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London: Longman's Green and Co., 1954. First edition. Writers and Their Works: No. 55; includes bibliographical checklist. Ownership stamp at head of half-title page. About very good in tanned paperwraps. Item #37945 More
London: Longman's Green and Co., 1954. First edition. Writers and Their Works: No. 55; includes bibliographical checklist. Ownership stamp at head of half-title page. About very good in tanned paperwraps. Item #37945 More
Philadelphia: Menamin & Ringwalt, 1871. First edition. This remains a major reference for American printing history [Bigmore & Wyman p.259, Appleton p58]. Illustrated with 38 full-page plates including a beautiful colored chromolitho frontis, an example of printing for the blind, and a double-spread color facsimile of a leaf from the..... Item #52565 More
Chicago: Robert O. Ballou, 1924. First edition. Introduction by Frederic W. Goudy. Previous owner's name on title page otherwise very good or better with cloth frayed at spine ends and base of spine faded but rest of spine and its gilt lettering bright and with the front and back boards..... Item #53303 More
Charlottesville, VA: Univ. of Virginia Press, 1960. First edition. Checklist of Jeffers collection at University of Virginia library. Cloth spine and boards in original glassine dust jacket. Item #55724 More
San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1977. First edition. Limited edition of 225 copies. Contains a checklist of Grabhorn publications from 1916-1956 and a complete specimen of types. Printed by Andrew Hoyem. Illustrated with 23 tipped-in original printing specimens, including one folding one, and two pages of printer's devices (one for each..... Item #55615 More
New York: Random House, 1933. First edition. RARE PROOF OF THE EXTREMELY LIMITED EDITION. Bibliographer Sydney Seymour Alberts' own copy, SIGNED BY JEFFERS AT THE FOOT OF "REMEMBERED VERSES" (p.xvi). There were only 15 numbered copies specially bound and signed by Jeffers and Albert in this very limited issue (10..... Item #55504 More
London: Prvately primted, (1811). Second edition. Though the 1809 first edition bears the same name, it was an 80-page mock treatise on the diagnose and cure of the dreaded "book-disease" whereas this 1811 version is nearly 800 pages and consists of "dialogues on books and book-collecting conducted by a set..... Item #56175 More
Rockville: Quill & Brush, 1975-1986. Each is a first edition. A collection of the books we published before Putnam started publishing us in 1989. They were INSCRIBED to a bookseller, in some cases to two (one being Bev Cheney, a good friend who died a few years ago). Includes the..... Item #40400 More
New York: Putnam's Sons, (1982). Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. SIGNED BY BRADLEY on front endpaper and with AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN laid in. Letter on Bradley's half-sheet letterhead from Scottsdale, Arizona, is dated November 27, 1984--just a month before he died--speaks of being surprised and..... Item #55565 More
Meriden, CT / Woodstock, NY: Crow's Nest / Virginia Fitzwater, 1932-1933. First edition. Eleven of the first twelve numbers of this monthly miscellany of fine books, bibliography, typography and kindred literary matters. Laid in marbled paper-covered portfolio and housed in publisher's paper-covered slipcase with printed spine label. Packets and portfolio..... Item #55465 More
Noel Rooke. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., (1924). Fourth edition. In the Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks. Illustrated by Noel Rooke. Previous owner's name on endpaper. Very good or better with some rubbing, especially to lower front corner, and spine slightly tanned but pages bright and binding..... Item #53302 More
(Norfolk): New Directions, no-date [1952]. First U.S. edition. This publication was a joint venture between New Directions and Peter Owens in London but the sheets, which were printed in Ireland, were held up in U.S. customs resulting in the UK edition preceding this one. Ruminations on key books in his..... Item #54174 More
New York: Random House, (1969). Later printing, INSCRIBED to Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman. Randall was a bookseller, head of rare books at Scribner's, and then head librarian at Indiana University where he helped put together the Lilly Collection. Near fine with light foxing in like dust jacket. From the collection..... Item #54030 More
London: Constable & Co Ltd., 1934 & 1948. First edition. 400 pages, four plates, index. The most famous case of bibliographical investigation to uncover the frauds of Thomas J. Wise. Fine in dust jacket with only minimal wear on edges. Along with "The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co..... Item #29817 More
Chicago: Pascal Covici, 1927. First edition. One of only 2000 copies. This one INSCRIBED by author. Intricate, gilt-stamped binding. Spine dulled otherwise would be near fine. Lacking dust jacket. Item #52467 More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2015 [2016]. First edition. Presentation and association copy. One of 450 copies. 8.5 x 11 inches. Approximately 280 pages of text plus 80 pages of black-and-white images (repeated in color on CD, which is included). This copy is INSCRIBED BY BROOMFIELD, "For Al Mears..... Item #55974 More
New York: American Art Association. 1922. First edition. Auction catalog for items "To Be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale" on January 26th and 27th, 1922, at the American Art Galleries in Madison Square. 795 items. Hammer prices recorded by hand in margins. 8vo perfectbound paperwraps printed in black and red;..... Item #54538 More
Oakland: Star Rover House, 1979. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies, Bibliography illustrated with full-page black-and-white photographs of book covers, including spine. 8vo pictorial blue cloth lettered in gilt on front and spine. Spine toned to very pale blue otherwise near fine. Lacking the clear plastic dust jacket. Item #54118 More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1917. First edition. Author discuses some of the less familiar but still interesting phases of Kipling's life and work. Red spine lettering a barely discernable pale orange otherwise very good lacking the scarce dust jacket. Item #53933 More
Louis A. Roberts. Springfield, Mass. D. E. Fisk and Company, (1873). First edition. Illustrations by Louis A. Roberts. Escapades in the "eventful life of a traveling book agent." From a small bookseller's ad affixed to rear endpaper: "The humourous observations and adventures of an itinerant book salesman. Encounters with patent..... Item #50496 More
Berkeley, Ca: Editions Koch, 2017. First edition. Three-volume set. One of 400 copies, 15 of which were reserved for the special edition set of five volumes. Designed and production supervised by Koch with the assistance of Jonathan Gerken and Dina Pollack. Letter press printed on Cougar White paper and bound..... Item #55973 More
London: Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1931. First edition. One of only 160 copies. Illustrated with numerous full-page facsimile title pages. 4to gilt-stamped red cloth boards; top edge gilt. Good only with hinges starting but still tight; front matter which shows evidence of old glue repair at joints detached and..... Item #55139 More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, (1923). First edition, second printing, January, 1923 (the first was August 1922). Covering typefaces from the invention of printing through the mid-nineteenth century, with type-specimans throughout. Two volume in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. Very good or better with name on..... Item #53319 More
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1941. First edition. Harcover auction catalogs illustrated with photographs and facsimile pages. Three volumes, one for each part of the sale. Newton's vast collection was split alphabetically and auctioned as follows: Part One "A - D" on April 16, 17 and 18, 1941; Part Two..... Item #55073 More
Cleveland: Bits Press, (1986). First edition. The Essential Shakespeare, Volume I. "Rapid retrieval editions in rhymed hemimeter." Near fine in white, printed paperwraps, bound with string, showing only light tanning along the spine and a bump mark along the bottom edge. THE ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE. Item #51293 More