Woodstock, NY: The Bimonthly Magazine for Book Collectors, 1963. First Edition. Stapled Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Issues No. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8/9. A fabulous group of bibliographies (Twain, Joyce, Emerson, Saroyan) and advertise old, rare books. A wonderful mid-century window to the world of book collecting. More

Tokyo: Keiogijuku Library, 1929. First Edition. Thick Octavo. 701pp. with an index of an additional 215 pages. A huge printed catalogue of the holdings of the library in 1929. A remarkable way to see the extent of the best Western scholarship present in the library's holdings. a good copy bound... More

Unknown. 78 unnumbered pages, circa 1940's. A curious item from either a serious bookseller or collector of American authors' first books. Neither is the author identified nor is there a date in this carefully typed list. Since the latest item we noted is Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, we... More

1979. folded sheet on stiff paper on the Louis C. Ilfeld Law Office and how it became La Galeria de los Artesanos, a fine Las Vegas, New Mexico bookstore that specialized in Western Americana. A picture of the restoration which was completed by Joseph and Diana Stein is on the... More

Watertown, New York: Knowleton Bros. Octavo. 24 unnumbered pages, fan folded with rich color examples. While Knowleton Brothers can trace their work to 1824, it was in the mid-1920's, they began creating the richest preparatory covers for the top designers. This volume is exquisite both in its materials used and... More

Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1823. Octavo. 67p. In 1894 the Adams Library of 2,756 volumes was transferred from the Thomas Crane Public Library of Quincy, Mass. where it had been lodged since 1882 to the Boston Public Library. The Library of John Adams was built at great expense (as is... More

Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1935. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 102pp. Printed by Ward Ritchie. Black spine over pictorial boards. Some wear to top and bottom of spine. More

Firenza: Giuseppe Molini, Printer, 1803. Octavo. [4], 195pp. Includes index. A bibliographical listing of those books published by the Aldine family from 1494 to 1588. The Aldine press was one of the most significant presses in European history. Aldus Manutius, its' founder, was the first major printer to insist on... More

London: The Scolar Press, 1976. Limited Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 500 copies. [6] page introduction by Edward Hodnett whose specialty is English Wood Cuts has written an important introduction, pages, cxiii folio with woodcuts. Hodnett notes the progress of English woodcuts from Caxton's The Myrrour of the Worlde in... More

Jersey City, NJ: The Davey Company, 1992. First Edition. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 4to., 146pp. Illustrated history of small scale industry in Eastern North America, and also a key business in the making of books. In two-tone blue cloth boards, printed silver on the spine, with... More

Baltimore: R.H. Woodward Company, 1896. This Salesman's prospectus (or salesman's dummy) is complete with two volumes in one, each with sheets for the prospective buyer information. The note is that the finished volume would be four times thicker. Depending upon the kind of binding the price would be in the... More

Hartford, CN: M. A. Winter & Co., 1885. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 739pp. A literary feast of books and book publishing in the 19th century. Many long forgotten authors, book publishers, and Civil War Generals that became authors. In cinnamon cloth, with gilt letters and... More

New York: Tudor Press, 1928. Original Wraps. 54p.; fragile iwth wear along original covers; nevertheless, an important record of an important copy of the Gutenberg bible. More