To My Brethren of the Pen
. Privately Printed, 1927. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. One of 150 copies. A fine copy.
Unpaginated. Shoestring tie. Letter to Mr. William R. Kane, Editor of The Editor.
. Privately Printed, 1927. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. One of 150 copies. A fine copy.
Unpaginated. Shoestring tie. Letter to Mr. William R. Kane, Editor of The Editor.
New York: Greenberg Publisher, 1930. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition. Number 168 of 1050 copies. No jacket. Boards soiled, spine label rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pencil marginalia.
xi, 171 pp. Authors included: Maurice Baring; James M. Barrie; Max Berrbohm; Rupert Brooke; Lewis Carroll; Joseph Carroll; Joseph Conrad;.....
New York: James G. Gregory, 1862. Darley, F.O.C. Full-Leather.
Printed on flyleaf is the following text: 'Presented to Chas. Knickerbocker, by the Steel Plate Engravers of the Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. 'as a mark of esteem' and dated 1872, which seems to indicate this volume was custom-bound for.....
California: Dharma Publishing, 1986. Large Softcover.
Sticker remains on rear cover, covers rubbed with some creases.
64 pp. CONTENTS: The Buddhist Teachings: A Brief Introduction; Dharma Publishing in America; Sacred Art Publication Project; Books and Art Reproductions, 1969-1986; New Books from Dharma Publishing; Dharmart Designs Cards and Gifts Items; Information.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Edges rubbed, pencil notes on rear free endpaper.
524 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Ancient Methods of Book Illustration; Early West-Christian--Byzantine and Allied Illumination; Hiberno-Saxon, Carolingian, and Ottonian Illumination; Islamic, Hebrew, and Mozarabic Illumination; The Golden Age of.....
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. 2nd Printing. Soft Cover.
2nd printing. Tiny scrape to cover.
176 pp. We all know we're not supposed to judge books by their covers, but the truth is that we do just that nearly every time we walk into a bookstore or pull a......
London: C. Corbett, 1740. Reissue. Hard Cover.
No publication date, circa 1740 according to ESTC T110556. Rebound in green cloth with gilt titles and new end sheets and flyleaves by Mutual Library Bindery, Inc. in 1959 (their stamp on rear flyleaf). It appears the work, which was probably initially issued.....
Bethesda, Maryland: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Library of Medicine, 1967. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Onionskin jacket slightly toned. Top page ridge faintly foxed.
xii, 698 pp. Garrison-Morton 6786.12: "Describes with pagination and some collations, approximately 4,800 items printed betwen 1501 and.....
. Northland Press, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author on front fre endpaper with inscription, "For Bill - Western art collector and buff - with the warm personal regards of the author." Jacket spine and edges toned.
xiii, 192 pp. A preeminent book collector and historian.....
Orlando: Harvest / Harcourt, Inc., 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
469, [3] pp. Color illustrations. Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book he has ever read, every line of poetry.....
Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Board corners bumped.
260 pp. Partonopeus de Blois is one of the most important works of twelfth-century French fiction; it shaped the development of romance as a genre, gave rise to adaptations in several other medieval languages and even an.....
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed twice by author. Presentation copy to author's cousin. No jacket. Board corners rubbed and bumped.
xiii, 304 pp. Illustrated. A history of publishing, American literature, English publishers, and various authors.
New York: Vintage Books, 2015. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Light edge wear.
352 pp. Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. .....
New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1911. Full-Leather.
Edges rubbed.
xxi, 171 pp. Tipped in frontispiece and several illustrations. Contents include: Introduction; Comfort Found in Good Old Books; The Greatest Book in the World; Shakespeare Stands Next to the Bible; How to Read the Ancient Classics; The Arabian Nights and Other.....
Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1945. Limited Edition. Hard Cover.
Limited edition, one of 525 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase. Slipcase edges rubbed, corners exposed, top seam just beginning to split.
xii, 38 pp. 35 facsimile plates, including fold-outs. Foreword by Carl H. Pforzheimer, introductory essay and notes by Fannie.....
. 1948. Facsimile. Soft Cover.
1948 facsimile of 1744 original. #103 of 250. Minor tears to wrappers.
16, [5] pp. In 1744, Franklin published “A Catalogue of Choice and Valuable Books, Consisting of Near 600 Volumes, in most Faculties and Sciences,” whose title page laid out the terms of sale.....
New York: At the Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1958. Hard Cover.
Includes publisher's slipcase and glassine jacket. Ink gift note on front endpaper, jacket and slipcase a bit toned.
Unpaginated. Introduction by James J. Rorimer. "The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, or Belles Heures.....
Watkins Glen, New York: Century House, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips and small tears. Cloth boards lightly soiled.
128 pp. Covers the three Rs and elementary texts from the days of the New England Primer and MacGuffey's Reader down to the.....
Oxford / Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine head bumped. Front gutter bumped.
x, 438 pp. "...presents an historiographical panorama of considerable intrinsic interest while also serving as a necessary guide for anyone who comes to the study of Wittgenstein for the first.....
Rochester, New York: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2012. Large Softcover.
Still in original plastic wrap.
66 pp. "Edges of Books examines a familiar form from an unfamiliar perspective. When books are on display it is usually their spines, covers, text, or illustrations that are featured. These are the familiar.....
Rochester, New York: RIT Press, 2014. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. A fine copy.
83 pp. Since its founding in 1969, the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology has grown from the personal library of its namesake Melbert B. Cary Jr., to one of the nation's.....
Kent: Midas Books, 1978. Reissue. Large Hardcover.
Reissue. An exceptional copy.
407 pp. Includes over 400 illustrations. A comprehensive study of one of Britain's most influential schools of art, and of its birth and development from its international forebears. Commencing with Palaeolithic engraving, influencing the wood engraving of Henry Moore.....
. Plume, 2022. Gavino, Kate. 1st Printing. Large Hardcover.
First printing. An exceptional copy.
270 pp. A Career in Books is a graphic novel for everyone who's wanted to "work with books" and had NO idea what it entailed. It's for those who were taken aback by that first paycheck.....
Chicago: The Cuneo Press, Inc., 1933. Limited Edition. Soft Cover.
Limited edition, #140 of 500 copies, hand-numbered on colophon. Laid in is a 1934 broadside folded once on the top edge detailing the history of the work, as well as a newspaper article with more background. Faint crease on rear.....
Morningside Heights, New York: Columbia University Press, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some tears, jacket spine toned.
xiii, 397 pp. A survey of classical Greek and Latin literature, books, and other tools to better understand this period.