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San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1929. First Edition thus. Flexible boards. Folio; xviii, 35, [2]pp; printed in black and red (side-heads in red) in Cloister Lightface roman and italic type on VanGelder paper; with tipped in leaf from the Doves Press edition of Goethe. Bound in full limp vellum, with spine lettered in gold & top edge gilt. Vellum… Read more about this item

[New York]: Type Directors Club of New York, 1950. First Edition. Publisher's blue folder containing: 1) SIGNED original wood engraving by Bernard Brussel-Smith printed by L. F. White Co. and distributed at a dinner for the friends and members of the Type Directors Club of New York given in Warde's honor on April 28, 1950. The engraving of… Read more about this item

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co./E.P. Dutton & Co, 1916. Second Edition. Octavo; xvi, 232pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. A Very Good copy (light wear, especially to extremities of spine) in publishers rust cloth, printed paper label to spine (second label tipped to ffep along with p.o. name and '1920'). With handsome bookplate of John and Margaret Stanton to… Read more about this item

Middlesex: Chiswick Polytechnic School of Art, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; 40pp. A Fine copy in rust colored wrappers with printed paper label to upper cover. From the library of bibliophile Porter Garnett with his bookplate to verso of front cover.

Lewiston, Idaho: Confluence Press, 1990. First Edition. Octavo, 280 pages. Original color photograph of Wallace Stegner at a book signing, laid in. Green cloth with gilt lettering. A fine copy, as new. 'In addition to her exhaustive list of Stegner's book publications ( including translations), Colberg also provides us with separate sections on Stegner's "First-Appearance Contributions" and edited books,… Read more about this item

Milan: Electa Editrice, 1955. First edition; limited to 1000 copies. 4to. 74pp. Black & white illustrations; facsimile copies of autographed pages, etc. Salmon paper covered boards; titles on paper labels to front board and spine. All edges neat and clean. Near fine. A bibliography of Bernard Berenson's works on Renaissance Italian painting written between 1894 to 1955; also includes… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Royal Electrotype Company, 1929. First Edition. Small 4to. 53 pp. Frontispiece. black & white photo-illustrated plates depicting printing techniques. Business card for Royal Electrotype Co. employee (salesman?) laid in. Striking gilt, green brown & orange decorative wrappers in near fine condition (with minor wear to sine ends; minor foxing to endpapers). A scarce title; no copies currently on… Read more about this item

St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1975. First Editions. Small octavos; various paginations in printed stapled wrappers. Generally Fine copies. 'The series is designed to offer bibliographic aids of different types to students of life and thought in the late medieval and early modern period. It aims to produce finding lists of CRR holdingsas well as bibliographies of primary… Read more about this item

St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1975. First Editions. Small octavos; various paginations in printed stapled wrappers. Generally Fine copies. 'The series is designed to offer bibliographic aids of different types to students of life and thought in the late medieval and early modern period. It aims to produce finding lists of CRR holdingsas well as bibliographies of primary… Read more about this item

St. Louis: Center for Reformation Research, 1975. First Editions. Small octavos; various paginations in printed stapled wrappers. Generally Fine copies. 'The series is designed to offer bibliographic aids of different types to students of life and thought in the late medieval and early modern period. It aims to produce finding lists of CRR holdingsas well as bibliographies of primary… Read more about this item

New York: New York University Press Bookstore, 1926. First Edition. Octavo; 23pp. Very Good copy in original grey printe and stapled wrappers (now housed in a pressboard binder). Laid in is a single 8 1/2" x 17" printed sheet 'Short Bibliography of Rugs and Carpets (Oriental and European) compiled by Arthur U. Dilley.

Published by Christopher Skelton, 1979. First Edition Limited No. 148 of 250 copies SIGNED by the author. Large 8vo. 54, [1] pp. Bibliography. Folding facsimile broadside in rear pocket. Tissue guards inside front and rear covers present. Green cloth spine over color illustrated boards; gilt lettering to front cover & spine; in publisher's clear acetate dustjacket. A fine copy.… Read more about this item

South Pasadena: Press of the Minotaur, 1966. First Edition. Complete in 20 issues. Small 8vo. Various paginations (8, 12, or 16 pp). Presscraft by Earl Foster Myers. Light blue or cream staplebound wrappers with color stylized image of a minotaur on front covers. Light age toning; small date stamps on rear covers of two issues; near fine copies of… Read more about this item

Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1941. First Edition thus. Octavo; 263-310pp; 184-215pp; 1-23pp; 1-21pp; 183-216pp; 168-204pp; 170-207pp; 210-248pp; 242-283pp; 154-187pp. A Fine copy of 10 annual 'The Division of Orientalia' reports extracted from the Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress from 1932 to 1941, and brought together in later green fabrikoid. A total of 10 Division… Read more about this item

Kalamazoo, MI: The Private Press, 1976. First Edition, Limited to 250 copies. Square 8vo. [37] pp. Illustrations (some in color). Black cloth with red illustration & lettering. Minor wear else a fine copy. Paul Hayden Duensing (1950-2006) was a private typefounder and one of the founding members of the American Typecasting Fellowship. Duensing was an important part of the… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. First Edition. 8vo. xx, 732 pp. Illustrations; tables. Bibliography; Index. "... details the story of the book in Ireland from the Act of Union, which ended Ireland's lucrative exemption from British copyright, to the Irish revival." - rear cover.

Detroit: Published by the author, No date. First Edition Thus. Small 8vo. [52] pp. Stiff tan softcover in very good condition (some smudging to covers; some internal smudging; minor pencil notations pertinent to the content). These Printograms are Editorials reprinted from "Craftopics" of the Detroit Club of Printing House Craftsmen, Detroit, Michigan.

Milan: Electa Editrice, 1955. First edition; limited to 1000 copies. 4to. 74pp. Black & white illustrations; facsimile copies of autographed pages, etc. Salmon paper covered boards; titles on paper labels to front board and spine. All edges neat and clean. Near fine.

Cambridge: Privately Printed by the University Printer for Friends in Printing & Publishing, 1949. First Edition, Limited to 250 copies. Small 8vo. vii, 36, [1] pp. Illustrations. Teal cloth spine over marbled paper covered boards. ALS from Frederick B. Adams, Jr., American bibliophile and the director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City from 1948-1969 and a… Read more about this item

Leiden: [Brill], 1938. First Edition. Paperback. Large octavo; xii, 99pp. A Very Good copy in original mottled card stock. Covers the period 1683-1938.