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 about THE ALLEN PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY: A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date, Including a...
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 about Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons, Volume 7: Poets and Men of Letters
Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Original blue and black buckram binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A crisp and clean, very good copy. More about Asian Literature in English: A Guide to Information Sources
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 about Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons, Volume 12: Actors
New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1958. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated. Second printing. "Excellent pictorial demonstration of the latest and most practical methods of binding magazine collections, books, and manuscripts." Original green cloth binding, with black... More about PICTORIAL MANUAL OF BOOKBINDING
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Soft cover. 300 p. Original paper wrappers. A very good copy. More about The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
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 about A SKEPTIC AMONG SCHOLARS: August Frugé on University Publishing
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 286 p. Octavo. Original burgundy buckram binding, with gilt titles. A very good copy. More about HAROLD MONRO AND THE POETRY BOOKSHOP
New York: Paul S. Eriksson, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. The first in a series of books recounting Hamilton's adventures in the autograph trade. "In a field in which uncertainty would be a passport to oblivion... More about SCRIBBLERS & SCOUNDRELS
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 about EARLY AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS AND WOOD ENGRAVERS, 1670-1870; Volume I: Main Catalogue
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 about TYPOGRAPHIA: An Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing; with...
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 about FLORILEGIUM TYPOGRAPHIA
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 about Specimen Sheets Pulled from the Wood Type in DRAWER SIX. From the Cabinet at Green Gables and a...
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 about THE PRINTERS' HANDBOOK OF TRADE RECIPES, HINTS, & SUGGESTIONS RELATING TO LETTERPRESS AND...
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 about CHILDREN OF THE SERIES & HOW THEY GREW, or A Century of Heroines & Heroes, Romantic,...
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 about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NAPOLEON: A Systematic Collection Critically Selected
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 about FIVE FINE PRINTERS: Jack Stauffacher, Adrian Wilson, Richard Bigus, Andrew Hoyem, William Everson
Berkeley: Editions Koch, 2004. First Edition. Trade paperback. A series of essays by master letterpress printer Peter Koch; poet, translator, and typographer Robert Bringhurst; punchcutter, type designer, typefounder, and poet Dan Carr; master stonecutter and... More about CARVING THE ELEMENTS: A Companion to the Fragments of Parmenides
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. A descriptive bibliography of American diaries and journals written before the American Civil War. From the library of Carl I. Wheat, with his... More about AMERICAN DIARIES: An Annotated Bibliography of American Diaries Written Prior to the Year 1861
Berkeley: Peter Koch, Printer, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Designed and printed letterpress from photo-polymer plates by Peter Koch, with the assistance of Richard Seibert, in an addition of 500 copies. The typefaces are Adobe Caslon... More about DIOGENES: Defictions
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 about SPECIMEN PAGES OF KOREAN MOVABLE TYPES: Collected and Described by Melvin McGovern
New York: Phaidon, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. "The present publication is concerned with the period 1400-1425 when the passion of French painters and their patrons for pictures in books led to one of... More about FRENCH PAINTING IN THE TIME OF JEAN DE BERRY: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries - Text and...
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 about DOCUMENT STORIES: A Pastiche of Articles
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: The Press of Appletree Alley, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 150 numbered copies. Edited by Mary Chenoweth Stratton, with an introduction by Charles Mann and wood engravings by Linda Holmes. Octavo. Hand-set... More about PRINTING AS ART: William Morris & His Circle of Influence
London: Mansell, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Edited, with introductions, by A.N.L. Munby. London: Mansell with Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1971. Reproduces in facsimile the catalogues of the libraries of Thomas Gray, William Hayley, Thomas Day... More about Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons, Volume 2: Poets and Men of Letters