San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1991. 1/400. Hardcover. 45pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Burnt orange cloth with paper labels on the spine and the front board. Beautiful, illustrated endsheets. More
Oxford, UK; New Castle, DE: The Bodleian Library, 2010. 2010. Hardcover. 148pp. Octavo [22 cm] Gray paper over boards. From the Publisher- "Set up in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. Operating from a garage, the press..... More
New York: Press of Joel Munsell, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. 471pp. Large octavo [24.5 cm] Rebound in plain red cloth with marbled endpapers and new endleaves. Contemporary numerical notations in the margins of the pages. Sabin points out at the beginning of this work that he has had the privilege..... More
London: Souvenir Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 124pp. Quarto [30.5 cm] Brown paper covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Near fine. The edges of the covers are lightly bumped and rubbed. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Slightly rubbed and darkened. Includes humorously illustrated..... More
Berkeley: Serendipity Books. Original printing. Paperback. Quarto [28 cm] Xeroxed pages in a velo binding. A massive interim catalogue offering the Faulkner collection amassed by his bibliographer, Carl Petersen. From the cover page- "An interim catalogue- the individual items are not yet fully described or priced. Based on Petersen's descriptions..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 556pp. Quarto [29 cm] Green cloth over boards. From the Publisher- "Since the day in 1791 when The Life of Johnson was published, James Boswell has ranked among our greatest authors. With the discovery of Boswell's journals and other papers..... More
Metuchen, N.J. & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979. First edition. Hardback. 477pp. Octavo [22.2cm]. Blue cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Bumping on spine edge and top fore edge corners. Although there have been several other Henry Miller bibliographies, Bern Porter's "Henry Miller: A chronology and Bibliography", Thomas..... More
London: Martino Maurizio, [1995]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 289pp. Octavo [21.6cm]. Red orange cloth over boards with stamped gold lettering on the spine. Minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. Spine is cocked. This edition strictly limited to 150 copies. An extensive catalog of small books including information on the production..... More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press; Hes & De Graaf Publishers; Kotinos, 2012. First English Edition. Hardcover. 588pp. Quarto [29.5 cm] Light gray cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover, and an applied illustration on the front cover. Gray and white pictorial endpapers. In a...... More
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press; Hes & De Graaf Publishers BV; Kotinos, 2005. Hardcover. 428pp. Quarto [30 cm] Light gray cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover, and an applied illustration on the front cover. Gray and white illustrated endpapers. In a pictorial dust..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 365pp. Octavo [25 cm] Blue cloth over boards. There is a brief embossed trace of a notation on the front panel. From the Publisher- "This remarkable and entertaining study examines perhaps the most notorious example of a book whose enormous..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. 177pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Slate gray cloth over boards. From the Publisher- "In the late nineteenth century, writers, artists, and bibliophiles expended great thought and energy on books as a category of things that might be made to express..... More
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. 434pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Teal cloth over boards. The foot of the spine is gently bumped, and there are periodic light check marks in pencil in the margins. In the Introduction, Tuska states that what, "Vicki..... More
Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of The University of Virginia; Distributed by Oak Knoll Books, 2014. First printing. Paperback. 18pp. Very slim octavo [23.5 cm] Stapled white and black pictorial wraps. From the Publisher- "David L. Vander Meulen's Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope has come to..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 246pp. Quarto [25.5 cm] Green cloth over boards. From the Publisher- "Robert Granjon (1513-1590) was a younger contemporary of Claude Garamont (c.1510-1561) and with him one of the great names in the history of type-design. His typefaces have been studied..... More
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1969. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 110pp. Quarto [25cm]. 1/4 red leather over marbled boards. Title stamped in gilt on spine. Touch of rubbing to extremities. Textblock composed of the author's own hand made 15 x 20 course laid paper. Copy number 159/375. A detailed..... More
Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: Harvey House, Inc., 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 223pp. Quarto [26cm]. Light brown cloth, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Ex-libris sticker on front free endpaper. In a dust jacket with mild soiling and a few closed tears, one of which has been backed with tape. With..... More
New Castle, DE: The Boston Athenaeum and Oak Knoll Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 366pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. From the Publisher- "In this new collection of essays, many published here for the first time, the author of the..... More
Oakland, California: Biobooks, 1948. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 31pp. Quarto [29cm]. Marbled boards with red cloth covered backstrip. There are a handful of losses to the title paper label on spine. Front board moderately toned and lightly soiled. Spine ends a touch rubbed. Sporadic toning throughout textblock. Carl Irving Wheat was..... More
San Francisco: 1954. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Folio [40 cm] 1/4 black cloth with bright marbled paper over boards. Top edge trimmed; other edges deckled. Text printed in red and black. Ex-libris Santa Rosa publisher and rancher Lee Lawrence Stopple, with his bookish bookplate on the front pastedown. A lovely..... More
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Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [1990]. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED. 96pp. Slim octavo [21 cm] Illustrated wraps. There are multiple tiny pock marks to the front wrap. Inscribed by the author, George Whitman, to Utah publisher Gibbs Smith on the verso of the front cover. More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 158pp. Folio [41 cm] 1/4 brown leather with tan cloth over boards. Tipped-in frontispiece of Wilson by Ansel Adams. The boards are lightly soiled. May require extra postage due to weight. Number 318 in an edition limited to 325 copies. Adrian Wilson..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. Second edition. 128pp. Octavo [23.5cm]. Glossy, cloth-effect paper over 1/4 tan cloth, with title stamped in black on spine. Lower edge of front board is noticeably bumped. No dust jacket, as issued. Limited to 260 copies. An examination of the origin, printing, binding and..... More
New Castle, DE; London, UK: Oak Knoll Press; The British Library, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. 144pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Cloth over boards. With a small ink stain on the front panel of the dust jacket, else as new in an as new dust jacket. This book is the first..... More