Members of the Grolier Club 1884-1984.
1986. NY: Grolier Club, 1986. 8vo, 189pp. Brown cloth gilt. New. § A comprehensive listing of America's greatest bibliophiles, bibliographers, and bibliopoles. Superseded in 2009 by an updated edition. More
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The Wrath of John Steinbeck, or, St. John Goes to Church.
1939. Los Angeles: The Albertson Press in Association with Bunster Creely, 1939. 8vo, 17 pp. Original red boards with gold paper title label on upper cover, frontis. plate present but detached, boards irregularly faded, some paste action to front blanks. § Edition limited to 1000 copies signed by Bennett and..... More
They Also Wrote Children's Books. Adult and Children's Books by Well-known Authors from the collection of John R. Blaney.
2020. NY: Grolier Club, 2020. 4to, color frontispiece and full-page color illustrations for every entry. Beige wrappers, upper cover printed in black and red. New. § A fascinating catalogue, each entry show a famous book by a famous author from Maya Angelou to Virginia Woolf and a children's book by..... More
A Garland of Juvenile Bookplates.
1949. Cleveland: Hyacinth Press, 1949. Slim 8vo, 11 pp., with a frontispiece and 8 plates (7 mounted). Original printed wrappers and spiderweb glassine, head of spine bumped and chipped but otherwise a fine copy. Together with the original announcement and two TLSs from the author. § Limited to 100 copies..... More
A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.
1821. London: Printed For The Author, By W.Bulmer And W.Nicol, Shakespeare Press, And Sold By Payne And Foss, Longman, Hurst And Co..., 1821. 3 vols., royal 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., xxv, [3 leaves], 462, lxxix, [1] errata; 2 p.l., 555; 2 p.l., 622, lxii. without half-titles. 83 plates (incl. portraits;..... More
A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and Scotland...
1838. London: Printed for the Author..., 1838. 2 vols, royal 8vo, (i-v) vi-xv [xvi], (10, subscribers, plates, contents), (1) 2–436, (i) ii-xxx (supplement), (1, errata) +12 plates; (iv), (437–39) 440–1090 pp. With 40 plates and woodcut vignettes on titles and throughout the text. Original pinkish buff boards, printed paper labels..... More
Bibliomania; Or, Book-Madness; a Bibliographical Romance. Illustrated with cuts... New and Improved edition, to which are now added, Preliminary Observations, and a Supplement, including a Key to the Assumed Characters in the Drama.
1842. London: Bohn, 1842. Tall thick 8vo, (2), [i-vii], vii-xiv, 618, 63, (1), xxxiii pp. Full pebbled brown morocco with gilt fillet borders, gilt turn-ins, gilt-panelled backstrip, raised bands, gilt top, rebacked retaining original backstrip. Bookplate on front pastedown of Francis Frederick Fox and Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First combined edition..... More
Of The Uses of Books.
1936. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1936. 8vo, 29 pp. Text printed within red borders; marginal notes and illustrations printed in blue. Quarter red cloth and blue paper-covered boards. Board corners lightly worn, text unmarked; a very good copy. § A chapter taken from Jackson's longer work The Anatomy of..... More
Kipling in California.
1989. University of California, Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1989. 8vo, 88 pp. Original printed wrappers, backstrip slightly rubbed, name in pencil on flyleaf, very good. § Number 37 in the series of keepsakes issued for its members by the Friends of the Bancroft Library. Printed by the..... More
Beatrix Potter & Peter Rabbit: A Centenary Celebration from the Collections of Grolier Club Members.
2002. NY: Grolier Club, 2002. Sq. 12mo, 47pp. stapled into violet wrappers. Fine. § 1500 copies printed by the Ascensius Press. Unillustrated; useful for the excellent biographical and bibliographical notes. More
Cyclone on the Prairies: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Arts and Crafts of Publishing in Chicago, 1900 [with] A Bookbinder’s Analysis of the First Edition of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
2011. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2011. Folio, 141, [6]; [2], 47, [5] pp. The leaf book is bound in quarter green cloth over illustrated boards; the bookbinder’s analysis in printed and illustrated stiff wrappers. In a brown cloth covered slipcase. As new. § With an original leaf..... More
Cyclone on the Prairies: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Arts and Crafts of Publishing in Chicago, 1900 [with] A Bookbinder;s Analysis of the First Edition of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
2011. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2011. Folio, 141, [6]; [2], 47, [5] pp. The leaf book is bound in quarter green cloth over illustrated boards; the bookbinder’s analysis in printed and illustrated stiff wrappers. In a brown cloth covered slipcase. As new. § With an original leaf..... More
One Hundred Books Famous in Children’s Literature.
2015. The Grolier Club, 2015. 4to (11 x 8.25 inches), 318 [1] pp. numerous color illustrations. Hightower and Koch Antiquarian types. Design and typography by Jerry Kelly. Stiff paper wraps, illustrated in full color on upper cover. New. § Trade edition. Detailed descriptions of one hundred famous children’s books and..... More
Advis pour dresser une Bibliothèque. Presenté à Monseigneur le President de Mesme. [with] Jacob, P. Louis, Traicté des plus belles Bibliothèque publiques et particulières...
1644. Paris: Rolet le Duc, 1644. Two books in one: 8vo, 4 leaves, 164 pp; 1 leaf, [Extraict du Privilege du Roy]; 10 leaves, 717, 71 [Appendix, Table] pp. Contemporary limp vellum with hand lettered label on backstrip. Very early illegible ownership inscription on the rear pastedown. Unfortunate bookplate of..... More
The British Librarian: exhibiting a compendious Review or Abstract of our most scarce, useful, and valuable Books in all Sciences, as well in Manuscript as in Print: with many Characters, historical and critical, of the Authors, their Antagonists, &c. In a Manner never before attempted, and useful to all Readers.
1738. London: Printed for T. Osborne..., 1738. 8vo, [ii], vii [xii, contents], 402 pp. Contemporary calf, backstrip consolidated and upper hinge with slight splitting but quite firm, a good sound copy. § First edition of the first Library Manual in English and one of the earliest (if not the earliest)..... More
A Code for the Collector of Beautiful Books.
1936. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936. 8vo, xiv, 55 pp. Blue cloth spine lettered in gilt, decorated paper boards. Paper rubbed and worn at foot of boards, a few age spot to the endpapers; very good. § Preface by Francis de Miomandre. "This manuscript was originally written by..... More
A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Duke of Roxburghe, arranged by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall; which will be sold at Auction at His Grace's residence in St. James Square, on Monday, 18th May, 1812, and the Forty-one following Days... by Robert Evans Bookseller, Pall-Mall.
1812. London: W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1812. 8vo, 17, [3], [iv], 284 (i.e. 283)pp. Original blue wrappers bound into later quarter parchment and gray boards. A few pencil notes of prices and a summary of some prices in the same hand at the back, ink signature on..... More
Merly Library. A Catalogue of the Well Known and Celebrated Library of the late Ralph Willett... which will be sold by Auction, by Leigh and Sotheby... on Monday, December 6, 1813, and 16 following Days...
1813. London: Leigh & Sotheby, 1813. 8vo, [i-iii], (1), [1]2-119, (1) pp., 2906 lots. Half red calf and marbled boards, backstrip with gilt rules and title, uncut. Cover is rubbed, edges and corners bumped and chipped, faint foxing, contemporary manuscript annotations in ink throughout, tape repair to p. 115; very..... More
Catalogue of Books, Ancient and Modern, in the English and Foreign Languages, Containing Many Rare and Curious Articles, Generally in Fine Condition, Now on Sale, at Very Reduced Prices, by John Wilson, 19, Great May's Buildings, St. Martin's Lane.
1834. London, England: John Wilson, October 1834. Folio, 9 3/4"" x 6 3/4 inches, 16 pp. Thread binding, some toning. § A catalogue of 16 pages and almost 800 books sold by John Wilson, in what was most likely his going out of business sale. On the first page of..... More
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