London: London Review Bookshop, 2007. Hard Cover. Limited Edition. Signed. #77/100 copies. Signed by author at top of title page and dated at bottom. No pencil or ink markings in text. One-fourth blue leather and paper covered boards. Light stains... More about THE UNCOMMON READER (Signed, Limited Edition
Comb Binding. An attractive Alphabet Book, designed by an unknown Bob Holland. Fourteen colored cardstock leaves, with illustrations and their names in black and white against colored backgrounds. Likely risograph or silkscreen printed; a late 20th century creation. Comb binding. More about ALPHABET BOOK
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2006. Octavo. Hard Cover. Limited Edition, one of 275 copies. Tiny amount of flaking to wood laminate boards; otherwise would be Fine. No marks of any kind. Over 60 attractive examples of the bookplates of... More about BOOKPLATES BY RICHARD SHIRLEY SMITH (Slipcase
London: Saint Catherine Foundation, 2004. Full Leather. Finely bound in a rich brown morocco by the well-regarded book artist Monique Lallier and signed with her stamp at the bottom of the rear board. With gilt rule to the perimeter of... More about THE LIFE AND CONTEST OF THE HOLY GREAT MARTYR, VIRGIN, AND ALL-WISE CATHERINE. SAINT...
West Chester: Aralia Press, 1988. Soft Cover. Number one in the Aralia Press Chapbook Series. Gray printed wrapper sewn. Edition limited to 125 copies. [24] printed on Ingres Laid with Spectrum Types. More about INNOCENCE
New York: Printed for the Portfolio Club at The Marchbanks Press, 1952. Signed. Signed at the top of the first blank leaf: “Compliments of B.R.” In printed stapled wrappers, [12] pages. Printed at The Marchbanks Press and limited to 250... More about THE CAMP STEELE ALPHABET
[Montclair, NJ]: Caliban Press, 1988. Sixteen letters from Bruce Rogers, selected by the designer and printed Mark McMurry. From the colophon: “The typeface is Frederick Goudy’s Garamont, set by Out of Sorts Letter Foundry and printed on Frankfurt cream paper..... More about BRUCE ROGERS. SELECTED LETTERS, 1915-1918
Cambridge: Printed for The Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Library at The University Printing House, 1971. Limited Edition. Comprised of ten letters between two great printers -- the American Bruce Rogers and the Englishman Emery Walker. In the original marbled paper... More about TYPOGRAPHICAL PARTNERSHIP: TEN LETTERS BETWEEN BRUCE ROGERS & EMERY WALKER, 1907-31. ...
[Brooklyn, N.Y.]: [Mergenthaler Linotype Co.], 1935. With commentary on the pricing of Bruce Rogers’ works by Paul Bennett in which, inter alia, dealers are described as “amiable friends and valued middlemen who frequently are helpful yet seldom reticent in charging..... More about TWENTY BOOKS DESIGNED BY BRUCE ROGERS
St. Paul, MN: Greenstone Books, 1969. Miniature. Hard Cover. Miniature Book. #161/500. No pencil or ink markings in text. Brown flexible cover. Digital pictures of book available upon request; Not Ex-Library. More about IN THE WOODS: A Forest Hymn; When Woods Were Green; Nature
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1890. Hard Cover. A bright copy of a handsome book, illustrated with full page chromolithographic illustrations throughout. More about A BOOK OF MODERN BALLADS
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1845. Hard Cover. 1/4 leather and marbled boards. No pencil or ink markings in text. Some loss of leather at top of spine. Very small loss of leather at bottom of spine. Corners bumped with some... More about SELF
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Pittsburgh, PA: Jones & Laughlin Steel Co., 1907. Miniature. Full Leather. Sixteenth Edition. A miniature pocket book of Useful Information, published by the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. A true miniature, it is small enough to fit in a vest... More about MINIATURE] USEFUL INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS MEN, MECHANICS AND ENGINEERS
London: The Studio Ltd., 1941. Hard Cover. Revised Edition. A clean copy with no marks; the dustjacket has been price-clipped and has minor loss at the top of the spine; it is bright and is now protected with a new... More about LETTERING OF TODAY
Austin, Texas: W. Thomas Taylor, 1994. Hard Cover. A clean copy of the Thomas Taylor reprint of this book, first published by Quaritch in 1914. More about ITALIAN BOOK-ILLUSTRATIONS AND EARLY PRINTING. A CATALOGUE OF EARLY ITALIAN BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY...
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London: Bell & Daldy, 1870. Full Leather. An attractive full leather Prize Binding awarded in 1872 by the Governors of The Horncastle Grammar School to one Frederick Gordon Tweed who passed the Christmas Examinations of 1872 with a First Class... More about PRIZE BINDING] MASTERMAN READY: OR, THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC
London: Addey and Co., 1854. Full Leather. Early Edition. Early edition of Caroline Hyde Butler’s The Ice King and the Sweet South Wind. First published three years prior. Illustrations by Henry Marsh, a nineteenth century American wood engraver. Additional title..... More about THE ICE KING AND THE SWEET SOUTH WIND
London: Heinemann, 1921. Quarter Leather. Limited Edition. A limited edition in quarter vellum over paper covered boards, this being #43 of 380 copies signed by Cecil Aldin, the British artist best known for sporting and rural scenes evoking “Old England”... More about OLD INNS
New York: Privately Printed for William Godwin, Inc., 1933. Hard Cover. Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil, translated by Egan and Alcock. With color frontispiece, printer’s devices, and full page illustrations. Slight musty odor. Foxing to the frontispiece and title page. Significant..... More about BAUDELAIRE FLOWERS OF EVIL (FLEURS DU MAL) IN PATTERN AND PROSE
East Aurora: Roycrofters, 1903. A most attractive copy of this Roycroft Edition, in gray suede with yapp edges, and silk moire pastedowns. There is a previous owner gift inscription from the year of publication. More about THE HOLLY TREE
London: William Heinemann, 1915. Illustrated by: Arthur Rackham. Octavo. Hard Cover. Early British Trade Edition. An early printing of the London edition; all plates present with captioned tissue guards; the frontispiece is not mounted. There is light and scattered foxing... More about A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Paris: Em. Paul et Fils et Guillemin, 1905. Soft Cover. Bookplates from 17th and 18th century France, from the collection of Charles Lormier. Shelfwear to the edges. Printed paper wrappers. More about EX-LIBRIS ANCIENS. COLLECTION CHARLES LORMIER. PREMIERE PARTIE. VENTE A L’HOTEL DROUOT. LES 17...
Lausanne: Librairie Ancienne Rodolphe, 1932. Quarto. Soft Cover. Virtually disbound, with front wrapper detached and chipping to spine. Text block itself holding together well, however, and there are no markings or missing pages. More about LES ANCIENS EX-LIBRIS HERALDIQUES VAUDOIS
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1963. One of 450 copies issued by The Book Club of California, with a color facsimile leaf tipped in, and black and white facsimiles throughout. With an original leaf of the 1561 Chaucer... More about THE BOOK OF CHAUCER: AN ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLICATION OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER’S WORKS FROM THE...
[Paris]: [1770]. Folio. Hard Cover. Charles Paillasson’s L’Art d’Ecrire Reduit a des Demonstrations Vraies et Faciles, issued as part of the Dictionnaire Raisonne des Sciences. A master eighteenth century French calligrapher, who helped elevate calligraphy’s standing by publishing works on..... More about L'art d'ecrire réduit a des démonstrations vraies et faciles, avec des explications claires,...