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Toronto, New York, London: Peacock Press. Very Good. 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial soft cover. 11.75" X8.75" Unnumbered. 40 full page, full color plates. Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) was a magazine and book illustrator and stamp designer. "The contents of his illustrations is never ugly, even his giants and monsters are decorated in a jewel-like… Read more about this item

E. Lee Baumgarten. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 0964728508 . Hard Cover. Condition: NF. NO Dust Jacket. 8 pp "Introduction", followed by three separately paged sections - 145 pp "Author-Sorted Index / 145 pp "Illustrator- Sorted Index" / 63 pp "Title Cross-Reference". Teal cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and borders on… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1983. First Printing. Hardcover. 0674048288 . Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover with dust jacket in VG condition. Book is in nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. ; 8vo ; 229 pp pages .

New York: Bell Publications. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0517239124 . Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in a Clear protective cover. 3rd revised edition 1st printing, ; 8vo ; 228 pp pages .

Los Angeles: University of California. Near Fine. 1987. Hardcover. Published under the auspices of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. Original dark gray cloth with silver lettering. About fine with very light wear to the corner tips and ends. Pp. xxi, 145, [32] black and white plates, 42 fig. Full… Read more about this item

Houghton and Mifflin. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Copyright 1906. Previous owner's name written in ink on the end paper ; 8vo ; 518 pp pages .

Pacific Book Auction Galleries. Fine with no dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. 4 color plates and several black and white illustrations. Prices realized at auction laid in. ; 8vo .

New York: Parker Polychrome Press. Fine. 1995. Softcover. [420] pages. Illustrations many in color. 210 lots. Photo copy of the sales results laid in. The corner tip has a tiny bend otherwise FINE. Dr. Otto Schafer's collection of books formed one of the most important private libraries of the twentieth century. This is… Read more about this item

Quarry Books. As New. 2010. Softcover. New. 152 pages. Fully and beautifully illustrated. Publishers Blurb. The content encompasses a wide range of techniques and step-by-step projects that deconstruct and rebuild books and their parts into unique, upcycled objects. The book combines in equal measure bookbinding, woodworking, paper crafting, origami, and textile and decorative arts techniques,… Read more about this item

Tweety Jill Publications.. As New. 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Page 112. Fully illusrated. Light edge wear else as new. Publishers blurb: The term “altered art” conjures up different visions and ideas for every individual. Artists seem to be especially adept at finding their own characteristic meaning for anything they choose to give this name. Altered art… Read more about this item

Design Originals. Near Fine. 2004. Softcover. 51 pages. Fully illustrated. People have been making books for centuries using a handful of traditional binding techniques. Mary Kaye Seckler's work combines these time-honored book making traditions with today's materials and tools to create a look that's fresh and new. Handcrafted books are made in many shapes and… Read more about this item

Design Originals. As New. 2003. Softcover. 52 pages. Fully illustrated. Gift quality. Publishers blurb: This advanced book skips the beginning techniques and goes straight to the basics of paper engineering. You will learn advanced techniques such as how to make pop-ups, parallel folds, fiber tents, stacked windows, pull tabs, suspended images, spinners, stucco doors,… Read more about this item

New York: Peter Pauper Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, 1965. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustrator). Frederic W. Goudy was an American printer, artist and type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Goudy Old Style and Kennerley. This is a clean, tight, unmarked… Read more about this item

New York: The Century Co.. Near Fine. 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. x, [4] 3-470 pp. 12 plates including the frontis. An exceptionally handsome example of period binding. Brighht, navy cloth with silver decoration and gilt lettering; straight copy, clean with minor wear on the ends and a small hole on the spine strip. … Read more about this item

New York & London: Longman. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Wonderful color dust jacket by Maurice Sendak even with some surface damage and short closed tear, remains attractive. Now in clear archival cover. The green cloth covered board has a small stain on the spines tail and lightly worn edges. xx… Read more about this item

Serpent's Tail. Very Good. 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Author; 1852425474 . 276, [4] pp. Index. SIGNED by Haut and dated on the title page. Very Good - cocked, else a clean tight copy. Haut brings the story of American crime fiction and related films current.; 8.30 X 5.30 X 0.90 inches; 256 pages .

London: Bloomsbury. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0906223644 . 9 colour-plates & numerous monochrome illustrations (many full-page). An excellent copy in original hardback, dustjacket, A pictorial history of calligraphy as practiced among the nations which use the Roman alphabet. HEAVY BOOK please note that this title weighs more than the 1 kg. In Mylar … Read more about this item

Chattanooga: AMG Publishers. New with no dust jacket. 2005. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 0899573797 . Fourth Printing. No names or other markings. "With 415 categories and 3293 subcategories, What Does the Bible Say About . . . is as useful a reference tool for people who know nothing about the Bible as it is for those who have… Read more about this item

London: Maggs Brothers. Very Good+. 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Original brown paper wraps, green & brown type etc., slight slant, a few turned corners, somewhat worn ends and edges, first pages are begining to pull away from tail end binding. Items in numeration from catalogue 326, 1833-2106. Illustrated. Application for classified catalogue on watermarked… Read more about this item

Tucson, AZ: Arizona. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). 0816509522 . Second printing, DJ spine faded, and light wear on head edge. The edges of the end pages are also slightly faded, else a beautiful copy bound in off black cloth w/gilded title and signature. From the flap: Author-librarians are rarely… Read more about this item