Boston: Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, 1995, octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled. (20) pp. Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, Exhibition brochure listing the ABAA members who were in attendance, their specialties and a layout of the booths. The front wrapper includes a 4 3/4" x 3 3/4" full color Edward Gorey..... More
Berkeley: Univ of California Press, (1977), Reprint of the 1940 edition. octavo, light tan cloth. xviii, (172)pp. Univ of California Press, From Goudy's Preface, "Typologia presents more or less graphically my work in type design and describes my own methods of type production..." Illustrated. Very slight spotting to spine, otherwise..... More
New York: The Typophiles, 1982, First Edition, Limited to 1,000 copies (500 for The Typophiles; 500 for The Book Club of California). small octavo, gold embossed parchment boards in the original glassine. 80pp. The Typophiles, Typophiles Chapbook 56. Printed by Henry Morris of The Bird & Bull Press and designed..... More
(London): Bloomsbury, (1991), First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. xxviii, 302pp. Bloomsbury, A correspondence of considerable literary value, these fascinating letters, published for the first time, cast new light on the Fabian and Bloomsbury Milieux. Illustrated. More
Hanover, NH: Univ Press of New England, (1983), Reprint. large quarto, cloth. (xxvi), (584)p. Univ Press of New England, Reprint of the first edition. Volume One of the series entitled Bibliographies of New England History. Preface by John Borden Armstrong. 13 ,520 entries. More
Kat Ran Press, 2007, First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 60 pp. Kat Ran Press, A detailed discription of the artist's process, not only of the Mentoring Stamp but also of his poster and graphic artworks. Illustrated in color. Signed by Lance Hidy on the half title. Very fine. More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1997), First Edition. large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 240pp. Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The miniatures and cuttings from medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Robert Lehman Collection represent the major schools of illumination that flourished in Europe from the foureenth to the..... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2006, First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 224 pp. Oak Knoll Press, Volume 8 in the Print Networks series. Presented at the 2004 Conference on the History of the British Book Trade, these papers focus on the infinite variety of people and places in..... More
New York: The Harbor Press, 1928, First Edition, Limited to 350 numbered copies. small octavo, marbled boards and vellum spine. [66]pp. The Harbor Press, Illustrations by Walter Dorwin Teague. Spine discolored, color at edges of boards scuffed. More
Winchester: St. Paul's, 1999, First Edition. octavo, boards. 228pp. St. Paul's, Contains thirteen essays: "Henry Cotton and W H Allnutt: two Pioneer Book- Trade Historians" by Paul Morgan; "William Smellie and the Printer's Role in the Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh Book Trade" by Stephen W. Brown; " William Buchan's 'Domestic Medicine': Laying..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1998), First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth in dust jacket. (xl), 326pp. Yale University Press, An autobiography of Jolas, an American press officer who after the war became involved in the denazification of German intellectual life. This memoir reveals the multicultural concerns of Jolas and lluminates..... More
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xii, (324)pp. American Antiquarian Society, One of the most useful texts in the history of the book, the essays focus on literacy, the book trade between England and America, in Boston and Colonial Virginia, early American music printing..... More
London: Bibliographical Society, 2004, First Edition. large octavo, blue cloth. 490pp. Bibliographical Society, From the Foreword: "Many of the books, as one would expect, are theological, but other subjects can be found. At Hatfield Broad Oak, for example, there are books on history, biography, medicine, philosophy and travel, and multilingual..... More
(London): British Library, 2003, First Edition. quarto, cloth. 304pp. British Library, With 210 color and black and white illustrations. A catalogue of over 750 books described in detail. The main focus of the compiler is the cover designs which are signed the artist: Owen Jones, Walter Crane, John Leighton and..... More
Toronto: Univ of Toronto Press, (1998), First Edition. octavo, cloth. (xxviii), 322p. Univ of Toronto Press, Women as serial killers and their treatment by the popular press. Illustrated. Very fine. More
(London): Portman Books, (1989), Reprint. octavo, boards in dust jacket. x, 262pp. Portman Books, A comprehensive account of all the significant works which have appeared in English during these 300 years. 4 color illustrations, 56 black and white. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket which is not price..... More
New York: NYPL, 1965, Second Printing. quarto, wrappers. (24)pp. NYPL, Twenty-first of the R. R. Bowker Memorial Lectures. An interesting memoir by this influential publisher. Very fine. More
New York: Hudson Hills Press, (2002), First Edition. large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (206)pp. Hudson Hills Press, This comprehensive book brings together nearly two hundred illustrations from Ore, The Inland Printer, The Chap-Book, Collier's Weekly, and other periodicals, books advertisements, and ephemera. Adding to the volume's reference value are..... More
Philadelphia: MacManus, 1979, First Edition. octavo, green cloth. xii, 179pp. MacManus, Limited to 500 copies. Fully illustrated. A fine bibliography of this important American publisher. With title page design by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. Very minor foxing to top edge, else a fine copy. More
Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2004, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. x, (335) pp. The Scarecrow Press, Fifteen essays on the history and development of scientific journals. This is NOT a print on demand book. Very fine. More
London: The British Library, 2005, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 448pp. The British Library, The author has taken two former bibliographies on Morris, by Forman and Scott, both published in 1897 and completely revised and expanded them. Much additional information has been added such as textual history, collations..... More
New York: Holmes & Meier, (1978), First American Edition. small octavo, wrappers. xii, 228pp. Holmes & Meier, Illustrated. In five separate essays, English professors from the University of Sussex take on Victorian society and finally trying "to show something of the complexity of relating a work of literature to its..... More
Edingburgh: Edinburgh Univ Press, (1971), First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xiv), 245pp. Edinburgh Univ Press, The catalogue of a private library collected in the first quarter of the 17 th century which not only gives a picture of Drummond as a man of cultivation but also an insight..... More
London: Constable & Company, 1926, First Edition. quarto, blue cloth. xii,311 pp. Constable & Company, Extensively illustrated. Ex-Library with bookplate and discreet stamping throughout. Foxing. Cloth soiled with shelf number at bottom of spine. More
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