Philadelphia: George C. Thomas, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Bibliographical record of the private library of industrialist George Clifford Thomas (1839-1909). Highlights include a Kelmscott Chaucer, Wycliffe's English New Testament, a First Folio, George Washington letters..... More
London: The Medici Society Limited, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. This is No. 85 of 400 copies. Octavo: 27 pp. + [9] sample pages, some with color illustrations. Finely bound by C. and C. McLeish in..... 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
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Title and some reproductions in color. Divisional titles in red, marginal decorations in red and black. Inserts with some initials and decorations in color..... More
[Charlottesville]: [Published for the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum by the University Press of Virginia], 1977. Wraps. Presentation copy, inscribed by Sue Allen to noted collector Ellen K. Morris on the front endpaper. Quarto..... More
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. The first illustrated guide to this complex and controversial subject, presenting new documentary and visual evidence that books were..... More
London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the University Press, Oxford, 1939 (for 1935). First Edition. Hardcover. Established by William Lane at No 33 Leadenhall Street in London, Minerva Press is notable for creating a...... More
London: W.Griggs & Sons, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto: 12 parts in 1, with the original wrappers bound in. Features a chromolithograph of the Arms of Cardinal Wolsey and 146 additional armorial bookplates. From the..... More
Los Angeles: James Madison, 1932-1934. Wraps. Presumably a complete run of this scarce Depression-era periodical “that tells which old books, magazines, and pamphlets have value – and why. Also money-making information about autographs, dime novels..... More
San Francisco: Lawton Kennedy, 1962. First Edition. Wraps. Signed by Warren R. Howell below his foreword, and by all 13 attendees on the guest list: Perc S. Brown, Dr. Charles L. Camp, Henry H. Clifford..... More
Contes: Chez l'auteur, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 1,040 copies, with the "Differents Types de Cartonnages" pamphlet laid in. The standard Jules Verne bibliography. Text in French. Large octavo: 567, [1] pp. with 8..... More
Pasadena, California: Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press, 1949. First Edition. Wraps. Accompanied by "Something about the Years that Followed. A Supplement to 'Memories'" (4 pp.), which is laid in at the rear..... More
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Privately Printed, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 100 copies printed on handmade paper at The Torch Press. An essential reference, with an introduction by J. Christian Bay. Tall octavo: xliv, [2]..... More
A collection of 19 hand-signed bookplates designed by Jay Chambers (1877-1929), a graduate of Philadephia’s Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry who studied under the famous book illustrator and author Howard Pyle. The large..... More
Los Angeles: W.M. Cheney, 1953. Second Edition. Wraps. Limited to 100 copies. An academic parody by the Los Angeles typesticker. 12mo: xiv, 18, [1] p. Original cream paper wrappers, printed in brown. Some faint spotting..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 350 copies. Signed by Joe D'Ambrosio on the title page. "In this innovative and unusual and important artists’ book, designer Joe D’Ambrosio..... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. The most acclaimed study of the practice of impressing leather bookbindings with a stamp. Large octavo: xvi, [208] pp. with 151 illustrations of cameo book-stamps. The subjects include..... 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
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
Kalamazoo: The Private Press of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1963. First Edition. Wraps. Limited to 10 copies, the smallest limitation of any of Duensing's publications. This is the twelfth book printed by Duensing (1929-2006) and documents..... More
Seattle: The Private Press of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 50 copies. This is the eighth book printed by Paul Hayden Duensing (1929-2006). The text is an excerpt from John Earle's..... More
Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Magisterial review of the production of type-foundries in the Netherlands from the 15th to the 19th centuries. This work was begun on the occasion of the..... More
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Majory Fleming (1803-11) was a Scottish child author, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, who became posthumously famous for her free-thinking and precocious diaries. Written mainly in Edinburgh..... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. Hardcover. This is one of forty copies printed on Gampi Torinoko and specially bound. Octavo: 130, [4] pp. with a textual illustration. The title page is printed in black and..... More
Pasadena, California: The Weather Bird Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 125 copies of which 20 are deluxe. "Accumulation of the press' efforts, good and bad, presented for the edification of the dubious as..... More