New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this selection of reminiscences from Sylvia Beach's soon to be published memoir, Shakespeare and Company (1959), printed as a New Year's greeting for friends of the author and publisher. 4-7/8 x 7-3/4", pictorial paper over boards (cover.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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: 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.....

Counterpoint LLC, 2019.
Hardcover. A tantalizing true story of one of literature's most enduring enigmas is at the heart of this "lively, even sprightly book" (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post)--the quest to find the personal library of the world's greatest writer. Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on.....

Viking, 2021.
Hardcover. In Silverview, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years--the secret world itself.Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only.....