Kentfield, California: The Allen Press, 1969.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. Allen Press Book #34. Limited Edition of one hundred forty copies.
The type face is Romanee, designed by Jan Van Krimpen for Joh. Enschede en Zonen, and was set by hand. The paper is from the Wookey Hole Mill in England.....
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.....
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1994.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. #32 of a Limited Edition of 300 copies of which this is one of 50 bound in cloth and printed on Frankfurt paper at the Bird & Bull Press in December 1994.
The story of a 20th-century literary hoax perpetrated.....
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2013.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few.....
Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1953.
Hardcover. First King Penguin Edition. King Penguin #64.
A brief survey of books on magical subjects from ancient Mexico. 5 x 7-1/4", pictorial paper over boards, 31pp introductory text and notes on the plates, 16 full page-full color-plates.
Ink owner's name and date first free endpaper.....
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.....
Burford, Oxfordshire: The Cygnet Press, 1984.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. #112 of a limited edition of 250 copies, Printed at Skelton's Press. Introduction by Bernard Middleton.
Description and tipped-in color plate examples of marbled papers created by Anne Chambers including: Antique Spot 1, Antique Dutch, Antique Spot 2, French Shell 1-3, Italian.....
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.....
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.....
Buffalo: University Bookstore University of Buffalo, 1957.
Second Edition. Paperback. Books, periodicals and pamphlets from Jame Joyce's personal that were donated to the Lockwood Memorial Library of the University of Buffalo in the fall of 1950. Joyce drastically reduced his personal library in the winter of 1938-1939 in preparation for.....
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1943.
First Edition. Hardcover. A catalogue in five parts with index of 1000 books and pamphlets relating to the history of California with printed title page. Includes bookseller Catalog No. 151 (January,1941); Catalog No. 154 (April, 1941); Catalogue No. 160 (October, 1941); Special List No.....
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 art and literature. We are dazzled by them.....
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1929.
Limited Edition. Vellum. #132 of a Limited Edition of 425 copies. This edition printed, colored & bound at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, in May 1929. With an introduction by Oscar Lewis.
In this work, first published in an article in Scribner's Magazine in of June.....
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.....
Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon, 1926.
Paperback. University of Oregon Publication, June 1, 1926, Geology Series Vol. 1, No. 1. Introduction by Warren D. Smith. A revision of the first bibliography of the geology of Oregon by Charles Henderson, J. W. Winstanley and Graham Michael and published by the University.....
New York: Scribner, 2021.
First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.
Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr's third novel is.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1983.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. #831 of a Limited Edition of 850 copies printed in August 1983. Designed & produced by Joseph Simon and Lillian Marks. Set in photographic Bembo types with handset Bembo display. Printed on Natural 80lb Permalife Text with the illustrations on 80lb.....
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.....
Boston: David R. Godine, 1971.
Limited First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. #68 of one thousand deluxe copies printed on a specially made Monadnock wove paper, one of 900 bound in cloth over boards and enclosed in a slip-case. Includes 15 original wood engravings by Gillian Tyler.
The first modern prose.....
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.....
Verona: Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1960.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. #135 of a Limited Edition of 400 numbered copies. Edited by Giovanni Mardersteig. This English Edition was set in Giovanni Mardersteig's Dante type and printed on his hand-press by Mario Facincani and Rino Grazioli. The paper was made by Fratelli Magnani, Pescia.....
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.....
Dallas: Bridwell Library at Southern Methodist University, 1986.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited Edition of 750 copies. Designed and printed by W. Thomas Taylor, Elaine Smyth and Bradley Hutchinson in Austin, Texas. The type is Monotype Bembo composed at Mackenzie-Harris in San Francisco. The paper is Mohawk Superfine. The offset illustrations.....
