Paris: Librairie Emile Nourry, 1935, First Edition. small quarto, original paper wrappers printed in brown and black. 64; 80; 76pp. Librairie Emile Nourry, Three numbers of this scarce quarterly. Near fine, clean condition. Uncut, unopened. More
Paris: Librairie Emile Nourry, 1936, First Edition. small quarto, original paper wrappers printed in brown and black. 96; 88; 79pp. Librairie Emile Nourry, Three numbers of this scarce quarterly. Near fine, clean condition. Uncut, unopened. More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1866, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 591 pp. Smithsonian Institution, "The present work is a catalogue of that portion of the library of the Smithsonian Institution which embraces the publications of Learned societies and other public bodies, as well as encyclopedias and periodical and serial works in..... More
[London]: Sotheby's, 1824, quarto, later three-quarter calf and marbled boards. viii, [ii], 99, [4] ads; [4]. 53, [3] ads. Sotheby's, Engraved frontispiece, interleaved throughout, with prices realized and buyers for every lot in a neat, contemporary hand. Part 3 consisted of engravings "by the most eminent artists of the Italian..... More
New York: Christie's, 1998, First Edition. quarto, pictorial boards. (268); (481); (415)pp. Christie's, Extensively illustrated in black and white and in color. From the library of Dr. Eugene S. Flamm, neurosurgeon, bibliophile and former president of the Grolier Club. Part I is inscribed to Dr. Flamm from, and signed by..... More
Paris: pour la Société des Bibliophiles, 1867, octavo, printed wrappers. (ii), xliv, 318 pp. pour la Société des Bibliophiles, Preface by L. Douët-d’Arcq contains a description of the library by subject and cites many of the important manuscripts present. 832 manuscripts described. With appendices and a useful index. Includes a...... More
(Northampton, MA: Hampshire Typothetae, 1976), First Edition. 16mo, one sheet of hand-made paper 6 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches, folded once. (4)pp. Hampshire Typothetae, Portrait of Morris laid in. "This portrait of William Morris is printed on a very rare Japanese vellum, Shizuoka. It was engraved for Pennyroyal Press's Men..... More
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2017, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 536 pp. L'Erma di Bretschneider, This work has been conceived by the author as an enlarged version of the original volume Il libro manoscritto: Introduzione alla codicologia, already published in this series (n 124). At a time when the breaking down..... More
The Legacy Press, 2018, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 466 pp. The Legacy Press, Pablo Alvarez offers the first complete English translation of Alonso Víctor de Paredes’ Institucion, y origen del arte de la imprenta, y reglas generales para los componedores [Institution, and Origin of the Art..... More
Spingfield, MA: McLoughlin Brothers, Inc., 1927, quarto, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. (16) pp. McLoughlin Brothers, Inc., Illustrated in black and white and in full color. Gift inscription on front endpaper, wear to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Covers and interior clean. More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2010, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xiv, 389 pp. The Legacy Press, No where in the world did the industrial revolution occur faster and to such a degree than in the United States. The American pulp-and-paper and printing industries not only grew exponentially..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2020, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 340 pp. The Legacy Press, Juliana Castro Varon — Cita: A Feminist Open-Access Digital Library and Print-on-Demand; E. Haven Hawley — Women’s Work in the 19th-Century Economy of Pornography; Karen Holmberg — Case Studies: How a Generation of Women..... More
Houghton Mifflin, 1938, First Edition. octavo jazz musician , tan cloth stamped in brown, in dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin, "...the story of a jazz musician who is a genius in the art of 'swing,' of his meteoric rise to fame, and of the burning conflict between body and spirit." Shelf..... More
Brepols, 2017, First Edition. octavo, pictorial boards. 545 pp. Brepols, The textuality and materiality of documents are an essential part of their communicative role. Medieval writing, as part of the interpersonal communication process, had to follow rules to ensure the legibility and understanding of a text and its connotations. This..... More
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2019, Second Edition. large octavo, pictorial wrappers. 352 pp. The Legacy Press, In this important and long-awaited book, Timothy Barrett, internationally known authority in hand papermaking and Director of the University of Iowa Center for the Book, offers the first comprehensive “how-to” book about..... More
(Washington, DC): Microcard Editions, (1971), First Edition Limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Bruccoli. octavo, light and dark green cloth. (xviii), 122pp. Microcard Editions, Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles (one folding). An as new copy. More
London: John Hatchard and Son, 1837, First Edition. small octavo, self-wrappers, stitched. 20 pp. John Hatchard and Son, Attributed to John Bruce in NUC-pre 1956 imprints. The third, and final, John Bruce statement regarding the Committee report. Front wrapper detached with a few small chips at edges, but present... More
(London): Harvey Miller Publishers, (1996), First Edition. folio, boards in dust jacket. Harvey Miller Publishers, Two volumes. Volume One: Text & Illustrations, 48, (194)pp. of illustrations in black and white and in color; Volume Two: Catalogue, (220) pp. This is the first publication to appear in the "Survey of Manuscripts..... More
Cambridge, England: The Rampant Lions Press, 1993, First Edition, Limited to 200 numbered copies. folio, marbled boards and blue cloth in slipcase. The Rampant Lions Press, Sample spreads of experimental settings from eleven books: National Proverbs of Arabia; The Four Gospels; the letters of Pliny the Younger and the Emperor..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin LTD, (1925), First (English) Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. T. Fisher Unwin LTD, Issued simultaneous with the American Edition. Keating 193; Smith 27. Light chipping to top and bottom of jacket spine with over all light dust soiling. Offsetting to front endpapers. More
St. Louis, MO: The Anvil, March-April, 1935, First Edition. quarto, original printed heavy paper wrappers. (34)pp., stapled. The Anvil, No. 10. March-April, 1935. With contributions by Erskine Caldwell, Jack Conroy, Saul Levitt, and others. Wood cuts by Dan Rico. Vertical fold through center, Light wear and dust soiling to extremities..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1895, First Edition. octavo, three-quarter cream cloth lettered in gilt and silver with silver stamped butterflies, light green silk deocrated with lavendar irises. (59) pp. Frederick A. Stokes Company, Illustrated in black and white in whimsical fashion of combined photographs of young girls embellished..... More
(The Golden Eagle Press), [1949], First Edition. small octavo, rose boards stamped in yellow, in dust jacket. (The Golden Eagle Press), Vairant binding both printed in rose and bound in rose boards. Firmage A22. Illustrated with drawings by Klee, Modigliani and Picasso (also printed in rose). Two small chips to..... More
Ann Arbor: Legacy Press, 2019, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 294 pp. Legacy Press, Little critical attention has been given to the history of the library and archives conservation field and specialization. Mooring a Field addresses this historical silence, narrating the period from the 1950s through the..... More
Harvey Miller, 2017, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 264 pp. Harvey Miller, This fascinating book offers a most engaging and fresh glimpse into the world of the Middle Ages. It accompanies an exhibit of some thirty diverse illuminated manuscript pages, and in a series of short descriptive essays..... More