San Francisco: Museum of Modern Art, 1978. Edition limited to 2500 copies, oblong 8vo, pp. 91, [5]; illustrated throughout, some in color; original gray cloth, black letteringon spine; fine. More
London: printed by George E. Eyre and WIlliam Spottiswoode, 1853. First edition, royal 8vo, pp. lxii, 482; folding chromolithograph plate; ex-library copy with usual markings, pages slightly browned, hinges cracked, spine faded with small cracks in ends, covers scuffed, else good or better in original purple cloth, gilt lettering on..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Library, 1995. 4to, pp. 64; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; original blue-green printed wrappers, fine. Contents include "Guide to the Perplexed in the Wilderness of Hebraica: From Historical to Contemporary Bibliographies and Catalogs of Hebraica" by Menahem Schmelzer; and "'Dreaded Eloquence': The origins and Rise of African..... More
Cambridge , Massachusetts: Harvard University Library, 1967. Small 4to, pp. 229-312; 12 plates of illustrations and facsimiles; original grey printed wrappers, fine. Contents include "Come All for the Cure-All: Patent Medicines, 19th Century Bonanza" by Dorothea D. Reeves and "Anna Seward to William Hayley: A letter from the Swan to..... More
New York: Schuman's, 1943. First edition, 4to, pp. xvi, 207; blue cloth stamped in gilt, some edge wear, previous owner's marginalia. A very good copy of the first publication from the Yale Medical Library, Historical Library, a short-title catalogue of Cushing's collection, bequeathed to Yale University, ca. 1939. More
Iowa City: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1980. First edition, 4to, pp. xiv, 474; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; color portrait frontispiece of John Martin, M.D.; original red cloth with blue and gilt title labels on upper cover and spine; very good and sound. From the library of Kim..... More
New York: Henry Holt & Co., n.d., [1898]. Folio broadside, approx. 12" x 11"; printed in black on brown paper; generally fine. The David Dwight Wells's humorous stories were published by Holt in New York in 1898, and reprinted again in London, where it seems to have enjoyed considerable success..... More
London: Sotheby & Co., 1927-28. 4 vols., 8vo; plates, many folding, several in color; original green wrappers; wrappers show some fading and light wear, especially to the spines, still a near very good copy. The first part contains illuminations on vellum, the second part choice and valuable books, principally from..... More
Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1967. Folio, xiv-[xvi] & 255-[256]pp., 10 color plates, numerous illustrations throughout of manuscripts, bindings, maps, and printed books from Harvard's diverse collections; fine copy in orig. black cloth gilt, t.e.g., with publisher's announcement and presentation slip laid in. More
[Incline Village, Nevada]: Huckleberry Press, [1991]. Light gray bifoliate wrappers printed in red and black (approx. (10¼" x 7¼") containing information about the Huckleberry Press and prospectuses of three books and one broadside it produced between 1989 and 1991, viz: Leatherneck Square, by Richard C. Schulz; Sea Bird, by Keith..... More
Washington: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, March, 1972. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. vii, [1], 171; vi, 109; original mustard spiral-bound wrappers; ex-Hill Library with usual markings; shelf wear, tear to rear wrapper of vol. II not affecting text, else good and sound. vol. I: A selective, annotated..... More
Providence: 1996. Edition limited to 1500 copies; folio; pp. xix, [1], 147, [1]; numerous illustrations in the text; quarter black cloth stamped with gilt, under decorative paper. More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1935. Edition limited to 1600 copies printed by William E. Rudge's Sons, small 4to, pp. [16]; 9 photographic illustrations of bindings; original orange wrappers printed in red and black; fine. A catalogue based on the October 1935 exhibition of 54 bindings by Wiemeler with..... More
Baltimore: Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1949. 4to, pp. xii, [2], 85, lxxx (black & white plates); frontispiece in color, addenda laid in, extremities have some light creases, spine ends a bit frayed, else very good in original purple printed wrappers with decorative upper cover. More
New York: New York Public Library, 1934. Edition limited to 500 copies "reprinted in revised form from the Bulletin of the N.Y.P.L.," 8vo, pp. 32, [1]; text partially in double column, 5 full-p. illus. on rectos and versos of 3 plates; orig. printed wrappers bound in; contemporary half red calf..... More
Boston: J.E. Farwell & Co., 1865. Second stereotype edition, thick 8vo, pp. vii-[viii], 902; text in double column; orig. brown cloth gilt; some cracking at extremities, else a good, bright copy; ex-MHS. More
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Library, 1977. 8vo, pp. 92; origina grey printed wrappers, fine. Contents include "Victorian Drama" by John A. Degen; "General Histories, Guidebooks and Handbooks" and "Picturesque London" by Donald J. Gray; and "Dark London" by Martha Vicinus. More
London: John Marshall, ca. 1808. Miniature book (51 x 45 mm.), pp. 63; woodcut illustrations; printed self wrappers (upper cover unevenly darkened); top edge closely trimmed occasionally affecting running title and page number, else very good and sound. The first of a series of 16 volumes, this consisting of an..... More
Minneapolis & Saint Paul: Ampersand Club, 1972-present. A collection of approximately 125 Ampersand Club invitations ranging in size from large folio to 16mo, all but a handful printed letterpress by such printers as: Jim Eckman, Norm Fritzberg, Phil Gallo, Allan Kornblum, Gerry Lange, Paul Maravelas, Russell Maret, Paulette Myers-Rich, Will..... More
[New York]: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, n.d. 8vo, pp. 32; fine in original printed beige wrappers. More
[Minneapolis, MN]: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library, 1993. First edition, sm 8vo, pp. [8], 83, [2]; fine in original half black cloth over red boards, gilt-lettering on upper cover and spine. More
[Tokyo]: [Executive Committee of the Frankfurt Bookfair "Japan Year" [1990]. First edition, tall 4to, pp. 159; facsimile illustrations (many in color); Features significant Japanese books from a span of eras --Ancient Japan, Classical to Middle ages, Meiji, Taisho, Showa through contemporary times. A fine copy in original stiff purple wrappers..... More
Chicago: printed by order of the Board of Directors, 1902. Tall 8vo, pp. 504; original wrappers bound in contemporary green cloth, paper label on spine; very good. Extensively indexed. Bookplate of Jacob Chernofsky. More
[Middletown, CT: Robin Price for The University of Commecticut and the Friends of the University Libraries, 1998. Broadside (approx. 9¾" x 12¾") printed in a limited but unspecified edition; printed in 2 colors from handset Bodoni book and Fortuna extra bold; fine. An invitation to a lecture held in conjunction..... More
Cambridge: Maurizio Martino, [1993]. Reprint of the 1940 and 1957 editions, one of 250 copies, 2 vols., 4to; fine in original maroon cloth, spine gilt. More
