From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 1: To Benjamin J. Lossing; New York, 2 April 1874. One page, 8vo, with integral blank leaf. Regarding lending a rare print of Capt. Cunningham for Lossing to engrave. 2. To [William?] Ewing; New York, 14 [November?] 1896. One page, 8vo. Regarding books with "early.....
New York: The Angelica Press, ca. 1974. 32mo (2.75 x 2.25 inches). Small woodcut of an angel printed in red on the first leaf. [8] pages, unopened. Sewn in plain purple wrappers. Number 59 of 450 copies, providing the address and telephone number of Dennis J. Grastorf at The Angelica.....
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 Bookplate of the William L. Clements Library (withdrawn stamp).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.
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.....
New York: Benjamin, June 1893. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Tall 8vo. 44 pages. Original printed buff wrappers. Catalogue #53. Pretty much normal fare, but one would have: 'Fanshawe,' "Exceptionally fine" at $200; Poe's 'Poems', 1831, original boards at $250; his own copy of 'Eureka' with his marginal notes and.....
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991. 4to. Color and black-and-white plates. Original orange cloth. As new. FIRST EDITION. Published on the occasion of Cox's 88th birthday "as a tribute to the brilliance of his work at the Gogmagog Press - as author, artist, and printer, creator of some of the most.....
Philadelphia: s.n., 1878. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 89 pages. Interleaved with blank sheets. Contemporary brown half morocco, marbled boards, top edges gilt. First edition. Signed and dated by the co-executor and co-compiler Gregory B. Keen on a front flyleaf. With a printed slip tipped in before the title-page.....
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1950. 8vo (9.5 x 6.5 inches). 335 pages. Original green cloth; blue slipcase. First edition. This volume was issued to celebrate the one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary of the foundation of D. Appleton and Company, and The Century Company's eightieth anniversary.
New York: AGP Matthews Inc., 1981. First edition. One tri-folded sheet text and 10 color plates. Loose as issued in original black paper portfolio with mounted title label on front. The fourth volume in the series Typography/Master Designers in Print 1, documenting Twentieth Century design and typography. The ten plates.....
New York: AGP Matthews Inc., 1981. First edition. One tri-folded sheet text and 10 color plates. Loose as issued in original black paper portfolio with mounted title label on front. The fourth volume in the series Typography/Master Designers in Print 2, documenting Twentieth Century design and typography. The ten plates.....
Newton, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1993. 4to (10 x 8 in.). 25 wood engravings by Rosemary Covey, each tipped to mount. Original quarter red goatskin, blue floral-patterned cloth. A fine, fresh copy with a small chip and stain at the head of the spine. FIRST EDITION, number 121 of.....
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, light gray paper, vignette of "Room in which the immortal Shakespeare was born, Stratford on Avon," integral second leaf neatly inlaid, accompanied by small engraved portrait of Daniel (inlaid and stained). Daniel responds to an autograph request, listing the books he.....
London and Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1931. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 8vo. 306 pages. Original green cloth, printed label on spine (an extra label tipped in at end). First edition of Sir William Young Darling's anonymous whimsy, a first person, tragic tale of a failed bookseller who, according to.....
Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1864-1875. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Complete set of the 17 catalogues of what the bookseller Drake came to designate, with the fifth number (April 1, 1869), as the "Quarto Series." Various sizes in small 4to and 4to, bound in tan buckram, roan spine label. Bookplate.....
