Search Results: Titles starting with H from Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993. cloth, dust jacket. Doolittle, Hilda. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 229 pages. First edition. H.D. (1886-1961) was born in Pennsylvania, went to Bryn Mawr College, and moved to London. She was friends with Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and D.H. Lawrence. Full bibliography.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1993. cloth, dust jacket. Doolittle, Hilda. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 229 pages. First edition. H.D. (1886-1961) was born in Pennsylvania, went to Bryn Mawr College, and moved to London. She was friends with Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and D.H. Lawrence. Full bibliography.

(Los Angeles): Dawson's Book Shop, 1977. cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine. Miniature Books. miniature book (5.5 x 4.0 cm). cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine. viii, 20 pages. Second edition but the first published by Dawson's (Bradbury, Dawson's 58). Introduction with text notes. H. Dickson Arkwright is H. Richard Archer and Dillstrim is Grant Dahlstrom, Barbatus Caesar is Edwin H. Carpenter, Orinda is Ted Freeman.

New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2007. hardcover. Bates, H.E.. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover. 240 pages. Reprint of the first edition. As a schoolboy, H.E. Bates (1905-74) decided to devote his life to writing and at the age of twenty-one published his first novel. Thereafter he wrote steadily: short stories, novels and journal articles on gardening and country matters. His collections of essays were illustrated by leading contemporary wood engravers, including Agnes Miller Parker and John Nash. During World War Two, as "Flying Officer X," H.E. Bates' writings on the exploits of RAF pilots and other members of the Air Force were phenomenally successful in the UK and USA. The novel, Fair Stood the Wind for France published in 1943, was an immediate success; and again in 1958, The Darling Buds of May, the first of four novels about the Larkins family, was a bestseller. Peter Eads gives full details of first editions of all Bates' work and adds comments from reviews and the… Read More

Hockessin: The Holly Press, 1980. cloth, dust jacket. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 73 pages. First edition. With a frontispiece illustration by Nancy Sawin. Signed by Sawin on the free endpaper and by the author on the title page. Jacket foxed with small tear.

Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1991. decorated paper over boards, leather spine label. Cheloniidae Press. 4to. decorated paper over boards, leather spine label. (x), (80), (vi) pages. First edition, limited to 210 numbered copies of which only 100 are for sale. This copy is neither signed, nor numbered, on the colophon page. Printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress by Daniel Keleher using Cheloniidae rag paper. Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the printing career of Harold Patrick McGrath, Master Printer for the Gehenna Press, Pennyroyal Press, and Cheloniidae Press. It contains sixty recollections, reminiscences, histories, etc. from friends, family, artists, and fellow printers. Also included are four wood engravings by Leonard Baskin, six wood engravings by Barry Moser, an etched portrait, a wood engraving by Fritz Eichenberg, a two-color portrait by Lance Hidy, and four wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. The title page and two other pages have hand calligraphy by Suzanne Moore… Read More

Winterthur: The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1980. stiff paper wrappers. Sharp, H. Rodney. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (28) pages. Illustrated. Lightly soiled covers. Preliminary pages lightly foxed, else a fine copy.

Newark: University of Delaware, 1978. cloth. Sharp Sr., H. Rodney. 8vo. cloth. vi, 42 pages. Preface by Daniel W. Wood. Sharp was a great benefactor to the University of Delaware.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1953. cloth. Wilson. 8vo. cloth. viii, 207 pages. Reprint of the 1950 first edition. A publisher's history. Front cover spotted.

Boston: Gregg Press, 1972. cloth. 8vo. cloth. (x), 207 pages. Reprint of the 1950 first edition. With information on early bookselling. A very good copy.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1950. cloth, dust jacket. Wilson. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 207 pages. First edition. A publisher's history. Jacket rubbed.

Mainz: Schriften des Gutenberg-Museums, 1967. paper wrappers. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 34, (2) pages. The first publication of Schriften des Gutenberg-Museums. "Books have their fates"--and this book explores the fates of early printed books and manuscripts. Well illustrated; some illustrations in color.

New York: The Haberule Co, 1959. fabric covers with plastic spiral binding. square 8vo. fabric covers with plastic spiral binding. (68) pages. "A new and improved method of type calcualting which reduces to simple terms the whole complex problem of copy-casting." Text following by list of type faces and point sizes, a plastic rule inserted in a pocket in the booklet and a built in pica scale.

Pasadena, CA: Clinker Press, 2005. broadside. Clinker Press. oblong 4to. broadside. Broadside printed in two-color by Andre Chaves of Clinker Press for the Zamorano Club, June 2005.

(Pasadena, CA): Clinker Press, The, 2019. broadside. Clinker Press. small 4to. broadside. Broadside with a quotation by W.B. Yeats. Designed and printed by Andre Chaves of the Clinker Press in two colors in memory of his son, Eric.

London: John Haddon & Co, 1907. cloth. Type Specimens. 4to. cloth. xix, 96 pages. Spine faded, wear to spine ends. Shaken. Good series of art nouveau types, Two views of the Foundry 1897 and 1907 at the rear. Some borders and onaments. Roped into green paper wrappers, decorated in blue, titled in red. A very good copy. This was a London-based foundry in Market Harborough with a sense of humour. The types - mostly designed by Phil May - are all named after the letter H: Hawarden, Hamlin, Hurlingham, Hushing, Hotspur, Hilmorton, etc. Pioneers of the point system.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. stiff paper wrappers. Black Sparrow Press. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 114, (3) pages. First editon. Table of contents, preface. Biographical sketch of the author, with photograph, follows colophon. A collection of poetry.

(Los Angeles, CA): Black Sparrow Press, 1975. self paper wrappers. Black Sparrow Press. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. First printing. October 1975. Monthly periodical of the Black Sparrow Press. Covers printed in red and black indicating first printing.

Wilmington, DE: Hagley Volunteers Cookbook Committee, 1983. spiral bound. Cookbook. 8vo. spiral bound. 164 pages. First edition printed in 5,000 copies.

Wilmington: Eleutherian Mills - Hagley Foundation, n.d.. 6 page foldout. Hagley. small 8vo. 6 page foldout. Travel guide to the beginning of the du Pont business in America.