Boston: P. K. Foley, October, 1899, small octavo, Printed wrappers, stapled. 36 pp. P. K. Foley, Foley's bibliography, American Authors: 1795-1895, is advertised on the back cover. 26 items from The Roycrot Press, a lengthy section on drama and the theater, American and English authors in original bindings and books..... More
New York: Sotheby's, 11.9-10.89, large quarto, cloth. (444)pp, 308 items listed. Sotheby's, This magnificent sale has a 4pp. Foreword by Nicolas Barker followed by a 10pp. Preface by the book collector (as he liked to be addressed), Haven O' More. A fantastic [auto]biographical statement, written in the third person, ends..... More
New York: American Art Association, February 10, 1903, Limited to 500 numbered copies. octavo, boards covered in printed wrapper with original glassine. American Art Association, 105 lots including Millet, Courbet, Rousseau, Corot, Daubigny, J. M. W. Turner, Delacroix, Pierre Auguste Cott, and more. Illustrated with 52 full page photogravures. This..... More
New York: Sotheby's, Dec 12, 1991, quarto, boards. (x), (90)pp, illustrated with 64pp. of color plates. 45 items listed. Sotheby's, The Schoyen Collection began in 1955 with the acquisition of a printed book containing a manuscript fragment. Continuing to collect both incunables and manuscripts, the manuscripts soon outpaced the collecting..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Bradford Morrow, Bookseller Ltd., (1980), First Edition, Limited to 250 hardbound copies. octavo, grey cloth in dust jacket. (157) pp. Bradford Morrow, Bookseller Ltd., From the foreword by John R. Payne, "Bradford Morrow's catalogue of Harry Valentine's John Steinbeck collection is an event of signal importance throughout..... More
New York: Sotheby's, Dec 11, 1990, octavo, pictorial wrappers. (158)pp. Sotheby's, 350 lots. Schiff's interest in breeding and racing horses is reflected in his library of sporting, racing, and hunting titles. The library also contained nineteenth century English and American literary first editions and twenty-one lots of Presidential autographs "apparently..... More
London: Sotheby's, June 19, 1990, quarto, wrappers. (92)pp, 40 items listed. Sotheby's, Illustrated with color plates. The great illuminators from the 12th to the 15th century are represented in this collection with most coming from Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland and the Low Countries. Included are pieces by Nicolo di Giacomo..... More
New York: Sotheby's, June 14, 1993, quarto, wrappers. (137)pp., followed by XV color plates and a one page index. 211 lots. Sotheby's, With a 2pp. biography of the collector. A collection mainly comprised of letters and manuscripts: Ballooning, Amelia Earhart, Otto Lilienthal, Lindberg, Robert E. Peary, Wilbur and Orville Wright..... More
New York: Christie's, 1988, quarto, wrappers. 185pp. Christie's, 373 lots. With a 1 1/4pp. introduction by Nicolas Barker. "Items from the private library of John Fleming, removed from Larchmont, New York, are indicated by the letters 'PL' in parentheses at the end of the particular entries. All other items are..... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, Reprint. octavo, wrappers. 216pp. Oak Knoll Press, Essays include John Bidwell on "American Papermakers and the Panic of 1819" ; "Bookbinding and the History of Books" by Mirjam M. Foot; "A New Model for the Study of the Book" by Thomas R. Adams and..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952, First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth. xiv, 337 pp. Cambridge University Press, The first volume published in 1952 of a three-volume history of the book trade in Britain, which encompasses Caxton to the eve of the Civil War, has achieved classic status. Each volume presents a...... More
New York: New York Public Library, 1958, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 211pp. New York Public Library, Printers, publishers, booksellers, auctioneers who sold books, binders, paper and press manufacturers are included. Very fine copy. More
New York: Random House, (1995), First Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. (xviii), (398). Random House, From the jacket: "Liveright was a man of puzzling contradictions - a self- professed socialist and a high-living Wall Street gambler, a deeply caring father and a compulsive philanderer. It was Liveright..... More
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Poster created for Black Oak Books, Berkeley, California, 1985. 6-color, silkscreened by Rob Day. 34" x 16.5". Limited to 600 copies numbered and signed by Lance Hidy. Note: A small number of posters printed printed in 1986 or earlier may have minor imperfections around the trimmed edges, caused during many..... More
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Poster created for Rizzoli Booksellers, Copley Place, Boston, Mass., 1984. 6-color, silkscreened by Rob Day. 24" x 25.5". Limited to 750 copies numbered and signed by Hidy. Note: A small number of posters printed printed in 1986 or earlier may have minor imperfections around the trimmed edges, caused during many..... 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 York: Arco, (1978), First American Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 200pp. Arco, The state of modern antiquarian bookselling in England with chapters on collectors, a history of the trade, auctions, the book thief and trends and "fashionable interests." Illustrated. The back panel of the dust jacket reproduces Ronald..... 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
(New Castle): Oak Knoll Press, (2004), First Edition. octavo, boards. xvi, 224pp. Oak Knoll Press, One of the Print Network Series. British provincial book history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries covered by eighteen experts in the field: Caroline Archer, Maureen Bell, Iain Beavan, Margaret Cooper, Diana Dixon, John Feather..... More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, (1995), Later edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. x, 224 pp. Oak Knoll Press, Illustrated with photographs. Indexed. In this sequel to her husband, Percy H. Muir's Minding My Own Business (1956), Barbara Kaye Muir continues the lively and entertaining story of one of..... More
Madison: Univ of Wisconsin Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, wrappers. (xiv), (300)pp. Univ of Wisconsin Press, Mathews' career in publishing "coincided with the transition from Victorian to modern literature, a period which literary historians date from about 1880 to 1920...what makes Mathews unique is the role he played in encouraging..... More
Madison, Wisc. Univ of Wisconsin Press, (1989), First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth. (300)pp. Univ of Wisconsin Press, Mathews' career in publishing "coincided with the transition from Victorian to modern literature, a period which literary historians date from about 1880 to 1920...what makes Mathews unique is the role he played in..... More
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1995, First Edition. octavo, red cloth. (xiv), 425 pp. The Scarecrow Press, Joe Rosenblum provides the student of the book with a selective guide to a growing discipline. Emphasis is on more recent works, though classics are included regardless of age. The four sections focus..... More
New Castle, Del: Oak Knoll Press, 1999, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 210pp. Oak Knoll Press, The development of new and exciting fields of book collecting: Feminism, Judaica, Black Culture, Utopias, and more. More
Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 1998, Second printing. small octavo, plain blue wrappers. 33 pp. Book Arts Press, The 1994 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography. There were 300 copies of the first printing and 225 copies of this second printing. New. More