Serendipity Books Catalogue 46: Vietnam War Literature- The Gary Lepper Collection
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Paperback. 76pp. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Stapled white, black and red printed wraps. Very good. More
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Serendipity Books Catalogue Eight. Modern Literature
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
Serendipity Books Catalogue Four. Modern Literature
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original printing. Paperback. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Wraps. Contains 100 entries. More
Serendipity Books Catalogue Nine. Modern Literature
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original printing. Paperback. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Wraps. Contains 176 entries. Front wrap partially detached. More
Serendipity Books Catalogue Three. Modern Literature
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original printing. Paperback. Thin octavo [21.5 cm] Wraps. Contains 100 entries. More
Serendipity Books Catalogue 27: Vietnam War Literature- The Gary Lepper Collection
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
Little Journeys To the Homes of Great Teachers: St. Benedict - Vol. 23, No. 5, November 1908
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
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great- Guide Book
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
Where Love Is and The Truth
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
Ranjit Sinhji's 9,000 Elephants Visit Serendipity Books
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
Ranjit Sinhji's 9,000 Elephants Visit Serendipity Books
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
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The Dark Page II: Books That Inspired American Film Noir [1950-1965]
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
Dreaming on the Edge: Poets & Book Artists in California
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 230pp. Oblong quarto [21 cm x 27 cm] Red cloth over boards. In a dust jacket, with a couple of scratches to the front panel, the longer scratch measuring 2" "Generously illustrated throughout, for some the book may be an..... More
A Bibliography of the Early Printed Editions of Virgil 1469-1850
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. 368pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Gray cloth over boards with silver lettering on the spine and front cover. From the Publisher- "This book serves as a short-title catalogue of all the early printed editions of the Roman poet Virgil, from the..... More
John Muir: A Reading Bibliography
Fresno, CA: Panorama West Books, 1986. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Hardcover. 179pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Ivory and tan paper covered boards with a brown ink stamped title on the spine, and a brown ink stamped natural vignette on the front cover. Very good. The head of the spine is..... More
Victorian Decorated Trade Bindings 1830-1880: A Descriptive Bibliography
London and New Castle, Delaware: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. 324pp. Quarto [28 cm] Blue cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles and ornamentation in gilt and blind on the spine and front cover. From the Publisher - "This ground-breaking study deals with the..... More
From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha' Penny Dreadfuller: A Bibliographic History of the Boys' Periodical in Britain 1762-1950
London and New Castle, Delaware: The British Library; Oak Knoll Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 576pp. Octavo [25 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. In a pictorial dust jacket. From the publisher- "This book tells, for the first time, the full history of..... More
Historical Types from Gutenberg to Ashendene
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. 103pp. Quarto [31 cm] Maroon cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Matching endpapers. With the pictorial dust jacket. From the publisher- "The text of the book provides an excellent historical background to the study of..... More
Steamer Stories: An Annotated Bibliography of Steamship Fiction 1845-2012
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 481pp. Quarto [29 cm] Bluish-gray cloth over boards. From the Publisher- "Steamer Stories is an annotated bibliography of fiction in English that involves steamships and the men and women who sailed in them. A catalog of novels, novellas, and short..... More
A Long Way from the Armstrong Beer Parlour- A Life in Rare Books: Essays by Richard Landon
Toronto and New Castle, Delaware: The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library; Oak Knoll Press, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. 440pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. In a pictorial dust jacket. From the Publisher- "In 1967 Richard Landon (1942 - 2011) joined..... More
The Marion Press: A Survey and Check-List, With Incidental Alarums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields
Bronxville, NY; New Castle, DE: Nicholas T. Smith Publisher and Oak Knoll Books, 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. 270pp. Octavo [22 cm] Rust-colored cloth over boards. From the Publisher- "Reprint of the 1943 first edition which was printed in a very small number. Frank E. Hopkins set up a press in the..... More
Books of the Los Angeles District
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1950. Limited printing. Hardcover. 61 pp. Duodecimo. [17.5 cm]. Orange cloth over boards. Gilt title stamped Corners sharped, but slightly scuffed. Ex libris sticker from previous owner on front paste down. Printing limited to 200 copies. An overview of the publications from Los Angeles... More
Norman Mailer: Works and Days
Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press, 2000. 1/26 lettered copies. Leather bound. 280pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green leather with gilt title and author on front board and backstrip. This is one of twenty-six lettered copies signed by the authors and Mailer on the half-title. This is copy 'S'. Preface by Norman Mailer..... More
The Check-Log of Private Press Names
White Plains, NY: The Herity Press, 1961. Second edition. Paperback. 20pp. Very slim octavo [24 cm] Stapled spring green wraps printed in black and red. Very good condition. The edges of the wraps are lightly creased. A register printed for the purpose of avoiding duplication of private press names. More
Lewis Carroll And The Press
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 117pp. Small Quarto [23.5cm]; illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. A comprehensive study of Carroll's work for the periodical press, including notes from the author regarding Carroll's life and times. More