Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original printing. Paperback. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Stapled white, black and red printed wraps. Very good. The spine and surrounding areas of the wraps are darkened. There is a tiny notation in pencil on the top edge of the front wrap. From the catalogue description- "This is..... More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original printing. Paperback. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Stapled white, black and red printed wraps. From the catalogue description- "This is a catalogue offers for sale in addition to modern literature, several works in science, earlier literature, a Book of Hours, a manuscript Koran and other oddments from..... More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Paperback. 65pp. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Gray, black and red printed wraps. Very good. The spine and wraps are very subtly age-toned, creased and soiled. From the first page- "The idea for this assembly popped up in conversation in a book-strewn living room in Hastings-on-Hudson quite a...... More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original edition. Paperback. 152pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] White, black and pink printed wraps. Very good, with light soiling on the wraps. A catalogue with 1466 listings and featuring the Anthony Boucher collection of detective fiction, as well as a brilliant collection of the works of British author..... More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original edition. Paperback. 152pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] White, black and pink printed wraps. Very good, with light soiling on the wraps. A catalogue with 1466 listings and featuring the Anthony Boucher collection of detective fiction, as well as a brilliant collection of the works of British author..... More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original edition. Paperback. 156pp. Octavo [22 cm] White, black, and pink printed wraps. More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books, Circa 1986. Original edition. Paperback. Small quarto [25 cm] White, black, and pink printed wraps. Very good. The wraps are just a little soiled. A catalogue featuring a collection of letters to Thomas Parkinson, and including collections of authors such as John Barth, James Dickey, Ralph Ellison..... More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books, Circa 1980. Original edition. Paperback. Small quarto [25 cm] Printed wraps. The wraps are lightly soiled. A catalogue representing authors who published books in the Nineteenth Century, such as J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lafcadio Hearn, Jack London, and Bram Stoker. More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books, Circa 1980. Original edition. Paperback. Small quarto [25 cm] Printed wraps, with age-toning to the edges of the wraps. A catalogue featuring Black American Literature, Canadian Literature, Fine Printing & Press Books, First Books, Literary Magazines, and South African Literature. More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Paperback. 76pp. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Stapled white, black and red printed wraps. Very good. More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original printing. Paperback. 14pp. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Wraps. Contains 97 entries. P. 8 is torn, with loss, obscuring entries 46 & 53. Periodic brief markings. More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original printing. Paperback. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Wraps. Contains 100 entries. More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original printing. Paperback. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Wraps. Contains 176 entries. Front wrap partially detached. More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original printing. Paperback. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Wraps. Contains 100 entries. More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 1989. Original edition. Paperback. 76pp. Slim octavo [21.5 cm] White, black, pink and green printed wraps. Near fine condition. Catalogued by Esme Joy Howard. A catalogue featuring Gary Lepper's collection of Vietnam War Literature, mostly anti-war, and ranging from cartoons and sleaze to docudrama and lyric poetry..... More
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908. Small press. Paperback. 130pp. Octavo [20 cm] Light brown, black and red printed wraps with a string binding. Very good. The front cover is very slightly cocked. The edges of the covers are lightly bumped and chipped. From the verso of the front cover-..... More
New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1926. First edition. Hardcover. 203pp. Octavo [22 cm] Black cloth with a faded title on the spine, and an embossed title on the front cover. Very good condition. The dust jacket is in good condition, with numerous small chips in the edges, and..... More
East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1907. First edition. Leather bound. 161pp. Duodecimo [18.5 cm] 1/4 brown leather with tan paper over boards, and the title and an ornamental floral design on the front cover. Brown endpapers. Top edge gilt. Very good. The extremities are very subtly rubbed and soiled, and..... More
East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Printing Shop, 1896. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 72pp. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 thickly woven gray cloth with gray paper over boards and a gilt stamped title on the spine. Gray top stain. Deckled edges. Gray endpapers. Very good. The spine and covers are have..... More
East Aurora, NY: Printed at the Roycroft Shops, Roycroft Town, 1923. Leather bound. 36pp. Sextodecimo [16 cm] Brown patterned leather, lettered and decoratively stamped in brown and green on the front cover. Top edge gilt; other edges deckled. With the original glassine wrapper, in near fine condition, and the original..... More
Berkeley, Calif. Serendipity Books, 1996. Ann Arnold. First edition. Paperback. 32 pp. [22 cm]; illustrated wraps, printed on rectos only. Ian Jackson's and Ann Arnold's marvelouslly droll illustrated tale of 9000 elephants visiting the legendary Serendipity Books in Berkeley, California to destroy it; only to find that some other herd..... More
Berkeley, Calif. Serendipity Books, 1996. Ann Arnold. First edition. Paperback. 32 pp. [22 cm]; illustrated wraps, printed on rectos only. Ian Jackson's and Ann Arnold's marvelouslly droll illustrated tale of 9000 elephants visiting the legendary Serendipity Books in Berkeley, California to destroy it; only to find that some other herd..... More
Los Angeles: Victoria Dailey Publisher, 2000. Hardcover. 87pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with light yellow and black printed paper covered boards. Very good. The top edge of the front cover is very subtly faded. Exiles in Angeltown, Volume 1. Subjects include The Plantin Presse, Lion Feuchtwanger, Ernst Gottlieb..... More
Austin: The Pemberton Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 120pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Mustard yellow paper over boards, with slight warping to the boards. In a dust jacket, with only trivial soiling, and a shallow closed tear in the top edge. Inscribed by the infamous John Jenkins, in the year..... More
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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 252pp. Quarto [31 cm] Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Black matte endpapers. With a pictorial dust jacket. Photography by Dan Gregory. Design by John Malloy. Signed by Kevin Johnson on the title..... More