fine, clean, unread copy in a very fine dust jacket which... More
New Haven, CT: Yale Univ Press, (1997), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. viii, (88)pp. Yale Univ Press, This book examines Blake's stupendous achievement by discussing and displaying some fifty works out of the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art. These include a number of... More
(Hamden, CT): Archon, (1971), Second Edition, Rivised and enlarged. octavo, blue boards in printed dust jacket. (132)pp. Archon, Name anddate on front endpaper, otherwsise a fine copy. Jacket slightly bumped at spine. More
(London): The British Museum Press, (2002), First Edition. large octavo, boards in dust jacket. (138) pp. The British Museum Press, This book catalogues for the first time in detail the relatively small but important collection of German printed books in The British Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings. With one... More
(London): British Museum Press, (1995), First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 96pp. British Museum Press, The authors examine the methods of making and conserving papyrus, the various scripts written on it, the writing practices of the scribes, and the different uses of papyrus under the Pharaohs and their successors, the Ptolelmies... More
New York: Facts on File, (1987), First American Edition. octavo, wrappers. (288)pp. Facts on File, This peculiar compendium of lists includes Six of the Best Poets for a Desert Island by Peter Levi; Remarkable Deaths by Authors; Slowest Book Production; Calamites of Publishers; Book Burnings; Masterpieces Written in Prison; Critical... More
New York: Cooper Square, 1973, octavo, cloth. (xvi), 315pp. Cooper Square, Reprint of the 1939 edition. "...it is the story as exciting as the investigation of a murder, as intricate as a problem in chess - the life story of a self-made man who amassed a fortune and assembled the... More
(Liverpool): Liverpool University Press, (2007), First Edition. octavo, black boards in dust jacket. 360 pp. Liverpool University Press, Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press details the history of one of the most extraordinary—and controversial—publishing enterprises of the twentieth century. Publisher simultaneously of the infamous novels of..... More
Boston: Godine, (1992), First printing of this edition. octavo, wrappers. (xxii), (324)p. Godine, In his preface Perrin defines bowderlization as the practice of leaving things out to make books "decent", and lists a host of distinguished text- cutters: Noah Webster, Bulfinch of the Mythology, Brewer of the Supreme Court, Meilson... More
New York: The Crafton Collection Inc., (1929), Third Printing. quarto, red cloth in printed dust jacket. unpaginated. The Crafton Collection Inc., Introduction by Duncan Phillips. Hutty spent his winters in old Charleston, South Carolina and brought much of the people and city with its old houses, narrow streets, and wrought... More
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, (1998), First Edition. octavo, blue boards. (xii), 418pp. D. S. Brewer, This bibliography is intended for all those interested in Old English wisdom poetry and the works associated with it, both within and outside English studies, and provides a guide to the scholarly literature. It is... More
(New York): New Directions, (1987), First Edition. large octavo, black cloth in dust jacket. (xxiv), 255pp. New Directions, The book is the fifth volume in the ongoing series, The Correspondence of Ezra Pound. Pound and Zukofsky met only three times but exchanged over 300 letters by the time of their... More
London: Merrell Holberton and The Natural history Museum, (1999), First Edition. quarto, blue boards in dust jacket. 128 pp. Merrell Holberton and The Natural history Museum, In 1830 MacGillivary met John James Audubon who was looking for an assistant to transcribe his notes. "The two men formed a friendship that... 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
Chicago: Committee on the Invention of Printing, 1941, quarto, wrappers. 18pp. Committee on the Invention of Printing, Introduction by McMurtrie (in English), text in French. More
Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 1986, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. viii, 189 pp. Princeton Univ Press, Illustrated with 136 black and white illustrations and 17 color plates. An exhibition catalogue surveying the holdings of the Princeton Department of Graphic Arts, from the advent of printing in the fifteenth century to the... More
(Los Angeles, CA): The Getty Research Institute, (1997), First Edition. octavo, printed heavy paper wrappers. (x), 110pp. The Getty Research Institute, A catalogue of an exhibition of Incendiary Art at the Getty Research Institute in 1997. The material assembled includes illustrated books, prints, manuscripts, drawings, and optical devices. Includes a.... More
London: Bloomsbury Books, (1988), quarto, boards in dust jacket. (103)pp. Bloomsbury Books, Reprint of the 1979 edition. An extensively illustrated pictorial biography. With 110 illustrations, 8 in full color. 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
London: Cygnus Arts, (1997), First Edition. large 8vo, boards in dust jacket. xii, 133pp. Cygnus Arts, From the author's introduction: "Since my primary purpose is the focus upon the Rowlandson drawings rather than Combe's lengthy narrative text, I have provided just enough of a summary of his narration, including selected... More