David Meltzer: A Sketch from Memory and Descriptive Checklist.
Berkeley: Oyez, 1965, First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. octavo, printed wrappers. (iv), 9 pp. Oyez, Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. A very fine copy. More
Berkeley: Oyez, 1965, First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. octavo, printed wrappers. (iv), 9 pp. Oyez, Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. A very fine copy. More
New York: NYPL, 1965, Second Printing. quarto, wrappers. (24)pp. NYPL, Twenty-first of the R. R. Bowker Memorial Lectures. An interesting memoir by this influential publisher. Very fine. More
Austin: Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, (1976), First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (206) pp. Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Extensively illustrated and with a detailed index. Spine sunned, else clean. More
Austin: Humanities Research Center, Univ of Texas, (1984), First Edition. octavo, rebound in black buckram with original wrappers bound in. (188)pp. Humanities Research Center, Univ of Texas, Illustrated. "...we have leaned heavily on the large groups of letters in our collections." Fine. More
London: The Bodley Head, (1987), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. (vii), (366)pp. The Bodley Head, Illustrated with title pages and frontispieces from various publications by the firm, and with photographs. Founded by John Lane in the nineties, and publishing the notable figures of that time, The Bodley Head..... More
Chicago: [The Newberry Library], 1922, First Edition, Limited to 500 copies multigraphed. octavo, grey wrappers. (viii); 115pp. [The Newberry Library], Pamphlets in the main body of the list are all political, published during the period 1750-1786, and are in bibliographical form. With an Index of Titles. Short tears to yapp..... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll, (1981), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xx, (271)pp. Oak Knoll, Reprint of the 1943 edition. Checklist compiled by Joseph W. Rogers. Illustrated throughout. Spine slightly faded, else fine. More
(Chapel Hill): Algonquin Books, 1984, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. xii, 158pp. Algonquin Books, "An account of the life and works of Mason Locke Weems patriot, pitchman, author and purveyor of morality to the citizenry of the early United States of America." Historians have written off Weems..... More
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. (1941), Offprint from "The Proceedings of the British Academy" volume XXVII. octavo, wrappers. (x)pp. Humphrey Milford, Black and white frontispiece of the item under discussion. More
(London): Geoffrey Cumberlege, (1946), Third Impression. large octavo, printed paper wrappers. 20pp., sewn. Geoffrey Cumberlege, Off-print from The Proceedings of the British Academy. Vol. XXXI. A fine copy. More
London: British Library, 2005, First Edition. small octavo, printed wrappers. 112pp. British Library, Based on the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library in November 2004, this book looks at the impact of women's educational projects on female reading and book collecting in the royal courts of the 18th century. With..... More
St Paul's Bibliographies, 1992, First Edition. octavo, blue boards. xvi, 296 pp. St Paul's Bibliographies, Two corners very lightly bumped, else a very fine, clean copy. More
(London): Review, (2002), First Edition. small octavo, boards in dust jacket. (vi), 312pp. Review, The history, intrique and personalities surrounding Gutenberg's invention and the financing of his efforts are presented in a very readable text. Illustrated. Very fine, clean copy. More
(London): The British Library, (2000), First Edition. octavo, black boards in pictorial dust jacket. 112pp. The British Library, Cuthbert became, upon his death in 687, one of the most important medieval saints and a key figure in the religious and political life of Northumbria. Upon the assassination of Thomas Becket..... More
Jackson: University Press of Mississi, (1988), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. viii, (246)pp. University Press of Mississi, Illustrated with photographs taken by Welty. The collection given to the university by Welty includes her manuscripts, professional correspondence and the many photographs she took of a changing Mississippi in the..... More
(New Castle): Oak Knoll Press, (2004), First Edition. octavo, boards. xvi, 224pp. Oak Knoll Press, One of the Print Network Series. British provincial book history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries covered by eighteen experts in the field: Caroline Archer, Maureen Bell, Iain Beavan, Margaret Cooper, Diana Dixon, John Feather..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2000, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth dust jacket. (xvi), 216pp. Oak Knoll Press, A typographical autobiography of the author as a book and magazine designer who played a central role in British graphic design from the 1940s to the 1980s, who edited and designed..... More
Metuchen, NJ: Privately Printed, 1934, First Separate Edition. Limited to 200 copies. octavo, wrappers. 8pp. Privately Printed, Fine. More
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1933, First Separate Edition. Illustrated. octavo, wrappers. 7pp. Privately Printed, More
Chicago: Chicago Club... 1940, quarto, wrappers. 11pp. Chicago Club..., Being notes prepared for the information of Chicago clergymen inpreparing sermons or lectures relating to the 500th anniversary of Gutenberg's invention. Fine and clean. More
(London): British Museum, 1973, 32pp., followed by 24 black and white plates. Reprint of the 1965 edition. octavo, wrappers. British Museum, Also with 6 color plates. More
London: British Museum, 1969, First Edition. small octavo, wrappers. 32pp. followed by 25 plates. British Museum, Illustrated in black and white and in color. More
New York: Basic Books, (2008), Second printing. octavo, blue boards in dust jacket. (xvi), 528 pp. Basic Books, Illustrated. A very fine copy in a very fine jacket. More
New York: Random House, (1971), First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (332)pp. Random House, "He is perhaps best known for his universally admired Nonesuch Press and for his influence on book design in general. But in this book we get the whole man: childhood and youth in a...... More
BIS Publishers, (2010), First Edition. quarto, wrappers. 191 pp. BIS Publishers, Creative Characters is a collection of in-depth interviews with the most influential typeface designers in the business as well as up-and-coming young guns, who discuss the motives and methods behind type. The list of designers includes Jim Parkinson, Underware..... More