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Cleaning and Preserving Bindings and Related Materials
Horton, Carolyn
/ American Library Association 1967
76 pp., rebound in maroon buckram with the original front wrapper retained (hardcover), ex library, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books ngx
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Item #: 1286163
$19.99
The Pentateuch of Printing. With a chapter on Judges. With a memoir of the author, and list of his works, by Talbot B. Reed
William Blades
/ Chicago: A. C. McClurg 1891
first American edition, published by A. C. McClurg in 1891; xxvii, 117 pp., original gilt stamped blue cloth, corners and edges worn, else good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1283484
$28.24
The Reformed Librarie-Keeper, or Two Copies of Letters Concerning the Place of Office of a Librarie-Keeper. Literature of Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
John Dury
/ Chicago: A. C. McClurg, printed at The Merrymount Press 1906
large-paper edition, limited to 25 numbered copies printed at The Merrymount Press; 71 pp., original marbled boards & black cloth backstrip (hardcover), spine lightly rubbed, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literature books about books
Item #: 1283481
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$787.05
The Greatest Book in the World and Other Papers
Newton, A. Edward
/ Little, Brown & Co. 1925
fourth edition, inscribed by A. Edward Newton at the front free endpaper; xvii, 451 pp., color frontis., b&w plates; original boards & cloth backstrip (hardcover), very good in a worn slipcase. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1283159
$86.45
Bibliotheca Grenvilliana; Part the Third, completing the Catalogue of the Library bequeathed to the British Museum by the late Right Hon. Thomas Grenville. With a general index
(Thomas Grenville)
/ London: The British Museum 1872
219 pp., frontis., early 20th century cloth (hardcover), top of the front joint rubbed, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1283158
$52.83
Suppressed commentaries on the Wiseian forgeries. Addendum to an enquiry
Todd, William B.
/ Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin 1969
limited to 750 copies; 50 pp., Hardcover, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1283157
$4.65
Door County Plat Book and Index to Owners
Schinkten, Adolph
/ Bayprint, Inc. 1969
this is the 1969 printing, 50 pp., paperback, very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: jkt maps wisconsin plat book
Item #: 1282860
$30.74
Let's Find Out about Heat, Weather and Air. A Picture Science Book
Nina Schneider; Herman Schneider
/ William B. Scott Inc. 1946
38 pp., Hardcover, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: jkt children's science book
Item #: 1281970
$27.45
Tree Song
Stone, Tiffany, Hatam, Holly
/ Annick Press 2018
32 pp., Hardcover, new. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 1773210017
Subject/Keywords: ap4 fiction kids books childrens literature
Item #: 1282369
$10.99
Book of Hours of Queen Isabella of Castille. Documentation for the Facsimile Edition
Patrimonio Nacional
/ Testimonio Compania Editorial 1991
the publisher's prospectus for the exquisite work; small folio, [4] (text) pp., 4 color facsimiles from the book of hours; very good in printed paper portfolio with yet another facsimile to the front cover. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books of hours religion art hrb
Item #: 1281874
$65.55
Temperance Tales for Young Readers
James Ballantyne
/ Edinburgh: A. Muirhead 1850
measures 8 x 13 cm., 128 pp., frontis.; original gilt & blind stamped full leather, a.e.g., spine rubbed, book plate to the front paste down and front free endpaper, else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: temperance alcohol gbl office miniature books
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Item #: 1278371
$109.83
20 Poems from the Book of Hours. Translated by Joan M. Erikson. Woodcuts by Erik H. Erikson
Rainer Maria Rilke
/ Taucross Farm Press 1988
limited to 225 copies, signed by Joan M. Erickson, printed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press; [26] pp., original boards & cloth backstrip (hardcover), fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: poetry small press books
Item #: 1267348
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$99.77
The Adagio Press - Ephemera
Leonard F. Bahr
/ Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio Press 1968
9 promotional pieces issued by the press, viz.: Typographic Doodling; Antique, Decorated & Kindred Types; The Artist of Kouroo by Thoreau; The Adagio Press (on yellow paper); Adagio: The private press of Leonard F. Bahr; Announcing an interesting new publication...; The Evolution of Printing Presses from Wood to Metal: An essay in tribute to Paul A. Bennett; Man errs so long as he strives...Goethe, Faust; Adagio: The private press of Leonard F. Bahr, MLA Quarterly, a private press profile; all folded single sheets, except for the Bennett tribute which is 8 pages in green paper wrappers; all on high quality paper of various colors; fine in the publisher's printed envelope. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books fine presses ngx
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Item #: 1267339
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$94.14
Ninetieth Catalogue: English Books, Manuscripts, Incunabula, Voyages, Americana, Geography, Bindings, Natural History
H.P. Kraus
/ Kraus Books 1959
201 pp., tipped-in plates, hardcover, minor discoloration to front pastedown from where a bookplate once was, faint fading to front cover else very good. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books kraus
Item #: 1264509
$15.92
Cartografia dei sentimenti
Donatella Franchi, Madeleine de Scudery, Angela Cattaneo
/ Donatella Franchi 2004
Limite to 100 numbered coies. Paper box contains one spool of ribbon with text. On sides of paper spool: a colored pencil drawing of a compass & on the verso a stamp "Lascito Madeleine de ScudeÌ?ry" with edition number & signature of the artist. Two sheets of instructions rolled & tied with string. One sheet with a poem "Mes amies" by Angela Cattaneo, dated agosto 2004, also rolled & tied. One folded map (17 x 17 cm) entitled: "La carta du pays de tendre, Madeleine de Scudery." Map includes title & author information and the date, Maggio 2004. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: officeglass artists books ngx
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Item #: 1263072
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$135.99
Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, 400-1600 (A Pierpont Morgan Library Book)
Needham, Paul
/ NY: The Pierpont Morgan Library / Oxford University Press 1979
356 pp., tipped-in color frontis.; SOFTCOVER (same isbn); ex library, else text clean & binding tight. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0192115804
Subject/Keywords: books about books ngx
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Item #: 1262593
$58.51
Perhaps the greatest incomparable autobiography in the world
Matthews, Jack
/ Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society 1986
15 pp., softcover, limited to 150 signed and numbered copies, fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books booksellers bibliophiles
Item #: 1259433
$12.34
Home Is Where You Build Your Nest!: Living in Cleveland, Ohio
Smith, Joan
/ Tweetstreet Press 2000
28 pp., hardcover, signed by author on title page, else fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0970162006
Subject/Keywords: wl2 cleveland ohio childrens books
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Item #: 1258539
$47.57
Books known to the English, 597-1066
Ogilvy, J. D. A
/ Mediaeval Academy of America 1967
300 pp., Hardcover, book plate to the front paste down, else near fine. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: books about books
Item #: 1257537
$12.49
Catalogue of Russian Avant-Garde Books 1912-1934 and 1969-2003. Second Edition
Peter Hellyer
/ British Library 2006
second edition, 264 pp., Hardcover, illustrated, like new,. Volumes
Included: 1
ISBN: 0712308997
Subject/Keywords: Russian Avant-Garde Books tzbw
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Item #: 1256938
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$100.65