THE LATE UNPLEASANTNESS, CATALOG 105.
Wendell, N.C. Broadfoot's Bookmark, no date (late 1800's.). 106p, 10 1/4" x 6 1/2", wraps, a few pencil marks, good. Civil War book catalog, mostly Southern. 684 items.
BOOKS ON BOOKS
A MIRROR OF MANUSCRIPTS. Speculum Manuscriptorum.
Southport, Ct. Laurence Witten Rare Books, no date (1980's). 96p, 11" X 8 1/2", color pictorial wrappers, illus. (many colored), vg. Catalogue 18, describing in considerable detail 52 manuscripts, complete of single leaves, offered for sale. Price list enclosed.
THE NONESUCH DICKENS, Retrospectus and Prospectus.
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937. 130p, cloth, illustrated, endpapers foxed, good - very good.
THE PAINTER, GILDER, AND VARNISHER'S CAMPANION. Containing Rules and Regulations in Everything Relating to the Arts of Painting, Gilding, Varnishing, Glass-Staining, Graining, Marbling, Sign-Writing, Gilding on Glass, and Coach Painting and Varnishing;.
Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1892. 356p and 32p ads, cloth, new endpapers, light wear to cover, good. Sixteenth edition, revised with an appendix.
THE RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTED BY THE LATE A. EDWARD NEWTON.
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1941. 22p, 10" x 7", boards with a copy of A. Edward Newton's bookplate designed in 1909 by Charles G. Osgood, covers faded, spine bumped, good+.
RELIURE FRANCAISE CONTEMPORAINE, Exposition Organisee par La Societe Francaise "Les Amis de La Reliure Originale"
New York: The Grolier Club, 1987. No pagination (c100p), softcover, illustrated with color plates, vg+. Exhibition catalog. Laid in is a 7 page Glossary of French bookbinding terms used in the exhibition catalogue.
A ROD FOR THE BACK OF THE BINDER, Some Considerations of Book Binding With Reference to the Ideals of The Lakeside Press.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1929. 31p, 10 1/2" x 7 3/4", cloth, illustrated, embossed owner's stamp, vg+.
SOBOTA, Design Binder.
Dallas, TX: The Bridwell Library, 1991. No pagination (c30p), wraps, illus., vg+. Exhibition catalogue. Introduction by Jarmila Sobota.
TEXTILE AND EMBROIDERED BINDINGS.
Oxford: Bodleian Library, (1971). No pagination (c40p), pictorial softcover, illus., vg. Bodleian Picture Books Special Series No. 2.
TOOLEY'S. A Selection of 500 Maps & Atlases. Catalogue Number One.
London: R. V. Tooley Limited, 1979. 127p, wrappers, illustrated, very good. Sale catalog, each item described in detail, with prices.
A TYPOLOGICAL TALLY. Thirteen Hundred Writings in English on Printing History, Typography, Bookbinding and Papermaking.
Brighton, 1973. 94p, boards, damp stain on rear cover and dust jacket, good. First edition.
VIRGINIA HAMILTON, Ohio Explorer in the World of Imagination.
1979. (OHIO AUTHORS) Apseloff, Marilyn. VIRGINIA HAMILTON, Ohio Explorer in the World of Imagination. Columbus: The State Library of Ohio, (1979). 24p, wraps, vg. Ex library copy.
VENTURES IN BOOK COLLECTING.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. 356p, 14 cloth, illustrated, very good in badly torn dust jacket. First edition.
PATIENCE & FORTITUDE, A Roving Chronicle of Book People, Book Places, and Book Culture.
NY: Harper Collins Publishers, (2001). 636p, 1/4 cloth, illustrated, vg+ in dust jacket. 1st edition.
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.
A BLAKE BIBLIOGRAPHY, Annotated Lists of Works, Studies, and Blakeana.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, (1964). 393p, cloth, illustrated, vg in lightly worn dj. 1st edition. Signed. Index.
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOG OF THE PRIVATE LIBRARY OF THOMAS B. LOCKWOOD.
Buffalo: State University of New York, University Libraries, 1983. 398p, boards, illustrated, dust jacket, very good. First edition, inscribed by author.
GORDON HUBER, This Business of Books: A Long-time Ohio Book Collector Talks About the Book Business.
Akron, OH: Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society, 2010. 23p, wraps, frontis, fine. Akron collector of pulps, series juveniles and much more.
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.
A HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING, With One Hundred and Twenty Illustrations.
London: Spring Books, (1964). 256p, 9 3/4" x 7 1/2", boards, illus., vg in dj with small edge tears. Index.
THE GUILD OF BOOK WORKERS, 75th Anniversary Exhibition.
New York: The Guild of Book Workers, 1981. 96p, 8" x 9" (oblong), color pictorial softcover, illus. (many in color), light cover wear, marks on some pages, good. Laid in is a list of items in the exhibition for sale.
BALLADS OF A BOOK - WORM. Being a Rythmic Record of Thoughts, Fancies, & Adventures A-Collecting.
East Aurora, New York: The Roycrofters, 1899. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, BOOKS ON BOOKS, SPECIAL PRESS, ROYCROFTERS, BOOK COLLECTING, 120p, boards, paper label on front and spine, hand illuminated title page and initials in various colors, missing 1/2" at bottom spine, book plate neatly removed, some wear to edges, good.
DOUGLAS C. MCMURTRIE, Bibliographer and Historian of Printing.
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1979. 206p, cloth, illus., vg+. The Great Bibliographers Series, No. 4. Index.
THE FLOOD OF YEARS.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1878. 32p, cloth, all edges silver gilt, wear to edges, light foxing on a few pages, good. Illustrations designed and engraved by Wm. J. Linton. (BAL 1758). Previous owner's signature, "Edmund Wade Linton, 1877" on front fly leaf.
Autograph Letter., Signed Aug. 31, 1862. From Henry E. Canfield, New York City. To Horace G. Canfield, Akron, Ohio.
1862. 3 pages, folds, vg. Henry and Horace G. were the sons of Horace Canfield (1803-1853), a noted printer of several Ohio newspapers, including Akron, Ohio's AMERICAN DEMOCRAT. Horace G. followed his father in the printing trade, and Henry was an engraver. In his letter, Henry describes a trip from.....