Los Angeles: Saul & Lillian Marks, The Plantin Press, 1953. Hard Cover.
Bookplate of Phillip C. Duschnes Rare Books on rear endpaper, minor wear along board edges.
44, [2] pp. A transcription of a speech given by Elmer Adler about book collecting, addresses to the first annual public lecture on.....
Rochester, New York: Press of the Good Mountain, Rochester Institute of Technology. Soft Cover.
A fine copy.
26 pp. A chronology of print history in18th century Europe.
Rochester, New York: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2011. Soft Cover.
A fine copy.
47 pp. Ismar David belonged to a group of accomplished calligraphers who established themselves as jacket designers in New York in the 1950s. David's jacket designs are distinguished from other work of the period as powerful.....
London: House & Maxwell, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly foxed. Page ridges and pages foxed.
256 pp.William Caxton, (born c. 1422, Kent, England—died 1491, London), the first English printer, who, as a translator and publisher, exerted an important influence on English literature. In 1438 he was.....
Boston, Massachusetts: David R. Godine, 1977. Large Hardcover.
A few faint spots on top page ridge.
xvi, 250 pp. "...a narrative of how printing arrived, spread, and flourished in the American colonies--of how it gradually attained, in its finest manifestations, the status of an art--of how in this century it.....
Boston, Massachusetts: David R. Godine, 1977. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Sticker ghost on front jacket flap, top edge of jacket bumped.
xvi, 250 pp. "...a narrative of how printing arrived, spread, and flourished in the American colonies--of how it gradually attained, in its finest manifestations, the status of.....
Cambridge: Cambridge, 1951. Small Hard Cover.
Signed presentation copy signed by Carl A. Kroch of Kroch's Bookstores in Chicago. Jacket flaps and reverse foxed. Page ridges and some pages foxed.
141 pp. The original manual by Harry G. Aldis revise and brought up to date. Chapters deal with the history.....
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.....
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: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Second Edition. Trade Paperback.
Second edition. A fine copy.
xix, 384 pp. Although the importance of the advent of printing for Western civilization has long been recognized, it was Professor Eisenstein, in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change.....
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.
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.....
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.....
East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1908. [Hunter, Dard]. Full-Leather.
Boards rubbed with minor loss from edges, stain across about 1/3 of area on all pages.
71 pp. Oblong, limp leather with lighter stamped titles and borders, stiff brown endpapers. Designed by Dard Hunter, without attribution. Hunter worked for The.....
San Francisco, California: Fine Print, 1986. Stapled Binding.
Front cover foxed.
57 pp. The Review for the Arts of the Book. CONTENTS: Letters to the Editor; About the Cover; Frederic W. Goudy Award; The Punchcutter in the Tower of Babel, by Paul Hayden Duensing; Kings to Hold a Calligrapher's Inkstand.....
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1974. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Very good in good jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with small chip from top of rear edge, a few 1/2 - 1 inch closed tears.
318 pp. Color and black-and-white reproductions of artworks, as well as black-and-white photographs.....
Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 1971. Trade Paperback.
Covers foxed.
119 pp. A guide to recognition and identification of the meaning of type.
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1967. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges bumped with some tears, top edge of jacket reverse mended with tape. Top page ridge foxed.
270 pp. Over 460 magnificent and wide-ranging illustrations, of which 28 are in full colour and many more in two.....
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. Hard Cover.
Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket.
xiv, 628 pp. CONTENTS: American Publishing to 1865; Genteel Publishing in the Gilded Age; "The Commercialization of Literature:" 1900-1945; Publishing Goes Public: 1945-1965; Chronology of Publishing Events; Bibliography; Index.
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1969. 1st Printing. Large Hardcover.
First printing. Small tear to jacket edge, front jacket flap creased. top page ridge foxed.
180 pp. With 111 reproductions in gravure and four full-color reproductions. A history of American printmaking from 1670-1820.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1940. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Small tears to spine base, front hinge starting.
94 pp. A Catalogue of an Exhibition Commemorating the Five Hundredth Anniversary of the Invention of Printing.
Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1915. Hard Cover.
Spine toned, loss to spine head and spine base, front free endpaper loose but included.
vii, 263 pp. Forming a supplement to F. K. Walter's abbreviations and technical terms used in book catalogs and in bibliographies. Includes terms in nine languages. CONTENTS.....
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1918. 5th Printing. Hard Cover.
5th printing. Spine toned, top corner lightly bumped.
xxvii, [1], 373 pp. 8vo. Beige cloth spine, brown paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece caricature of Thackeray and Dickens. Plates, illustrations, photographs, and facsimile reproductions of documents.....
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1920. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Third printing. No jacket. Spine toned, top edge lightly stained, paper spine label rubbed, frontispiece recto foxed.
xxi, 373 pp. 8vo. Beige cloth spine, brown paper-covered boards, paper spine label, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece caricature of Thackeray and Dickens.....