London: Maggs Bros. 1924/1925. First Edition. hardcover. Two Maggs Autograph Catalogs (449 and 469) bound together in blue cloth with a gilt-lettered black label on the spine, the original wraps bound in; 368; 248 pages. The first catalog has 119 illustrations; the second also is illustrated, the number not given.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (9-1/2" by 13-3/4") bound in half Nigerian Oasis Goatskin leather and boards of hand-marbled paper by Faith Harrison, 182 pages. This bibliography contains a paragraph about each book in the series plus a cross-index by titles, authors, artists, designers.....
[Philadelphia]: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania [J. B. Lippincott Company], 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Pebbled black cloth. Quarto; 298 pages. Contains a biography of Tower as well as a detailed catalog of American Laws. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Tower on the front endpaper and scarce as such: "To/D. Mc N......
New York: Sotheby's, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Includes 308 lots, every item with color or B&W photographic illustrations, many full-page. List of sale results is loosely inserted. A magnificent collection that brought magnificent prices.
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.
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.....
New York: Privately Printed, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards; [vi] 111 pages. Printed by the De Vinne Press in the Renner type De Vinne designed, on Umbria handmade paper. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of De Vinne with his signature below, possibly printed, and a gravure of a bronze.....
Chicago: Richard Adamiak, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth. Quarto; xvi, 376 pages with index and bibliography. Page-by-page reproductions of various catalogs dated 1975 - 1982 from leading antiquarian booksellers specializing in the legal field. While the prices, of course, are dated, the detailed descriptions are quite valuable. The type is.....
Cleveland: John T. Zubal, Inc., (1982). Reprint. Hardcover. Green cloth; xix, 463 pages including index. Reprint of the 1959 First Edtion. An indispensable bibliography on the American cowboy.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1995). First Edition. Hardcover. Expanded to include the works of more than 5000 authors showing values over a two-decade span and full of useful information.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. Classic single-volume reference work describing over 15,00 first editions and their estimated retail values. SIGNED by both authors on the title page.
Detroit: The Gale Research Company, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Five volumes including the Supplement. Essential work with biographies of both major and minor, obscure authors.
New York: De Vinne Press, 1894. First Edition. hardcover. Original blue cloth, uncut, decorative endpapers; 32 pages. Copy #45 of 38 copies on Holland paper, of a total edition of 50. With 27 illustrations of bindings and early prints, etc., several in color. With a pencil note on the front.....
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Printed wrappers; x, 240 pages.
Washington DC: (United States Government Printing Office), 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth; iv, 143 pages. Includes the catalogue, index to authors of works issued anonymously, books on East Asiatic music (Chinese and Japanese), and a list of books from the Dayton C. Miller Collection.
London: Monotype Corp, 1964. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 29 pages and 9 plates. Prined by the University Press, Oxford. Preface by Frank Francis, Stanley Morison, and John Carter. The text of a lecture on the exhibition Printing and the Mind of Man whose subject was the contribution of print.....
(London): Holland Press, (1981). Reprint. Hardcover. Hardcover; xvi, 718 pages. Limited edition facsimile reprint of the original 1939 edition of this absolutely essential cookery bibliography. Limited to 500 copies, this copy not numbered. Illustrated with text engravings.
Munich: Heinrich Graf, 1923 - 1925. First Edition. Wraps. Four quarto (7-5/8" x 10") volumes consisting of 4 vellum-backed cloth folders with printed paper labels on the front covers and each holding a paper folder consisting of a color title page and a colophon page containing within engraved bookplates, each.....
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania German Society, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed pictorial boards. Illustrations include 24 full-page bookplates in color. A detailed study attractively presented. This copy is INSCRIBED by the printer on the front endpaper: "for Frederic G. Melcher/with affection & homage/of your friend, the printer,/Richard Ellis/10th Sept. 1959." Melcher was.....
London: W. Bowyer & J. Nichols, 1774 and 1776 and 1781. First Edition. Hardcover. Three small quarto (5-1/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in one in contemporary calf with later rebacking in lighter leather and new endpapers; xvi, 144; viii, 145-183; [1], [2], 179-300 pages. Consists of abridgments of Middleton's DISSERTATION.....
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. Second Edition. Hardcover. Cloth; xxiii, [1], 991, [1] pages. Expanded and revised edition of Cagle's important 1990 bibliography of the Lilly's collection of European and British gastronomic literature, featuring books printed from 1475 through 1962. With illustraions and facsimiles of title pages.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth; 794 pages. According to the publisher, "This comprehensive bibliography describes the American cookbooks in the Gernon Collection housed at the Lilly Library. AMERICAN BOOKS and its British/European counterpart, A MATTER OF TASTE, fully describe over 2,300 works in gastronomic.....
New York: The Dial Press, (2004). First Edition. wraps. Advance Reading Copy from Uncorrected Proofs in wraps for this first book by two young authors, a bibliomystery about a Renaissance text. Much more uncommon than the First Trade Edition. Publisher's response card laid in.
London: David Low, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth in slipcase; 63 pages with erratum slip tipped in. Arranged chronologically with over 700 items listed.
Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Library, 1951. First Edition. Softcover. Stapled photocopied sheets printed on rectos only in blue wraps; ix, 92 pages including a chronological index. Introduction by Arthur Hobson Quinn who describes how a number of the scarcest items in the library's collection were acquired.
