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FINE BINDING IN AMERICA

By: Thompson, Elbert A.; and Thompson, Lawrence S

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Beta Phi Mu, 1956.: 1956.

Seller ID: 5987

Condition: Good

Beta Phi Mu, 1956.. 1956.. Good. - Octavo, brown boards stamped in blind. Bumped. Spine perished (lacking). 44 pp. plus 4 leaves of B&W plates. Color frontispiece on tissue. Ex- library with numerous markings & labels. Despite the spine lacking, the book is a good, tight working copy.
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AMERICAN LITERARY ANNUALS & GIFT BOOKS 1825 - 1865

By: Thompson, Ralph

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1936.: 1936.

Seller ID: 4703

Condition: Very good

New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1936.. 1936.. Very good. - Octavo, navy blue cloth titled in gilt. The binding is lightly rubbed with some light spotting & 2 white score marks to the rear cover. [viii] & 183 pages. The endpapers are lightly foxed & darkened around the edges. There are some neat red underlinings in the catalog section & an additional typed entry has been glued to one page. There is occasional light soiling. Very good.

First edition. First Edition.
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PRINTING HISTORY: The Journal of the American Printing History Association. [No.] 5. Volume III, Number 1, 1981

By: Thompson, Susan; editor

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: American Printing History Association, 1981.: 1981.

Seller ID: 7203

Condition: Very good

New York: American Printing History Association, 1981.. 1981.. Very good. - Large octavo, color pictorial wraps. Rear wrap lightly soiled; tiny stain to head of spine. 48 pp. Illustrated with B&W facsimiles. Very good.

Issue on Renaissance books and printing.
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SCIENTIFIC BOOKS LIBRARIES AND COLLECTORS. A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to Science.

By: Thornton, John L.; and Tully, R.I.J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London: The Library Association / Chaucer House, Malet Place, 1954.: 1954.

Seller ID: 36076

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are lightly rubbed and soiled, the spine darkened and title faded. x & 288 pages, illustrated with 12 plates. The endpapers and pastedowns are darkened and foxed. Very good.

First edition. First Edition.
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CHECK LIST OF FIFTEENTH CENTURY PRINTING IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY

By: Thurston, Ada; and Buhler, Curt F.; compilers

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1939.: 1939.

Seller ID: 29328

Condition: Very good

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1939.. 1939.. Very good. - Small quarto [10-1/2 inches high by 7-3/8 inches wide], dark gray cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed with a small tear to the bottom corner of the front cover. The head of the spine is lightly chipped & there is a small stain to the tail. xv & 348 pages. Very good.

First edition. 1850 volumes of incunabula are listed with an index of printers and places, and of authors and titles. First Edition.
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THE PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Volume Seventy-One, Second Quarter, 1977.

By: Todd, William B., editor.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1977.: 1977.

Seller ID: 35861

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, printed green wrappers. pp. 137-256. The edges are lightly foxed and the corners are bumped. Very good.

The contributions include: "'The Woefull Lamentation of Mistris Jane Shore': The Popularity of an Elizabethan Ballad" by James L. Harner; "The Texts of Allen Tate's 'Ode to the Confederate Dead'" by Lawrence Kingsley.
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THE PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Volume Seventy-Two, Third Quarter, 1978.

By: Todd, William B., editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1978.: 1978.

Seller ID: 35862

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, printed blue wrappers. pp. 287-402. The edges are lightly foxed. Very good.

The contributions include: "Biography and the Literary Executor: The Case of Mary Shelley" by Paula R. Feldman; "W. Somerset Maugham's 'Strictly Personal': A Missing Chapter" by Robert L. Calder; "'Clarifying and Enriching': Waugh's Changing Concept of Anthony Blanche" by Robert Murray Davis.
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THE PAPERS OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Volume 73, No. 2, April-June, 1979.

By: Todd, William B., editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Austin, TX: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1979.: 1979.

Seller ID: 36688

Condition: Very good

- Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wrappers. pp. 145-286. The edges are lightly foxed. The binding is lightly soiled. Very good. The contributions include: Leo Miller: "Milton and Vlacq"; James Gilreath: "The Benjamin Huebsch Imprint"; Larry Schaaf: "The First Photographically Printed and Illustrated Book".
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A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINCIPAL MODERN PRESSES PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. With an Introduction by B. H. Newdigate

By: Tomkinson, G. S

Price: $40.00

Publisher: (San Francisco: Alan Wolsy Fine Arts, 1975).: 1975).

Seller ID: 6204

Condition: Fine

(San Francisco: Alan Wolsy Fine Arts, 1975).. 1975).. Fine. - Octavo, dark green cloth titled in silver. 238 pp. Illustrated with B&W facsimiles. Near fine.

A reprint of the original 1928 published by The Club.
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A MONOGRAPH ON PRIVATELY-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. A PLEA FOR BIBLIOMANIA

By: Tredwell, Daniel M

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Brooklyn: Fred. Tredwell, 1882.: 1882.

Seller ID: 7055

Condition: Good

Brooklyn: Fred. Tredwell, 1882.. 1882.. Good. - 8vo, original printed wraps bound into maroon cloth (bumped, rubbed & stained; leather label rubbed from spine; top & front edge of rear cover darkened). [viii] & 161pp. (front hinge cracked; new endpaper detached & chipped at front edge; some light staining to original wraps; occasional soiling). Illustrated with a vignette & decorations. Good.

A classic work on the practice of "extra" illustrating books Dust jacket present.
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HANDMADE PAPER TODAY: A worldwide survey of mills, papers, techniques and uses.

By: Turner, Silvie; and Skiold, Birgit.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York: Frederic C. Beil, (1983).: (1983).

Seller ID: 37549

Condition: Very good

AMERICAN ARTIST SUSAN HOCKADAY'S COPY, SIGNED BY HER WITH SEVERAL SAMPLES OF VERY FINE JAPANESE GOSSAMER PAPER LAID IN - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide. Green cloth titled in silver on the spine and in blind on the front cover, in a printed green dust wrapper. The dust jacket's spine is faded. 280 pages, with profuse photographic illustrations. Fine in a very good dust wrapper. First American edition. American graphic artist and paper maker Susan Hockaday's copy, signed by her "Hockaday" at the top of the front endpaper. Laid into the book is a two page autograph letter ad...
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THE PRACTICE OF TYPOGRAPHY

By: Updike, Daniel Berkeley

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, 1961.: 1961.

Seller ID: 26693

Condition: Fine

Iowa City, IA: The Prairie Press, 1961.. 1961.. Fine. - sc 13-1/2"x9" broadside printed on tan stock with the title in red & black at top followed by a grayish-blue vignette. Folded twice with colophon on the verso. Near fine.

"Designed, hand set and printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press....The types are Eric Gill's Perpetual Titling capitals and Joanna."
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ENGRAVED BOOKPLATE, SIGNED WITHIN THE ENGRAVING, for Rudolf and Gertrud Lange. (In RICHARD WAGNER AN MATHILDE WESENDONK: Tagebuchblatter und Briefe 1853--1871. Siebenundzwanzigste durchgesehene Auflage)

By: Volkert, Hans

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Dunker, 1906.: 1906.

Seller ID: 16728

Condition: Very good

Berlin: Verlag von Alexander Dunker, 1906.. 1906.. Very good. - Octavo, brown cloth titled in gilt with decorations in dark brown on the front cover & spine. The binding is rubbed & lightly bumped. xxxv, 366 & [2] pages with 3 facsimiles,including 1 folding facsimile, in the rear. 4 plates with tissue guards, including a sepia-toned portrait frontispiece. The page edges are slightly darkened. There are a very few pencil markings. Very good.

A beautiful engraving of a lake with wildflowers and a birch tree with delicate branches hanging down in the foreground and a forest on the far side of ...
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THE NORTH-EAST BOOK TRADE TO 1860: Imprints and Subscriptions.

By: Wallis, Peter John.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1977.: 1977.

Seller ID: 35671

Condition: Good

- Quarto [11-5/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide], softcover. Stapled self-wrappers. vi & 18 mimeographed pages. There is some light soiling to the title page & the bottom corners of the last 2 leaves are creased. Good.

PHIBB 153, issued by the Project for Historical Biobibliography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Details the imprint and subscription material used in the Supplement to C. J. Hunt's "The book trade in Northumberland and Durham to 1860".

Uncommon.
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ICUNABULA IN THE GENNADIUS LIBRARY. (Reprinted from Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture. New Series, Number 2, 1971)

By: Walton, Francis R

Price: $15.00

Publisher: (Cleveland, OH/London, U.K.: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1971).: 1971).

Seller ID: 7130

Condition: Very good

(Cleveland, OH/London, U.K.: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1971).. 1971).. Very good. - Squarish octavo, B&W decorative wraps. Very lightly soiled. pp. 7-20 & 4 pages of B&W facsimiles. Very good.

Inscribed by the author.
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CAMBRIDGE STREET LITERATURE

By: Ward, Philip

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, U.K.: The Oleander Press, (1978).: (1978).

Seller ID: 6295

Condition: Fine

Cambridge, U.K.: The Oleander Press, (1978).. (1978).. Fine. - Octavo, printed boards. 64 pp. Illustrated with B&W facsimiles. Near fine.
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THE STUDENT'S GUIDE TO WESTERN CALLIGRAPHY: An Illustrated Survey.

By: Whalley, Joyce Irene.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1984.: 1984.

Seller ID: 5798

Condition: Very good

- Quarto, printed wraps. Lightly rubbed & soiled. 188 pp. Illustrated. Very good.

First edition.

From the library of Fridolf Johnson with his ink name. First Edition.
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THE UNPUBLISHED LECTURES OF WILLIAM MORRIS. Edited and compiled by Eugene D. Lemire

By: William, Morris

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1969.: 1969.

Seller ID: 4780

Condition: Fine

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1969.. 1969.. Fine. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. A price-sticker has been removed from the front panel of the dust wrapper. 331 pages plus colophon. Near fine.

First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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THE GROLIER CLUB: Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Members. Reports of Officers and Committees for the Year 1928

By: Wilmerding, Lucius; President; et al

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: The Grolier Club, 1929.: 1929.

Seller ID: 30736

Condition: Very good

New York: The Grolier Club, 1929.. 1929.. Very good. - Small octavo, tan paper covered boards. The head & tail of the spine are creased & there is a tiny stain below the titling. 116 pages plus colophon. Near fine.

Limited edition of 625 copies printed at the Gilliss Press.
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THE GROLIER CLUB: Officers, Committees, Constitution and By-Laws, Members. Reports of Officers and Committees for the Year 1929

By: Wilmerding, Lucius; President; et al

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: The Grolier Club, 1930.: 1930.

Seller ID: 30737

Condition: Very good

New York: The Grolier Club, 1930.. 1930.. Very good. - Small octavo, tan paper covered boards. The binding is very slightly bumped with a light score mark to the front cover. The head & tail of the spine are lightly creased. 112 pages plus colophon. Near fine.

Limited edition of 650 copies printed at the Gilliss Press.
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