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The Typophiles, 1936, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First

Limited, Numbered Edition. Size: 6" X4". Text unmarked. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Jacket in new Brodart protector. Rare typographic history. Printed in an edition of only 125 (this #122).. 54 pp. Plus numerous specimen pages from various presses. Paper over board binding. 35 "calligraphic, typographic, and bibliographic rambles" in the realm of the ampersand, each contributed by a Typophile. ... More Text...

Pynson Printers, 1930, Hardcover (Printed Boards), Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First, Illustrated By: Howard Cook

The Colophon, A Book Collectors' Quarterly, Part 3, New York: Pynson Printers, 1930. Quarto, unpaginated, printed boards. Includes the Howard Cook woodcut Paris Night, a street scene measuring about 6x3.75 inches, beautifully printed with deep, rich tones on thin japan paper. Cook was an American artist valued especially for his wood engravings, making this a fine addition ... More Text...

Pynson Printers, 1931, Hardcover (Printed Boards), Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First, Illustrated By: David B. Milne

The Colophon, A Book Collector's Quarterly, Part 5, New York: Pynson Printers, 1931. Quarto, unpaginated, printed boards. Includes the David B. Milne aquatint Hilltop, signed by Milne in pencil. The artist, a Canadian painter, print maker and writer, achieved early recognition at the Armory Show of 1913, where he had 5 paintings exhibited. The idea of using color in a ... More Text...

Groombridge, 1837, Hardcover (Half Leather), Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, Unstated

JOHN ANDREWS ARNETT. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Form of the Books of the Ancients; With a History of the Art of Bookbinding, London: Richard Groombridge, 1837. Small octavo, priority unknown here, pp. iv, 212, marbled paper-covered boards half-bound in brown morocco with gilt-stamped lettering and devices to spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, woodcut illustration. With the bookplate of the ... More Text...

Pynson Printers, 1933, Hardcover (Printed Boards), Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First, Illustrated By: Emil Ganso

The Colophon, A Book Collectors' Quarterly, Part 13, New York: Pynson Printers, 1933. Quarto, unpaginated, printed boards, parchment wrapper. Includes the Emil Ganso woodcut Bathers, measuring about 7x9 inches on thin japan paper in rich, dark tones. Ganso was a German-born American artist whose work is widely held by museums and print collectors. He's best-known for his ... More Text...

Suntup Editions, 2021, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fine, First, Signed by Author

25.5cm x 18cm. 276, [1] pages, colour illustrations. Red cloth, gilt lettering, lettered jacket, cloth box. A collection of mystery stories set in the world of books. Stories by Reed Farrel Coleman, Christopher Fowler, Anne Perry, John Connolly, Elizabeth George, F. Paul Wilson. Introduction by Otto Penzler. Illustrations by Jesus Sotes. Limited to 276 numbered copies signed by the authors and artist, of which this is number 125. Presented in a cloth box, recessed beneath a 118 blank page book with pulp crime book style wrappers. Shipped Weight: 1.6 kilos. Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9781851151270.

Taschen, 2022, Hardcover, Book Condition: New Book, Reprint

28cm x 22cm. 6 volumes, colour illustrations. Quarter imitation leather, pictorial matte papered boards. Text is multilingual, English, German, and French. Complete set of Dian Hanson's history of 20th century men's magazines, Shipped Weight: 12.48 kilos.

Pynson Printers, 1934, Hardcover (Printed Boards), Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: Fair, First

The Colophon, A Book Collector's Quarterly, Part 19, New York: Pynson Printers, 1934. Quarto, unpaginated, printed boards, with original parchment wrapper and newsletter distributed with this issue. Includes the Stow Wengenroth lithograph An Eastport Wharf. Wengenroth (1906-78), a widely collected artist, was born in Brooklyn but became known for his Maine landscapes and seascapes. Condition of this ... More Text...

Pynson Printers, 1940, Hardcover (Printed Boards), Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First, Illustrated By: Paul Landacre

The Colophon, A Quarterly for Book Lovers, V. 1, No. 4, New York: Pynson Printers, 1940. Quarto, pp. 118, printed boards. Includes the Paul Landacre woodcut Campers measuring about 8x6 inches, with deep, rich tones. Landacre was considered the premier American woodcut maker of the modern era. Condition of this book: Fine, parchment wrapper is torn. Size: Quarto. Text ... More Text...

J. Howard Brown, 1880, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

576 pages. "Being a full exposure of the various schemes operated through the mails, and unearthed by the author in a seven years' service as a special agent of the post office department and secretary and chief agent of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice". Career memoir of the United States censor in chief, who prudishness and reactionary policies we have yet to fully rid ourselves of. Decorative ... More Text...

Desertina Verlag, 1983, Hardcover (Printed Boards), Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, 1st, Signed by Author

Signed by Rutschmann. Text in French, German, Italian, Swiss. Near Fine. Text is in multiple languages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: books on books; Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 17421.

Garland Publ, 1988, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Fine, 1st

Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; ISBN: 0824006941. ISBN/EAN: 9780824006945. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 15106.

Verso, 2001, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Reprint

The top of the dust jacket is slightly crumpled. The last page of the book, the dark blue endpaper has a small crease at the top left, and there is a small brown mark on the top edge of the text block, and page 177 has also been dogeared. Inscribed on the title page by the author. Please see attached images. Hitchens provides rich evidence that his own Sally's as a political journalist are nourished by an erudite ... More Text...

Saturday Review, 1933, Softcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

WILLIAM ROSE BENET. Reviewing Ten Years, A Personal History of the Saturday Review of Literature, New York: Saturday Review Co., 1933. Octavo, pp. 24, wraps, signed by Benet and colleagues at the magazine: Christopher Morley, Amy Loveman and Henry Canby, with the bookplate of Frederic Melcher, the great bookseller and patron of the book arts. Intro says Benet, an editor at the magazine, wrote this "informal memorandum ... More Text...

Ferret Fantasy, 1979, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, First

The scarce first edition of this bibliography. Fine copy in near fine wrapper. 190 pages. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; crime; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 24468.

J. Harrop, H. Smith, 1791, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

A good set of the first three volumes, tight and sound in binders' cloth, gilt lettered on spines. Third volume has the ticket of 'Wilde Bookbinder Manchester' on the front pastedown. The text of the first two volumes is quite foxed in places but largely clean. Bindings are stamped 'Historic Society' on the spines, slightly frayed at spine tops, corners a little bumped. There are no plates. No inscriptions. Collation on request. Approx. size 9" by 6". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28130.

Rowman and Littlefield, 1980, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Fourth . Second Printing. Reprint

27cm x 18cm. 5 volumes. Green cloth, gilt lettering. And of Bibliographical Catalogues, Calendars, Abstracts, Digests, Indexes, and the Like. A reprint of the fourth and best edition, revised and greatly enlarged throughout. Minor handling wear and soiling. Very minor bumping to volume 1. Shipped Weight: 10 kilos.

Printed by Matchett, Stevenson, & Matchett, 1828, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, 1st

Author's presentation copies, each volume with a handwritten inscription by Holmes. 8 pages, 310 pages, errata page; engraving of the library building, 7 pages, 286 pages, errata page, all interleaved with blanks at each leaf; 8 pages, 295 pages, errata page; 8 pages, 224 pages. Volume 1 bound in contemporary drab boards, with paper label; Volume 2 bound in contemporary half vellum, ink lettered spine; Volumes 3 & 4 ... More Text...

Printed for W. Reed, Bell Yard, Temple Bar, 1807, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, 1st

Full Book Title: A Short View of Legal Bibliography: Containing some Critical Observations on the Authority of the Reporters and other Law Writers; collected from the Best Authorities, and Intented as a Companion to the Author's Reflections on the Study of the Law. To which is added, a Plan for Classifying a Public or Private Library. Published by Printed for W. Reed, Bell Yard, Temple Bar ... More Text...

Harvey Miller, 1993, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, 1st

371 pages, 85 illustrations. Original brown cloth, gilt lettered. Dustwrapper intact and untorn, mildly sunned to the spine. Contents clean and firm throughout. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PICTURE OF THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU MORE DETAILS. Size: 18 x 26.5 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Varied Books; Hardback; New Arrivals; ISBN: 0905203208. ISBN/EAN: 9780905203201. Inventory No: 369362.

Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, 2011, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fine, 1st

Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Classical Greece. ISBN/EAN: 9789609880367. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 20954.

Martino Fine Books, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fine, Facsimile

23cm x 15.5cm. viii, 768, [iv], 795 pages, 2 volumes. Green cloth, gilt lettering. Originally published 1967. Shipped Weight: 2.48 kilos. ISBN: 1578981247. ISBN/EAN: 9781578981243.

California Book auction Galleries, 1981, Hardcover (Embossed Cloth), Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

Special Limited Edition. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Top edge very slightly spotted or marked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Books on Books; Antiquarian & Rare. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 13124.

Gale Cengage Learning, 2009, Softcover, Book Condition: Very Good Condition

Size: 4mo - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. 1759 pp. 3-volume set (complete). Pages are tight and clean. Light shelfwear to the cover. Ex-library with minimal markings. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 6 pounds. Category: Reference; Books on Books. ISBN: 1414420838. ISBN/EAN: 9781414420837. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 109540.

Peabody institute, 1883, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No

Oversized, heavy books. Ex-library with typical marks, rebound in lightly worn black boards. Pages yellowed; some tears and chips; a reference set. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 178111.

Longman & Co, 1980, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, First

The Literature of Terror is a rich and fascinating book with two interlocking aims: first, to examine the extraordinary. diversity of the ways in which the fearful has been represented in English and American literature over the last two centuries; and, second, to explore the deeper implications of 'the Gothic' as a literary, cultural and social concept. It makes a convincing case for Gothic as ... More Text...

Egypt Exploration Exploration Society, London, 1969, 2nd, revised

A Biographical Index of Egyptologists, Explorers, Excavators, Dealers, Consuls...whose names occur in the Literature of Egyptology from 1500. Bw frontis portrait. 315 pages. Ex reference library. Maroon cloth. Title gilt spine. VG

The Leadenhall Press, 1897, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, Second

Black tooled brown grained buckram, top edge gilt, colour title page illustration and 300 other black and white illustrations, cavity designed into rear of book containing 2 of the 3 called for "horn books". Binding shelf worn especially along edges and joints. Light discolouration to text block edges but contents clean. Size: Quarto. Category: Books on Books; Britain/UK; 19th century;

Martino Publishing, 1999, Hardcover, Book Condition: Near Fine, Facsimile

23cm x 17.5cm. xlviii, 1130, [iv], 1359, [iv], 1166, [iv], 1410, [iv], 310, cix, 122, xiv, [31] pages, 4 volumes. Grey cloth, gilt lettering. Text is in French. Suite de La Second Edition des Supercheries Litteraires Devoilees Avec Une Table Generale Des Noms Reels Des Ecrivains Anonymes et Pseudonymes Cites Dans les Deux Ouvrages. Dictionary of Anonymous Works. Originally published 1872-1879. Very minor soiling to some edges. Shipped Weight: 5.41 kilos. ISBN: 1578982103. ISBN/EAN: 9781578982103.

Dawson's Book Shop, 1992, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, First

28.5cm x 22cm. 234 pages, black and white illustrations, Quarter blue cloth, grey papered boards. 2 copies of the prospectus laid in, one with original order form, laid in. Gilt lettering on spine somewhat rubbed. Minor insect damage to papered boards. Shipped Weight: 1.11 kilos. ISBN: 0870932772. ISBN/EAN: 9780870932779.

The Ashmolean Museum and National Book League in conjunction with George Allen & Unwin, 1977, Softcover, Book Condition: Good, First

22.5cm x 15.5cm. [36] pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers. At the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 14th December - 27th February, 1976-1977, and at the National Book League, 7 Albemarle Street, London W1, 2nd March - 7th April, 1977. Bump to crown fore-edge corner. Minor shelf and handling wear. Shipped Weight: .09 kilos. ISBN: 0900090421. ISBN/EAN: 9780900090424.

Hordern House, 2008, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, First

29cm x 22cm. xii, 1047 pages. Green cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated french fold jacket. A comprehensive guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas from 1850 to the early decades of the twentieth century. Shipped Weight: 2.11 kilos. ISBN/EAN: 9781875567423.

The White House Historical Association, 1967, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First, Signed by person(s) connected with book

219 pages. Light discoloring; tight square binding; very good shape. The slipcase has some discoloring and wear. First edition, limited #65/300 and signed by Lady Bird Johnson (Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Signed by person(s) connected with book. Inventory No: 203426.

Julian I. Edison, 1970, Hardcover, Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

Size: Miniature Book (2 5/8" x 2"). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Gilt-stamped maroon leather over boards, all text block edges gilt, 55 pages, illustrated in black and white. Two tiny scuff marks on spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 lb 0 oz. Category: Books on Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015721.

Ernest Benn, 1926, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fair, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

Ex-lib copy with withdrawn stamps. Publisher's blue cloth binding. Usual library markings to foot of spine, endpapers, title page, reverse of plates, etc. Good and basically sound copy but spine cloth fraying and detaching. Corners bumped. Contents very clean. Xvi + 178 pages, 6 colour plates in text + 58 b/w plates at rear, index. Approx. size 11.5" by 9.5". . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25786.

Sotheby & Co, 1965, Mixed, Book Condition: Very Good, First

The 11 volume set of quartos, a mix of hardbacks and card wrappers as issued. All in excellent condition, with no obvious defects or problems beyond a little sunning to the dark green spines. The monumental archive of the dispersal by the Robinson's of the "remains" of the immense private library built up by Sir Thomas Phillipps. Beautifully illustrated throughout, with colour and black & white phgotographs, and scholarly accompanying text along ... More Text...

Octagon Books, 1978, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good Condition

Did you hear about the engineer in Central America, who, lacking a Bible, married a couple who did not speak English by reading aloud a chapter of Tristam Shandy? That's what this book is about: Books. How we love them, how we read, collect, think, and feel about them. How we collect, steal (shame on you, Catherine deMedici), organize and read them. Everything bibliophillic. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 668 ... More Text...

Lamson, Wolffe and Company, 1896, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No

157 pages + illustrations. Ex-university library; shelf wear; some soiling to the original cloth. the pages are tanned with age but a good book still. Limited edition 235/750 copies. Rare book about bookplates. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 177977.

British Library, 1997, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: Fine, First

22 pages, 501 pages. Original blue boards, gilt lettered, with dustwrapper. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PICTURE OF THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU MORE DETAILS. Size: 15 x 22.5 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Varied Books; Hardback; New Arrivals; ISBN: 071234506X. ISBN/EAN: 9780712345064. Inventory No: 369590.

Cambridge University Press, 1989, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, 1st

19 pages, 296 pages, 4 colour plates, 198 black & white plates. Original brown cloth, gilt. Dustwrapper with some mild creases and three closed tears. The book gives the appearance of being unread. From the collection of Jean F. Preston, Curator of Manuscripts (1977-1991) and Curator of Medieval Manuscripts (1991-1993) in the Firestone Library, Princeton University; died at home in Oxford, England, in ... More Text...

D.S. Brewer & Yushodo Press, 2004, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, 1st

Colour frontis, 20 pages, 530 pages. Original hesian cloth boards, printed paper label. Issued without a dustwrapper. Mildly shaken at rear hinge due to weight of pages pulling on the binding. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PICTURE OF THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU MORE DETAILS. Size: 18.5 x 27 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Varied Books; Hardback; New Arrivals; ISBN: 1843840200. ISBN/EAN: 9781843840206. Inventory No: 369363.

John Bellows, 1895, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First, Signed by Editor

3 vols., 1895 - 18997, number 37 of 100 large paper sets, signed by the printer. Original cloth, gilt lettered. Ex library with usual marks to endpapers, bindings rubbed at edges and joints slightly frayed but a good sound set. Contents Vol. 1: Works relating to the county generally, the Forest of Dean and the City of Gloucester. Contents Vol. 2: Works relating to parishes and towns: Abenhall-Yate. Contents Vol. 3. Works relating to the city of Bristol. Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Signed by Editor. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0021922.

Faber, 1969, 2nd

With revision and additions to text and illustrations. 459 pages. 404 illustrations, including tipped in colour plates, text figures and bw plates. Ex reference library. Rear hinge starting to crack, o/w VG in dust jacket with protective sleeve

Wayzgoose Press, 1985, Softcover (with flaps), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

Size: Large Book - between A4 and A3. 94 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is faded/sunned. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Australia; Books on Books. ISBN: 0008167451. ISBN/EAN: 9780008167455. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 33295.

Hordern House, 2005, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: As New, Dust Jacket Condition: As New, First

Size: Quarto. 2-volume set (complete). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Books on Books; Australia; Australian History; Antiquarian & Rare. ISBN: 1875567461. ISBN/EAN: 9781875567461. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 13697.

Grafton, 1926, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

LYELL, JAMES P.R. Early Book Illustration in Spain, London: Grafton & Co., 1926. Quarto, No. 414 of an edition of 500, pp. xxvi, 331, orange library buckram with white lettering on spine, color frontis, extensive woodcut reproduction, ex-library with the usual library markings. Covers the 15th and 16th centuries. Condition of this book: Very good with a minor stain at the top edge, leaves age-toned at edges, images fine. ... More Text...

Oriole, 1955, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

Various writers. The Centenary of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," New Jersey: Oriole Press, 1955. Octavo, No. 50 of an edition of 70 distributed privately, pp. x, 88, paper-covered boards quarter-bound in blue cloth with paper labels to spine and front, 5-cent Whitman postage stamp attached to title page, illustrated, gift inscription on free front endpaper from editor's family, former owner's library sticker on rear ... More Text...

Duschnes Crawford, 1948, Hardcover (Printed Boards), Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First, Illustrated By: Leonard Pytlak

The New Colophon, Part 1, New York: Duschnes Crawford, 1948. Quarto, pp. 107, printed boards. Includes an untitled Leonard Pytlak serigraph measuring almost 8x11 inches, commemorating 10 years of serigraphy, a stencil process that succeeded pochoir. Condition of this book: Fine. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and ... More Text...

Duschnes Crawford, 1948, Hardcover (Printed Boards), Book Condition: Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First, Illustrated By: Benton Spruance

The New Colophon, Part 4, New York: Duschnes Crawford, 1948. Quarto, pp. [ii], 321-428, printed boards. Includes the signed Benton Spruance lithographic proof of a sketch done at Newtown, Bucks County, Pa., measuring almost 8x11 inches. Condition of this book: Fine, tears in the parchment wrapper. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner ... More Text...

Oxford, 2002, Hardcover (Quarter Leather), Book Condition: New Book, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

MICHAEL COX [editor]. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature in 2 volumes, various places: Oxford University Press, 2002. Quartos, first edition, pp. xxix, 816; ix, 483, printed boards quarter-bound in red morocco with gilt lettering to spines, in original box. Begins with Caxton and the dawn of English printing in 1474, takes you right into the 21st century. A deeply researched reference set. ... More Text...