New York: Spiral Press, 1968. Edition limited to 1000 copies, large 8vo, pp. 38, [34]; 26 pages of facsimile pages, some in color; brown printed paper wrappers, fine. A catalog accompanying an exhibit at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels, May-June and the Meermanno-Westreenianum in the Hague, 1968. More
New York: Grolier Club, 1982. First edition limited to 300 copies (this, no. 236) signed by the author; 8vo, pp. [12], 153, [3]; 26 pages of facsimiles; original red cloth-backed paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine, publisher's slipcase; previous ownership signature on flyleaf, else fine. The Club's first centennial publication. Grolier 1884-1984..... More
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library; Boston: David R. Godine, [1973]. First edition, 4to, pp. xiv, 192; 125 plates in text, plus one folding facsimile; covers bowing with some dampstaining; dust jacket soiled and waterstained with creasing and small tears at edges; text and illustrations unmarred. More
London: Scolar Press, in association with the Dartmouth College Library, [c1977]. First British edition, 4to, pp. xvi, 250, [1]; 70 full-page illustrations; bottom spine end bumped, with resulting creases in cloth and dust jacket, else very good. More
Saigon: Ministry of Culture, Education and Youth, 1972. First edition, 8vo, pp. 170, [2]; extremities toned; near fine in original light blue and white printed wrappers. More
Cazenovia: Crandall and Mosley, 1853. Stereotype edition of a pocket dictionary (and so lettered in gilt on the upper cover) measuring 3.5 x 2.25 inches; publisher's full red morocco, gilt paneled spine. This is the last of three editions cited in NUC - the others being 1836 and 1844. Not..... More
[Parma]: Biblioteca Palatina, 1963. Second edition, 4to, pp. [3]-307, [5]; portrait frontispiece and 55 plates at the back; original ochre cloth stamped in black; spine a little sunned, else very good in original acetate jacket but lacking the publisher's slipcase. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer..... More
Amsterdam: Meridian, 1968. Reprint edition (first published Strassburg, 1904), 8vo, pp. [4], 164, [1]; full-page facsimile title-pages throughout; fine in original light gray textured wrappers printed in black. More
Winchester: Alembic Press, 1985. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 41), revised edition, 12mo, pp. 70; wood engravings by Jill Barker printed in red throughout, fine in original brown calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Brief lists of bookbinders, booksellers, libraries, museums, wood engravers, etc. More
Winchester: Alembic Press, 1984. Edition limited to 120 copies, 8vo, pp. [38]; full-page map, full-page watermark, 6 other illustrations from old wood engravings; fine in original marbled paper wrappers, printed paper label on the upper cover. History of a 17th-century English papermaking mill and reprinting an inventory of its equipment..... More
Oxford: Alembic Press, 1991. Edition limited to 250 copies (this, no. 105), 8vo, pp. 77, [3]; 16 photographic illustrationson rectos and versos of 8 plates, shop plans, facsimiles, and tables in the text; original terracotta cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, gilt titling on spine; fine. The long and esteemed history of..... More
London: Mansell, 1975. First edition, 4to, pp. xxvi, 360; fine in original cream cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Includes detailed collations and occasional annotations. Bookplate of Jacob Chernofsky. More
Paterson, NJ: Pageant Books, 1960. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 84; photographic frontis portrait after Halsman, 2 full-page illustrations in text, and 3 plates; near fine in original blue cloth stamped in black and lettered in gilt on spine with negligible wear to extremities. More
Bristol, Old England: printed for and published by William George's Sons, at the sign of Cabot's Head, 1900. Small 8vo, pp. vi, 146; title printed in red and black, text in double column, 1 illus. in text; some soiling else good or better in orig. limp baby-blue cloth; ex-MHS. Fine..... More
[Neeneh, WI: 1924]. Original illustrated typescript, 8vo, 39 leaves in all; purple card wrappers, ribbon-bound; quite chipped at the extremities, the ribbon worn and loosening, but internally quite nice with numerous illustrations pasted in, as well as 8 (of 9) interesting paper samples (one - tar paper - is missing)..... More
New York: The Guild of Book Workers, 1981. First edition; oblong 8vo; pp. 96; illustrated throughout; very good copy in slightly scuffed original paper wrappers. Laid in is a price list for selected items in the exhibition. More
New York: Guild of Book Workers, 1981. Small oblong 4to, pp. 96; illustrated throughout, some in color; fine in original orange pictorial wrappers, custom brown cloth clamshell box. Includes a brief history of the Guild and biographies and examples of the work of over 100 bookbinders. Laid in is a...... More
Paris: Gustave Bossange, 1872. First edition, 8vo, pp. [iv], 158; one signature starting, pages slightly browned, else good in original green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. The first of Bossange's literary annuals, designed for the English public. Ex-MHS. More
London: printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press, 1906. First edition, 4to, pp. x, 212, [17] leaves of facsimiles, [1]; title-p. printed in red and black; issued as no. XIV in the Bibliographical Society's series, Illustrated Monographs; bound with: A Verard Fragment of the Roman de la Rose..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1929. First edition, 12mo, pp. 62, [1]; fine in original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the scarce dust-jacket, somewhat faded with a few tiny chips at edges. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949. Sm 8vo, pp. 209; Third edition, revised and enlarged by Roger Boutell, jacket a bit faded on spine, else near fine in original red cloth with gilt-lettered spine, dust jacket. More
[Austin, TX: Humanities Research Center, c1971]. Edition limited to 1500 copies, tall, narrow 8vo, pp. 53, [3]; decorative title-page printed in black and orange, illustrations and ornaments throughout, some in printed in orange; a very good copy in original decorative tan paper-covered boards printed in black and orange. More
[Flagstaff]: Northland Press, [1976]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 212, [2]; frontispiece portrait, illustrations; fine in original blue cloth, very good jacket with edgewear and rubbing. Included are two copies of Rosenstock's obituary from the Old West Publishing Company addressed to A .B. Bookman's Weekly and Jacob L. Chernofsky..... More
New York: R.R. Bowker, [1956]. Sq. 8vo, pp. 36; colored wrappers; many illus. of books, most of them with catalogued descriptions. With a letter of transferal Bowker letterhead laid in. Dictionaries, cook-books, repair manuals, Emily Post, atlases, bibles, and selected novels. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1969]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 345; fine in original brown cloth, near fine jacket. Part of the Patterns of Literary Criticism series. More
