Boston: American Type Founders Co., 1898. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. green pictorial publisher's cloth. A.E.R. 946 pp. Illustrated. Spine titled. Cloth worn to spine and edges, stain to spine foot. Publishers loan bookplate, dated at Boston, 10/7/1898. Pencil ownership inscription to ffep. 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
Hitchin, Hertfordshire: G.W. Russell and Son Limited Educational Handicrafts. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. 16mo. N.d., [ca. 19--?] Bookbinding as a School Subject, Pamphlet No. 5. Orig. tan card wrappers, staple bound. 16 pp. B&W illustrations. Two samples of marbled paper tipped in. Sticker ghost to foot of front cover. Booklet..... 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
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi, 367 p.p. with extensive bibliography and notes, [12] p.p. illustrations and photographs. Light rubbing to jacket, extremities. Stiff boards. A fine copy. This book discusses the work of two scholars from Roman Caesaria, Origin and Eusebius and..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. Hardcover. 4to. Orig. yellow cloth. 238 pp. Dust jacket rubbed to spine, a few short tears, some light soiling. About fine in very good jacket. More
Grimsby: Grimsby Public Art Gallery, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Limited edition. The 20th Annual gathering of Private Press Printers, Hand Bookbinders, Hand Paper Makers & Marblers. #44/130 copies. Three quarters blue cloth, grey paper front board, unlettered spine, silver lettering to front board. Marbled endpapers by Jan Suk. Bound..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1893. First Edition. Soft cover. 32mo. Green cloth, 163pp. Light wear to spine and edges, o/w near fine. Advice on how to read, select literature and authors. More
Toronto: Viking Canada, 2009. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quarter burgundy paper, russet paper boards. 274 pp. Patch of sunning to top edge of text block, else fine. What would you do for the love of a good book? For John Charles Gilkey, the..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 9.5" x 7" Oblong. Orig. grey cloth. viii, 74 pp. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket lightly creased to edges, small chips to corners, a few short tears to edges and 1.5" tear to foot of front cover. An unusual memorial to..... More
New York: PM Publishing Company, 1937. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. August 1937. Orig. pictorial card wraps. 64 pp. Illustrated. Wraps are deeply toned, heavily creased to extremities, lightly damp stained. Chip to head of rear cover. An Intimate Journal for Production Managers, Art..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Full navy paper boards. xv, 359 pp. Spots of sunning to spine foot. Dust jaket is price clipped, bumped at spine head. Fine overall. The seven volumes of The Fleuron -- a Journal of Typography were published between 1923..... More
Vancouver: Flamingo Press, 2004. Limited Edition. No Binding. 2.75" x 4.25" "50 sets of these Title Page Cards have been printed on a Canon colour printer by Robert R. Reid, who selected the title pages to be included and made the boxes to hold the cards. This is set No..... More
New York: Random House, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full black paper boards. xvii, 601 pp. A few light bumps to edges of dust jacket. Fine condition overall. In The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. He shakes..... More
New York: Southstreet Seaport Street Museum, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Limited first edition, printed in an edition of 300. Quarter maroon leather, marbled paper boards. 125 pp. Fine. Errata laid in. More
Sheffield: Stephenson, Blake & Co., 1924. Hardcover. 4to. Presentation copy from Robert Blake to Laurence Whistler, with presentation letter on publisher letterhead dated 1945 laid in. Orig. brown cloth, gilt titles. Publisher's patterned endpapers. xiv, [2], 702 pp. Illustrated. Spine cocked and shaken. Rubbing to extremities, wear to spine ends..... More
New York: The Stevens-Nelson Paper Corporation. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. N.d., (ca. 1953 per specimens). Quarter black Nigerian goatskin, gilt titling, marbled paper boards. Unpaginated, 107 specimens are numbered to lower corner of verso (except SN70, numbered to recto instead), each with detailed descriptions of the paper and the typography..... More
Pasadena: The Castle Press, 1949. Limited Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. 1 of 300 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom as a limited edition for fellow typophiles, friends of the press, and the author.Orig. blue card wrappers, saddle stitched. Unopened. 21 pp. Collotype portrait frontis. Sunning and light bumping to extremities. Slight..... More