London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1969]. Second edition, large 8vo, pp. 459, [1]; illustrated throughout, some in color; fine copy in original red cloth stamped in gilt and black, in a near fine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. This second edition presents a slightly expanded text over..... More
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New York: Employing Bookbinders of America, 1932-40. 8vo, the publisher's 3-ring binder containing a number of pamphlets, offprints, and miscellaneous materials regarding the Research Division of Employing Bookbinders of America, most 8 pages or less, often with tables and/or graphs, including 1) What Research can do for the Bookbinder, by..... More
San Francisco: Open Skull Press, May, 1967. Large 4to, unpaged; text printed from typescript on vari-colored paper; original white pictorial wrappers, minor wear, pages uniformly toned, else very good. Contains hundreds of short reviews of small-press books printed across the United States and Europe, edited by American poet Douglas Blazek..... More
[Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1986]. Edition limited to 125 copies signed by Blinn and the photographer, 12mo, [2], 30, [3]; 1 color photograph by Robert Lyons of the author in her print shop tipped in; fine in original green paste-paper covered boards, gilt-lettered spine. The text consists of two lectures by..... More
[Easthampton]: Warwick Press, 1976. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 142), 8vo, pp. [16]; title-page self-portrait with a dab of hand-coloring, hand-colored colophon vignette; original green paste paper wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover; fine. An interesting copy. Laid in is a note from Carol Blinn to Greg..... More
Easthampton: Warwick Press, 2011. Open edition originally limited to 50 copies signed by Blinn (but she assures me that no others have been printed), 8vo, pp. [20]; color pictorial title page and head-piece, 2 tipped-in illustrations and a tipped-in dyed specimen sheet of paper; original pictorial wrappers; fine, in the..... More
[Easthampton]: Warwick Press, 2010. First edition, 8vo, pp. 36, [6]; 15 color illustrations; original pictorial wrappers; fine. "Illustrated, designed, typeset, and hand sewn into paper wrappers" by Blinn. "The line drawings were originally drawn pen & ink, the watercolored, scanned into an iMac, & carefully cleaned up in photoshop so..... More
[Philadelphia]: Printed for private circulation, 1911. First edition, thin 8vo, pp. 92; near very good in original light tan cloth lettered and ruled in black on front cover, some soil and smudging overall and two small scrapes on front cover. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [c1960]. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 312; fine in dust jacket. Bibliographical essays and descriptions on 21 ailments including auricular fibrillation, pernicious anemia, leukemia, diabetes, gout, and scurvy. More
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, [1972]. Second edition, large 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 420; photographic frontispiece portrait; fine in original charcoal gray cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Detailed and authoritative entries. More
New York: Morgan Library, 1966. Edition limited to 1950 copies, this 1/1500 in wrappers, large 8vo, 66 & [32]pp., a number of reproductions at the back including some in color. More
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
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
