The Key to Serendipity: Volume One How to Buy Books From Peter B. Howard
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
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The Key to Serendipity; Volume Two How to Find Books in Spite of Peter B. Howard
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
The Frontier Experience: A Reader's Guide to the Life and Literature of the American West
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
Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope
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
Granjon's Flowers: An Enquiry into Granjon's, Giolito's, and De Tournes' Ornaments 1542-86
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
International Masonic Collection 1723-2011: A Bibliography of the Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S.J.
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
The Literature of Collecting & Other Essays
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
The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco: Chronology of Twenty-Five Years 1928-1953
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
The Work and Play of Adrian Wilson: A Bibliography with Commentary
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
The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. More
For the Love of Books: Designing and Curating a Home Library
Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2019. Hardcover. 264pp. Folio. [31cm] White cloth over boards. Illustrated dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrink wrap. A celebration of the meaning and comfort printed books bring to our homes and lives, from the curation and design experts at Juniper Books. Explore the significance of the..... More
Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany 1817-1821
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
Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press: A Checklist with an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer
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
The Rise and Fall of the Printers' International Specimen Exchange
New Castle, Delaware: The Oak Knoll Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 154pp. Slim quarto [28.5 cm] Purple cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. In a pictorial dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. From the Publisher- "The Rise and Fall of..... More
The Rise and Fall of the Printers' International Specimen Exchange
New Castle, Delaware: The Oak Knoll Press, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. 154pp. Slim quarto [28.5 cm] Purple cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. In a pictorial dust jacket. From the Publisher- "The Rise and Fall of the Printers' International Specimen Exchange is the first in-depth..... More