Berkley Books, 2022.
Paperback. The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick!Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post!"Historical fiction at its best!"*A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan's personal librarian, Belle da.....
Vintage, 2021.
Paperback. America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition--from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man--in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom--who for more than half a century was regarded.....
Atlanta, GA: Anglers Press, 1975.
8-5/8 x 11-1/4 x 1-1/2", gilt-titled forest green textured leatherette, ix, 543pp, 26pp plates, glossary of terms, 8-1/2 x 11" sheet of "Errata & Addenda" laid in. A classic and comprehensive bibliography of literature on the art of angling.From the author's Editorial Comment: "The art.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959.
First Edition. Hardcover. 9-5/8 x 6-7/8", quarter white cloth, black cloth over boards with white decoration each board, pictorial endpapers, yellow top-edge, ribbon marker, 495pp, illustrated throughout.
With an introduction by Stanley Morison. Sir Cyril Burt's experimental and statistical survey of the mind's capacity to.....
New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1955.
Second Edition. Hardcover. Second Edition, thoroughly revised and updated from the first edition published in 1925.
The background to block printing is investigated in the development of paper, the use of seals, and the practice of taking rubbings from stone inscriptions. Block printing.....
Wilton, Salisbury, Wiltshire: Michael Russell, 1985.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. #106 of a Limited Edition of 250 numbered copies signed by both authors. Illustrated by Kyffin Williams.
Patagonian travelers Bruce Chatwin (author of In Patagonia, 1977) and Paul Theroux (author of The Old Patagonian Express, 1979) together explore how Patagonia, “the.....
Lyon, Mississippi: Derrydale Press, 1993.
Limited Edition. Leather. Limited Edition of 2500 copies, unnumbered. With original drypoints by the author.
Two volumes bound together: Stray Shots by Roland Clark, originally published in 1931, was the author's first collection of hunting reminiscences and includes 13 original drypoints of waterfowl by the.....
London: John Hogg, 1901.
First Edition. Hardcover. With Drawings by Noel Rooke and Other Illustrations.
A comprehensive discourse and manual on craft bookbinding. 4-7/8 x 7-3/8”, quarter beige linen, green paper over boards, green endpapers, xii, 342pp, 10pp ads, specifications, glossary reproductions of bindings, index, frontis. illus., 120 text figures.....
ANTIBOOKCLUB, 2012.
Limited Edition. Paperbound. #74 of pre-publication slipcase edition limited to 176 copies with inscription "For Jeremy", signed by the author. First Edition, First Printing.
Award-winning author Andrei Codrescu surveys the evolutionary relationship between language and technology by examining his own career as an American writer over more than.....
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Penguin Press, 2023.
Hardcover. The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of historyThe illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European.....
London: Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications, 1953.
First Edition. Hardcover. Companion volume to The Alphabet.
Targeting the cultured layman, Dr. Diringer provides answers to questions relating to the development of the book. What is a book? How and when did it originate? On what material and with what tools was.....
London: Hutchinson of London, 1968.
Third Edition. Hardcover. Completey revised with the collaboration of Reinhold Regensburger. Two Volume companion work to The Hand-Produced Book. Volume One is a text volume, Volume Two provides illustration to the text.
An authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the science and art of writing and.....
Uitgeverij Luster, 2016.
Hardcover. - An original must-have for book lovers, designers, readers, writers and aesthetes- 100 quotes about reading, writing and books, in a unique, typographical presentation by designer Dooreman- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to.....
London: Wace & Company LTD, 1961.
First Edition. Hardcover. Third volume in a Wace & Company series on typography. An Introduction to the History of Printing Types is a succinct and authoritative account of the evolution of type design from the earliest Blackletters to present day forms. It is divided.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Hardcover. Most of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession.....
London: Trubner & Co., 1859.
First Edition. Hardcover. A comprehensive history of libraries from ancient times through the Middle Ages and into the mid-19th century, followed by a section on technical aspects of library management – book collecting, buildings and fittings, classification and catalogues, internal administration and public service. 6-1/4.....
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on the title page and half-title.
A reproduction of a one-of-a-kind painted book originally entitled Binding the Book: The Flight into Egypt, which was conceived in Portland, Oregon in 1983 and built in 1984.....
Gaylordsville (Windham), Connecticut: Hawthorn House, 1941.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. #120 of a limited edition of 150 copies, Signed by the author.
When Peter Franck was asked to repair a copy of Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, Liber IV printed at Basel in 1558 and bound by Theodoricus Speibruch in 1641, he noted.....
New York: William Morrow / HarperCollins, 2018.
Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. Later Printing of the First U.S. Edition. Illustrated with four-color artwork by Chris Riddell.
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."--Neil Gaiman
Drawn from Gaiman's trove of.....
London: J. M. Dent & Sons LTD, 1960.
Fourth Edition. Hardcover. A study of letterforms and their development with details of the printer's craft, artfully cast in a type of Gill's own design. This edition includes a new chapter with a revolutionary plea for the abolition of lettering and replacement.....
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1952.
Second Printing. Hardcover. Revised and enlarged with many full-page plates and other illustrations drawn and arranged by the author.
A history of the origins and development of the English alphabet from ancient times with illustrations showing the evolution of each letter.....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1989.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. #154 of a Limited Edition of 950 copies signed by the author.
In his introductory note, Greene states that when asked about what one of his books is about, he directs the questioner to his epigraphs - "Save your obviously valuable time.....
Oxford: The Alembic Press / The Amate Press, 1989.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. #92 of a Limited Edition of 250 copies, one of 200 copies case bound in blue cloth by Fine Bindery, set in Solo-Type and printed on Arab Foolscap Folio on Zerkall paper at The Alembic Press. Published in.....
Malibu: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992.
Hardcover. Third printing of the 1992 edition (superior to the 2020 reprint currently available).
A facsimile reprint of Mira calligraphiae monumenta (Model Book of Calligraphy), an exquisite 16th century manuscript added to the J. Paul Getty collection in 1986. The manuscript was produced.....
London: Philip Allan & Co., 1921.
First Edition. First Edition, First State binding. Previous owner's name and place (James O'Mara, Cashel House, Connemara) half-title and faint O’Mara ink stamp at the end of the bibliography. In addition to being a fly fisherman, Mr. O'Mara was also a Finn Sein leader.....
