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A Supplementary Catalogue of Sanskrit, Pali and Prakit Books in the Library of the British Museum Acquired During the Years 1892-1906; 1906-1928. (2 Volume Set)
First Edition
London: British Museum, 1908; 1928. 2 Volumes: 1095, 1694 pages. ISBN: 281AIB1048836.
First editions (first printings). Near fine copies in original green cloth with bright gilt lining and lettering on spine. Spine edges are rolled. Black endpapers. Pages edges to 1906 volume have mild foxing. A handsome set.
Book ID: 264156More details Price: $500.00 -
Collection of Book-Arts Inspired Christmas Cards
Most cards fine; a few with bent corners. Most are signed by the artist, but some are unidentified. This collection came from the estate of one of the founding members of the organization.
Book ID: 179216More details Price: $437.50 -
Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1957-1966 & Grabhorn-Hoyem 1966-1973. [With a check-list 1916-1956 and a Complete Specimen of Types].
San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1977. ISBN: B000SVQIB6.
Very Good
Book ID: 49506More details Price: $400.00 -
The Bookman: A Story About Larry McMurtry's Other Day Job
First Edition
First edition (first printing). Box opened and bellyband peeled up from box edges (the only way to open the package). The Bookman pamphlet signed by McMurty and Bonner.
In addition to the regular contents of this collection, this copy includes a hand-corrected proof of "The Bookman" (the changes are in an unknown hand, but almost certainly not McMurtry's); a trade copy of The Bookman inscribed by Bonner; an extra bumpersticker; and a white-on-white Booked Up logo sticker, perhaps a trial item. A unique assemblage.
Book ID: 230113More details Price: $300.00 -
The Bookman: A Story About Larry McMurtry's Other Day Job
First edition (first printing). Box and contents fine and UNOPENED. Photos are for reference only. Decorative bellyband with paper label and limitation number. Bookman signed by Bonner and McMurtry.
Book ID: 208095More details Price: $250.00 -
The Bookman: A Story About Larry McMurtry's Other Day Job
First edition (first printing). Box and contents fine and UNOPENED. Photos are for reference only. Decorative bellyband with paper label and limitation number. Bookman signed by Bonner and McMurtry.
Book ID: 208096More details Price: $250.00 -
The Bookman: A Story About Larry McMurtry's Other Day Job
First edition (first printing). Box and contents fine and UNOPENED. Photos are for reference only. Decorative bellyband with paper label and limitation number. Bookman signed by Bonner and McMurtry.
Book ID: 208097More details Price: $250.00 -
The Bookman: A Story About Larry McMurtry's Other Day Job
First Edition
First edition (first printing). Box and contents fine and UNOPENED. Photos are for reference only. Decorative bellyband with paper label and limitation number. Bookman signed by Bonner and McMurtry. [JSP02]
Book ID: 208098More details Price: $250.00 -
John Henry Nash, Printer: Legend and Fact in the Development of a Fine Press Intimately Reviewed
First Edition
Oakland: Westgate Press, 1948. 69 pages. First edition. #127 of 235 numbered copies printed by Alfred and Lawton Kennedy, and Joseph FauntLeRoy, onDutch handmade paper specially watermarked with Nash's name. ISBN: B0006EAQPE.
Inscribed by author on front free endpaper "Carl I. Wheat from his friend Joseph FauntLeroy." Linen and Japanese paper over boards, paper spine label, edges untrimmed. Two tipped-in photogravure portraits. Colored initial. First edition. Near fine copy.
Book ID: 260692More details Price: $200.00 -
The Fowler Architectural Collection of the Johns Hopkins University: Catalogue
First Edition
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1991. 383 pages. The catalogue "provides complete descriptive detail for the 448 works in the collection." - from the front flyleaf. Thirty black-and-white full-page plates. 11.25 x 8.5 inches. ISBN: 9781556601286.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 136642More details Price: $187.50 -
Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library Volume I, Part II, 1570-1599. Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, Volume II, Part I, 1600-1634; Volume II, Part II, 1634-1658. (3 Volume Set)
First Edition
Providence: Published by the Library, 1921. Volume I, pages 241-511; Volume II, Part I, pages 1-250; Volume II, Part II, pages 25-522. ISBN: 281AIB1048013.
First edition (first printing). Near fine 3 volume set with matched bindings.Damaged glassine wrappers on Volume II, Part I and II. Pages uncut.
Book ID: 262926More details Price: $160.00 -
Leaves of Tea: A Collaboration
First Edition
(N.-pl. but Eureka, CA): (n.p.), 1997. 15 leaves, plus hand-painted, endpapers handpainted with tea; colophon and title page screenprinted. Bound in Lupus paper embedded with mango leaves. Binding probably by Dorothy Swendeman, a Eureka book artist. A charming artist's book in which a dozen book artists contribute individual pages on the theme of tea. The artists are Gail Rossi (a collage), Dorothy Swendeman (a two-piece screenprint), Kay Carignan (calligraphy), Eris Wagner (laserprinted lift-the-flap illustration), Daryl Ngee Chinn (laserprinted poem), Peggy Marrs (handcolored print), Grace Battjes (collage), Karen Nutter (laserprinted play on words with the letters T E A), Elaine Benjamin (of Blue Chair Press, embossed tea-bag design, colored with tea); Val Hall (screenprint), Heather Lee Smith (screenprint), and Brenda Tuxford (pop-up). Issued in an edition of 50 copies. ISBN: 281AIB1036807.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Number 17 of 50 copies. Each work signed by the contributor except Nutter and Smith. No copies recorded on OCLC.
Book ID: 179006More details Price: $156.25 -
Designing and Working with Gocco
First Edition
First edition (first printing). A near fine copy, stringbound using four colors of twine. This is copy 50, signed by the author.
Book ID: 178999More details Price: $156.25 -
Mohammed and The Holy Qur'an
First Edition
Hamburg: Verlag im Orient-Antiquariat, 1995. 223 pages. Edition limited to 450 copies. Text in German, English, and Arabic. The first part of the book begins with a number of Mohammed biographies, followed by a collection of historic Koran editions, followed by studies of the Koran, and is completed with a number of important pieces of Islamic literature. ISBN: 9783000000942.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in red cloth with gold decoration. No dust jacket. Few small spots on front cover.
Book ID: 143571More details Price: $150.00 -
Portfolio
First Edition
Washington, D.C: Black Sun Press, 1945. Portfolio with cover leaf plus 26 additional loose leaves in comb-bound thick paper printed folder with ribbon ties. Limited to 1300 copies. Contributors include Kay Boyle, Henry Miller, Gwendolyn Brooks, Henry Moore, Karl Shapiro, Ruth Herschberger, Romare Bearden, Harry Crosby and many others. Four of the leaves are photographs, 7 are drawings, 10 are prose and 6 are poetry. 16.5 x 12.5 inches. ISBN: 281AIB1049512.
First edition (first printing). Very good in red and black printed thick paper covers. Comb-binding with rear cover loose. Covers are soiled and spotted. Rear cover missing the 1/4 inch bound edge which has pulled away from the binding. Contents are very good plus.
Book ID: 265287More details Price: $140.00 -
Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library
Storrs-Mansfield, Connecticut: Maurizio Martino, (n.d.). Three volume reprint edition, limited to 150 copies, of privately printed 1931 catalogue. The books are an important catalogue of historical and literary material relating primarily to Georgia as a colony and as a state, listing over 6500 books, documents, maps, and manuscripts. ISBN: 9781888262735.
Reprint edition. Fine copies in green cloth with gold lettering. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Book ID: 122409More details Price: $125.00 -
Robert Duncan: A Descriptive Bibliography
First Edition
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. 491 pages. An elaborate and comprehensive bibliography of a modern author. ISBN: 9780876856215.
Signed by Duncan, Creeley and Bertholf. #6/176 special copies handbound by Earle Gray. First edition (first printing). Near fine in original acetate dust jacket. Mild edge wear to book.
Book ID: 130462More details Price: $125.00 -
Robert Duncan: A Descriptive Bibliography
First Edition
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1986. 491 pages. An elaborate and comprehensive bibliography of a modern author. ISBN: 9780876856215.
Signed by Duncan, Creeley and Bertholf. #106/176 special copies handbound by Earle Gray. First edition (first printing). Near fine in original acetate dust jacket. Mild edge wear to book.
Book ID: 132673More details Price: $125.00 -
Thomas Sterns Eliot: Poet, Critic and Dramatist. The Julius M. Cruse Collection
First Edition
New York: St. Marks Library, The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, 2004. 357 pages. Cruse singles out Peter Howard as "the patron saint of book collectors" in the preface to the book. Scarce, with WorldCat recording 13 copies. ISBN: 281AIB1028970.
First edition (first printing). Near fine. No dust jacket, probably as issued. Autograph letter from Cruse to Peter B. Howard, owner of Serendipity Books, Berkeley, California, laid in: "With genuine appreciation for all of your successful efforts related to the Eliot collection." Dated 28 Feb. 2004.
Book ID: 132654More details Price: $125.00 -
Walt Whitman: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography)
First Edition
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. 1097 pages. ISBN: 9780822937395.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Mild edge and corner wear. No dust jacket.
Book ID: 264454More details Price: $100.00