Bloomington Indiana: Lilly Library 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 71pp with index; black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. Bound in color-pictorial wrappers. 11" x 8.5" Major sections: The First Hundred Years; Edgar Rice Burroughs; Modern Science Fiction. Contains 211 annotated entries. <br/><br/> Lilly Library paperback
Minneapolis: Dinkytown Antiquarian Books 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Unpaginated. Contains brief descriptions of 349 books all illustrated in full color. Bound in printed cream wrappers. 11.25" x 8.75" Ticket at back: "This is copy no. 204." <br/><br/> Dinkytown Antiquarian Books paperback
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library 1972. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. pp: x 89 with indices of binders previous owners and authors; 61 full-page b&w illustrations from photographs of early American bindings. Bound in decorated cream wrappers. 10.5" x 7.5" Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Mike Papantonio October 10 1972. <br/><br/> Pierpont Morgan Library paperback
Bookseller reference : 040757 ISBN : 0875980376 9780875980379
San Francisco: North Point Press 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. pp: xxiii 286; 59 illustrations from photographs. Bound in brown cloth gilt lettering on spine pictorial dust wrapper. 9.25" x 6" Ford here focuses on four of the American ex-patriates in Paris in the 1920s: George Antheil Kay Boyle Harold Stearns and Margaret Anderson. This is a presentation copy with a long inscription written and signed by Hugh Ford on the blank flyleaf in part: "For ___ You were so much a part of the making of this book that your picture ought to be on the cover. Never will I forget the wonderful adventures we shared on our transcontinental journey.with abiding thanks and love Hugh / Feb. 24 1987." <br/><br/> North Point Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040759 ISBN : 0865472505 9780865472501
London & New Castle: British Library & Oak Knoll Press 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: xxiii 324 with subject title and general indices; 87 black-and-white illustrations in the text 91 full-color plates 4pp of bookbinders' tickets. Bound in blue cloth heavy gilt lettering on spine and cover acetate overlay. 11" x 8.75" Contains annotated descriptions of 752 books and bindings. <br/><br/> British Library & Oak Knoll Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040762 ISBN : 0712347232 9780712347235
Washington DC: Department of Defense 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes thick octavo. 4478pp; large folding map in color at the back of each volume. Bound in blue buckram gilt lettering on spines. 9.25" x 6" Best single bibliography on the subject. Volumes 1 and 2 contain 20003 annotated entries. Volume 3 is a thorough index by sub-topic. <br/><br/> Department of Defense hardcover
New York: Grolier Club 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 288pp; illustrated throughout in full color. Bound in blue cloth gilt spine lettering pictorial endpapers pictorial dust wrapper. 12.25" x 9.5". Laid in is a four-page printed index and list of errata. One of 1500 copies printed by Puritan Capital. Designed by Julia Sedykh. <br/><br/> Grolier Club hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040767 ISBN : 160583050x 9781605830506
Goshen Connecticut: The Angler's & Shooter's Press 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp: xi 266 colophon; frontispiece portrait 20pp of illustrations from photographs. Bound in red cloth gilt lettering on spine blue endpapers publisher's blue slipcase. 10.25" x 7" One of 1250 copies printed; this copy is not numbered. <br/><br/> The Angler's & Shooter's Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040769 ISBN : 0890322406 9780890322406
Newton MA: Crofton Publ Co nd. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. pp: viii 299 with appendices and index 23 legal case references. Bound in blue cloth gilt spine lettering. 11.25" x 8.5" This Bibliography of the Union Pacific System comprises two parts: I-Union Pacific Railroad; II-Oregon Short LIne Railroad. <br/><br/> Crofton Publ Co hardcover
Mansfield Centre CT: Martino Fine Books 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes bound as one. pp: 338 62; 486 28 21 indices and supplements. Bound in green cloth red spine block with gilt lettering. 8.5" x 5.25" "This Reprint is Strictly Limited to 150 Copies" statement on verso title-page. <br/><br/> Martino Fine Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040786 ISBN : 1578980712 9781578980710
Jefferson North Carolina: McFarland & Co 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: viii 618 with author title and subject indices. Bound in blue buckram gilt lettering on spine and cover. 11.25" x 8.25" <br/><br/> McFarland & Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040777 ISBN : 0786415347 9780786415342
Charlottesville: Univ Press of Virginia 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: xii 189 with index colophon; 24 black-and-white plates. Bound in black boards and gray cloth gilt lettering on spine gilt printers' marks on cover. 10.25" x 6.75" Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Laid in is the author's business card with a handwritten presentation message signed Rollo. On the pastedown is the recipient's miniature bookplate. <br/><br/> Univ Press of Virginia hardcover
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp: x 271; facsimiles of Mark Hoffman's forgeries and related correspondence. Bound in black cloth gilt spine lettering illustrated dust wrapper. 10.25" x 7" <br/><br/> American Antiquarian Society hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040791 ISBN : 0944026141 9780944026144
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Six volumes including index. pp: xi 444; 430; 432; 512; 515; 258. Bound in blue buckram gilt lettering on spines. 10.25" x 7" <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Eight volumes including index. Printed versions of prices realized at parts one and two of the sale are laid into volumes one and two while prices for the rest of the sale are bound into the index volume as issued. Bound in blue cloth gilt lettering on spines and covers. 10" x 6.75" <br/><br/> Parke-Bernet Galleries hardcover
Salem MA / Mansfield CT: Essex Institute / Martino Publishing 1999. Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. pp: ix 392 with index. Bound in gray cloth gilt lettering on spine. 9" x 6" Facsimile reprint of the 1926 edition. <br/><br/> Essex Institute / Martino Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040784 ISBN : 1578981956 9781578981953
New Castle Delaware: Oak Knoll Press 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp: xiii i 481 with indices of illustrators and subjects; 16pp illustrations in full-color frontispiece and text vignettes in black and white. Bound in blue cloth gilt lettering on spine pictorial dust wrapper. 11.25" x 8.5" Includes some 3200 novels novellas and short stories set aboard steamships published in the English language. <br/><br/> Oak Knoll Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040778 ISBN : 1584563451 9781584563457
Gainesville: University Press of Florida 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. pp: xi 414 index; frontispiece of two illus in color. Bound in blue cloth silver lettering on spine pictorial dust wrapper. 11.25" x 8.75" Contains full and annotated entries for approximately 1000 printed books and 1000 manuscripts. <br/><br/> University Press of Florida hardcover
Bookseller reference : 040779 ISBN : 0813012929 9780813012926
New York: G.P. Putnam's 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. pp: xv 315 with index; frontispiece portrait 12 plates. Bound in orange cloth brown lettering on spine and cover decorated dust wrapper. 8.75" x 6" <br/><br/> G.P. Putnam's hardcover
New York: Macmillan 1941. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Four volumes. pp: xxxviii ii 912; xviii ii 1003; xix ii 1098; 287 index volume. Bound uniformly in blue cloth gilt spine lettering. 9.5" x 6" Best overall bibliography of British authors and their works from 600 to 1900 A.D. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover
Medina Ohio: A.I. Root Co 1903. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 37pp; illustrations in the text. Contains detailed descriptions and prices of many different forms of hives along with honey boxes wax extractors honey extractors honey knives smokers honey jars and cans beekeeping books live bees and queens &c. Bound in pictorial wrappers. 9" x 6" <br/><br/> A.I. Root Co paperback
Chicago: Cole Mfg Co 1903. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 16pp; illustrations throughout the text. Contains detailed descriptions and prices of a wide variety of stoves for burning soft coal slack siftings lignitz hard coal coke wood and corn cobs. Bound in pictorial red wrappers; damped with traces of red on lower margins of first few leaves but no adhesion or real damage. 10" x 6.75". Laid in are two different four-page brochures comparing profit and loss for dealers: Cole's Air-Tight Stoves vs. Oak Stoves. <br/><br/> Cole Mfg Co paperback
Jasper Indiana: New Indiana Chair Co 1940. Original album. Very Good. Sturdy leather samples 4" x 8" embossed leather cover brass binding posts. <br/><br/> New Indiana Chair Co hardcover
Cleveland OH: New Process Stove Co 1920. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 46pp; illustrated from photographs. Bound in tan & brown pictorial wrappers. 8" x 4.5" This trade catalog of 14 New Process Gas Ranges with Lorain Oven Heat Regulator includes recipes written to allow home cooks to adapt their "own special recipe" to the time and temperature measurements required by the "Lorain-equipped Gas Range" featuring "New Process" improvements such as "all-enamel" interiors and exteriors "hingeless flush front" and the Lorain Oven Heat Regulator which maintains stable oven temperatures. <br/><br/> New Process Stove Co paperback
London: The Architectural Press 1924. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 5.5" X 8.5. A useful guide to understanding the types and ages of English antique furniture. In clean and sound condition but lacking its dust wrapper. Available for prompt dispatch from the UK. <br/> <br/> The Architectural Press hardcover
New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Woodcuts By Lynd Ward. 316 Pp. Black Cloth Gilt. First American Printing With Rinehart Logo On Copyright Page. Book Fine Gilt Brilliant No Rubbing To Cloth Or Gilt No Marks. Dj With Slight Rubbing Not Price-Clipped. <br/> <br/> Farrar & Rinehart hardcover
London.: John Murray 1898. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 6" x 9. a comprehensive guide to the makers of French plated wares. In clean and sound condition with just some shelf wear to the bevel edged green cloth covered boards. Clean pages and a sound binding <br/> <br/> John Murray hardcover
v.l.: v.n. 1890. Original documents. Very Good. Includes: John Devoe dealer in Fish Oysters Clams. Brooklyn NY; Hires Root Beer concentrate; Ferndell Gelatine for the Palate and the Purse; Pettit Flouring Mill Minneapolis; Horlick's Malted Milk.No Cooking or Milk Required; Charles H. North Pork Beef Lard Hams Bacon Live & Dressed Hogs. Boston; Wood's Boston Coffees Frank T. Buchanan Bordentown NJ; Cow Brand Baking Soda NY. All of these cards are illustrated with promotional text on the versos. <br/><br/> v.n. unknown
Providence: National Rubber Co. & Steam Press 1875. Original document. Very Good. Broadsheet 13" x 5.75" folded to eight panels printed on pale-pink stock; six engraved illustrations with descriptions and prices. Styles shows are: Centennial Monitor; Button Monitor; Monitor Open; Monitor when Buckled; Snow Excluder; Snow Excluder when Buckled. 5.75" x 3.25" Unrecorded by WorldCat. <br/><br/> National Rubber Co. & Steam Press unknown
London: Christies 1967. Hardcover. Good/Good. 7.5" x 9.5. The usual auction house review of the star lots that were sold. Well illustrated. Some wear to the dust wrapper but otherwise a clean and sound copy. A slightly heavier book some destinations may attract a request for additional apyment. <br/> <br/> Christies hardcover
Dunod 1983. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket as published. 7" x 9. A third edition copy of this study into furniture design and construction techniques. En Francais / In French. Generally clean and sound there is some reading wear and the pages have yellowed slightly. There is damage to the back cover. Available for prompt dispatch from the UK. Please email with any queries that you may have. <br/> <br/> Dunod paperback
Bookseller reference : 021442 ISBN : 2040089446 9782040089443
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as published. 8" x 10. An auction house's desk diary for 1980 as given to some clients. Unused and with ribbon marker and gilt edged pages. Illustrated and with lots of useful and fascinating information about antiques. In clean and sound condition. Available for prompt dispatch from the UK please email with any queries that you may have. <br/> <br/> Sotheby Parke Bernet hardcover
London: Sotheby Parke Bernet 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket as published. 8" x 10. An auction house's desk diary for 1981 as given to some clients. Unused and with ribbon marker and gilt edged pages. Illustrated and with lots of useful and fascinating information about antiques. In clean and sound condition with a slight bump to the top right of the front board. Available for prompt dispatch from the UK please email with any queries that you may have. <br/> <br/> Sotheby Parke Bernet hardcover
v.l.: v.n. 1880. Original documents. Very Good. Includes: Soapine Dirt Killer Soap mfd at Providence RI; Austen's Forest Flower Cologne Oswego NY; Hoyt's German Cologne Lowell MA; New Process Soap; Pyle's Pearline; James S. Kirk Standard Reliable Soaps Chicago; Katharidzo complexion aid and curative NYC; Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children Teething. Most of these cards have full-color illustrations with promotional text on the versos. <br/><br/> v.n. unknown
Denver: The Old West Publishing Company / Fred A. Rosenstock 1940. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Plates. Xcv 365 Pp. Maroon-Red Cloth Gilt. First Edition Ferris's Account Was First Published In The Western Literary Messenger In The 1840'S. Book Fine No Wear Or Marks. Dust Jacket Complete Light Wear At Edges A Little Dust And A Few Very Short Edge Tears. <br/> <br/> The Old West Publishing Company / Fred A. Rosenstock hardcover
New York: Profile Press 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. pp: vi 96; displays 48 typefaces used by the Profile Press some in color. Bound in printed yellow wrappers; light wear to covers text block clean. 7.25" x 4.75" <br/><br/> Profile Press paperback
Bombay: J J Bhabha for Marg Publications Tata 1978. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket as published. 9.5" x 12.5. An Indian arts magazine. This one has a variety of articles themed around the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum. Wear and folds to the edges of the covers clean and sound inside but still in decent order for a 40 year old magazine. Available for prompt dispatch from the UK please call with any queries that you may have. <br/> <br/> J J Bhabha for Marg Publications Tata paperback
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott 1896. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Plates And Decorations. 227 Pp. Yellow Cloth Stamped In Green. Ownership Signature Of St. Paul Mn Literary Editor Annie W. Sanborn. Near Fine Lightly Used Bright And Clean Pages Square And Fresh Just Some Tiny Light Stains Rear Cover. Unexplainably Scarce; Perhaps Someone Bought Up Copies To Destroy Them. <br/> <br/> J. B. Lippincott hardcover
New York: American Institute of Graphic Arts 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. pp: 156 44 illustrations of type-pages and types printed in black and orange portrait on text stock. Bound in blue cloth gilt-stamped spine. Original dust jacket. 9.5" x 6" <br/><br/> American Institute of Graphic Arts hardcover
Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press 1951. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. pp: 51 colophon; title-page vignette and 12 illustrations some full-page all printed in green. Bound in green wrappers paper cover label. 7.5" x 5" <br/><br/> Princeton University Press paperback
New York: Lead Mould Electrotype Foundry Inc 1924. First book edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: iii 16 colophon; frontispiece portrait on text stock. Bound in black and tan cloth gilt spine lettering. 9.75" x 6". Bookplate of Frederic Melcher New York publisher & bookseller. Tipped to the free endpaper is a printed presentation notice to members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. This is #327 of 425 copies printed. <br/><br/> Lead Mould Electrotype Foundry, Inc hardcover
New York: The Typophiles 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4pp printed in black and orange. 7.25" x 4.75". The occasion featured Paul A. Bennett as Master of Ceremonies an address by Carl Purington Rollins a quiz by Ben Grauer and a menu of Goudy's favorite foods. <br/><br/> The Typophiles paperback
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 1975. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: viii iii 357 1; 2 portraits 13 plates from photographic views of the Merrymount Press. Bound in orange wove cloth gilt lettering on spine and cover. 9" x 5.75" Limited edition of 500 copies the main portion of which was first published by Harvard University Press. <br/><br/> Alan Wofsy Fine Arts hardcover
New York: American Institute of Graphic Arts 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: 156 44 illustrations of type-pages and types printed in black and orange portrait on text stock. Bound in blue cloth gilt-stamped spine. Original dust jacket. 9.5" x 6" <br/><br/> American Institute of Graphic Arts hardcover
New York: The Typophiles 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8pp printed in black and red. Bound in printed orange wrappers. 7.25" x 4.5" Limited to 425 copies issued on the occasion of Goudy's 79th birthday. <br/><br/> The Typophiles paperback
New York: Oxford University Press 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. pp: liv 127 with index; frontispiece portrait 16 plates few illustrations in the text. Bound in blue wove cloth gilt-stamped spine decorated dust wrapper with shelf-back sunned. 9.5" x 5.75" Laid in is a bookmark one blue stock: a vignette and four-line tribute to BR on the recto and on the verso a printed notice "Paper hand-made by Harrison Elliott from former wearing apparel of Bruce Rogers." <br/><br/> Oxford University Press hardcover
Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1940. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. pp: xvii iv foldout chronology 379 with index colophon; 40 illustrations on text stock. Bound in orange cloth gilt-stamped spine slightly chipped dust wrapper. 9" x 6" One of 1000 copies on Laid Ivory paper after a special edition on rag paper printed at the Black Cat Press. <br/><br/> University of Chicago Press hardcover
Chicago: Lakeside Press 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 32pp; 16 plates with tissue guards 18 illustrations in the text. Bound in patterned black cloth green cover label with gilt lettering and frame. Original glassine dust wrapper chipped. 10.5" x 7.75" <br/><br/> Lakeside Press hardcover
London: H. Grevel & Co 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: viii 172 with index 4 publisher's advert; color frontispiece of a Zaehnsdorf binding tissue guard 37 illustrations some full-page. Bound in gilt-pictorial blue cloth over beveled boards top edges gilt others rough-trimmed blue-coated endpapers. 8.25" x 5.5" <br/><br/> H. Grevel & Co hardcover
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