Minneapolis, (MN): Pentagram Press, 1988. First edition, one of six copies, from the deluxe lettered edition of 26, reserved for presentation "to friends of the press," this one inscribed "For Donn," and signed on the half-title by the printer, Michael Tarachow, as well as by 15 contributors. 8vo. (38) pp..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1900-1902]. First edition. 4to. Three volumes: xix, 124; iv, 297; xiv, 161, viii, 92, 11 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings and designs, plates, some engraved, some in color, facsimiles, etc., patterned endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown of volume one, else very good..... More
New York: Printed at the Spiral Press, (1965). First Edition, a keepsake celebrating the dedication of the Robert Frost Library printed at the Spiral Press. 16mo. (6) pp. Illustrated with a three-page facsimile of a Frost poem "Departmental / By R. F." in his holograph. 1965 holiday greeting slip from..... More
Baltimore, (MD): Printed by Geo. Dobbin & Murphy, 1806. 12mo. 300 pp. Contemporary flame calf (a little chipped at head of spine, corners bumped), leather label and gilt rules on spine; signature clipped from head of title page, but a very good copy in an attractive contemporary American binding. Brinley..... More
Philadelphia & Chicago: P.W. Ziegler & Co., 215 Locust St., Phila.; 324 Dearborn St., Chicago, nd [ca.1899]. Publisher's promotional broadsheet. 56 x 39 cm. [2] pp. Old fold lines, short split along one fold at margin, just touching an illustration. Recto advertises the four books listed, each with an illustration..... More
Birmingham, AL: Typesetting Division, Birmingham Printing Co., nd [ca. 1950]. 4to (28 cm). 75 leaves [printed rectos only], title leaf, foreword, 73 printing samples of type available for use by the printing company, one plate from a photograph, illustrating a Ludlow Typograph. OCLC locates two copies of a 1952 edition..... More
(Roanoke, VA: Stone Printing and Manufacturing Co.), nd [1926?]. First edition. Narrow 16mo. 21 pp. Unused order blank laid in. Description of the book, with reviews and testimonials. OCLC locates two copies (Virginia, Texas Woman's University). Very good. Printed cream wrappers (some soiling), stapled. (4648). More
[Washington, DC: U.S. Patent Office], 1882. Folio. (4) pp. Plate. Very good. More
New York: Merwin Sales Co., (1914). Auction sale catalogue no. 563. 8vo. 344, (1) pp. Illustrated, plates, title page facsimiles. 2451 lots, each priced in red ink. McKay 7401. Some neat repairs to joints, spine darkened, text uniformly browned, but a very good copy. Somewhat later brown three-quarter morocco, patterned..... More
Washington, (DC): Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, 1991. First edition, 1/300 deluxe unnumbered copies printed by W. Thomas Taylor and containing an etched portrait of Rosenwald signed by Tony Rosati. 4to. xxxv, 427 pp. Frontispiece portrait, 100 plates, some in color. Bookplate on front pastedown, but..... More
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, July, 1876. First edition, no. 11 (issued quarterly 1870 through mid-1872, with 11th and 12th numbers published in 1876). 8vo. 3, (13) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings. Detailed descriptions of newly published books, with illustrations, and a well-annotated list of other books in stock. Hitchcock..... More
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, October, 1876. First edition, No. 12 (issued quarterly 1870 through mid-1872, with the 11th and 12th numbers published in 1876). 8vo. (12) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings. Detailed descriptions of newly published books, with illustrations, and a well-annotated list of other books in stock. Hitchcock..... More
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, April, 1870. First edition, no. 2 (issued quarterly 1870 through mid-1872, with 11th and 12th numbers published in 1876). 8vo. (32) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings. Detailed descriptions of newly published books, with illustrations, and a well-annotated list of other books in stock; three pages..... More
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, November, 1871. First edition, No. 8 (issued quarterly 1870 through mid-1872, with 11th and 12th numbers published in 1876). 8vo. (32) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings. Detailed descriptions of newly published books, with illustrations, and a well-annotated list of other books in stock; three pages..... More
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, May, 1872. First edition, no. 10 (issued quarterly 1870 through mid-1872, with 11th and 12th numbers published in 1876). 8vo. (16) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings. Detailed descriptions of newly published books, with illustrations, and a well-annotated list of other books in stock; three pages..... More
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, April, 1869. First edition. 8vo. (24) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings. Detailed descriptions of newly published books, with illustrations, and a well-annotated list of other books in stock; three pages, including a complete plate list, are devoted to Woodward's National Architect. Not in Hitchcock. OCLC..... More
London: Holland Press, 1963. Reprint of the 1909 original. 8vo. xvii, (3), 417 pp. Illustrated from facsimiles, plates. "Publications of the Soncino and Bomberg families and later printers," 1475-1700. Bookplate on front pastedown, a very good copy. Burgundy cloth, gilt spine title, printed dust jacket. (10557). More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First edition, 1/140 copies (of 152; this #68) on English hand-made paper. 12mo. xiii, 117 pp. Illustrated from photographs of bindings, facsimile title pages, illustrated manuscripts, etc., 36 plates, twelve of them, of bindings, in full color, color title-page illustration and historiated initial; the..... More
San Francisco, (CA): A.L. Bancroft and Co., 1878. First edition. 8vo. 304 pp. Plates. Libraries considered include those of Hubert H. Bancroft, J. Ross Browne, Charles and M.H. De Young, Joseph LeConte, Leland Stanford, and Arpad Haraszthy. Very good. Rebound in black pebbled cloth, gilt spine title, new endpapers. (10546)..... More
(Pinner, Middlesex, England): Private Libraries Assn. 2009. First edition, 1/900 unnumbered copies. 4to. 328 pp. Illustrated from photographs, line drawings, and title page facsimiles, plates, portraits. Includes a history of the press and a bibliography of its publications. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated blue cloth. (10590). More
Somerville, NJ: Privately printed, 1967. First edition, 1/1250 and 1/1000 copies, respectively. Large 8vo. 2 volumes: xxii, 135 ; (10), 113 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, fascimiles of manuscripts, color maps of the farm. The home and library of Donald and Mary Hyde, collectors of Samuel Johnson and his..... More
New York: Maurizio Martino, (1991). Reprint of the 1912 and 1928 first editions, 1/300 copies. 8vo. 22cm. Two volumes in one: x, 120; vi, 49 pp. Near fine. Burgundy cloth, black spine label. (63674). (11202). More
Baltimore, (MD): John Work Garrett Library, 1949. First edition, 1/300 copies printed by the Anthoensen Press. 4to. xxix, 219 pp. Illustrated with 209 plates, mostly title-page facsimiles. Preface: "Compiled to provide a survey of the early history of Maryland, up to and including the year 1700, as reflected in the..... More
San Francisco, (CA): David Magee, 1967. First edition, 1/475 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. Folio. 171 pp. Illustrated, 59 full-page plates of the letter sheet illustrations, some folding, facsimile in pocket on rear pastedown. "[Produced] in the two decades following 1849 [as] vivid pictorial records on sheets..... More
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1978. First edition. 4to. xiii, 69 pp. 332 plates, including portraits, title pages, bindings, views, facsimile pages, etc. Laid in are two related pieces of ephemera from the exhibition opening. Inscribed by the author on a front endpaper. Recipient's bookplate, else very good. Gilt-stamped decorated..... More
