Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2021, Second Printing, wrappers issue. octavo, printed wrappers. 208 pp. Legacy Press, With a history of well over 1,500 years, Korean handmade paper, known as hanji, is familiar to Koreans but a mystery outside its home country. This lustrous paper that comes in a wide array..... More
Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1887, First Edition. large octavo, maroon cloth. T.e.g. 379 pp. John Wilson and Son, Signed by Walter B. Briggs, June, 1893 at the top of the title page. Briggs was Harvard College Librarian who started his association with the Widener Library in 1896. Illustrated with..... More
New York: Mini-Print Corp. no date [1967], Reprint of the editions originally published between 1868 - 1939. oblong quarto, cloth. ca. 1600pp. Mini-Print Corp., The most important of all Americana bibliographies, comprising well over 100,000 entries of books and pamphlets printed in the Western Hemisphere and works about it printed..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952, 1965, 1970, First Edition, American issue. octavo, maroon cloth in dust jackets. (xl, (337); (xviii), (320), (xiv), 253 pp. Cambridge University Press, Since its publication in 1952, this three-volume history of the book trade in Britain, which encompasses Caxton to the eve of the Civil..... More
New York: Random House, (1987), First Random House edition. quarto, red cloth in dust jacket. (96) pp. Random House, This is the first major retrospective exhibition of the work of Dr. Seuss. Organized by the San Diego Museum of Art, the exhibition covers the sixty-year career of Theodor (Dr. Seuss)..... More
Cambridge: Adam Mills Rare Books, 2020, First Edition. folio, blue boards lettered in white, Aldine device in gold. vi, 256 pp. Adam Mills Rare Books, Comprises a short Introduction to Aldine collectors & collections; and 167 discursive entries detailing the Aldine Collection bequeathed by Lionel Oliver Bigg to Harrow School..... More
Cambridge: Adam Mills Rare Books, 2020, First Edition. folio, blue boards lettered in white, Aldine device in gold. xvi, 188 pp. Adam Mills Rare Books, An extensive handbook that, uniquely, covers the complete 90-year history of the Aldine Press and its activities, bringing together material otherwise scattered in many different..... 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
Houston: Book Hunters Club of Houston, 2021, First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 232 pp. Book Hunters Club of Houston, "My essays and escapades span over thirty years of rare book hunting--an exciting journey that is ongoing. Many of my friends are rare book people, and much of my free time..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903, Limited to 425 numbered copies. duodecimo, rose boards with printed paper spine label. xxxvi, 137, [3] pp. Houghton Mifflin, Translated into English verse by Curtis Hidden Page. Designed by Bruce Rogers. The Work of Bruce Rogers, 101. A solid copy of a book most often found..... More
Richmond, VA: W. J. Barrow Research Laboratory, 1963, First Editions. octavo, printed wrappers. 46; 79; 62; 66; 116; 28; 48 pp. + microfiche. W. J. Barrow Research Laboratory, Part VI contains a Spot Test Color Chart. Part I: A Two-Year Research Program; Test Data of Naturally Aged Papers; Spray Deacidification;..... More
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ITC, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, tall octavo, printed wrappers, stapled. (36), (36), (28), (28) pp. ITC, Very fine. More
Frankfurt am Main: Buchergilde Gutenberg, (1957), small octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. Buchergilde Gutenberg, Dust jacket design and lettering by Hermann Zapf. Name and address on front endpaper. Dust jacket with shelf wear and reinforced with tape but without chips. More
Newport, R. I. John Stevens, 1940, First Edition. large octavo, brown cloth. 125 pp. John Stevens, Divided into three sections: Theoretical, Practical and Historical. Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated. Small name and address on front pastedown, pencil notations on back endpaper. No wear but a...... More
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American Type Founders Company, 1931, 9" x 12" (4), (4), (6) pp. American Type Founders Company, Lucian Bernhard’s classic Bernhard Gothic was released by ATF in 1929 and 1930. The Gothic Heavy has two holes punched along the top edge, with folds from mailing; the Gothic Medium has lost a...... More
Typefoundry Asterdam, (1956), quarto, printed wrappers, stapled. (20) pp. Typefoundry Asterdam, The last page consists of an In Memoriam of the font designer, Walter H. McKay, who died a few days after the introduction of Columbia. The back pocket holds eight samples using Columbia typeface. Very fine. More
(London): William Clowes & Sons, no date, circa 1970, small quarto, printed wrappers, stapled. 16 pp. William Clowes & Sons, "An Addition to the Range of the Type Faces Used by William Clowes & Sons Ltd, London and Beccles." With alphabets and examples of pages set in Ehrhardt. Top of..... More
Hollywood, CA: W. M. Hawley, (1944), 27" x 35" folded chart in original printed sleeve. W. M. Hawley, Very fine. More
London: Printing News Limited, Winter, 1958-1959, Vol. I, No. 4. quarto, printed heavy stock wrappers. 72 pp. Printing News Limited, Includes "My Life with Paper" by Dard Hunter and a lengthy In Memoriam for Jan van Krimpen. Light bump to top and bottom of spine, else a fine, clean copy..... More
Austin: Jenkins & Foster, 1987, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 1,133pp. Jenkins & Foster, The first definitive bibliography of Confederate imprints. Completely revising, correcting, and extending by 40% the Crandall-Harwell checklists, this work records 9,500 books, pamphlets, broadsides, maps, pictorial prints, and sheet music produced throughout the South..... More
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1988, 1988, 1988,1994, First Edition. octavo, red cloth. (x), 524; viii, (525) - 1099; (x), 1101-1698; (xiv), 610 pp. The Arthur H. Clark Company, This set includes the Supplement, Volume 4. From the Introduction, "Candidates for inclusion in the Compendium therefore include people..... More
approx 1974 - 1988, A few of the quarto size pamphlets have a mildly bumped corner, else all fine and clean. More
On his Morgan Hall, Gloucestershire, letterhead. "We should be very pleased to see you on Saturday - I don't know which way you propose coming - 'On the way to Kelmscott'...Edwin A. Abbey." Horizontal fold. Quarter-size remnant on blank verso from mounting in album. More
4" x 10" Wood engraving by Leonard Baskin of a thistle establishing the logo of David Bourbeau's Thistle Bindery. This announcement of the opening of the bindery is printed letterpress in black and red. Two tiny pin-holes at top, else very fine. More
Odense University Press, 1972, First English language edition. duodecimo, printed wrappers. (70) pp. Odense University Press, Inscribed and signed by the translator, Robert W. Matilla. A few very faint, small water spots on front wrapper, else fine. Illustrated. More