New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First edition, number 138 of 140 copies on English hand-made plate paper (an additional 12 copies were printed on imperial Japan). 8vo. xiii, 117 pages. 27 color and black-and-white plates, with tissue guards. Original French-fold paper wrappers (some wear at ends of spine and.....
Brighton: Privately printed for Tony Appleton, 1975. 8vo. [20] pages. Original printed wrappers. Number 27 of 100 copies signed by Tony Appleton, who printed this as a Christmas keepsake in 1975. Includes a supplement of books designed and printed by Giovanni Mardersteig for the Limited Editions Club.
Jamaica, Queens: The Marion Press, 1901. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 125 pages. Contemporary red quarter roan, green cloth boards. Bookplate of the William L. Clements Library (withdrawn stamp). One of 1500 copies. 411 lots, priced in ink by C. Gerhardt (note on p. 125). The auctions were held.....
New York: The New York Public Library, 1944. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 377 pages. Printed in double-columns. Original printed tan wrappers. A similar volume to George L. McKay's 'American Book Auction Catalogues, 1713-1934'. Fine copy. (BA).
New York: Barker & Godwin, 1857. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 16 pages. Original buff printed wrappers. An early and rare autograph catalogue. Includes items from the collection of Aaron Burr, relating to the Revolutionary War, principally by officer and others encamped on the Hudson.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1978. 11.5 x 7.5 inches. 415 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original blue cloth, top edges gilt. Printed for presentation to the Roxburghe Club.
N.p. [The Author], 1962. One of 500 copies. 8vo (21 x 13 cm). Photographic illustrations, square of Hastings genuine gold leaf in fine condition within plastic sleeve after p. 18. Blue cloth, edges gilt. Gilded by John F. Bussinger and bound in Macksan cloth supplied by William J. McLaughlin and.....
New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1983. First edition. 4to (25.5 x 18 cm). x, 317, [1] pages. 3 paper samples tipped in and 167 illustrations, including 90 photographs. Brown cloth. In a fine pictorial dust jacket. With the prospectus loosely inserted. The author received a MacArthur Award in 2009 for.....
New York: Benjamin, March 1886. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 36 pages. Original light blue pictorial printed wrappers, untrimmed. A dealer's priced catalogue, offering mainly literary autographs. One can only drool at the availability of a good two-page Keats or Shelley letter for $50, an excellent Poe letter for.....
New York: Benjamin, March 1886. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 36 pages. Original light blue pictorial printed wrappers, untrimmed. A dealer's priced catalogue, offering mainly literary autographs. One can only drool at the availability of a good two-page Keats or Shelley letter for $50, an excellent Poe letter for.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together in 2 volumes, 8vo and 4to. Blue half morocco gilt, top edges gilt, original printed wrappers bound in. One of Benjamin's own sets with extensive orders marked (some purchaser's names given) and a few other notes in six of the quarto catalogues. Comprises: 6.....
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, [1990]. One of 200 copies. 16.3 x 11 cm. Two leaves of text and 74 paper specimens; printed note loosely inserted. Printed paper wrappers. Henry Morris's note printed on the inserted sheet details his intentions with this sample catalogue: "PLEASE NOTE: Sample-book making is.....
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1975. First edition, one of approximately 215 copies (this is number 170). Oblong (15 x 23.5 cm). 57, [1, colophon] pages. 13 black-and-white photographic illustrations of process, including the final two of pouring and toasting with a glass of brandy! 24 specimens tipped.....
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1976. One of approximately 250 copies (this is number 67). 8vo (23.5 x 15.5 cm). 68, [1, colophon] pages. 11 specimens tipped in. Original quarter blue morocco, marbled boards, edges untrimmed. In a cloth folding case. Printed on Hodginson B&B hand made paper.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. 8vo (8.75 x 5.5 inches). 29 pages. Original cloth-backed boards with gilt monograph on upper cover. First edition.
London: Trübner & Co., 1880. Second edition. 8vo (20.3 x 12.7 cm). Seven plates, including frontispiece, the fifth a woodburytype (cracked). Original printed wrappers, sheets untrimmed as issued (rebacked). In a cloth folding case. Provenance: Eliza Groves (presentation inscription from the author); Nathan Comfort Starr (armorial bookplate, signature dated December.....
New York: The Grolier Club, 1982. First edition, number 80 of 300 copies signed by Blumenthal. 8vo (23.5 x 15 cm). 153, [1] page. Profusely illustrated. Quarter crimson cloth, patterned paper boards; slipcase. Presentation copy, inscribed by Blumenthal in pencil on the half-title to Laura S. Young. Loosely inserted slip.....
Prague: Artia, General Management of the Printing Industry in Prague, 1972. 13 x 6.25 inches. 85, [3] inches. Profusely illustrated. Original plain red wrappers; green outer wrapper; plain white slipcase. This was issued as an anniversary publication for Artaria, in collaboration with the General Management of the Printing Industry in.....
London: Grevel, 1890. First of this expanded version. 4to. 383 pages, including 172 illustrations. Brown blind-tooled leather, morocco spine labels.
Paris: Guilde des Artistes Angevins, 1924. First edition. 4to (18.2 x 14.2 cm). 25 pages. Two full-page illustrations. Original printed wrappers (chipped, partly split along spine). Includes two full-page black-and-white illustrations of bindings executed by Paul Géraldy and Marc Leclerc.
Providence, RI: The Author, 1935. First edition, number 84 of 500 copies signed by the author. 8vo (24 x 15.5 cm). 68, [4] pages. Original printed wrappers. Buffum learned her craft from F. P. Hathaway, binder at the Boston Athenaeum and later at the John Carter Brown Library; and Charles.....
Providence, RI: The Author, 1935. First edition, number 307 of 500 copies signed by the author. 8vo (24 x 15.5 cm). 68, [4] pages. Original printed boards. Issue in boards, using the same paper as on the regular issue in wrappers (described on the "details of production" as "Edges uncut.....
New York: The Grolier Club & The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973. 8vo (9 x 6 inches). 655 pages. Original blue cloth. First edition, one of 510 copies, inscribed by the author.
Tokyo: Bunseido Press, 1977. 82 x 50 mm. Both sewn in printed wrappers, Japanese bindings. Publisher's receipt (2-pages) laid into balsawood pull-off top box. Comprising: Narita, Kiyofusa with Timothy Barrett & Asao Shimura. Nagashizuki & Tamezuki: Oriental and Western Methods of Papermaking. Second edition. Number 4 of 256 copies. –.....
Paris: A. Aubry, 1856. 8vo. xlvii, 287, [1] pages. Later cloth, original printed wrappers bound in. FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, and the first edition to furnish adequate critical apparatus and explanatory notes. Limited to 500 copies.
