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Hardcover. VOLUME 2. Blue cloth. 191pp. This is copy #186 of 500 copies. Color and black and white examples of bookplates. Some mounted. German, French and English text. The Ex-Libris of Henno Arrak, Jean-Marcel Bertrand, Christian Blaesbjerg, Diana Bloomfield, Teresa Costa I. Gramunt, Alain Hautekiet, Jana Krejcova, Pixie O'Harris, Hannu..... More
Milano: Libraire Ancienne Hoepli, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 28.5 x 20 cm. Quarto. Tan boards. 161 pages + 71 plates, some of which are tipped in color plates. French language. Some darkening to the boards. Laid in price list. Previous owner's gift inscription. More
New York: Duschnes Crawford, Inc., 1948. Hardcover. 27.5 x 20 cm. Quarto. 106pp. This copy includes a hand written two page letter signed by one of the contributors, Allen Evarts Foster, which has been affixed to the front free endpaper. Evart wrote the essay "Drifting into a Print Collection". Also..... More
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937. First edition. Hard Cover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and design to cover and lettering to spine. 128pp. A very nice copy. More
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly, 1923. Hard Cover. Octavo. 22 cm x 17cm 120pp. . Bound in 3/4 brown leather. Stikeman Binding. Gilt lettering and tooled decorations to spine. Five raised bands. Limited to 585 numbered copies and is SIGNED by A.Edward Newton. Sharp copy. More
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921. Limited edition. Hardcover. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. 255pp. Inscribed by the author, #64 out of 265 copies. Joint cracked and tear to spin, about 9 centimeters long. Rubbing to corners. Mainly B&W plates. Rough cut pages. More
London: The Bodley Head, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (29cm x 23cm) 100pp. Marble paper over black cloth. Some separation starting at bottom edge of cloth spine. In a lightly chipped dust jacket. A bit of loss at top edge and bottom corner of jacket. More
Paris: L'Academie des Beaux-Livre, 1890. Limited ed. 3/4 leather. 25.5 x 17.5cm. Octavo. 251 pages. Bound in 3/4 green leather and marble boards. Five raised bands to spine. Illustrated including 2 full page color illuistrations.. Copy number 132 of only 250 copies printed. French language text. Rubbing to the outer..... More
New York: The Colophon Ltd, February 1931. First Edition. Hard Cover. Limited to 3000 copies. The single most desirable issue from the Colophon. Original signed etching by the Canadian artist David B Milne. Spine darkened. A beautiful copy. Articles include "Post Bellum - Pre-Harlem" by Charles Chesnutt, "The Way to..... More
Grantha Corporation / Mapin Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 1999. Hardcover. 26.5 x 30.5 cm. Oblong. 246pp. 218 illustrations and a map. Signed and inscribed by the author on the dedication page. Grey boards in dust jacket and clamshell. Book fine, some scuffing to box. More
Kansas City: Alfred Fowler, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. 32 x 24 cm. Quarto. 48 pp (1). Limited to 500 copies. Bound in worn tan boards. Illustrated. Loss to the most of the boards covering the spine, binding is still holding. Rubbing to corners of the boards. Toning to front endpapers..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Hardcover. 26.5 x 18.5 cm. Quarto. 332 pages. Green cloth. Some foxing to the front and rear endpapers. Toning and small tear to spine (~1cm). Corners bumped. Part of "The Connoisseur's Library" edited by Cyril Davenport. More
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. 26 x 18 cm. Quarto. 332 pages. Red cloth. Bookplates inside front cover and front endpaper. Plates. Fading to spine. Part of The Connosseur's Library edited by Cyril Davenport. More
The Swallow Press, 1976. First printing. softcover. Oversize blue softcover.. Signed and inscribed by Frances Steloff, owner of the Gotham Book Mart and Animal Rghts activist. More
Walther & Franz Konig, 2024. Hardcover. 27.5 x 21 cm. 272pp. Published on occasion of the exhibition "Where the wild lines are" Die Neue Sammlung - Design Museumn, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, October 11, 2024 - January 26, 2025. More
Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1959. Pamphlet. 18 x 12 cm. 12mo. liv. Staple bound pamphlet. Some age toning to covers. Nice copy overall. More
Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. 362pp. Bound into blue cloth. Volume eighteen only of this semiannual journal. "Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and reception of script..... More
Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. Hardcover. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. vi 434pp. Bound into blue cloth. Volume nineteen only of this semiannual journal. "Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and reception of..... More
London: Bernard Quaritch 15 Piccadilly, 1897. 3/4 Leather. 30 x 20.5 cm. Quarto. 172pp. Bound in 3/4 red leather with black boards. Marble endpapers. Gilt top foredge. Catalogue No. 166. 859 books described. 22 full color plates showing bindings. Called supplement IX on spine. Rubbing to hinges and edges of..... More
London: The Bibliographical Society at the University Press, Oxford, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 22.5 x 18 cm. 339pp. Bound in publisher's boards backed in linen. 9 plates. Contents: William Lane: his life and activities, 1745?-1814 -- Printing and publishing at the Minerva, 1773-1859 -- Forgotten favourites, 1790-1820 -- Book production..... More
Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press, 1976. Limited edition. Hardcover. 26.5 x 18 cm. Red cloth in slipcase. Still in original shrink wrap. Limited to 250 copies of which this is copy 185 signed by both Rosenstock and Bower. More
University of Tornoto Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 10' x 7. 479pp. CD in rear pocket of book. Light edge rubbing to jacket. The maker of the Lindisfarne Gospels was one of the greatest artists of the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic worlds. More
London: Sampson Row, Marston & Co. LTD, No date, [1928]. First edition. Hardcover. 25 x 19 cm. Red cloth. xxxvi, 405 pages and 61 plates, many in color. Sun fading to spine. More
London: The Folio Society, 2009. Hardcover. 21.5 x 14 cm. Consists of two books housed inside of a black clamshell box. One volume is a 96pp commentary by James P. Carley, bound in black boards, with a color frontispiece. The other is a facsimile of the Prayer Book, with high..... More
Davenport: The Catfish Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 11" x 8 1/2". 310pp. Signed and inscribed by author Edward Catich. A few closed tears to dust jacket. Some light soiling to fore-edges of book. More