Chicago: The Charles T. Powner Co., 1946. Soft cover. 9.25" x 5.75" Oblong soft cover. 64 ff. Printed to recto only. Some creasing to covers, rubber ownership stamps. More
New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Limited edition, printed for 3000 subscribers. Printed geometric paper covered boards. Unpaginated. Deckled edges. Boards are age toned. Some light rubbing to covers and extremities. Offsetting from illustrations to interior. Each section is designed and printed in a distinctive..... More
New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1931. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Printed paper covered boards, with Art Nouveau-style design. Unpaginated. Deckled edges. Some light rubbing to covers and extremities. Offsetting from illustrations to interior. Laid-in pamphlet of Recent Accessions to the Collection of Graphic Arts, Prints, December 1931. A beautiful collection of..... More
Jersey City, NJ: American Type Founders, 1923. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. navy cloth, dated by hand to spine. Speckled edges. 1148 pp. Rubbed to extremities, worn to corners and spine head, spine tilted, damp staining and scuffing to boards. Front hinge cracked. Interior soiled. More
Jersey City, NJ: American Type Founders, 1923. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, dated by hand to spine. 1148 pp. Recently professionally rebacked, orig. backstrip laid down, cloth repairs to boards. Orig. spine faded and soiled, orig. cloth soiled, rubbed and scuffed. Soiling and light damp staining to edges of text block..... More
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). Tan cloth, paper printed spine label, 137pp. With [4pp] prospectus laid-in. Owner name on ff/ endpaper, light foxing on prospectus. A fine copy. 1 of 500 limited copies. Reproduced in Facsimile. More
Chicago: Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (super). Black textured cloth. 532 pp., 7 pp. index. Rebacked, orig. backstrip laid down. Spine tilted, rubbing to extremities. Scuffing to edges of text block. More
Chicago: Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (super). N.d., [ca. 1907?]. Orig. brown cloth. A.E.R. xx, 1022 pp. Rebacked, new spine with black lettering. Spine tilted, rubbing and some wear to extremities, damp staining to boards and top edge of text block. Scuffing to edges of text block..... More
Cape Town: The Society of Bibliophiles in Cape Town, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (medium). Brown cloth, gilt lettered spine, 56pp, illustrated in color. As New in Fine, unclipped d/w. More
New York: Bonney and Liveright, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth, red printed paper illustration at mid front cover, ix, 461pp, including bibliography of classics and well loved literature, bookplate on front pastedown, light foxing throughout, spine ends and boards worn, faded, but near fine. More
San Francisco: Fine Print, Bedford Arts, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full grey cloth. 147 pp. Illustrated. Some bumping to extremities of dust jacket. About fine. More
London: Cassell and Company, 1899. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. russet cloth. 228 pp., ads. Chafed to extremities. Front hinge cracked. Interior very clean. Browning to advertisements. More
London & Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo. Decorative green and blue paperboards, 51pp. Light wear to spine and edges o/w fine. More
Epping, Essex: The College of Librarianship Wales / Bowker Publishing Co., 1974. Hardcover. 8vo (royal). CLW Reprint Series No. 20. Burgundy cloth, xix, 67pp. Cloth faded, light edge wear, sticker ghost on upper rear board. Near Fine. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. red cloth. xv, 831 pp. Small black scuff to foot of front board, else fine. More
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Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1835. Hardcover. 8vo (tall). Half calf over peacock, marbled boards, xii, 398; vii, 447; vi, 462pp. Foxing, some unopened pages, corners and edges worn, light flaking on spine, else near fine. Contains myriad anecdotes about historical persons and events, unusual books, and the habits of book-collectors..... More
York, England: Robert D. Delittle, 1962. Hardcover. 17.25" x 10.75" May 1962, "All previous lists withdrawn." New black cloth binding, burgundy leather spine label. New endpapers. Orig. front wrapper bound in. Unnumbered leaves, [119 ff.]. Extensive paper repairs. Scarce. "In 1888, Robert [Duncan] DeLittle set up his woodletter factory in..... More
Cambridge, MA: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, The Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, 1985. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Orig. printed grey card wrappers. 114 pp. Colour frontis + B&W illustration in text. Covers are age toned, rubbing to extremities. Damp staining to lower corner of text block..... More
Haarlem: De Erven F. Bohn, 1908. Hardcover. Folio. Tan cloth, gilt titles and ornate borders and panels. xxxiv, 404 pp. Illustrated. Boards lightly soiled, damp stained, and edge worn. Some edge toning to text block. More
Hamden, CT: Archon Book, 1977. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (crown). Revised and Enlarged. Green cloth, 235pp, frontispiece, bookplate on front free end-paper. Fine. More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1949. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 4to (large). Yellow wrappers, with illustration of Theseus wrestling Minotaur on upper front cover, unpaginated [aprox. 45pp] with [7] tipped-in monochrome plates, exhibition flyer laid-in, covers somewhat soiled and sunned, lower spine chipped, tear at upper rear cover. 1 of 1200..... More
New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1978. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Soft cover. 72 pp., LXXII plates. Light chafing to extremities, creasing to front joint. Else fine. More
Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan, 1993. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8vo (imperial). Blue soft cover, 311pp. Text in English, Greek and Russian. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs throughout.Inscribed by Frans Janssen, the former director of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica in Amsterdam on front free endpaper. Fine. Special exhibition..... More
Berkely: University of California Press, 1977. Soft cover. 8vo (medium). Soft cover, xviii, 170pp. Illustrated. Light creasing and edge wear at covers, near fine. More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1940. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. 8vo. First trade edition. Orig. tan cloth, black labels with gilt titles. xviii, 170 pp. B&W illustrations. Spine slightly darkened, light rubbing to extremities. Free endpapers substantially cropped to upper corner. More