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Santa Fe, 1964. First edition. Single sheet folded twice, printed on both sides. Near Fine, faint crease.First issue published by Rittenhouse,noted bookseller of the Southwest, "whose aim is to be 'publication of record' on New Mexico literature"

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover, cloth-backed boards. 174pp. mostly color illustrations. Fine."The untold story of how paper revolutionized art making during the Renaissance, exploring how it shaped broader concepts of authorship, memory, and the transmission of ideas over the course of three centuries In the late medieval and Renaissance period, paper transformed society-not only through… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. First printing of this edition . Softcover, glossy french-fold wraps. Quarto. 160pp. Illustrated, including 250 design samples. Near Fine

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995. Softcover, glosst wraps. 108pp. Illustrated. Fine.

New York: Putnam, 2013. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, boards. 338pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket, unmarked.When rare-manuscript expert Joseph Barkeley is hired to authenticate and purchase the original draft and notes for Bram Stoker's Dracula, little does he know that the reclusive buyer is a member of the oldest family in Transylvania.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1965. Third printing. Hardcover, cloth-backed boards, printed title label. Small octavo. 77pp. Fine in original glassine dust jacket

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, cloth. Octavo. 228pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket."A distinguished American publisher's observations on many aspects of his craft and on the relation between writer and reader and publisher"

Middletown: Olin Library, Wesleyan University, 1965. First edition. Softcover, wraps with integral dust jacket. Octavo. 92pp. Errata slip laid in. Near Fine, minor scuff to spine.Printed and bound at the Dolmen Press in Dublin.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1947. First edition. Hardcover, mustard cloth. Octavo. 308pp. Near Fine, bookplate, in Near Fine dust jacket.Inscribed by the author.Chapters include: mountaineering, Robert Frost, Henry Miller, H. L. Mencken, literature of war, and reading & collecting

New York: Lockwood Publishing Co., 1969. First edition. Hardcover, cloth. Octavo. 192pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

London / Portland: British Library and Pomegrante, 2017. First edition. Hardcover, pictorial boards. 50 woodcut illustrations to color. Fine.

New York: Dover Publications, 1958. First Thus. Hardcover, cloth. Folio. Illustrated throughout with 700 b&w illustrations. Fine, bookplate, in Near Fine dust jacket.Reprints the 1756 edition. Uncommon.

University of Chicago Press, 2015. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 240pp. Over 200 color illustrations. Just about FineA visual feast of some of the places books live.

London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1982. First edition. Hardcover, vellum boards. Quarto. 127pp. illustrated. Fine.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. First edition. Hardcover, cloth. Quarto. 144pp. 250 illustrations. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Second volume of the series Masters of American Design.Monograph on this noted typographer.

New York: Aperture, 2007. First edition, first printing. Board book. Die-cut stiff boards. 48pp. Near Fine, minor bump at foot of spine"In this darkly delightful first monograph--also a board book--Thomas Allen selects the pulpiest of pulp paperbacks and then lovingly slices out a figure from the cover, gently folds it into position and constructs a witty and oftentimes suggestive… Read more about this item

New York: Countryman Press, 2015. First edition, first printing. Softcover, stiff flexible wraps. Quarto. 382pp. Illustrated. Fine."The connoisseur's guide to the typewriter, entertaining and practicalWhat do thousands of kids, makers, poets, artists, steampunks, hipsters, activists, and musicians have in common? They love typewriters the magical, mechanical contraptions that are enjoying a surprising second life in the 21st century, striking… Read more about this item

New York: Atlass & Co, 2008. First American edition. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. Hardcover, red boards. 12mo.354pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket."A best-seller in Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil: the first-ever world history of the destruction of books.A product of ten years of research and support from leading American and European universities, A Universal History of the Destruction… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Press, 2017. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, cloth. 632pp. well illustrated in color. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. "The book is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the reader into intimate conversations with these texts to explore what they tell us about nearly… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First American Edition. Translated from the German by C. V. Wedgewood. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket, some rubbing, shallow chipping to edges, internal tape reinforced edgesDust jacket designed by George Salter. Originally published in German as Die Blendung (1935) and in English as Auto-de fa.