BODLEIAN (THE) LIBRAY AND ITS FRIEND;
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1969. Soft Cover. Illustrated wrappers display only faint wear to edges, corners neat. Book body clean and tight, b/w illustrations throughout.
BOOK ARTS
IN PRAISE OF ALDUS MANUTIS: A QUINCENTENARY EXHIBITION;
Los Angeles, CA: University of California, 1995. Soft Cover. Illustrated wrappers with white titles display minimal wear, corners neat, white titles on spine. Book body clean and tight, lightly illustrated in color and b/w throguhout.
MODERN FIRST EDITIONS CATALOGUE 47; Including Science Fiction, P.G. Wodehouse, Golf
York: Hawthorn Books. Staplebound. Tan paper wrappers display light edge-wear, light sunning to edges. Black titles on front cover, corners neat. Book body clean and tight.
FINE RARE BOOKS;
New York: Richard B. Arkway, 1983. First Edition. Soft Cover. Grey wrappers with red sun design and gold titles show minimal wear, corners neat. Book body clean and illustrated throughout in b/w.103 pgs. price list for catalogue #12. science, medicine, travels, voyages, navigation, mathematics, technology, business history, early illustrated & architecture.
F.A. BERNETT INC CATALOGUE 270 ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF NORTHERN EUROPE;
F.A Bernett, Inc., 1989. First Thus. Soft Cover. White illustrated wrappers display minimal wear, corners neat. Book body clean.
MEXICAN (THE) LIBRARY;
Scarecrow Press, 1969. First Thus. Cloth Covered Boards. light blue cloth covered boards, black titles at spine, light edgewear, corners neat. book body clean and tight, errata laid in.
CRAFT (THE) OF BOOKBINDING; A Practical Handbook
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1983. Third Printing. Cloth. Brown cloth covered boards, quarter bound in beige cloth, gold stamped titles at spine, light shelf wear and sunning to edges and head and tail of spine, corners straight but lightly bumped. Book body clean and tight, b&w illustrations throughout, and.....
COLLECTING AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS;
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1930. Signed Limited Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Blue cloth covered boards with on-laid titles to front cover and spine, light wear to edges, book body clean, pages age-toned, signed by the author on the limitation page. Limited edition 1250/1206. Signed By the Author.
TREATISE (A) ON TITLE-PAGES;
New York: Oswald Publishing Company, 1914. Second Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Brown cloth covered boards, edge wear, glue residue from missing label at spine, rubbing, back bottom corner bumped, several scratches. Book body tight, gift inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise clean, b/w illustration throughout.
CATALOGUE 157; BOOKBINDING;
Delaware: Oak Knoll Books. First Thus. Soft Cover. illustration of roger payne in his workshop on the front cover, mild thumbing at tips of corners, book body clean and tight. 120 pgs.
ON COLLECTING JEWISH BOOKS;
Society of Jewish Bibliophiles. Limited Edition. Cloth Covered Boards. Light brown cloth covered boards display light sunning to edges, gold titles on front cover, one upper corner gently bumped. Lightly faded gold titles on sunned spine. Book body clean, limited edition. 1/250.
DESCRIPTIVE (A) CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM OF THE WRITINGS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY;
New York: The Grolier Club, 1923. Limited Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Blue papaer covered boards displasy minimal wear, corners straight, titles on-laid to spine, spine and titles show light sunning.Former owners name written on the inside of the front cover, book body otherwsie clean, lightly illustrated in b/w. Limited edition.....
FRENCH BOOK-PLATES;
London: George Bell & Sons, 1896. First Thus. Cloth Covered Boards. Blue cloth covered boards, titles in gold, edge wear, rubbing, titles faded from spine, white stains at front. Book body clean and tight, b/w illustration throughout, gilt top edge.
PRINTING IN LONDON: From Caxton to Modern Times;
Geaorge Allen and Unwin, 1960. Cloth. blue cloth covered boards, red field at spine with silver titles, minimal wear, slight shelfwear at spine-ends. book body clean and tight, illustrated occasionally in black and white. light blue dj with black titles, red illustration, light edgewear, faint soil to covers, price intact...
GASTRONOMY CATALOGUE NINE;
Ben Kinmont Bookseller, 2004. First Thus. Soft Cover. Green wrappers with white titles display minimal wear, titles bright on spine, corners neat. Book body is clean, tight and lightly illustrated throughout.
CATALOGUE OF SOME FIVE HUNDRED EXAMPLES OF THE PRINTING OF EDWIN & ROBERT GRABHORN;
San Francisco: DvID mAGEE. First Thus. Softcover. Tan wrappers withblack titles on front cover show light wear and sunning to all edges, spine is lightly sunned with light wear to the head and tail, book body is clean.
CATALOGUE OF SOME FIVE HUNDRED EXAMPLES OF THE PRINTING OF EDWIN & ROBERT GRABHORN;
San Francisco: DvID mAGEE. First Thus. Softcover. Tan wrappers withblack titles on front cover show light wear and sunning to all edges, spine is lightly sunned with light wear to the head and tail, book body is clean.
BOOK BINDINGS: HISTORICAL AND DECORATIVE;
London: Magg Bros. 1927. First Thus. Cloth. rebound in linen w/brn leather label. maggs 489. very nicely rebound w/hand-sewn headbands. very tight. book clean w/original spine laid in.
FOUR CENTURIES OF MILITARY BOOKS: CATALOGUE 915;
Berkeley Sq., London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1969. First Thus. Soft Cover. white wrappers w/b/w depiction of hussars on horseback w/swords drawn, orange leaf design bracketing figures, titles in black. minor edgewear and very slight thumbing, book body clean and tight. 255 pgs., 12 plates.
PRINTING ILLUSTRATION BINDING & ILLUMINATION XIVth TO XIXth CENTURIES;
London: Maggs Bros. First Thus. Cloth. 168 pgs. rebound in linen cloth. original covers intact. some wear at beginning of original soft-bound. linen covers vg. no date. hand-sewn headbands.
CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AND FINE BINDINGS;
London: Sotheby's, 1965. First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. from the celebrated collection the property of major j. r. abbey. illustrated w/87 plates. 279 pgs. Paper covered boards, corners lightly bumped, spine is sunned with bumping to head and tail, book body clean and illustrated throughout.
GERMAN BOOK ILLUSTRATION OF THE GOTHIC PERIOD AND THE EARLY RENAISSANCE (1460-1530);
Metuchen, N.J. Scarecrow Press, 1972. Reprint. Cloth. the book is in very good condition except for a 2" rip at the tail of the spine, other than that there is minival shelfwear, heavily decorated front cover w/gold titls, translated by ralph r. shaw, book body clean, tight and crisp.
BIBLIOTHECA BARBADIENSIS: A CATALOG OF MATERIALS RELATING TO BARBADOS 1650-1860 IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY;
Boston: Boston Public Library, 1968. Soft Cover / Stapled. Red paper wrapper, titles in black, mild edge wear. Book body clean and tight.
ENGLISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: A CHECKLIST;
Boston: Boston Public Library, 1966. Soft Cover / Stapled. Grey paper wrapper, titles in black, mild edge wear, sunning to edges. Book body clean and tight.
NEW (A) CHRONICLE OF THE COMPLEAT ANGLER 1653-1936;
New York & London: The Paisley Press, Inc; Williams & Norgate, Ltd, 1936. First Edition. Cloth. navy/black cloth-covered-boards with gold titles on spine, spine-ends and corners rubbed, rubbing and spotting from wear all around (mostly on spine). book interior clean and tight, deckled edges, lovely frontispiece of Isaac Walton, rice-paper...