London: Grafton & Co., 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo: xi, 707 p. with 264 illustrations. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. Internally crisp and clean. The spine is sun faded, with some light wear..... More
London: Elliot Stock, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Olive Percival, with her bookplate to the front pastedown. Olive May Graves Percival (1868-1945) was a multi-talented Los Angeles writer, photographer, gardener, artist, and..... More
Brea, California: Lawrence Clark Powell, 1996. First Edition. Wraps. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell on the half-title. A keepsake privately printed for L.C.P. and designed by Ward Ritchie for members of the Zamorano and Roxburghe..... More
Mountrath, Ireland: The Dolmen Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Definitive study of the graphic art of Irish book illustrator and stained glass artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931). Includes reproductions of two unpublished suites of illustrations, for..... More
Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 350 copies with frontispiece bookplate tipped in, from a total print run of 1,000. The British artist Reginald John "Rex" Whistler (1905-44) played an..... More
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. "Somewhat less than 500 copies printed on a variety of presses" (from the colophon). Founded by printer-poet Dave Haselwood in 1958, the Auerhahn Press published many key poets..... More
Northampton: Printed at The Gehenna Press for The University of Massachusetts, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. This is copy number 396 of 500. Thomas Bird Mosher (1852-1923) has been praised as an American Aldus, whose finely-printed..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. This is copy number 241 of 300 signed by the author. Blumenthal (1897-1990) was an American printer and publisher, typographer, and book historian. As founder of..... More
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1975. Hardcover. Includes "Chanticleer: A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press" (1936), "Pertelote: A Sequel to Chanticleer" (1943), and "Cockalorum: A Sequel to Chanticleer and Pertelote" (1949). Octavo. Original..... More
Los Angeles: The Historical Society of Southern California, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell on the half-title. An annotated list of thirty-six nonfiction books about Southern California. 12mo..... More
The Hague, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. A selection based on Wouter Nijhoff's L'Art typographique published in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of Martinus Nijhoff on January 1, 1978. Text in English..... More
Cambridge: Printed for presentation to members of The Roxburghe Club, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. A study of type specimens in the Broxbourne Collection at Cambridge University Library, with a handlist compiled by David McKitterick. Quarto..... More
Millwood, New York: The Kraus-Thomson Organization, Ltd., 1974. Hardcover. "The Cornell Petrarch Collection, and this catalogue, are the product of the character and purpose of the collector, Willard Fiske." A versatile scholar and masterly bibliographer..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. The fourth and final volume in Lady Dilke's series on French art in the 18th century. Quarto: xix, 227 p. with a frontispiece and 46 illustrations..... More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1989. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies. A reissue of the author's first book, published in 1932, with the companion volume published six years later. "Carter's research into publishers' bindings..... More
Mansfield Centre, Connecticut: Martino Publishing, 2002. Hardcover. Facsimile of the 1943 edition published in Glasgow. Octavo, two volumes: xv, 1- 384 p. + 385-820 p. Full blue cloth bindings, with gilt titles. Issued without dust..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. "...the first-ever study of a major Spanish sixteenth-century printing house. Its account of the Cromberger press, from which came many influential works, literary, spiritual, and historical, provides..... More
Mansfield, Connecticut: Maurizion Martino Publisher, 1995. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the the 1918-20 first edition published by the University Press in Cambridge. Limited to 150 copies. Quarto, two parts in one: vi, [1], 372 p...... More
Mansfield Centre, Connecticut: Martino Publishing, 2002. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the circa 1926 edition published by the Aberdeen University Press. Detailed catalogue of the printed books on agriculture contained in the Rothamsted Experimental Station Library..... More
Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Catalogue of the Noling (A.W.) Hurty-Peck Library, one of the world's largest collections of beverage literature, now at the University of California, Davis. Includes..... More