Fifty-five rare books from the botanical library of Mrs Roy Arthur Hunt.
Ann Arbor: Clements Library, 1949. First edition, 4to, pp. [8], 55; illustrations; original green wrappers, yapp edges; wrappers faded, edges worn, internally near fine. More
Books on Books
Catalogue of the magnificent library of the late Hon. Henry C. Murphy, of Brooklyn … consisting almost wholly of Americana. The whole to be sold by auction, at the Clinton Hll sales rooms, on Monday, March 3rd, 1884…
New York: Geo. A. Leavitt, 1884. 8vo, pp. viii, 434; fine in recent mustard cloth, printed paper label on spine. Includes a 4-p. account of Murphy and his library, and more than 3100 lots. Mackay 3051. More
To colour thought
New Haven: [Officina Bodoni for Yale University Library], 1967. Edition limited to 300 copies (this, no. 125), 8vo, pp. 27, [5]; color frontispiece after William Blake, 9 illustrations on rectos and versos of 8 plates; reproductions in collotype and offset by Meriden Gravure; fine copy in original brown morocco-backed tan..... More
A bibliography of the writings of William Somerset Maugham.
London: The Unicorn Press, 1931. First edition limited to 1000 copies, this one of 950 on antique laid paper, thin 8vo, pp. 78, [2]; original red cloth stamped in blind and gilt, lettered in gilt on spine, the boards very slightly bowed, the spine a little faded, and a few..... More
Synthetic fibers in papermaking
New York, London, Sydney: Interscience Publishers, [1964]. 8vo, pp. viii, [4], 340; illustrations, charts and graphs throughout; full blue cloth; owner's signature on upper pastedown, else fine in a toned and torn dust jacket. "Every known class of synthetic fiber for the papermaking industry has been covered here by experts..... More
Human touch
New York: The Bauer Type Foundry, 1937. 8vo, pp. [16]; 4 wood engravings by Karl Mahr, 3 full-page; brown pastepaper covered boards, fine in a lightly worn slipcase. More
A bibliography of the poem syphilis sive morbus gallicus by Girolamo Fracastoro of Verona.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo, pp. 157; frontispiece portrait, 9 illustrated plates; ex-libris American College of Surgeons, with bookplate on front pastedown, rubber stamp on title page and rear pastedown, and white ink call number on spine; near fine copy is original blue cloth, gilt spine..... More
A bibliography of the poem Syphilis sive morbus gallicus by Girolamo Fracastoro of Verona.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935. First edition, 8vo, pp. 157; frontispiece portrait, 9 illustrated plates; some minor wear, but overall a fine copy in original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. The annotated bibliography describes 100 editions and translations of Syphilis and is followed by a section listing biographies and..... More
In the house of memories (table talk)
Cedar Rapids, IA: privately printed for the friends of the Torch Press, 1946. Edition limited to 400 copies, small 8vo, pp. 37; portrait frontispiece of J.M. Barrie, facsimile; original brown cloth-backed purple boards, paper cover label printed in brown and black; fine. More
Journeys and voyages to nature: a survey of one hundred books.
Cedar Rapids: privately printed at the Torch Press, Christmas, 1950. First edition limited to 400 copies, 12mo, pp. 67, 2 plates; fine in original black cloth over blue paper-covered boards, paper label on upper cover, glassine slightly chipped and torn at top of spine panel. "A hundred great books about..... More
The Pickwick papers: some bibliographical remarks. An address delivered before the Caxton Club January sixteenth, 1937.
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1938. Edition limited to 250 copies printed at the Merrymount Press, 8vo, pp. [4], 28, [4]; pictorial title-page, 4 plates; orig. red cloth, gilt-titled spine, t.e.g., negligible wear, generally a fine copy. This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Mr. Roy J...... More
A second handful of western books
Cedar Rapids, IA: Friends of the Torch Press, 1936. Edition lmited to 400 copies, 8vo, 56; frontispiece; quarter red cloth over patterned paper-covered boards, paper spine and cover label; lightly toned; near fine in the original, heavily chipped glassine wrapper. A discursive survey of a personal collection of descriptive material..... More
The paper makers craft
Leicester: printed by Will Carter at Cambridge for the Twelve by Eight Press, 1965. First edition, number 124 of less than 400 copies, pp. [6], 19; 9 plates with color illustrations by Rigby Graham; linsom vellum boards stamped in gilt, cardboard protective sleeve stamped in gilt; fine with a printed..... More
The paper makers craft.
Leicester: printed by Will Carter at Cambridge for the Twelve by Eight Press, 1965. First edition, number 312 of less than 400 copies, pp. [6], 19; 9 plates with color illustrations by Rigby Graham; linsom vellum boards stamped in gilt, without the cardboard protective sleeve, otherwise fine. Signed by Mason..... More
Bookbinding for beginners. Third edition
Worcester, Mass. Davis Press, 1924. 8vo, pp. 119, [1]; 62 text illustrations; original green cloth gilt, fine. A series of lessons that instruct the reader on how to make pamphlets, boxes, portfolios, pencil cases, etc. More
Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library
[Washington, D.C.]: Folger Shakespeare Library / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1992]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 271, [1]; 244 illustrations including 14 full-color plates, fine copy in fine dust jacket. More
A bibliography of dancing.
[New York]: Holland Press, [1963]. Reprint of the 1929 first edition, 12mo, pp. 228; near fine in original olive cloth, spine and front cover stamped in brown and white. Includes a subject index. More
A bibliography of the dance collection of Doris Niles & Serge Leslie. Annotated by Serge Leslie.
London: C.W. Beaumont, 1966. 2 vols., first edition, limited to 525 copies, of which 25 were not for sale, 8vo, pp. 279, [280]-594, [3]; light bumps and rubbing to cloth, else very good in original blue cloth gilt. With subject indexes. More
Freedom of the press and l'Association Mensuelle: Philipon versus Louis-Philippe.
New York: Grolier Club, 1952. Edition limited to 750 copies, oblong 8vo, pp. [3], 40; plus 51pp. reproducing 24 lithographs, with descriptive comments; a tiny black smudge on fore-edge of front cover, else fine in orig. gray cloth gilt. Political caricatures, originally published from August 1832 to August 1834, by..... More
RHM Robert Hunter Middleton, the man and his letters. Eight essays on his life and career.
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1985. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 100, [2]; title page printed in red and black, illustrated throughout with type specimens, photographs, and facsimiles; fine in a fine dust jacket. This copy with 4-p. prospectus laid in. The essays are by James M...... More
RHM Robert Hunter Middleton, the man and his letters. Eight essays on his life and career.
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1985. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 100, [2]; title page printed in red and black, illustrated throughout with type specimens, photographs, and facsimiles; fine in a fine dust jacket. The essays are by James M. Wells, John Schappler, Greer Allen, Herbert Pinzke..... More
RHM Robert Hunter Middleton, the man and his letters. Eight essays on his life and career
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1985. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 100, [2]; title page printed in red and black, illustrated throughout with type specimens, photographs, and facsimiles; fine in a fine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy with a special presentation card..... More
RHM Robert Hunter Middleton, the man and his letters. Eight essays on his life and career
Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1985. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 100, [2]; title page printed in red and black, illustrated throughout with type specimens, photographs, and facsimiles; fine in a dust jacket with a tiny break at the top of the spine. From the library of..... More
Twentieth-century French women novelists.
Boston: Twayne, [1989]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 211; fine in original green cloth, dust-jacket. Fifteen major French women novelists are discussed, beginning with Colette and Simone de Beauvoir. More
Catalogue of the library and literary manuscripts of the late Sir Max Beerbohm removed from Rapallo...
[London]: Sotheby & Co., 1960. 8vo, pp. 103, [1]; illus.; some pencil notations, else very good copy in original green wrappers with the prices realized. More
