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 about The Booklover's Answer, 5 Volumes of 1963
. A fascinating small letter to Mr. William Gowans (1803-1870) the legendary bookseller in old New York whose obituary in the New York Times described him as "the antiquarian bookseller of Nassau Street" who in forty years of bookselling had acquired over 250,000 books from Caxtons and an extensive group... More about Bookselling) Autographed Letter Signed to Mr. William Gowans, October 15, 1869
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 about Catalogue of the Keigijuku Library
New York: Maurizio Martino Publisher. Hard Cover. Ocatvo. 8 volume set. in 4 books. strictly limited to 450 copies. Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Maps, & Drawings. Book #1 contains vol 1 & 2 A-K, Book # 2 vol 's 3 & 4 L-SN, Book # 3 vol 5 SO- Z, vol # 6 Supp A-I, Book #4 vol 7 & 8 Supp J-Z. Original print date 1903. More about Catalogue of the Library British Museum (Natural History
Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Maritno Publisher. Limited Edition. Quarto. 204pp. This Facsimile of the 1918-1920 First Edition is strictly limited to 150 copies. 2 vols in 1. part 1 contains:Explanation of abbreviations and signs, author catalogue, additions, futher additions. 372 p part 2 contains: Table of subjects, subject catalogue,corrections and index... More about Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
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 about First Books, American Authors, Typed Bibliography
Palais Galliera Paris 1973. 1st a very fine copy in original blue cloth Invitation to 18th century book exhibit in 1973 is laid in. More about LIVRES ILLUSTRES DU XVIII SIECLE; EXEMPLAIRES DE PROVENANCE ROYALE ETDE LA COUR DE FRANCE
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 about Los Artesanos Bookstore) Louis C. Ilfeld Law Office, Las Vegas, New Mexico
Harrisburg, PA: State Library of Pennsylvania. Stapled Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 48pp. Library descriptions, in 3 columns per page. In light brown wraps, with facsimile artwork. More about Pennsylvania Imprints 1689-1789
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 about Ten Basic Treatments: Morocco Covers
Rochester, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, 1960. Charles E. Pont. First Edition. Stapled Wrap. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 51pp. Personal trbutes. Examples of type. Essay by Frederic Goudy. In pale grey paper wraps, with black letters and blue type device. ex-lib. More about Typographer: Dedicated to the Memory of Frederic W. Goudy 1865-1947. Typographer, Volume XX,...
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 about Deeds and Other Documents Relating to several Pieces of Land, and to the library Presented to the...
Santa Monica, CA: Kenneth Karmiole, 1990. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., un-paginated (~100 pages). Bookplates, with notes of provenance. List of names. In decorated paper boards, with gold lettered black cloth spine. Signed by Ward Ritchie on half title page. More about The Typographic Bookplates of Ward Ritchie
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 about Farewell, Thou Busy World
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 about Serie Dell'edizioni Aldine Per Ordine Cronologico Ed Alfabetico
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1971. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo., 376pp. A massive treatise on private presses, including 72 figures in text, and 72 plates in suite. Biblio. Index. In orange cloth (shelf worn), with gold spine letters. Illustrated dust jacket (price clipped... More about The Private Press
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 about The History and Fables of Aesop Translated and Printed By William Caxton 1484, with an...
Nendeln/Lichtenstein: Klaus, 1979. Buckram. A Very Good Set Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 576 pp. v. I; 887 pp. v. II; 601 pp. v. III; 496 pp. v.IV. Originals of the congresses of 1878, 1888, 1898. More about CONGRES BIBLIOGRAPHIC INTERNATIONALE (3 VOLS. IN 4
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 about The Mill on the Third River. A History of the Davey Company: Makers of Binders Board Since 1842
Np/1989: (Joseph J. D'Ambrosio. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to only 75 copies of which ten copies art artist's proofs, signed and numbered. 128pp. printed with Della Robbia type on Johannot paper with a Vandercook No. 4 proof press, illustrated with mounted color illustrations of the books listed. Uniquely bound in... More about Nineteen Years and Counting, a Retrospective Bibliography 1969 to 1998
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 about Fifty Years Among Authors, Books and Publishers
London: Antiquarian Booksellers Association, 1962. Oblong Octavo. 9pp. Durrell's 3 page introduction to the 1962 Bookfair's handlist of exhibitors. Printed black on grey papers. Near Fine copy. More about Introduction: The Fifth Antiquarian Book Fair (1962
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 about Incunabulum Incunabulorum: The Gutenberg Bible on Vellum in the Vollbehr Collection; an Authentic...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Good, 253pp. A delightful collection of essays, by the author of childhood poems, and humorous rhymes, on the joys (loves) of book collecting. Introduction by his widow, Roswell Martin Field. Bound in gren cloth boards... More about The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac
Columbus; (1992): Ohio State University Printing Dept. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 229p. index. bibliography. What is amazing is how Henry Huntington excelled not only in excelling in what would become the art of corporate management at a level which advanced railroads into the 20th Century but he also receives... More about Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California