New York: John B. Alden, 1884. vol. 1, no. 3 (Irving Library vol. 1, no. 76), 12mo, pp. [2], 53 - 67, [15] (ads); tan printed paper wrappers, small stain on bottom edge, light chipping in back, very good. A small literary serial that served mainly as an advertisement for..... More
Heidelberg: University Library Heidelberg, 1970. First edition, 8vo, pp. 53, [2]; Special exhibition on the occasion of the visit of the Grolier Club of New York; fine in original gray printed stiff wrappers backed in orange cloth. More
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905-34. An incomplete but substantial run of the special Christmas numbers of The Bookman, 1905-34, 22 numbers in all (lacking those for 1908, 1910, 1921-27, and 1930; all in original pictorial wrappers or original limp buckram, all with numerous inserts and illustrations by many of the..... More
New York: Grolier Club, 1984. First edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 146; near fine in original yellow cloth, glassine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. Papers presented at the Centennial Convocation by Mary Hyde, Thomas Tanselle, Robert Darnton, Frank Stella, Robert Giroux & others..... More
New York: Grolier Club, 1984. First edition ltd. to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 146; fine in orig. yellow cloth and glassine jacket. Papers presented at the Centennial Convocation by Mary Hyde, Thomas Tanselle, Frank Stella, Robert Giroux & others. More
New York: Grolier Club, 1984. First edition ltd. to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [3], 146; near fine in orig. yellow cloth. Papers presented at the Centennial Convocation by Mary Hyde, Thomas Tanselle, Frank Stella, Robert Giroux & others. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1989. 11" x 14" broadside, printed at the first Coffee House Press Open House, 1989. More
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1985. Large 8vo, unpaginated; black and white illustrations throughout (wood engravings, linocuts); original purple pictorial wrappers, printed in blue and black; fine. Titles from the Press include a reprint of "Matrix 1" as well as "Matrix 3"; and "The Wood-engravings of Gwenda Morgan." List of titles..... More
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: 1988. Large 8vo, pp. 15, [1]; ; illustrations printed in tan throughout (wood engravings, line drawings, linocuts); original coral pictorial wrappers printed in tan and black; fine. Titles from the Press include "Matrix 8" and Caroline Martin's "Lap Games, and other songs for children." Integral order form bound..... More
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: 1988. Large 8vo, pp. 16; illustrations throughout (wood engravings, tip-ins) printed in red and black; original mauve pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; fine. Titles from the Press include John Bidwell's Fine Papers at the Oxford University Press, and David Butcher's British Private Press Prospectuses, 1890-1990. Integral..... More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1988. 15" x 6" commemorative broadside celebrating CHP's move to its new home at 27 North Fourth Street, printed on blue paper. "The display types appearing above ("Books, Books, Books, Books...) "represent sixteen years of quixotic acquisition." More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1988. 15" x 6" commemorative broadside celebrating CHP's move to its new home at 27 North Fourth Street, printed on white paper. "The display types appearing above ("Books, Books, Books, Books...) "represent sixteen years of quixotic acquisition." More
London: May 3, 1958. 4to, pp. 1518-1663 [i.e. 145 pages]; illustrated throughout; original gold wrappers printed in black and red; fine. The 100th anniversary issue, being no. 2732. Includes a year-by-year encapsulated view of a century's worth of coverage. More
New York: A. C. Armstrong & Son; London: Elliot Stock, 1888 - [1982]. 5 volumes (first thru fifth series, of 7), large 8vo, original morocco-grained brown cloth-backed green cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, fore- and bottom edges uncut; tops of spine slightly chipped, texts variously toned, and several hinges..... More
Boston: sold also by H. Dexter, Hamilton & Co., 113 Nassau Street, N.Y., [1863]. 24mo (approx. 5¼" x 3¼"), pp. [4] ads, 282, [4] ads; ads also on free endpapers and pastedowns; folding map of the city of Boston, ads interspersed throughout, a number full-page; original green blindstamped cloth stamped..... More
Boston: Geo. H. Walker & Co., 1896. Large folding map printed in color approx. 41" x 26", folding down to a 16mo and contained in gray pictorial wrappers printed in blue; wrappers separated and map separated from wrappers, a number of short splits at the folds; good or better. 4..... More
Boston, Mass. Saturday Morning, July 25, 1840. 34" x 23¾", pp. [4]; 8 columns per page, removed from binding. Popular publications, English magaziniana, crime records, literary notices, marriages and deaths (with cuts), domestic news, select poetry, foreign news, including attempt to assasinate the Queen and Prince Albert, Liverpool markets report..... More
Boston: Saturday, April 28, 1810. 19½" x 13½", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding, slightly split. Auction and estate sales, Lord Grenville's speech, Portland Resolves, marine journal, burning of American vessels, latest news from France and England, numerous ads, including those of Isaiah Thomas and Matthew Carey..... More
Boston: Wednesday, May 2, 1810. 19½" x 13½", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding. Correspondence of the late President Adams, continued; letter to David Osgood signed Tammany; auction and estate sales, marine journal, numerous ads including one of Isaiah Thomas, some with cuts. More
Boston: Wednesday, January 30, 1811. 19½" x 13½", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding. Correspondence of the late President Adams, continued; stock prices, reports from the U.S. Congress, the Massachusetts Legislature, Florida affairs, fires, marriage notices, marine journal, numerous ads, some with cuts, and a one-and-a-third-column proposal..... More
Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, [1973]. First edition, 8vo, xxv-[xxvi] & 294pp., 143 illustrations, fine copy in very good jacket. Volume 46 of the Society's publications. Review copy with slip laid in. More
Boston: Printed for the Society, 1930. First edition, 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. xii, 117-[120]; ornamented title-p., 40 full-p. illus. (mostly portraits); original olive green cloth-backed rose paper-covered boards, gilt-titled spine and front cover, t.e.g., printed presentation plate at inside front cover; extremities worn, revealing boards at lower..... More
Boston: Nathan Hale, Thursday, January 31, 1822. 21¼" x 15", pp. [4]; 6 columns per page, removed from binding. Execution of Ketaukah and Kewabiskim, the Indians who were sentenced to death for a murder "For several weeks past they appeared very anxious to obtain presents of tobacco, pipes, &c. none..... More
August 7, 1865. 4to, single sheet itemizing a purchase from Bryce by Geo. Baker on behalf of the American ship Richard 3rd, for 1 coil spun yarn, 12 corn brooms, 1 hawsing prow, 1 coil Manila rope, 5 barrels of beef, 100 lbs brown sugar, etc. Handsome billhead printed in..... More
V.p. 1880s-1900s. Bound in order by size together in early 20th-century tan cloth (a bit dampstained), "Orthopedics" printed on spine; spine head cracked, gift bookplate of the Library of the Bridgeport Medical Association on front pastedown, hinges reinforced, top inner corner of front free endpaper torn; not the most attractive..... More
