Sioux City Public Library. [Poster].
Poster created for the Sioux City Public Library, Sioux City, Iowa, 1990. 6-color silkscreen. 34" x 16". Limited to 240 numbered and signed copies. Portrait of Rob Day (his last silkscreen). New. More
Poster created for the Sioux City Public Library, Sioux City, Iowa, 1990. 6-color silkscreen. 34" x 16". Limited to 240 numbered and signed copies. Portrait of Rob Day (his last silkscreen). New. More
Poster created for the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1986. 11-color, silkscreened by Rob Day. Image 24" x 14.5", sheet 29 x 19.5". Limited to 400 numbered copies signed by Lance Hidy. Note: A small number of posters printed printed in 1986 or earlier may have minor..... More
New York & Beijing: Queens Borough Public Library & National Library of china, (2000), First Edition. quarto, printed wrappers. (xiv), 337 pp. Queens Borough Public Library & National Library of china, Calligraphy is among the most revered of the Chinese visual arts. The history of the development of the book-from..... More
Suffolk, Eng: D. S. Brewer, (1981), First Edition. quarto, black cloth. xxvi, 275pp. D. S. Brewer, Modern Manuscripts covers all post-medieval MSS in the Library, describing the contents of nearly 250 volumes, ranging from the great naval collections to the individual letters and notes. It includes some of the best..... More
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, (1978), First Edition, Limited to 400 numbered copies printed at The Stinehour Press. octavo, boards & cloth. ix, 65pp. The Rowfant Club, Aside from being a fascinating catalogue of some of the major Rowfant holdings, this book is in effect a history of the Club itself..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1893, First Edition. octavo, buckram. (xvi), 188pp. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, Part of the Books About Books Series edited by Alfred W. Pollard. Illustrated with eight black and white plates, each extensively annotated in special Notes. Madan instructs the reader in looking at a manuscript..... More
Suffolk, Eng: D. S. Brewer, (1992), First Edition. large octavo, cloth. 136 pp. D. S. Brewer, No fewer than twenty-three of Pepys's thirty-eight medieval manuscripts contain Middle English texts, and date from the 14th and 15th centuries. Devotional tracts and religious poetry predominate, though there is also a corpus of..... More
New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1937, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. xii, 364 pp. H. W. Wilson Company, Ex-library with usual markings and pocket at back. More
Copenhagen: G.E.C. Gads Forlag, 1973, Facsimile edition. octavo, heavy paper wrappers in printed paper dust jacket. (xxviii), (256)pp. G.E.C. Gads Forlag, With one folding plate. Text in Danish. Study of public libraries and library science. Very tiny chip from wrapper at top of spine, otherwise a fine copy. More
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, (1995), First Edition. quarto, brown boards. xxxviii, 251 pp. D. S. Brewer, The library of Trinity College, Cambridge, contains the largest collection of medieval manuscripts of any college in Great Britain, and one of the most important in the world. A number of known Middle English..... More
Paris: Ernest Thorin, 1887, First Edition. large octavo, original printed paper wrappers. viii, 380pp. Ernest Thorin, Name inside front wrapper. Front and back wrappers in near fine condition. Spine wrapper worn and with a 3" chip missing at the bottom. Wrappers and preliminary pages printed on acidic paper and therefore..... More
Columbia, MO: International Library Center, 1969, First Printed Edition. thick quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers. (xiv), 371printed pp. International Library Center, A doctoral dissertation for Columbia University (mimeographed). With two maps and one plan. Bibliography. Index. Printed prospectus and autograph letter, signed from the author laid. Name inside front wrapper..... More
(Cambridge): Cambridge University Library, 1975, First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (iv), (28)pp. Cambridge University Library, Ilustrated with photographs and drawings. A very fine copy. More
Harvey Miller, 2021, First Edition. quarto, pictorial boards. 524 pp. Harvey Miller, The results achieved by the research of the pioneering MINIARE research project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge led to the ground-breaking and acclaimed 2016 exhibition "COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts." This was followed..... More
New York: Putnam's, (1939), First Edition. octavo, red cloth. (xvi), 315 pp. Putnam's, Primary binding of red cloth. "...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..... More
New York: Putnam's, (1939), First Edition. octavo, orange cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 315pp. Putnam's, Secondary binding of orange cloth instead of red. "...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..... 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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1936), First Edition, Limited to 760 numbered and signed copoies, this being number 300. octavo, black cloth with red leather labels on front cover and spine pver bevelled boards. 259 pp. Houghton Mifflin, Illustrated. Rosenbach's autobiography chronicles the golden age of American bookselling when big-city dealers helped..... More
(Pinner): Private Libraries Associatio, 2002, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (314)pp. Private Libraries Associatio, Bookselling, bookbuying, book collectors, librarians, auctions, runners, virtually all aspects of the trade. Interesting and humorous, and definitely leaving one pining for pre-computer bookselling. Illustrated. Very fine. 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
Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Cosity, 1897, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. (xiv), 85 pp. Cambridge Antiquarian Cosity, Cambridge Antiquarian Society Octavo Publications No. XXIX. Small chip at bottom of front wrapper which has minor soiling and a few wrinkles. Text clean and unmarked. More
London: British Library, 2004, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xxxvii, 266pp. British Library, Benjamin Disraeli was of the opinion that he was born in a library. The library was reputed to have held about 25,000 tomes, and belonged to his father, Isaac D'Israeli, a prolific and popular author..... More
Palgrave Macmillan, (2011), First Edition. octavo, pictorial boards. (x), 220 pp. Palgrave Macmillan, This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on..... More
Kyoto: Kyoto University, 1970, First Edition. quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers. (xii), (332)pp. Kyoto University, Karl Wilhelm Bücher was an economist, one of the founders of non-market economics, and the founder of journalism as an academic discipline. Lower right corner of text block bumped, otherwise a near fine, clean copy..... More
(New Castle, DE): Oak Knoll Press, 2006, First Edition in English Limited to 900 copies of which this is one of 200 numbered in full leather signed by Staikos and Fleck. tall octavo, full brown calf with printed label on front cover. (xii), 49pp. Oak Knoll Press, Introduction by Robert..... More