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
Exeter, NH: The Colophon Book Shop, 1996, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 144 pp. The Colophon Book Shop, The Colophon Book Shop Catalogue No. 44 with 565 items listed and described in detail: Kelmscott Press publications; Books about the Kelmscott Press and Printing; Writings of William Morris; Books devoted to William..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2004, First Trade Edition. quarto, blue and green cloth in dust jacket. 208pp. The Grolier Club, Published to accompany an exhibition of Grolier Club Library treasures running from May 12 through July 31, 2004, this is the first detailed illustrated overview ever attempted of the..... More
(Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books, no date, circa 2000, Facsimile reprint. octavo, grey cloth. CCLIX, 607 pp. Martino Fine Books, The reprint includes the two Berghman supplements. Very fine and clean. More
(Amsterdam: Pepin Press, 1997), Second edition. quarto, printed wrappers. 240 pp. Pepin Press, Text in English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish. Second edition. Brief introductory comments. Thousands of examples from the early days of printing to the 1930s. Curl to upper corner, else fine and clean. More
New York: Holiday House, (2001), First Edition. large octavo, white boards in dust jacket. (x), 126 pp. Holiday House, A young readers biography. Illustrated. New in new dust jacket. 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
Baltimore: Maran Publishing Co., (1977), First Edition. quarto, decorated cloth. 720pp. Maran Publishing Co., Illustrated with facsimiles of every extant type foundry's specimens of their newest types. Some of these type faces never again appeared in any publication or type catalogue. Reprints of the stories from the Inland Printer magazine..... 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
London: Printing Historical Society, 1976, octavo, green cloth. (102)pp. Printing Historical Society, Reprinted from the 1813 and 1816 editions with an introduction and notes by Michael Twyman. From the introduction, "The value of Bankes's treatise today is as an historical record of attitudes to the process in England in the..... More
Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., (1981), First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. (361) pp. Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., Papers in English, German and French: Henri Jean Martin, D. F. McKenzie, Nicolas Barker, Eric Howe, Giles Barber, R. C. Alston and others. Illustrated. Very fine. More
Los Angeles: Department of Special Collections, University of California, 1991, First Edition. octavo, blue wrappers with gilt printing and decoration. (xvi), (162)pp. Department of Special Collections, University of California, The Publications of Aldus the Elder's Heirs 1515-1529. Illustrations in black and white. Fine. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina/Hanes Foundation, 1996, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 29 pp. University of North Carolina/Hanes Foundation, A lecture delivered in 1989. New, without flaw. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952, 1965, 1970, First Edition, American issue. octavo, maroon cloth in dust jackets. (xl, (337); (xviii), (320), (xiv), 253 pp. Cambridge University Press, Since its publication in 1952, this three-volume history of the book trade in Britain, which encompasses Caxton to the eve of the Civil..... More
New York: Burt Franklin, (1968), Reprint. octavo, red cloth. 78 pp. Burt Franklin, A fine introduction to this great English type-founder and printer, with a short-title list of the Baskerville editions in Benton's collection. Fine. More
New York: The Winthrop Press, 1897, Edited and reprinted by The Winthrop Press. small octavo, printed wrappers, tied. 47 pp. The Winthrop Press, The 4 pp. Introduction explains the removal of the first chapter and appendix from the first edition and the publication as presented. Wrappers lightly scuffed with a...... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, (1985), First Edition. octavo, cloth in slipcase. 84pp. of text, 31pp. of illustrations of printed pages and memorabilia. W. Thomas Taylor, Robert Frost told his early biographer Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant that he was "the best-printed American writer." That boast may well have been justified, for Frost's..... More
Oxford: Plough Press, 1984, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 250 pp. Plough Press, A bibliography of the history and technic of printmaking and picture printing for both book illustration and single issue prints. Each chapter is preceded by an historical introduction. With a detailed, useful index. Very fine..... 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 Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2016, Ninth Edition, completely revised and reset. small octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 264 pp. Oak Knoll Press, With additional information and illustrated with line drawings and color photographs. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is..... More
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902, octavo, maroon cloth. lxxii, 393. Longmans, Green, and Co., Christie was an enthusiastic book collector, and bequeathed to Owens College his library of about 15,000 volumes, rich in a very complete set of the books printed by Étienne Dolet, a series of Aldine Press..... More
Winchester: St. Paul's, 1998, octavo, wrappers. xvi, 315pp. St. Paul's, First wrappers edition, originally published in 1992. "An important feature of these essays is that each makes proposals for future research by scholars and students, ensuring the vitality of bibliography in the next century. This collection provides a landmark, taking..... More
New York: The Typophiles, 1976, First Edition. duodecimo, decorated boards and cloth. (57)pp. The Typophiles, A lecture delivered in November 1975 at The Grolier Club. Illustrated, including a full color frontispiece. Designed by Abe Lerner, printed in two colors by The Press of A. Colish. Very fine. More
No place: no date (1984), Offprint. quarto, printed wrappers, stapled. 10 leaves, printed recto only. Offprint from the Gutenberg Yearbook, 1984. Illustrated. Upper right-hand corner lightly bumped. More
London: Verso Books, (1990), Reprint of the first English edition of 1976. octavo, printed wrappers. 378 pp. Verso Books, Edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wooton. Translated by David Gerard. "Febvre's aim was to reveal not only the technical preconditions, but also the social pressres which shaped the epoch-making transition..... More