London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1895. First Edition. Half Leather. 4to. Frontis., viii, 511 pp., illus. teg. No jacket as issued. Includes all four parts of volume 1, with original paper covers and advertisements bound at back of volume. Marbled endpapers. All 23 plates intact, with tissue..... More
Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. 4to. 16 pp., illus. No date (1988). Catalogue of books being published by The Whittington Press. Short introductory review of the year 1987 by John and Rosalind Randle. Bound in salmon coloured printed wrapper and sewn with silk thread. Fine..... More
Toronto: Toronto Public Libraries, 1939. First Edition. Printed Wrapper, Staplebound. 8vo. 67 pp. Pamphlet. Published for the Toronto Public Libraries by the Toronto Club of Printing House Craftsmen. Bound in pebbled brown card covers with red insignia on cover and lettering in black. From the business library of the printer..... More
Paris: L'illustration, 1930. Softcover. Folio [380 x 280mm]. 64pp. Periodical. Large softcover with illustrated suede like covers. Very small chip to the spine head and lightly bumped corners, else a very near fine copy in a tight and square binding. Includes advertisements, colour illustrations and photographs. This particular issue has..... More
Ottawa: National Library of Canada/Avmor Ltd., 1984. First Edition. Printed Wrapper, Staplebound. 8vo. Unpaginated, illus. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the National Library of Canada from November 30, 1984 to March 24, 1985. More
Edinburgh: Edinburgh Bible Society, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. xxii, 256, 96 - appendix, with two plates of title pages. Original boards with paper spine label. Board edges a little worn and rubbed, with a few light stains, Loss to a lot of the spine, showing some of the..... More
New York: American Booksellers Association, 1973. First Edition. Staplebound. 8vo. 12 pp. Bottom corner at spine bent, covers darkening at edges. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. First Edition. Cloth. Square 8vo. 71 pp., illus. For private distribution, limited to 1500 numbered copies, this being copy #23. Transcript of remarks made at the celebratory dinner by Morris Philipson, Kenneth Northcott, Jacques Barzun, John Ryden, Theodore J. Lowi, Ferdinand Mount, Jacques..... More
Florence: Accademia della Crusca, 2000. Hardcover. Facsimile of the 1595 edition. 8vo. Orange boards with gilt lettering on a black spine label, in the dust jacket. Dust jacket spine a little sunned, otherwise a fine copy, about as new. Edition of 500 numbered copies, this is 485. More
Association of Canadian Publishers, 1988. First Edition. Staplebound. 12mo. 53 pp. Fine copy. More
New York: Viking, 1993. Promotional broadside poster (18 by 24") humourously depicting the publishing process in 16 cartoon panels. Folded and tack-holes at each corners but still in very good condition." More
Bronxville: Nicholas T. Smith, 1980. First American Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 96 pp., illus. Reprint of the first edition which was published in 1927 in a limited edition of 390 copies. More
Mt. Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press, 1965. First Thus. Cloth. 12mo. 68 pp. With title-page portrait of Goudy by William Oberhardt. Printed at the Peter Pauper Press. One of total edition of 1950 copies (out of which 350 copies were reserved for The Typophiles), printed for the Goudy Centennial..... More
Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Frontis., xiv, 180 pp., illus. No jacket as issued. Written and illustrated with drawings by the Benedictines of Stanbrook. Limited to 500 copies, 450 of which have been bound in cloth. A fine copy in original glassine wrapper which is mildly..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1971. Half Cloth. 4to. 44 pp. No jacket as issued. New introduction by Oscar Lewis. One of 400 copies. Half orange cloth, patterned boards, Label on spine. Slight bowing but still a very nice, tight, fine copy. More
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1972. First Edition. Cloth-backed Bds. 8vo. Frontis., 62 pp., illus. Preface by Thomas F. O'Connell. Contains three short addresses by Samuel Rothstein [From Reaction to Interaction: The Development of the North American University Library"]; Richard Blackwell ["The Library and the Bookseller"]; and Archibald MacLeish ["The Premise..... More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 71 pp. + 95 pp. + 130 pp., illus., index. Bound in brown coloured cloth covered boards with printing in red on front and spine. Front inner hinge starting, else a fine copy. More
Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 1995. Soft Cover. Exhibition catalgue. Light nick to the spine head, else a fine copy. More
Kuruman: Kuruman Moffat Mission Trust, 1987. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo. Frontis., vi, 36 pp., illus. and with tipped-in colour frontis. A bit of light scuffing, else a fine copy. Scarce. More
New York: George Braziller, 2015. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo. Frontis., 150 pp., illus. A fine, as new copy. More
Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1986. First Edition. Cloth. 4to. 109 pp., illus. One of a limited edition of 2250 copies (of which 1000 are for sale). A fine copy in a original glassine wrapper which is quite tattered. Important biography of this famous bookbinding family. More
Amsterdam: Gerard Th. van Heusen, 1969. Reprint. Cloth. 4to. xvii, 463 pp., illus. Facsimile reprint of 1891 edition, bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Previous owner's bookplate, hinges weak, mild edgewear. More
New York: The Buckley-Little Book Catalogue Co., 1984. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo. 151 pp. Crease on cover, price label over original printed price, pencil ticks to about a dozen titles. More
Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1985. First Edition. Paper Over Boards. 8vo. Frontis. ix, 126 pp., illus. No jacket as issued. Limited edition. More
Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. 4to. 95 pp., illus. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 11 May - 27 June, 1982. Compiled and annotated by Sebastian Carter with additional notes by Will Carter. With a foreword by the Directory of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Michael..... More