New York: William Evarts Benjamin, 1888-90, Volume I, Nos. 1-12. quarto, maroon pebbled cloth and leather spine. T.e.g. approx. 230 pp. William Evarts Benjamin, Useful for its information of events of the time. Bound at end are the front wrappers of No. 1 and No. 12 (only). Filled with period..... 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
![Item #18303 Black Oak Books. [Poster]. Lance HIDY](https://colophonbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/18303.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1652281923)
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
(California): Profiles In History, circa 1990, 1 3/4 inch diameter, enclosed in clear plastic case. Profiles In History, Impressed with the auction house logo of profiles of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln along with their motton, "Only fascinating people make history...Maybe that's why only fascinating people collect it." Nicely done..... More
New York: Burt Franklin, 1968, Facsimile reprint of the Caxton Club edition of 1911 which was limited to 300 copies. large quarto, red boards and cloth. xviii, 204 pp. Burt Franklin, Edited with historical Introduction and with the original Latin text with English translation on opposite pages and with notes..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1936), First Edition, Limited to 760 numbered and signed copoies, this being number 300. octavo, black cloth with red leather labels on front cover and spine pver bevelled boards. 259 pp. Houghton Mifflin, Illustrated. Rosenbach's autobiography chronicles the golden age of American bookselling when big-city dealers helped..... More
London: British Library, 1993, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 206 pp. British Library, 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..... More
New York: Walpole Galleries, 1915, First Edition. octavo, printed paper wrappers. (40)pp., stapled. Walpole Galleries, This is the first book auction catalogue of The Walpole Galleries, November 12, 1915. 300 lots offered. McKay 7603. Vertical fold through center. Wrappers dusty and with two tiny chips to back wrapper, penciled notation..... More
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
London: Sotheby & Co., August 18-19, 1941, quarto, printed green wrappers. 97 pp. Sotheby & Co., Sotheby rare book and manuscript auction catalogue. Thompson's library contained more than his well-known collection of illuminated manuscripts. This sale upon the death of his wife, contains fine early illustrated books, superb 16th and..... 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: Henry Holt, (1995), Third Printing. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 638 pp. Henry Holt, From the prospectus: "The passion to possess books has never been more widespread or popular than it is today; indeed, obsessive book collecting remains the only hobby to have a disease named after it..... 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
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: Farrar & Rinehart, (1929), First Edition. octavo, red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 232pp. Farrar & Rinehart, Illustrated. A Hartford, Connecticut bookseller's charming miscellany about the book world with chapters on Book Thieves and Author Snatching, Buying Books Abroad, the Christmas Battle for Books and The Old..... More
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1981, First Edition. octavo, cloth. (xxxii), (208). American Antiquarian Society, This checklist describes printed catalogues of books separately issued in America prior to 1801 by booksellers, publishers, book auctioneers, circulating libraries, social libraries, college libraries, and private libraries. Arranged chronologically, each entry gives collations and description..... More
London: Sotheby & Co, June 25, 1974, octavo, printed green wrappers. 154 pp. Sotheby & Co, 256 lots. From the Introduction, "The astonishing range of Sir Thomas Phillipp's collecting interests...has been amply illustrated in earlier sales, and the present catalogue provides further evidence.Besides the raw material of conventional political history...are..... More
New York: Christie, Manson & Woods, May 19, 1988, large quarto, cloth. 103pp. Christie, Manson & Woods, 139 items listed and described iin detail. A remarkable section of a remarkable sale: William Morris letters and manuscripts; Cobden-Sanderson' s binding on Morris's own copy of Karl Marx, Le Capital; Morris's original..... 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: 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
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
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
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
New York: House of El Dieff, (1971), quarto, printed wrappers. House of El Dieff, Lew David Feldman rare Book Catalogue containing 71 items each described in detail and illustrated. Very fine. More
New York: American Art Association, May 14, 1915, octavo, printed wrappers. not paginated. American Art Association, American Art Association sale 331 lots. Standard sets in fine bindings, Valentine's Manuals and first editions of Mark Twain and John Kendrick Bangs. McKay 7560. Mckay location symbols penned to the upper edge of..... More