San Francisco: circa 1934. Wraps. Type specimen catalogue, oblong octavo (8” x 5”), 44 p. Original decorative paper wrappers, profusely illustrated. Text in Chinese with some English. Remarkable condition, with only some mild toning to..... 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
London: Mansell, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 256 p. Edited, with introductions, by Hugh Amory. London: Mansell with Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1973. Reproduces in facsimile the catalogues of the libraries of Francis Atterbury, Lady Mary..... More
London: Mansell, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 601 p. Edited, with introductions, by James Fullarton Arnott. London: Mansell with Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1975. Reproduces in facsimile the catalogues of the libraries of David Garrick, John..... More
Philadelphia: Privately Printed, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by Frederic W. Goudy on a prefatory blank leaf. An affectionate portrait of the American printer, artist, and type designer, issued in celebration..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955-1991. First Edition. Hardcover. A complete set of the indispensable BAL. Compiled for the Bibliographical Society of America, it delineates some 35,000 works by 300 American authors, from Henry Adams..... More
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap. 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
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Soft cover. 300 p. Original paper wrappers. A very good copy. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 365 p. Numerous textual illustrations. Presentation copy, inscribed by Frugé to the distinguished Southern California historian Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. opposite the title page. Octavo. Original..... More
Fallbrook, California: The Weather Bird Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 150 copies signed by Vance Gerry. History of the celebrated Los Angeles fine press, together with a detailed checklist of the 22 publications..... More
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 286 p. Octavo. Original burgundy buckram binding, with gilt titles. A very good copy. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. A Catalogue of a Collection of American Books Illustrated for the most part with Woodcuts and Wood Engravings in the Princeton University Library, with an Introductory Sketch..... More
London: Gregg Press Ltd, 1966. Hardcover. Facsimile of the 1825 first edition. Illustrated with engravings, biographical notices, and portraits, including five folding plates. A volume in the English Bibliographical Sources series. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth..... More
Van Nuys, California: Richard J. Hoffman, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 154 p. A culling of matrix fonts for line-casting machine setting: a printer's bouquet of types from the Printing Office of Richard Hoffman, Van Nuys..... More
Santa Cruz, California: Quadq Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. "The handmade paper pasted on boards for the cover is from Peter Papermaker, Santa Cruz. The larger Gene Holtan woodcuts are printed on mouldmade Nideggen from..... More
London: The Chiswick Press, 1891. Second Edition, Enlarged and Classified. Hardcover. Small octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. Period previous owner's signature to the front flyleaf. Mild foxing to the fore-edge and the..... More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. The first book published specifically to aid scholars in the identification and description of the 20th century..... More
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 218 p. Octavo. Original tan cloth binding, with black titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
London: Lund Humphries, 1981. First Edition. Trade paperback. Inscribed by the authors to fine press printer Pall Bohne (Bookhaven Press) on the half-title, with a New Year's postcard from "Lida & David" laid in. A...... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd., 1902. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, limited to 40 copies. Octavo. This copy has been rebound in one-half brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt titles and..... More
Davis, California: Library Associates, University Library, University of California, Davis, 1979. First Edition. Trade paperback. Limited to 1,000 copies. The catalogue to an exhibition held at University of California, Davis from February 22 to April..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Kim Chewon, Director, National Museum of Korea. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1966. First edition, a limited edition of 300 copies, 95 of which..... More
1829. An autograph letter signed (ALS) by John Meehan, the fourth American appointed to the post of Librarian of Congress. The letter was written to United States Senator Samuel Smith of Maryland seeking advice about..... More
Seattle, Washington: Elton-Wolf Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "A collection of 26 separate articles on subjects as diverse as George Washington's lottery ticket, the building of the Panama Canal, the Scopes 'Monkey Trail,' A.P. Giannini..... More