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A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER: Some Considerations of Binding With Reference to the Ideals of the Lakeside Press
Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Blue and gold decorative cloth boards with paper label. No jacket as issued. Corners and spine ends bumped, with slight fraying to spine ends. Mild toning to pages. Very good. 32pp. Illustrated with black.....
UP & DOWN & AROUND: A Publisher Reollects the Time of His Life
New York: Harper & Row, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth. Near fine in very good jacket. INSCRIBED by Canfield to Henry Kissinger: "To Henry - / with my warm regards / Cass." Memoir of Canfield's life in publishing as long-time head Harper & Bros. and Harper & Row. Inscribed.....
THINGS THAT DREAM: Contemporary Calligraphic Artists' Books / COSAS QUE SUENAN: Libros de Artistas Caligraficos Contemporaneos
(Stanford, CA): (Stanford University Libraries), (2012). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth in graphic dust jacket. Near fine or better in like DJ. Trace edgewear to jacket. Several pages perhaps a trifle warped. Interior otherwise fine: bright, clean, and crisp throughout. Appears almost unread. 529pp. Published on the occasion of.....
THEMATIC CATALOG OF A MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY, MUSIC LIBRARY
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Near fine in very good + jacket. Jacket has mild edgewear. Faintly toned. Unclipped. Book sharp, clean, and sound overall. 403pp.
CATALOGUE OF TEXTBOOKS FOR COMMON SCHOOLS 1911 Including a Complete List of The Educational Publications of Ginn and Company
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1911. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. Perfect-bound printed wraps. Very good. 1.5" tear to front cover; light edgewear. Mild dampstaining to edges of last third of pages, but interior overall clean throughout (if mildly toned). Binding sound. 287pp. Catalogue of textbooks for the use of grade-schoolers, with.....
LOST IN A GOOD BOOK
New York: Penguin, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Spine lightly sunned. Touches of shelfwear to extremities. Else bright, clean, and sharp overall. Warmly INSCRIBED by author Fforde to title page, Laid in is limited edition promotional postcard 'giveaway' TNU 056, FeMole. 1st printing of.....
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[ED SANDERS'] CATALOGUE #1 (June/July 1964)
New York: Ed Sanders [Fuck You Press], 1964. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Mimeo wraps. Very good with mild wear and bit of soil to front wrapper. Overall, sharp and sound. [7]pp. (including cover) on as many leaves, printed recto only. Debut catalogue from Sanders who, as an extension of his.....
ALONE TOGETHER
Philadelphia: Pond Press, 2002. First edition. Paperback. Square 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Near fine with touches of wear and some faint sunning to spine. Else tight, and sharp. Scarce first edition of this remarkable exhibition catalog of Graham's photos of the Kellams, a couple who lived alone in a tiny house.....
[Collection of 12 Original Books Utilized by R.B. Kitaj for His Series IN OUR TIME: COVERS FOR A SMALL LIBRARY AFTER THE LIFE FOR THE MOST PART]
Various [see below]: Various [see below], [1969]. 12 books, various sizes. Generally very good condition overall. Included are: 1) Bangs (John Kendrick). THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT. London & New York: Harper and Brothers, 1913. First English edition, thirteenth impression. 2) Lindsay (Vachel). THE CONGO AND OTHER POEMS. Introduction by.....
OUTWITTING HISTORY: The Amazing Adventures of a Man who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a like jacket. 8vo. Two-toned paper covered boards. Trace handling wear. Otherwise sharp, clean, sound. A lovely copy of this heroic tale of biblio heroism. 316pp.
A BOOK OF BOOKS
Boston: Bulfinch Press, (2002). First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in like jacket. Large square 4to. Full black cloth, grey lettering to spine. In original photographic dust jacket. Unclipped. Trace jacket wear at edges, rear panel lightly shelfworn. Else sound clean throughout. 52 duotone photographs of aniquarian books and texts by.....
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS IN NEW JERSEY, 1836 - 2000: A Biographical Dictionary and Bibliographic Guide
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth boards in black pictorial dust jacket. Mild shelfwear. INSCRIBED on title page: "For my dear friend and mentor, the "master teacher" -- Dr. Harold Herman, / Many thanks, Sibyl E. Moses / May 30. 2003" First and only.....
MY BOOKSTORE: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, (2012). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in a very good plus DJ. Some wrinkling and edgewear to jacket. Interior bright, crisp, and clean. Binding tight. 378pp. Contributions from 84 writers including Isabel Allende, Dave Eggers, Chuck Palahniuk.....
THE WORK OF BRUCE ROGERS: Jack of All Trades: Master of One: A Catalogue of an Exhibition Arranged by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Grolier Club of New York
New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth in original printed dust jacket. Very good plus in like DJ. SIGNED by Rogers at half title. Mild yellowing to jacket at edges, and rear panel a trifle soiled. Interior bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 127pp.....
THE CAT'S MEOW
Frankfurt: Bauer Type Foundry, 1961. First Edition. Wraps. Square 8vo. Olive-beige wraps with black woodcut illustration, in black paper envelope. Both near fine. Published for the Friends of Bauer Alphabets New York City. Woodcuts by Stiller accompanied by poems of Rilke, Pierre-Jean de Beranger, Hans Sachs and Sir Roger L'Estrange.....
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE BOOK
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Two 4to volumes in slipcase. Red cloth with red leather gilt-stamped spines, in decorative paper-covered slipcase. Both volumes and slipcase near fine. Wide-ranging reference guide to the history of the book. Volume I includes historical essays on the technologies of paper, printing.....
THE FRANKFORT BOOK FAIR: The Francofordiense Emporium of Henri Estienne
New York: Burt Franklin, (1968). Reprint. Hardcover. 4to. Quarter burgundy imitation cloth over red boards. Near fine. Trivial hints of surface wear to boards. Interior bright, crisp, and clean throughout. Good and sound. 204pp. 1968 reprint, orignially published thus 1911. A translation of a 16th-century work about the European book.....
VISUAL EXPLANATIONS: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997. Later printing. Hardcover. 4to. Near fine in like jacket. Trace shelfwear. Small, previous owner's name to front pastedown. Else bright, clean, sharp, and sound. The indespensible standard. 156pp. with index.
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