n.p. n.p., 1908. Hardcover. Miniature accordion book, 2 by 3 inches, but 3 by 14 inches opened. Printed on one side only, with map pastedowns and the center section of the title text and several young ladies apparently ready to go traveling. Orange buckram boards. Signed by the maker and... More about See You There
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1948. Limited edition. Wraps. 12mo. Unpaginated (20 pp.) Wraps with printed label. A fine copy. One of 120 copies printed at the private press of Muir Dawson. The Dr. R of the title is Rosenbach. Ernest Dawson founded Dawson's Book Store in Los Angeles in... More about A Visit with Dr. R
Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 1998. Wraps. 2nd printing. 8vo. 25,(3)pp. Wraps. Inscribed by the author. A fine copy. The 1995 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography. More about Cutting Up Manuscripts for Pleasure and Profit
Charlottesville: Book Arts Press, 1998. Wraps. 2nd printing. 8vo. 32,(3)pp. Wraps. Inscribed by the author. A fine copy. The 1994 Sol. M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography. More about The Changing Face of Antiquarian Bookselling 1950-2000 A. D
Milwaukee: The Casanove Press, 1936. Limited edition. Stapled wraps. 12mo. 36pp. Printed wraps. One of 500 numbered copies; this is number 388. Inscribed to J E Reynolds from Harry W. Schwatz on the title page. Spine sunned else in very good condition. More about This Book-Collecting Racket; A Few Notes on the Abuses of Book Collecting. Part 3
New York: Thornwillow Press, n.d. Wraps. 8vo. Finely printed letterpress on 12 pp. Purple printed wraps. Two illustrations tipped-in. A fine copy. This is the announcement for the limited edition book. Laid-in are an order form and advertising materials. More about The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms -- Prospectus
Kalamazoo: Aliquando Press, c. 1976. Wraps. Oblng 4to. 8pp. sewn into printed wraps. Three pages are printed in color plus black. A fine copy. This is the prospectus for the limited edition book. With ordering materials laid in. More about Buchstobenfreude: The Delight of Letters -- Prospectus
New York: The Grolier Club, 2006. Hardcover. Oblong, 9.25 x 11.25 inches. xii, 212 pages. Frontispiece photograph of Neale Albert. Illustrated throughout with color photographs of the miniatures by photographer Tom Grill. Grey cloth, spine gilt, illustrated paste-on of a miniature book on the upper board. A fine copy. In... More about The Neal M. Albert Collection of Miniature Design Bindings: A Catalog of an Exhibition Held at...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Second impression. Original decorated blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed. Small illustrations in the text by the author, endpapers illustrated by Robert Lawson. Some paperclip marks on the half-title, else a fine... More about The Sword in the Stone (Publisher's copy
New York: Harper & Brothers, 180. Illustrated by John McLean. First edition. Hardcover. True first edition, preceding the English edition. Second state, with Mulock spelled correctly on page 261, but in first state binding with the woman on the spine in white, and with the preliminary ads dated August, 1860... More about The Woman in White
London: David Nutt, 1889-91. Hardcover. First critical edition. 4to. Three volumes in two, uniformly bound. xviii, 861,(3); 230, 2); 338(2)pp. Publisher's quarter leather, gilt spine titles, top edges gilt. Cloth boards. Volume One contains the facsimile of Caxton's edition; Volume Two contains Sommer's notes, glossary and bibliography of the Morte... More about Le Morte Darthur. By Syr Thomas Malory. The Original Edition of William Caxton
London: The Scolar Press, 1976. Limited edition. Hardcover. Three volumes, 4to. Issued in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the introduction of printing into England by William Caxton. Each volume is bound in full calf in period-style by the Eddington Bindery. Spines in five compartments with raised bands. Titles... More about Caxton Quincentennial Set: The Game of Chess (c. 1483); The History and Fables of Æsop (1484);...
New York: George P. Putnam and Co., 1854. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original publisher's maroon marbled cloth, cover with elaborate blocked design in gilt and blind with large central sunken lozenge blocked with a gilt vignette of the "southern mocking bird" signed "Tompson" (in reverse), derived from the plate facing... More about Wild Scenes and Song - Birds
Hammersmith: Kelscott Press, 1895. Limited edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 98pp. Quarter Holland binding, blue paper boards, printed title on upper board. (6),98,(8) pp. Finely printed letterpress in Chaucer type. Printed in black and red throughout. Wood-engraved frontispiece by Burne-Jones. A near fine copy with only traces of aging and wear. One... More about Syr Perecyvelle of Gales
Taos, N.M. n.p., 1968-1969. Three letters in the hand of Alexandra Fechin. The first, dated February 5, 1968, thanks her 'Dick" for a planetarium article, then complains about not receiving an earlier letter, thinking there had been trouble between them The second, to large sheets, speaks of the valuation of... More about Three autograph letters to Richard Reilly
Madrid: Viuda de Manuel Fernandez, 1757. First edition. Hardcover. Three volumes. Small 4tos. (24),240; (8),564; (8),436. Four folding copperplate maps: Vol. 1 contains the Mapa de la California, y su Costa Oriental Nuevamente Descubierta, based on Padre Kino's revolutionary map. Vol. 3 contains three maps: Seno de California; Carta de... More about Noticia de California, y de su Conquesta Temporal, y Espiritual
Mexico City: Pedro Ocharte and Antonio Espinosa, 1576. Single leaf 10 by 15 inches, printed on both sides on fine paper in red and black. The leaf begins with the chant "Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus" and a large two line woodcut 'P' in red. Near the bottom begins the... More about Folio 150 from the Graduale Dominicali, New Spain, 1576
Jersey City, NJ: American Type Founders Company, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xvi, (2), 1153-1301, (3)pp. Red buckram printed in black on the spine and upper board. All edges red. Decorative endpapers. This is the separate catalogue of machinery, furniture and equipments. A nice copy for a book usually found quite worn. More about Catalogue of Printing Machinery and Printers' Supplies
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1938. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. First trade edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 395pp. Beige buckram printed in dark green, dark green top edge, pictoral endpapers by the Illustrator. Previous owner's signature and date (1938) on the half title, else this is a fine, nearly as new... More about Trending into Maine
New York: WIlliam Morrow and Company, 1943. Illustrated by the author. First edition. Hardcover. Thin folio. (40)pp. Paper over boards printed in full color. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a very good, bright copy with only a trace of wear... More about Tweedles be brave!
London: T. Fisher Brown, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (viii),249,(iii)pp. Black cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board. Neat pencil marginalia throughout, light wear to corners and edges, else a very good copy. The major compilation and explanation of ancient Ireland's legal system. Covers Legislative Assemblies, the Classification of..... More about The Brehon Laws: A Legal Handbook
Norwalk: Easton Press, 2011. Hardcover. Five volumes. 8vo. Black leather blocked in blue and gilt; all edges gilt; moiré silk endpapers; ribbon bookmarks. A fine, new set still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Volume 2 is signed by the author. Susan Cooper's masterful fantasy set in England and Wales, incorporating English and... More about The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark is Rising, Greenwitch; The Grey...
London: Gollancz, 1983. First English edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 214pp. Red textured paper boards, gilt spine title. A fine copy in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper. Signed by Hillerman on the half title. Hillerman's description of Hopi culture and religion as a background to this Jim Chee mystery taking place in Hopi... More about The Dark Wind
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1877. Hardcover. 4to. Red leather spine, gilt; marbled paper boards; chocolate colored endpapers, top edge gilt. xx,504pp. Engraved vignettes. Light rubbing to the leather, edges of the boards are worn, but still this is a very good copy. The second edition of Lady Charlotte Guest's translation form... More about The Mabinogion from the Welsh of Llyfr Coch o Hergest (The Red Book of Hergest
Michoacán: Taller Martín Pescador, 2019. Illustrated by Artemio Rodriguez. Limited edition. Broadside. Broadside. (12 by 18 inches), finely printed letterpress by Juan Pascoe on heavy stock. This superb example of fine printing features a linocut by Artemio Rodriguez showing the famed Mexican singer Isabel Vargas Lizano (known as Chavela)... More about In Memoriam en el Centenario de Chavela Vargas
