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61462. Randall, David A. Dukedom large enough. New York, Random House [c1969]. Original cloth. Mark on the top edge, dust jacket internally stained at the foot of the backstrip, otherwise near fine. First edition. 368 pp. Written by the former head of Scribner's Rare Book Department at the time he was Lilly Librarian at Indiana University. T/S, R/BH. $25.00 61463. Randall, David A. The J. K. Lilly collection of Edgar Allan Poe, an account of its formation. [Bloomington] Published by the Lilly Library, 1964. Original cloth. Fine. $35.00
62557. Ransom, Will. Private presses and their books. New York, R.R. Bowker Company, 1929. Original orange cloth. Top edge soiled, light rubbing along the bottom edges of the front and rear covers, otherwise bright, attractive. 493 pp. One of 1,200 copies. Inscribed by Ransom on the half-title to librarian / bibliographer Jesse L. Rader: "For Jess Rader / because he still thinks this is a useful book--Will Ransom / Norman / June 15, 1945". Tanselle / Basic Collection. $200.00 61470. Raymond, Harold. Publishing and bookselling. With a foreword by Hugh R. Dent. London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. [1938]. Original cloth. Very good. Inscribed by the author to Francis Macmillan 26.xi,52. M/BBT, T/S. $25.00 61471. Rea, Robert R. The English press in politics 1760-1774. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [c1963]. Original black cloth. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00
62559. Reade, Brian. Aubrey Beardsley. Introduction by John Rothenstein. New York, A Studio Book, the Viking Press [1967]. Original green cloth. Fine in dust jacket. 372 pp. 502 numbered illustrations, a few in color. Frontispiece portrait of Beardsley by Walter Richard Sickert. Notes on the illustrations, p. 311-65. $75.00
62561. Reichner, Herbert. Die Gutenberg-Bibel der Sammlung Vollbehr: Schicksale des kostbarsten Buches. Wien, 1927. Wrappers lightly dust-soiled, otherwise very good. 27 pp. Illustrated. Verzeichnis der erhaltenen Exemplare der 42-zeiligen Bibel, p. 20-21. This magnificent copy on vellum, purchased with the Vollbehr Collection of Fifteenth-Century Books in 1930, is one of the treasures of the Library of Congress. List of the most important literature on the Bible, with special reference to the Vollbehr copy, on p. 23-7. $25.00 61479. Reiner, Imre. Das Buch der Werkzeichen. St. Gallen, Verlag Zollikofer & Co., 1945. Original paper boards. Bumped at the head and foot of the fragile backstrip, corners rubbed, otherwise very good. 288 numbered illustrations. 122 pp. $60.00
62562. Renard, Jules. Natural history. Lithographs, Walter Stein. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, 1960. Original quarter black leather and green paper boards. Leather rubbed at the foot of the backstrip, otherwise fine in fine original box. Preface by Philip Hofer. "Copy No. G--hors commerce. For Dorothy Washburn". Signed by Walter Stein and Philip Hofer and dated 1 January 1961. The artist & the book 292 (the hors commerce copies are not described in the colophon of the book or in this source). Binding and case by Arno Werner. $100.00 61492. Ricci, Seymour de. Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, an address to the Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia, 24 May, 1923. Philadelphia, privately printed, 1923. Original quarter cloth, marbled paper boards, printed label on front cover. Corners bumped, with wear, otherwise very good, unopened. Includes information on the publishing history of the "Memoirs". $35.00 61495. Richardson, Ernest Cushing. Some old Egyptian librarians. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Book-plate on front pastedown, cloth lightly worn at head and foot of backstrip, boards lightly soiled, otherwise very good. $40.00 61496. Rider, Fremont. Compact book storage: some suggestions toward a new methodology for the shelving of less used research materials. New York, The Hadham Press, 1949. Original cloth. Fine in unevenly faded dust jacket missing pieces along top edge. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "With the holiday good wishes of the Riders--this (just out) little book!". [96] p. $35.00 61497. Riewald, J. G. Reynier Jansen of Philadelphia, early American printer, a chapter in Seventeenth-Century nonconformity. Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff Publishing, 1970. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Jansen's life, p. [1]-139, followed by "A bibliographical catalogue of Jansen imprints", p. [140]-195, plus notes, sources, etc. Illustrated. $75.00 61498. Rink, Evald. Printing in Delaware 1761-1800, a checklist. Wilmington, Delaware, Eleutherian Mills Historical Society, 1969. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Tanselle / Basic Collection. $35.00
62565. Ritchie, Ward. Years touched with memories. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Clifton, New Jersey, Bookman Publications, Inc. [c1992]. Original quarter cloth and decorated paper boards. Very fine in mylar dust jacket. 171 pp. Illustrated. $40.00
62567. Robb, David M. The art of the illuminated manuscript. South Brunswick and New York, A. S. Barnes and Company; London, Thomas Yoseloff Ltd. [c1973]. Original blue cloth. Cloth lightly faded under the dust jacket, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. 216 illustrations, including some in color. Bibliography, p. 337-345. Rosenblum / A bibliographic history of the book, p. 258 ("A fine account, especially useful for the general reader"). $80.00 61511. Robinson, Frederick S. The connoisseur: essays on the romantic and picturesque associations of art and artists. New York, Longmans, Green and Co., 1897. Original green cloth. Book label on front pastedown, cloth lightly rubbed and soiled, otherwise very good. First edition, American issue. $40.00
62568. Robinson, William H., Ltd. A selection of rare books and manuscripts. London [1936]. Original printed wrappers. Fine. The firm's catalogue 59. 100 pp. The cover illustration is of facing pages from Mirror of the world printed by William Caxton in 1490. The illustrations on the inside wrappers are of two rare pamphlets by James Boswell and of three broadsheets by Jonathan Swift. The Robinsons career took a great leap forward when in 1945 they made an en bloc purchase of the remaining portions of the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps. $35.00 61513. Rodenberg, Julius. In der Schmiede der Schrift: Karl Klingspor und sein Werk. Berlin, Buechergilde Gutenberg, 1940. Cloth dust soiled and showing evidence of light wear at extremities. Ink name on front free endpaper, cloth soiled, corners worn, otherwise very good. An account of the life and work of the German typefounder of Offenbach am Main. Includes considerable information about Rudolf Koch who designed several faces for Klingspor. $50.00 61518. Rogers, W. G. Wise men fish here, the story of Frances Steloff and the Gotham Book Mart. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. [c1965]. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Eight unnumbered pages of photographs between pages 150 and 151. T/S. $40.00 61519. Rogers, Walter Thomas. A manual of bibliography, being an introduction to the knowledge of books, library management, and the art of cataloguing. London, H. Grevel & Co., 1891. Original cloth. Hinges starting, otherwise very good. Illustrated. T/S. $50.00 61520. Rollins, Carl Purington. Off the dead bank: addresses, reviews, and verses. New York, The Typophiles, 1949. Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Fine. One of 675 copies. Chap book 19. $35.00 61523. Rooses, Max. Catalogue du Musee Plantin-Moretus. Revu et augmente par Maurice Sabbe. Anvers, Imprimerie V. Van Dieren & Co., 1928. Original printed wrappers. Book-plate pasted to inside front wrapper, small pieces missing at upper and lower corners of front wrappers. Otherwise very good. Neuvieme edition. A description of the physical features of the Museum with an account of some of the outstanding objects in the various rooms. $35.00 61525. Rose, William, ed. Essays on Goethe. Edited by William Rose. London [etc.] Cassell & Co. Ltd. [1949]. Original cloth. Upper corners bumped, otherwise very good in chipped, lightly soiled dust jacket, with closed tears. Includes Percy Muir's "Goethe and the book collector". $25.00 61526. Rosenbach, A. S. W. A book hunter's holiday: adventures with books and manuscripts. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. Original cloth. Fine. 259 pp. Illustrated. T/S, R/BH. $50.00 61528. Rosenbach, A. S. W. The unpublishable memoirs. London, John Castle [1924]. Original cloth. Fine in very lightly soiled white dust jacket with a few very small chips. Uncommon in this condition in the dust jacket. The author's only collection of detective stories. The title included in Hubin, Crime fiction. This is the first English edition. $100.00
62571. Rosenbach, A. S. W. The unpublishable memoirs. New York, Mitchell Kennerley, 1917. Original red cloth. Fine in lightly soiled white dust jacket which is 3/16" shorter than the book. First edition. The great rare book dealer's only collection of detective stories. Hubin, Crime fiction. $150.00 61532. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. The Rossetti-Macmillan letters: some 133 unpublished letters written to Alexander Macmillan, F. S. Ellis, and others by Dante Gabriel, Christina, and William Michael Rossetti, 1861-1889. [Berkeley] University of California Press, [Cambridge] Cambridge University Press, 1963. Original cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed and soiled dust jacket with Cambridge University Press price sticker on the front flap. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Lona Mosk Packer. $35.00 61533. Rothenstein, William. A plea for a wider use of artists & craftsmen. London, Constable & Co. Ltd. [1916]. Quarter cloth and paper boards. Name on front free endpaper, boards unevenly soiled, otherwise very good. A lecture delivered 8th November, 1916. Date of publication taken from WorldCat. 28 p. $35.00
67732. Rothenstein, John. Victor Hammer: artist and craftsman. Boston, David R. Godine Publishers [1978]. Tan cloth. Very fine in original publisher's slipcase. 57 pp. followed by 19 color plates. No. 144 of 500 copies printed at Stamperia Valdonega, Florence. $100.00 61538. Royal Society of Literature. Essays by divers hands, being the transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, n.s., v. 23. London, Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1947. Original cloth, printed paper label on the backstrip. Fine in soiled white dust jacket. Includes F. S. Boas' "Sir Thomas Bodley and his library". $25.00 61539. Ruber, Peter. The last bookman. New York, Candlelight Press, Inc., 1968. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. About Vincent Starrett. Peter Ruber on Starrett, followed by a wide variety of tributes. Esther Longfellow's "A bibliographical check list--the writings of Vincent Starrett", pp. 110-112. 24 numbered illustrations. 115 pp. $50.00
67619. Rubin, Louis D., Jr., ed. A bibliographical guide to the study of Southern literature, with an Appendix containing sixty-eight additional writers of the Colonial South by J.A. Leo Lemay. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [1969]. Red cloth. Lower front edge bumped, otherwise fine in rubbed fine dust jacket. First edition. 368 pp. $20.00 61545. Ryder, John. Printing for pleasure. London, Sydney, Toronto, The Bodley Head [1976]. Original paper boards. Very fine in dust jacket. Revised edition. Includes a chapter on the work of private presses in England and America. Foreword by Vivian Ridler. Many diagrams, illustrations, and examples. A/TT (London, 1955 edition), M/BBT (1955 edition). $30.00 61546. Ryder, John. A suite of fleurons, or, A preliminary inquiry into the history & combinable natures of certain printers' flowers. Boston, Charles T. Branford [1957]. Original quarter parchment and Douglas Cockerell marbled paper boards. Fine. A/TT (London, 1956 edition). $50.00 61547. Ryder, John, ed. Six on the black art. Edited and introduced by John Ryder. London, Wynkyn de Worde Society [n.d.]. Original quarter Elephant Hide and paper boards. Fine in publisher's box. One of 400 numbered and signed copies. Texts by Balzac, V. S. Naipaul, Joyce, Arnold Bennett, Cervantes, and Benjamin Franklin with associated drawings. $45.00
62580. Rylands, George, ed. A distraction of wits nurtured in Elizabethan Cambridge, an anthology selected and introduced by George Rylands. Cambridge, Printed by the University Printer for friends in printing & publishing, Christmas, 1958. Original comb patterned beige paper boards, red leather label on the backstrip. Lightly rubbed at the extremities, otherwise near fine. Cambridge Christmas book. Eleven full-page two-color drawings by Michael Ayrton. One of 500 copies. $75.00 61552. Sadleir, Michael. Blessington-D'Orsay, a masquerade. London, Constable [1947]. Original cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed and soiled dust jacket. New edition, revised and enlarged. $35.00 61553. Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: a panorama: Edward and Rosina, 1803-1836. London, Constable & Co. Ltd. [1931]. Original cloth. Small, almost invisible, spot on back cover, otherwise a particularly bright copy. 451 pp. $40.00 61556. Sadleir, Michael. Forlorn sunset. London, Constable [1947]. Original cloth. Text block cocked, otherwise fine in lightly soiled dust jacket chipped at the top of the backstrip. First edition. Dust jacket and colored frontispiece drawn by John Piper. $75.00 61560. Sadleir, Michael. Trollope, a commentary. With portrait, four facsimiles and charts. New York, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1947. Original cloth. Very good. Revised American edition, 1947. $25.00 61561. Sagar, Keith. Ted Hughes, a bibliography 1946-1980 by Keith Sagar and Stephen Tabor. [London] Mansell Publishing Limited [1983]. Publisher's cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. $30.00 61562. Salaman, Malcolm C. Old English colour-prints. Edited by Charles Holme. London, Paris and New York, Offices of "The Studio", 1909. Original cloth. Book label on front pastedown, cloth soiled, otherwise very good. Text on 42 pages, followed by 42 tipped-in color plates. $60.00 61563. Salaman, Malcolm C. The old engravers of England in their relation to contemporary life and art (1540-1800). London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne, Cassell and Company, Limited, 1906. Original cloth. Text lightly foxed, otherwise very good. 48 illustrations. M/BBT. $60.00 61564. Sale, William M. Jr. Samuel Richardson: master printer. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1950. Original green cloth. Mark on bottom edge, otherwise fine. Includes lists of books printed by Richardson and of booksellers for whom he printed. M/BBT, A/TT. $65.00 61566. Salomons, Vera. Charles Eisen, eighteenth century French book illustrator and engraver, an annotated bibliography of the best known books illustrated by Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen, 1720-1778. Amsterdam, G. W. Hisskin & Co., 1972. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Reprint of the London, 1914 edition. Scripta artis monographia, 17. $35.00 61568. Sandgren, August. Bogbinderen August Sandgren. [Kobenhavn] Forening for Boghaandvaerk, 1952. Original printed wrappers. Near fine. 113 p., including 19 full-page plates of bindings included in the pagination. Discussions of Sandgren by Gustav Strand, Erik Zahle, Carl Roos, Henrik Park, G. Krogh Jensen, and Oswald Janner. $75.00 61572. Sarkowski, Heinz, ed. Wenn Sie ein Herz fuer mich und mein Geisteskind haben. Dichterbriefe zur Buchgestaltung. Frankfurt am Main, Mergenthaler-Verlag der Linotype GMBH [c1965]. Original cloth. Cloth dampstained on rear cover, otherwise very good. Includes letters of a wide range of German authors from Klopstock to Walser. $25.00 61573. Sattler, Martha J. Clayton Eshleman, a descriptive bibliography. Jefferson, N. C., McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers [c1988]. Publisher's cloth. Fine. Review copy with review slip laid in. $35.00
62581. Sayce, R. A. Compositorial practices and the localization of printed books, 1530-1800. London, The Bibliographical Society, 1966. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers frayed at the head and foot of the backstrip, bumped at the foot of the backstrip, otherwise very good. Reprint from The Library, March 1966. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to collector James Osborn: "To Jim Osborn / with every good wish / Richard Sayce". For information about Osborn see Grolier 2000. 45 pp. Illustrated. $25.00 61579. Schlosser, Josef. Die Werkstatt der Typographie. Stuttgart, Otto Blersch Verlag, 1951. Original quarter cloth and paper boards, printed paper labels on the backstrip and front cover. Corners lightly rubbed, otherwise fine. Includes illustrations of printing equipment. [131] pp. $40.00 61582. Schneider, Georg. Handbuch der Bibliographie. Vierte, gaenzlich veraenderte und stark vermehrte Auflage. Leipzig, Verlag Karl W. Hiersemann, 1930. Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Upper front corner bumped, otherwise near fine. 674 pp. $50.00 61583. Schneider, Georg. Theory and history of bibliography. Translated by Ralph Robert Shaw. New York, Columbia University Press, 1934. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. T/S. $50.00
62584. Schramm, Albert. Die Inkunabeln. Leipzig, Deutsches Buchmuseum, 1925. Original printed wrappers. Backstrip worn, lower right corner of front wrapper clipped, otherwise very good. At head of title: Kataloge des Deutschen Buchmuseums zu Leipzig. 79 pp. Includes facsimile reproductions of title-pages and illustrations from incunabula in the collection. The catalog of the German incunabula begins with Mainz and is afterwards arranged alphabetically by city and printer. The catalog of the foreign incunabula is arranged by city and printer, countries intermixed. $40.00
62585. Schullian, Dorothy M. A catalogue of incunabula and manuscripts in the Army Medical Library by Dorothy M. Schullian and Francis E. Sommer. New York, Henry Schuman, Inc. Press [1948?]. Original black cloth. Lower corners bumped, otherwise near fine. 361 pp. Part I: Incunabula and early Western manuscripts. Part II: Oriental manuscripts. Illustrated. 490 numbered entries in the incunabula section. General index of printers, places, owners, incidental names, variant forms of authors' names and dates, p. 271-288. $75.00 61592. Schunke, Ilse. Einfuehrung in die Einbandbestimmung. [Muenchen] Meister der Einbandkunst, Internationale Vereinigung, 1974. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Color frontispiece and 20 numbered illustrations of bindings. 79 pp. $35.00
62588. Schutzner, Svato. Medieval and Renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress, a descriptive catalog. Washington, Library of Congress, 1989-99. Original red cloth. Fine, without dust jackets, as issued. 2 v. V. 1: Bibles, liturgy, Books of Hours. V. 2: Theology and canon law. Foreword to v. 1 by William Matheson, to v. 2 by the author. V. 1 i s illustrated with 26 color plates, v. 2 with 11. Both volumes with the following indexes: General / Illustrative matter / Former owners / Secundo Folio / Initia / Concordance of old and new designations. It is anticipated that no further volumes will be issued. $250.00 61599. Scudder, Horace E. Henry Oscar Houghton, a biographical outline. Cambridge, printed at the Riverside Press, 1897. Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Ink signature, place, and date in Lee E. Grove's hand. Spotting on the cloth backstrip, otherwise very good. Illustrated. $50.00 61600. Seary, Peter. Lewis Theobald and the editing of Shakespeare. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990. Original cloth. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. From the Preface: "Theobald was the first to edit Shakespeare systematically, and from his work flowed all successive editions of Shakespeare...". T/S. $65.00 61601. Seelhammer, Ruth. Hopkins collected at Gonzaga. Chicago, Loyola University Press [c1970]. Original orange cloth. Fine. 272 p. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, 1970. Works by [Gerard Manley] Hopkins, p. 3-10; Association items, p, 11-60; Writings on Hopkins, p. 61-226. $35.00 61604. Shattock, Joanne, ed. The Victorian periodical press: samplings and soundings. Edited by Joanne Shattock and Michael Wolff. [Leicester] Leicester University Press, [Toronto and Buffalo] University of Toronto Press, 1982. Original cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. 12 pp. of plates between pp. 142 and [143]. 400 pp. $40.00 61605. Shaw, Bernard. William Morris as I knew him. New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1936. Original half cloth and paper boards. One-line ink inscription on the front free endpaper, otherwise very good in chipped and rubbed dust jacket. First American edition (preceding the first separate English edition). Laurence / Bernard Shaw, a bibliography A227a. $40.00 61606. Shaw, Edward P. Problems and policies of Malesherbes as directeur de la librairie in France (1750-1763). [Albany, New York] State University of New York [c1966]. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. $35.00 61607. Shay, Felix. Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora. New York, Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1926. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket missing a few small pieces. Foreword by Henry Ford. Illustrated. $40.00 61608. Shaylor, Joseph. The fascination of books, with other papers on books & bookselling. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Original cloth. Lower corners bumped, otherwise bright, near fine. Chapters on "Nineteenth Century book distributing", "Bookselling and the public", and many other topics. [357] pp. M/BBT. $50.00 61609. Shears, W. S. William Nash of St. Paul's Cray, papermakers. [London, Batchworth Press Ltd. n.d.]. Original cloth. Near fine. First printed 1950. This edition revised to 1967. $40.00 61610. Sheehan, Donald. This was publishing, a chronicle of the book trade in the Gilded Age. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1952. Original cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. Tanselle / Basic Collection, M/BBT. $35.00
62592. Sheen, K. J. Propertian elegies. Translated by K. J. Sheen. Wellington, at the Wai-te-ata Press, 1977. Dust jacket over plain wrappers. Dust jacket lightly bumped at the head of the backstrip, otherwise fine. A production of the press at Victoria University founded in 1962 by D. F. McKenzie. For an account of the Wai-te-ata Press see The book collector, Winter 1996. 29 pp. $50.00 61617. Shipley, A. E. "J.", a memoir of John Willis Clark, registrary of the University of Cambridge and sometime fellow of Trinity College. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1913. Original blue cloth stamped in gold. Pastedowns and free endpapers browned from the glue used in the binding, light foxing, otherwise very good. A biography of the author of The care of books (the Sandars lectures for 1899) and the subject of the volume, Fasciculus Ioanni Willis Clark dicatus. $50.00 61618. Shipton, Clifford K. Isaiah Thomas, printer, patriot and philanthropist 1749-1831. Rochester, The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1948. Original cloth. Cloth lightly bubbled, otherwise fine in lightly soiled dust jacket missing piece at the top of the rear panel, with several closed tears. Tanselle / Basic Collection, A/TT. $30.00 61619. Sigel, Efrem. Books, libraries and electronics: essays on the future of written communication. White Plains, NY and London, Knowledge Industry Publications, Inc. [c1982]. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Essays by Efrem Sigel, Erik Barnouw, Anthony Smith, Dan Lacy, Robert D. Stueart, Lewis N. Branscomb. 139 pp. $25.00 61622. Silverstein, Theodore. Medieval Latin scientific writings in the Barberini Collection, a provisional catalogue. [Chicago] The University of Chicago Press [1957]. Original cloth. Upper corners bumped, otherwise near fine. Catalogue of a group of scientific writings in the Vatican Library. 147 pp. $35.00 61626. Simon, Herbert. Song and words: A history of the Curwen Press. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. [c1973]. Original maroon cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Appendix B is a Catalogue raisonne of books printed at the Curwen Press 1920-1932. Illustrated. R/BH (Godine, 1973). $45.00
67737. Simon, Herbert. Song and words: A history of the Curwen Press. Boston, David R. Godine, Publisher [1973].. Original blue cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. Appendix B is a Catalogue raisonné of books printed at the Curwen Press 1920-1932. Illustrated . $40.00
62596. Simon, Oliver. Printing of to-day [by] Oliver Simon and Julius Rodenberg. With a general introduction by Aldous Huxley. London, Peter Davies Limited; New York, Harper and Brothers, 1928. Original cloth. Cream-colored buckram lightly soiled, upper rear corner rubbed, otherwise fine. One of 300 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. The major sections are: Printing in England by Oliver Simon, Printing in the United States by Paul Beaujon (=Beatrice Warde), Continental printing by Julius Rodenberg. Eschelbach and Shober, Aldous Huxley, a bibliography 1916-1959, item 936. 83 pp. 122 numbered plates of title-pages, text pages, and illustrations. $200.00 61634. Slater, J. H. Book collecting, a guide for amateurs. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1892. Publisher's cloth. Fine. One of 500 numbered copies of the large-paper edition. T/S, M/BBT. $50.00 61635. Slater, J. H. The romance of book-collecting. New York, Frances P. Harper, 1898. Original decorated cloth. Near fine. The first three chapters are "In eulogy of catalogues", "A comparison of prices", and "Some lucky finds". T/S. $40.00 61637. Slesinger, Warren, ed. Spreading the word: editors on poetry. Edited by Warren Slesinger. [Columbia, SC] Bench Press [c1990]. Original green cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Sixteen editors "discuss their personal editorial methods, their magazines' general philosophies, and the overall state of writing, publishing and reading in America". Out of print. 100 pp. $40.00 61638. Slythe, R. Margaret. The art of illustration 1750-1900. London, Library Association, 1970. Original green cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Illustrated. M/BBT, R/BH. $40.00 61639. Smith, D. I. B., ed. Editing Eighteenth-Century texts. Papers given at the Editorial Conference, University of Toronto, October 1967. Edited by D. I. B. Smith. [Toronto] Published for the Editorial Conference Committee, University of Toronto by University of Toronto Press [c1968]. Original paper boards. Boards unevenly faded, otherwise fine. T/S. $35.00 61641. Smith, Hal H. On the gathering of a library. [n.p.] privately printed, 1943. Original quarter tan and blue cloth, printed paper label on the backstrip. Very good. One of 985 copies. 250 pp. $40.00 61642. Smith, Myron J. Cloak-and-dagger bibliography, an annotated guide to spy fiction, 1937-1975. Metuchen, N. J., The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1976. Original red cloth. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. $35.00
62600. Smith, Robert Metcalf. The Shakespeare folios and the forgeries of Shakespeare's handwriting in the Lucy Parker Linderman Memorial Library of Lehigh University with a list of original folios in American libraries. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1927. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers rubbed on the backstrip and corners, otherwise very good. With the assistance of Howard Seavoy Leach. Lehigh University publications, vol. 1, no. 2, March 1, 1927. 47 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of title-pages and other features of the folios. Includes a census of Shakespeare folios in American libraries and a section, "The increasing value of Shakespeare folios". $25.00
62602. Smyth, H. D. The "Smyth Report". [Princeton, 1976]. Original printed wrappers. Fine. Offprint from The Princeton University Library chronicle, Spring 1976. P. 173-218. Includes "The publishing history of the 'Smyth Report' by Datus C. Smith, Jr. Also "The 'Smyth Report': a descriptive check list by Earle E. Coleman. Illustrated. An account of the several versions of Smyth's "A general account of the development of methods of using atomic energy for military purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940-1945". $35.00 61651. Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore. A bibliography of early secular American music (18th century). Revised and enlarged by William Treat Upton. [Washington, D. C.] The Library of Congress Music Division, 1945. Original cloth. Very good to fine. Tanselle / Basic Collection. $75.00 61656. Sotheby's. The collection of The Garden Ltd.: magnificent books and manuscripts conceived and formed by Haven O'More. Funded by Michael Davis. New York, 1989. Original cloth. Fine. Price list laid in. Illustrations, many in color. $70.00
62603. Sotheby & Co. Catalogue of valuable printed books from the Broxbourne Library illustrating the spread of printing. The property of John Ehrman, Esq. London, 1977-78. Original green boards. Boards lightly bumped. Fine. 2 v. Estimates and prices realized laid in. Illustrated. Unsigned Foreword about Albert Ehrman in both volumes. See Grolier 2000 for information about Ehrman and the collections he formed. $60.00 61660. Sparrow, John. Visible words, a study of inscriptions in and as books and works of art. Cambridge, at the University Press, 1969. Original cloth. Corners lightly bumped, otherwise fine in dust jacket. The Sandars lectures for 1964. T/S. $90.00 61662. Speaight, Robert. The life of Eric Gill. New York, P. J. Kenedy & Sons [1966]. Original black cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Discusses Gill's importance as a stone-carver, type designer, wood-engraver, and polemicist. A/TT (London, 1966 edition), M/BBT (Methuen, 1966 edition). $35.00 61663. Spell, Lota M. Pioneer printer: Samuel Bangs in Mexico and Texas. Austin, University of Texas Press [c1963]. Publisher's cloth. Fine in dust jacket. T/BC. $35.00 61664. Spellman, Doreen. Victorian music covers by Doreen and Sidney Spellman with a Foreword by Sacheverell Sitwell. [London] Evelyn, Adams & Mackay [1969]. Original white stiff paper boards. Upper corners bumped, otherwise fine in dust jacket with short closed tear on the rear panel. Illustrations, some in color. Fifoot, Sitwells bibliography sB67. $35.00 61665. Spofford, Ainsworth Rand. A book for all readers. Designed as an aid to the collection, use, and preservations of books and the formation of public and private libraries. New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. Original quarter vellum and paper boards. Fine. Includes a chapter on rare books ("There is perhaps no field of literature in which so large an amount of actual mis-information or ignorance exists as that of the rarity of many books"). T/S. $50.00
67703. St. Clair, Guy. A venerable and cherished institution: the University Club of New York 1865-1990. New York, University Club, 1991. Maroon fabrikoid. T.e.g. Fine, without dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated. 293 pp. One of 5,000 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. $25.00
62612. Stable, Justice. The summing up by Mr. Justice Stable: Regina v. Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd., Frederic J. Warburg, The Camelot Press Ltd., "The Philanderer" Case. [New York, Blanche and Alfred Knopf, 1954]. Original decorated paper wrappers, printed paper label on the front wrapper. Near fine. Inscribed by publisher Frederic Warburg on the second front endpaper: "To David / from Fred / in memory of a (retrospectively) pleasant case". One of 600 copies printed by the Knopfs for Christmas 1954. Justice Stable's "summing up" for the jury of the charge against The Philanderer by Stanley Kauffman, alleged to be an obscene libel at common law. $40.00 61673. Stanford University Libraries. The closing of the Doves Press, a letter from Cobden-Sanderson with a preface by David Magee. [Stanford] 1969. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper creased, otherwise very good. Printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. A keepsake to commemorate the opening of an exhibition of Cobden-Sanderson bindings, books from the Doves Press and the Doves Bindery, selected from the collections of Norman H. Strouse and Morgan A. Gunst. $25.00
62614. Starkie, Walter. Homage to Yeats, 1865-1965 by Walter Starkie and A. Norman Jeffares. Los Angeles, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1966. Original stapled wrappers. Fine. Includes Starkie's "Yeats and the Abbey Theatre" and Jeffares' "Women in Yeats's poetry". 78 pp. Compliments slip of the University Librarian and Director of the Clark Library, Robert Vosper, laid in. $25.00 61679. Stefanik, Ernest C., Jr. John Berryman, a descriptive bibliography. [Pittsburgh] University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974. Publisher's cloth. Fine. $45.00
67686. Stein, Donna. Catalogue raisonné of the first 26 books published by Vincent FitzGerald & Company from 1981-1992. Curated and with an essay by Donna Stein, introduction by Eleanor Garvey, forewords by Martha Wilson and Ursula Haeusgen. New York, 1993. Printed gray wrappers. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. 91 pp. One of 1500 copies, designed by Vincent FitzGerald and Jerry Kelly, printed at the Stinehour Press. Publicity sheet laid in, along with compliments card. Catalog for exhibitions at the Lyrik-Kabinett, Munchen and the Franklin Furnace, New York. $35.00 61681. Steinhausen, Georg. Kaufleute und Handelsherren in alten Zeiten. [Duesseldorf-Koeln] Eugen Diederichs [c1970]. Original quarter cloth, paste paper boards. Upper corners bumped, otherwise fine in lightly soiled cream dust jacket. Fotomechanischer Nachdruck der Ausgabe Leipzig 1899. 139 numbered illustrations in the text, plus 12 full-page plates. $35.00 61682. Stephenson Blake. Specimens of printing types from Stephenson Blake, The Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield. Sheffield, 1953. Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Near fine in lightly rubbed and soiled dust jacket with closed tears. 244 p. Variant issue without pages 105-122 and 135-142 and with additional information p. 92a, 129, and 130a. M/BBT. $45.00 61683. Stern, Madeleine B. Imprints on history: books publishers and American frontiers. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1956. Original cloth. Lower corners lightly bumped, otherwise fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with a few short closed tears. Tanselle / Basic Collection, M/BBT. $35.00 61685. Stevens, Henry. Catalogue of my English library. London, Printed by C. Whittingham for Private Distribution, 1853. Original wine-colored cloth. Front endpapers dampstained at lower edge, text leaves not affected. Very good. Stevens "render[s] an important service to American book collectors" by putting into their hands this catalogue "comprising a few thousand volumes of the best editions of the principal standard English authors". Cover-title: My English Library. $75.00
62616. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Five poems and letters from Robert Louis Stevenson to Charles Warren Stoddard 1880. Philadelphia, Privately printed for John M. Patterson and his friends, 1924. Original quarter cloth and paste paper boards. Cloth has silverfish marks, boards lightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. Princeton University Library / Robert Louis Stevenson, a catalogue item 102A. [27] pp. Preface by Charles J. Sawyer. $50.00
62617. Stillwell, Margaret Bingham. Incunabula and Americana, 1450-1800, a key to bibliographical study. New York, Columbia University Press, 1931. Original gilt-stamped red cloth. Fine in time-darkened orange dust jacket missing a few small pieces and with several closed short tears. 483 pp. Sections on "incunabula and its study", Americana from 1492 to 1700, reference. The latter section includes definitions, foreign bibliographical terms and their equivalents, Latin place-names, tables of abbreviations, and lists of reference works of bibliographical importance. $75.00 61693. Stokes, Roy. Henry Bradshaw 1831-1886. Metuchen, N. J. and London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1984. Original cloth. Fine (issued without dust jacket). Great Bibliographers Series, no. 6. T/S. $25.00 61694. Stokes, Roy. Michael Sadleir, 1888-1957. Metuchen, N. J. & London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1980. Original cloth. Copyright deposit copy. Library of Congress surplus duplicate stamp on front free endpaper. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. Great Bibliographers Series, no. 5. Checklist of the writings of Michael Sadleir, p. 109-138. T/S. $25.00 61698. Storm, Colton. Invitation to book collecting, its pleasures and practices. With kindred discussions of manuscripts, maps, and prints by Colton Storm and Howard Peckham. New York, R. R. Bowker Company, 1947. Original cloth. Small bruise at top edge of front cover, otherwise very good in lightly chipped dust jacket. T/S. $40.00 61699. Storm, Colton. With neither rhyme nor reason?. Bloomington, Illinois, Scarlet Ibis Press, 1974. Original printed wrappers. Fine. One of 300 copies. On book collecting. $30.00
62621. Stralem, Jean. The collection of books, manuscripts & autograph letters in the library of Jean and Donald Stralem. New York, 1962. Original tan cloth. Fine. Foreword by Michael Papantonio. Compiled by Kenneth A. Lohf. 55 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of title-pages, bindings, etc. Photograph of the Stralem's library as a frontispiece. The collection includes a copy of the first edition of Poe's Tamerlane in original wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Jill and Geoffrey / with love and affection / Donald". Donald Stralem was a member of the Grolier Club, 1951-1976. $35.00
62622. Stratford, Jenny. The Arts Council collection of modern literary manuscripts 1963-1972, a catalogue. With a preface by Philip Larkin. [London] Turret Books, 1974. Original blue cloth. Lightly bumped at the head and foot of the backstrip, otherwise fine in rubbed, lightly soiled and chipped dust jacket. 168 pp. 16 numbered plates reproducing manuscripts of poets included. Bloomfield / Larkin bibliography B15. Includes facsimiles of a Sylvia Plath poem and a J. R. R. Tolkien letter. $25.00 61706. Stratman, Carl J., comp. Bibliography of English printed tragedy 1565-1900. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press; London and Amsterdam, Feffer and Simons, Inc. [c1966]. Original cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 843 p. $75.00
62623. Strauss, Victor. The printing industry, an introduction to its many branches, processes and products. Washington, D. C., Published by Printing Industries of America, Inc. in association with R. R. Bowker Company, New York and London [c1967]. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket creased along the top and bottom edge of the front panel and with several closed tears. 814 pp. Rosenblum, A bibliographic history of the book, p. 123 ("An important reference, with much information on the role of computers in printing"). $40.00
62625. Strouse, Norman. The lengthened shadow, an address...at an opening of an exhibition of modern fine printing at the Grolier Club. New York, Philip C. Duschnes, 1960. Original paper boards. Fine in dust jacket with a short closed tear on the back panel. One of 1,250 copies. 42 pp. Strouse's address is followed by a list of the books exhibited. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Roger Levenson-- / On the occasion of his Grolier visit to our library--May 22, 1964. / Norman H. Strouse". Roger Levenson wrote a number of books of interest to the student of printing history. $40.00
62710. Sutton, Denys. Christie's since the war, 1945-1958, an essay on taste, patronage and collecting. London, Privately Printed for Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd. [1959] Original red cloth. Front corners lightly bumped, otherwise fine in lightly soiled and chipped dust jacket. 185 numbered illustrations. 168 pp. $40.00 61720. Sydow, Juergen. Regensburger Buchdruckerkunst aus Sechs Jahrhunderten. Regensburg, Museum der Stadt Regensburg, 1956. Original printed wrappers. A few small pieces missing along top edge of the wrappers, ink mark on front wrapper, otherwise very good. Herausgeben anlaesslich der Ausstellung im Museum der Stadt Regensburg. Plates, some of which are tipped in. [52] p. $25.00 61721. Symons, Julian. A. J. A. Symons, his life and speculations. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode [1950]. Publisher's cloth. Name stamped on front free endpaper. Very good in reinforced, lightly rubbed and chipped, price-clipped dust jacket. $50.00 61725. Tannenbaum, Samuel A. The handwriting of the Renaissance, being the development and characteristics of the script of Shakspere's time. With an Introduction by Ashley H. Thorndike. New York, Columbia University Press, 1930. Original black cloth. Very good in torn dust jacket. Includes facsimiles and transcripts of Renaissance scripts. T/S, R/BH. $50.00 61727. Tannenbaum, Samuel A. Thomas Heywood (a concise bibliography). New York, Samuel A. Tannenbaum, 1939. Original quarter cloth, brown paper boards, printed label on front cover. Tape marks on the pastedowns, otherwise very good. Elizabethan bibliographies no. 6. One of 300 copies. $45.00
62631. Targ, William, ed. Bibliophile in the nursery, a bookman's treasury of collector's lore on old and rare children's books. Cleveland and New York, The World Publishing Company [c1957]. Publisher's cloth. Rear corners bumped, otherwise fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with several closed tears. First edition. 503 pp. Inscribed by Vincent Starrett, one of the contributors, on the front free endpaper: "To Jay / at Christmas (1958) / with old affection-- / Vincent". Other contributors include C. Waller Barrett, Jacob Blanck, Joseph Campbell, August Derleth, Irvin Kerlan, Iona and Peter Opie, Ellery Queen, and John T. Winterich. $75.00 61735. Taylor, Robert A. La litterature occitane du Moyen Age: bibliographie selective et critique. Toronto and Buffalo, University of Toronto Press [c1977]. Original cloth. Fine. Toronto medieval bibliographies 7. A bibliography of Provencal literature. Published in association with the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. $40.00 61737. Taylor, Robert N., comp. The Eric Gill Collection of the Humanities Research Center: a catalogue. Compiled by Robert N. Taylor with the assistance of Helen Parr Young. Austin, Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas [c1982]. Original printed wrappers. Fine. 193 p. Illustrated. $25.00
67745. Temple University. Samuel Paley Library. Aloys Senefelder 1771-1834, a catalogue of early technical literature and selected lithographs. Philadelphia, 1972.. Brown buckram. Fine. Exhibition catalog. 25 pp. 75 items described. In recognition of the bi-centenary of the birth of Aloys Senefelder. Essay "Alois Senefelder and the Invention of Lithography" by Victor Strauss, p. 9-13. $20.00 61741. Theberge, C. B. Canadiana on your bookshelf. Collecting Canadian books. [Toronto] Dent [1976]. Original cloth. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. Illustrated. 134 pp. $35.00
62634. Theobaldus, Episcopus. Physiologus de naturis duodecim animalium. The Latin text. An English translation by Willis Barnstone, with woodcuts and lithographs by Rudy Pozzatti. Bloomington, Indiana University Press [c1964]. Unbound signatures in original oversize 15" x 22" folding box, as issued. Large printed label on the front cover of the box. Box lightly marked, contents fine. One of 325 numbered copies signed by Pozzatti. The woodcuts were pulled at Il Torcoliere in Rome. The book was designed by George Sadek. The text was hand set and printed with woodcuts from the original blocks by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press. Included in the Grolier Club exhibit, American illustrated books 1945-1965. $400.00
62636. Thompson, Elbert A. Fuind binding in America, the story of the Club Bindery by Elbert A. Thompson and Lawrence S. Thompson. [Urbfana] Beta Phi Mu, 1956. Original brown paper boards. Nicked at head and tail of backstrip, bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine. Chapbook no. 2. [44] pp. 7 full-page plates.
Although not officially connected to the Grolier Club, the Club Bindery (1895-1909) was established by Grolier Club members seeking bookbindings of the quality produced in France and England $35.00 61753. Thompson, Lawrence S. Bibliologia comica, or Humorous aspects of the caparisoning and conservation of books. [Hamden, Connecticut] Archon Books, 1968. Original cloth. Fine in lightly dust-soiled dust jacket. 160 pp. $30.00
67628. Thompson, Lawrance. Emerson and Frost: critics of their times. An essay read before a meeting of the Philobiblon Club at Philadelphia on 24 October 1940, and now privately printed for the Members of the Club. Philadelphia, The Philobiblon Club, 1940. Quarter gray cloth with orange paste-paper boards. Foot of spine bumped, otherwise near fine in slightly rubbed publishers' box. Presentation card laid in. 43 pp. Woodcut portrait of Emerson by James Britton. One of 250 copies printed by Edmund Thompson at Hawthorn House, Windham, Connecticut.
$45.00 61759. Thrower, Norman J. W., ed. The compleat plattmaker, essays on chart, map, and globe making in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1978. Original cloth. Library of Congress surplus duplicate stamp on blank verso of leaf containing the last page of the index. Fine. Contributions by Helen M. Wallis, Thomas R. Smith, Jeannette D. Black, Coolie Verner, David A. Woodward, and the editor. $30.00 61760. Ticknor, Caroline. Hawthorne and his publisher. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. Fine in original cloth. Book-plate on front pastedown, otherwise fine. The publishing house built up by William Davis Ticknor, first alone, and then with his associate, James T. Fields. $60.00 61762. Tietjens, Eunice. The world at my shoulder. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1938. Original green cloth. Inscription on front free endpaper, June 20, 1938 (signature not legible). Pastedowns and endpapers darkened, otherwise very good in soiled and chipped dust jacket with tears. Autobiography by an author long associated with Poetry: a magazine of verse. Illustrated. $35.00
62638. Times Publishing Company. Strike nights in Printing House Square: an episode in the history of The Times. [London] Printed for Private Record, 1926. Original brown cloth. Near fine. 47 pp. Frontispiece, plus 19 illustrations. Contains a letter from Winston Churchill. Woods, Churchill bibliography D(b)41/1. 47 pp. $50.00 61768. Todd, William B., ed. Thomas J. Wise centenary studies. Austin, University of Texas Press [c1959]. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Second printing. Includes John Carter's "Thomas J. Wise in perspective". T/S. $40.00 61769. Tolzmann, Don Heinrich, comp. German Americana: a bibliography. Metuchen, N. J., The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1975. Original cloth. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. "[A] selective list of books, pamphlets, records, photography albums, dissertations, government documents, newspaper and periodical articles which are relevant to the student of German-American history, literature, and culture". 384 pp. $50.00
62640. Tony Shafrazi Gallery. William S. Burroughs. [New York, 1988]. Single sheet folded to form 8 pp. Fine. Includes "Entrance to the Museum of Lost Spaces" by Burroughs. Illustrated. An exhibition December 19 through January 24, 1988. $50.00 61772. Toronto Public Library. A token for friends, being a memoir of Edgar Osborne, an appreciation of the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books. [Toronto, Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections, Toronto Public Library] 1979. Original cloth. Lightly bumped at the head of the backstrip otherwise near fine. Includes a facsimile of Osborne's catalogue "From morality & instruction to Beatrix Potter". The memoir by Judith St. John, the appreciation by Justin G. Schiller. One of 1,500 copies. $25.00 61776. Towner, Wesley. The elegant auctioneers. Completed by Stephen Varble. New York, Hill & Wang [1970]. Original quarter black and maroon cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Undocumented, but containing a great deal of information to which the author was given access. Illustrated. 632 p. T/S. $50.00 61781. Trinity College Library. The Allerton C. Hickmott Ashendene Press Collection at Trinity College. Described and introduced by Caroline R. Danchak and Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz. Hartford, Watkinson Library / Trinity College Library, 1979. Original printed wrappers. Fine. Designed, printed, and bound by Carol J. Blinn of Warwick Press. One of 500 copies. $25.00 61783. Tryon, W. S. Parnassus Corner, a life of James T. Fields, publisher to the Victorians. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket with lightly faded backstrip. Illustrated with 12 pages of photographs. Tanselle / Basic Collection, M/BBT. $35.00 61784. Tryon, Warren S., ed.. The cost books of Ticknor and Fields and their predecessors, 1832-1858. Edited with an introduction and notes by Warren S. Tryon & William Charvat. New York, The Bibliographical Society of America, 1949. Original cloth. Fine. Bibliographical Society of America monograph series no. 2. Tanselle / Basic Collection, M/BBT. $50.00
62643. Trypanis, C. A. The elegies of a glass Adonis. With a typographical note by Will Carter. New York, The Chilmark Press [c1967]. Original paper boards. Lightly bumped at the foot of the backstrip, otherwise fine. In the limitation statement on the copyright page this copy is indicated as being "out of series" in Will Carter's hand. The edition is signed by the author. Laid-in two-line note from Carter reading: "Douglas Cleverdon suggested you might care to review this". Original prospectus laid in. Printed in Frederic Warde's Vincenza italic. Will Carter's typographical note on p. [21]-31 is about the type. $75.00 61792. Turner, Susan J. A history of The Freeman, literary landmark of the early Twenties. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1963. Original tan cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Origin and history of The Freeman, a magazine published from 1920 to 1924. $25.00 61794. Typophiles. Bouquet for BR. A birthday garland gathered by the Typophiles. New York [The Typophiles] 1950. Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Fine. One of 600 copies. Typophile chapbook 24. $45.00 61797. Ullman, B. L. Ancient writing and its influence. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1963. Original cloth. Near fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket with faded backstrip. 234 pp., followed by 16 numbered plates. T/S, R/BH (1932 edition). $25.00
62647. Ullman, Berthold L. The library of the Sorbonne in the Fourteenth Century. [Reprint from "The Septicentennial celebration of the founding of the Sorbonne College in the University of Paris," held at Chapel Hill, February, 1953]. Original stapled wrappers. Light creasing, otherwise very good. Cover-title. P. 33-47. Inscribed by the author at the head of the cover-title: "Cordial greetings / B.L.U.". Correction of a misspelling in a footnote on p. 41. $25.00
62648. University College, London. English libraries 1800-1850: three lectures delivered at University College London by C. B. Oldman, W. A. Munford, Simon Nowell-Smith. London, Published for the college by H. K. Lewis & co. Ltd. [1958]. Original blue wrappers. Lower front corner creased, edges unevenly faded, otherwise fine. Foreword by Raymond Irwin. 78 pp. Oldman's lecture has the title "Sir Anthony Panizzi and the British Museum Library". $35.00 61804. University of Colorado Libraries. Rare books Slavica in the University of Colorado Libraries, Boulder, Colorado, an annotated bibliography. Boulder, Roberts Rinehart, Inc., Publishers [c1987]. Original cloth. Fine. Compiled and edited by Sonia L. Jacobs and Eugene E. Petriwsky. Illustrated. 91 pp. $30.00
62650. University of Iowa Libraries. A catalogue of the Leigh Hunt manuscripts in the University of Iowa Libraries. Compiled by O. M. Brack, Jr., and D. H. Stefanson. Iowa City, Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1973. Original printed wrappers. Corners lightly bumped, otherwise fine. 32 pp. 4 plates reproducing Leigh Hunt manuscripts. 169 items listed. $35.00
62655. University of Texas. The Stanley Marcus collection of Christmas books. On loan to the University of Texas at Austin Academic Center, Christmas 1968. [Austin, The University of Texas, 1968]. Original printed wrappers. White wrappers lightly soiled, otherwise near fine. 119 pp. Illustrated with full-page plates. 1,000 numbered copies (this copy not numbered). $35.00 61811. Unseld, Siegfried, ed. Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt zuliebe, Festschrift zu seinem 60. Geburtstag am 12. Maerz 1968 herausgegeben von Siegfried Unseld. [Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 1968]. Original boards. Boards very lightly soiled. Among the predominantly German-language tributes are contributions by James Baldwin, John Dos Passos, and Henry Miller. Illustrated with photographs. $50.00 61812. Unwin, Stanley. Sir Stanley Unwin: the celebration of his 80th birthday. [Liverpool, Tinlings, 1964]. Original stiff blue paper wrappers. Wrappers unevenly faded, otherwise fine. Inscribed by Stanley Unwin to P. Radcliffe Evans, the producer of the commemorative volume, and with a two-page a.l.s. from Unwin to Evans laid in (the inscription and the letter dated August 1965). Edition limited to 50 copies. 81 p. Date of publication taken from WorldCat. $50.00 61814. Updike, Daniel Berkeley. In the day's work. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1924. Original quarter cloth and decorated paper boards. Pastedowns and free endpapers browned from the dust jacket flaps, otherwise fine in dust jacket with several tears. The title-page is reproduced in Morison and Day's The typographic book, 1450-1935 (entry 333). Printed at the Merrymount Press. In three sections: On the planning of printing, Style in the use of type, The seven champions of typography. A/TT. $50.00 61816. Updike, Daniel Berkeley. Some aspects of printing old and new. New Haven, William Edwin Rudge, 1941. Original cloth. Lower corners bumped, otherwise fine. Printed by Updike at the Merrymount Press. A/TT. $40.00 61817. Uppsala University. Corona amicorum: Studier tillagnade Tonnes Kleberg. Uppsala, 1968. Original printed wrappers. Library of Congress surplus duplicate stamp, otherwise fine. Acta Bibliothecae R. Universitatis Upsaliensis, vol. XV. Studies dedicated to Tonnes Kleberg with a bibliography of his writings, p. 243-[273]. [276] p. Illustrated. Includes Gert Hornwall's "Uppsala Universitets-Biblioteks forsta tryckta historia och dess kritiker", p. 95-109. $50.00
62658. Uzanne, Octave. Librarian Van der Boecken of Rotterdam. Translated by Edward F. Ellis. Buffalo, New York, 1945. Original cloth, printed label on the front cover. Fine. One of 80 copies printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press. May 22/47 a.l.s. of the translator to "Dear Mr. McCaffrey" laid in which he observes that "Originally, George Greenberger had planned to issue my little book with the imprint of the Dinghy Press, but he could not accomplish this. printing before he left the printing business". The recipient is Frank McCaffrey, proprietor of the Dogwood Press in Seattle. The preface notes that the tale first appeared in Uzanne's Contes pour les Bibliophiles (1895). $40.00 61823. Van Hoesen, Henry Bartlett. Bibliography practical, enumerative, historical an introductory manual by Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen and Frank Keller Walter. New York, London, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Original cloth. Corners bumped, otherwise near fine. Illustrated. T/S. $50.00 61824. VanKrimpen, Jan. A letter to Philip Hofer on certain problems connected with the mechanical cutting of punches. Cambridge, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library; Boston, David R. Godine, 1972. Original quarter parchment and paper boards. Fine in dust jacket. A facsimile reproduction of the letter with an introduction and commentary by John Dreyfus. The letter in Van Krimpen's semi-formal italic cursive is 39 pages long. One of 2,000 copies. $30.00 61827. VanPatten, Nathan. An index to bibliographies and bibliographical contributions relating to the work of American and British authors, 1923-1932. [n.p.] Stanford University Press, Stanford University, California, London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934. Original cloth. Fine in lightly soiled dust jacket with short closed tear. 324 pp. $35.00
67689. Van Rooten, Luis d'Antin. Mots d'heures: gousses, rames. The d'Antin manuscript. Discovered, edited, and annotated by Luis d'Antin van Rooten. [New York] Penguin Books [1980]. Illustrated printed cream wrappers. Fine. Unpaginated. $15.00
67624. Vat Paper Makers. Proceedings at a meeting held at The Bell Hotel, Maidstone on Tuesday 8th March 1853 [a facsimile]. [North Hills, Pa. Bird & Bull Press, 1970]. Printed paper wrappers, stab-bound with thread, enclosed in a blue paper folder. Fine. A facsimile made from one of the copies in the possession of J. Barcham Green, Ltd., at Hayle Mill in Maidstone. Taylor & Morris / Twenty-one years of Bird & Bull, A10. $40.00 61830. Vaucaire, Michel. La bibliophilie. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1970. Original printed wrappers. Fine. At head of title: "Que sais-je?" / Le point des connaissances actuelles No 1406. 128 pp. T/S. $25.00 61831. Vaucaire, Michel. Le livre, valeur de placement suivi de L'autographe, valeur de placement [par] Patrice Hennessy. Deuxieme edition revue et augmentee. Paris, Guy Le Prat [c1974]. Original cloth. Fine, without printed dust jacket, as issued. 174 pp. $35.00 61837. Vicary, Richard. Manual of lithography. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons [c1976]. Original cloth. Very fine in dust jacket. "The illustrations show not only details of apparatus and working methods but also lithographs by established and student artists". $30.00
62662. Victoria & Albert Museum. Berthold Wolpe, a retrospective survey. [London] Victoria & Albert Museum and Faber & Faber [1980]. Original printed wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by Wolpe on the half-title: "For Zelma & John G[artner]. / Berthold W. / 15.8.83". The recipient is John Gartner, Australian book-plate designer/distinguished book collector/proprietor of the Hawthorn Press. Introduction by A.S. Osley. Many illustrations, some in color. $35.00 61840. Victoria and Albert Museum. Reynolds Stone 1909-1979, an exhibition held in the Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 21 July to 31 October 1982. [London] Victoria and Albert Museum [c1982]. Original printed wrappers. Fine. Introduction by Ruari McLean. Autobiographical introduction and A note on wood engraving by Reynolds Stone. Illustrated. Catalogue of the exhibit, p. 41-81. $25.00
62663. Vielliard, Francoise. Manuscrits français du moyen age. Catalogue établi par François Vielliard. Avec une introduction de Jacques Monfrin. Cologny-Genève, Fondation Martin Bodmer, 1971. Original shiny paper boards. Fine. 189 pp. 20 full-page plates not included in the pagination. Prospectus laid in. $40.00 61842. Vincent, Leon H. DeWitt Miller, a biographical sketch. Cambridge, printed at the Riverside Press, 1912. Original quarter cloth and paper boards, printed label. Fine in original torn, tissue dust jacket. The work of Bruce Rogers 221. One of 1,000 copies. $50.00 61843. Vindel, Francisco. Catalogo-indice de los incunables impresos en Espana existentes en la Biblioteca Nacional con algunas observaciones sobre las bibliotecas publicas y sobre la adquisicion de libros para las mismas. Madrid, 1935. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Introduction by Vindel followed by the alphabetical listing of incunables by author. Subject index on p. [29]. One of 250 copies. $50.00 61846. Vitale, Philip H. Bibliography, historical and bibliothecal, a handbook of terms and names. Chicago, Loyola University Press [c1971]. Original cloth. Fine. Part I: Terms in the history of writing, printing, publishing, book collecting, book selling, and library development. Part II: Names in the history of writing, printing, publishing, book collecting, book selling, and l. 251 pp. $30.00 61848. Vollard, Ambroise. Souvenirs d'un marchand de tableaux. Paris, Editions Albin Michel [c1937]. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers chipped and dust soiled. 23 plates. 447 pp. $35.00 61850. VonHolst, Niels. Creators, collectors and connoisseurs: the anatomy of artistic taste from antiquity to the present day. Introduction by Herbert Read. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons [c1967]. Original cloth. Lower front corner bumped, else fine in bright dust jacket with a closed tear and a small piece missing from the rear panel. 405 plates, 32 in color. 400 pp. $75.00 61854. Wadlin, Horace G. The public library of the City of Boston, a history. Boston, Massachusetts, printed at the library and published by the Trustees, 1911. Original quarter cloth and paper boards, leather label on the backstrip. Leather label lightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. Illustrated with photolithographs. Chapter 5 is entitled "Gifts to the Library of special collections" and includes a section on the Prince Library. $75.00 61855. Waetzoldt, Wilhelm. Duerer and his times. New York, Phaidon Publishers Inc.; distributed by Oxford University Press [1950]. Original wheat-colored cloth. Fine in torn, soiled, and chipped dust jacket. 160 plates, 8 in color. Translated from the German by R. H. Boothroyd. $60.00 61859. Wakeman, Geoffrey. Victorian book illustration, the technical revolution. Newton Abbot, David & Charles [c1973]. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. 40 numbered illustrations, some full-page. T/S, R/BH. $75.00
62665. Waldron, Philip. The novels of James Joyce. [Wellington, New Zealand, Wai-te-ata Press, 1962]. Original sewn printed wrappers. Fine. A production of the press at Victoria University founded in 1962 by D. F. McKenzie. For an account of the Wai-te-ata Press see The book collector, Winter 1996. With a laid in compliments slip noting that this is "the first sizeable pamphlet to be issued by the Wai-te-ata Press...". Cover-title. One of 300 copies. $75.00 61861. Wallis, L. W. Leonard Jay, master printer-craftsman, first head of the Birmingham School of Printing, 1925-53, an appraisal. London, Charles Skilton Ltd. [1963]. Original cloth. Lower front corner bumped, otherwise fine in dust jacket with one closed tear. Bibliography of books produced by students under the direction of Leonard Jay, pp. 54-106. Illustrations of work issued by the Birmingham School of Printing, pp. 107-[130]. 138 pp. A/TT. $50.00
62667. Walters Art Gallery. The history of bookbinding 525-1950 A.D., an exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art November 12, 1957 to January 12, 1958. Baltimore, Maryland, The Walters Art Gallery, 1957. Original cloth. Book-plate of Russell S. Maranta on the front pastedown, Lower corners bumped, otherwise fine. Inscribed by Dorothy Miner at the end of her Foreword: "To Russell [Maranta]--with all kinds / of good friendship with books in mind! / Dorothy M. / Baltimore / Nov. 20., 1969". Organized by The Walters Art Gallery and presented in cooperation with The Baltimore Museum of Art. 275 pp., followed by 106 numbered full-page plates. Errata slip laid in. Howard M. Nixon assisted with the descriptions of the English bindings, composing some of the entries. Rosenblum / A bibliographic history of the book, p. 187 ("a landmark in the study of bookbinding"). $150.00 61866. Walton, J. K. The quarto copy for the first folio of Shakespeare. [Dublin] Dublin University Press Ltd., 1971. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. With Humanities Press, New York label pasted above the imprint on the title-page and with Humanities Press review slip tipped to the front free endpaper. T/S. $40.00 61867. Warburg, Fredric. An occupation for gentlemen. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. Original quarter cloth and blue paper boards. Corners bumped, otherwise very good in soiled and chipped dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to David Garnett with a brief t.l.s. to Garnett on Secker & Warburg Publishers letter-head laid in (both dated 1971). Illustrated with photographs. M/BBT. $35.00
62668. Ward, Gerald W. R., ed. The American illustrated book in the Nineteenth Century. Winterthur, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum; Charlottesville, distributed by the University Press of Virginia [1987]. Original cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket with a closed tear. Nine essays, including Susan Otis Thompson's "The Arts & Crafts book in America". 273 pp. Illustrated (illustrations separately numbered for each essay). $35.00
62671. Washington University Libraries. Exhibit catalogs. [St. Louis, 1963-1971]. 11 catalogs. Various formats. Attractively designed catalogs, a number of them with texts by William Matheson, at that time Chief of the Rare Book Department. Exhibit catalogs on the Department's manuscript collections, William Faulkner, botany (from the library of the Missouri Botanical Garden), the modern literature collection, recent acquisitions, etc. $40.00 61877. Watkinson, Raymond. Pre-Raphaelite art and design. Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society Ltd. [1970]. Original cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed black dust jacket with short closed tear. 113 numbered illustrations, some in color. 288 pp. $40.00 61878. Watson, James. James Watson's Preface to the history of printing 1713. Edited by James Munro. Greenock, Printed by Thomas Rae, sold from his Signet Press, 1963. Original paper boards. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies. Watson's Preface, the first account of printing in Scotland, issued here on the 250th anniversary of its first publication. T/S (1913 edition). $50.00 61879. Waverly, Inc. A century of progress, 1890-1990. [Baltimore] Williams & Wilkins [1990]. Original cloth. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. A history of Waverly, Inc. Illustrated with photographs. 131 pp. $25.00 61880. Weaver, Peter. Printmaking, a medium for basic design. London, Studio Vista; New York, Reinhold Book Corporation [c1968]. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. An integration of technical procedures of printmaking with the study of basic design. Illustrations, some in color. $25.00 61882. Weber, Carl J. Hardy in America, a study of Thomas Hardy and his American readers. Waterville, Maine, Colby College Press, 1946. Original cloth. Pages [viii] and [ix] lightly darkened from clipping formerly laid in. Otherwise fine in dust jacket missing small pieces along the top edge and with two closed tears. Includes as an appendix, "American publishers of Hardy", pp. 273-288. 321 pp. $40.00 61886. Wedmore, Frederick. Fine prints. Edinburgh, John Grant, 1910. Original cloth. Corners lightly bumped, front hinge cracked, otherwise a fine copy. "New and enlarged edition, with Fifteen illustrations". $30.00 61888. Weidemann, Kurt, ed. Book jackets and record covers, an international survey. New York, Washington, Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers [1969]. Original cloth. Very fine in dust jacket. 427 numbered illustrations. 149 pp. M/BBT (Deutsch, 1969 edition). $60.00 61889. Weintraub, Stanley, ed. The Savoy: Nineties experiment. Edited with an introduction by Stanley Weintraub. University Park and London, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Three-page press release of the Press laid in. Illustrated. $45.00
62674. Weitenkampf, Frank. The quest of the print. New York, London, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. Original cloth. Very good to fine. Inscribed by the author on the recto of the leaf containing the frontispiece on the verso: "To E.G.K. / friend & mentor / gratefully / Frank Weitenkampf / July 22 /32". Presumably the recipient was E. G. Kennedy, whose catalogue of Whistler's etchings is called a "great and useful undertaking" on p. 251 of the book. Includes chapters on what to collect, how to collect, some notable collectors, the care of prints, etc. $40.00 61898. Wemyss, Stanley. The general guide to rare Americana, new and enlarged edition, with auction records and prices. Philadelphia, Stanley Wemyss, 1950. Original cloth. Fine in rubbed dust jacket missing pieces along the top edge. Title continues: A hand book and guide to the rare and notable books relating to America. With chronological and regional inventories of early printed books in the United States and a key to American imprints 1639-1889. 323 pp. $40.00 61901. Wentz, Roby. Haywood Hunt and Hunt Towers, a reminiscence. Los Angeles, Columbian 415 Chappel [n.d.]. Cloth. Very fine. One of 250 copies printed as the first project of Columbia 415 Chappel. Signed by Wentz on the half-title. Wentz quotes Lawton Kennedy on Haywood Hunt: "He was probably more responsible for inspiring more people into proper attitudes toward printing than any other man that I know". $35.00 61902. Wentz, Roby. Western printing, a selective and descriptive bibliography of books and other materials on the history of printing in the Western States 1822-1975. Los Angeles, Dawson's Book Shop, 1975. Original quarter cloth and pictorial paper boards. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. One of 300 copies printed by Richard J. Hoffman. $75.00 61903. Wescher, Paul. Jean Fouquet und seine Zeit. Basel, Holbein-Verlag, 1947. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket with a few soil marks and a short closed tear. Zweite, erweiterte Auflage. Text ending on p. [99], 16 tipped-in plates (some colored) included in the pagination, followed by 76 regular plates. Fouquet (ca. 1425 to 1481) was a leading 15th century French miniature painter. $60.00 61904. Wesleyan University. First appearance in print of some four hundred familiar quotations. Exhibited at The Olin Memorial Library, Wesleyan University. Middletown, Conn., 1935. Original quarter cloth and marbled paper boards, printed paper label on the backstrip. Edges rubbed, otherwise very good. No. 64 of an unspecified number of copies. 261 pp. $50.00 61905. West, Herbert Faulkner. The impecunious amateur looks back, the autobiography of a bookman. Hanover, New Hampshire, Westholm Publications, 1966. Original maroon cloth. Near fine in lightly rubbed black dust jacket with closed tear. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page. One of 500 numbered, signed copies. $65.00 61906. West, Herbert Faulkner. The mind on the wing, a book for readers and collectors. New York, Coward-McCann, Inc. [c1947]. Original black cloth. Corners, lightly bumped, else fine in near fine dust jacket. Lee Groves bookplate on the front pastedown. Includes chapters on the literature of mountaineering, travel, and war, and on Robert Frost, Henry Miller, and H.L. Mencken $25.00 61907. West, Herbert Faulkner. Notes from a bookman. [n.p.] Westholm Publications, 1968. Original quarter cloth and decorated paper boards. Fine in lightly soiled white dust jacket. One of 399 numbered, signed copies. Includes an account of a 1954 visit to Robert Frost's farm. [96] pp. $45.00 61908. West, James L., III. The making of This side of Paradise. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Fine in dust jacket. "James West studies the inception, composition, publication, and textual history of the novel". 140 pp. $25.00 61909. West, James L.W. III. A Sister Carrie portfolio. Charlottesville, Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia [1985]. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Preface: "This book is a pictorial history of the making of Theodore Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie. The images presented here are complementary to the full-dress scholarly edition of Sister Carrie published in the spring. of 1981 by University of Pennsylvania Press". Inscribed the author on the title-page. 87 pp. $35.00 61910. Western Printing Services, Ltd. The Western type book: analysed specimens of Monotype, Linotype and Intertype faces suitable for bookwork and available at Western Printing Services, Bristol. London, Hamish Hamilton for Western Printing Services Ltd. [1960]. Original cloth. Book label of Australian collector on the front pastedown. Lower corners bumped, otherwise fine in lightly soiled yellow dust jacket with several closed tears. With a foreword by Hans Schmoller. Schmoller notes that "Every type size likely to be used for continuous composition is shown as a complete page, usually with one or two different leadings". M/BBT. $50.00 61911. Weston, Harry E. A book on "paper". Syracuse, N.Y, Syracuse University Bookstore [c1927]. Original cloth. Book label on front pastedown. Fine. 21 numbered plates. 77 p. $30.00 61912. Wetherbee, Winthrop. Donn Byrne, a bibliography. New York, The New York Public Library, 1949. Original cloth. Light waterstain along bottom edge of text pages, otherwise very good. $20.00 61915. Whalley, Joyce Irene. Cobwebs to catch flies: illustrated books for the nursery and schoolroom 1700-1900. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1975. Original blue cloth. Very good to fine in dust jacket. Review copy with review slip laid in. 155 numbered plates. T/S, R/BH. $55.00 61918. Whistler, Laurence. Rex Whistler, 1905-1944, his life and his drawings. New York, Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1949. Original cloth. Very good in soiled, rubbed, torn dust jacket missing several pieces. Text ending on p. 47, followed by plates on p. 48-96. With two appendices: Printed books and wrappers decorated by Rex Whistler and Designs for the theatre by Rex Whistler. By Rex Whistler's younger brother. $40.00 61919. White, Christopher. Duerer, the artist and his drawings. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications [1971]. Original cloth. Small spot on top edge, otherwise fine in near fine dust jacket. Introductory essay ending on p. 40, followed by the plates on p. 41-223, each plate with a facing analytical commentary. Eight of the plates are in color. $40.00 61923. Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston Public Library, a centennial history. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1956. Original cloth. Dampstains at the head and foot of the front cover. Otherwise very good in white dust jacket lightly darkened on the backstrip and lightly chipped at the head. Illustrated by Rudolph Ruzicka. T/S. $40.00 61924. Whitehill, Walter Muir. Fred Anthoensen, a lecture given at the Composing Room, New York City, 23 February 1966. [Portland, Anthoensen Press, n.d.]. Original cloth. Very fine in unprinted dust jacket in publisher's box. One of 385 copies. Printed as an epilogue to the Whitehill lecture is a facsimile reproduction of a two-page autograph letter from Paul Standard to Fred Anthoensen. $40.00 61925. Whitehill, Walter Muir. Walter Muir Whitehill. A record compiled by his friends. Minot, Massachusetts, 1958. Original cloth. Bookplate of J.G. Dreyfus on the verso of the front free endpaper, otherwise fine. Includes a Foreword by Julian P. Boyd, The man with the vellum valise by David McCord, and Walter Muir Whitehill: a record, pp. 7-74. One of 500 copies. Printed by the Southworth-Anthoensen Press. 8 pp. of photographs between pp. [16] and [17]. 92 pp. Another copy without bookplate is available as well. $25.00 61928. Widmann, Hans. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Erfinding des Buchdrucks--aus der Sicht der Zeitgenossen des Erfinders. Mainz, Verlag der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1973. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly rubbed at extremities, otherwise very good. Kleiner Druck der Gutenberg-Gesellschaft Nr. 92. $25.00 61930. Wiley, John & Sons, Inc. The first one hundred and fifty years, a history of John Wiley and Sons, Incorporated, 1807-1957. New York, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [c1957]. Original quarter brown and tan cloth. Very good. Tanselle / Basic Collection (under Matheson, Martin), M/BBT. $35.00 61931. Wiley, John, & Sons. One hundred and seventy five years of publishing. New York [etc.] John Wiley & Sons [c1982]. Original cloth. Lower corners lightly bumped, otherwise near fine. Wiley compliments slip laid in. From the preface: "...John Hammond Moore, a professional historian and Wiley author, wrote most of this book". Illustrated. $30.00 61933. William H. Welch Medical Library. The William H. Welch Medical Library of The Johns Hopkins University, an account of the origin and development, together with a description of the building. [Baltimore, The Williams & Wilkins Company, c1930]. Original quarter black and maroon cloth. Very good. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, v. 46, no. 1, January 1930. 153 pp. $50.00 61934. William L. Clements Library. A bibliography of Randolph G. Adams, with an introductory memoir. Ann Arbor, William L. Clements Library, published for The Clements Library Associates, 1962. Original printed wrappers. Fine. One of 750 copies. $15.00
62683. William L. Clements Library. Randolph Greenfield Adams 1892-1951. Ann Arbor, The Clements Library Associates, 1951. Original printed wrappers. Lower corner of wrappers bumped, otherwise fine. Unpaginated. Tribute to Adams, director of the Library. Resolution from the Executive Committee of the Clements Library Associates. $20.00
62684. Williams, Iolo A. Points in eighteenth-century verse, a bibliographer and collector's scrapbook. London, Constable & Co. Ltd.; New York, R. R. Bowker Co., 1934. Original quarter parchment and marbled paper boards. Fine. One of 500 copies. "The pleasures of collecting" by Williams, p. 3-21. Number 7 in the Bibliographia series edited by Michael Sadleir. Four plates in collotype and nine facsimiles. 144 pp. $150.00 61941. Williamson, Hugh, comp. Photocomposition at the Alden Press, Oxford: a printer's type-specimen book. London, Sydney, Toronto, The Bodley Head, for the Alden Press, Oxford [1981]. Original cloth. Fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket. From the introduction: "This type-specimen book is an introduction to [the Alden Press'] photocomposition only". $25.00 61943. Williamson, William Landram. William Frederick Poole and the modern library movement. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1963. Original cloth. Book-plate and ownership markings of Lee Edmonds Grove. Corners lightly bumped, otherwise near fine in lightly soiled dust jacket. 4 photographs as illustrations. 203 pp. T/S. $35.00 61946. Wilson, Adrian. The design of books. New York, Reinhold Publishing Corporation; London, Studio Vista [c1967]. Original cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Reproduces layouts from the Nuremberg Chronicle. Extensively illustrated. T/S, R/BH. $60.00 61948. Wilson, Edmund. The fruits of the MLA. [New York] A New York Review Book [1968]. Original printed wrappers. Fine. 47 pp. T/ISE. $40.00 61952. Wilson, John Dover. Milestones on the Dover Road. London, Faber and Faber [1969]. Original cloth. Near fine in unevenly faded, lightly soiled dust jacket with several short tears. Reminiscences. Includes a chapter "How I came to edit Shakespeare". T/S. $35.00
62687. Wilson, N. G. Manuscripts of Byzantine chant in Oxford [by] N. G. Wilson and D. I. Stefanovic. Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1963. Original printed wrappers. Fine. 56 pp. 6 numbered plates. Appendix 1: Manuscripts in other British libraries, p. 52-3. Appendix 2: Two Russian manuscripts, p. 54-5. $35.00 61957. Winship, George Parker. Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press of Boston, Massachusetts 1860-1894-1941. Rochester, New York, The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1947. Original cloth. Very good in torn dust jacket missing several pieces. Illustrated. Tanselle / Basic Collection, A/TT. $25.00 61958. Winship, George Parker. John Gutenberg, a lecture at the University of Pennsylvania delivered on February 14, 1940 by the Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1940. Original stiff marbled paper wrappers. Fine in cellophane dust jacket. One of 900 copies. R/BH. $35.00
62689. Winship, George Parker. A list of books printed in the Fifteenth Century in the John Carter Brown Library and the General Library of Brown University, Providence Rhode Island. Oxford, printed at the University Press, 1910. Original quarter linen and darker tan paper boards. Fine, largely unopened, with hinges intact but a crack in the middle of the text block. 19 pp. A supplement to the catalogue of the General Rush C. Hawkins fifteenth-century books in the Annmary Brown Memorial. Though the number of fifteenth-century titles is not large their quality is astounding: the Catholicon, the 1462 Fust and Schoeffer Bible, six [!] fifteenth-century editions of the Columbus letter, etc. Winship in a foreword notes that "[t]he larger number of books in this list belong properly to a collection of Americana". Indexes of towns, printers, and authors and books. $75.00 61961. Winterich, John T. Early American books & printing. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. Original red cloth. Fine in dust jacket. Tanselle / Basic Collection, A/TT, R/BH. Eight full-page illustrations. $40.00
62690. Winterich, John T. The Grolier Club 1884-1967, an informal history. New York, The Grolier Club, 1967. Original quarter cloth and paper boards decorated with a Grolier Club device. Fine in original box. One of 2,000 copies. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press. 49 pp. 8 full-page plates. $35.00 61965. Wise, Thomas J. Letters of Thomas J. Wise to John Henry Wrenn, a further inquiry into the guilt of certain Nineteenth-Century forgers. Edited by Fannie E. Ratchford. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. Publisher's cloth. Corners bumped, otherwise very good in lightly soiled dust jacket missing small piece on back panel. First edition. T/S. $50.00
67627. Wolf, Edwin, 2nd. At the instance of Benjamin Franklin. A brief history of The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1731-1976. Philadelphia, The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1976. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. 55 pp. Illustrated. $15.00 61971. Wolf, Edwin. Rosenbach, a biography by Edwin Wolf 2nd with John F. Fleming. Cleveland and New York, World Publishing Company [c1960]. Publisher's cloth. Very good in lightly chipped dust jacket with short tears. First edition. T/S, M/BBT, R/BH. $60.00
62694. Wolpe, Berthold. Preliminary notes from a study of the life & work of John de Beauchesne. [n.p., printed by Robert Stockwell Ltd., 1975]. Original plain blue wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by Wolpe in the colophon: "For John Gartner / Berthold Wolpe / 15.5.83" (Gartner, the distinguished Australian book collector / book-plate designer / proprietor of the Hawthorn Press). One of 50 numbered copies. The title at the head of the text is John de Beauchesne & the first English writing-books. Publication information taken from WorldCat. 11 pp. 4 plates. $45.00 61986. Woods, James Chapman. Old and rare books, an elementary lecture delivered at the Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea, on March 2nd, 1885. London, Elliot Stock, 1885. Original vellum wrappers. Endpapers and inside wrappers foxed. "I am not at all sure but that one of the wisest collections that could be made nowadays would be of children's books". 35 p. $35.00 61990. Wright, Louis B. The British tradition in America. Birmingham [Alabama] Printed by Trustees of the Rushton Lectures, 1954. Original cloth. Near fine. Presentation slip of The Rushton Lectures laid in. By the then director of the Folger Library. 34 pp. $30.00 61992. Wright, Stuart. Peter Taylor, a descriptive bibliography, 1934-87. Charlottesville, Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia [1988]. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. $40.00 61993. Wright, Stuart. Randall Jarrell, a descriptive bibliography, 1929-1983. Charlottesville, Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia [1986]. Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Fine in dust jacket. 372 pp. $30.00 61994. Wright, Stuart. Reynolds Price, a bibliography 1949-1984 by Stuart Wright and James L. W. West III. Charlottesville, Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia [1986]. Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. $30.00 61997. Wroth, Lawrence C. The first century of the John Carter Brown Library, a history with a guide to the collection. Providence, Rhode Island, The Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1946. Original quarter cloth and marbled paper boards. Near fine. Printed by the Merrymount Press. T/S. $25.00
62702. Wroth, Lawrence C. The John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. Providence, Rhode Island, Privately Printed [n.d.]. Original quarter Japanese vellum, paper boards, gold label on the front cover. Fine. Compliments slip of Eugene A. Clauss, for whom Wroth wrote the book, laid in. 35 pp. One of 450 numbered copies. $30.00 62002. Wyer, Malcolm Glenn. Books and people: short anecdotes from a long experience. [Denver, The Old West Publishing Co., c1964]. Original cloth. Cloth slightly soiled, otherwise very good. One of 775 signed and numbered copies. From the author's preface: "[The book] is a group of some non-related incidents in a librarian's life". 150 pp. $25.00
67667. Yale College. Catalogue of books in the Linonian, Brothers', and Moral libraries. New Haven, Printed by Oliver Steele, 1814. Printed wrappers. Cover-title. Ownership name, David Booth Jr., 1819 and other pen marks on the title-page. Stab holes on the left side, 4 signatures sewn. Fine. [26] pp. Total number of volumes printed on the back wrapper: 2017 / $400.00
62705. Zamorano Club. In memoriam; tributes paid at the bier of Henry Raup Wagner, April 1, 1957. [Los Angeles, n.d.]. Original printed wrappers. Fine. 300 copies printed at the press of Anderson, Ritchie & Simon. Tributes by Phil Townsend Hanna, Marcus Esketh Crahan, Lawrence Clark Powell, and Francis Peloubet Farquhar. 14 pp. $35.00 62015. Zinnel, Geo. H. Forgeries--handwriting: something for nothing. [n.p., Geo. H. Zinnel, 1931]. Original ribbed maroon cloth. Heraldic bookplate of Colin Fitzgerald Mackenzie on the front pastedown, extremities lightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. 142 pp. $40.00
67660. Zohn, Harry, ed. Liber amicorum Friderike Maria Zweig. In honor of her seventieth birthday December 4 1952. Foreword by George N. Shuster. [Stamford, Dahl Publishing Company, 1952]. Red embossed cloth. Fine. First edition. 111 pp. No. 153 of 200 copies. Obituary clippings laid in. Ms Zweig was 88 when she died. Contributors include Max Brod, Frans Masereel, Andre Maurois, Jules Romains, Thornton Wilder, among others. $50.00
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