Item 3121Masterpieces from The Pierpont Morgan Library
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1996. Clamshell. 310pp. fo. Special Edition of In August Company for the exhibition of the same name. Book as new, some light staining on clamshell case.
Books About Books
Item 28770Designed Books. Books and Typography by Merle Armitage
New York: E. Weyhe, 1938. First Edition. Wraps. 128 pp. 8vo. Black paper wraps over heavy paper boards. Light wear and minor chipping at edges but quite tight and clean given its age and construction. No dust jacket as issued. [Purcell 47]. A fitting overview by friends and colleagues of.....
Item 28754An Exhibition of the Books Designed and Written or Edited by Merle Armitage
Detroit, MI: Detroit Public Library, 1942. First Edition. Wraps. 16 pp. 8vo. Blue paper wraps with a white paper label pasted from rear to front on which the title is printed in red and black. Very minor scuffing, clean within. Endpapers illustrated with red silhouettes of fighting ships from Armitages.....
Item 31486Doublefold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
New York: Random House, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Third Printing. xii, 370 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by Nicholson Baker on the title page.
Item 28750Russell Cowles: Forty-Eight Reproductions of Paintings and Twenty Letters by the Artist
los Angeles, CA: Dalzell Hatfield, 1946. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 53 pp. 4to. Dust jacket has toning from age, front hinge splitting 2/3 of the way down the spine, small chips at edges, now in mylar cover. Red boards with black titling to cove that matches dust jacket. Spine cloth split.....
Item 28139Book Collecting: The Last Refuge of the Illiterate
Salt Lake City, UT: Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8 pp. 8vo. Black cloth covered boards with a dark red paper label front and rear that resembles a bookplate. Clean and crisp within. No dust jacket as issued. Produced in an edition of 126 copies, 100 numbered.....
Item 28814Printed Books and Manuscripts from the Estate of John F. Fleming
New York: Christie's, 1988. First Edition. Wraps. 185 pp. 4to. Light bumping at edges. Clean within. Auction catalog for the Legendary rare book dealer, John Fleming (1910-1987).
Item 293831975 Catalog of City Lights Publications
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1975. First Edition. Wraps. 40 pp. Oblong 8vo. Very slight wear, clean within.
Item 29385Rare Book Catalog No. 2
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, n.d. First Edition. Wraps. Unpag pp. 8vo. Very slight wear, clean within.
Item 28772Franklin Gilliam: Texas Bookman
Dallas, TX: Book Club of Texas, 2014. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 59 pp. 8vo. Gray cloth boards with gold embossed logotype of the subject of the volume on the cover, gold titling to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. An illuminating look at the life of Franklin Gilliam, longtime proprietor of.....
Item 31315100 New York Calligraphers
Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. 237 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Inscribed by the author to the former owner, one of the calligraphers highlighted in the book, on a gift plate tipped onto the first free endpaper...
Item 31158A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
London: Phaidon, 1997. Second Edition. Wraps. 2003 reprint. 272 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
Item 3097At Home With Books
New York: Carol Southern Books, 1995. Hardcover. 248pp. fo. Collection of photographs and essays on the libraries of book collectors. Small taped repair to in upper spine of DJ, now protected in mylar cover.
Item 30451Encyclopedia of the Book
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996. Second Edition. Wraps. xxiii, 551 pp. 4to. Slight sunning to spine, clean within.
Item 30315Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. x, 277 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies.
Item 22252The Fifty Best Books on Texas
Dallas, TX: Pressworks Publishing, 1981. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. 90 pp. 4to. Light buff colored blank dust jacket. Quarter cloth binding with list of books within printed on pastepaper cover, very light color variation. Clean and crisp with errata slip laid in. Published in an edition of 225 copies, 1-200.....
Item 31583Tony Hillerman: From The Blessing Way to Talking God. A Bibliography
Tucson, AZ: Press of the Gigantic Hound, 1990. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 88 pp. 8vo. Rust cloth boards with blind embossed press logo on front board, dark blue embossed titling to spine. Pristine within. No dust jacket, as issued. Signed by the author on the colophon. Produced in an edition of.....
Item 28437American Celebrations: The Creation and Evolution of the United States as Reflected in the Printed and Written Word 1776-1976
Austin, TX: The Jenkins Company, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 312 pp. 4to. Slight wear and chipping to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Wear to foot of cover boards. Clean within. Printed in an edition of 125 copies, this is #20 and signed by the author at the colophon...
Item 28771Hollywood Bowl
New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1936. Limited Edition. Hardcover. iii, 203 pp. 8vo. Age toning to the dust jacket with a split halfway down the hinge at the rear panel, losses and chipping at edges, very brittle and now in mylar cover. Blue cloth boards with gold blue embossed titling.....
Item 28817Second Impression: A Rural Life with a Rare Bookman
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. x, 350 pp. 8vo. Clean and crisp copy with dust jacket in a mylar cover.
Item 31374A History of Stone & Kimball and Herbert S. Stone & Co. with a Bibliography of Their Publications
Chicago, IL: Norman W Forgue, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. xxii, 379 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. No dust jacket, is issued. Housed in original brown pebbled slipcase. Produced in an edition of 1500 copies, 500 copies were printed on rag-content paper and 1000.....
Item 29755The Life of Edward E. Ayer
Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg & Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. xii, 300 pp. Original glassine dust jacket has small chips, tears, and losses. brown cloth boards with gold titling to cover board and spine, clean and crisp within. Original paper covered slipcase has small chips and scuffs, in.....
Item 28935A Passion for Books
Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, 1958. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 249 pp. 8vo. Originial glassine dust jacket has many chips and tears but still intact. Marble paper boards, red cloth spine with gold titling has minor sunning at head and foot of spine where missing portion of dust jacked allowed.....
Item 28939Southwestern Book Trails: A Readers Guide to the Heartland of New Mexico & Arizona
Albuquerque, NM: Horn & Wallace, Publishers, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 91 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell on the first free endpaper.
Item 28938Striking Research Gold: Distinguished Collections in California Independent Academic Libraries
California: California Private Academic Libraries, 1988. Limited Edition. Wraps. 32 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy in ivory wraps. Printed in an edition of 150 copies for the joint meeting of the Zamorano & Roxburghe Clubs held in San Francisco October 1-2, 1988. Printed by Peter Koch of Oakland, California...