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
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
(New York): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1971), First Edition. quarto, green cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. In price clipped dust jacket. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Why were prints made? Who bought them? How did print publishers attract new publics? This book will answer those..... More
(Princeton): Princeton University Press, (1987), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xviii), 439pp. Princeton University Press, Illustrated. A technological and social history. Very fine. More
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1988, First Edition. quarto, black cloth. 512pp. Library of Congress, "The job is such a rare and special one in the library world and the federal bureaucracy, as well as within the world of poetry, that it is a job of opportunity, a catbird seat,"..... More
Chicago: Chicago Club... 1940, quarto, wrappers. 11pp. Chicago Club..., Being notes prepared for the information of Chicago clergymen inpreparing sermons or lectures relating to the 500th anniversary of Gutenberg's invention. Fine and clean. More
New York: Hudson Hills Press, (2003), First Edition. large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (224)pp. Hudson Hills Press, The Toledo Museum of Art has one of the world's finest and most comprehensive collections devoted to modern illustrated books. Thanks to 40 years of collecting by Molly and Walter Bareiss, this..... More
Totowa: Rowmand and Littlefield, (1975), First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xiv, 214pp. Rowmand and Littlefield, With 2,500 items listed. More
Edinburgh: University Press, (1987), First Edition. small octavo, cloth in dust jacket. x, 154pp. University Press, "The 1829/33 version of the Waverley Novels made publishing history. Here, for the first time, Professor Jane Millgate gives a full account of the genesis, preparation, publication and subsequent influence of what Scott called..... More
London: Batsford, (1985), Third Impression. octavo, (256)pp. Batsford, In the "Preface to the Third Impression" Muir discusses the changes in children's books collecting that have occurred since the first impression of 1954. Muir has written an account which is both scholarly and entertaining of the works published for children during..... More
Los Angeles: Univ Research Library, UCLA, 1992, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. (xxii), 273pp. Univ Research Library, UCLA, followed by (x) of plates. A scholarly attempt to date and order Aldine Press publications through a study of internal evidence, and when this fails, to fall back to Renouard because "we are..... More