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, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. 241pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] in dark red cloth with gilt-stamped spine. Faint shelfwear to jacket, else As New. From the jacket: "This book establishes for the first time the full bibliographic record of [this long-neglected work]." 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
Privately printed by A. R. Tommasini, Christmas, 1957. Limited edition. Hardcover. 17pp. Twenty-fourmo [13.5 cm] Yellow, white, red and black illustrated paper covered boards. Very good. The rear cover is lightly soiled. The edges of the half title page are mildly darkened. This is the tenth in a series of..... 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
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. Hardcover. 345pp. Small quarto [26 cm] Black cloth over boards. From the Publisher- "An Actor's Library is the first major academic study of the library of David Garrick, the celebrated eighteenth-century actor and theatre manager, and its publication coincides with the 300th anniversary..... 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; Athens, Greece: Oak Knoll Press; ATON Publications, 2017. First English Edition. Hardcover. 453pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Pictorial paper over boards. May require extra postage due to weight. From the publisher- "'The Architecture of Western Libraries, from the Minoan era to Michelangelo' deals with the architectural evolution of..... 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, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press; Hes & De Graaf Publishers; Kotinos, 2010. First English Edition. Hardcover. 500pp. 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 pictorial endpapers. In a...... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 176pp. Large octavo [26 cm] Black cloth over boards. From the Publisher- "This study is a fascinating inside look at digital type design, the rather mysterious career of one of its most important practitioners, and the history and culture of..... 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
Berkeley: 1999. First edition. Paperback. 30 pp. [21.5 cm]; saddle-stitched (2 staples) in red illustrated wraps. The rear red wrap has bled slightly onto the last page. More
Berkeley: 2000. First edition. Paperback. 89 pp. [21.5 cm]; perfect bound, purple illustrated wraps. Written on the front free endpaper of this copy is the single word, "mine" -- denoting Peter B. Howard's personal ownership of this particular volume, in the late legendary bookseller's own hand. 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
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. 241pp. Quarto [31 cm] Gray cloth over boards with black ink stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Photographically illustrated endpapers. From the publisher- "Film Books: A Visual History covers cinema literature from 1895 until the present day. It..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press & Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S. J., 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 578pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards with silver lettering and pictorial stamping. Minor split in the cloth at the foot of the spine. May require extra postage due to..... 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
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