Incunabula in the Westminster Abbey and Westminster School Libraries
London: The Bibliographical Society, 2013. Hardcover. Like new. 185 pp. Illustrated. More
Price: $30.00
Books on Books
Authors and Others
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, First Edition. c.1927. Hardcover. Cloth spine, paper backed boards, paper spine label. 8vo. 190pp. Very Good. Spine darkened, some wear at corners, light rubbing to edges, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. More
Price: $45.00
Vandals in the Stacks?: A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, First printing, 2002, hardcover with green cloth boards, octavo, 219pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with mild rubbing and edgewear to boards, previous seller's sticker to rear board, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ. More
Price: $40.00
Treasures from Italy's Great Libraries
New York: The Vendome Press, First edition, 1997. Large quarto, hardcover in dust jacket, 288 pp., heavily illustrated (much in color), clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, a bit of age-toning to some pages, light edgewear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival... More
Price: $30.00
A System of Easy Lettering
New York: Spon & Chamberlain, "Tenth Thousand". c.1907.Hardcover. Red cloth, black titles. 8vo. 34pp. + 24pp. of ads in rear. Very Good+. Some soiling to boards, light rubbing at corners and spine-ends, mild occasional soiling to contents. More
Price: $100.00
Wakeful Anguish: A Literary Biography of William Humphrey (Southern Literary Studies)
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004 Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. Condition rates as Fine, in a Fine Dust Jacket. More
Price: $14.50
The Englishman and His Books; In the Early Nineteenth Century
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, First edition, no date--ca. 1930. Cloth hardcover, 300 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, discoloration to the outer pages and the page-edges, a bit of rubbing to the edges of the book's covers, no dust jacket. More
Price: $28.00
A Printer's Christmas Books
Cambridge: Privately Printed, First edition, 1974, hardcover with cloth backed boards, octavo, 40pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book ex-library with plate and stamp to front pastedown, stamp and number to copyright page, otherwise fine with handsome boards showing minor wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean... More
Price: $18.00
A Printer's Christmas Books 1930-58
Cambridge: Privately Printed, First printing, 1959, paperback with sewn binding, small octavo, 16pp., not illustrated. Book ex-library with only indication being a plate to inside front panel, otherwise near fine with general age toning. No DJ. More
Price: $15.00
Bibliotheca Corviniana: The Library of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, First American edition, 1969, hardcover with gray cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto, 398pp., illustrated in color. Book near fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked but generally toned throughout. DJ VG+ with rubbing, mild edgewear. THIS LARGE, HEAVY BOOK MAY... More
Price: $50.00
Patrick O'Brian - Critical Essays and a Bibliogrpahy
West yorkshire: The British Library, First Edition. c.1994. Hardcover. Blue cloth. 8vo. 175pp. Near Fine in Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket. Gift inscription on flyleaf. Mild general shelfwear to dustjacket. More
Price: $15.00
Amusing Prose Chap-Books, Chiefly of Last Century
London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co. 1889. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in blue cloth. 350pp. Very good. Chipping to spine ends. Sunning to spine and head of front board. Foxing to endpapers. Contents are unmarked. A compendium of text from comical Victorian and Georgian chapbooks, including such titles as 'The Comical... More
Price: $30.00
Amusing Prose Chap-Books, Chiefly of Last Century
London / Glasgow: Hamilton, Adams, & Co. / Thomas D. Morrison, First edition, 1889. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine, 350 pp. + ads., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, a bit of a lean to the book, owner's signature on the front flyleaf, age-toning or foxing to... More
Price: $35.00
Curiosities of Literature
London: Edward Moxon, 1854. Later edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in half leather and marbled boards, with gilt title and decorative gilt spine. 578pp. with engraved frontis of D'Israeli, engraved title page, and a fold out fac-simile of the manuscript for Alexander Pope's translations of Homer. Very good. Rubbing to boards and... More
Price: $100.00
Miscellanies of Literature
London: Edward Moxon, 1856. Later edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in half leather with marbled boards, gilt title and decorative gilt spine. 484pp. with engraved title page. Very good. Rubbing to boards and shelf wear to corners. Evidence of previous repair to front hinge. Armorial Book plate of former owner (John Edge)... More
Price: $100.00
Catalogue of Books Published by D. C. Heath and Co., 1893
Boston: D. C. Heath and Co. June, 1893. Blue printed wraps, 8vo. 143pp. plus additional ads. Very good. Soil, light edge wear to wraps, small chip to foot of spine. Internally bright and unmarked. More
Price: $30.00
Ed Wood's Sleaze Paperbacks
New York: Boo-Hooray, 2011, First Edition. Softcover. One of 250 accompanied by 7-inch vinyl with angora by Ricky Luanda of the legendary band Chain Gang, all in clear plastic silkscreened slipcase. All contents Fine. More
Price: $125.00
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: Some New Bibliographical Discoveries
London: Marks & Co. 1928, Edition not stated. Edition not stated. Softcover, stapled binding, in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear and light handling soil to the exterior. Also, the cover is detached. More
Price: $18.00
Philobiblon er Optimis Codicibus Recensuit/ The Philobiblon of Richard De Bury, Part I: Textus, Part II: English Version, Part III: Introductory Matter and Notes. Complete in Three Volumes. William Targ's Copy
New York: Grolier Club, Publisher, printer, and author William Targ's copy, with his plate on the pastedowns of each volume. Complete in three volumes, including part I: original text in Latin, part II: English translation by Andrew Fleming West, and part III: introductory matter and notes, also by Fleming. 1889... More
Price: $375.00
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
Boston: David R. Godine, First edition, 1986. Quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 256 pp., heavily illustrated (much in color), clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket, a bit of bowing to the covers, owner's signature on the front flyleaf, minor age-toning to the dust jacket... More
Price: $45.00
Handwriting In England and Wales
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1964. Second printing. Hardcover, 8vo. in red cloth, without dust jacket. 94pp. plus 30 p. plates, one folding plate. Very good. Blunting to spine ends, ownership signature to front flyleaf. Internally bright and unmarked. More
Price: $40.00
Random Recollections of an Anachronism
New York: Readex Books, 1980, Edition not stated. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. Condition rates as Fine. The Dust Jacket is in Very Good+ condition, with light shelf wear. More
Price: $18.00
Bibliomania, or Book-Madness; A Bibliographical Romance in Six Parts (1811)
London: Printed for the Author, Revised and enlarged 1811 edition. Tall 8vo, bound in early 20th century maroon morocco and dark lavender cloth boards, gilt decorated raised bands, gilt titles, small printed sticker from Hersant Binder, 15 Cower Place, two title pages, one with engraving of Bodleian Library, 782 pp... More
Price: $850.00
Iean Gutenberg (Iean Gvtenberg):. Premier Maitre Imprimeur. Ses Faits & Discours Les Plus Dignes d'Amiration, & Sa Mort
Geneva / Geneve: Jules Guillaume Frick, 1958, Edition not stated. Hardcover, a former library book with the usual collection markings or stickers expected. Otherwise in Good+ condition, with lightly tanned pages, a library blind stamp to the title pages, the exterior boards are tanned and show wear, and also there... More
Price: $30.00
Indian Publicity, 1961
New Delhi: Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity, Government of India/ Gossain, 1961. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. in tan cloth, with dust jacket.160pp. with illustrations in color and b&w. Very good in good dust jacket. Rubbing and soil to dust jacket. Loss and chipping to extremities of dust jacket, especially... More
Price: $60.00