(New Orleans: Privately Printed (for Charles Heartman, Heartman's Historical Series No. 50), 1936. First edition, "limited" (without a statement of number). 8vo. (6), 9-77 pp. Illustrated from photographs, title pages, ephemera, advertisements, etc., plates. Describes 13 of the "Blue Books," directories and advertising works for New Orleans "houses of ill..... More

London: John Russell Smith, 1865. 22cm. [2], [6pp. index], 308pp., plus [32]pp. list of publications or books for sale by J.R. Smith. Leather backed cloth, head of spine worn down to page edges, gilt stamped title on spine. Foxing to title page, some overall toning to text. This copy bears..... More

New Orleans, LA: Great Acquisitions Books, nd [ca. 1995]. Bookseller's catalogue. Small 4to. 45 pp. Illustrated. Offers 250 priced items, almost all with some connection to Louisiana. Old ink markings on front wrapper, two items circled in ink, else very good. Original decorated wrappers, stapled. (#5457). More

[Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird], August 1, 1872. "Henry Carey Baird's Catalogue" [running title]. 16mo. 12 pp. Hunter and Co. was apparently jobbing Baird's list of approximately 200 titles. Printed self-wrappers, stitched. More

New York: Grolier Club, 1891. First edition. 12mo. 32 pp. Describes 110 items. Original printed cream wrappers, stitched. Very good. (1547). More

New York: Grolier Club, 1940. First edition, 1/150 unnumbered copies for the Grolier Club, signed by Updike (another 850 copies were printed for the American Institute of Graphic Arts). 12mo. 47, (7) pp. Title-page vignette and three others in the text. Includes contributions by David T. Pottinger, Lawrence C. Wroth..... More

[NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1936]. Advertising poster on thick cardstock, 20 x 13 inches, probably for use as a bookstore display. Printed in yellow and black with a full color reproduction of the dust jacket to Zane Grey's The Lost Wagon Train in the upper left corner; in addition, the..... More

NP: np, 1965. First edition, 1/150 unnumbered copies. 12mo. Title leaflet with a 4-page foreword by Charles Antin, listing the contributors by name and press or publisher, and 50 privately printed leaflets, broadsheets, or pamphlets of varying lengths, mostly 4 pages each. "[Tributes] contributed by printers designers, authors, and friends"..... 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

(Philadelphia: Lippincott), nd [1861]. 12mo. (14) pp Original self-wrappers, stitched. Fine copy. First edition. Civil War era catalogue issued as the war began, offering standard texts and manuals. Scarce; OCLC records only a single copy of another issue, the books in that one to be distributed by "J. Healy, Evansville..... More

Chicago, IL: Newberry Library, 1912-1928. First edition. 8vo. 2 volumes: x, 120; vii, 49. Very good. Original printed brown wrappers. (#8226). More

Princeton, (NJ): Joseph J. Felcone Inc., 1992. First edition. 8vo. xii, 303 pp. Full collations, descriptions, and annotations for 312 New Jersey-related books or New Jersey imprints. Inscribed by Felcone to another bookseller in 1993. Original invoice, prospectus, and 1988 Felcone want-list laid in. Fine. Red cloth, gilt spine title..... More

London: Lanston Monotype Corporation, 1928. First edition, 1/200 copies printed by hand at the Officini Bodoni on special Fabriano paper. 4to. 65, (3) pp. Illustrated, plates, mounted specimen title page, specimen leaflets illustrating various type sizes tipped in. Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled boards, gilt spine title. Scattered foxing, else..... More