Los Angeles: Los Angeles Public Library 1930. First Edition. 16pp Sextodecimo 15 cm Stapled tan printed wrappers printed in black. Very good. Rare bibliographical checklist of 100 works on California compiled by the Adult Education Department of the Los Angeles Public Library. Each entry contains the title author publisher year Dewey Decimal number and a brief synopsis. Introduction by Laura C. Cooley. Nice linocut illustration on the cover.<br/><br/>Sections on: California History; Before the Spaniards Came; Spanish Period to 1822; American Period 1846; O Pioneers!; El Camino Real; Nature's Garden; Animal Life; Houses and Gardens; California Sidelights<br/><br/>"On the shores of the Western Sea is a land called California. High mountains valleys deserts and a long coastline make this land." - from the Introduction. Los Angeles Public Library unknown books
Macmillan 1965. Good. Turner Frederick Jackson. Rise of the New West 1819-1829. Billington foreword and bibliography Ray Allen. New York: Macmillan 1965. 252pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with gently bumped edges and subtle soiling. Spine and front cover near upper edge slightly darkened. Former owner's name penned on first page. Macmillan paperback books
Blue Mountain Lake N. Y.: The Adirondack Museum 1973. Octavo pp. i-iv v-xl 1-2 3-198 199-200: blank frontispiece map green cloth stamped in gold pictorial endpapers. First edition. An essential supplement to ADIRONDACK BIBLIOGRAPHY . 1958 that not only includes the literature from the 1956-1965 period but has many new listings for books pamphlets and articles published prior to 1956 as well as a list of corrections and additions to items in the core list. In addition there is a fine 32-page introductory bibliographical survey of the seven historical periods of Adirondack history by William K. Verner Curator of The Adirondack Museum. Touch of rubbing to cloth at spine ends else a fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #163880 The Adirondack Museum unknown books
Ссылка продавца : 163880 ISBN : 0910020299 9780910020299
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions 1984. First Edition. First Printing wrapper issue. Octavo 22.5cm.; publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers; 142pp.; illus. throughout. Light dust-soil blue portion of spine a shade sunned else Very Good to Near Fine. Milkweed Editions unknown books
New York: Limited Editions Club 1959. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Quarto-Millenary. The First 250 Publications and the First 25 Years 1929-1954 of the Limited Editions Club. A Critique. A Conspectus. A Bibliography. Indexes. New York: Limited Editions Club 1959. <br/><br/>Limited to 2250 numbered copies this being copy no. 1180. Large quarto. xiii 2 295 3 pp. <br/><br/>Publisher's quarter black Niger morocco over red cloth on beveled boards with central black medallion. A very fine copy. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959 unknown books
New York City: Limited Editions Club 1985. LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB. Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 1929-1985. New York City: Limited Editions Club 1985. <br/><br/>Limited to 800 numbered copies this being copy no. 488. Folio. 6 182 4 pp. <br/><br/>Publisher's quarter Niger morocco over hand-marbled boards with Niger fore edges. A very fine copy. Housed in the publisher's slipcase. New York City: Limited Editions Club, 1985 unknown books
Folio. San Francisco: Book Club of California 1976. Folio 99 pages. Richly illuminated and illustrated throughout with 43 specimen leaves. Original quarter red cloth and boards fine original plain dust-jacket age toned and lightly worn. § Limited to 400 copies printed at the Arion Press and signed by Angelo. This is “a special copy hand colored by the artist†so inscribed by Angelo. A beautiful record of Angelo’s career incorporating checklists of his work as illustrator printer publisher and author as well as a brief autobiography and contributions from Oscar Lewis Robert Grabhorn Sherwood Anderson and Annis Duff. Original prospectus inserted along with letterpress invitation to Angelo’s 80th birthday party at the San Francisco Public Library. Book Club of California hardcover books
New York 1928. Three volumes in all. Facsimiles. Tall quarto. Original gilt cloth t.e.g. with: AMERICANA COLLECTION OF HERSCHEL V. JONES A CHECK-LIST 1473 - 1926 COMPILED BY WILBERFORCE EAMES. New York. 1938. xii220pp. Original gilt cloth t.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown of third volume. Bright very good set. First two volumes in slightly worn cloth slipcase. A fine reference to a superb collection of early Americana. Illustrated with handsome title page facsimiles. Compiled by Wilberforce Eames. hardcover books
Reading Ma 1976. 347pp. Illus. Printed stiff wrappers. Very good. One of the best bicentennial exhibits this show was produced at the National Portrait Gallery and covers twenty-nine visitors to America and their impressions including Chastellux Trollope Sealsfield Tocqueville Kemble Dvorak Wells and lesser known travellers from many other countries. unknown books
New York 1997. Six volumes. Thick quarto. Cloth. As new. The complete set of this essential reference finally completed after more than two decades of toil by the staff of the John Carter Brown Library led by John Alden and Dennis Landis. This is the starting point for researching any pre-1751 European imprints relating to America. The grandest American bibliographical project since Sabin and Evans. You don't have a reference library if you don't have this. Volumes I through IV and VI are available at $275 each. hardcover books
New York 1982. xlviii954pp. Thick quarto. Cloth. As new. A continuation of this indispensable resource describing books about the Americas printed in Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century. hardcover books
Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine but for owner's name in very good dust jacket with short tears. 27 articles on urban unrest with a bibliography by John R. Krause Jr "Urban Revolts and City Politics."; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 459 pp . Sage Publications hardcover books
London: Marks & Co 1928. 1st ed. Green printed paper wrappers design after that of the original Pickwick publication in 1836. VG browning at spine. 20 pp 8vo. <br/><br/> Marks & Co unknown books
Hamburg & Leipzig: Christian Liebezeit 1716. First edition. Title in red and black. 8. 454 16 pp. including final blank leaf Gg8. 1 vols. 8vo 17.3 x 10 cm. Contemporary vellum over pasteboard lettered in manuscript on spine. Some soiling to covers slightly bowed; occasional light early dampstaining to text. First edition. Title in red and black. 8. 454 16 pp. including final blank leaf Gg8. 1 vols. 8vo 17.3 x 10 cm. Includes a final section of laws and statutes in German Danish and Latin pp. 365-454 with a separate title page "Lex regia oder: Koenigl. dänische verordnung wegen der souverainitè und erbfolge in dero reichen und provintzien dänisch deutsch und lateinisch" Besterman 1609 Christian Liebezeit unknown books
Jena: Christ. Henr. Cunonis 1740. First edition with Buder's notes and additions. Engraved allegorical frontispieceo of the Muse Kleio. 20 1726 66 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Contemporary vellum-backed boards green leather spine label lettered in gilt. 18th-century owner's notes on endpapers and occasional marginalia. Fine. First edition with Buder's notes and additions. Engraved allegorical frontispieceo of the Muse Kleio. 20 1726 66 pp. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Massive bibliography of historical writing chronologically divided into regions and empires and with ueful indices at the end. Christ. Henr. Cunonis unknown books
Milan: Federico Agnelli 1767. First edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I. xv 1 343; 2 352; 2 423; 2 374 4; pp. 375-805 Additioni. 4to 25.5 x 20 cm.; 10 x 8 inches. Contemporary half vellum over patterned paper boards brown morocco lettering-piece to spine extremities slightly bumped or rubbed. BEAUTIFUL COPY uncut. First edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I. xv 1 343; 2 352; 2 423; 2 374 4; pp. 375-805 Additioni. 4to 25.5 x 20 cm.; 10 x 8 inches. Italian Translations from the Classics. Fine set of this massive and important bibliography by the Bolognese Argelati 1685-1755 posthumously published with additions and corrections by Angelo Teodoro Villa 1723-1794. Federico Agnelli unknown books
Paris: Jouvert Libraire 1848. pp 208. 1 vols. 8vo. Calf-backed marbled boards. Minor discoloration else an excellent copy with the ex-libris stamp of Andre Mater on the title. pp 208. 1 vols. 8vo. Administrative Law. Rare. Jouvert, Libraire unknown books
Venezia: Giambatista Pasquali 1753. Title page of volume I printed in red and black woodcut title vignettes initials tailpieces. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary vellum morocco spine labels worn. Apart from repair to head of spine of vol. II a lovely set from the library of the Borghese-Fantuzzi family armorial bookplate. Title page of volume I printed in red and black woodcut title vignettes initials tailpieces. 2 vols. 4to. The definitive edition of this celebrated catalogue of works written in Italian -- a virtual PMM of Italian printing. It first appeared in 1706 as a bibliopraphical appendix to the Fontanini's work Della eloquenza italiana with 1500 entries. Subsequent editions appeared in 1727 1736 and 1737 before this last and most important edition -- which is entirely the bibliographical part of the work -- containing 5000 entries of Italian works in poetry prose arts sciences etc. with the invaluable commentary by Zeno and an index. Besterman 3213; Graesse II 612 Giambatista Pasquali unknown books
Stuttgart:: Ferdinand Enke 1900. 1900. 211 x 140 mm. 8vo. iv 165 pp. Quarter cloth cloth corners marbled boards red paper spine label. Ex library label on top cover rubber stamps. Very good. Ferdinand Enke, 1900. hardcover books
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 40 copies of the deluxe edition total edition 340 quarto size 75 pp. Plain Wrapper Press was the imprint of Richard-Gabriel Rummonds a leading handpress printer during the twentieth century who printed many fine press editions of well-known authors such as Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino; this bibliography comprises Rummonds' work during the twenty years the Press was in operation. Like Rummonds' fine press publications this volume the deluxe edition is printed with an attention to typography and elegance a tactile as well as an academic experience.<br/><br/>The Foreword is by Decherd Turner 1922-2002 an ordained Presbyterian minister and an avid book collector who was director of the Bridwell Library in Dallas Texas where he built one of the largest collections of fifteenth-century books in the American Southwest.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter white vellum with purple cloth boards printer's device of the Plain Wrapper Press in black on the spine burgundy endpapers title page with same printer's device in burgundy inside a grey rectangle with black ruled borders text printed in burgundy and black throughout eight pages of colour photographs of works from the Press at the centre of the book; monotype Dante Magnani mouldmade paper quarto size 12" by 8" pagination: 1-6 7-74 1 colophon one of 40 copies of the deluxe edition total edition 340 unnumbered.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is fine overall with clean boards straight corners with no rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; light sunning to the front board else fine.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. W. Thomas Taylor hardcover books
Endicott: Castalio Press 1987. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good . Thick clothbound 8vo. 658 pp. Includes an introductory essay by Herbert Warren Wind. Some light handling wear else a near fine copy in green cloth binding in a very good unclipped dustwrapper. Superb golf reference book. Illustrated with some pictures. <br/><br/> Castalio Press hardcover books
No Place: McPherson & Company A Docementext Publication 1983. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Simultaneous first paperbound edition. Oblong bound wrappers. 90 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Useful bibliography of the Press started by fluxus writer Dick Higgins. Light spotting to the inside rear cover else a handsome very good copy. McPherson & Company A Docementext Publication paperback books
Various Majority Institute WV: np ca. 1960-1980. First Edition. Very good. 1.5 linear feet approx. in total of various printed and holograph materials largely organized into a series of some 20 thick file folders. A folder-level inventory is available on request. Conditions vary but generally very good. <br/><br/>Wobbe's bibliography of Graham Greene Garland 1978 remains the standard on the famed and prolific British author. Offered here are Wobbe's working research files and production materials utilized in the publishing of the bibliography. Highlights include: over fifty original photographs title pages dust jackets a complete photo reproduction of Greene's BABBLING APRIL etc. considered or included in the finished bibliography including 22 original photos utilized in the layout itself - with notations and other printer's annotations; a unique 10-volume typed bound and slip-cased collection of Greene's complete early contributions to THE SPECTATOR -— all transcribed in full by Wobbe — used in the production of his article “Graham Greene's Literary and Theater Reviews and Articles in THE SPECTATOR 1932-1941” Bulletin of Bibliography & Magazine Notes Jan. - March 1977; an extensive collection of clippings photo-mechanical reproductions and often Wobbe's own meticulously typed and holograph transcriptions many with Wobbe's additional notes of Greene appearances including many that remain difficult to access to this day; correspondence with scholars collectors auction houses and dealers who provided corrections and other information for the bibliography; Wobbe's holographic and typed bibliographic lists notes etc. on and about Greene; as well as various drafts for portions of the bibliography itself. In short a vivid working portrait of a diligent bibliographer compiling a still-important bibliography on a major 20th century writer. np unknown books
Georgetown CA: Talisman Literary Research 1981. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. 63 pp. Reminiscences provided by Elizabeth Brown and Harry Altshuler. Very good condition. A useful bibliographical reference for brown's mystery and science fiction output. <br/><br/> Talisman Literary Research paperback books
New York: King's Crown Press. Very Good. 1942. Hardcover. Tickell Richard; introduction notes & bibliography by L. H. Butterfield. ANTICIPATION. New York: King's Crown Press 1942. Reprinted from the first edition London 1778. Inscribed by Butterfield on the front free endpaper. 97 pages maroon boards with gilt printing. The spine is just a bit sunned with rubbed edges. Otherwise Very Good. . King's Crown Press hardcover books
London: Aloes Books 1974. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Stapled photo-illustrated wrappers. Unpaginated. The first full bibliography of Tzara's work from 1912 to 1972. A very good copy. Aloes Books paperback books
Medical School Print Shop of the University of Rochester 1971. First Edition. Large Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Wrapper edges toned. Typewritten presentation slip from Clara B. Fenn dated 1977 laid in. 1971 Large Softcover. 219 33 pp. Original turquoise wrappers black titles. A remembrance of Dr. Wallace Osgood Fenn compiled by his wife and colleagues at the University of Rochester Medical School and featuring professional and private recollections of his life and career collected from numerous individuals. Dr. Fenn was a physiologist whose main areas of research pertained to the interaction of the human body with air and the various gases of which most air is composed. A complete bibliography of his professional writings prepared by Albert Craig follows the text. Also included are several family photographs. Medical School Print Shop of the University of Rochester paperback books
London / New York: John Lane The Bodley Head / Charles Scribner's Sons 1896. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original bright red cloth paper spine label. The author's first book with a bibliography by John Lane. Boards lightly rubbed; spine tips and corners gently bumped. <br/><br/> John Lane, The Bodley Head / Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
Richmond VA: Virginia State Library 1975. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Previous owner's name stamped at top of first page. No pencil or ink markings in text. Green paper covers; Stapled Wrappers. Very Good binding. Virginia State Library unknown books
Oxford England: Holywell Press 1905. First Edition limited to 500 copies. Oxford Holywell Press 1905. Illustrated with a fine series of portraits cartoons facsimiles etc. Near Fine in original blue-grey boards paper labels side and back all edges uncut. Spine label browned and with small chip spine a bit browned as well. . Limited First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Small 8vo. Limited Edition. Holywell Press Hardcover books
New York: Ediciones Exilio 1974. Hardcover. Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine black with gold print; Boards in black cloth with gold print mild wear to spine caps and corners light shelfwear else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Inscribed in ink by the author on front endpaper; Text in Spanish; 539 pages. 1338707. FP New Rockville Stock. Ediciones Exilio hardcover books
Ссылка продавца : 1338707 ISBN : 8439920407 9788439920403
London and New York: Cambridge University Press 1968. Second Edition. Softcover. Octavo; G/paperback; red/white spines with blue and beige text; second edition reissued; 2 volumes: vol. 1 pp 688; ISBN 0521095166; vol. 2 pp 691; ISBN 0521095158; covers has modest wear to exteriors; slightly sun ages spines; rubbed edges; intact panels; text block exterior edges show some tiny brown spots; mild crack to front gutter to vol. 1; good bindings otherwise; interiors clean; intact bindings; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. 1338989. FP New Rockville Stock. Cambridge University Press unknown books
Ссылка продавца : 1338989 ISBN : 0521095166 9780521095167
Minnesota Science Fiction Society 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; VG/VG; cream spine with blue text; jacket has protective mylar cover age toning slight rubbing price sticker pasted over original price on front flap; boards are strong; textblock is clean; pp 144; Limited Edition - number 403 of 700 copies. 1292368. Full-priced Rockville. Minnesota Science Fiction Society hardcover books
Ссылка продавца : 1292368 ISBN : 0960265600 9780960265602
London: Thames and Hudson 1977. Hardcover. Quarto; pp 318; VG-/G-; sunned red spine with black text; black slipcase shows heavy tape mends to corners; slight sunfading to exterior; few chips to edges; dust jacket has chips to corners; light toning to exterior edges; cloth shows very light wear to exterior; strong boards; text block shows minimal wear to exterior edges; interior clean; pictorial endpapers; frontispiece; profusely illustrated; arts - Scandinavian; Dutch; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders;. 1320774. FP New Rockville Stock. Thames and Hudson hardcover books
Paris: UNESCO 1959. Paperback. Good. Vols. I & II ONLY. index 259 391p. Wrapper. 24cm. Name on first page. Browned. Vol. I covers works published in 1955; Vol. II covers works published in 1956. <br/><br/> UNESCO paperback books
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor 1993. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Paperbound quarto. 74 pp. Illustrated in color. With bibliographic descriptions by Elaine Smyth and a Foreword by Decherd Turner. Ever so slight sunning to spine else a fine copy in bound printed wrappers with French flaps. W. Thomas Taylor paperback books
Endicott: Castalio Press 1988. First edition. Leather Bound. Near Fine/none. Full green leatherbound book illustrated and printed in gilt. 8vo. 658 pp. Includes an introductory essay by Herbert Warren Wind. Some light handling wear else a near fine copy. Superb golf reference book. Illustrated with some pictures. This is one of only twenty special copies produced in full leather and SIGNED by Donavan Murdocch and Wind. This is Copy #7 Herbert Warren Wind's own copy presented to him at the time of publication. The book comes with a certificate from his widow Rose Wind Stone authenticating the provenance of this copy. Castalio Press unknown books
New York:: Swann Galleries 1990 1998. 1990. 2 parts. 22.5 24 cm. 572 309 lots. Printed wrappers. Very good. The gastronomic part of the collection is the library of Eloise Schofield with additions. Swann Galleries, 1990, 1998. unknown books
New York: Burt Franklin 1968. 172 pp. <br /><br />Reprint of the 1928 bibliography comprising the collections in the Mitchell Library. the private collections of William Dixon Esq. and J.A. Ferguson. Fine condition Burt Franklin books
London: Atlas Press 1994. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Paperbound 8vo. 63 pp. A near fine copy of this useful bibliography of publication of the Atlas Press from 1983 to 1994 plus a prospectus of the Arkhive series of publications. Atlas is known for reprinting obscure avant garde texts of the Vienna Actionists French Symbolists Dada Berlin College of Pataphysics and more. Atlas Press paperback books
Los Angeles: Friends of the UCLA Library 1967. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. 67 pp. Checklist compiled by James Hartzell and Richard Zumwinkle with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Just shy of fine condition in bound printed wrappers. SIGNED by Rexroth on the front cover. Useful reference work. Friends of the UCLA Library paperback books
Council Bluffs Iowa: Yellow Barn Press and Fairleigh Dickinson University 1995. Fine in fine slipcase. Number 45 of 150. Full linen with red leather spine label two-cloth covered slipcase. In addition to the biographical material there is an annnotated bibliography and 21 pages of facsimiles of Pickering Press productions. 76 pages. Tall quarto. Prospectus laid in. Yellow Barn Press and Fairleigh Dickinson University hardcover books
Trenton: New Jersey Library Association 1967. Hardcover. 196p. Spine dulled and faded. red cloth covered boards soiled with a faint stain to the top left corner. New Jersey Library Association hardcover books
Newhall: The Hogarth Press 1970. Hardcover. 112p. 7.75x11.25 inches introduction bibliography illustrations maps text in English and Spanish bookplate otherwise very good first edition thus in buckram cloth. Book One Early California Series. The Hogarth Press hardcover books