Boston, [MA]: Peter Edes, No. 45, Marlborough-Street, 1786. Newspaper. 46 cm. 4 pp. 4 columns per page. This weekly paper ran for three years, beginning in December 1784, but downsized with the issue of Aug. 3, 1786 due to an advertising tax, and discontinued in January 1787 [see: Brigham on..... More
[Hartford, Ct: Hudson & Goodwin], 1813. Broadsheet. 35 cm. 2pp. Removed from bound volume, but very good. An incredible and wonderfully vivid recital of the details in a bible publishing war. Dodge defends himself against charges and claims that the bible was previously published by Whiting & Watson and therefore..... More
Sharon, MA, and Fairhaven, MA: Kendall Whaling Museum and Edward J. Lefkowicz, (c1985). First edition. 8vo. ix, (6), 157 pp. Describes 854 items. Very good. Gray cloth. (10532). More
Cleveland, OH: Rowfant Club, 1904-1916. Collection of Rowfant Club ephemera. Various sizes, 12mo to folio, the three broadsides, 17 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches or larger, and including pamphlets, leaflets, cards, handbills, and broadsides, providing a rather detailed look at the month-to-month workings of an active book collectors' club; a...... More
Charlottesville, (VA): U. Press of Virginia for the Bibliographical Society of the U. of Virginia, (c1967). First edition. 8vo. xii, (2), 189 pp. Illustrated from title pages, old engravings, etc. American printers during the period and their "methods of work, equipment he used, and policies by which he conducted his..... More
Cleveland, (OH): (printed by Horace Carr) for Private Distribution, 1930. First edition, 1/250 unnumbered copies on WGM hand-made paper. 8vo. (6), 59 pp. Laid in is a nicely printed announcement of the publication of this volume indicating that a complimentary copy has been forwarded to the recipient, with original mailing..... More
Cleveland, (OH): (printed by Horace Carr) for Private Distribution, 1930. First edition, 1/250 unnumbered copies on WGM hand-made paper. 8vo. (6), 59 pp. Several entries marked “have” in light pencil, else a very good copy. Publisher's green quarter-morocco and marbled boards, gilt spine title, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, plain..... More
(Hartford, CT: Hartford Press for the Acorn Club), 1904. First edition, 1/102 copies (this #70). 4to. xv, 251 pp. Bibliography of 1741 18th-century Connecticut imprints. One pencil annotation, but a very good copy (from the "Bibliographical Library of William P. Wreden," with its bookplate). Original printed gray wrappers, with yapp..... 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
Berkeley, CA: (U. of California), 1905. First edition. 8vo. (2), 18 pp. An appraisal (coming in at $300,000; another $15,000 for duplicates) of the Bancroft collection of books and manuscripts, primarily relating to California and the Pacific slope north and south of that state, but including other Western Americana and..... More
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971. First edition, issue in wrappers. 4to. xv, 263, (1) pp. Illustrated from photographs. Detailed descriptions for 66 bindings in the collection, with a plate illustrating each. Invitation for the exhibition of the bindings laid in. Ink mark on rear wrapper, else very good. Original..... More
New York and London: Pierpont Morgan Library and Oxford U. Press, (c1979). First edition. 4to. xxvii, 338 pp. 100 illustrations, including a mounted color frontispiece and six-full-page color plates, one for each of the 100 bindings described. Inscribed on a front endpaper by the author in 1982. Laid in is..... 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
(Philadelphia, PA): Printed for the Philobiblon Club [by the] Bird & Bull Press, 1973. First edition, 1/275 copies (this #168). 8vo. 38, (3) pp. History of the club, list of officers from the club's founding through 1973, and a bibliography of the club's publications. Bookplate on front pastedown, else very..... More
Austin, TX: U. of Texas at Austin Humanities Research Center, (c1970-1975). (1) Goff, Frederick R. The Permanence of Johann Gutenberg. 8vo. 29 pp. First annual lecture, 1968, second impression, 1974, 1/250 copies. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Feldman in 1975. (2) Francis, Sir Frank. A Bibliographical Ghost Revisits His Old..... More
New York: Grolier Club, 1927. First edition, 1/325 unnumbered copies. (8), 29 pp. [printed double-column]. With 25 folding facsimile leaves, each with a captioned "title" leaf. Study of relations between the United States and France as seen through examples of American newspapers, 1729-1797, 14 from the Revolutionary period, 1775-1785, eight..... More
Chicago, (IL): Walter M. Hill, (c1941). First edition. 8vo. xi, 442 pp. Illustrated from photographs, title pages, bindings, portraits, etc., plates. Includes a section of biographical sketches of scientists and their relationships to books. Bookplate on front pastedown, else very good. Original gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. (10545)..... More
New York: R.R. Bowker Co. for the Newberry Library, (1988). Later printing of the 1962 ed. 8vo. 652 pp. [printed double-column]. Fine copy. Brown cloth, gilt spine title. (10550). More
