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
Books on Books
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
The Story of Frederic W. Goudy
[Marlborough, NY]: The Distaff Side, 1939. Edition limited to 300, 8vo, 58, [12]; largely unopened; title-page portrait, 8 full-page litho prints at back; near in blue-green paper-covered boards, paper labels on spine and upper cover. From the library of Kim Merker. Printed in honor of Goudy's 74th birthday. More
Proceedings of the fine printing conference at Columbia University
New York: School of Library Science, Columbia University, 1983. 4to, pp. ix, [1], 121, [1]; illustrated throughout; near fine in original blue printed wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker, one of the attendees. The conference was held May 19-22, 1982. Others in attendance were Claire Van Vliet, Timothy Barrett..... More
Oregon imprints. 1845-1870.
Eugene: University of Oregon Books, [1968]. 8vo, pp. [2], 305; plates, pictorial endpapers; fine in original green cloth, dust-jacket. 1,521 books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Oregon through 1870.6. More
Papyrus, tapa, amate & rice paper: papermaking in Africa, the Pacific, Latin America & Southeast Asia
McMinnville, Ore. Liliaceae Press, 1985. Second revised edition, small 4to, pp. 146, [2]; diagrams, maps, and photographic illustrations in text; the history, uses, and production methods of a variety of "papers." In this instance "rice paper" refers to pith; white pictorial paper wrappers; fine. More
[Title in Russian] Knigoizdateli Sabashnikovy
[Moscow]: Moskovskii rabochii, 1974. 12mo, pp. 175, [1]; plain photographic illustrations; original green decorative wrappers; pages uniformly toned, dampstained manscript fragment pasted inside rear cover, else very good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. Biography of Russian publisher brothers Mikhail Vasil'evich and Sergei Vasil'evich Sabashnikov..... More
Some notes on the engaging by-paths and enduring pleasures of fine bookmaking
Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 1963. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. 53, [1]; keepsake for the exhibition, "The Book, Its Art and History" and the dedication of the Morgan A. and Aline D. Gunst Memorial Library; tan printed paper wrappers, number stamp on upper cover, near fine. More
Elmer Adler in the world of books. Reminiscences of Frederick B. Adams, Jr., John T. Winterich, Lawrence Thompson, Kneeland McNulty, Al Hine, David Jackson McWilliams, Edward Naumburg, Jr., Philip C. Duschnes, Elmer Adler.
v.p. 1964. Boxed set of 4 volumes being each of the four issues of the book: one of 750 for the Princeton University Library; one of 800 for the Grolier Club; one of 400 for the Typophiles; and one of 150 for La Casa del Libro, San Juan, Puerto Rico..... More
A practical guide to American book collecting (1663-1940). With all items arranged in sequence as a chronological panorama of American authorship and with each subject considered from bibliographical, biographical and analytical aspects.
Rutland, Vermont: The Bennett Book Studios, [1941]. First edition limited to 1250 copies; 8vo; pp. 254; some staining on covers, errata and addenda pasted to front pastedown; very good copy in original yellow cloth stamped in black on spine, paper label on upper cover. More
A practical guide to American nineteenth-century color plate books.
New York: Bennett Book Studios, 1949. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [11], 132, [1], portrait of Lillian Bennett; fine in original red cloth. Still a useful reference, with extensive annotations and plate counts, but no collations. More
The charm of Burne-Jones
London & Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, n.d., [ca. 1910]. Square 16mo, pp. 47, [1]; 4 color plates; original pictorial parchment wrappers slightly worn, but generally very good. More
A Blake bibliography: annotated lists of works, studies, and Blakeana
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964. First edition, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 393; vignettes after Blake at section headings throughout; original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, lacking the dust jacket; negligible wear to extremities, a few scrapes and light rubbing to boards; otherwise very good. More
Printing and the mind of Merker. A bibliographical study
New York: The Grolier Club, 1997. Edition limited to 500 copies, this one of 50 special copies hardbound and with 5 extra inserts of Merker's printing bound in; 4to, pp. xviii, 138; illustrated throughout, original green cloth-backed decorative paper-covered boards, the spine stamped in gilt, publisher's slipcase. Fine copy. From..... More
James Agee: a life
New York: E. P. Dutton, [1984]. Stated first edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 467; photographically illustrated on 16 plates and 1 illus. in the text; a fine copy in like jacket. More
Geofroy Tory, peintre et graveur, premier impremeur royal, réformateur de l'orthographe et de la typographie sous François 1er...
Paris: Librairie Tross, 1865. Second--and best--edition (originally published in 1857, here much enlarged and revised), 8vo, pp. [4], viii, 410, [1]; decorative initials, borders, devices, and other figures in text throughout; contemporary quarter art vellum over marbled paper-covered boards, brown sheep label lettered in gilt on spine, the original drab..... More
Annals of printing: a chronological encyclopaedia from the earliest times to 1950
London: Blandford Press, 1966. First edition, tall 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 315, [1]; text in double column, illustrated throughout; a fine copy in original red cloth stamped in black and gilt, slightly worn and rubbed dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. Important dates and major landmarks in the..... More
Thornton's medical books, libraries and collectors. A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the medical sciences. Third, revised edition.
Brookfield, VT: Gower Publishing Company, 1990. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in; 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 417; 8 full-p. illustrations; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
