Mexico City: Libreria de Porrua Hnos. y Cia. 1949. Softcover. Good. #388 of 400 numbered copies issued. 9.5" x 7" x 2.25", pp [xxiv], 889, with occasional illlustrations. Ex-library, with old repair to spine. Binding now sound, occasional pencil annotations. A good reference copy of this extensive and detailed catalogue..... Item #23562
New York: The Grolier Club, 1907. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 7" x 4.25", xiii, 106 pp, in original coated cloth wrappers. Mild creasing to wraps, else fine. Item #24446
London: Myers & Co., [1900]. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 8vo, pp. iv, 52, in original wrappers with mounted paper label. Some creasing to wraps, light handling wear; very good. Lists 785 books offered for sale by Myers & Co., Booksellers, from the library of the widely traveled Scottish artist..... Item #18973
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New York: Parke-Benet Galleries, 1966. Hardcover. Very good. Complete set, including index. All volumes have Streeter's small "TWS" ex-libris ink stamp on the front free endpaper. Otherwise unmarked and sound, with some light scuffing to the boards, minor damage to head of spine on Volume Five. Due to weight, additional..... Item #23647
Paris: Emile-Paul Freres, Editeurs, 1917. First Edition. Soft cover. Good+. Edition limited to 50 copies, of which this is number 4. xvi, 397 pp, with 16 plates illustrating items in the catalogue. Front and rear wrappers are present but detached; backstrip is missing. Textblock itself is complete, clean, and solidly..... Item #13152
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1920. Hardcover. Fine. No. 66 of a limited edition of 300 copies issued in December 1920 (Nash printed another, less ornamented edition in 1935). Fine copy in original blue paper-covered boards with mounted spine label; pages unopened. 7.25" x 12.25", 17 pp, with decorative inititals;..... Item #24378
Washington, DC: Washington Ex Libris Society, American Bookplate Society (, 1896-1897. Softcover. Fine. Complete run in near fine condition of this short-lived publication of the Washington Ex Libris Society (Nos. 1 and 2) and American Bookplate Society (Nos. 3 and 4), published from July, 1896 to April 1897 in an..... Item #23641
New York: Wild Hare Press, 1982. Softcover. Fine. [16 pp], in original stapled wrappers. A fine copy, #121 of an edition of 450 hand-set and printed in August, 1982 by Barton McNeil & Revan Schendler. "A sampling of printers' devices from the collectio of the White Hare Press. Item #2286
New Hampshire: Monadnock Press, 1903. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 115 copies printed in black and red on handmade paper (an additional 10 were printed on vellum) by Temple Scott. Beautiful double-page title woodcut and printer's device designed by F. Tolles Chamberlin. A near fine copy (boards slightly splayed) in..... Item #24385
New York: Century Co. Softcover. Very Good. 5 x 7.5 inches, 21 pp, with illustrations, in attractive illustrated wrappers. Light shelf wear, small internal tape repair to spine; text clean. A catalogue of books published by the Century Co., including both new publications and backlist. Item #2488
Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1954. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 300 copies laid out by by Victor Hammer and printed by Jacob Hammer from at the Anvil Press. 6.5" x 5", unpaginated, in original tan paper-covered boards with mounted paper label on spine, with double-page woodcut frontispiece made by Victor..... Item #24125
Grosse Pointe, MI: Adagio, The Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr, 1960. Softcover. fine. 24 pp, in original stapled wrappers. One of an edition of 550. Fine copy. Includes A Survey of Recent Private Press Activity in the San Francisco Bay and New York areas; Notes on Private Presses and..... Item #2485
Chicago: North American Publishing Company, [1899]. Very good. Publisher's broadsheet prospectus, 21.5 x 15.5 inches, with half-tone photographic illustrations on both sides. Folding creases, a few short tears to top and bottom margins; very good. Advertises "The Book that Twelve Million People Will Want to Read" (because "all the world..... Item #20986
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Cambridge: Privately Printed at the University Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes, illustrated, in original two-toned cloth. Light foxing to endpapers, spines lightly sunned, very mild skew to spine of Volume I; very good. Small label of Douglas C. Ewing on front pastedown of each volume. Original..... Item #20492
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Number 168 of 300 copuis printed and published by Christopher Sandford, Francis J. Newbery, and Owen Rutter at the Golden Cockerel Press in Eric Gill's Perpetua type with decorations by Elizabeth Corsellis. Bound in quarter leather and decorative paper boards..... Item #24495
London: Bibliographical Society, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs No. XXI. Quarto, xlvii, 234 pp + plates showing more than 300 facsimiles. Ex-Francis Bacon Foundation library, with their stamp on the front pastedown, sticker shadow on spine; otherwise unmarked, clean and sound. Item #21848
San Francisco: Pacific Center for the Book Arts, 2009. Unassembled paper model of a Vandercook printing press created to commemorate the Vandercook Book exhibition at The Book Club of California in 2009. Consists of two cardstock sheets (8.5" x 11") with pre-cut pieces, housed in the original envelope with title..... Item #23741
1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. #243 of 300 copies of the edition signed by Ward Ritchie on the colphohon. Original black cloth with red spine label, gilt decoration. Near fine copy with light bumping to lower corners, very small stain on fore edge. Otherwise sound and clean, in original..... Item #24344
New York: Social Culture Publications, [1923]. Softcover. Good. 5 x 7" stapled illustrated wraps, pp. 16, 9 b/w photogravure illustrations in text; wraps age-toned with a coffee-ring stain, short tears at the spine head and tail, pencil notations on the rear wrap, one gathering (pp. 7-10) loose from the binding..... Item #23768
New York: The Grolier Club, 2006. Hardcover. New. Hardcover in slipcase. New copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Extensively illustrated with color photographs of the 250 books included in the exhibition. Item #23006
London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society by Blades, East & Blades, 1910. Softcover. Very Good. xxiii, 346 pp, in original wrappers. Handling wear with a few chips and tears, toning to spine and edges, tender hinges with a tape repair at tail of spine; text clean, some pages unopened. Item #3142
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896. Hardcover. Good+. 7.75" x 4.5", unpaginated, bound in full leather with embossed decoration and cloth ties. A good or better copy with moderate rubbing to the leather and some staining to the rear board. Internally sound and very clean, with the exception of evidence of a...... Item #23626
Berkeley: Book Arts Club, University of California, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Copy 28 pof 400 issued. xxii, 307 pp, with "corrigenda and addenda" slip tipped in on front blank. Spine lightly sunned, some scuffing to boards, chipping to leather spine label. Internally sound and clean. Includes bibliographical and..... Item #24535
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 7" x 7", [17] pp, in original printed wrappers. Includes six sonnets by Bentley illustrated with six photographs by Bernard Rosenthal and an appreciation (including a poem) by Hoyem of "a stalwart individual in his 82nd year: the poet, printer, painter..... Item #24279
San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash for His Friends, 1922. Hardcover. Near fine. No. 91 of a limited edition of 250 copies. 12.5" x 8.5", 53 pp, with the "Apologia Withdrawn!" leaflet laid in. Bound in original marbled boards with mounted paper spine label. A near fine copy with..... Item #24384
