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
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. First Edition. Octavo. 182pp. Published after author's death. Wiht foreword by Wayne Gard. Text. Index. Black and gold lettered red cloth. Printed dust jacket. More
London; 1932-1933: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons. First Edition. Small Octavos. In six volumes. This set was either bound from the original 26 parts or the publisher had left over sheets from the weekly parts, showing the original stab marks for the parts. This work covers all aspects of printing..... More
Los Angeles, CA: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd., 2000. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to only 100 copies signed by Morris and and levin, the present copy is number 13. 127pp. beautifully illustrating various publisher's fine decorative bindings. An exhibition of the Grolier Club, held May 17-July 29, 2000. Bound in..... More
Flagstaff; (1976): Northland Press. First Edition. Octavo. Limited edition of only 100 copies. The present copy the "publisher's" copy, signed by Lawrence Clark Powell and illustrator Bettina Steinke,167pp., specially bound in 1/4 brown leather over rust cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine bright copy housed in publisher's slipcase. A very..... More
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1971. First Edition. Octavo. 271pp. Signed by the author. Introduction. Annotated bibliography. Index to Congressional Documents. General Index. In gold-stamped green cloth; printed dust jacket. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927. First Edition. Octavo. 270 pp. illustrated. The ballad collection of Anthony Wood, the celebrated Oxford antiquarian, is preserved in Bodley's library, and consists at the present(1927) of only 279 sparate broadsides. These are scattered throughout eight volumes. Pepys himself was a collelctor of ballads but..... More