Deal: Michael Hosking, June, 1983, Michael Hosking's rare book catalogue No. 22, The Golden Hind Bookshop. octavo, wrappers. (180)pp. Michael Hosking, With an introduction by Nicolas Barker. 3,407 items listed from the library of David Garnett, son of Edward Garnett, who was a publisher's reader and an author, and of... More about David Garnett C.B.E. A Writer's Library
Santa Barbara, CA: Joseph the Provider, Books, 1992, quarto, pictorial wrappers. (viii), 80 pp. Joseph the Provider, Books, Joseph the Provider rare book catalogue offering 609 Ernest Hemingway related items from the Goin collection. Illustrated. Very fine, without flaw. More about The Marcia and John Goin Ernest Hemingway Collection
(Luneburg, VT: Meredin-Stinehour Press, 1988), First Printing. large octavo, printed self wrappers. 8pp., stapled. Meredin-Stinehour Press, This is the prospectus for the publication of the bibliography. With specimen pages in color. Sent out by Bev Chaney, Jr. Books, this contains an order form for the book. New. More about The Stinehour Press. A Bibliographical Checklist of the First Thirty Years 1950 through 1979....
New York: NYPL, 1953, First Edition. quarto, printed wrappers. 78pp. NYPL, A useful work listing manuscripts and letters by and about Whitman. Wrappers faded with a few small marks to front cover. More about Walt Whitman. The Oscar Lion Collection
Pittsburgh: University Press, 1974, First Edition. octavo, cloth. (xiv), 410pp. University Press, Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. A detailed, illustrated bibliography covering Books and Separate Publications; Contributions to Books; Contributions to Periodicals; Miscellany; Translations; Musical Settings; Recordings; Dedicatory Poems and Poems Referring to Stevens; Books about Stevens; Books... More about Eugene O'Neill: A Descriptive Bibliography
(London): Duckworth, 1928, First Edition. small 8vo, boards. (xii), 24pp. Duckworth, Being a Handlist of Works by Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell and of their contributions to certain periodicals. Illustrated with three portraits of the authors by Albert Rutherston. Printed at The Curwen Press. Covers dust soiled and slightly bowed... More about Sitwelliana 1915 * 1927
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth. (xvi), (260)pp. University of Pittsburgh Press, Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. More about Ross Macdonald/Kenneth Millar: A Descriptive Bibliography
Toronto: University of Toront Press, (1975), First Canadian Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. xiv, 129pp. University of Toront Press, A collated bibliography of Gissing's primary works. Jacket lightly wrinkled. More about George Gissing. A Bibliography
Toronto: York University Law Library, (1975), First Edition. quarto, orange cloth. 55 pp. York University Law Library, Reproduced typescript. Fine. More about A Bibliography of Legal Materials for Non-Law Libraries
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1999, First Edition. quarto, cloth. xlii, 312pp. Oak Knoll Press, Illustrated. Two lower corners lightly bumped, else fine and clean. More about A Bibliography of Richard Hurd
London: Bloomsbury, (1988), Second edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 104pp. Bloomsbury, The text represents a comprehensive selection of Caldecott's work, followed by a checklist of his published illustrations and his paintings in oit. With over 100 illustrations, 9 in color. Very fine in a very fine jacket which is not price clipped. More about Randolph Caldecott 'Lord of the Nursery'
Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1988, First Edition. octavo, brown cloth. xviii, (278)pp. The Scarecrow Press, With essays on Summers by Father Brocard Sewell, Robert D. Hume, and Devendra P. Varma. The selections from the writings of Summers cover The Restoration Theatre, Demonology and Witchcraft, and The Gothic Novel. Part Three... More about Montague Summers: A Bibliographical Portrait
Winchester: St. Paul's, 1999, octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xvi), 268pp. St. Paul's, The definitive work on the nature of textual bibliography and criticism which has established itself as an essential tool for students of bibliography and for anyone else concerned witht he editing of serious literature. It is based... More about From Writer to Reader. Studies in Editorial Method
Winchester: St. Paul's, 1999, octavo, printed wrappers. (xvi), 268pp. St. Paul's, The definitive work on the nature of textual bibliography and criticism which has established itself as an essential tool for students of bibliography and for anyone else concerned witht he editing of serious literature. It is based ont he... More about From Writer to Reader. Studies in Editorial Method
London: Cranbrook Tower Press, (1960), First Edition. Limited to 999 numbered and signed copies, this copy out-of-series and not numbered but it is signed by Handley-Taylor. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 96pp. Cranbrook Tower Press, With notes on major collections of Masefieldiana, and a chronological checklist with some bibliographical notes... More about John Masefield. A Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute
Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1993, First Edition. octavo, blue boards. xii, 259 pp. St Paul's Bibliographies, A collated bibliography of Davies' publications. Illustrated. Very fine. More about W. H. Davies. A Bibliography
Austin: HRC, University of Texas, (1971), First Edition. oblong octavo, wrappers. 120pp. HRC, University of Texas, Catalogue of this important exhibition. With an introduction by Connolly. Illustrated. Edges of wrappers very slightly scuffed, else fine and clean. More about Cyril Connolly's One Hundred Modern Books. From England, France and America 1880-1950. An...
College Station, TX: Texas A&M Univ Press, (1983), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xx), 174pp. Texas A&M Univ Press, Illustrated. The Oldest public Library in Texas in continuous operation, the Rosenberg Library succeeded the Galveston Mercantile Library founded in 1871, and is now a primary source for manuscripts..... More about Manuscript Sources in the Rosenberg Library. A Selective Guide
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 about David Meltzer: A Sketch from Memory and Descriptive Checklist
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1974), First Canadian Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 226pp. University of Toronto Press, A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket. More about A Bibliography of John Middleton Murry 1889-1957
London: The Eighteen Nineties Society, 1976, First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (x), 78pp. The Eighteen Nineties Society, A biographical and critical study of Hobbes, pseudonym of Pearl Mary Teresa Richards Craigie (1867-1906). Her first novel "Some Emotions and a Moral" (1891) established her in the literary... More about John Oliver Hobbes. Her Life and Work
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 about The Welty Collection. A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992, First Edition. octavo, cloth. xviii, (359)pp. University of Pittsburgh Press, Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. A detailed, illustrated bibliography covering Separate Publications; First Appearances in Books and Pamphlets; First Appearances in Magazines and Newspapers; Keepsakes; Misattributions and Dubious Attributions. Appendix A contains... More about Frank Norris. A Descriptive Bibliography
Totowa: Rowmand and Littlefield, (1975), First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xiv, 214pp. Rowmand and Littlefield, With 2,500 items listed. More about J. M. Synge. A Bibliography of Criticism
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 about Elkin Mathews. Publisher to Yeats, Joyce, Pound