Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8" x 11-3/4") in original cloth. Illustrated with five woodcuts by Michael McCurdy. One of 24 copies of a total edition of 224 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. This copy is marked "GS" at the colophon and.....
Lincoln, MA: Penmaen Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8" x 11-3/4") in original cloth. Foreword by George Selleck. Illustrated with five woodcuts by Michael McCurdy. Copy #50 of 200 numbered copies of a total edition of 224 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
Philadelphia: American Museum of Photography, [1942]. First Edition. Softcover. Printed slim dark red wraps (5" x 7-1/4"); 16 pages plus covers. Illustrated with a tipped-in portrait of the photography pioneer and a full-page engraving of his establishment.
Boston: The Engraver and Printer Co., (August 1895). First Edition. Softcover. Decorated wraps; 116 pages plus ads. Includes articles on lettering and job estimates as well as an illustrated section on the origin and growth of the Roman letter.
Boston: W. Wells, 1810. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto (5" x 8-1/2") in contemporary sheep with a gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label; 512 pages. Latin text with excerpts from Livy, Tacitus, Cicero, Quintilianus, and others.
The Platt & Munk Co. Inc., (1937). Eulalie. First Edition. Softcover. Illustrated covers, printed on linen; 12 pages all in color illustrated by Eulalie. The hardcover edition seems to be much more common.
(London): Gaberbocchus, (1954-55). Franciszka Themerson. First Edition. Softcover. The first seven titles of the short-lived Gaberbocchus Black Series in publisher's wraps (4-1/2" x 6-1/2") with printed tape spines and a window opening on the front covers. Housed in likely publisher's multi-colored paper slipcase. Several titles illustrated. Includes 1. ABANDON SPA.....
(London): Gaberbocchus, 1950S. Franciszka Themerson. First Edition. Softcover. A catalog and several prospectuses for the press with illustrations by Franciszka Themerson.
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Irving Amen. Hardcover. Quarto (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") bound in ochre buckram stamped in brown pigment leaf with a reproduction of a 7th century B.C. cuneiform tablet mounted on the front cover. Translated by William Ellory Leonard. Illustrated with 9 three-color woodcuts and 7 part-page.....
Shaftesbury: The High House Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound in cloth-backed blue boards with paper labels on the spine and front cover, extra labels tipped in at rear. One of 1000 copies printed on pure rag paper. Volume IV translated from the Greek by Stephen.....
Iowa City: Friends Of The University Of Iowa Libraries, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth; xiv, 474 pages. Excellent reference work with illustrations. "This catalogue contains descriptions of 1,196 of the 1,600 books in the John Martin Rare Book Room in the Health Sciences Library. Works were chosen for the catalogue.....
Livorno: Marco Coltellini, 1763. First Edition. Hardcover. Three folio (9-1/2" x 12") volumes bound in twentieth century half green morocco leather with marbled boards and endpapers and matching morocco corners. First Italian Edition of THE AMERICAN GAZETTEER, published in London in three duodecimo volumes by J. Millar in 1762, which.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Valenti Angelo. Hardcover. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in tan cloth impressed in two colors and gold with a traditional walletlike flap. Decorated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo including the use of genuine gold on the title page and the page facing the opening.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1958. Valenti Angelo. Hardcover. Octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/4") bound in tan cloth impressed in two colors and gold with a traditional walletlike flap. Decorated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo including the use of genuine gold on the title page and the page facing the opening.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Ben-Zion. Hardcover. Small folio (9-1/4" x 12-1/4") bound in half natural-grain goatskin vellum and black cloth stamped in genuine gold, top edge gilt with pure gold leaf; 226 pages. Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Judah Goldin. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed.....
London: M. Arnold. Cloth. Octavo, 256 pages. Articles on the death of Thomas Stothard and the present state of sculpture, among others.
(New York): (Playmore), (1942). First Edition. Pict. boards, spiral bound. Folio, [16] pages. Unusual book with 9 quizzes & answers on opposing pages, each page with the center cut out to reveal a pictorial pastedown. While the front cover makes a promise with its crystal ball & turban-wearing magician, the.....
Staunton, VA: A. B. Blackburn & Co., 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth stamped in black; [ii], vi, 3-297 pages. Compiled by the Author of the History of Augusta County. Includes many letters by "one of Virginia's purest men and greatest lawyers." HOWES P-278.
[1880s]. First Edition. Photograph. A 9-1/4" x 7" albumen photograph mounted on a 12-3/4" x 10" stiff board titled in ink above the photograph with a date of acquisition or cataloging of 1922 below the image. On the verso it is titled "Beggars' Bridge/Peking/China" along with an ink stamp of.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Edy Legrand. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-3/4" x 11-3/4") bound in full black cloth with the title blindstamped on the front cover and goldstamped over red on the spine with lettering in medieval style by Arnold Bank. Translated from the German by Margaret Armour with.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Edy Legrand. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-3/4" x 11-3/4") bound in full black cloth with the title blindstamped on the front cover and goldstamped over red on the spine with lettering in medieval style by Arnold Bank. Translated from the German by Margaret Armour with.....
Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithographic Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo (9-1/4" x 6-1/4") in black cloth lettered in red. A handsome nursery specimen book with 85 chromolithographs, printed on both sides of the sheet, of trees, flowers, and fruit.
1927. Softcover. Decorated suede covers (9-1/4" x 6-1/2") with a rawhide tie containing 94 4-1/4" x 3-1/2" original photographs captioned in white ink on the album pages and 6 4" x 6" commercial photographs with captions in the negatives, all documenting an automobile trip out west, starting in or near.....
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, n.d. [early 1900s]. Softcover. Pictorial linen; 8 pages including covers. Front cover, which depicts cats and kittens, and rear cover along with two internal pages in color.
(Boston): Penmaen Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4" handbound with Italian Fabriano over boards at the Stanhope Bindery. The first book of the press. Copy #3 of only 100 numbered copies designed, handset, and printed by Michael McCurdy. In actuality only 91 copies were produced. This copy.....
