Structure, Verses, Agency Books

De Bibliotheca

Eco, Umberto; Eliane Deschamps-Pria, translator · 1986

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Paris, Editions de L'Echoppe, 1986. First French Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Umberto Eco's lecture from March 10, 1981 upon the 25th anniversary of the founding of Bibliotheque Communal de Milan. dans le Palaise Sormani. Translated from the original Italian b...

Book Selection and Collections: A Comparison of German and American University Libraries

Danton, J. Periam · 1963

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

New York, Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bookplate of the previous owner, the bookseller extraordinaire, Mr. Richard L. Press, of Sacramento, inside front flap. Attractive green cloth boards, with gilt lettering to spine. Ti...

English Printed Books

Meynell, Francis · 1948

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Collins, 1948. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Splendid copy of the stated Second Edition, printed red and white paper over boards, sympathetic dust jacket in Fine condition, protected further by Brodart dust jacket. Another fine contribution to the seri...

Second International Directory of Private Presses

Westreich, Gerald · 1980

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Sacramento, California, Press of Arden Park, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Budd Westreich provides the Foreword to this invaluable reference tool for the student and historian of printing and typographer. Simple printed wraps, perfect-bound, yellow printe...

By Chance: Serendipity and Randomness in Contemporary Artists' Books

Price, Robin and Jae Jennifer Rossman, Guest Curators. · 2004

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New Haven, Connecticut, The Jenny-Press, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. No additional copies available on-line, a fine and due homage to the convergence of artists' books and purposeful chance, the focus of the exhibit from which this became the cata...

Movable Type: Biography of Legh R. Freeman

Heuterman, Thomas H. · 1979

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press, 1979. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A particularly handsome exemplar of a sturdy copy of a fine social history of typography and an inspiring printing along the Frontier West. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised ti...

Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work

Hudson, Derek · 1975

$24.80 (€22.50 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the hunter-green cloth bindings, with sh...

Les Oeuvres de Louis Perrin Lyonnais

Librairie Anne Lamort · 2010

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Paris, France, Librairie Anne Lamort, 2010. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Tall, quarto size format, a gorgeously illustrated softcover album of a stunning book collection. Unpaginated, but 108 collector's items with black-and-white illustrations, inciden...

Chronology of Books & Printing

Greenhood, David and Helen Gentry · 1936

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Macmillan Company, 1936. Reprint of the Revised Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A useful reference guide for the student or historian of typography, printing, book-binding and publishing. Bound handsomely in a tan linen cloth, with red lettering to spine and ...

Type & Typography: Highlights from Matrix--the Review for Printers & Bibliophiles

Randle, John and John D. Berry, ed. · 2003

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

West New York, New Jersey, Mark Batty Publisher, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stated First Edition, a handsomely produced volume that was the first of a series of scholarly anthologies drawn from original articles published in MATRIX, edited and pr...

Literary Annuals and Gift Books: A Bibliography 1823-1903

Faxon, F.W., Eleanor Jamieson and Iain Bain · 1973

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Middlesex, England, Private Libraries Association, 1973. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine exemplar of the 1973 reprint of the 1912 true First Edition, with supplementary essays by Eleanore Jamieson and Iain Bain, and then the reprinting in facsimile of...

British Book Illustration Yesterday and to-Day

Salaman, Malcolm C.; Geoffrey Holme, ed. · 1974

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Book Tower, Detroit, Gale Research Company, 1974. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine exemplar of the reissue of the classic, true First Edition that was published in 1923. Bound handsomely in blue cloth, with still sharp and distinct lettering to spine. ...

The Arts of the French Book: 1900 - 1965. Illustrated Books of the School of Paris

Garvey, Eleanor M. and Peter Wick · 1967

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Dallas, Texas, Friends of the Dallas Public Library by Southern Methodist University Press, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Fine condition copy in First Edition state, illustrated in black-and-white and full-color photography of artworks with accompanying d...

Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century

Lewis, Roy Harley · 1985

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Arco Publishing, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. First U.S. Edition, bound handsomely in tall quarto hardcover format, with a bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust ja...

French Rococo Book Illustration

Holloway, Owen E. · 1969

$68.00 (€61.70 | £51.47 | ¥10,859)

London, Alec Tiranti, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A fine exemplar of a presentation copy of the true First Edition of an important book, the only SIGNED copy available currenly on-line, with unbruised tips, tight binding of blue cloth and gilt let...

Horace Liveright: Publisher of the Twenties

Gilmer, Walker · 1970

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, David Lewis, 1970. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An accessible, engaging, well-written but terribly sad story in Second Printing state about the Horace Liveright publishing company, and complete with fine frontis black-and-white portrait of the...

L'Art Du Livre

Malo-Renault, Jean · 1931

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Paris, France, Librairie Garnier Frères, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An exceedingly handsomely bound book, the only copy currently available on-line in hardcover format, bound in two-tone, marbled linen paper over boards, three-quarters red cloth, hand...

Cyril Connolly's One Hundred Modern Books: From England, France and America 1880-1950

Hirth, Mary · 1971

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Austin, Texas, The Humanities Research Center / The University of Texas, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition hardcover copy bound in in oblong format in blue cloth with sharp and distinct lettering to spine, with unbruised tips, tight ...

Victorian Illustrated Books

Muir, Percy · 1989

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

London, Portman Books, 1989. Reprint 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...

Printed in the Memory: Literary Treasures in the National Library of Finland

Parssinen, Leena and Esko Rahikainen, eds. · 2004

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Helsinki, Helsinki University Library, 2004. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An extraordinarily pretty book, being handsomely bound in burgundy cloth over boards, with sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, ...