‎Collectibles‎

‎A celebration of the life of Arno Werner 31 May 1899 - 28 July 1995‎

‎Manchester Connecticut: Emanuel Lutheran Church 23 September 1995. 8vo 4 frenchfold pp. original printed green wrappers; fine. Funeral services for the famed bookbinder. <br/><br/> Emanuel Lutheran Church, 23 September unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 33716

‎A Century of Progress 1890-1990‎

‎Waverly Inc. Fine with no dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. Still in shrink wrap. History of the Waverly Press. Photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 131 pages . Waverly, Inc. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 45015

‎A Century of English Essays: An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R L Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time‎

‎New York: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1929. A volume in Everyman's Library edited by Ernest Rhys. A century of English essays chosen by Ernest Rhys and Lloyd Vaughan. Light green cloth with bright gilt titles and Everyman's Logo on spine. Navy blue topstain and all around. 474 toned pages followed by an eight page listing of other Everyman Library volumes. We have many please check our other listings. Some of the authors included in this volume of essays are: Mary Russell Mitford; Leigh Hunt; Richard Jefferies; Augustine Birrell; W.B. Yeats; Grace Rhys; William Caxton; Willim Cobbett; Thomas Dekker; Abraham Cowley and many others. Sunned spine and some sunning and motling to back cover. Some light soil to covers. Interior is in great conditon. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 001369

‎A Checklist of Drawings and Watercolors 1922-1957 for Books Illustated by Robert Lawson in the Frederick R. Gardner Collection of The Free Library of Philadelphia‎

‎Philadelphia PA: Free Library of Philadelphia 1977. Book. Fine. Original Wraps. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Booklet stiff rust wraps lettered/illus. in black. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover slight foxing to rear blank otherwise essentially as issued. 24 pp. Free Library of Philadelphia Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 039764

‎A Collection of Twenty-Two Type Specimens‎

‎Bangor ME: Eastern Corporation 1948. Quarto. Twenty-two folded broadside specimens each with exemplar card bearing historical and stylistic notes on the typeface. Broadsides and cards are printed in red and black. The typefaces include Garamond Baskerville Perpetua Futura Cloister Black and the "Lost" Goudy Types. Among the designers of the broadsides are Ward Ritchie W. A. Dwiggins Edward and Robert Grabhorn and Fred Athoenson. All slightly toned some corners with minor bumps else a fine set. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. Broadsides measure 22 by 17 in.; 559x432mm. Eastern Corporation unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 27940

‎A Collection of Japanese Prints Illustrated Books and Paintings: London: Thursday 18th December 1986‎

‎London U.K.: Sotheby's 1986. Softcover. Auction catalogue. Slight bump to upper leading corners. Spine ends and leading corners a little worn. Edges of inside front and back covers slightly sunned. Light creasing across upper leading corners of catalogue pages. Price list laid in between pages 84 and 85. Pages are lightly sunned around edges but clean. Contents sound. AF. paperback. Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Sotheby's Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 264153

‎A Complete Collection of Postage Stamps of China: the People's Republic of China‎

‎Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1989. 1st. hardcover. Small 4to 326 pp. Text in Chinese with a some brief English descriptions; all stamps are illustrated in color . hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BOOKS029706I

‎A Complete Catalogue of the Publications of Houghton Mifflin Company with Portraits‎

‎Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1912. First Edition. Paper Covers. VG-. The publisher's catalog for Autumn 1912. Some loss to paper over spine and at corners of paper covers which are lightly soiled /stained. Internals better than very good. 169p with an index and some ads. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 008705

‎A Country Calendar‎

‎Gloucestershire UK: The Whittington Press 1976. A calendar consisting of a rhyme opposite a lino cut illustration in single colour above the dates for that month with a single line for entries. Paper covers a little rubbed on edges and a few light marks a nice copy SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition. Illustrated paper Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hellmuth Weissenborn. 10 x 6� Inches. Paper Covers. The Whittington Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 005094

‎A Day in the Life of Canada‎

‎Toronto: Collins Publishers 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Toronto: Collins Publishers 1984. On June 8 1984 one hundred of the world's leading photographers were given the most unique and challenging assignment of their careers: to capture an entire nation on film in the course of a single day. The result is a stunning documentation of Canada Canadians and their lives. A scrapbook of a nation and a tribute to its people. 224 pages. Gift inscription on ffep. Previous owner's name written in pencil on bottom edge. Book and dustjacket are otherwise in as new condition. A beautiful coffee table book to add to your collection. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Collins Publishers hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 002373 ISBN : 0002173808 9780002173803

‎A Description of England and Wales‎

‎London: No. 65 the North Side of St. Paul's Church-yard.: Newbery and Carnan 1769 2 Vols bound as 1 Vol 3 & 4 only 10 VG 1769 63 pls B&W. In contemporary speckled calf gilt edge tooling corners & edges worn. Spine raised bands gilt tooling gilt titles to red & black calf labels edges. joints worn. Internally V3 1769 3 4-288 pp 33 pls. V4 1769 2 3-288 30 pls. Numerous illustrations within text some edge browning bookplate to fpd remains of removed bookplate to fep text block edged reddened. 16mo 102170. Title continues: containing a particular account of each county : with its antiquities curiosities situation figure extent climate rivers lakes mineral waters soils fossils caverns plants and minerals agriculture civil and ecclesiastical divisions cities towns palaces seats corporations markets fairs manufactures trade sieges battles and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates of palaces castles cathedrals the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings and of abbeys monasteries and other religious houses besides a variety of cuts of urns inscriptions and other antiquities. Newbery and Carnan hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 006540

‎A description of the Merrymount Press cover title‎

‎Boston: Merrymount Press 1921. Third impression revised first published in 1913; first illustrated in 1917; 12mo pp. 24; largely unopened; 6 plates; original green printed wrappers; fine. While not credited this is almost certainly designed by Daniel Berkeley Updike. Smith Merrymount Press p. 209. <br/><br/> Merrymount Press unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 50649

‎A Distinguished Private Collection from Corsica‎

‎Amsterdam The Netherlands: Sotheby's 2008. 29 September 2008. Sale AM1063. Almost new condition. paperback. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used. Sotheby's Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 154846

‎A FIFTY - STATE CELEBRAYION : The Bicentennial Heritage of the United States‎

‎USA: Franklin Mint 1974. Book. Illus. by unknowen. Very Fine. Soft Cover as Only Issued. 1st. an only edition 1974 Soft cover in white paper illustrated wraps 89 page book with black & white illustration on the Fifty -State Bicentennial Metal Collection. Condition : Very Fine. Size: 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall. Franklin Mint Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 041512-A

‎A General Catalogue of Valuable and Rare Old Books Which Are Now Selling at the Prices Affixed to Each by Longman Hurst Rees Orme & Brown Paternoster-Row London. Part I. for 1814 B/w General Catalogue.in the Ancient and Modern Languages.‎

‎London: Longman Hurst Rees Orme & Brown 1814. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. First Thus. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. 'Containing the Class of "Auctores Classici et Miscellanei Gr. et Lat." the greater part of which are works of considerable value or extreme rarity.' Original edition newly rebound in sympathetic brown cloth title stamped in gold foil on spine panel new endsheets new head- and tail-bands. Approx. 8 3/16" x 5 1/8". Text block edges darkened by age interior clean and fully intact. 373v25-180 pp. complete as issued. A rare glimpse at an early 19th-century antiquarian book catalogue. 4123 4327 listings generally short descriptions title/author place of publication date a few salient details price. Valuable for tracing provenance locating unique copies of scarce imprints etc. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 021943

‎A Goudy memoir: essays by and about America's great type designer Frederic W. Goudy. With contributions by Alexander S. Lawson Howard W. Coggeshall Arthur W. Rushmore Richard Ellis Earl H. Emmons. Wood engravings by John DePol‎

‎Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press 1987. Edition limited to 150 copies this being copy no. 46 and one of 75 on dampened Rives paper 8vo pp. xi 1 42 4; portrait frontispiece 1 wood-engraved plate and various text illustrations by John DePol facsimile of LeBonheur printed with Goudy's own Albion press tipped in; original quarter gray cloth over DePol-patterned paper-covered boards printed paper label on spine; fine. Original prospectus laid in.Walsdorf A11. <br/><br/> Yellow Barn Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 51735

‎A Goudy memoir: essays by and about America's great type designer Frederic W. Goudy. With contributions by Alexander S. lawson Howard W. Coggeshall Arthur W. Rushmore Richard Ellis Earl H. Emmons. Wood engravings by John DePol‎

‎Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press 1987. Edition limited to 150 copies this one of 75 on Mohawk Letterpress this copy no. 89; 8vo pp. xi 1 42 4; portrait frontispiece 1 wood-engraved plate and various text illustrations by John DePol folding facsimile of LeBonheur printed with Goudy's own Albion press tipped in; original quarter gray cloth over DePol-patterned paper-covered boards printed paper label on spine; fine. Walsdorf A11. <br/><br/> Yellow Barn Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 51927

‎A Goudy memoir: essays by and about America's great type designer Frederic W. Goudy. With contributions by Alexander S. Lawson Howard W. Coggeshall Arthur W. Rushmore Richard Ellis Earl H. Emmons. Wood engravings by John DePol‎

‎Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press 1987. Edition limited to 150 copies this being copy no. 46 and one of 75 on dampened Rives paper 8vo pp. xi 1 42 4; portrait frontispiece 1 wood-engraved plate and various text illustrations by John DePol facsimile of LeBonheur printed with Goudy's own Albion press tipped in; original quarter gray cloth over DePol-patterned paper-covered boards printed paper label on spine; fine. Original prospectus laid in.Walsdorf A11. <br/><br/> Yellow Barn Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 51735

‎A Guide to the Exhibition in The King's Library Illustrating the History of Printing Music-Printing and Bookbinding‎

‎London England: Trustees of the British Museum 1939. Book. VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Exhibition catalogue. Light green paper-covered boards. 163 pp. illus. w/ xxxv 35 b&w plates. Covers slightly tanned toward edges and along spine panel light shelf wear a few creases along an otherwise firm square binding. Trustees of the British Museum Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : BIBL0417

‎A Guide to the Printed Books Exhibited in the King's Library British Museum‎

‎London: Trustees of the British Museum 1891. Ex-Library. Very Good. Buckram. First Edition. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Original gray paper wraps bound into red buckram spine panel lettered in gilt. Ex-library non-circulating lightly marked/stamped a few perforation stamps mild soiling to cloth. Top corner repair to paper front cover and along top edge of first printed leaf. 111 pp. Durable functional copy by virtue of binding more than acceptable as reference copy. Trustees of the British Museum Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 018454

‎A Guide to the Exhibition in The King's Library Illustrating the History of Printing Music-Printing and Bookbinding‎

‎London England: The British Museum 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Exhibition catalogue. Light green paper over boards. 180 pp. illus. w/ xxxii b&w plates line drawings. Lightly soiled covers modest lean with hand-written title along spine panel. Interior intact slightly toned. Some evidence of repair along front joint. Binding is presently firm and intact but this issue is notorious for the weakness of its paper binding and so must be handled with care. The British Museum Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 005977

‎A History of American International College: Commemorating the 75th Anniversary 1885-1960‎

‎Springfield MA: American International College 1960. 12mo size hardcover; 66 pages followed by a short section of small photographs and brief biographies of the college presidents through 1960. The other photographs throughout the book are full-page photos. Foreword by John F Hines President Located in Springfield Massachusetts American International College AIC was founded in 1885 as the French Protestant College. In 1892 it became the first college in New England to admit women. Covered with a glassine or wax paper wrapper which has kept this slim volume in great condition. Pencilled price on fep. Some light soil to edges underneath wrapper and a small publisher's blemish a small raised area on front cover. The glassine wrapper has tears chipping and some foxing on top front. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. American International College Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 002420

‎A Large Group Of Liquor Bottle Labels 1934: Haig & Haig Scotch Bacardi Rum Old Quaker & Old Schenley & Dewar White Label White Horse & Shipping Port Whisky Bennett's & Ludford's Gin Brookfield Wine Windsor Straight Bourbon Cazalis & Prats & Noilly Prat Vermouth Etc.‎

‎Various Distilleries 1934. Original Labels . Single Sheets. Very Good - Fine. A group of loose labels preserved flat in a College Annual since 1934 some duplicates some not listed above some secondary labels and tax stamps. All flat and never mounted since 1934. Duplicates will be available separately. <br/> <br/> Various Distilleries unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 017167

‎A List of the Monumental Brasses Remaining in England. Arranged According to Counties. With a Chronological Index as Far as the End of the Fourteenth Century.‎

‎London: F. And J. Rivington 1846. Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Boards are lightly marked. Light creases throughout foxed rough-cut pages. Text is clear throughout. HCW. Hardcover. Good. Used. F. And J. Rivington Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 463183

‎A List of the Plate with the Inscriptions Thereon at the Mansion House of the City of London‎

‎London: Charles Skipper and East 1888. Printed by order of the commitee of Aldermen for London this book lists all the plate in the Mansion House at the time of printing. 46 pages in bright clean condition neat inscription to former owner on first blank page outer edges of pages are gold. Outer covers are flexible red leather covered card this is worn on edges with a few small splits to spine. A pleasing copy of an historical reference book SEE IMAGE. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition. Flexible Leather Covered Board. Good/No Jacket. 9 � x 6 � Inches. Limp Leather. Charles Skipper and East Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 004393