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London: Blades, East & Blades, 1885. Hardcover. Good. Part 1 only. 492 p. 25 cm. Hardcover. Rear hinges cracked internally, corners bumped, spine ends softened. Owner's inscriptions. Sale held on June 1-12, 1885. County histories, local topographical books, genealogy - Great Britain.
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Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Black gilt stamped cloth over boards, xiv, 236 pages, 18 illustrations; in a paper dustjacket. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Dustjacket has chipping at spine ends, along top edge and back corners, short tear at top front edge, spine discolored, light soil. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 3 oz. Category: Books on Books; Books; Inventory No: 000023. .
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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1889. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Oblong Quarto. First Edition copies of four volumes of Randolph Caldecott's 'Graphic Pictures' series, with Graphic Pictures, More Graphic Pictures, Last Graphic Pictures, and Gleanings from the Graphic. Humorous color illustrations of hunting and high society, printed on one side only. Foxing to Graphic Pictures; hinge repair with Japanese tissue by a conservator to Graphic Pictures. Surface wear to the pictorial boards of Graphic Pictures; minor shelfwear to the bindings of each. Quarter green or brown cloth, over pictorial paper boards. Very Good binding.
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Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937. First printing. Very Good/good. Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937 First printing Very Good/good Webber, Winslow L Books About Books: A Bio-Bibliography for Collectors Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937, first printing Hardcover with jacket, 18 by 253 cm, 168 pp Very good with light, even yellowing, jacket is good with edge wear and chips, sun darkening on spine, and a few scuff marks There are a couple small spots of skinning on the ffep, including one spot that partially peeled off the first letter of “For” in the inscription Inscribed and signed by Webber on the ffep: “For Morris Goldberg with the compliments of Winslow L Webber” A bibliography of standard books on collecting and book history, including works by Dibdin, Hazlitt, Lang, Morley, Orcutt, Rosenbach, Sabin, etc The dust jacket is in a fresh mylar cover We ship our books in boxes or cardboard wraps, never in bags Bay Leaf Books (Member ABAA, ILAB, IOBA) is an open shop dedicated to offering fine books for discriminating readers <br/><br/>
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Hamburg, Germany: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Cloth. 1578980518 . A handsome first edition, minor signs of use, area of abrasion to front paste down in alike dust-wrapper, small closed tear; Heinz Wegehaupt's comprehensive presentation of children's books in the German language with 2,360 titles from the beginnings in the early 16th century through the mid 19th century .
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Baltimore: Typothetae of Baltimore, 1922. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with gilt title and decoration to spine. Interior is clean and bright aside from a few small scattered spots of foxing. 275 pages. MD/052511.
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Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. [1967]. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. A Book Club edition in Very Good+ condition with lightly rubbed board edges, dusty upper edge, in a Very Good dust jacket with scored front cover, chipping to upper and lower edges, especially on head and tail of spine with light foxing to interior panels. Handsomely illustrated; Book Club Edition; B & W Illustrations and Photographs .
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Dusseldorf: Verlag der Jungbuchhandel, 1963. Paperback. Very Good +. Dusseldorf: Verlag der Jungbuchhandel, 1963. Very Good +. Dusseldorf: Verlag der Jungbuchhandel, 1963. Very Good +. This neat little book is about designing window displays for bookshops. The text is IN GERMAN. Verlag der Jungbuchhandel (Dusseldorf), 1963. Softcover, 53 pages of text followed by 32 black and white photos. In very good condition with only faint wear to the wraps. The interior is bright and clean.
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Daylesford, Pennsylvania: Self-Published, 1923. Paperback. Near Fine. Daylesford, Pennsylvania: Self-Published, 1923. Near Fine. Newton, Alfred Edward. A Leech Drawing. Daylesford, Pennsylvania: A. Edward Newton, 1923. Staple-bound, card wraps with string tie, 12.2 by 18.3 cm, [10] pp. Faint sun fading on the spine and very faint cover wear. Newton’s 1923 Christmas keepsake featuring a tipped-in color plate of Leech’s “The Ghost of Christmas Present,” followed by Newton’s short essay on Dickens’ Christmas Carol. (eph) <br/><br/>
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New Haven; London: Yale University Press; Oxford University Press, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 139 p. 23 cm. B&w line drawings. Half brown cloth with brown paper boards. Lower spine label slightly chipped. Ink inscription on front free endpaper.
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Lipsiae (Leipzig): Ex Officina Weidmanniana, 1752. Vellum. Fair. [7], 720 p. 18 cm. Decorations and title page vignette. Vellum binding with brown and gold spine label. Some soiling to covers. Bookplates on both pastedowns. Pages dampstained and foxed. Two pages in preface stuck together. Pages 387-392 have missing bottom corners not affecting text. Latin.
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New York/London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. New York/London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1980. Reprint. Very Good. Brown cloth with gilt spine titles, 13.5 by 18.4 cm, xvi 459 pp. plus 17 pages of ads at the rear and 3 pages of titles in the Garland series. Near fine with a previous owner’s name and date on the ffep (none other than the beloved Terry Belanger, 1980). Originally published in 1871, this reprint is part of Garland’s series of “Nineteenth-Century Book Arts and Printing History.” Includes a new introduction by Irene Tichenor. <br/><br/>
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Stroud, Glos., Great Britain: The Thimble Press, 1980. 46pp., intext, b/white illustrations throughout. Saddle-stitch booklet clean and square. Staples firm. Random splotches on text-block leaves. Printed card wrapper lightly edgeworn, bumped and abraded, plus mildly flecked and soiled on rear (text) panel. A selection of over 100 humorous books for children, chosen by Lance Salway-writer, translator, editor and librarian of children's books. This 2nd edition references picture books, novels, poetry, and collections of jokes and riddles. Within the text the author annotations include recommendations for a further 150 titles. Includes Index. Book weight approx. 100g. Postage charge will be reduced as this item will post under 500g. packed weight. . 2nd Edition. Softcover (Staplebound). Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Detroit: Gale, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Detroit: Gale, 1968. Reprint. Very Good. Curwen, Henry; Leslie Shephard, intro. A History of Booksellers, The Old and the New. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1968. Grey cloth with dull gilt spine titles on blue panel, no jacket, 14.5 by 22 cm, 483 pp. Light wear to the boards and foxing on the edges of the textblock. Originally published by Chatto and Windus in 1873, this volume, in additional to chapters on “booksellers of olden times” and provincial booksellers, includes the Longman family, Constable, Cadell and Black, John Murray, William Blackwood, Chambers, Knight and Cassell, Henry Colburn, the Rivingtons, Parkers and James Nesbet, Butterworth and Churchill, Edward Moxon, Kelly and Virtue, Thomas Tegg, Thomas Nelson, Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Charles Edward Mudie, and W.H. Smith and Sons. <br/><br/>
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Edinburgh: Otto Schulze and Company, 1910. Hardcover. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo. 1 of 350 copies. Inscribed by the author "To ? Cloy in affectionate remembrance Don C. Setiz June 27, 1910." Light brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine and front board. Light foxing to endpages, else very clean interior with bright text. Tight binding. A nice copy. 181 pages. BOB/040405.
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Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1911. Card Covers. Very Good. 39 p. 19 cm. Grey card covers. Some discolouration to front near spine. Catalogue of a private collection of book plates and other engravings by French, exhibited at The Rowfant Club in Cleveland, January 21, 1911.
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San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Norman Bibliography Series, No. 1. xv, 214 p. 19 cm. 105 b&w illustrations. A revised edition of Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Sir William Osler's Publications, 1939. Extensive appendices and index.
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London: Gregg Press, Ltd., 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. London: Gregg Press, Ltd., 1966. Reprint. Very Good. Two volumes, complete. Red cloth over boards with gilt spine titles, 18 by 14.5 cm, not paginated. Very good with light sun fading on the spines and a previous owner’s name and date on the ffep (Terry Belanger again, 1973). Originally published in 1824, this important early printing manual was reprinted by Gregg in a much reduced format, with two pages of the Typographia printed on each page of this set – tiny, but still legible. Useful for its extensive early history of the subject. <br/><br/>
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Odham, 1948. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, bar chips to top and/or bottom section of spine. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges browned slightly. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Books on Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2164. .
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Paris: J.-B. Dumoulin, 1856. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Avec Deux Plans De La Ville Et Cinq Planches Lithographiees; No pencil or ink markings in text. One quarter green leather spine and paper-covered boards. Rubbing and scraping at top of spine with leather missing. Two scraped areas approx. 1 inch below top with leather missing. Scratched areas on rear board with paper missing. Corners bumped with paper missing at the tips. Closed tear at top of front board at spine. Digital pictures of book available upon request; NOT Ex-Library. Very Good binding.
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New York: Gotham House, 1935. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. A limited edition of 1000 copies, this is #58. Fine with a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Bound in beige cloth with paper title label to front cover. In a rose colored dust jacket with black title to front panel. Inside is clean and tight. 55 pages. Books on Books. BOB/7172.
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Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo. 274 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 pounds or less. Category: Literature & Literary; ISBN/EAN: 9780822934820. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.
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NY: R. R. Bowker. 1948.The complete guide to modern and classical literature in print with biographical and critica; information. Dust soiling top pg edges, light edge wear in dj with a one inch square chip tot he head of the spine and 2 small chips to the heel of the spine, small edge tears, tiny chip to lower frnt corner, lgiht rubbing and wear to rear panel. ..ref24
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John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI 2000. Pamphlet. 22 page list of accession of rare materials to the library. Lists books, manuscripts, engravings, iconographic items. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Condition: Fine ebbx
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Fort Wayne, IN: The Zane Grey's West Society, 2000. For lovers of Zane Grey literature. Very clean and tight textblock. 36p., including back cover. Wraps. Near Fine. Illus. by Photos. 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Literary Periodical.
