Research About Nineteenth-Century Children and Books: Portrait Studies
Illinois: University of Illinois, 1980. 9 x 6 inches. 142 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original wrappers. First edition.
Illinois: University of Illinois, 1980. 9 x 6 inches. 142 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original wrappers. First edition.
Austin: Press at the Humanities Research Center, 1986. 8vo. 25, [1] pp. Color portrait frontispiece mounted. Original wrappers. Fine. FIRST EDITION, one of 100 copies. Foreword by Dechard Turner. Printed by Carol Kent.
New York: The Grolier Club, 1982. 8vo. 41, [2]pp. Original cloth. Near-fine with one small bump to front board. FIRST EDITION, one of 450 copies designed by Bert Clarke and printed at The Press of A. Colish, on the 25th anniversary of Rogers's death.
[London]: [J.M'Creery], [1816]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 208 pages. Without the portrait, sonnet, and four leaves of "books omitted"; with a leaf at end advertising the auction sales of Roscoe's collection of pictures and prints. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Catalogue, mostly priced in ink, of the library.....
Chicago: The Black Archer Press, 1936. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 12mo. Original pink wrappers with portrait of Saroyan in pink and black on front. First edition, one of 50 copies issued, boldly signed in blue ink by Saroyan on front cover. One of his rarest items: an essay on.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. 8vo (10 x 6.5 inches). 156 pages. Original grey cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition.
London: Lund Humphries, 1963. 10.75 x 8.5 inches. 72 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. Original printed wrappers. First edition.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. One page, 4to. "... The signature of Queen Anne to which you refer is not in my possession, nor have I ever seen it. I have none of the Pope's Bulls, nor have I seen any..." Sprague was a clergyman, author, and one of the.....
Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1893. 12mo. xxiv, 223, [1] pages. Original gilt-lettered green beveled cloth, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. FIRST EDITION of the first book by Stone & Kimball, written by one of the publishers while both were still at Harvard. Introduction by Eugene Field. Kramer 2.
Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1893. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. Original lavender cloth, paper label on spine, untrimmed. First edition of the first hardcover Stone & Kimball book and the first work with that imprint on its title-page. Number 47 of 50 large-paper copies signed by the publishers. The.....
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. 10 x 8 inches. 890 pages. Original cloth; dust jacket. "The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays.....
New York: Targ Editions, 1984. 8vo. Numerous paper and printing specimens. Original cloth-backed glazed boards. FIRST EDITION, one of 200 copies signed by Targ and the three printers of the edition: Ronald Gordon, Leslie Miller, and Leonard Seastone.
London: The Galahad Press, 1968. 4to. 46, [1] pages. Illustrations of Carter printing. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate wrapper. First trade edition, with ownership signature of James A. Reardon in pencil on front pastedown. There was also an issue of 100 numbered copies in cloth.
Philadelphia: [Privately Printed], 1907. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 86 pages. Frontispiece showing Thomas's library. Contemporary red hard-grained morocco, gilt-ruled and -lettered, top edges gilt, by Lippincott's, a presentation binding found on some copies. THE FIRST COPY. First edition of the catalogue of the private library of Philadelphia industrialist.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1986. 8vo (8 x 5 inches). 87 pages. Red cloth; original glassene. First edition.
London: B. T. Batsford, 1952. 4to. 140 pp. Color frontispiece, and many black-and-white illustrations. Original cloth. Cloth lightly worn, head of spine rubbed, a few adhesions on rear cover. Second edition.
[New York]: Browne & Co. Stationers / South Street Seaport Museum, December 15, 1999. 11 x 6.5 inches. Printed in green, red, and black. Woodcut by John DePol. Celebrating the career of Marvin Mondlin, legendary New York bookseller for The Strand, and his recent election to the Typophiles.
New York: The Typophiles, 1966. Complete set of 62 pamphlets in original cloth slipcase. In fine condition. Including contributions by Peter Dorn, Fridolf Johnson, Warren Chappell, Bill Jackson, and Charles Antin. These are from fine private presses such as the Cherryburn Press, the Greenwood Press, the Creekside Press, the Mermaid.....
Vatican City: The Apostolic Vatican Library, 1947. 4to (28 x 21 cm). LIV, 183, [4] pages. 6 plates including frontispiece and 8 illustrations in text. Original brown half morocco. First edition, inscribed by Dom Anselmo M. Albareda, prefect of the Vatican Library, and Fray Sylvester Brielmaier, librarian of Collegio San.....
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1969. 8vo. Original quarter red leather, by Kurt Gaebel & Sons. Number 210 of 375 copies.
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1932. 8vo (7.5 x 4.75 inches). 94 pages. Original brown cloth. First edition, with a preface by André Maurois. One of 750 copies.
Cork: Printed by and for the Author, 1835. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. vii, 76 pages. 5 engraved plates. 19th-century red quarter roan, marbled boards (front cover detached, a bit closely trimmed at bottom but without loss). First edition. WITH: A copy of the expanded second edition. London: Printed.....
Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 1991. Tall 8vo. 207 pp. Profusely illustrated, including with tipped-in inserts, plates, specimen leaves, etc. Original quarter Oasis, marbled boards, by Colleen Gryspeerdt. With letterpress table of contents as issued in pocket at end. Slipcased with: John O'CONNOR. Twins. Original boards. Signed in pencil. Fine. FIRST.....
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1983 [1984]. 4to. 20 pp. Large folding color plate. Original wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. A soft crease to upper corners, a few tears at edges of wrappers. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, reprinted from Matrix 3. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to a book.....
New York: Greenberg, 1928. 8vo (7.5 x 5 inches). 211 pages. Original grey cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition. "This book aims to instruct the reader in the fundamentals of book collecting--a pleasant and not unprofitable pursuit that has attracted thousands of new devotees in the past ten years and.....