Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The Telling Line: Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators

Martin, Douglas · 1990

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Delacorte Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highligh...

Early American Book-Bindings: From the Collection of Michael Papantonio

Papantonio, Michael · 1972

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Amer Antiquarian Society, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. x [1]. 1-8...

Ten Years and William Shakespeare: A Survey of the Publishing Activities of the Limited Editions Club from October 1929 to October 1940

The Limited Editions Club · 1940

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. An indispensable tool for bibliophiles and especially denizens of the Limited Editions Club. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and relatively sturdy, t...

English Printed Books

Meynell, Francis · 1946

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Collins, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Book-plate affixed neatly in...

Portfolio One: Specimen Sheets of Printing, Type-Design and Letter-Cutting

Carter, Will · 1967

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Cambridge, England, Rampant Lions Press, 1967. . Softcover. . The inaugural workshop portfolio published in 1959 by the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge displaying the typographic genius of Will Carter between 1959-1967. Comprised of specimen sheets of printing and type-design...

The University - the Library

Rothstein, Samuel, Richard Blackwell, Archibald Macleish · 1972

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Oxford, England, Shakespeare Head Press , 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A particularly fine looking exemplar of papers presented by Samuel Rothstein, Richard Blackwell, and Archibald Macleish. Bound handsomely in black pebbly cloth, ornate gilt devic...

Of Making Many Books There Is No End

Leonard, Jay · 1931

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Birmingham, England, Birmingham School of Printing, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, bound simply in black cloth, with gilt lettering to spine, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste...

The Tables Turned, or Nupkins Awakened a Socialist Interlude

Morris, William; Pamela Bracken Wiens · 1994

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 1994. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Reprint edition of a fine little tome written in 1887, influenced by the cycle of medieval mystery plays that the English designer William Morris admired--subtitled "A Socialist Int...

Fourth Year Book: 1905: The Bibliophile Society

Bibliophile Society · 1905

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Bibliophile Society, by the University Press, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Printed for Members Only, as fine looking a copy as one will ever find, published in 1905. Published for members by the Society itself, simple brown...

Gph: An Informal Record of George P. Hammond and His Era in the Bancroft Library

The Friends of the Bancroft Library · 1965

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Berkeley, California, The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy of a due homage, a loving festschrift, to an important figure in the growth and development of an important library, with unbru...

English Coloured Books

Hardie, Martin · 1980

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Fitzhouse Books, 1980. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Introduction by James Laver, being a reprint of the true first edition, published in 1906. A sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showi...

Modern First Editions: Points and Values (Second Series)

Fabes, Gilbert H. and William A. Foyle · 1931

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, W. and G. Foyle, Ltd., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Certainly a sturdily bound copy in Edition, First Printing state, being Number 878 of a limited edition of 1000. xvii + 93 pp. Bowed boards, former price sticker to rear panel, ding to top ...

Movable Type: Biography of Legh R. Freeman

Heuterman, Thomas H. · 1979

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being no additional signed copies available on-line. A particularly handsome exemplar of a sturdy copy of a fine social history of typography and a...

Arts Et Techniques Graphiques, No. 87, Novembre - Decembre 1972

Brient, Michel, ed. · 1972

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Paris, Ateliers de Realisations Graphicques, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. First Edition copy of one of the four 1972 issues of the magazine founded in 1928 by Charles Peignot of the renowned Fonderies Deberny & Peignot, the premiere graphic arts sc...

Arts Et Techniques Graphiques, No. 85, Juillet / Aout 1972

Brient, Michel, ed. · 1972

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Paris, Ateliers de Realisations Graphicques, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A 1972 issue of the magazine founded in 1928 by Charles Peignot of the renowned Fonderies Deberny & Peignot, the premiere graphic arts school in France. Considered to have be...

Arts Et Techniques Graphiques, No. 86, Septembre / Octobre 1972

Brient, Michel, ed. · 1972

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Paris, Ateliers de Realisations Graphicques, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A 1972 issue of the magazine founded in 1928 by Charles Peignot of the renowned Fonderies Deberny & Peignot, the premiere graphic arts school in France. Considered to have be...

Arts Et Techniques Graphiques, No. 84, Mai - Juin 1972

Brient, Michel, ed. · 1972

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Paris, Ateliers de Realisations Graphicques, 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A 1972 issue of the magazine founded in 1928 by Charles Peignot of the renowned Fonderies Deberny & Peignot, the premiere graphic arts school in France. Considered to have be...

Art of the Book in the Southwest

Tisdale, Shelby J.; Ebby Malmgren; Millicent Rogers Museum · 2003

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Taos, New Mexico, Millicent Rogers Museum, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Virtually pristine interior and only the faintest of sticker residue to the glossy pictorial wraps, in gate-fold. Lengthy Acknowledgments and Introduction, then 24 pages of fi...

Anglo-American First Editions 1826-1900: East to West: Describing First Editions of English Authors Whose Books Were Published in America Before Their Publication in England

Brussel, Isidore Rosenbaum · 1981

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Sol Lewis, 1981. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bound uber-sturdily in green buckram cloth, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Introduction by Graham Pollard, a quite treatise partly about piracy and copyright history. Reprints the scar...

Victorian Illustrated Books

Muir, Percy · 1989

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, Portman Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Handsomely bound in an Imperial octavo hardcover format, bound in burgundy cloth, with gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-c...