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New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988), First Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. Simon & Schuster, Book very fine, jacket has small water stain to base of spine. Jacket not clipped. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988), First Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. Simon & Schuster, Book very fine, jacket has small water stain to base of spine. Jacket not clipped. More
New York: Knopf, 1999, First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. x, 290pp. Knopf, The history of book shelving from an engineering point of view. Illustrated. Fine. More
(London): Tate Gallery, (1993), First Edition. large octavo, wrappers. 127pp. Tate Gallery, A monograph on J. M. W. Turner's vignettes, the "tiny and brilliant watercolors" which Turner produced to be engraved as illustrations in the 1830s for books by Walter Scott, Byron and Thomas Moore, as well as Milton and..... More
New York: Weathervane Books, (1966), Reprint. octavo, dark red boards in pictorial dust jacket. (208)pp. Weathervane Books, Included are chapters on aces Rickenbacker, William A. Bishop, and A. Roy Brown. Also the importance of the air arm in the Battles of the Marne, Verdun, and St. Mihiel. Light wear to..... More
New York: Signet, (1966), First Paperback Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 206pp. Signet, Included are chapters on aces Rickenbacker, William A. Bishop, and A. Roy Brown. Also the importance of the air arm in the Battles of the Marne, Verdun, and St. Mihiel. Light wear to jacket, spot on..... More
Tucson: Univ of Arizona Press, (1986), Second printing. small octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 95pp. Univ of Arizona Press, "John David Marshall has combed Powell's books, articles, essays, and reviews to fashion a collection of quotations that best reflect the man and his intellectual passions." The quotations are grouped..... More
Austin, TX: (University of Texas Library), 1947, First Edition. quarto, printed paper wrappers, stapled. 60pp. (University of Texas Library), Prefatory note by Fanny Ratchford. With 293 items catalogued. Tiny mend to front wrapper corner, a bit dusty. More
New York: Mysterious Press, (1987), First Edition Uncorrected Proof copy. octavo, printed wrappers. Mysterious Press, Very fine condition. We have hundreds of Advance and Proof copies in stock. 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
Toronto: Univ of Toronto Press, 1997, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (viii), (288)p. Univ of Toronto Press, The author analyses the rise of the popular magazine and impact of the new printing technologies. With a detailed index and bibliography. Extensively illustrated in black and white and in color..... More
New York: Crown, (1990), First Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. Crown, Signed by author. More
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1984), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. St. Martin's Press, Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Resnicow. 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
(Edinburgh): Edinburgh Univ Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. viii, 170pp. Edinburgh Univ Press, "The printing trade has traditionally reserved its skilled jobs for men - yet for over thirty years in Edinburgh women were being actively recruited to work as compositors and were even responsible for the typesetting of..... 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
(Poole): Arms and Armour Press, (1987), First Edition. quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers. 64pp. Arms and Armour Press, Profusely illustrated. Fine copy. More
Westbrook, Me: Robertson, (1985), Second Printing. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. 92pp., stapled. Robertson, Illustrated with photographs. Fine copy. 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: Harper & Row, (1986), First Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. Harper & Row, Author's second mystery. This copy is SIGNED by Rosen on title page. More
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, (2002), First Edition. octavo, black boards in dust jacket. (xviii), 190 pp. Thomas Dunne Books, New. More
Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 1998, Second printing. small octavo, plain blue wrappers. 33 pp. Book Arts Press, The 1994 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography. There were 300 copies of the first printing and 225 copies of this second printing. New. More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1991), First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (xxx), (194)pp. University of Nebraska Press, Edited and with an introduction by Paul L. Hedren. Illustrated with photographs. Charles King was one of the more improbable characters in American history: he completed 70 years of..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1991), First Edition. octavo, brick red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (xxx), (194)pp. University of Nebraska Press, Edited and with an introduction by Paul l. Hedren. Illustrated with photographs. A biography of Captain Charles King, who not only served in the US military forces for..... 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