Printing in the Americas
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1968. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Lacks jacket.
A complete overview of the printing press in the Americas, from the earliest printing of the 16th century through the present day.
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1968. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Lacks jacket.
A complete overview of the printing press in the Americas, from the earliest printing of the 16th century through the present day.
Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1979. Hard Cover.
No jacket.
xxii, 497 pp. Author Newsletters and Journals: An International Annotated Bibliography of Serial Publications Concerned with the Life and Works of Individual Authors (Volume 19 in the American Literature, English Literature, and World Literature in English Information Guide Series). CONTENTS: Preface;.....
England/Connecticut: Dawson/Archon Books, 1977. Hard Cover.
Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket.
xv, 248 pp. CONTENTS: Preface; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Alfred A. Knopf; Introduction; Manuscripts and Letters; Chronology of Hudson's Major Publications; Library Locations: Books and Pamphlets, Contributions to Books, Contributions to Periodicals, Translations, Books about W.H. Hudson;.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Spine faded.
xvi, 256 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles. Woodcut illustrations throughout. A history of book illustration and decoration, discussing rubricators and illuminators, the completion of the printed book, and books printed in Germany, Italy.....
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Spine faded.
viii, [4], 143, [3] pp. 8vo. A history of printing including chapters on: the invention of printing; the development of printing; the printer's tools; the evolution of type design; characteristics of a good book type;.....
New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Includes onion skin wrapper. Tears and chips to wrapper. Front free endpaper missing.
56 pp. CONTENTS: Foreword; The Pioneer Period (1838-1863); Development and Accomplishment (1863-1890); A New Departure (1890-1906); The Return to Educational Activities (1906-1918); Retrospect; The.....
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. Revised Edition. Hard Cover.
1951 revised edition. Top of jacket and jacket spine stained. Ink name on front paste-down endpaper.
ix, 132 pp. Frontispiece facsimile of the title page of Poe's Tales. A bibliographic history of the detective short story. A valuable reference for.....
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author with inscription, "To John, Janet and Douglas Westerberg, Yankee Peddler and fellow book and print lovers, with my best wishes. Sue Rainey June 1, 1997." Front jacket flap creased.
xvii, 383 pp. This study analyzes the.....
New York: David Lewis, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor general wear, top page ridge lightly foxed.
ix, 345 pp. CONTENTS: Books; Essays; Book Reviews; Plays and Dialogues; Stories; Poems; Translations; Miscellanea; Manuscript Locations; Correspondence; Items About Wilson; Theses and Dissertations. Edmund Wilson, byname Bunny, (born May 8.....
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Former library copy, usual marks. Jacket flaps creased.
xiv, 368, [2] pp. 8vo. A biography by the head of Scribner's Rare Book Department who went on to be the Librarian of the Lilly Collection at Indiana University. "Most of.....
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Minor loss to spine base.
xxiii, 467 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction by E.P. Cheyney; Preface; List of Abbreviations; General Works Covering the Tudor Period; Political History (1485-1603); Constitutional History (1485-1603); History of Political Theory; History of.....
Rochester, New York: D.S. Brewer, 2012. Hard Cover.
Still in shrink wrap.
212 pp. An examination of what the translation of medieval French texts into different European languages can reveal about the differences between cultures. Throughout the Middle Ages, many Francophone texts - chansons de geste, medieval romance, works by.....
Rochester, New York: Rochester Public Library, 2011. Revised Edition. Large Softcover.
Revised edition. Errata slip laid in. Rear corner bumped.
ix, 156 pp. Take a trip through the history of the Rochester (NY) Central public library and its branches, in hundreds of photographs. Photographs show the history of the city.....
New York: Jack Brussel, 1965. Large Hardcover.
Both volumes: Boards lightly soiled, page ridges lightly foxed.
xi, [1], 208; 209-398 pp. Two volume set. Bibliography of erotic literature.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing of trade edition, lacks slipcase. Spine faded, discolored smudge on front board, minor transfer from now-absent tape on endpapers, pencil name (John E. Petrick) on front endpaper.
xiv, 311 pp. Frontispiece of a page from the Gutenberg Bible.....
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
viii, 175 pp. This is a charming account of postwar book buying abroad by the "Holmes and Watson" of antiquarian books. After the war, Americans went abroad for European culture.....
Switzerland: Arthur Niggli Teufen AR, 1967. Large Hardcover.
Some small tears to jacket edges, jacket soiled. Top edge of front board bumped.
273 pp. German, English, and French text. This book is the legacy of Emil Ruder, one of the originator of Swiss Style, famous throughout the world for the.....
New York: Readex Microprint, 1963. Reissue. Hard Cover.
156 loose cards of microprinted facsimiles, each reproducing 100 leaves from the original work, in hard publisher's case.
New York: American Heritage Press, 1972. First American Edition. Large Hardcover.
First American edition. No jacket. Spine lightly faded.
303 pp. 12 x 8 1/2. "With clarity and authority, this volume tells what original prints are and shows how they are created; discusses in detail every graphic technique; gives guidelines.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Third Edition. Hard Cover.
Third edition. Jacket price clipped. Top page ridge faintly foxed, address label on front endpaper.
xiii, 976 pp. Revised throughout and with specially written chapters on American and Commonwealth Literature by R. C. Churchill.
Marbach: Schiller-Nationalmuseum, 1959. Trade Paperback.
German text. A few spots to page ridge.
A bibliography of all notable mentions of the German poet/playwright from the 18th century through the 20th century.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Small chips and tears to jacket edges, rear jacket panel lightly foxed.
480 pp. A collection of articles that were in The New Republic magazine from 1914 to 1964. Notable writers include: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.; Amy Lowell;.....
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1994. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. Half-title page creased.
159 pp. Images of beauty that will teach and inspire you to decorate your own spellbinding pages. As you gaze in astonishment through close-up reproductions of such dazzling illuminated masterpieces as the Book of.....
New York: The Fuchs & Lang Manufacturing Company, 1911. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Boards soiled, front hinge starting, ink name on half-title page, edge stained.
xii, 229 pp. 4to. Translated from the 1821 German original. Includes four figures (on one plate) depicting a lithographic press. Senefelder invented and perfected the.....
New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1993. Trade Paperback.
Wrapper edge lightly worn.
160 pp. An account of the Black press from the first Black newspaper to the integration of Black journalists into the mainstream of American journalism.