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A Printer's Christmas Books 1930-1958.

By: Brooke Crutchley (1907-2003).

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Cambridge:, Privately Printed,: 1959

Seller ID: CH814-289

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

FIRST EDITION. Pamphlet. 7 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches. (16) pp. Title-page vignette; text clean, unmarked. Plain white wrappers covered with Cockerel marbled paper, front cover label titled in gilt, stitched; binding square and tight. Very Good. Comments on the first 20 books produced in the Christmas Book Series produced by Cambridge University Press.
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The Sandars and Lyell Lectures. A Checklist with an Introduction by David McKitterick.

By: David McKitterick (b. 1949).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York:, Jonathan A. Hill,: 1983

Seller ID: CH814-365

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Collectible: Like New

LIMITED EDITION of 300 numbered copies, this is number 225, printed and bound at the Bird & Bull Press. Pamphlet. 8 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches. (44) pp. Half-title, title page printed within a blue typographic border, lists 102 lectures from 1895 to 1983; text clean, unmarked. Blue printed wrappers, stitched; binding square and tight. Fine. Presents in chronological order the two series of Sandars and Lyell Lectures, the most distinguished series of lectures on historical bibliography in the United Kingdom. This is the first attempt to list in one place all locations where the lectures have been...
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The Handprinted Books of Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1917-1932.

By: Donna Elizabeth Rhein (b. 1943).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI:, UMI Research Press,: 1985

Seller ID: IT15-001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Series: Studies in Modern Literature, No. 52. FIRST EDITION of this study of the 34 handprinted books printed by the Hogarth Press and the contributions these books made to British literature and their place in the history of the book arts. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches. xvi, 166 pp. Half-title, series information printed opposite title page, 86 illustrations of the books printed, bibliography, index; text clean, unmarked. Black-stamped olive green cloth, pen vignette on front cover in orange ink; binding square and tight, covers soiled. Very Good.
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Following Bernhardt Wall, 1872-1956. Bio-Bibliographical Sketch.

By: Francis J. Weber (b. 1933).

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Austin, TX:, The Book Club of Texas,: 1994

Seller ID: FZ315-001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

LIMITED EDITION of 195 copies, this copy is not numbered. Designed and typeset at the Castle Press, Pasadena, CA, printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh Printers, Inc., of Glendale, CA. 4to. 11 3/4 x 9 inches. viii, (85), [1 blank] pp. Limitation page, black-and-white frontispiece portait of Wall, title page printed within a ruled border and with a vignette of an etcher at work, 9 etchings tipped-in at pages 1, 9, 15, 21, 25, 29, 45, 51, and 61, 5 photogravure reproductions printed by the Flatbed Press of Austin, TX, bibliography; text clean, unmarked. Gray cloth spine over boards by Crai...
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The Zamorano Club: The First Half Century, 1928-1978

By: George E. Fullerton, et al

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, Zamorano Club: 1978

Seller ID: UKGGI-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

LIMITED EDITION of 200 copies printed by Richard Hoffman and bound by Bela Blau. Folio. 12 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches. 99, [3] pp. Half-title, title page vignette printed in yellow inside a typographic border, Preface by Doyce Nunis, Introduction by George Fullerton, "Zamorano Club: Fifty Years," by Tyrus Harmsen, bibliography of Zamorano Club Keepsakes, images of some of the title pages throughout the text which is printed in black ink with red marginal notes, list of Zamorano Club members, indexes, colophon; text clean, unmarked. Quarter black cloth, patterned paper over boards, spine t...
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Bibliotheca Walleriana: The Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science

By: Hans Sallander (1903-1983)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Maurizio Martino Publisher: 1980

Seller ID: IT-006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

FACSIMILE REPRINT, LIMITED to 400 copies. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches. [i], (xii), 494 pp. Frontispiece, 55 black-and-white plates; text clean, unmarked. Maroon cloth over boards, spine titled in gilt over a black field; binding square and tight. Fine. This is a facsimile reprint of Hans Sallander's catalogue of Erik Waller's collection of books on medicine and science. Waller (1875-1955) was a Swedish surgeon whose expansive collection of 20,000 books is considered one of the world's greatest and most complete collections of medical history. Before his death he donated t...
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American Books With Tails To 'Em: A Private Pocket List of the Incomplete or Unfinished American Periodicals, Transactions, Memoirs, Judicial Reports, Laws, Journals, Legislative Documents, and Other Continuations and Works in Progress Supplied to the British Museum and Other Libraries

By: Henry Stevens.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London:, Privately Printed at Stevens' Bibliographical Nuggetory No. 4,: 1873

Seller ID: KSF11113-73

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

16mo. 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. 40 pp. Decorative chapter heads, pages uncut; text clean, unmarked, minor toning. Blue cloth over boards, gilt stamped on front cover, marbled end papers; binding square and tight, shelf wear, especially to spine. Muir Dawson's copy. Very Good. Henry Stevens was an American bibliographer. Stevens studied at Middlebury College and graduated from Yale and Harvard Law School. In 1845 he went to London, where he was employed during most of the remainder of his life as a collector of Americana for the British Museum and for public and private American libraries....
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T.N. Foulis: The History and Bibliography of an Edinburgh Publishing House.

By: Ian Elfick and Ian Harris.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New Castle, DE:, Oak Knoll Press,: 1998

Seller ID: CH814-226

ISBN: 1884718485

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. ix, 267 pp. Black-and-white figures, a few color plates (one double-page), bibliography, indexes; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped brown cloth, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight. Fine. Operating from Edinburgh and London, the firm T. N. Foulis published more than 400 titles from 1904 to 1925, most produced to the most exacting of standards. These books are known for their colored buckram bindings, tipped-in color plates, the elegant Auriol typeface, and rose-watermarked paper. An invaluable resource for the collector, wri...
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Bibliately: Reprinted from The American Philatelist, January 1977 through July 1977

By: Leona Rostenberg (1908-2005)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, American Philatelic Society: 1978

Seller ID: MM319-044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Good

REPRINT EDITION. 4to. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. (2), 61, (2) pp. Cover page illustration and marginal decoration, numerous facsimile illustrations of postage stamps on every page throughout, acknowledgements and errata; text clean, unmarked. Full linen with brown leather cover label, titled in gilt; binding square and tight, covers foxed. "Compliments of Kater-Crafts Bookbinders" rubber stamp on rear pastedown. MM319-044. Good. This volume contains Rostenberg's narrative of "the printed word on stamps" with an international scope. Features hundreds of facsimile illustrations on every ...
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The Allen Press Bibliography, a Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions To Date Including a Checklist of Ephemera

By: Lewis Allen (d. 1998) and Dorothy Allen (1908-2006)

Price: $225.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, The Book Club of California: 1985

Seller ID: JR1018-003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

Series: Book Club of California Publication, No. 180. LIMITED EDITION of 750 copies, the first part being a facsimile of the original edition printed by offset lithography at Mastercraft Press, and the second part is set in Monotype Van Dijck types and printed letterpress by Arlen Philpott at his Tamal Land Press on Pastelle Antique paper with deckled edges; bound by Schuberth Bindery, San Francisco with their rubber stamp on the turn-in of the rear cover. Folio. 14 x 9 1/2 inches. 114, (8) pp. 2 title pages, including the Book Club of California title page as listed above, and also a color...
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California Local History: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings.

By: Margaret Miller Rocq.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Stanford:, Stanford University Press,: 1970

Seller ID: EE516-239

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED WITH SUPPLEMENT. Two Volumes. 4to. 11 x 8 inches. (xvi), 611 pp. Text clean, unmarked. Brown cloth over boards, gilt-titled spine, colored endpapers, dust jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, dust jacket worn at edges. Fine copy, in a Very Good dust jacket. WITH: ROCQ, editor. California Local History: A Bibliography and Union List of Library Holdings, Supplement to the Second Edition Covering Works Published 1961-1970. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1976. 4to. 11 x 7 3/4 inches. (xii), 113 pp. Text clean, unmarked. Brown cloth over...
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The Spiral Press [1926-1971]: A Bibliographical Checklist.

By: Philip N. Cronenwett, compiler.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York:, American Printing History Association,: 2002

Seller ID: CH814-111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies printed at the Studley Press, designed by Jerry Kelly. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches. xv, (176) pp. Half-title, black-and-white photographic frontispiece portrait of Joseph Blumenthal, printer's device on title page, bibliography of 619 items, illustrations throughout, including tipped-in examples, index; text clean, unmarked. Blind-stamped red cloth, spine titled in gilt; binding square and tight. Compliments of the American Printing History Association bookplate on the front paste-down. Fine. This is an excellent history and bibliography of the Joseph Blument...
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The Spiral Press [1926-1971]: A Bibliographical Checklist.

By: Philip N. Cronenwett, compiler.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York:, American Printing History Association,: 2002

Seller ID: CH814-144

Condition: Collectible: Like New

The Arthur H. Clark Company, An American Century 1902-2002

By: Robert A. Clark and Patrick J. Brunet

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Spokane, WA, Arthur H. Clark Company: 2001

Seller ID: JR1018-011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

SECOND REVISED EDITION limited to 1,000 copies. 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. 300 pp. Photographic illustrations, index; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped red cloth; binding square and tight. A brand-new copy. Fine. This long-awaited bibliography won the Dwight L. Smith Award from the Western Historical Association in 1994, given biennially to the best reference work written in western history. The first edition [1993] of 500 copies was fully subscribed upon publication. REFERENCE: Clark & Brunet, Arthur H. Clark Company, No. 51 (1st ed., 1993).
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Nevada Printing History: A Bibliography of Imprints & Publications, 1858-1880

By: Robert D. Armstrong (b. 1931)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Reno, NV, University of Nevada Press: 1981

Seller ID: GG818-167

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

FIRST EDITION designed by Dave Comstock. Large 8vo. 10 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches. [vi], 421 pp. Errata slip, bibliography of resources consulted, 1,254 entries described chronologically, 16 illustrations, indexes; text clean, unmarked. Navy cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight. Fine. 1,254 titles listed, arranged chronologically with notes regarding local and regional politics and the area's social and economic history for each year, this volume describes each item with details of their printing histories - who printed them, when, where, and at what cost. Includ...
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A Bibliography of the History of California, 1510-1930

By: Robert Ernest Cowan (1876-1942) and Robert Grannis Cowan (b. 1895)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA, N.P.: 1964

Seller ID: JR1018-015

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

REPRINT EDITION of the 1933 edition along with the 1964 supplement. 4 Volumes in one. Thick 8vo. 8 3/4 x 6 inches. v, [1], 926pp. Title, subject, and chronological indexes; text clean, unmarked. Half olive green cloth, decorative paper over boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight. Fine. First issued in 1914 by the Book Club of California as their Book No. 1, Dr. Cowan recognized the need for a more expansive bibliography in 1933, limited exclusively to California. The second edition, co-authored with Robert Granniss Cowan, listed nearly five thousand titles. This repri...
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An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students. Introduction by David McKitterick.

By: Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1872-1940).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Winchester and New Castle, DE:, Paul?s Bibliographies and Oak Knoll Press,: 1995

Seller ID: CH814-120

ISBN: 1884718019

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Very Good

REPRINT EDITION of the second impression of 1928 with corrections (first edition, Clarendon Press, 1927). Trade Paperback. 8 1/2 x 5 7/16 inches. xxxviii, 359 pp. Half-title, 23 figures, index; text clean, unmarked. Pictorial wrappers; binding square and tight, light use wear. Very Good. Essential to anyone interested in the history of printed books in the era of hand printing.
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Stanley Morison's 70th Birthday: A Tribue and Second Handlist.

By: Ruari McLean (1917-2006).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Shenval Press Ltd,: 1959

Seller ID: CH814-368

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Collectible: Acceptable

Offprint from: Motif, 3, 1959. 4to. 12 x 9 7/8 inches. (51)-57 pp. Portrait of Morison, Introduction by Ruari McLean, handlist of items numbered 143-172 by P. M. Handover, with additions and corrections to the original handlist by John Carter, and a few selected biographical and critical items, example of Morison's handwriting; text clean, unmarked. Blue wrappers, printed paper front cover label; dis-bound, the staples have been removed and the covers and pages are loose. Sold AS IS. Printed by Shenval Press Ltd and distributed by Elkin Mathews Ltd, Takeley, Bishop's Stortford. A sevent...
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Studia Bibliographica in Honorem Herman de la Fontaine Verwy.

By: Sape van der Woude (1911-2001), editor.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Amsterdam:, Menno Hertzberger & Co.,: 1968

Seller ID: CH814-256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Like New

Thick 8vo. 9 3/4 x 7 inches. (480) pp. Half-title, black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Verwey, title page and initials in red, text in French, German, and English, plates and tables throughout; text clean, unmarked. Red cloth, spine titled in gilt, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight. Fine. This collection of essays in bibliography and allied subjects marked the occasion of Herman de la Fontaine Verwey's silver jubilee as Librarian of the University Library Amsterdam, November 1, 1966. Most of the 28 articles (13 English, 13 French, and 2 German) treat primarily ...
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The Blyton Phenomenon. The Controversy Surrounding the Worlds Most Successful Children's Writer

By: Sheila G. Ray

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Andre Deutsch: 1983

Seller ID: HGVW10229-7b

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible: Very Good

2nd impression. 8vo. viii, 246 pp. Bibliographies, index; text clean, un-marked. Red cloth, gilt spine, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, foot of spine bumped. Very Good. From the late 1930s to the early 1970s, Enid Blyton published more than 600 children's books; in 1974 she was the fourth most translated author in the world, with 149 translations of her work in 15 different countries. This book discusses the critical reception of her work by contemporary adults, the appeal of Blyton's books to children, and how her reputation has been rehabilitated with time.
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