London: Art & Technics, 1947. 1st. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 99, (1) pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Card covers in tan illustrated dustjacket. A near fine copy (short, tape repaired tear to upper rear dustjacket). This issue contains articles on: Drawings by Lynton Lamb & by George Du Maurier;..... More
London: Art & Technics, 1948. 1st. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 95, (1) pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Card covers in tan illustrated dustjacket. A near fine copy with a hint of wear & age toning. This issue contains articles on 'artistic' Victorian printing; the type designs of Eric Gill;..... More
London: Art & Technics, 1948. 1st. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 87, (1) pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Card covers in tan illustrated dustjacket. A very good plus copy (small chip to spine end; price-clipped; llight wear). This issue contains articles on Reynolds Stone's engraved letter-forms; watchpapers; drawings by Robin..... More
London: Art & Technics, 1948. 1st. Hardcover. Square 8vo. 99, (1) pp. Color and black & white illustrations; 4 color plates. Card covers in tan illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in good dustjacket (spine torn & reinforced with Japanese tape; tape reinforcement to verso; wear to extremities). This issue contains articles..... More
London: The Nine Elms Press, 1986. First Edition Limited No. 131 of 350 copies SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 32, [4] pp. Bibliography. Mauve and lilac Morris 'Willow' pattern paper wrappers with lilac title label on front cover. Sir Emery Walker was an English engraver, photographer and printer, early socialist..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1940. First Edition, One of an edition limited to 210 copies. Folio; xiv, [6], 193, [2]pp; bound in tan cloth with kid leather spine, titled in blind. Printed in a variety of colors but mostly red and black, 4 original leaves (from 'The Voiage and Travaile..... More
Wakefield: Fleece Press, 1989. First Edition Limited to 340 copies. 8vo. 43 pp. Bibliography. Introduction by Richard Knowles. Tipped in frontispiece portrait of Herbert Hodgson. Tan cloth spine over color paste paper boards made by Claire Maziarczyk. A fine copy. "...a unique and personal account of the printing of a...... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co./E.P. Dutton & Co., 1916. Second Edition. Octavo; xvi, 232pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. A Very Good copy (light wear, especially to extremities of spine) in publishers rust cloth, printed paper label to spine (second label tipped to ffep along with p.o. name and '1920')..... More
New York: Glen Horowitz Booksellers, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Limited edition to 750 copies. 4to. 63pp. Bibliography. Price list laid in. Rust cloth with gilt lettering in fine condition. More
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1932-1941. First Edition thus. Octavo; 263-310pp; 184-215pp; 1-23pp; 1-21pp; 183-216pp; 168-204pp; 170-207pp; 210-248pp; 242-283pp; 154-187pp. A Fine copy of 10 annual 'The Division of Orientalia' reports extracted from the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress from 1932 to 1941, and brought together..... More
South Pasadena: Press of the Minotaur, 1962 - 1966. First Edition. Complete in 20 issues. Small 8vo. Various paginations (8, 12, or 16 pp). Presscraft by Earl Foster Myers. Light blue or cream staplebound wrappers with color stylized image of a minotaur on front covers. Light age toning; small date..... More
Haworth, NJ: The Walrus Press, 1984. Reprint. Paperback. Limited Edition #69 of 300 copies, SIGNED. 8vo. 6, (2) pp. Stiff cream wrappers with brown paper title label to front cover in fine condition. Being an article reprinted from The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review August 1818. Next day shipping..... More
Davis, CA: Library Associates, University of California, 1979. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. (44) pp. Illustrations. Stiff white wrappers with red borders & black lettering. A near fine copy (fading to red border lower front spine area). Catalog for exhibition held February 22 - April 10, 1979 displaying the works of..... More
Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. 1st. Hardbound. Octavo, 1082 pages. More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. First Edition Limited to 390 copies. 4to. 63 pp. Two photo-plates. Designed by Lewis Allen of the Allen Press and printed by the Anchor & Acorn Press. An original leaf being pp. 213-214 of Cowan's Bibliography bound in between pages [ii] and..... More
Los Angeles: George Houle, 1987. 1st. Limited Edition #40 of 300 copies. 8vo. 21, (2) pp. SIGNED by Lehman & Leigh Wiener (photographer). Printed by Richard J. Hoffman. Stiff maroon wrappers with black design & lettering to front cover. A fine copy (slight fading to rear cover). More
Orinda, CA, The Platen Press, 1946. Limited Edition to 100 copies. Paperback. 12mo. 13, (1) pp. Stiff illustrated wrappers in fine condition. Reprinted from The Publishers' Weekly, March 20, 1926. A brief account of three early San Francisco private presses: Taylor & Taylor, John Henry Nash, and the Grabhorn Press..... More
Almeria, Spain: Librería Granata, 1956. 1st. Paperback. 8vo. 96pp. Index. 273 items listed for sale. Tan wrappers with black and red lettering and decoration to front cover. Some foxing and light wear to extremities else near fine. All domestic orders are fully trackable - Images available upon request. More
Fair Lawn, NJ: Essential Books, 1959. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 115, [1] pp. Index. Plates, illustrations. Blue cloth in tan & brown illustrated dustjacket. Near fine in very good dustjacket (price-clipped; wear to extremities with chips & short closed tears). "...describes in some detail the evolution of book design in Europe..... More
San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. xii, 386pp. Printed presentation card from the Huntington laid in. Brown cloth covered boards; gilt titles to the spine; original brown printed dust jacket. Book in near fine condition (light wear to extremities; minor shelfwear; small stain to bottom page..... More
Santa Barbara, CA: Bradford Morrow Bookseller, 1980. 1st. Hardcover. Harry Valentine's Xerox manuscript, typed, single page (8 1/2 x 11"). Collated and complete. With TLS from Morrow to Valentine noting this to be one of three copies, the other two being sent to the printer and to John Payne. Near..... More
Milan: Electa Editrice, 1955. First edition; limited to 1000 copies. 4to. 74pp. Black & white illustrations; facsimile copies of autographed pages, etc. Salmon paper covered boards; titles on paper labels to front board and spine. All edges neat and clean. Near fine. More
Milan: Electa Editrice, 1955. First edition; limited to 1000 copies. 4to. 74pp. Black & white illustrations; facsimile copies of autographed pages, etc. Salmon paper covered boards; titles on paper labels to front board and spine. All edges neat and clean. Near fine. A bibliography of Bernard Berenson's works on Renaissance..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. First Edition. 8vo. xx, 732 pp. Illustrations; tables. Bibliography; Index. "... details the story of the book in Ireland from the Act of Union, which ended Ireland's lucrative exemption from British copyright, to the Irish revival." - rear cover. More
Leiden: [Brill], 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Large octavo; xii, 99pp. A Very Good copy in original mottled card stock. Covers the period 1683-1938. More