London: Phaidon Press, (1951), First Edition. quarto, orange cloth with original clear acetate jacket, in original slipcase. 54 pp text, 64 pp plates, 2 pp. Phaidon Press, Philip S. Hench shared the Nobel Prize in 1950 in Medicine or Physiology. In this volume he has inscribed on the front endpaper..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1991), First Edition. octavo, grey boards in dust jacket. x, 293 pp. Cambridge University Press, Samuel Johnson has become known to posterity in two capacities: through his own works as the great literary essayist of the eighteenth century, and through Boswell's Life, as a man--notoriously a...... More
New York: Biblio & Tannen, 1969, Reprint. octavo, red boards in dust jacket. (x), 146 pp. Biblio & Tannen, An important reference. A fine, clean copy. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955, First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth in dust jacket. xiii, (310) pp. Cambridge University Press, Thomas Gray was a noted letter writer and poet. His most important correspondence was with Horace Walpole, Thomas Wharton, and William Mason. A very fine, clean copy in a price clipped..... More
Cleveland: World, (1951), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 419pp. World, A classic collection of essays on typography featuring the major typographers and bibliographers of this century on their specialties: Wroth on American types, McKerrow on early English long "s", Will Ransom on the Private Press, and Bennett..... More
[New York]: Elam Bliss, 1829, First Edition. octavo, original black cloth with a decorative border on front and back covers stamped in blind. 300 pp. Elam Bliss, Fifteen lectures comprising an early text of literary criticism of American literature of the 18th and 19th century. Brief marginal notations in pencil..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, no date [1962], First Edition, Uncorrected Proof. octavo, printed wrappers. (x), 244 pp. Hamish Hamilton, With publisher's Uncorrected Proof paper label on front wrapper with typed inditation of title, author, probable price and probable publication date. Autobiography of the novelist which covers the years spent in Malta..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xxii), 725pp. Clarendon Press, The Soho Bibliographies XX. This comprehensive bibliography covers books and pamphlets, and contributions to books, pamphlets, periodicals, and newspapers; translations into foreign languages; and in the Appendix such items as quoted letters and speeches, and..... More
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1970, Reprint. octavo, black cloth in dust jacket. (xvi); 247pp. Dawsons of Pall Mall, In four parts. Part 1. Editiones Principes; Part II. Contributions to Periodical Literature, etc.; Part III. Collected Editions; and Part IV. Browningiana: Complete Volumes of Biography and Criticism. Illustrated with facsimiles..... More
New York: Scribner's Sons, 1946, First Edition. octavo, brown cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 347pp. Scribner's Sons, Designed by T. M. Cleland. The history of Charles Scribner's Sons beginning in 1846. Complimentary bookplate from Scribner's signed by Whitney Darrow, executive vice president of Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers. His son, Whitney..... More
(Amsterdam): Pepin Press, (2002), Later printing. quarto, wrappers. (200)pp. Pepin Press, Text in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. The original papers illustrated in this book are collected and owned by Jacques Koops and Johannes Marcus. A short description of technique is given at the beginning of every chapter, as..... More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth. 312 pp. University of North Carolina Press, Hirsch reviews the founding of the FWP and the significance of its American Guide series, considering the choices made by administrators who wanted to celebrate diversity as a positive..... More
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1970, First Edition. octavo, brown and black cloth in dust jacket. xviii, 244, xv pp. Alfred A Knopf, A systematic attempt to make plain the evolution, impact and importance of the printed work, it is not a history of printing but rather an effort "to..... More
Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1909, First printing of this edition. large octavo, brown cloth with printed spine labels. xiv, 414; 381 pp. American Antiquarian Society, Thomas continued running his printing business until 1802, when he passed it on to his son, Isaiah Thomas, Jr. In his retirement, Isaiah Sr..... More
New York: Scribner's, 1923, First Edition. octavo, boards and cloth in dust jacket. 356pp. Scribner's, 3 1/2pp. foreword by T. J. Wise. Includes chapters on Arnold's Tennyson and Stevenson collections. With a chapter on "Letters of Notable Women." Illustrated. From the library and with the bookplate of children's books author..... More
New York: Duprat & Co., 1892, First Edition. octavo, orange silk boards. 119pp. Duprat & Co., Of the 1,000 copies printed, this is one of 800 numbered copies printed on Holland paper. Preface by Octave Uzanne. Printed at The De Vinne Press. With a frontispiece and twelve photogravure plates reproducing..... More
New York: Eaton, Crane & Pike, (1925), First Edition. duodecimo, cream boards, embossed. 75 pp. Eaton, Crane & Pike, Foreword by Ethel Watts Mumford. Handsomely printed in black and red. Front and back boards embossed with image of a scribe at his desk. 1/4" chip at top of spine, outer..... More
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1970, First Edition. octavo, brown cloth and black cloth in dust jacket. xviii, 244, xv pp. Alfred A Knopf, A systematic attempt to make plain the evolution, impact and importance of the printed work, it is not a history of printing but rather an effort..... More
Freeport, ME: TBW Books, 1978, First Edition. quarto, brown cloth without dust jacket as issued. (xvi), (142) pp. TBW Books, Extensively illustrated. With an introduction by James M. Wells of the Newberry Library. Containing both critical essays on Da Boll and his work and appreciations of the man and his..... More
New York: George J. Coombes, 1887, First Edition. duodecimo, printed parchment wrappers. (xiv), 15-174pp. George J. Coombes, An anthology of poetry on books, libraries, and even booksellers written by Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Andrew Lang, R. L. Stevenson, Edmund Gosse, and others. Vignettes..... More
Los Angeles: Columbian 415 Chappel, (1978), First Edition, Limited to 250 copies. duodecimo, cloth stamped in red and gilt. 33 pp. Columbian 415 Chappel, The story of Haywood Hunt, printer of San Francisco in the 1940's and later. Very fine. More
Mainz: Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 1995, large quarto, grey cloth stamped in blind and red lettering, in dust jacket. Verlag Hermann Schmidt, With a contribution by Larry Brady, "Calligraphy in Design, USA" and by Hermann Zapf, "Calligraphy in a World of Electronics". Text in English and German. Extensively illustrated. Dust jacket..... More
New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1887, First American Edition. small octavo, green cloth over bevelled boards. (viii), (248)pp. A.C. Armstrong and Son, Part of The Book-Lover's Library series edited by Henry B. Wheatley. After a first chapter on traditional methods such as engraving and lithography, Wood concentrates on describng..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1941, First printing of this edition. duodecimo, boards in original glassine. (85)pp. Columbia University Press, Growing from Fifty Books About Bookmaking in the first edition of 1934, this publication was initially designed as a guide to an exhibition held at Columbia, Lehmann-Haupt also wanted to..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1940, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth. 120 pp. University of California Press, Libraries of the Ancient East; Libraries of Ancient Greece; Libraries of Ancient Rome; Various Technical Matters. With three illustrations. Small paper shelf label at bottom of spine. Two bookplates, one covering the other..... More