DECORATIVE PAPERS & FABRICS.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1971). 119p, boards, illus. (some in color), previous owner's name on endpaper, vg+ in dj. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author.
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TEXTILE AND EMBROIDERED BINDINGS.
Oxford: Bodleian Library, (1971). No pagination (c40p), pictorial softcover, illus., vg. Bodleian Picture Books Special Series No. 2.
THE ART OF THE BOOK IN SWEDEN, Five Centuries of Printing.
Stockholm, Sweden: Swedish Institute, (1983). 31p, 5 3/4" x 8" (oblong), wraps, illus., vg.
BOOKBINDING FOR BIBLIOPHILES, Being Notes on Some Technical Features of the Well Bound Book for the Aid of Connoisseurs Together with a Sketch of Gold Tooling Ancient and Modern.
Greenwich, CT: Literary Collector Press, 1905. 132p, cloth, frontispiece, unopened, a few light spots on cover, very good. First edition.
CONQUEST OF THE COUNTRY NORTHWEST OF THE RIVER OHIO, 1778 - 1783. And Life of General George Rogers Clark.
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1896. 2 volumes, 1186p, gilt pictorial cloth, illustrated, bumped corners, light wear to edges, very good. First edition. (USIANA E-157). English was long a president of the Indiana Historical Society. For many years he collected material bearing upon the early history of the Old Northwest at.....
FORT PILLOW MASSACRE. Bound with RETURNED PRISONERS.
Washington, D. C., 1864. 128p, 34p, plus 8p illustrations, cover faded with a few water stains, wear to edges, good. Inquiry into the slaughter of African American Federal troops stationed at Ft. Pillow, Tenn. The investigation verified that over 300 blacks, including women and children, were killed. Later that year.....
SOME PIONEER RECOLLECTION.
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, 1927. 32p, boards, spine faded, wear to edges, good. Second edition. Lothrop's adventures in the West, Kansas, Wyoming, etc. Also includes 5p statement by John Sinclair regarding the Donner party and 7p extract from a letter by Geo. McKinstry on the same subject.
SEASONS OF LIFE AND LEARNING. Lake View Cemetery, An Educator's Handbook.
No Place: Lake View Cemetery Foundation, 1995. 41p, 11" x 8 1/2", wraps, illustrated, ink signature on front wrap, o/w very good.
CAMPAIGNS OF 1862 AND 1863 ILLUSTRATING THE PRINCIPLES OF STRATEGY.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.:, 1863. 252p, cloth, illustrated (including 4 folded, colored maps), book plate, spine faded, some wear to edges, good. Second edition. Nevins, et al., "Civil War Books," vol. 1, p.42. Schalk describes military campaigns of the Civil War.
APPLETONS' GENERAL GUIDE TO THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. ILLUSTRATED. With Railway Maps, Plans of Cities, Special Iteneraries, and Table of Railway and Steamboat Fares.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1896. 600p, leather with rear board missing, text block tight, illustrated, maps (some fold-out), lacks maps in rear pocket, fair. Ads, many illustrated, front and rear- hotels, transportation, etc. Many fold-out maps, places of interest- great guide book.
A PRIMER TO BOOKBINDING.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. 66p, cloth, illustrated, vg in torn dj. 1st edition.
THE HISTORY OF BOOKS AS A FIELD OF STUDY.
16p, wraps, fine.
VICTORIAN BOOK DESIGN, & Colour Printing.
London: Faber & Faber, 1963. 182p, cloth, illus., vg in price-clipped dj with a few spots. 1st edition. Index.
A COURSE IN BOOKBINDING FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING, Part One, Elementary Section.
New York: Employing Bookbinders of America, Inc., (1927). Selden Irwin. 451p, cloth, illus., drawings by Selden Irwin, some fold-out illus., fine. 1st edition. Appendix, Glossary.
THE HISTORY OF DECORATED BOOKBINDING IN ENGLAND.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 250p, decorated cloth, illustrated (some in color), corner slightly bumped o/w vg+. 1st edition. Index.
BOOKBINDING AND ITS AUXILIARY BRANCHES (IN FOUR PARTS), Part Four: Gilt Edging, Goffered Edging, Marbling, Hand Tooling and the Care of Books.
Chicago: The Inland Printer Company, 1914. 90p, boards with cloth spine, illustrated, light edge wear, vg. 1st edition.
WOMEN BOOKBINDERS 1880-1920.
(London): The British Library, (1996). 240p, 10" x 7", boards with cloth spine, illus. (many in color), fine.
JOURNAL 0F MY FORTY-FIFTH ASCENSION.
Oakham, Massachusetts: The Oakham Bindery, 1976. 77p, 2 1/2" x 2 1/8", 1/4 leather, frontis, very good. 437 of 500 copies.
THE BOOK IN HISTORY. From Manuscript Volumes to the Present Time.
Buffalo, New York: The Hillside Press, 1985. 67p, 2 1/2" x 2", full leather, marbled endpapers, illustrated, binding slightly cocked, very good. 1 of 300 copies.
HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE.
Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1910. 3 volumes, 10 1/4" x 7 3/4", 1/2 leather, top edge gilt, illustrated, wear to edges, front outer hinge of volume 1 beginning, volume 2 very good, volume 3 has wear to edges and top two inches of spine splitting at front hing (held in.....
NIAGARA:. Its History and Geology, Incidents and Poetry.
New York: Sheldon and Company, 1872. 165p, cloth, illustrated, light browning of paper, some wear to edges, rear free endpaper missing, good. Lacks folding map. Second edition.
NIAGARA:. Its History and Geology, Incidents and Poetry.
New York: Sheldon and Company, 1872. 165p, cloth, illustrated, fold-out map, some light foxing, good. First edition.
THE ART OF BOOKBINDING.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1880. 187p, cloth, illustrated, wear to edges, spine faded, good. First trade edition. Glossary, index. Lots of information on the techniques at the time with many plates of bindings and woodcuts of machines, etc.
HORAE LYRICAE. Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind in Three Books.
New York: E. Duyckinck, 1813. 216p, full leather, frontis, two small signatures on front endpaper, paper browned, cover worn, front hinge weak, fair. X sabbath School Library.
THE ROMANTIC STORY OF SCHOENBRUNN. The First Town in Ohio, A Moravian Mission to the Indians.
Dover, Ohio, (1930). 36p, decorated wraps, illustrated, very good. Third edition.
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