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Collection of Ephemera Relating to the Marketing of Books

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Collection of ephemera relating to the marketing of books, consisting of prospectuses, adverts, catalogs, etc.

This collection was purchased as a dealer lot. It does not represent a private collector's purposeful collecting strategy.

Purchase, 2014.

Finding aid created via automated processes by Regine Heberlein, 2017.

Publisher
Rare Book Collection
Finding Aid Date
2017
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Open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

This series contains pamphlets dated before 1800.

Arrangement

Arrangement follows the order of the original Excel inventory.

Physical Description

2 boxes

42384. Compaing, Monsig.: Agli illustriss. e reverendiss. Monsignori vescovi d'Italia [heading title], 1782. 1 box.
General

Author: Compaing, Monsig.

Venezia: Pietro Valvasense.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (210 mm.); uncut, fine. Prospectus announcing the publication of "l'Opera della Santità, e de'Doveri de'Sacerdoti".

Physical Description

1 box

41255. Grose, Francis: The antiquities of England and Wales: being a collection of views of the most remarkable ruins and antient buildings, accurately drawn on the spot. To each view is added, an historical account of its situation, when and by whom built, with every interesting circumstance relating thereto; collected from the best authorities, 1772. 1 box.
General

Author: Grose, Francis

London: S. Hooper

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaged; 6 engraved half-page illustrations; self wrappers, edges a bit toned and spotted, faint stain at bottom right-hand corner of upper cover, else very good. Prospectus for a 6 volume work (1772-1787), in which are reproduced specimen illustrations from Canterbury, Ipswich, Odiam, Colchester, and Southampton, with detailed descriptions. The whole printed on exceptionally thick paper. Penn State and Toronto only of the prospectus in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

36303. King, Edward: Vestiges of Oxford Castle., 1796. 1 box.
General

Author: King, Edward

London: W. Bulmer & Co.

Scope and Contents

4to; pp. iv, 30; 5 plates from the work (pls. CXXVI-CXXX); prospectus for a piece described as "a small fragment of a work, intended to be published speedily; on the history of antient castles; and on the progress of architecture". Green boards, edges and corners worn, pages untrimmed.

Physical Description

1 box

40747. Alexander, William: Costume of China. Speedily will be published. Sketches from nature, made in China, in the year 1793, 1797. 1 box.
General

Author: Alexander, William

London: G. Nicol.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (321 mm.); a few shallow tears along left-hand edge, evidence of having been previously tipped-in on right margin; a very good copy. Prospectus for the rare first edition, issued in four parts, 1797-1799, containing 48 colored engravings by Alexander, the junior draftsman on the Macartney Embassy to China. Full page contemporary manuscript "Curious Predictions 2" on verso, entirely about the predicted fall of Napoleon. This prospectus unrecorded.

Physical Description

1 box

42494. Bickham, George: Proposals for printing by subscription the Universal penman, 1742. 1 box.
General

Author: Bickham, George

London: Bickham, George.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (408 x 246 mm.); moderate foxing and soiling, hinged to mat; very good. Scarce Broadside for "the most curious book of its kind hitherto extant," soliciting subscribers for the second (and first complete) issue in parts of Bickham's magnum opus, the outstanding English writing manual of the 18th-century, following the 1733-1741 serial first issue also published by subscription. According to Muir, the Bickham venture was "the first recorded attempt to issue in periodical parts a work that was intended for subsequent issue in book form" (P.H. Muir, "The Bickhams and their Universal Penman," The Library, series 4, Volume 25, pages 162, 165, and 185).

Filed under Bick.

Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

This series contains pamphlets dated after 1800 and before 1900.

Arrangement

Arrangement follows the order of the original Excel inventory.

Physical Description

4 boxes

Payne, John Howard: Jam jehan nima., 1833. 1 item.
General

Author: Payne, John Howard

New York: John Howard Payne

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 8; "prospectus of...a weekly periodical upon a plan never before attempted". Text in two columns. Previous folds, edges and corners worn, tear to last leaf through middle of last paragraph, text still legible. Back leaf provides List of subscribers. With TLS from the author to Webb, Esq., written "in the hope of adding to my number of subscribers".

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

Eastman, Edwin: Seven and nine years among the Camanches (sic) and Apaches, 1873. 1 item.
General

Author: Eastman, Edwin

Jersey City, N.J.: Clark Johnson

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 8; wood-engraving portraits and illustrations throughout, text in two columns, first describing Eastman's supposed kidnapping before giving over to the advertising of a magical panacea discovered by Eastman during his time with the Indians. The work is described by G.P. Garrison as "a revolting fictitious story written to advertise Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian blood syrup."

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

Collectio classicorum latinorum, 1820. 1 item.
General

Stamperia del Seminario di Padova.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (189 mm.); contemporary owner's unobtrusive ink marks, else near fine. Publisher's list of titles from the series, which include the works of Julius Caesar, Catullus, and Cicero, among many others.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

38112. Frazer, Alexander: A key to the prophecies of the Old and New Testaments, which are not yet accomplished...First American edition, 1802. 1 box.
General

Author: Frazer, Alexander

Philadelphia: David Hogan

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (263 mm.); toned, edges trimmed, very good. Prospectus from the Philadelphia Repository, Extra, for Saturday, November 13, 1802; provides the work's table of contents. Postscript to the Extra printed on verso, along with a small advertisement for James Carson's "A Practical Grammar of the English Language" and a proposal for a collection of sacred music.

Physical Description

1 box

36435. Carey, Mathew: Bible, 1803. 1 box.
General

Author: Carey, Mathew

Philadelphia: Mathew Carey

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to, text only on front cover; printed letter dated August 18, 1803, "Sir, I take the liberty to send you herewith a specimen of the paper, printing, and engravings of my standing Edition of the Bible". Integral letter addressed to Mr. W.W. Woodward, red wax seal; top third cleanly separated from the bottom due to previous folds. This Mathew Carey prospectus not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

36263. [Dennie, Joseph]: The port folio, a monthly miscellany, dedicated, in cheif, to original communications in the popular departments of science combined with occasional criticism, clasical disquisitions, miscellaneous essays, records of the progress of the fine and useful arts, with all the extensive and variegated departments of polite literature, merriment and wit. Conduted by Oliver Oldschool, Esq., 1809. 1 box.
General

Author: [Dennie, Joseph]

Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 11; prospectus for Dennie's periodical, either written wholly or in part by him. Soiling, tear to front leaf not affecting text, edges and corners worn and chipped. BAL 4640.

Physical Description

1 box

42364. Trommsdorff, Bartolomeo: La callopistria ossia la chimica diretta al bello del mondo elegante...Traduzione dal tedesco con aggiunte del dottor Giovanni Pozzi, 1815. 1 box.
General

Author: Trommsdorff, Bartolomeo

Milano: Giovanni Silvestri.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (164 x 108 mm.); mostly fine. Prospectus for the "edizione secunda notabilmente aumentata".

Physical Description

1 box

42365. Arrigo da Settimello: Arrighetto ovvero trattato contro all'avversità della fortuna...Edizione eseguita sul teste del 1730, 1815. 1 box.
General

Author: Arrigo da Settimello

Milano: Giovanni Silvestri.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (170 x 104 mm.); fine. Sample title pages of this and the publisher's "Saggio Poetico ossia le tre guerre puniche in ottava rima".

Physical Description

1 box

42362. Vico, Giambattista: Principj di scienza nuova...d'intorno alla comune natura delle nazioni colla vita dell'autore, 1816. 1 box.
General

Author: Vico, Giambattista

Milano: Tipografia di Giovanni Silvestri.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; edges a bit worn, else very good. Prospectus for the sixth edition with additional advertisements for Scheidlein's "Analisi della Processura Civile Austriaca ovvero Schiarimenti sul Regolamento Giudiziario Civile" and Giuseppe Marocco's "Della Necessita di un Difensore nelle Cause Criminali qualunque sia la Processura Penale".

Physical Description

1 box

42363. Chesterfield, Lord: Avvertimenti di Lord Chesterfield a suo figlio intorno agli uomini ed ai costumi, ossia nuovo sistema d'educazione, 1816. 1 box.
General

Author: Chesterfield, Lord

Milano: Tipografia di Giovanni Silvestri.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (167 x 99 mm.); near fine. Prospectus for an Italian translation of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman.

Physical Description

1 box

36425. Nares, Robert: Illustrations of difficult words and phrases occurring in the English writers of the age of Elizabeth., 1818. 1 box.
General

Author: Nares, Robert

London: Bensley and Son

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; grey printed wrappers in which is bound a sample section of the dictionary (BAR-BED), the leaves of which have been trimmed to size, affecting text; back leaf advertising the publication of six other titles from the same press. Contemporary autograph note to back cover.

Physical Description

1 box

36287. The American practical, moral and religious catechism, to which is annexed a variety of easy and interesting reading lessons, for young scholars, tending to promote sentiments of morality and virtue., 1821. 1 box.
General

New York

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (320 mm.). Proposal "for the printing by subscription" of this work, which does not appear to have made it to print. Manuscript list of subscribers bottom 2/3 of leaf. Previous folds, ink stains to Broadside verso, name of compiler and original price have been crossed out, small circular loss where the price has been marked out. A rare, unrecorded prospectus.

Physical Description

1 box

41975. Johnson, John: Typographia; or, the printers' instructor, 1822. 1 box.
General

Author: Johnson, John

London: Apollo Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; toning, chips and tears along edges, much of spine perished, else good. 3 reduced specimen pages from the octavo, twelves, and eighteens editions provided. Prospectus advertises the 2-volume work as "in the Press, And will appear in the ensuing Spring," although the first edition does not seem to have appeared until 1824. Prospectus not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

43206. Hornor, Thomas: Prospectus. View of London, and the surrounding country, taken with mathematical accuracy from an observatory purposely errected over the cross of St. Paul's Cathedral, 1823. 1 box.
General

Author: Hornor, Thomas

London: Hornor, T.

Scope and Contents

Second edition, 8vo, pp. 31; folding engraved frontispiece, 1 lithographic folding plate, and 2 additional multifolding plates; original pictorial wrappers, respined, edges worn with small losses to corners; some interior foxing, else very good and sound. Thomas Hornor, a talented perspective draughtsman, obtained permission to build a shack on the scaffolding erected on St. Paul's for replacing the ball and cross above the Cathedral's dome. On it Hornor proposed to draw a huge panorama of London, which this Prospectus offers to the public in the form of four engravings. This was to be supplemented by a Select View in London and its Neighbourhood, a work of one hundred engravings available in ten fascicles. Neither project was ever completed, making the prospectus itself the only printed result of Hornor's work.

Physical Description

1 box

42455. Redouté, Pierre Joseph.: Les roses par P. J. Redouté, peintre de fleurs ... avec le texte par C. A. Thorry ... edition in-octavo quarante livraisons in-8°, de quatre plances coloriées chacune, au prix de 3 fr. 50 cent. Prospectus... [cover title], 1824. 1 box.
General

Author: Redouté, Pierre Joseph.

Paris: Panckoucke, C. L. F.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 4; engraved printed color plate of the Rosa centifolia; original brown printed wrappers; stitched,as issued; fine. The publisher's original prospectus for the octavo edition of Redouté's Les Roses, published in 3 volumes 1824-26. Includes 3 pages of text outlining the scope of the work, and details on ordering and the schedule of publication is outlined on the back wrapper. See Sitwell, Great Flower Books, p. 128.

Physical Description

1 box

42381. Manifesto d'associazione [heading title], 1829. 1 box.
General

Torino: Marzorati, Vercellotti, e Comp.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, else near fine. Prospectus for the Biblioteca Economica, religious works, and others.

Physical Description

1 box

42373. Associazione allo specchio geografico, 1831. 1 box.
General

Roma: Presso Giunchi.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaged; original self wrappers, top edge a bit darkened, minor wear from handling, else near fine. Order form laid in.

Filed under P.

Physical Description

1 box

42374. Vallardi, Giuseppe: Manuale calcografico per l'artista, il mercante e l'amatore, 1832. 1 box.
General

Author: Vallardi, Giuseppe

Milano: Pietro e Giuseppe Vallardi.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. xvi; self wrappers; some spotting along top edge, else fine. Contains an important programmatic manifesto followed by the description of the new work with prices.

Filed under V.

Physical Description

1 box

43068. Torrey, Jesse, Jr.: The national library, advocate of civil and religious liberty; or Universal repository of useful knowledge. Vol. I, no. 1. May 15, 1833, 1833. 1 box.
General

Author: Torrey, Jesse, Jr.

Philadelphia: Sleeper, J.R.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 16; stitched self-wrappers, untrimmed; edges darkened and a bit foxed; over all very good. "The National Library is intended to be a domestic repository or cyclopaedia of essential information, moral, civil, physiological, medical, mechanical, agricultural, scientific, and miscellaneous." This introductory pamphlet is a prospectus demonstrating that the Library and Advocate will be "an independent, impartial messenger of intelligence." The maiden issue present articles on the Washington Reformation, Nullification, paper money and banking, Medical Reformation, and inter alia, "An Essay on Native Depravity," by "A Friend to Mankind". Not in American Imprints or Sabin.

Physical Description

1 box

42375. Missel selong les différens rites de l'église catholique, 1840. 1 box.
General

Paris: François Pastori et Comp.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 6, [1]; steel-engraved vignette, full-page illustration on p. [7]; unbound self wrappers; small loss to bottom right-hand corner not affecting text, else very good. Subscription bulletin laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38062. [Miss Leslie's magazine], 1843. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: Miss Leslie's Magazine

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large 8vo (262 mm.); color decorative boarder of birds, butterflies, and flowers; stains and foxing, minor tear to bottom left hand edge not affecting text. Heading reads "To the Ladies," dated 1st. March, 1843, and is signed by F. Quarre. Although the piece does not mention the name of the journal, the dates and contents suggest that it is an advertisement for Miss Leslie's Magazine, which ran from January to December, 1843.

Physical Description

1 box

38067. Yes: The congressional globe and appendix, 1843. 1 box.
General

Author: Yes

Washington City: Blair & Rives

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (340 mm.); stains, small tear to top edge and loss between heading and text, not affecting text; printed in two columns. Prospectus for this Washington-based newspaper "made up of the daily proceedings of the two Houses of Congress...The Appendix is made up of the President's annual message, the reports of the principal officers of the Government that accompany it, and all the long speeches of members of Congress." Blank space at bottom in which to list the subscribers' names. OCLC locates one copy of this prospectus, at the New York Historical Society.

Physical Description

1 box

36255. Seyfred, J.F.: Anglo-Romaic reader: Or guide to a practical knowledge of the modern Greek language. Containing new and plain rules on pronunciation; the parts of speech exemplified; familiar and elementary phrases; dialogues; select pieces in prose and verse, &c. The whole with a literal translation into English., 1845. 1 box.
General

Author: Seyfred, J.F.

New York: J.F. Trow & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to, prospectus with integral address leaf with 1 1/2 p. autograph letter signed by Henry Bernhard addressed to J.A. Kerly of East Hampton, Long Island. Address panel, postal hand stamps, red wax seal. Previous folds, minor foxing, some toning on address leaf, small circular loss at tail of address leaf at seal, but not affecting manuscript.

Filed under T.

Physical Description

1 box

45459. Neale, Wm. L.: True American, 1845. 1 box.
General

Author: Neale, Wm. L.

Lexington, Kentucky: True American

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed receipt (approx. 5.1 x 15.9 cm) accomplished in manuscript; typographical decoration along left-hand edge; fine. Receipt from the office of the anti-slavery newspaper The True American, which ran in 1845 and 1846, made out to the publisher George Merriam. Dated June 8, 1845, just a few days after the first appearance of this publication, on the 3rd. Merriam paid $2.50 for a year's subscription. Signed by Wm. L. Lane. The paper was published weekly by Cassius Marcellus Clay (cousin of Henry Clay).

Physical Description

1 box

36258. Worcester magazine and historical journal., 1845. 1 box.
General

Worcester, Mass.: William Lincoln and Chris C. Baldwin

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (247 mm.) prospectus for the publication of a new periodical, of which, we are told, "No work of the same size and style of execution has been offered at a price so moderate as this". Verso side provides conditions and order form. Small tears from previous folds not affection text.

Physical Description

1 box

36259. The national intelligencer., 1849. 1 box.
General

Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 4 leaf pamphlet, pages uncut, 4to; prospectus with integral address leaf. Address panel "To the postmaster at Lyme, N.H.", postal stamps. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36298. The Union Democrat., 1851. 1 box.
General

Manchester, N.H.: W.H. Gilmore & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long 4to (353 mm.); "Prospectus for a Democratic paper at the City of Manchester...To the Democrats of the County of Hillsborough and the patrons of the Manchester Democrat in particular." Bottom half provides room as an order order form.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

44664. Webster, Daniel.: Proposals for publishing by subscription a new and uniform edition of the speeches, forensic arguments, and diplomatic papers of..., 1851. 1 box.
General

Author: Webster, Daniel.

Boston: Little and Brown i.e. Little, Brown

Scope and Contents

4to, bifolium printed on blue paper; text printed on p. [1] only; previous folds, small loss from wax seal damage not affecting text, else very good. Announcement of a new annotated edition of the minor works of Webster to be published in six volumes, including 200 copies to be printed on large paper. Manuscript lettered signed "Little & Brown" addressed to Messrs. G and C. Merriam regarding an order of 10 copies of two titles (Chitty's Pleadings (?), in 3 volumes, and one other).

Physical Description

1 box

37555. New books and new editions published by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. 1 box.
General

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; list of publications includes Henry W. Longfellow's writings; Nathaniel Hawthorne's writings; and Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister" and "Faust". Disbound.

Physical Description

1 box

43896. Pitts, F.E.: Zion's harp, 1852. 1 box.
General

Author: Pitts, F.E.

Louisville: Stevenson, E.

Scope and Contents

New edition, "very much enlarged, and otherwise improved," bifolium, 4to; previous folds, contemporary hand has cancelled the drop title "Will be ready about the first of June, 1852," and replaced it in manuscript with "is now ready & out"; minor ink spots and soiling, else very good and sound. Advertisement for three religious works, the first being a collection of hymns; the latter two titles are "Sermons for the College, being a collection of original sermons, contributed by distinguished ministers of different Protestant denominations in the United States together with two sermons by eminent living ministers of England: to which is added a supplementary essay by Rev. Thos. F. Akers," third edition; and "Lights of Temperance. A new work," edited by James Young, third edition.

Physical Description

1 box

43914. Baldwin, Jo. G.: Party leaders, 1854. 1 box.
General

Author: Baldwin, Jo. G.

New York: D. Appleton & Company.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; printed on pale grey paper, text on p. [1] only; previous folds, small tear affecting the "P" in "Party," else very good and sound. Autograph note signed on p. [3]; integral envelope, wax seal intact. Advertisement circular for Baldwin's collection of "politico-biographical sketches of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and John Randolph of Roanoke".

Physical Description

1 box

39284. Cooper, J. Fenimore: A new and improved edition of the entire works...with all his latest corrections and revisions; entitled the people's edition. With an elaborate life of the author, 1854. 1 box.
General

Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore

New York: Stringer & Townsend.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large 4to (277 mm.); a bit toned along previous folds, shallow tears not affecting text; a good copy. Prospectus for this one-volume edition of Fenimore's works, announced 3 years arter his death. Includes a "blurb" by Victor Hugo, "the greatest of contemporary romanticists and critics, declares that Cooper is a creator indeed 'a prodigious genius'".

Physical Description

1 box

42377. Cecchetti, Bartolomeo: Programma di un'opera generale sull'arte vetraria, 1861. 1 box.
General

Author: Cecchetti, Bartolomeo

Venezia: Tipografia del Commercio.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 18, [1]; pictorial grey wrappers (soiling), edges toned and spotted, some wear from handling; rubber stamp "Biblioteca Malfèr" inside front wrapper, else interior fine.

Physical Description

1 box

42355. The laws of Nevada territory, 1862. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Kenny & Alexander.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (210 x 132 mm.); printed on blue paper; previous folds, small embossed stamp, Kent Mills Commercial; near fine. The earliest publishing prospectus for the Nevada Territory, here issued just after Nevada was organized as a territory and, auspiciously, advertising the impending publication of its first session laws: "Containing the Organic Act creating the Territory; a full List of all the Federal and Territorial Officers; also, the names of Members and Officers of the Legislative Assembly".

Physical Description

1 box

44706. The fire lands' pioneer. Enlarged edition, 1864. 1 box.
General

Norwalk, OH: Fire Lands' Historical Society.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text printed on p. [1] only; previous folds, else about fine. With an autograph letter signed by the secretary of the Society Committee's D.H. Pease, asking Henry White, Esq., of New Haven, "to...call the attention of those friends in the 'Mother' State who feel an interest in the history of the 'Fire Lands'". Prospectus for a fifth volume of the Fire Lands' Historical Society Pioneer. Canvassing agent's integral order blank printed at bottom of p. [1].

Physical Description

1 box

36260. The phrenological journal and life illustrated., 1871. 1 box.
General

New York: S.R. Wells

Scope and Contents

Single leaf folded into 8-sided brochure, 8vo; prospectus for the 1871 issue of the periodical; wood-engraving illustrations of six examples of phrenological types (Intelligence vs. imbecility, for example). Includes offer of a Grover and Baker sewing machine, the year's premium list, an order form, and publicity for the publication of Samuel R. Well's Works for home improvement and Works on physiology and hygiene. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37798. Browning, George: A memoir of the late Emperor Napoleon III, and a political poem entitled "Rip Van Winkle", 1873. 1 box.
General

Author: Browning, George

London: Croft & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (201 mm.); prospectus for this historical novel. Reprinted from the Antiquary, May 24th, 1873. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36253. Hotze, C.L.: First lessons in physics., 1873. 1 box.
General

Author: Hotze, C.L.

St. Louis: Hendricks, Chittenden & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo, wood-engraving illustration of experiment intruments, red bordering, blue advertisement for Hotze's first lessons in physiology pasted to front. Previous folds with small loss left edge not affecting text, stain to back cover.

Physical Description

1 box

36297. Smith, Walter: The American Drawing-Models, for the use of common schools, drawing classes, and schools of art and science., 1873. 1 box.
General

Author: Smith, Walter

Boston: James R. Osgood Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; wood-engraving of "Representation of set no. 1" on back of prospectus; letter from the publisher concerning art education; lists of the materials, special features, and general features, and prices for each set (Set no. 1, which consists of thirty pieces "selected from the most useful and beautiful geometrical figures and curved forms, and includes New Adjustable Model-Stand," $20).

Physical Description

1 box

42379. Regali ritratto del S. Padre Pio IX..., 1876. 1 box.
General

Modena: Tip. Pontifica ed Arciv. dell'imm. Concezione.

Scope and Contents

Oblong 8vo, pp. 15; text printed in triple columns; self-wrappers; covers foxed, the whole rather toned, else very good. Prospectus for a portrait of Father Pius IX promising books for parish libraries to be free of charge.

Physical Description

1 box

37610. Palmer, A. Smythe: Folk-etymology: a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy, 1882. 1 box.
General

Author: Palmer, A. Smythe

Dublin: Bell and Sons

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (260 mm.); prospectus for this and one other title, Palmer's "Leaves from a Word-hunter's Note Book: being some Contributions in English Etymology". Edges worn with shallow tears and discoloration; previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37673. Green, Samuel A.: Groton during the Indian Wars, 1883. 1 box.
General

Author: Green, Samuel A.

Boston: Geo. E. Littlefield

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for "a chronicle and narration of the part taken by the brave and earnest settlers of Groton, in the struggles with King Phillip and the Indains of later date"; list of titles from the same author and list of titles from the Town Histories series included. Edges and corners slightly worn, some discoloration, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

45458. [Temple, Josiah.]: History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts, 1888. 1 box.
General

Author: [Temple, Josiah.]

North Brookfield: Town of North Brookfield, Mass.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 52; folding panorama plate, 7 additional maps and plates, some photographic; original blue printed wrappers, ex-New York Public Library with faint rubber stamps throughout, small loss at spine foot, minor chipping along edges, else very good and sound. Promotional work include the table of contents, testimonials, press opinions, and specimen pages. Includes numerous testimonials by United States senators, librarians, former governors, and one chief justice of the Supreme Court. Pamphlet title: "Prospectus of the History of North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Testimonials of the value of the work and some specimens from its pages."

Filed under Town.

Physical Description

1 box

42791. [Lewis, Harriet Newell O'Brien]: Lady Kildare, or, The rival claimants, 1888. 1 box.
General

Author: [Lewis, Harriet Newell O'Brien]

New York: The New York Ledger.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (304 x 195 mm.); decorative mast head of the newspaper, half-page illustration of the title character signed "Filmer Sc."; cream colored wove paper, name and address of Alice Pratt, Connecticut, in manuscript on verso with stamp and Brooklyn, NY postal cancelation; previous folds, else very good. Promotional Broadside for the May 12, 1888 issue of the New York Ledge, advertising its serialization of the novel Lady Kildare. Written by Irish-American author Harriet Lewis, the book was published posthumously in New York the following year by R. Bonner's Sons, publishers of the literary weekly newspaper. The novel's subject matter, life and love among the Irish aristocracy, would have been appealing to the newspaper's audience for romantic fiction.

Physical Description

1 box

37008. Stevenson, Seth William: A dictionary of Roman coins, republican and imperial: commenced by the late Seth William Stevenson...revised, in part, by C. Roach Smith...and completed by Frederic W. Madden...illustrated by upwards of seven hundred engravings on wood, chiefly executed by the late F.W. Fairholt, 1889. 1 box.
General

Author: Stevenson, Seth William

London: George Bell and Sons

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this work includes a reprint of the preface and an illustrated specimen page (928). Foxing, shallow tear to bottom edge, previous fold.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

43908. Heroes of the dark continent and how Stanley found Emin Pasha, 1889. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: Peerless Publishing Co.

Scope and Contents

Publisher's advertising kit, comprising of one large bifolium, 3 Broadsides printed on yellow and pink paper, one order blank, one typescript letter, and a pre-addressed envelope; accompanied by original envelope addressed to [?] Chase of Newcomb, New York. Broadside illustrated with 7 large steel-engraved illustrations; edges dust-soiled and chipped, previous folds; a very good, sound collection.

Physical Description

1 box

36368. The temple dramatists, 1896. 1 box.
General

London: J.M. Dent and Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo (122 mm.); announcement of the production of a new series in the spirit of the Temple Shakespeare: a list of the first plays to be printed includes Webster's "Duchess of Malfi," Marlowe's "Edward II," Jonson's "Every Man in His Humour," "Arden of Faversham," Fletcher's "Faithful Sheperdess," Shakespeare and Fletcher's "The Two Noble Kinsmen," "Edward III," Beaumont and Fletcher's "Philaster," "The Merry Devil of Edmonton," Kyd's "Spanish Tragedy," Heywood's "Woman Killed with Kindness," and Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus". Also privdes specimen page, p. 4 of "Edward II". Text in red and black, light foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

37730. Who invented the reaper?, 1897. 1 box.
General

Chicago: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; text on front leaf only; prospectus for a history of the reaper, based on the "investigation into historical records upon this subject". Some toning.

Physical Description

1 box

42193. Arndt, H.R., ed.: A system of medicine based upon the homoeopathic law of cure, 1884. 1 box.
General

Author: Arndt, H.R., ed.

Philadelphia: Hahnemann Publishing House.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, faint damp staining to upper half of pamphlet, else very good. Circular advertising a new, 3-volume medical work "of such scope and magnitude as to render the Homoeopathic practitioner independent of old school text-books on Pathology and the History of Medicine". Contents of each volume provided. Integral order blank addressed to the distributor F.E. Boericke provided at the end of p. [3].

Physical Description

1 box

44662. Daniel L. Mitchell would respectfully inform the public that he has taken that well known stand, long occupied by S.L. Goodale, Esq., and having refitted the store and purchased a choice selections of drugs, medicines, paints, oils, dye stuffs, books, and stationery, is prepared to sell them low for cash [cover title], 1854. 1 box.
General

Saco, Maine: Mitchell, Daniel L.

Scope and Contents

12mo, bifolium printed on blue paper; text printed on p. [1] only; previous fold; Mitchell's pressure stamp; fine. Announcement of a new stand by a former employee of Messrs. Balch & Son of Providence, R.I. with a manuscript note signed by Mitchell on p. [3] addressed to Messrs. G. & C. Merriam regarding the lowest cash price for their unabridged Webster dictionary.

Physical Description

1 box

42874. Mylius, William Frederic: The school dictionary of the English language intended for those by whom a dictionary is used as a series of daily lessons: in which such words as are pedantical, vulgar, indelicate, and obsolete, are omitted [and 7 others], 1809. 1 box.
General

Author: Mylius, William Frederic

London: M.J. Godwin at the Juvenile Library.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 222 mm.); shallow losses along left-hand edge, else a fine, untrimmed copy. A short catalogue of 8 recently published titles; these include Mylius's "The Junior Class Book; or Reading lessons for every day in the year"; the second edition of "Mrs. Leicester's School; or, The history of several young ladies, related by themselves"; "Poetry for Children, entirely original"; Edward Baldwin's "The History of Rome: from the building of the city to the ruin of the Republic" and "Fables Ancient and Modern" (the latter also available in a cheap edition and in French, whose "easy and natural style is peculiarly eligible as a first Book in the study of that Language"); "History of England, with heads of the kings"; and, lastly, a new edition of "The Pantheon, or Ancient history of the Gods of Greece and Rome."

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

36431. Samuel Johnson: Johnson's dictionary, edited by the Reverend H.J. Todd, 1814. 1 box.
General

Author: Samuel Johnson

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 8; prospectus for a new edition of Johnson's Dictionary, mostly comprised of H.J. Todd's introduction, dated 1814. Losses from holes from previous binding, not affecting text, edges and corners bumped.

Physical Description

1 box

43097. Van Rensselaer, Stephen: Circular, 1822. 1 box.
General

Author: Van Rensselaer, Stephen

General Committee of the Board of Agriculture.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; lithographically printed text on p. [1] only; previously folded down into self envelope (loss from removed wax seal not affecting text), addressed in manuscript; very good. Circular requesting "experimental knowledge of our best farmers" for the second volume of the Board's Memoirs. This plea is due to the fact that "The materials furnished by the County Agricultural Societies are very scanty"; the Committee therefore "solicit you to aid them, by communicating...any experiments, observations or facts, which have come within your practice, or fallen under your notice, and which you may deem calculated to extend the sphere of agricultural knowledge...The General Committee request, that in any communications which you may make in pursuance of this request, you will endeavor to be concise and perspicuous, and that on subjects relating to tillage, the condition and nature of the soil, price of labor and manure, method of cultivation and product, and valuable breeds of animals, may be particularly noted." The circular is signed in text by Stephen Van Rensselaer; J. Buel, Rec. Sec'ry. The self envelope is addressed in manuscript to "Judge Moon, Champlain, [illegible]"; "Stephen Van Ransaler [sic] Circular 1822" added in another hand. The postal cancellation stamp is dated Albany, July 8. Not copies in OCLC; not in Shoemaker.

Physical Description

1 box

36418. Staples, Estevan M.L.: Mapa jeneral de los Estados Unidos mejicanos, que abrazara ademas la vista meridional de la catedral y un plano de la Ciudad de Mejico, con los nombres de sus calles, &c. Y en pliego spearado el plano del interior y vista occidental del Palacio Nacional de Mejico, ambos con todas las esplicaciones en Castellano, 1831. 1 box.
General

Author: Staples, Estevan M.L.

New York

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for an atlas of Mexico that does not appear to have made it into print (the prospectus found in OCLC, not the work proper); order form provided. Printed on yellow paper, previous folds. Not in Imprints.

Physical Description

1 box

43915. Gilfillan, George, ed.: New and splendid library edition of the popular poets and poetry of Britain, 1833. 1 box.
General

Author: Gilfillan, George, ed.

New York: D. Appleton & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds, short tears along edges not affecting text; very good. Prospectus printed on p. [1] only; manuscript note of three lines on p. [3], integral postmarked envelope. At head of title: "Appleton's Edition of 'The British Poets'".

Physical Description

1 box

43897. American farmer establishment, 1835. 1 box.
General

Baltimore: Hitchcock, I. Irvine

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text printed in triple column on p. [1] only; previous fold, else about fine. Autograph letter, approx. 125 words, signed by Hitchcock on p. [3]. Description of the establishment and its merchandise and services offered, as well as its periodical The Farmer and Gardener. Hitchcock describes his establishment as "comprising a stock and experimental farm; a nursery and seed and flower garden; a store for the sale of field and garden seeds and agricultural implements and books; a general agricultural and horticultural agency; the publication office of the 'Farmer & Gardener,' and Live-Stock Breeder & Manager,' and of 'Hints to Farmers,' and an office of application for farmers, gardeners, overseers, managers, &c." The integral autograph letter is addressed to C. Bernie of Taney Town, Maryland, and asks about any Merino rams for sale. The American Farmer was a weekly focusing on rural economy and printed in Baltimore, 1819-1897; Hitchcock (1793-1868) was one of its editors and the proprietor of various business establishements associated with it. Not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

36428. Deverell, Gualterus Ruding: Lexicon analogicum linguae Latinae inverso litterarum ordine concinnavit, 1839. 1 box.
General

Author: Deverell, Gualterus Ruding

London: Statistical Society of London

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for "an application to the Latin Language of the principle which guided Hoogeveen in the construction of his Dictionarium Analogicum Linguae Graecae". Includes facsimile of a holograph list of subscribers. ALS from the author loosely inserted: "Sir, In presenting to you the accompanying copies of my Prospectus of a new Latin Lexicon, I am especially authorized to mention the name of the Reverend W. Blakesley Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, who has taken much interest in my endeavors to procure a sufficient number of subscribers to secure me from loss in printing the work; which in [illegible] by that gentleman, and many other very distinguished scholars and accomplished judges of such subjects, as most valuable in all philosophical investigations of the Latin Language, and the languages derived therefrom. I need hardly add that, there is nothing of mercenary speculation in the undertaking, but that it is purely scholastic--in fact the offspring of philological studies carried on during many years in Germany, in the University of Virginia, and the Trinity College Dublin; and I should, of course, be greatly obliged to you for any services you can render as to procurring as subscribers the eminent gentlemen connected with your venerable College; for which I entertain a preculiar regret, as being myself one of the "Founder's Kin": Hoping for the honor and advantage of your important patronage, I have the honor to be, sir, your faithfully humble servent...P.S. I shall be happy to furnish more copies of the Prospectus if required." Not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

43920. Saunders, John Simcoe: Saunders on pleading and evidence: fifth American edition, 1851. 1 box.
General

Author: Saunders, John Simcoe

Philadelphia: Small, Robert H.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds, else about fine. Text on p. [1] only; autograph letter signed by the publisher on p. [3]; integral envelope addressed in his hand to G. & L. [illegible], Booksellers, Springfield, Masstts., wax seal mostly intact.

Physical Description

1 box

38058. Rockwell, John A.: Rockwell's Spanish and Mexican law. A compilation of Spanish and Mexican law in relation to mines and titles to real estate, in force in California and New Mexico, and in the territories under the Louisiana and Florida treaties when annexed to the United States, 1852. 1 box.
General

Author: Rockwell, John A.

New York: John S. Voorhies

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; printed on blue paper, mostly fine. Prospectus for Vol. 1 only; consists mainly of expert opinions from such personnages as President of the United States Millard Fillmore, as well as a handful of Justices of the Supreme Court.

Physical Description

1 box

36409. Dana, Charles A.: The United States illustrated; in views on city and country with descriptive and historical articles., 1853. 1 box.
General

Author: Dana, Charles A.

New York: Hermann J. Meyer

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 24, [8] leaves of plates; a salesman's sample bearing the original printed wrapper of the first part and containing original text on the West and Eastern states; two parts with two title leaves are included in the same wrapper. Back cover of the sample copy is a prospectus for the work, setting terms and conditions of publication. Foxing, edges and corners worn. In modern burgundy cloth box with burgundy and gold-stamped morocco spine. Charles A. Dana had been one of the leaders at Brook Farm, writing for The Dial and The Harbinger, and later edited the New York Tribune and became world-famous as "Dana of The Sun".

Physical Description

1 box

36248. Horton, R.G.: The life and public services of James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, candidate of the Democratic Party for President of the United States, late Minister to England, and formerly Minister to Russia, Senator and Representative in Congress, and Secretary of State. Including the most important of his state papers., 1856. 1 box.
General

Author: Horton, R.G.

New York: Derby & Jackson

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (220 mm.), featuring the publication of "The authentic and authorized edition" "written by a gentleman well qualified by his literary attainments, and his long connection with the Democratic press." Foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

43098. Lives of Fremont and Dayton, 1856. 1 box.
General

Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, & Worthington.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (222 x 159 mm.); darkened with a bit of spotting, tear affecting a couple of letters without loss of meaning, edges worn from handling; good. Advertisement announcing "Republican voters you want this campaign edition," in which they will find biographies of John Charles Frémont and William L. Lewis, illustrated with 2 steel portraits; also included in the volume will be the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, "and other valuable matter". At bottom of advertisement Broadside: "Fremont Clubs supplied at low rates by the hundred or thousand". Not in OCLC; see OCLC no. 3908809 and Sabin 70021 for the published work, "Republican campaign edition for the million: Containing the Republican platform, the lives of Fremont and Dayton, with beautiful steel portraits of each, and their letters of acceptance. Also, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States."

Physical Description

1 box

39265. Mitchel, John & W.G. Swan: The "Southern citizen:" a weekly political and literary newspaper published in Washington, D.C., 1859. 1 box.
General

Author: Mitchel, John & W.G. Swan

Washington, D.C.: Southern Citizen.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (250 mm.); previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for a pro-slavery, anti-North newspaper, which had been moved from Knoxville to Washington, "and in the struggle which the South is called upon to make for her own rights and honor, they mean to stand with the South. A thoroughly Democratic and States-Right Journal...It will uphold the Federal Union, provided the sovereigntty of the confederated States be respected...Holding that the Institution of Negro Slavery is a sound, just, wholesome Institution...It is thought right at the beginning of the new year to be thus explicit as to its politics of this Journal." Only a few issues of this newspaper, which apparently ceased publication in mid-summer 1859, are recorded.

Physical Description

1 box

36266. The Springfield Republican. A New England journal. News, politics, literature, and social life., 1868. 1 box.
General

Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long 4to (314 mm.). With note and rates to advertisers ("among the choicest advertising mediums in the country); special prices; and terms and conditions. Previous folds, some foxing.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

43592. Ambrose, D[aniel] Leib: History of the seventh Ill. Vet. Vol. Inf'ty or the services it performed in the war for the Union, 1868. 1 box.
General

Author: Ambrose, D[aniel] Leib

Springfield: Illinois State Journal Company Publishers.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 280 x 215 mm.); about fine. Prospectus for an early Illinois unit history published as "History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

Physical Description

1 box

44703. Logan, Olive.: Before the footlights, and behind the scenes, 1870. 1 box.
General

Author: Logan, Olive.

Philadelphia: Parmelee & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; tear from previous fold affecting text without loss of meaning, else good and sound. Prospectus and call for agents of actress and author Logan's work, aimed "to exhibit in all its phases that peculiar realm known as the Show World" (that is, "a scathing onslaught on the Incidences and Immoralities of the Play-House"). At head of title: "10,000 Copies the First Month" (Sold? Ordered? Dreamt-up?) Also described as "The Greatest moral work ever published on amusements". Includes agent conditions and press testimonies. Accompanied by 3 Broadside circulars and blank and previously-addressed envelopes of bright orange and red.

Physical Description

1 box

36434. Universal biography. Portraits on steel, by fine engravers, with sketches by eminent authors., 1871. 1 box.
General

New York: New York and Hartford Publishing Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to; prospectus advertising the work as "The greatest artistic and literary work of the day"; verso provides opinions of the press and a call for "one thousand male and female agents," providing "liberal commissions paid to good agents". "One Volume will contain Sketches of New Yorkers" at bottom of Broadside verso.Tears from previous folds affecting text, though text still legible, small loss to top left-hand corner.

Physical Description

1 box

44667. Kenly, John R.: Memoirs of a Maryland volunteer in the war with Mexico, 1846-8, 1873. 1 box.
General

Author: Kenly, John R.

Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 216 mm.); previous fold, minor soil spots, else about fine. Advertisement for "A Valuable Historical Work," with press opinions from the New York Herald and 4 others newspapers.

Physical Description

1 box

36309. Skeat, Walter W.: The four gospels in Anglo-Saxon, Northumbrian, and old Mercian versions, synoptically arranged, with collations exhibiting all the readings of all the mss. A new edition. Edited for the syndics of the University Press., 1875. 1 box.
General

Author: Skeat, Walter W.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; includes mission statement and a specimen verse from St. Matthew's gospel, chapter V. At head of t.p. "Now ready, in One Volume Demy Quarto, cloth...or in Four Volumes, each containing one of the Gospels separately, cloth..." Small tears from previous folds, not affecting text; corners worn, very slight foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

36301. [Whittaker, Frederick]: The complete life of General George A. Custer., 1876. 1 box.
General

Author: [Whittaker, Frederick]

New York: Sheldon & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); wood engraving of "Rain-in-the-Face. The Indian who killed General George A. Custer"; verso touts work as "A fascinating biography. 'Twill beguile many a long winter's evening". Includes three excerpts, "The Woodstock races," "Private correspondence," and "The last charge". Previous folds, two small stains, book publisher's stamp.

Physical Description

1 box

36265. McCabe, James D.: The pictorial history of the world. Embracing full and authentic accounts of every nation of ancient and modern times. Showing the causes of their prosperity and decline, and including a full and comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the Greek and Roman Empires, the growth of nations of modern Europe, the Middle Ages, the crusades, the feudal system, the reformation, the discovery and settlement of the New World, etc., etc. With sketches of the leading characters in the world's history., 1877. 1 box.
General

Author: McCabe, James D.

Philadelphia: National Publishing Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long 4to (312 mm.). Previous folds, two small losses to top right-hand corner, not affecting text. Bottom of verso side provides a Caution against "Old incomplete and unreliable histories of the world."

Physical Description

1 box

45454. [William, Earl.]: The golden rod and magical guide, or The new illustrated silent friend, marriage guide, and medical adviser, 1878. 1 box.
General

Author: [William, Earl.]

Harrisburg: B.G. Stauffer

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 30.5 x 23.5 cm) printed on thing peach stock; 4 illustrations, text printed in triple column; splits along previous folds affecting text without loss of meaning, else very good. "It is not proposed in the limits of this Handbill to give anything but a fair outline of the merits of The New Illustrated Silent Friend." Given that the prospectus employs what must be the better part of a tray of agate type outlining this vade mecum's inclusion of such secrets as "how to produce the most Delightful Sensation over anyone, or any number of people, and when this feeling passes off, will only have the faint recollection of an *Oriental Dream,*" or a "rule with diagram and figures, by which any one can calculate what are *Lucky Numbers.* This table was made by a Southern gentleman, after twenty years' study, who died a *Millionaire,*" or "how any one may become a Ventriloquist," as well as the hints at sex noted in the promised marriage guide and health tips, the handy volume must be wonderful indeed. Little wonder the distributor notes in one of his display lines, "Agents Can Make $10 to $15 per Day by the sale of The Illustrated Silent Friend." With another display line noting, "The First Edition Published in 1858. Revised Edition 1878." The Illustrated Silent Friend is of note in part for including one of the earliest published American accounts of a purported UFO sighting, in Jay, Ohio, in 1858.

Physical Description

1 box

36593. Attractive new books, 1880. 1 box.
General

New York: G.W. Carleton & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (148 mm.); advertisement for books from the publisher; "Capital New Books" advertised on Broadside verso. Previous folds, slight foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

43591. Michelet, Jules: Woman's love and life. From the French...Translated from the fifty-first Paris edition, by J.W. Palmer, 1881. 1 box.
General

Author: Michelet, Jules

Hartford: James Betts & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; two specimen illustrations; previous folds, else very good. An immensely popular book in France, England, and America originally published in Paris in 1860. There was also an American edition that same year (Woman (La Femme)), with the same pagination as this 1881 Harford printing and an 1881 New York, Carleton printing, all apparently from the same plates. The text covers woman's place in society, her emotional life, and not least, her situation during conception, pregnancy, confinement, and nursing. The prospectus includes a pitch to sales agents; information on bindings; a detailed description of the contents; and press notices (Atlantic Monthly: "Its great lessons are on the side of humanity, and especially of justice to women, founded on a study of her organic and spiritual limitations").

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

43912. New law books, 1881. 1 box.
General

Boston: Little, Brown, & Company.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds, else fine. Advertisement for eight recent titles, including works on railway law, municipal corporations, glossaries, common law, the law of wills, marriage and divorce, and criminal law. The Massachusetts Digest is also included in the list, described as being "A digest of the reported decisions of the supreme judicial court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1804 to 1879," by Edmund H. Bennett, Russell Gray, and Henry W. Swift.

Physical Description

1 box

38157. Foster, Joseph: The peerage, baronetage, and knightage of the British Empire, 1880, 1881. 1 box.
General

Author: Foster, Joseph

Westminster: Nichols and Sons

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. unpaginated; woodcut heraldic emblems throughout; edges toned and spotted, very good. Prospectus comprised almost exclusively of press opinions. Apparently the first volume of a short-lived annual series; prospectus not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

42367. [Publisher's advertisement], 1882. 1 box.
General

Napoli: Leonardo Vallardi.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed on green paper; previous fold, back cover addressed, stamped, and postmarked; description on p. [1] has been accomplished in manuscript, possibly by an agent. Over all, very good. Listing of 26 new medical editions, mostly in translation.

Filed under V.

Physical Description

1 box

44587. [Rayne, M.L]: What can a woman do; or Her position in the business and literary world, 1883. 1 box.
General

Author: [Rayne, M.L]

Detroit: Dickerson, F.B.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 275 mm.); printed on pink paper; previous folds, else fine. Accompanied by a blank Application for Agency and the original postmarked envelope. At head of prospectus: Confidential terms to Agents Selling...," available in 4 bindings (cloth and morocco, plain or gilt edges). "We advise all agents to send for the Complete Outfit, and thus be Fully Equiped for the work."

Physical Description

1 box

36404. Chambers, George F.: The hand-book dictionary. A practical and conversational dictionary of the English, French, and German languages in parallel columns, 1883. 1 box.
General

Author: Chambers, George F.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (116 mm.); verso side provides prospectus for "The Pocket Atlas of the World. A comprehensive and popular series of 54 maps, illustrating political and physical geography. Prepared by John Bartholomew". Peach-colored paper, small fold to bottom right-hand corner. Prospectus not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

43070. Our June bulletin of publications, 1884. 1 box.
General

New York: Orange Judd Company.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (307 x 151 mm.); text in double column; slight wear from handling to left-hand edge, else fine. Advertisement for works available from the Orange Judd Company, "Publishers and importers of all works pertaining to rural life," including titles "Published to this Day," "Nearly Ready," "In Press," "Recent Importations," "Just Published," and "Recently Published". Also advertised is the June number of the American Agriculturalist, "(43 years old), The oldest, ablest, and cheapest Journal for the Farm, Garden & Household". Among the title listed are Gordon Stables' "Our Friend, The Dog" and "Ladies' Dogs, as Companions, Also a Guide to their Management in Health and Disease, with many Stories, humorous and pathetic, from life"; Robert Barnwell Roosevelt's "Superior Fishing; or, The Striped Bass, Trout, Black Bass and Blue Fish oof the Nothern States"; as well as works on ornamental gardening, bee-keeping, hunting, horse management, fly-fishing, farm drainage, flax culture, grape growing and wine making, truck farming, soil, pigs, and cattle.

Physical Description

1 box

36234. Boyd, James P.: The military and civil life of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 1885. 1 box.
General

Author: Boyd, James P.

Philadelphia: Garretson & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (304 mm.), wood-engraved portrait of Grant at the top above two columns of text touting the man and his work; text on verso addressed "To Agents" including terms and general hype for "quick sales and large profits." Previous folds, small gouge in left margin affecting the letter 'G' in "Gen." and one other word; text not affected on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

42356. Burr, Frank A.: The original and authentic record of the life and deeds of General Ulysses S. Grant, 1885. 1 box.
General

Author: Burr, Frank A.

Philadelphia: National Publishing Co.

Scope and Contents

2 printed Broadsides (316 x 150 mm.); very shallow tears from previous folds not affecting text to one, some worm-holing in the other affecting text without loss of meaning; contemporary rubber stamp accomplished in manuscript at head of title of first Broadside, "We can give you an agency for these works in [your own county]"; very good. Prospectus for agents, most likely part of the initial salvo of the National Publishing Company to promote Burr's work.

Physical Description

1 box

44588. World of wisdom, 1886. 1 box.
General

Detroit: Dickerson, F.B., & Co.

Scope and Contents

New, revised and enlarged edition, 8vo, bifolium; upper cover illustrated with a cut representing "the Beautiful Cover of the Book," printed on pink paper; previous folds, small damage at upper edge of p. [4] affecting text with very minor loss of meaning. Prospectus calling for agents, with the borders of the latter 3 pages giving data of successful convassers: "W.J. Dozer, 30 first 3 days...H. Garabed, 150 first 9 days;" etc. etc. Table of contents provided. "Send ninety-five cents for a specimen copy."

Physical Description

1 box

45466. The youth's companion, 1886. 1 box.
General

Boston: Perry Mason & Co.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaged; decorative borders highlighted in green and pink; original stitched pictorial chromolithographic wrappers highlighted in gilt; about fine. Announcement for the 1887 issue, the publication's 60th volume.

Physical Description

1 box

39221. Century sonnets. Edition de luxe, 1886. 1 box.
General

London: Walter Scott

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 32mo (84 x 118 mm.); fine. Prospectus announcing that "17 Copies out of 56 printed remain unappropriated".

Physical Description

1 box

43919. Taylor, Henry O.: A treatise on the law of private corporations, 1888. 1 box.
General

Author: Taylor, Henry O.

Philadelphia: Kay & Brother.

Scope and Contents

Second edition, Broadside (267 x 203 mm.); previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for the second edition of Taylor's work, "Just Published". Two other works advertised on verso, Francis Wharton's "Law of Evidence in Civil Issues. With special reference to the modern improvements in the law"; and George Tucker Bispham's "Bispham's Principles of Equity," fourth edition.

Physical Description

1 box

38545. Purinton, D.B.: Christian theism: its claims and sanctions, 1889. 1 box.
General

Author: Purinton, D.B.

New York: Putnam

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (199 mm.); top half of right-hand edge badly toned, small tear from previous fold not affecting text; very good. Prospectus provides the work's contents and numerous press comments.

Physical Description

1 box

36396. Farmer, John S.: Slang and its analogues past and present. A dictionary of the heterodox speech of all classes of society of more than 300 years, embracing the genesis and development in form and meaning of old and modern English slang; the jargon of sport; the cant "patter," and flash phrases of the criminal and disreputable strata of society; also the unwritten colloquialisms of society, trade, the arts, industries, and professions; together with Winchester "notions" and other public school slang; a new and complete bibliography and copious illustrative examples, chronologically arranged, the whole presenting a curious picture of the social life and manners of the English people., 1890. 1 box.
General

Author: Farmer, John S.

London: Alexander P. Watt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus provides the "Scheme of publication" in six Roman-numeral points; reviews; special features and synopsis; and three specimen pages (pp. 331-332, 344), the former two loosely inserted. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

39252. Willard, Frances E. and Jennie Cunningham Croly, eds.: A woman of the century. Being one thousand biographical sketches, each accompanied by a portrait, of that many living leading American women in all walks of life, 1891. 1 box.
General

Author: Willard, Frances E. and Jennie Cunningham Croly, eds.

Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; photographic portrait; fine. With "List A" of the prominent women to be featured in the work; a pre-addressed order envelope; and the original, stamped and post-marked envelope in which this prospectus was mailed (address to Santa Cruz, Calif., written in manuscript).

Physical Description

1 box

43910. Beach, Charles F., Jr.: Beach on modern equity jurisprudence. Commentaries on modern equity jurisprudence, as administered in the state and federal courts of this country, 1892. 1 box.
General

Author: Beach, Charles F., Jr.

New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (305 x 216 mm.); previous folds, else about fine. At head of prospectus: "Uniformly pronounced by those who have use it,'The best lawyer's tool in equity causes.'" Twelve testimonials provided on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

43099. Catalogue, 1892. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: World Publishing Co.

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaged; steel engraved illustrations throughout; original orange decorative wrappers (some dampstaining), small loss to top of back cover fore-edge, else a very good, bright copy. Extensive subscription book publisher's catalogue, addressed both to the public and with instructions to the Company's agents: "We want you to use this Catalogue in your regular work and show it to each and every person you canvass on the regular book you are selling. When you have obtained a subscription or failed to secure one, you can bring out this Catalogue and take quite a number of miscellaneous orders. Do not show the Catalogue, however, until you have either secured or absolutely failed to secure an order for the book you are regularly canvassing." Titles include "Heroes of the Dark Continent and how Stanley found Emin Pasha"; Edward S. Ellis's "Health, Wealth and Happiness: how to get them and how to use them"; Buffalo Bill's "Story of the Wild West and Camp-Fire Chats"; J.W. Buel's "Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands" ("New!!! Thrilling!!! Beautiful!!! Immense!!!") and his "Sea and Land: the great standard work on the wonderful in natural history" (with illustrated specimen page); and "The History of the French Revolution, 1789-1795; or, A country without a god". With excerpts of "What the World's Famous People Say of Our Books" printed inside back wrapper; many of these testimonials with facsimile signatures of the authors. Among these are Henry F. Ponsonby, Private Secretary of Queen Victoria: "I am commanded by the Queen to thank you for your kindness in presenting Her Majesty with a copy of your book, which she is reading with great pleasure"; former president Rutherford B. Hayes: "'The Pathway of Life,' like everything that comes from Dr. [T. DeWitt] Talmage, is popular, attractive and on the side of solid education, wholesome morals and true religion"; and Harriet Beecher Stowe: "I have received a copy of your beautiful volume. Having just recovered from an illness in which my life was despaired of, I cannot do justice to the literary merits of the writing, but I am delighted with the book and know that it is eminently calculated to have great success."

Physical Description

1 box

39268. Ward, Mrs. Humphrey: Marcella, 1894. 1 box.
General

Author: Ward, Mrs. Humphrey

New York: Macmillan and Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; a bit chipped along bottom left-hand edge, else fine. Prospectus for a new work by the novelist; a list of her previous pieces printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

36343. Hartmann, J.: God and sin in the appetites., 1894. 1 box.
General

Author: Hartmann, J.

New York: The Truth Seeker Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (170 mm.); prospectus for a work that "goes to the root of the God superstition, and shows the purely earthly character of what is called 'sin'". Broadside verso lists other titles published by the Truth Seeker Co., including Jacob Hartmann's "The Creation of God;" Zela Stevens' "Religion and Morality;" L.K. Washburn's "Cosmian Hymn-Book;" and "Design Fallacies". Previous fold, very good.

Physical Description

1 box

36344. Ladd, Paris B.: Commentaries on Hebrew and Christian mythologies., 1896. 1 box.
General

Author: Ladd, Paris B.

New York: The Truth Seeker Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (253 mm.); prospectus provides the table of contents and "Some comments on the Commentaries". Previous folds, very good.

Physical Description

1 box

39287. Bruun, Johan Adolf: An enquiry into the art of illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages...Part 1. Celtic illuminated manuscripts, 1897. 1 box.
General

Author: Bruun, Johan Adolf

Edinburgh: David Douglas.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; specimen plate laid in, text printed in red and black; edges a bit toned, shallow tears not affecting text; a nice copy. Prospectus for an edition limited to 140 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39253. Banks, Louis Albert: Books by Louis Albert Banks, d.d., 1898. 1 box.
General

Author: Banks, Louis Albert

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations; fine. List of titles by the author, including his latest "Anecdotes and Morals". Other featured titles include "The Christian Gentleman" and "Sermon Stories for Boys and Girls".

Physical Description

1 box

36394. Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien: History of modern philosophy in France., 1899. 1 box.
General

Author: Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien

Chicago, Ill.: The Open Court Publishing Co.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; prospectus for "A new work in the history of philosophy...with twenty-three photogravure and half-tone portraits of French philosophers, from rare and classical sources. Also a bibliography of modern French philosophy." Five of these portraits are reproduced here, along with an extract from the text.

Physical Description

1 box

39263. Geographisches handbuch zu Andrees Allgemeinem handatlas, 1899. 1 box.
General

Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klafing

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; map; corners a bit creased, else fine. Prospectus printed in blackletter. Integral order form on back.

Physical Description

1 box

36276. Alger, Israel: Pronouncing Bible., 1825. 1 box.
General

Author: Alger, Israel

Boston: Lincoln & Edmands

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; "Proposals by Lincoln & Edmands...for publishing, by subscription, a handsome stereotype edition of the Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments; in which all the proper names, and many other words, are accepted in a manner similar to the pronouncing Testament, and which is happily adapted to lead to a correct pronunciation, agreeably to the key and to the critical Pronouncing Dictionary of Mr. Walker". Includes excerpt from the work, recommendations, and conditions. Bottom of p. [4] order form. Five small tears from holes from earlier binding not affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

36268. Edgeworth, Maria: Tales and novels of Maria Edgeworth., 1832. 1 box.
General

Author: Edgeworth, Maria

London: Baldwin and Cradock

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus of "an uniform edtion of...illustrated with superb engravings. To be published in monthly volumes, of the size and price of the Waverley novels". Also includes a list of the Works for young persons by Edgeworth and other Baldwin and Cradock publications, including The Swiss family Robinson, A complete edition of Robinson Crusoe, and Tales from Shakespeare. Three holes from previous binding, one of which has torn, not affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

38057. Junius: The crisis of the country, 1840. 1 box.
General

Author: Junius

Boston: N.A. Thompson

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus printed on front page only; advertising this pamphlet in support of the Whig Republican Association; distributors include Thompson, Egbert Benson, T.K. & P.G. Collins, and Josiah Drake. ALS by Benson on inside and back of bifolium. At bottom of prospectus: "It is to be feared that the Whigs are too confident of success. Great exertions and sacrifices to the last moment are indispensable." Does not seem to be in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

36410. Sears, Robert: New pictorial family magazine., 1846. 1 box.
General

Author: Sears, Robert

New York: Robert Sears

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrations, including wood engraving portrait of George Washington; prospectus for a magazine "established for the diffusion of useful knowledge. Also lists previous publications from Sears' Popular Pictorial Works, including the Pictorial History of the American Revolution. Back side provides terms for agents. Integral postage addressed to Otis Killburn Esq of Milford, Mass. Postmarked Jul. 10. Previous folds. Not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

42882. Kitto, John: A cyclopædia of biblical literature, abridged from the larger work, 1848. 1 box.
General

Author: Kitto, John

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 2, [6]; disbound; spine starting to split, else about fine. Publisher's catalogue and prospectus for the first of ten parts of Kitto's abridged encyclopedia, "designed to furnish a Dictionary of the Bible, not framed, as others had been, out of old materials, but embodying the products of the best and most recent researches in Biblical Literature, in which the scholars of this country and of the continent had been engaged." The subsequent 6 pp. list additional recently published works on geography, architecture, engineering, and the other sciences, as well as school books.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

42877. Kitto, John: A cyclopædia of biblical literature, abridged from the larger work, 1848. 1 box.
General

Author: Kitto, John

Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 2, [6]; disbound; spine starting to split, else about fine. Publisher's catalogue and prospectus for the first of ten parts of Kitto's abridged encyclopedia, "designed to furnish a Dictionary of the Bible, not framed, as others had been, out of old materials, but embodying the products of the best and most recent researches in Biblical Literature, in which the scholars of this country and of the continent had been engaged." The subsequent 6 pp. list additional recently published works on geography, architecture, engineering, and the other sciences, as well as school books.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

36430. Shakespeare, William: Oeuvres completes de William Shakspeare [sic], en anglais, d'après la dernière édition publiée à Londres par Chalmers., 1850. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

Paris: Baudry

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo, illustration of Caliban from The Tempest at head of title; prospectus in French and English, and an announcement that the Baudry publishing house had just acquired from the Debure Frères, the remaining titles by Italian authors from the collection of Prault, Delalain, Molini, and others. Back side advertising other Baudry publications including works in English and Spanish. Foxing. No Baudry edition of the Complete Shakespeare located in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

36251. Goodrich, S.G.: A comprehensive geography and history, ancient and modern, of the whole world., 1857. 1 box.
General

Author: Goodrich, S.G.

New York: George W. Elliott

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (250 mm.), advertised as "A book for every man's library" by the late American consul at Paris. Previous folds, tear to left-hand edge not affecting text, verso with penciled note to "Mr. Editor".

Filed under E.

Physical Description

1 box

36252. Bunyan, John: Bunyan's complete works., 1860. 1 box.
General

Author: Bunyan, John

Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (300 mm.) prospectus for "A new edition of Bunyan's complete works". "The above is the only complete and accurate edition of the Works of the Prince of Allegorical Writers." Also includes pricing for different bindings (Extra Superfine Paper, Antique Binding for $5.00). Tear from previous fold, slight foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

36429. Shakespeare, William: Chamber's household Shakespeare, Vol. 1. An edition purged of all impurities and objectionable phrases. Edited by R. Carruthers and W. Chambers, 1861. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

London: W. & R. Chambers

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (183 mm.); prospectus for what appears to be the beginning of a complete set of bowdlerized Shakespeare; Broadside verso provides sample page 71.

Physical Description

1 box

43905. A great map of Tennessee, from state surveys up to 1861, 1862. 1 box.
General

New York: Lloyd, J.T.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (430 x 330 mm.); faint previous folds, else about fine. Advertisement for several maps, including "Lloyd's Great Map of the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico," and "Lloyd's New County Map of the United States, Canadas, and New Brunswick". Prospectus not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

36351. Murray, James A.H.: A new English dictionary, on historical principles: Founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society...Part 1. A-Ant (pp. xvi, 352), 1884. 1 box.
General

Author: Murray, James A.H.

Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to (330 mm.); specimen page (pp. 139 and 259) inserted; discoloration to front leaf.

Physical Description

1 box

36422. Murray, James A.H.: A new English dictionary on historical principles, founded mainly on the materials collected by The Philological Society., 1888. 1 box.
General

Author: Murray, James A.H.

Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for parts 1 and 2 of the dictionary, with opinions of the press and a "microscropic facsimile of page 655". Printed on yellow paper.

Physical Description

1 box

36421. Murray, James A.H.: A new English dictionary on historical principles, founded mainly on the materials collected by The Philological Society., 1888. 1 box.
General

Author: Murray, James A.H.

Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for volumes 1-3 of the dictionary provides reviews from the press and a reduced facsimile of page 846. Printed on pink paper, previous folds, some discoloration to top edge.

Physical Description

1 box

37694. Kipling, Rudyard: Works, 1890. 1 box.
General

Author: Kipling, Rudyard

London: Macmillan & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (161 mm.); list of titles by Kipling available from the press, including both Jungle Books.

Physical Description

1 box

36345. [Heston, Watson]: Freethinkers' pictorial text book showing the absurdity and untruthfulness of the Church's claim to be a divine and beneficent institution, and revealing the abuses of a union of Church and State., 1890. 1 box.
General

Author: [Heston, Watson]

New York: The Truth Seeker.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large 8vo (264 mm.); wood engraving illustration, list of the illustration classifications. Prospectus heralds Heston as "the artist-hero of Liberalism". Pink paper, tears from previous folds, affecting the engraving.

Physical Description

1 box

37822. Forcellini, Scheller, and Luenemann: Leverett's Latin lexicon, 1890. 1 box.
General

Author: Forcellini, Scheller, and Luenemann

Boston: J.H. Wilkins & R.B. Carter

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for several titles, including the Lexicon and William Gardiner's "The Music of Nature, or, an attempt to prove that what is passionate and pleasing in the art of singing, speaking, and performing upon musical instruments, is derived from the sounds of the animated world: with curious and interesting illustrations". Holes from previous binding, corners and edges a bit worn.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

36250. Frye, Alex E.: Frye's complete geography., 1895. 1 box.
General

Author: Frye, Alex E.

Boston: Ginn & Company

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (260 mm.) wood engraving illustrations of a Kaffir boy and girl and a Sudanese woman; verso side of Broadside shows a relief map of the United States ("the largest and most artistic relief map of the United States ever placed in a book"). Previous folds, upper left hand corner torn, not affecting text. Tauted as "The only geography which meets the requirements of the 'Committee of Ten'".

Physical Description

1 box

45567. Garrigues, Henry J. : Diseases of women, 1895. 1 box.
General

Author: Garrigues, Henry J.

Philadelphia: Saunders, W. B.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 18 x 11 cm.) printed on tan wove stock; a few small closed tears, else very good. Prospectus for "A practical work on Gynaecology for the use of students and practitioners, written in a terse and concise manner." Advertisement on verso for J. P. Crozer Griffith's "The Care of the Baby: a manual for mothers and nurses."

Physical Description

1 box

45566. Hyde, James Nevins, & Frank H. Montgomery. : A manual of syphilis and the venereal disease, 1895. 1 box.
General

Author: Hyde, James Nevins, & Frank H. Montgomery.

Philadelphia: Saunders, W. B.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 18 x 11 cm.), printed on rose wove stock; small loss at lower corner, else very good. Prospectus for a work "profusely illustrated," "with a view of elucidating the text." Advertisement on verso for Carl Beck's "A Manual of the Modern Theory and Technique of Surgical Asepsis."

Physical Description

1 box

38080. [List of new titles], 1899. 1 box.
General

New York: Macmillan Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo. List of new titles divided into 4 sections, "New Novels," "Stories of Adventure," "Three Striking Books," and "150,000 in 15 Weeks". Titles include Winston Churchill's "Richard Carvel" and "The Celebrity".

Physical Description

1 box

43460. Longus: Notice sur une nouvelle edition de la traduction françoise de Longus, par Amyot, et sur la découverte d'un fragment grec de cet ouvrage, 1810. 1 box.
General

Author: Longus

Paris: Imprimerie de Crapelet.

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 16; 20th-century marbled paper-covered boards, white printed paper cover label; fine. Prospectus for a new edition of Daphnis et Chloé to be published in Florence by Piatti, 1810.

Physical Description

1 box

42873. Barbour, John: The life of King Robert Bruce...and of the acts and deeds of Sir William Wallace, by Henry the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Henry; with biographical sketches, notes, and a glossary, by John Jamieson, 1814. 1 box.
General

Author: Barbour, John

London: Ballantyne et al.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 216 mm.); a fine, untrimmed copy. At head of title: "Proposals for printing a new and elegant edition," to be published in two volumes 4to. At foot of verso: "Also, Just Published by the same Author, Hermes Scythicus; or, The Radical Affinities of the Greek and Latin Languages to the Gothic." Also mentioned in passing, "The Author has lately received some copies of his Dictionary from India, which were unclaimed, in consequence of the death or removal of the subscribers there."

Physical Description

1 box

42366. Associazioni varie..., 1816. 1 box.
General

Milan: Gio. Silvestri.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; near fine. Publisher's catalogue of available titles, including "Collezione di Poeti Classici italiani" in 30 volumes; and Gaetano Termanini's "Chirurgia minore".

Physical Description

1 box

38061. Missionary Herald, 1822. 1 box.
General

Boston: American Board of Commissioners

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 12; self wrappers (minor staining), some foxing, very good. pamphlet heading reads "To all who love Zion, the Prudential Committee of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, address themselves in behalf of the Missionary Herald". Prospectus for this journal also includes "View of the missions under the direction of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions". 4 copies located in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

43900. The Indiana commercial recorder devoted to commerce, politics, agriculture, internal improvements and general literature, 1827. 1 box.
General

New Albany: Foster & Campbell.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds, loss along top edge affecting first line of p. [3] drop title, additional tears affecting text; fair. Circular accomplished in manuscript, integral manuscript address to Coll. Sutton, Louisville.

Physical Description

1 box

41974. Moniteur de l'industrie: journal technologique, 1827. 1 box.
General

Paris: Imprimerie de C. Thuau.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, 2 minor red ink stains on back cover, else very good. Prospectus for a journal covering new technological and artistic products and innovations: "Ils y voient les nouvelles machines, nouveaux procédés et ouvrages que les Arts, les Manufactures et le Commerce sont intéressés à connaître". Includes a short extract from the November, 1827 issue titled "Moyens de Prévenir l'Asphyxie," by M. Labarraque.

Physical Description

1 box

45447. Sears' pictorial family library, 1849. 1 box.
General

New York: American Pictorial Book Establishment

Scope and Contents

Broadside (21.6 x 140 cm); engraved steel-cut illustrations, one nearly full-page; edges rather ragged, one tear at top edge affecting a letter, recent ballpoint pen note at head of verso; else very good. Most likely removed from a book. "Agents Wanted" printed at head of verso. Includes rather lukewarm or hasty testimonials from, among others, Hamilton Fish, governor of New York. Call for agents "in every section of the Union."

Physical Description

1 box

39266. O'Hanlon, John: The life of St. Malachy O'Morgair, bishop of Down and Connor, Archbishop of Armagh, patron of these several dioceses, and delegate apostle of the Holy See for the Kingdom of Ireland, 1859. 1 box.
General

Author: O'Hanlon, John

Dublin: John O'Daly.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; integral order form with imprint information has been neatly excised, corners a bit creased. At head of title: "Prospectus."

Physical Description

1 box

39267. Hebrew lyrics by an octogenarian, 1859. 1 box.
General

London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo; edges a bit toned, bottom left-hand corners abit creased, else fine. Prospectus for the "Drawing-room Edition," and mostly comprised of press opinions.

Physical Description

1 box

43903. Quincy Herald, 1862. 1 box.
General

Quincy, Ill.: Brooks & Cadogan.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (254 x 152 mm.); text printed in double column on yellow paper; fine. Drop title: "Prospectus of the Quincy Herald, for 1862. No change of editor or principles." Advertisement for "This staunch, old-established and popular Democratic journal." Prospectus not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

43891. Agnew, J. S. and J. Holmes Agnew: Citizenship, sovereignty. An appeal from the West, to defend the inestimable privileges of free citizenship, state and federal, and the natural and acquired rights of these sovereign states, 1863. 1 box.
General

Author: Agnew, J. S. and J. Holmes Agnew

New York: Wright, J.S.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (305 x 114 mm); previous fold, small loss to top edge not affecting text; very good. Advertisement circular for a Civil War-era pamphlet urging the uniting of the North. At head of title: "A Book For Every Citizen! For every citizen-soldier! Citizenship, State and Federal, Endangered! State Sovereignty Dishonored!" Contents includes a short description of each of the work's 21 sections.

Physical Description

1 box

13704. Norris, Edwin.: [Drop-title:] Specimen of an Assyrian dictionary., 1867. 1 box.
General

Author: Norris, Edwin.

London: Williams & Northgate

Scope and Contents

First edition, 8vo, pp. 32; pages slightly browned, disbound from original wrappers, else very good. Norris was an orientalist and Cornish scholar who wrote a number of books on oriental languages and ethnography. Three volumes of his Assyrian dictionary were published between 1868 and his death in 1872. From the library of William Sandys Wright Vaux (1818-1885). Vaux was a member of the Department of Antiquities in the British Museum, and was keeper of the department of coins and medals from 1861-1870. He was secretary to the numismatist John Yonge Akerman, and later became president of the Numismatic Society. Vaux was also involved in the early development of the Oxford Movement and was secretary of the Royal Society of Literature. Vaux wrote many works on the history and antiquities of the Middle East.

Physical Description

1 box

43640. Scientific American 1876 subscription list, 1875. 1 box.
General

New York: Munn & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (286 x 210 mm.); pictorial blank subscribers' list lithographically printed in black, red, and gilt depicting various scientific and mathematical tools and apparti, as well as the throw-away putto; previous folds, else about fine. Printed by Schumacher & Ettlinger.

Physical Description

1 box

38835. [Woods, Matthew.]: Specimen pages from Rambles of a physician: or, a midsummer dream. By a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania...In two volumes.--Vol. 1, 1889. 1 box.
General

Author: [Woods, Matthew.]

Philadelphia: Dunlap & Clarke

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 43; black and white steel engravings, most full-page; original drab pictorial wrappers (a bit soiled), beginning to detach at spine, rubber stamp on front wrapper; interior fine. Laid in small Broadside prospectus for the completed work: "If you are in doubt about what to give a fried as a Christmas present, or what to buy for yourself, what more suitable than 'Rambles of a Physician'". List of subscribers of the finished set in back, with indication to those "deceased since subscribing". One copy in OCLC, at the National Library of Medicine.

Physical Description

1 box

42376. De'Brignoli, Giovanni: Programma [heading title], 1846. 1 box.
General

Author: De'Brignoli, Giovanni

Bologna: Tipografia Sassi.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, else near fine. Prospectus for a work on flowers, apparently never published.

Physical Description

1 box

42886. Martin, Thomas: The workman's cyclopoedia...The circle of the mechanical arts, or A dictionary of practical science. Intended for the use of workmen, 1812. 1 box.
General

Author: Martin, Thomas

London: Gale and Curtis.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 216 mm.); 3 small holes along left-hand edge from previous binding, edges a bit worn and darkened, else a good, untrimmed copy. "It has justly been remarked by those who have had occasion to consult the numerous treatises already published on the Mechanical Arts and Manufactures, that they are so deficient in detail, or so involved in abstruse terms, as to render them almost unintelligible, and therefore proportionately useless to the generality of practical readers." Among the subjects to be broached by the encyclopedia include architecture, edge tools, chemistry, dying, glassmaking, tanning, soapmaking, bleaching, cements, and many others.

Physical Description

1 box

45469. Hoover, S[amuel] W.: Autograph letter, signed, on Brethren's Book and Tract Work letterhead, to Elder S. R. Greg, regarding "The House We Live In", 1887. 1 box.
General

Author: Hoover, S[amuel] W.

Dayton, OH: Brethren's Book and Tract Work

Scope and Contents

Two leaves of letterhead, 4to (approx. 28 x 20 cm.); a little browning along previous folds, else very good. A lengthy letter giving a glimpse of the ways in which a religious group like the Brethren move toward corporate discernment in doctrinal matters in their publications, in this case the move away from the traditional "double mode" of foot-washing (one man washes, another dries) and into the "single mode" (a man both washes and dries) and how the practice is portrayed in the tract The House We Live In (by the here-unnamed Daniel Vaniman). Includes a somewhat minute schedule of committee meetings and logistics for having the single mode noted in the ordinances of new editions of the above-mentionted tract: "The examining Com. place the 'Tract' into our hands for publication just as it reads. If the Com. decide to request the S. C. to make the change, we hope you will not let it go any further than your District meeting." Hoover closes with the observation that the Brethren Book and Tract Work "has a great future before it"--but that it "needs the support of the brethren and means to make it effective."

Physical Description

1 box

43002. Gazette des départemens, 1800. 1 box.
General

Paris: Baillio.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (320 x 190 mm.), edges untrimmed, lightly darkened, else about fine. Prospectus for a new journal whose main advertised quality is its brevity: "plus court de moitié que la plupart des autres, c'était leur épargner de l'ennui, et consulter leur intérèt". The last three-quarters of text printed on the Broadside verso is devoted to the list of works currently available at the Imprimeur-Libraire Baillio, including the translation of Evelina and Le Chateau d'Otrante, among others.

Physical Description

1 box

42371. Bibliotheca classica poetarium Græcor. cur. typ…, 1820. 1 box.
General

Stamperia del Seminario di Padova.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (189 mm.); near fine. Publisher's advertisement for 2 series, the above-mentioned and "Bibliotheca Classica Scriptorum Prosaicor. Græcor..."

Physical Description

1 box

41972. Atlas géographique et statistique des départemens de la France, 1830. 1 box.
General

Paris: Baudouin Frères.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, faint damp stains to both upper corners, else very good. Prospectus for a set of 86 maps of the different regions of France to be sold separately and "entourées d'une description statistique composée en caractères mobiles, et formant chacune un tableau complet par département". Publisher's list of the Bibliothèque des Ouvrages en un Volume (i.e. titles available in one volume) printed on back cover.

Physical Description

1 box

42380. Sanguinetti, B.P.: Manifesto di associazione alla biblioteca del negoziante, 1835. 1 box.
General

Author: Sanguinetti, B.P.

Bologna: Francesco Cardinali.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (274 mm.); previous fold, some foxing, else very good. Prospectus for a work apparently never printed.

Physical Description

1 box

45464. Ouvrages publiés par l'Etablissement géographique de Bruxelles, fondé par Ph. Vandermaelen, en 1830, 1836. 1 box.
General

Bruxelles: Établissement Géographique de Bruxelles

Scope and Contents

24mo, pp. 26; table printed on p. [11]; slightly later plain stitched yellow wrappers, a touch dust-soiled, some dampstaining along bottom edge of textblock, else very good and sound. Annotated price guide to the Establissement's publications, which included atlases and globes as well as works on botany, chemistry, and military science. No copies in OCLC located outside France as of May, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

42883. The people's dictionary of the Bible, 1847. 1 box.
General

London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 7, [1]; illustrations; self-wrappers; about fine. Announcement of the publication of the first of 2 volumes, providing extracts from the preface; opinions of the press; and 4 specimen pages. The reasoning behind a new dictionary of the Bible, argues the author, lies in the failings of extent works, which "are too expressly designed and constructed in order to support current opinions, to appear...suitable to afford to the public, especially to its more intelligent members, either such information as they need and may receive with confidence, or such views of the nature and evidence of Divine Revelation as may in the present day be least open to assault."

Physical Description

1 box

43003. Duchesne, E.-A.: De la prostitution dans la ville d'Alger, depuis la conquête, 1852. 1 box.
General

Author: Duchesne, E.-A.

Paris: Baillière, J.B.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; light foxing, previous fold, else very good. Prospectus for a study based on the author's research on public hygiene in the African province of Alger during the summer of 1851, choosing a topic "qui intéresse vivement la santé publique." An abridged table of contents is provided (starting with "Nécessité de la prostitution"), as well as a list of the author's previous works, whose subjects range from corn and wheat in Turkey to plants to strangulation to cholera to poisonous seafood.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

43100. Premiums, 1854. 1 box.
General

Boston: Watchman and Reflector.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text printed on p. [1] only, blue paper; previously folded into self envelope addressed in manuscript; autograph letter signed "Upham, Ford, and Olmstead" on p. [3]; minor spotting, else very good. Publisher's special offer: "To any old subscriber who will send us a new subscriber to the Watchman and Reflector, with advance payment, we offer as a premium either of the following named Works..." These include "Journal of a Voyage from Boston to the West Coast of Africa"; "Lectures to Young Men," by Rev. Rufus W. Clark; "Ida May" ("pronounced by competent judges to be fully equal if not superior to Mrs. Stowe's famous work, Uncle Tom's Cabin"); "The Modern Horse Doctor" by G.W. Dadd; or "The American Reformed Cattle Doctor," also by Dadd. Additional premiums: "To any old subscriber sending four dollars in payment for his own subscription, and that of one new subscriber, we offer--Forrester's Boys and Girls' Magazine"; and "We also offer for one new subscriber, cash in advance, either of the Theological Works of Rev. Dr. Cummings". Of these premiums, the autograph letter notes: "It is the most liberal we have offered our friends, and we hope you may find among so large a variety a strong inducement to obtain one or more subscribers to an old friend and acquaintaince--The Watchman & Reflector. Of one thing we feel certain in making these offers, yours is the Best Side of the Bargain." Self envelope addressed to B. Hodgdon, Portsmouth, N.H.; postal cancellation dated Boston, December 12. Not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

43101. Richardson, Stephen: To the readers of the N.Y. Herald, 1860. 1 box.
General

Author: Richardson, Stephen

New York: Newsdealers Union.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (241 x 171 mm.); previous fold, edges a bit worn from handling, else very good. Announcement from the Newsdealers Union concerning the lowering of the price of the Herald at the newsdealers' expence: "You are aware the price of the Herald has been reduced to two cents, but you are not aware that the proprietor of that paper loses nothing by the reduction, as he deducts 1-3 of that cent from the already too small profits of the newsman, and compels the advertisers to lose the other 2-3 cent by paying 5 cents additional on each line of advertising." Signed in print by the Union president Stephen Richardson, Barth. Clarkin, Secretary. Not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

40745. The New York news, daily, semi-weekly, and weekly, 1862. 1 box.
General

New York: Benjamin Wood.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (352 mm.); a few faint ink stains, very minor wear from previous folds, contemporary notes on verso, manuscript list of subscribers tipped in. Prospectus for this New York newspaper (1855-1906), which had previously been shut down for 18 months in 1861 for being sympathetic to the enemy. Accordingly, the text begins with: "The New York News has battled against despotism for four years of blood and terror in assertion of the sanctity of the Constitution. A patriotism sufficiently broad to embrace both sections has been its only guide, and it refers now with honest pride to its record to show that it has not turned to the right or to the left under all the violence of arbitrary power." A list of terms as well as a blank table for agents to list subscribers. Benjamin Wood (1820-1900) purchased the paper in 1860 and would remain its editor until his death; he would also be a Democratic member of the House of Representatives (1863-5) and the U.S. Senate (1866-7).

Physical Description

1 box

42194. [Wilkins, W.A.]: Hiram Green's kontemplated grand 10-cent-enial squawk! and hand organ jubilee, 1870. 1 box.
General

Author: [Wilkins, W.A.]

New York: American News Company.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (250 x 103 mm.); engraved illustration, printed on purple paper; top edge faded, dampstained with a few shallow tears not affecting text, else very good. Advertisement for a "humorous work, being, as its name purports, a Burlesque on the Beethoven Musical Jubilee, and other Institutions of that nature". Prospectus not in OCLC; one copy of "How's this for high? The Beethoven musical festival and Boston Peace Jubilee, to be outdone by 'Hiram Green's' kontemplated grand 10-cent-enial squawk, and hand-organ jubliee, to be held at Central Park, New York," a chapbook of 24 pp., located at the New York State Library, OCLC 32220455. The OCLC entry further describes the text within, in part: "W.A. Wilkins, better known as the author of the humorous essays, by 'Hiram Green, Esq., lait gustice of the Peece, of Skeenesboro, nye unto Varmount...'" The Broadside's illustrations shows Hiram Green himself, sitting at a desk and reading a newspaper. A caption in small type underneath shows him exclaiming: "If the public is as tickled over this as I am, won't that be high" --H.G. Williams Albert Wilkins (1840--?) was a journalist from Whitehall, New York. At about the time of this chapbook he was making a go of it in New York City: "In 1870 what appeared as his guiding star shone over his horizon. A new comic weekly paper had been introduced to the residents of New York. It was known as Punchinello, and its publisher made William Albert Wilkins, of Whitehall, a handsome offer to assume the editorial chair. Wilkins was not long in making a decision whether to accept the offer or no. In an evil moment he bade good-bye to the clothing business and hied himself to New York. His salary and the paper ended their existence in five months' time, and the Whitehall merchant was cast adrift in the great metropolis," (Clemens, Famous Funny Fellows: Brief Biographical Sketches of American Humorists, p. 155). Having failed, Wilkins returned to Whitehall and resumed life as a journalist, humorist, and politician.

Physical Description

1 box

42385. Frueauff, J.F.: Catalogue of reliable attorneys, 1870. 1 box.
General

Author: Frueauff, J.F.

Columbia, PA: J.F. Frueauff.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous folds, light spotting to p. [1], else very good. Prospectus heading title: "What competent judges say of..." the author's catalogue, here in its second edition, corrected and completed. Original envelope, addressed in manuscript, stamped, and postmarked with request for payment along with pre-addressed return envelope laid in.

Filed under F.

Physical Description

1 box

42378. Cantù, Cesare: Milano: storia del popolo e pel popolo, 1871. 1 box.
General

Author: Cantù, Cesare

Milan: Giacomo Agnelli.

Scope and Contents

16mo, pp. 10; self wrappers, near fine.

Physical Description

1 box

40424. Read this offer: a list of 100 popular novels of the surprise series, 1880. 1 box.
General

Rochester, N.Y.: Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

Scope and Contents

Miniature (71 x 39 mm.), bifolium; fine. List of titles available from this cigarette company, "any one of which will be mailed FREE on receipt of Thirty (30) Album Certificates, one of which is packed in each box of our cigarettes". A clever incentive to take up smoking and/or reading. Not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

42389. [Prospectus for publications and library materials], 1884. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Frank Shepard.

Scope and Contents

3 leaflets, 2 8vo bifolia, the other a Broadside (273 mm.); previous folds, else near fine. Stamped and addressed envelope mailed by Shepard. Shepard began his career as a law bookseller in Chicago. The three items in this group were mailed to an attorney in Indiana. One item is a prospectus for Myer's Federal Decisions, another promotes Wait's Actions and Defenses, with a "Reduction in Price". The third promotes the innovative book-owner's leather spine label (a sample is affixed to the advertisement), "Shepard's Legal File Cover," "Portraits of Eminent Lawyers," and "Shepard's Reference Stand--500 Sold During 1884".

Physical Description

1 box

44960. Rice, Allen Thorndike, ed.: A gallery of historic portraits: reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, 1885. 1 box.
General

Author: Rice, Allen Thorndike, ed.

New York: MacCulloch, Hugh B.

Scope and Contents

8vo, bifolium; printed on pale pink paper in brown; a few short tears from previous folds not affecting text; very good. At head of title: "Vivid pen-pictures of the real Lincoln as he lived, moved, and talked". Contributors include Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Henry Ward Beecher, and Walt Whitman. Contents include a sample anecdote by Grant and nearly 60 press notices. From the Washington National Republican: "A supremely interesting volume"; from the N.Y. Church Press: "It is an interesting volume"; from the Kingston Daily Leader: "It is a most interesting volume". "The North American Review," also advertised on p. [4].

Physical Description

1 box

45468. Reeder, A. P.: Around the golden deep: a romance of the Sierras, 1888. 1 box.
General

Author: Reeder, A. P.

San Francisco: Samuel Carson & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (29 x 20 cm); illustrated with an engraving of the San Francisco Book House of Carson & Co.; about fine. With the red ticket announcing the publication of the book and a small slip of yellow paper with the book's title printed on recto and verso. Two-column circular announcing the publication of A. P. Reeder's work by an early San Francisco publishing house. As advertised in this prospectus, the scenes in Reeder's book "open up a field entirely new in the world of fiction--the heart of the Sierras at the present time." The book also includes a chapter entirely devoted to the San Joaquin.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

42390. Lawyers' reports annotated, 1888. 1 box.
General

Rochester, NY: Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing Co.

Scope and Contents

2 items, bifolia, 4to and 8vo ; illustration to one, printed in red, tan, and black, the other printed on green paper; several tears from previous folds affecting text without loss of meaning, some archival tape repair. Blank order form laid in. Established in 1888 and entering a second series in 1906, the Lawyers' Reports Annotated is one of the most important of the modern American reporters. Asking the attorney, "Is Not This What You Want?," the brochure promises "The Best Reports Ever Published" for lawyers with ambitions beyond "police court and cow cases".

Physical Description

1 box

43895. Morgan, W.H.: History of the ninth reg't Indiana vet. vol. infantry, 1890. 1 box.
General

Author: Morgan, W.H.

Peabody, Marion County, Kansas: Morgan, W.H.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 254 x 140 mm.); text framed within typographiclly decorative border, printed on pink paper in double column; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for the author's projected "history of our old regiment, comprising a full account of its first organization, the three months campaign, the reorganization, the following two years service, the re-enlistment on Raccoon Mountain, Georgia, near Whiteside, Tennessee, as veterans, and the continued service until the close of the war." With original envelope addressed in manuscript to John Morgan of Fredericks Co., Maryland. If Morgan succeeded in completing and publishing his history, no copies of the finished work or this prospectus appear in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

42360. The murder and decapitation of beautiful Pearl Bryan, 1890. 1 box.
General

Cincinnati: Barclay & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (300 x 230 mm.); 2 woodcut illustrations; previous folds, one panel tanned, 1 1/2-inch tear expertly mended; very good. Bilingual prospectus with German blackletter text on verso: "Der graufame mord der schönen Pearl Bryan". Announcing the publication of a gruesomely illustrated account of how a "murdered girl's head was carried in a valise through the streets of Cincinnati" by two men who murdered her in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. The headless horror resulted from an abortion, botched by two medical students, who, to cover their crime, cut off the head of the woman they killed from a cocaine overdose during the operation. Despite the advertisement's account, the head was never found, although the doctors, Jackson and Walling, would eventually be convited and hanged. Described here as "A good lesson to wayward inclined young folks". See McDade 502.

Physical Description

1 box

42361. The secrets of the harem revealed, 1890. 1 box.
General

Cincinnati: Barclay & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (303 x 220 mm.); 2 engravings; previous folds, else near fine. Bilingual prospectus with German blackletter text on verso: "Die geheimnisse des harems entschleiert". We have been unable to find any evidence that this exposé of the outrages committed against the Armenian population was indeed ever published. Still, prospective readers were promised an "array of fiendish and lustful crimes...of the most closely veiled Institution of modern times--the HAREM". In the spirit of the advertisement, the illustration on the recto shows a lad being flung to his death by a scimitar-wielding fiend.

Physical Description

1 box

42358. The thrilling and exciting story of the world renowned Hatfield-McCoy feud, 1890. 1 box.
General

Cincinnati: Barclay & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (300 x 220 mm.); 2 illustrations; previous folds, else near fine. Bilingual prospectus with German text in black letter on verso: "Die schanervolle und aufregende geschichte der weltbekannten Hatfield-McCoy fehde". Announcing the vivdly illustrated account of "this widely known Family War that has waged for many years in the Cumberland Mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky, and a mountain wooing that has suddenly reconciled two families after almost thirty years of shooting at sight and defiance of the law in the BLOODIEST FEUD IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES". The prospectus is almost certainly for Barclay's rare pamphlet, The Great Hatfield-McCoy Feud. A True Story of Love and War in the Cumberland Mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky (OCLC locates 4 copies of the pamphlet, and there is no mention of the prospectus).

Physical Description

1 box

37823. Bowyer: Mr. Bowyer's address to the patrons of his work entitled the illustrated record of the present important events of Europe, 1890. 1 box.
General

Author: Bowyer

Bowyer

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (401 mm.); announcement of the last volume of Bowyer's Illustrated Record. Shallow tears along edges, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

43902. Howard, O.O. and W. Fletcher Johnson: The life of Gen. Wm. Tecumseh Sherman, the last of the great generals, 1891. 1 box.
General

Author: Howard, O.O. and W. Fletcher Johnson

Philadelphia: Dickey-Hanna Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (559 x 406 mm.); photographic portrait of Sherman; previous folds with a few short neat tears affecting text without loss of meaning, else very good. Advertisement recruiting sales agents for the as-yet unfinished work. The publisher promised to make the book available in two bindings and on easy terms to prospective agents.

Physical Description

1 box

45463. The horseman, 1895. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Horseman

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; composite illustration printed in red on p. [1]; previous fold, a few smudges and light dust-soiling, else very good. A brochure urging new dealers to continue to carry the magazine The Horseman, since "the sale of the Christmas number of The Horseman through the agencies of dealers was larger in 1895 than in any previous year despite the dull times, we very naturally attributed that unparalleled sale to the excellence of the publication, and to the additional fact that enterprising dealers became personally interested in displaying a creditable number and advocating it to their many patrons." The illustration shows a man in evening dress who has been given a horse's head.

Physical Description

1 box

42491. Drummond, William Henry: The habitant, and other French-Canadian poems...With an introduction by the French-Canadian poet laureate Louis Frechette. Very fully illustrated by F.S. Coburn, 1897. 1 box.
General

Author: Drummond, William Henry

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (194 mm.); some toning, bottom edge a bit worn, else very good. Prospectus for the "Library Edition" and the "Large-paper edition," consisting mainly of press notices from England, Canada, and the United States.

Physical Description

1 box

38060. Bombardment of Santiago! The terrific fight on land and sea to capture the Cuban stronghold, 1898. 1 box.
General

Utica: Utica Sunday Globe

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (183 mm.); color illustration of the American and Cuban flags; shallow tea to left-hand edge not affecting text, very good. Advertisement for a "colored picture of the greatest naval engagment [sic] the world ever saw. The destruction of the Vizcaya and the rest of the Spanish fleet." Prospectus for this Spanish-American War illustration not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

42368. Groppali, Alessandro: La genesi sociale del fenomeno scientifico: introduzione a una storia critica della sociologia contemporanea con prefazione di Roberto Ardigò, 1899. 1 box.
General

Author: Groppali, Alessandro

Torino: Fratelli Bocca.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; previous fold, light toning, else near fine. Detailed table of contents provided.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

41973. Notice des ouvrages nouveaux qui se trouvent chez Rousselon, Libraire-Editeur, rue d'Anjou-Dauphine, no. 9, à Paris, 1827. 1 box.
General

Paris: Rousselon.

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 8; self wrappers, light wear from handling, previous fold, else very good. Provides detailed descriptions of four new publications, including "Cours Complet d'Économie Rurale," in 30 volumes, with titles devoted to diverse subjects such as gardening and hunting dogs; "Journal des Jardins, ou revue horticulturale, contenant la description et la culture de tous les végétaux utiles ou d'agrément introduits chaque mois, en France"; "Paris et ses Environs"; and "Dictionnaire de la Pénalité dans toutes les Parties du Monde Connu". Catalogue also provides a backlist of available titles. Prospectus printed at the Imprimerie de Casimir, Paris.

Physical Description

1 box

42372. Agli amatori delle belle arti, 1822. 1 box.
General

Modena: Vincenzi.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (290 mm.); previous fold; edges and fold darkened, a bit worn from handling, else very good. Announcement of the publication of a volume "in folio reale aperto carta velina fina, con caratteri de signori fratelli Amoretti di Parma," with 40 plates.

Physical Description

1 box

44962. Barrelle, A[?]: Two-page autograph letter, signed by 18 congregants, 1867. 1 box.
General

Author: Barrelle, A[?]

Brooklyn: Sarles, John W., Rev.

Scope and Contents

8vo, bifolium; text printed on pp. [1-2] only; minor blotting, previous fold, else fine. A letter written and signed by Barrelle (or Burrelle?) and 17 other congregants, entreating Sarles to publish a sermon delivered at the Long Island Baptist Association. "Believing that a wider circulation and perusal of its noble truths would contribute not a little to the triumph of the Gospel, we most affectionately request your ^consent to give it to the public." The only work published in 1867 or later by John W. Sarles, pastor of the Central Baptist Church, Brooklyn, appears to have been "Memorial of Mary E. Smalley, late wife of John W. Sarles...By her husband" (New York, 1867), although given the length of the finished work (217 pp.), it is doubtful that this is the "sermon" to which Barrelle was referring.

Physical Description

1 box

42538. Ferrario, Giulio: Prospectus de l'ouvrage intitulé Le costume ancien et moderne de tous les peuples, avec les conditions pour l'abonnement, 1815. 1 box.
General

Author: Ferrario, Giulio

Milano: Ferrario, Giulio

Scope and Contents

Large 4to, pp. 18; orginal blue printed wrappers; near fine. A very rare, extremely extensive, and luxuriously printed prospectus for the famous and successful work by the editor Giulio Ferrario, "Costume ancien et modern; ou, Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la religion, des arts et des usages de tous les peuples anciens et modernes, d'après les monuments de l'antiquité, et avec des figures analogues aux divers sujets qui y sont traités, which was published in 17 large 4to volumes between 1815 and 1829 (4 volumes of additions appeared later between 1831 and 1834). Two versions were issued, one in Italian, for the domestic clients, and one in French, for the international market. The copies on fine paper with colored plates were sold for 2288 francs, while the copies in black and white cost 1716 francs. The work was sold in installments by subscription. Widely appreciated throughout Europe, Il costume antico e moderno was frequently reprinted and translated outside Italy as a pictorial encyclopedia containing historical, geographical, ethnological, and anthropological information related to every part of the world. Following Batelli's Florentin reprint of 1826, all the numerous editions published subsequently appeared in octavo format. In this prospectus, Ferrario explains why it is so important to know the costumes of all nations; then describes the contents of the work and its distribution. Finally in the subscription terms he writes: "Nous avons entrepris avec confiance cette dispendieuse édition, et nous n'avons rien épargné pour qu'elle fut exécutée avec toute la perfection, et avec tout le luxe typographique que peuvent comporter le plan que nous avons adopté, ainsi que la modicité du prix auquel nous nous sommes restreints, pour en faciliter l'acquisition aux personnes de toutes les classes...Mais quelle garantie leur [les abonnés] assurerons nous, pour empêcher, comme il arrive ordinairement, que ceux qui n'auront contribué en rien à la confection de cet ouvrage, ne viennent, après en avoir attendu tranquillement la publication, à se le procurer à un prix au dessous de celui qu'il aura coûté aux abonnés? Nous avons donc cru nécessaire de prendre des mesures propres à prévenir d'une manière efficace un semblable inconvénient; c'est pourquoi nous faisons un devoir de déclarer ici formellement, que nous considérons cette édition comme la propriété de tous ceux qui s'y seront abonnés, et que par conséquent il nous sera impossible dans aucun temps, ni pour un prix quelconque, de la livrer à d'autres personnes, qu'à celles qui se seront inscrites au nombre des souscripteurs. Nous diviserons ceux-ci en deux classes, selon la qualité des éditions: les exemplaires en grand in quarto en papier vélin sous imperial superfin, et avec les figures coloriées, n'excèderons pas le nombre de huit cents, dont la moitié en italien, et l'autre moitié en français...L'autre classe d'abonnés ne sera que de deux cents, comme le nombre d'exemplaires, qui seront imprimés en papier vélin de même grandeur, mais de seconde qualité, et avec les figures non coloriées...Nous nous ferons un devoir de remplir nos obligations avec une exactitude scrupuleuse...; et pour qu'on pense pas que nos intentions à cet égard se reduisent à de vaines protestations, nous offrons pour cautionnement la Maison de banque Bonola De-Simoni et Comp., laquelle s'engage à payer pour nous mille livres italiennes à tout abonné...Chaque volume sera partagé en cahiers qui contiendront chacun environ huit feuilles d'impression avec dix planches...Le prix de chaque cahier en papier vélin sous-impérial superfin avec les planches coloriées est de 16 livres italiennes, et de 12 livres même monnoie pour ceux de seconde qualité...La première livraison sortira le premier avril prochain. Milan le premier mars 1815" (pp. 15-18). Giulio Gerrario, a native of Milan, was editor and director of the Braindense Library from 1838; founder in 1802 of the "Società tipografica de' Classici italiani"; and the author of many historical-literary works (cf. C. Frati, Dizionario biobibliografico dei bibliotecari e bibliofili italiani, Firenze, 1933, pp. 221-222).

Physical Description

1 box

40425. Cothren, William: New edition of the history of ancient Woodbury, 1870. 1 box.
General

Author: Cothren, William

Woodbury: William Cothren.

Scope and Contents

4to, Broadside (255 x 203 mm.); previous folds, very minor wear along eges, else a very good copy. Prospectus for a new edition of a history of Woodbury, Connecticut, originally published sixteen years earlier. "The new edition will contain the whole of the matter contained in the former edition with about 300 pages of new matter." This edition limited to 200 copies. Connecticut State Library only copy of prospectus in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

36247. Moody, D.L.: The Gospel Awakening: Comprising one hundred and fifty sermons and addresses, prayer meeting talks, Bible readings and prayers of the great revival meetings conducted by Moody and Sankey., 1875. 1 box.
General

Author: Moody, D.L.

Hartford, CT: James Betts & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; wood engraving portraits of D.L. Moody and two others. Special emphasis on the size of the piece (one volume in "861 octavo closely printed pages," as opposed to the usual three volumes) and superiority of this edition to other "so called Moody books". Also includes conditions of publication and prices for different bindings (English cloth, Parlor edition, or "Sheep, Library Style" for $3.25).

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

38064. Bacon, Anderson L.: [Beautiful art], 1863. 1 box.
General

Author: Bacon, Anderson L.

New York City: Anderson L. Bacon

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (250 mm.); minor foxing, shallow tears to bottom edge not affecting text, previous folds. Advertisement heading reads: "I take the liberty of informing you that I am in possession of the most beautiful art ever before introduced in the Country". Also advertises that "Gentlemen can do well at it also". The vagueness and indication that women can "make money" off of this art indicates a certain lasciviousness or dishonesty, especially with Bacon's explanation that "My reason for not telling what the nature of the Art is, is because it would hinder those who purchase the instructions from charging a higher price to others". Not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

42369. Edizioni della stamperia…, 1820. 1 box.
General

Stamperia del Seminario di Padova.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (190 mm.); fine. Publisher's advertisement listing 3 available titles as well as 3 additional titles in production.

Physical Description

1 box

38916. Tolman, Geo. R.: A portfolio of twelve picturesque sketches of "Old Boston" buildings. From pen and ink sketches made upon the spot, 1882. 1 box.
General

Author: Tolman, Geo. R.

Boston: Geo. R. Tolman

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (203 mm.); fine. Prospectus of a portfolio of drawings by the Bostonian architect and designer Tolman. Integral order form at bottom of Broadside. Prospectus not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

37565. Webster's dictionary of the English language. New edition (1880), with supplement of over 4000 new words and meanings, 1880. 1 box.
General

London: George Bell & Sons

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet; 16mo; prospectus also includes advertisement for recent additions to Bohn's Libraries, including Henry Fielding's "Adventures of Joseph Andrews," Molière's Dramatic Works, and Jean Paul Frierich Richter's Flower, Fruit and Thorn pieces.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

42386. Dumont, M.: Manuel des maires, de leurs adjoints, et des commissaires de police, 1825. 1 box.
General

Author: Dumont, M.

Paris: Librairie de Roret.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; uncut, fine. Prospectus for the eighth edition of Dumont's catalogue, "entièrement refondue"; additional advertisement for the sixth edition of Levasseur's "Manuel des Justices de Paix" on pp. [3-4].

Physical Description

1 box

42608. Yes: Prospectus for the Congressional Globe and appendix, 1837. 1 box.
General

Author: Yes

Washington: Blair & Rives.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (235 mm.); text printed in double columns; light wear and some foxing, else a very good, untrimmed copy. Provides subscription terms, with a description of the nature and importance of the Globe.

Physical Description

1 box

36257. Yes: Congressional Globe and Appendix., 1845. 1 box.
General

Author: Yes

Washington City: Blair & Rives

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (323 mm), prospectus advertising the New series of the Congressional Globe and Appendix to be stereotyped. Two columns of text, terms provided, table at bottom to list subscribers, post offices and states, and the two periodicals to be mailed. Previous folds, small stains to margins.

Physical Description

1 box

36419. Views of the Profile Mountains and the Profile Rock, or the "Old man of the mountain," at Franconia, New Hampshire, on two plates, with descriptive letter press, 1847. 1 box.
General

Boston: S.N. Dickinson

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated, [2] leaves of plates. Includes short descriptions of both the Profile Mountains and the Profile Rock.

Physical Description

1 box

38066. Harris, Wm. C.: Prison life in the tobacco warehouse at Richmond. By a Ball's Bluff prisoner...of Col. Baker's California regiment, 1862. 1 box.
General

Author: Harris, Wm. C.

Philadelphia: George W. Childs

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (382 mm.); steel-engraving illustration at top, titled "Our last day in the Richmond Tobacco Warehouse Prison"; light soiling, very good. Prospectus provides the table of contents at the author's preface, in which he writes that "These sketches were written to lessen the tedium of my lengthy imprisonment...With the exception of 'Homeward Bound,' they were all written within prison walls, and brought to the North sewn securely in the lining of an overcoat." One copy of this prospectus in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

44552. Vickery's fireside visitor, 1888. 1 box.
General

Augusta, ME: Vickery, P.O.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 400 x 290 mm.); large engraved portrait (of Vickery?) on recto; previous folds, a few short tears, else very good. Advertisement calling for agents to sell this semi-monthly journal: "Now is the time for agents to make money! My New Premiums for the Coming Year in every way Surpass all others heretofore offered." Prospectus not in OCLC as of January, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

39616. Johnson, Willis Fletcher and John Habberton: My country 'tis of thee; or, the United States of America, its past, present, and future, 1892. 1 box.
General

Author: Johnson, Willis Fletcher and John Habberton

Philadelphia: W.W. Houston & Company.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large folio (508 mm.); 4 engraved illustrations, 3 of which show various views of the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-3; a few tears from previous folds affecting text without loss of meaning, else a very good copy. Advertises "A philosophic view of American history and of our present status, to be seen in the Columbian Exposition or World's Fair". Introduction by the President of the Board Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition, Mrs. Potter Palmer. Call for 100,00 "wide awake agents to engage at once" and a word of caution against being "deceived and defrauded by unscrupulous publishers who are trying to palm off incomplete and unreliable works...You cannot afford to make a mistake in this matter. You have no time to experiment." Prospectus not in OCLC.

Filed under W.W. Ho.

Physical Description

1 box

42344. For the use of students and amateurs in landscape (on the 20th of February, 1816) will be published, in twelve numbers, to subscribers, five shillings - non-subscribers, six shillings each, and sold by the author, John Varley ... a series of twenty-four engravings in aquatinta, by F. C. Lewis..., 1816. 1 box.
General

London: Varley, John.

Scope and Contents

Large folio Broadside, outlining the features of A Treatise on the Principles of Landscape Design for Students and Amateurs in that Art, 1816-1817, with aquatint plates by Frederick Christian Lewis. See Abbey, Life, 187: "He was particularly happy in the unconventional sayings with which he sought to impress upon his pupils the principles that he considered of chief importance, and this gift of vivid illustration, with its striking perception of forcible analogies, appears also in the text of his treatises."

Physical Description

1 box

41976. Ouvrages entierement terminés [heading title], 1836. 1 box.
General

Paris: Béthune et Plon.

Scope and Contents

Folio Broadside (445 x 296 mm.); previous folds, light wear to edges from handling, else very good. Prospectus for 2 available titles, "Dictionnaire des Codes Français, ou, manuel de droit, dans lequel toutes les matières que renferment les codes sont distribuées textuellement par order alphabétique...suivi d'un vocabulaire des termes du droit, par A.F. Teulet"; and "Dictionnaire Abrégé de l'Académie Française, comprenant sans exception tous les mots de la langue écrite ou parlée, tous les termes d'art et métiers, et tous les mots adoptés dans les nouvelles nomenclatures scientifiques...Avec un préface par M. Vivien". Order blanks for both titles addressed to the agent Fauvel provided at bottom of Broadside.

Physical Description

1 box

43850. Agassiz, Louis: Contributions to the natural history of the United States, 1855. 1 box.
General

Author: Agassiz, Louis

Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (248 x 191 mm.); previous folds, else about fine. Integral order blank printed on verso. "Without entering into a detailed account of the contents of this work, it may be sufficient here to state, that it will contain the results of my embryological investigations, embracing about sixty monographs, from all the classes of animals, especially selected among those best known as characteristic of this continent."

Physical Description

1 box

38065. Earl, W.: The illustrated silent friend! Being a complete guide to health, happiness and wealth; embracing subjects never before scientifically discussed, such as consumption, private diseases, self abuse, matrimony, sympathetic affinity..., 1858. 1 box.
General

Author: Earl, W.

Charlotte, Michigan: Dr. W. Earl & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (302 mm.); foxing, discoloration at previous folds, shallow losses along edge not affecting text, good. Prospectus for this panacean volume, which can both cure consumption and make the reader a "steady income of from $3000 to $5000 per annum, preserve the health, and become posted in all the tricks, imposition and cheats practiced in and out of large cities". A call for agents along left-hand gutter; F.A. Ells, General Agent. Not in OCLC; one copy of a prospectus from a different agent located at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Filed under W. Earl.

Physical Description

1 box

44967. The lives and battles of Tom Sayers, the champion of England, and John C. Heenan, "The Benecia Boy"; AND: Fights for the championship of England from 1740 down to 1859, including the great figtht between Sayers and Brettle, 1860. 1 box.
General

New York: De Witt, Robert M.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (12 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches); two illustrations; minor spotting, previous fold, else about fine. Prospectus for two pugilistic works, promising that "Immediately on the arrival of the steamer, we shall issue New Editions, with additional Illustrations, of the above two Sporting Books. This 'Battle Edition' will contain the Official Report of the Fight between Sayers and Heenan for the Champion's Belt, together with Full Accounts of the Training of the Combatants, their Movements, Incidents connected with the Contest, and closing with the Great Result!" The fight as described in the DNB: "Sayers's last and most famous fight was with the American, John C. Heenan...for 200l. a side and the championship. They met at Farnborough on Tuesday, 17 April 1860, and fought thirty-seven rounds in two hours and six minutes...Time after time Sayers was knocked down by blows, each of which seemed sufficient to finish the fight; but he always returned good-humoured, though serious, and delivered blow after blow on the American's eyes while on one occasion he actually knocked his opponent down...Heenan, apparently aware that in fighting he could gain no advantage, closed with Sayers whenever possible, and on one occasion got him in such a position on the ropes that strangulation was imminent. The ropes were cut, the crowd pressed into the ring...nevertheless a few more rounds were fought, when Heenan, who had hitherto fought fair, behaved in a way which would have lost him the fight had the referee been efficient...The result was declared a draw." (DNB XVII, p. 882.) The fight as described in the DAB: "Despite sercrecy to avoid police interference, there were 12,000 spectators of every degree from costermongers to peers. Even Queen Victoria is said to have requested the news of the result be conveyed to her. In a suppressed note of approval, the crowd marveled at Heenan's powerful physique...In the thirty-seventh round, the ring was broken by the 'bobbies,' but the enraged 'Benecia Boy' fought on, while some sixty Yankees held off the constables. Although he had knocked down Sayers repeatedly and the time was poorly kept, the referees declared a draw, a decision which the American press denounced as due to British partisanship." (DAB IV, p. 500.) Prospectus not in OCLC as of April, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

42793. Harper's weekly, Harper's magazine, 1866. 1 box.
General

New York: Harper's Weekly.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (376 x 327 mm.); cream wove paper; previous folds, brief foxing, else very good. Complete Broadside aggregated from two separate copies, likely by the publisher: the top three-quarters being the prospectus and the bottom quarter (cut off and on the other side of the sleeve) being a circular letter addressed to the "Postmaster". An unusual Broadside prospectus for two national periodicals, complete with its separated cover or circular letter concerning annual postal subscriptions.The Broadside and the circular letter pairs sent out by Harper & Brothers to promote subscriptions for the upcoming year, 1867, appear to have been printed together and subsequently cut apart. We speculate that this was done by the publisher who addressed the circular to the Postmaster to whom they called "...attention to the inclosed Prospectus..." Because of the apparent misalignment of two printed ruled lines, one at the bottom of the prospectus and the other at the top of the circular, we further infer that the present two parts of the Broadside were aggregated by the publisher from different copies (i.e. they are non-conjugate), but mailed together as a complete advertising kit. The Broadside's advertising copy for Harper's Weekly touts its extensive use of illustrations, although Harper's Magazine, a monthly literary periodical, is announced to contain "...illustrations, wherever the Artist can aid the writer." The publishers intend that the latter magazine will include history, biography, travel narratives, poems, gossip, and "...shall contain a portion of at least one Serial Story". For example the Broadside announces that "[a]nother American Novel" will be commenced in the December, 1866 issue of Harper's Magazine: "'The Virginians in Texas,' a Tale by George F. Harrington, Author of 'Inside: A Chronicle of Secession'." The circular, dated November, 1866, clearly outlines subscription prices and terms. Inducements are made to the general public and to postmasters to form subscription clubs to obtain bulk subscription rates. The publishers also offer to sell back numbers of the periodicals as well as bound annual volumes and complete sets of the weekly (9 volumes) and monthly (33 volumes) magazines. Harper's Weekly is promoted as a family magazine, whereas Harper's Magazine is stated to combine "...in itself the racy monthly and the more philosophical quarterly, blended with the best features of a daily journal."

Physical Description

1 box

36273. [Worcester, Joseph E.]: Worcester's great quarto pictorial dictionary., 1878. 1 box.
General

Author: [Worcester, Joseph E.]

New York: The Independent

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (319 mm.), front side prospectus for Worcester's pictorial dictionary, verso advertising for The Independent as well as Rev. Joseph Cook's "Biology" and "Transcendentalism"; The works of Charles Dickens; and Frank B. Carpenter's The inner life of Abraham Lincoln. Small marginal tears at previous folds; two small tears on bottom quarter affecting text.

Filed under Ind.

Physical Description

1 box

36346. Chase, Edward: The memorial life of General Sherman. Being a graphic narrative of his boyhood and early life; education at West Point; career in Florida, California and Louisiana; his great campaigns, including Shiloh, Corinth and Vicksburg, the Bloody Campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and the story of his great march to the sea., 1891. 1 box.
General

Author: Chase, Edward

Chicago: R.S. Peale & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (459 mm.); illustrated with three wood engravings. Also includes pre-printed sheets from the publisher and sent to merchants (in this case dry goods merchants S.N. Center & Son of Wilton, New Hampshire) whereby the merchants could give this book to their customers if they purchased $20 worth of goods at their store. Previous folds, very good.

Physical Description

1 box

43583. Es wird gebeten, dieses circular gesalligst auszubewahren, 1859. 1 box.
General

New York: Stohlmann, J. E.

Scope and Contents

Quarto Broadside on blue paper approx. 8 x 11 advertising two versions of certificates of marriage and of baptism in German and English; included with a sample of a folio certificate of marriage; edge wear and a few short tears, but overall very good. "The undersign flatters himself that these Certificates, as far as his knowledge goes, surpass, as to artistic execution,and ingenious and emblematical meaning, any heretofore published."

Physical Description

1 box

36400. New illustrated devotional and practical polyglot family Bible, containing the old and new Testaments, together with the apocrypha, concordance, and psalms in metre: Also, a carefully abridge edition of Dr. Wm. Smith's complete dictionary of the Bible; a history of all the religious denominations of the world, and the various sects, both ancient and modern; chronological and other valuable tables, designed to promote and facilitate the study of the sacred scriptures, etc. etc. Embellished with over 450 fine scripture illustrations., 1870. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (430 mm.); includes a synopsis of contents in seventeen bullet points; conditions; bindings (arabesque leather, marbled edges; arabesque leather, gilt edges, with marriage certificate; or French morocco, full gilt, paneled sides, with marriage certificate); verso side provides sample page and plate ("Christ in the Garden"; Chap. VVII, XVIII); tears from previous folds through plate and affecting text, loss left-hand edge affecting text of the sample page on verso, discoloration.

Physical Description

1 box

36342. New devotional and explanatory pictorial family Bible, containing 2,500 fine scripture illustrations, supberb steel plate engravings by Gustave Dore and other celebrated artists., 1880. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia, PA: Jones Bros. & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long 4to (384 mm.); prospectus advertising the "Contrasted Edition" of this family Bible, with commission rates for agents and pricing for the different bindings available (American Morocco, Panelled Sides, Marbled Edges, $8.00). Verso provides information on the Bible canvassing-book for agents because "The Bible is so large and heavy that an Agent cannot conveniently carry a sample copy in canvassing". Previous folds. Very good.

Physical Description

1 box

44715. Verne, Jules.: Michael Sanderf [sic], 1885. 1 box.
General

Author: Verne, Jules.

Troy, N.Y.: J. M. Francis, Son & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 508 mm.); about fine. Announcement for the serialization of Verne's adventure novel "Mathias Sandorf" (here under the title "Michael Sanderf"), to be published in the Wednesday and Saturday issues of the Troy Daily Times, starting on the first of August, for three months. Broadside does not appear to be in OCLC as of March, 2014.

Filed under J.M. Fra.

Physical Description

1 box

44965. Rodenbough, T. F.: The bravest five hundred of '61, 1891. 1 box.
General

Author: Rodenbough, T. F.

New York: Dillingham, G. W.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (22 1/4 x 7 inches); illustration; a few very small tears from previous folds, else fine. Advertisement for "A History Of Heroism of the Rank and File of the Union Army...might be compiled from the Records of the War Department, by taking at random, sketches of those who won the rare and distinguished decoration of The United States Medal of Honor, given, by Act of Congress, to 484 out of nearly 3,000,000 men who fought for the Union." Includes press reviews and subscriber opinions, including that of Mrs. Gen. Geo. A. Custer ("With gratitude I embrace the opportunity to add my tribute"). The finished work was published as a large illustrated 8vo, in cloth ($3.50) or library-style sheep ($4.50). Broadside not in OCLC as of April, 2014.

Filed under Dill.

Physical Description

1 box

45150. Juvenile Holiday Books. Agents! These are the Books to Sell..., 1897. 1 box.
General

New York: Eaton & Mains

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium, (approx. 18" high), the whole dealing with publication details for "4 books in this set, larger, brighter than ever before," including Stories and Rhymes and Happy Times, The Famous Men and Great Events of the 19th Century by Charles Morris; Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Bible History, and True Stories of American History for Young People. "To agents,. This is the line of books you should sell ... they are low in price, bright, attractive, salable..."

Physical Description

1 box

45149. Four superb gift-books for holidays and all other occasions, 1897. 1 box.
General

New York: Eaton & Mains

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium, (approx. 18" high), the whole dealing with publication details for qa half-dozen books, including Famous Authors and Best Literature of England and America edited by William Wilfred Russell and Rufus M. Jiones, Haverford; True Stores for Great Americans for young Americans by Elbridge S. Brooks; and, Historical Stories of Americajn Pioneer Life, all "sold only by subscription through our regular agents." "To agents: This is the line of books you should sell ... Do not be persuaded to handle any other line."

Physical Description

1 box

45142. The First Citizen of the World. Life and Times of William E. Gladstone ... by John Clark Ridpath, 1898. 1 box.
General

New York: Eaton & Mains

Scope and Contents

Folio Broadside, the whole dealing with publication details and arguments for why the book should be purchased ("a superb octavo volume of 650 pages"). "Sold only by subscription. Agents wanted. Ministers, teachers, students, bright men and women, in ever town and district!!" Previous folds, else fine.

Physical Description

1 box

44062. Young, James Rankin: War with Spain, including battles on sea and land, 1898. 1 box.
General

Author: Young, James Rankin

Philadelphia: Standard Publishing Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 486 mm.); text printed in blue and red, 5 illustrations printed in blue, additional decorative vignettes printed in red and blue; previous folds, else about fine. Prospectus for Young's account of the Spanish-American War, published as "History of Our War with Spain," "Containing a Complete Account of the Destruction of the Battleship 'Maine;' Outbreak of Hostilities; Great American Naval Victory at Manila; Total Destruction of Admiral Cervera's Fleet; Hard Fought Battles in Cuba; Surrender of Santiago; Invasion of Porto Rico..." Also published in the Swedish language "at same prices" in cloth or full morocco.

Physical Description

1 box

45153. Again we come with our holiday books for 1899..., 1899. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: International Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium, 16" tall, previous folds, else fine. Extensively illustrated, and giving all the particulars on the holiday books, Happy Days in Goose Land, The Story of Forty Centuries, and Young People's History of Island Possessions, plus another. "Don't waste your time trying to sell cheap, inferior books when you can get the International Juveniles ... Our canvassing outfit is a handsome combination prospectus showing from 32 to 64 sample pages from each book ... Order one by return mail."

Physical Description

1 box

42609. Yes: Supplement to the Globe, 1836. 1 box.
General

Author: Yes

Washington: Blair & Rives.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (344 mm.); text printed in double columns; light wear, else very good. "Prospectus for an extra Globe. The presidential election-principles involved in the result-extra Globe." Francis Preston Blair, President Jackson's confidant and member of his Kitchen Cabinet, began publication of the Globe in 1830. John C. Rives was its business manager. This Broadside analyzes the 1836 election prospects of the Whig Party, that enemy "of Democratic principles" whose goal has already been "to put the chief power at the disposal of a few". In order to win, the Whigs count on the patronage and muscle wielded by the Bank of the United States, "the great wheel in the political organization of the [Whigs]". Its metamorphosis into a State Bank is a "mere imposture". In order to prevail, the Whigs must carry "the three equally divided States" of Mississippi, Missouri, and North Carolina. They can do so only be treachery, deception, and abandonment of all principle. Not in AI, Wise & Cronin, Sabin, or OCLC (as of 5/13). Evidently not in NUC.

Physical Description

1 box

42967. Quarto in-house scrapbook containing over 100 prospectuses, etc., 1859. 1 box.
General

London: Beeton, S. O.

Scope and Contents

102 leaves, each with a prospectus, publisher's announcement, trade cards for specific books, brief publisher's catalogues, etc., ranging in size from approx. 2¼ x 3½ inches, to 11½ x 18 inches, all tipped or pasted in; many specimens have pencil notes next to them recounting circumstances of publication, and a numbr of other are printer's proofs, some with in-house corrections and/or amendations; old marbled boards with green cloth backstrip, manuscript label on upper cover ("Prospectuses of S.O. Beeton's Publications") neatly lettered in a cursive hand, old label at the top of the upper cover reading "III-B (3)" indicating that this was perhaps one of a series kept in house; some pages torn (but not the inserted matter, some with spots and stains, but clearly many of these are unique and as a whole offers a fine history of the publications of this firm in the first half of the 1860s. Among the more compelling is a double-page illustrated announcement printed in orange and black for Beeton's Book of Poultry; a series of 6 Broadsides for various titles in Beeton's Penny Books series; and, needless to say, Mrs. Beeton's own Book of Household Management, and the ubiquitous Beeton's Christmas Annual.

Physical Description

1 box

40746. R.E.A. souvenir, 1880. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Butler, Sheldon & Company

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (271 mm.); small loss affecting text, else very good. Advertisement for the publisher's Progressive Readers, "the very best nature stories ever written". Printed on birch bark prepared by the Chippewa Indians of Michigan's upper peninsula. Does not appear to be in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

44963. [Murray, E. C. Grenville, et al.]: The social zoo. Satirical and humorous sketches of the human carnivora, 1884. 1 box.
General

Author: [Murray, E. C. Grenville, et al.]

London: Vizetelly & Co.?

Scope and Contents

Broadside (9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches); printed in red and black, 7 panels containing a total of 64 caricatures; previous folds, else fine. A handbill prospectus promoting the forthcoming satirical periodical, with contributions from leading journalists, satirists, and artists, notably Eustace Clare Grenville Murray (1824-1881) and Henry Savile Clarke (1841-1893). Comprises a 52-line poem beginning "WALK up, walk up, my Lords and Ladies! Walk up Gentleman! Public View - Tip-top folk of these careless gay days - Beasts, Birds, Fish, of the Social Zoo." Several leading figures are illustrated, including Disraeli, Tennyson, and Darwin. "Here's a lot who the flame of science kindle, and out of the old keep evolving the new; Of course you'll find both Darwin and Tyndall in the monkey-house of the Social Zoo." Broadside not in OCLC as of April, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

43071. As others see us! Testimonials that testify! Don't take our word for it, but read what others say. Our grand books and "new plans" literally sweeping the country. Fortunes made by agents canvassing under our special system, 1888. 1 box.
General

St. Louis, MO: Historical Publishing Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (584 x 229); 3 wood-engraved portrait vignettes in text printed in triple columns; previous folds wtih some closed and intertextual tears with minor losses of letters; good. Advertisement peppered with references to James W. Buel's The Beautiful Story; a Companion book to the Holy Bible (see OCLC no. 25524437). The testimonials were received by the company in response to a survey sent out by them to discern how their customers were being treated: "Sometimes, in a large business like ours, where there are many clerks employed, little things will occur, unintentionally and unexpectedly, that leave an impression on the minds of customers that they are not being fairly treated. Desiring to learn if anything of this kind had occurred in connection with our house, a short time since we sent out a circular letter to all our agents and patrons, requesting them to let us know how matters stood with them, and specially urging that...[they] speak right out and tell the whole truth, so that we would have an opportunity to set matters right." Well, apparently the circular letter work. "There was a perfect flood of letters" sent to the Company, and excerpts from about 85 of these are reprinted on the Broadside. The caption titles of these letters gives a sense of the comments and provides insights into the book canvassing business: "Has tested us and found us square"; "Selling our books beats farming to all smash"; "Likes our Purchasing Agency"; "Took 279 orders in six weeks"; "Our books and plans touch the people in the right spot every time"; "Intends to devote all his time to selling Mr. Buel's books"; "A young lady makes more money in 7 weeks than she could by teaching a whole year"; "A ringing endorsement from Bishop Witmore"; "Admits that he is a 'Hard-Times Agent"; "An invalid boy makes more money than his father does on his farm"; "A Spirited Young Lady Builds an Ark to Canvass in"; "A voice from distant Idaho"; "A happy mother of Twin Babies, and a worker of every good cause"; and "Sold 50 copies in one School District". There is also one fly in the ointment, but publishers always get the last word: "A Scorcher without cause.--You have not done with me as you agreed. You neither paid the freight nor allowed me 5 per cent. for discount.--Mary Ella Bravier, Meridian, Miss. (This lady was mistaken; that is all. We do not agree to pay freight or give 5 per cent. discount except on cash orders, and the order to which she refers was shipped C.O.D. by her instructions.)" Turning a negative into a positive. A cranky agent is here used to highlight the company's favorable shipping and discount policies. The Broadside also includes a review of the Company's new plans for a "Library Association" and a "Purchasing Agency". This latter scheme shows the company branching out as a wholesaler of goods other than books, articles including machinery, carriages, plows, and other merchandise.

Physical Description

1 box

43069. Cary, S.F., ed.: The national temperance offering, and sons and daughters of temperance gift, 1850. 1 box.
General

Author: Cary, S.F., ed.

New York: Van Dien, R.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (432 x 260 mm.); three illustrations at head of title; previously folded into self-envelope (without wax seal) for mailing; manuscript address postal cancellation on verso; small loss affecting 3 words without loss of meaning; very good over all. Cary (1814-1900), was a temperance movement leader and, later U.S. Congressman from Ohio. The prospectus announces the gift book's publication details: "[I]t will be an Octavo Volume of from 300 to 400 pages, illustrated with splendid engravings from Original Designs, by the celebrated Artist, T.H. Matteson, Esq.; also, portraits of some of the leading Temperance men of the country. The illustrations are engraved in the finest Mezzotint, by Messrs. J. Sartain, H.S. Sadd and Thos. Doney. The Portraits are taken from Daguerreotypes, are and Faithful Likenesses." When published, the book had 320 pages and contains 16 plates. The prospectus lists the caption titles of all 16 plates, which include both portraits and temperance-themed illustrations such as "The Drunkard's Home," "The Temperance Home," and "The Widow and her Son". The portraits include likenesses of S.F. Cary, Horace Greeley, and many other leaders of the Sons of Temperance. Interestingly, two of the portraits depict "Father [Theobald] Mathew," an Irish Catholic teetotalist priest who had recently visited New York City, in 1849; and Lyman Beecher, a noted anti-Catholic. The Broadside itself is illustrated with three cuts including an allegorical depiction of "Love, Purity, and Fidelity," the motto of the Sons of Temperance, a group founded in New York City in 1842. The prospectus also lists 43 contributors of articles to the gift book, including L.H. Sigourney, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horace Greeley, Phoebe and Alice Carey, Father Mathews, N.P. Willis, and Lyman Beecher. The Broadside concludes with a solicitation for book agents and with a final description of the book's immediate sensory qualification as a gift book, its luxurious bookbinding: "The Work will be printed on superior Paper, manufactured expressly for it, and will be bound in fine morocco, gilt sides and edges, ornamental sides and back, from original designs, by T.H. Matteson, Esq. The prospectus was mailed to G.F. Davis, Cavendish, Vt. This is most likely George Franklin Davis, a member of the Vermont Legislature, 1849-1860, and, later, Quartermaster General for the State of Vermont. The red ink New York postal cancellation stamp is dated "Jun[e] 7". Faxon 589.

Physical Description

1 box

43909. Barnum, P.T.: The story of my life. A personal narrative, covering a period of 75 years (1810 to 1885), 60 of which we re devoted to a variety of colossol popular and successful enterprises. To which is added "The art of money getting." Or, "Golden rules for money making", 1886. 1 box.
General

Author: Barnum, P.T.

Cincinnati: Forshee & McMakin.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (298 x 235 mm.); three engraved portraits, text printed in double column on grey paper; previous folds, small rubbing to recto affecting drop title word "period"; very good. Prospectus addressed "To Canvassers Everywhere," providing a concise description of the work and promising that "This book supplied Agents at one-half retail prices. Send 75c. for a copy" and "Prospectus Book Sent For Fifty Cents". Offered with gilt edges ($2.00) and without ($1.50). Portraits included are of the author, the Siamese twins Chang and Eng, and General Tom Thumb.

Physical Description

1 box

36352. Connecticut Evangelical magazine; and Religious intelligencer., 1809. 1 box.
General

Harford, C.T.: Peter B. Gleason.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (327 mm.); subscription proposal and prospectus for Gleason's magazine outlining its intended content: essays on the doctrines of Christianity; supporting arguments for the divine authority of God; articles on moral, religious and experimental subjects; narratives of religious revivals; biographical sketches, and authentic accounts of Christian life in singular situations. Gleason warned that the magazine would not admit polemical discussions, but that all denominations who believed in the divinity of Christ would be allowed to contribute. Below this substantial explanation of the magazine's focus are the conditions upon which the publication was to commence, outlined in six Roman numeral sections. Peter Buel Gleason (1780-1869) appears to have carried out the publication of this magazine until at least 1815. "[Gleason] was a printer, and in Jan., 1803, with Mr. Samuel Lincoln, he opened a printing and book selling establishment, under the firm name of Lincoln & Gleason, which continued until Mr. Lincoln's death in 1809. In 1811, Mr. Gleason, with his brother Elon, established the firm of Peter B. Gleason & Co., which continued until 1839, when Mr. Gleason retired." [White, Genealogy of the Desc. of Thos. Gleason of Watertown, Mass. (1909) p. 225.]

Physical Description

1 box

Redpath, James: A guide to kansas and the rocky mountains, 1859. 1 box.
General

Author: Redpath, James

New York: J.H. Colton

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed in brown, green, and red.

Filed under J.H. Col.

Physical Description

1 box

37880. Saturday night, 1880. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: James Elverson

Scope and Contents

Broadside, elephant folio; 16 steel engraving vignettes along border in green background; previous folds. Advertisement for this weekly illustrated paper, which ran from 1865 to 1901. "Superior in literary ability, artistic neatness and typographical beauty...Nothing which will in the least offend the Religious or Political belief of any one will be permitted, and trashy, degrading nonsense will be rigidly excluded."

Filed under Elverson.

Physical Description

1 box

45557. Habersham, A. W.: My last cruise: or, Where we went and what we saw, 1857. 1 box.
General

Author: Habersham, A. W.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 75 x 189 cm.); border decorated with 9 engraved illustrations, most signed Van Ingen Snyder; previous folds, some foxing and discoloration; small losses to corners not affecting text or illustrations, old pin holes; large advertisement for Habersham's memoirs of the North Pacific surveying and exploring expedition, 1853-1856. "On Sale Here" printed at bottom edge. Broadside not in OCLC as of June, 2014.

Filed under J.B. Lip.

Physical Description

1 box

44991. Dacus, J. A.: The illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James and the younger brothers, 1882. 1 box.
General

Author: Dacus, J. A.

St. Louis, MO: N.D. Thompson & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (638 x 484 mm.); 10 wood-cut vignettes, facsimiles; previous folds, a few stains, else very good. At head of poster: "The World-Renowned Western Outlaws. Complete History to May, 1882." Advertisement and call for agents ("Please Post This Up Conspicuously") for the revised work, promising "Graphic and Exhaustive Statements of the Killing and Funeral Services of Jesse James". Includes portraits of Mary and Jesse Edwards James, the children of James, "Born in outlawry," taken from photographs provided by Zerelda Samuel, mother of Frank and Jesse James. No copies of this prospectus located in OCLC as of April, 2014.

Filed under N.D..

Physical Description

1 box

44713. Jones, Sam. P.: Sermons, 1886. 1 box.
General

Author: Jones, Sam. P.

Philadelphia: Scammell & Company

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 737 mm.); 17 engraved illustrations along borders; about fine. At head of Broadside: "Hard Hits By Sam." Large advertisement for "The Most Extraordinary Book of Sermons Ever Published"; contents also include a life of the author by Theodore M. Smith. Availabe in 3 bindings of varying quality.

Physical Description

1 box

41239. Beecher, W.C., Samuel Scoville, and Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher: Authentic biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, 1887. 1 box.
General

Author: Beecher, W.C., Samuel Scoville, and Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher

N.Y. City: Chas. L. Webster & Co.

Scope and Contents

Oblong folio Broadside (481 x 634 mm.); one engraved illustration, reduced specimen page; shallow chips and tears along edges and from previous folds, else very good. At head of Broadside: "Important to Agents". Prospectus for a "Largely autobiographic" and authorized biography of Beecher, written by his son, his son-in-law, and "assisted by" his wife.

Filed under Chas. L..

Physical Description

1 box

40429. [Boyd, James Penny]: Political history of the United States, 1888. 1 box.
General

Author: [Boyd, James Penny]

Philadelphia: P.W. Ziegler & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (578 x 419 mm.), large folio; 19 steel-engraved vignettes, 18 of which are portraits; previous folds, shallow tears along edges not affecing text; a very good copy. Advertises "640 sparkling pages! 200 illustrations!" Includes a call for agents: "$65. a month and board for teachers, students, enterprising men and women in each County to take orders for this Popular and Fast-selling Book". Prospectus not in OCLC.

Filed under P.W. Zie.

Physical Description

1 box

41238. [Boyd, James P.]: Stanley in Africa, 1889. 1 box.
General

Author: [Boyd, James P.]

Chicago: J.S. Ziegler & Co.

Scope and Contents

Folio, 2 broadsheet leaves (449 mm.); engraved illustrations; printed on pink paper; shallow chips and tears along edges and from previous folds, else very good. Prospectus and call for agents of this sensationalist history of the American explorer Henry M. Stanley in Africa, advertised as "The most wonderful and thrilling book ever published," in which is recounted "The struggles for Mastery in the yet undivided realms where savagery riots, Arabs steal, and wild beasts mock the rivalry of man? [sic?] You may yet see the oldest dynasties of Europe turn on the problem of African acquisition."

Filed under J.S. Zie.

Physical Description

1 box

39617. Northrop, Henry Davenport: Four centuries of progress; or, panorama of American history. From the discovery of the American continent to the present time, 1893. 1 box.
General

Author: Northrop, Henry Davenport

Philadelphia: W.W. Houston & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; 11 engraved illustrations, including one depicting the finished workd: "This engraving conveys but a faint idea of the Exquisite Beauty of the Magnificent Cloth Binding"; some minor tears from previous folds occasionally affecting text without loss of meaning; a fine copy. Provides contents for each of the work's 6 sections; a call for 5,000 agents, and glowing press reviews, even from critics who haven't read the work: "The 'Pictorial History of the United States' is illustrated, printed and bound in excellent style. The great reputation of the writer is an assurance of the instrinsic value of the work" - Free Press, Waltham, Mass. This prospectus not in OCLC, nor is a W.W. Houston-published edition; there is, however, a record for the title published by the International Pub. Co.

Filed under W.W. Ho.

Physical Description

1 box

37879. Headley, [Joel Tyler]: Gen'l Grant around the world, 1897. 1 box.
General

Author: Headley, [Joel Tyler]

Boston: W.H. Thompson & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, elephant folio; 8 steel engraving vignettes; minor losses from previous folds not affecting text, 2 glue (2) stains. Prospectus for an illustrated biography of General Grant, published in 1879 under the title "The Life and Travels of General Grant". Prospectus not in OCLC.

Filed under W.H..

Physical Description

1 box

37878. [Fifty distinct books!], 1870. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, elephant folio; a whole of 22 lithographic vignettes along the borders, previous folds, shallow tears and minor losses along edges not affecting text. At head of title: "A Grand Combination, unequaled in actractiveness, intensely interesting and highly useful. Agents wanted!" Verso heading: "Valuable standard books represented in the combination prospectus"; lists titles in Biography, Agriculture and Practical, Standard Cook-book, Travel and Adventure, War Books, Medical Book, Humorous Book, Religious, Miscellaneous, T.S. Arthur's Books. These include biographies of Daniel Boone, David Crockett, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and "Heroic Women"; "Diseases of the American Horse" and "The Horse and his Diseases"; "Female Life among the Mormons"; "Our Boys: Rich and racy scenes in army and camplife"; "Ladies' Medical Guide"; and "Southern Matron and New England Bride". Not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

45146. Juvenile Books. Wee Bonnie Lads and Lassies..., 1895. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: World Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium (approx. 19" high), previous folds, 2 or 3 minor splits at the folds, else fine. Amply illustrated, and one side printed in blue; these four pages detail four featured books: Wee Bonnie Lads and Lassies, Gathered Pearls ("magnificiently embellished with many full-page phototype engravings"); Young People's Speaker, and Youth's Sunny Days. Collectively, according to the publisher, "the best set of juvenile books ever published." "Agents wanted. We have unsurpassed books at the lowest cost, so that we can give a FIRST-CLASS COMMISSION to the agent."

Physical Description

1 box

45145. Merry Times with toys and rhymes together with kindergarten alaphabet printed in eight colors ... Agents! This is your opportunity..., 1899. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: World Bible House

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium (approx. 18" high), previous folds, else fine. Amply illustrated, these four pages detail four featured books: The Child's Book of Trades, The Life Story of the Hero of Manila, True Stories of the Favorite Sons and Daughters of America, and The Light of Life or the Teaching of Jesus and the Lives of the Apostles, by the Rev. Ingram Cobbin.

Physical Description

1 box

42359. Mr. Buffalo Bill's own book - written by himself ... Story of the wild west and camp-fire chats by Hon. W. F. Cody, (Buffalo Bill)..., 1880. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia, n.d.: Kelley, H. W.

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium, approx. 17½ inches tall, printed on pink paper, 14 large wood-engraved illustrations from the book, including the largest, almost two-thirds of the page, which is an image of the book itself; previous folds, else very good. Includes prices, styles, of binding available, opportunities for agents, etc. This prospectus is for the updated and expanded edition of Buffalo Bill's autobiography, all statements to the contracy, likely ghost-written by Prentiss Ingraham, an agent for Cody's Wild West Show.

Filed under Kelley.

Physical Description

1 box

44717. Atkinson, Wilmer, ed.: Farm journal, 1880. 1 box.
General

Author: Atkinson, Wilmer, ed.

Philadelphia: Atkinson, Wilmer

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 622 mm.); illustrations, text printed in red and black; previous folds, else fine. Advertisement for prospective subscribers to Atkinson's Journal ("Why Subscribe to this Paper? Because it is Cream, not Skim Milk.") Also being advertised is "The Handy Housekeeper," a work "prepared with great labor and care for the housewife readers of the farm journal" in which they can learn about soap making, drying fruit, household embellishments, and upstairs work. Broadside not in OCLC as of March, 2014.

Filed under Atkinson.

Physical Description

1 box

44720. Fox, Tom.: Little Sam Green, the wonderful detective, 1880. 1 box.
General

Author: Fox, Tom.

Philadelphia: Young Men of America

Scope and Contents

Broadside (730 mm.); illustrated, text in blue, red, and black; small tear from previous fold affecting illustration, else about fine. At head of title: "A Great Story!!" Advertisement for a short story by a Philadelphia detective to be published in no. 270 of the journal Young Men of America. Not in OCLC as of March, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

44957. [Poe, Edgar Allan.]: Bowen's North American farmer, 1849. 1 box.
General

Author: [Poe, Edgar Allan.]

Philadelphia: Bowen, Eli

Scope and Contents

Bifolium (42 3/4 x 27 1/4 inches), printed in red and black, illustration cuts; some wear and small losses at fold line; minor foxing; very good. At head of title: "Subscriptions Received Here. The Pioneer Journal of the Age!...A Record of Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, Literature, Mining, &c...Edited by Eli Bowen." Issued less than six months before Poe's death, the this prospectus comprises the interior, horizontal two-page spread within the April 17, 1849 "issue" of Bowen's short-lived (if at all lived) Philadelphia newspaper. Interestingly, the newspaper itself contains a reference to Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" with an article by Poe-friendly New Orleans editor of the "Picayune," George W. Kendall. Bowen highlights the newspaper's contents within the prospectus: "Some of the most distinguished men of our own country and Europe contribute to its columns; among whom we are privileged to mention the eminent...[in red]: Edgar A.Poe, Esq., The Celebrated Reviewer, and author of sundry Literary Works." In the spring and summer of 1844, Poe had contributed seven "letters" addressed to Bowen to the Columbia, Pennsylvania newspaper "Columbia Spy," for which Bowen was senior editor. Poe's first-hand impressions of New York City, "Doings of Gotham," were published by Bowen beginning in May, 1844. Six months later Bowen editorialized: "To enable us to do this [pay more attention to the editorial department] the more effectually we have procured the aid of several skillful writers--Mr. Poe, a well-known critic, leading the troupe!" In "Doings in Gotham," Poe transformed the newspaper convention of the distant correspondent's report into a vibrant literary form. In July, 1844, Poe contributed three newspaper articles to the Philadelphia Ledger. When one of these articles was reprinted by Bowen in the Columbia Spy, it was Bowen who there attributed or intimated that the three Philadelphia Ledger articles were by Poe. This was good marketing by Bowen and a sure aid to spreading Poe's literary reputation. In 1848 and 1849, troward the end of his life, Poe lectured widely on "The Poetic Principle". During this time he sought to, at last, edit his own literary journal and to publish it under his own terms and to a high literary standard. This journal was to be called "The Stylus". The Stylus never came to fruition. During this time, however, Poe continued to seek some outlet for his writing, to continue to elevate American literature--even if he could not publish it himself. In October 1848 (if you are to believe the prospectus) Eli Bowen commenced publishing "Bowen's North American Farmer". At this time he corresponded wiht Poe about Poe contributing some articles about the Hudson River Valley to this new newspaper venture. Poe wrote to Bowen on October 18: "About three weeks ago I wrote you quite a long letter, enclosing a MS copy of 'The Raven' and making you a proposition in regard to the establishment of a Magazine--but have received no reply. In addition to what I then said I have now to say that I am willing to accept your offer about the Correspondence, and will commence whenever you think proper--provided you decline the tour &c as I suggested." Despite the touting of the 1849 prospectus, it does not appear that any of Poe's contributions ever appeared therein (if the paper ever even made it to the presss). Interestingly, the "Prairie Du Chien Patriot" issue of July 3rd, 1849, shows Bowen advertising for subscriptions to his newspaper and stating: "specimen copies may be seen at any post-office". The present artifact, with its published date of April, 1849, appears to be a specimen copy that a postmaster would have had on hand, if not discarded. Poe died on October 7, 1849. Perhaps the last Broadside or Broadside prospectus mentioning Poe printed in his lifetime. Note, also, the reference to German chemist expert Justus von Liebig being marketed as a contributor. OCLC 16060352 shows only three holdings as of April, 2014, at Duke, University of Texas at Austin, and the Texas Newspaper Project. Not mentioned in BAL or Heartman et al. See Jacobs, "The Courage of a Critic".

Filed under Bowen.

Physical Description

1 box

41448. Arthur's home magazine; The children's hour; Once a month, 1870. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: T.S. Arthur & Sons.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, elephant folio (717 x 529 mm.); text printed in red and black; some chips and tears along edges not affecting text, previous folds, dampstaining along middle fold with several small losses affecting text without loss of meaning; very good. At head of Broadside: "Periodical announcement extraordinary! Three first class magazines containing 400 illustrations and 2000 pages of the best magazine reading in the world, for only $4.00!!" Advertised at bottom of the Broadside: "Splendid premiums. Sewing machines, cabinet organs, silver ware, tool-chests, books, &c." Does not appear to be in OCLC.

Filed under T.S. Ar.

Physical Description

1 box

44719. American agriculturist, 1883. 1 box.
General

New York: Orange Judd Company

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 654 mm.); illustrations; previous folds, else about fine. At head of title: "1842-1883: The Great Agric ultural Journal of the World". Also advertising the German edition, "Amerikanischer Agriculturist," "The only purely German agricultural journal in the United States". All subscribers for the year promised a "Grand (17 1/4 x 12 inch) plate copy of Dupré's great painting valued at $4500.00 entitled 'In the Meadow'". This Broadside does not appear to be in OCLC as of March, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

44718. American agriculturist, 1884. 1 box.
General

New York: Orange Judd Company

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 654 mm.); text printed within a border of 19 vignettes; about fine. At head of title: "1842-1884: The Great Journal Of The World For City, Village, And Country People". Also advertising the German edition, "Amerikanischer Agriculturist," "The only purely German agricultural journal in the United States". This Broadside does not appear to be in OCLC as of March, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

31704. A whole temperance library in a single volume. Agents have sold 20,000 copies in five months. Apply now for good territory. The Temperance Reform and its Great Reformers ... By Rev. W. H. Daniels ... Sold only by subscription, 1878. 1 box.
General

New York: Nelson & Phillips

Scope and Contents

Large folio Broadside, approx. 29" x 21", printed in metal and wood type, descriptive text surrounded by 12 wood-engraved portraits (among them Frances Willard, Mother Stewart,and Lyman Beecher); previous folds, one small break at one fold, ink inscription on verso showing through the portrait of Beecher; all else very good. "Agents wanted everywhere ... Agents are having fine success, as many as fifty copies sold in one day." Daniel's The Temperance Reform and its Great Reformers was published by subscription in 1878-79, and appeared under several imprints, including Hitchcock & Walden in Cincinnati, and Phillips & Hunt in New York (successors to Nelson & Phillips). This Broadside notes that the books is "one of the most spirited and successful assaults on the kingdom of darkness," and that the author is "one of the most successful historians of modern evangelism." Not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

45229. As sung by Chas. B. Ward of "Primrose & West's Minstrels" Two Little Girls in Blue Songster. Extra edition. Price 5 cents, 1894. 1 box.
General

New York: Wehman, Henry J., song and handbook publisher

Scope and Contents

Large Broadside approx. 35.5 x 23.5 inches on newsprint, with large, newspaper-style heading at the top and advertisements for numerous books beneath in 6 columns; liberally illustrated with many small cuts; offered are cookbooks, joke books, fortune-telling books, books on politeness and etiquette, dream interpreters, and many other popular genre books; paper toned and with several small chips and tears at the edges with small loss.

Physical Description

1 box

42794. Brother Jonathan, 1860. 1 box.
General

New York: B.H. Day.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (532 x 543 mm.); large, nearly full-page engraved illustration on verso signed "Gavit & Co."; small tears from previous folds, a few affecting text with minor loss of meaning; very good over all. Heading title: "Extra Brother Jonathan." An all-encompassing prospectus from publisher B.H. Day advertising the literary magazine "Brother Jonanthan," ("The Best Family Newspaper in the United States" and "The Best and Cheapest in New York"); as well as Song and Joke Books ("Berry's Comic Songs for White Folks"; "Wood's Minstrel Songs," which are "interspersed with Nigger Jokes..."); a new and much improved edition of James Ashton's "The Book of Nature," which "contains highly important and interesting information for Married People, or those who think of marrying, on Sexual Physiology." Also provided is an extensive backlist of cheap books; and a full description of the amenities of the "Monster Steam-Ship Great Eastern," illustrated with a view of the ship in harbor as well as a plan of her interior.

Filed under B.H. Day.

Physical Description

1 box

44721. Saturday night, 1880. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: Elverson, James

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 965 mm.); text printed in red and green; about fine. Advertisement for a weekly illustrated paper, which ran from 1865 to 1901, and "surpasses all other publications in Pleasing Stories, Artistic Pictures, Charming Variety, and Typographical Beauty". Provides subscription and club rates.

Filed under Elverson.

Physical Description

1 box

44722. Mason, Augustus Lynch.: The romance and tragedy of pioneer life, 1883. 1 box.
General

Author: Mason, Augustus Lynch.

Cincinnati: Jones Brothers & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 914 mm.); text printed within border of 12 vignettes; about fine. Prospectus for "A popular account of the heroes and adventurers who, by their Valor and War-Craft, beat back the Savages from the Borders of Civilization and gave the American Forests to the Plow and the Sickle". With a call for Agents.

Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

This series contains pamphlets dated after 1800 and before 1900.

Arrangement

Arrangement follows the order of the original Excel inventory.

Physical Description

11 boxes

Bauer, Ferdinand: The Australian flower paintings of Ferdinand Bauer. Introduced by Wilfred Blunt; botanical text by Dr. William T. Stearn., 1976. 1 item.
General

Author: Bauer, Ferdinand

London: The Basilisk Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus includes information on publication specifications, payment, delivery, and the print run (500 copies for sale). Mission statement reads "This new volume, containing a fine sleection of full-size colour facsimiles of drawings made by Ferdinand after he set off with Matthew Flinders on the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801, will...be of considerable importance". Also includes the year's other Basilisk Editions, THe Kelmscott Chaucer and The red books of Humphrey Repton.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

Bauer, Ferdinand: The Australian flower paintings of Ferdinand Bauer. Introduced by Wilfred Blunt; botanical text by Dr. William T. Stearn., 1976. 1 item.
General

Author: Bauer, Ferdinand

London: The Basilisk Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus includes information on publication specifications, payment, delivery, and the print run (500 copies for sale). Mission statement reads "This new volume, containing a fine sleection of full-size colour facsimiles of drawings made by Ferdinand after he set off with Matthew Flinders on the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801, will...be of considerable importance". Color plate proof loosely inserted. Also includes the year's other Basilisk Editions, THe Kelmscott Chaucer and The red books of Humphrey Repton.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

Bauer, Ferdinand: The Australian flower paintings of...Introduced by Wilfred Blunt; botanical text by Dr. William T. Stearn., 1976. 1 item.
General

Author: Bauer, Ferdinand

London: The Basilisk Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus includes information on publication specifications, payment, delivery, and the print run (500 copies for sale). Mission statement reads "This new volume, containing a fine sleection of full-size colour facsimiles of drawings made by Ferdinand after he set off with Matthew Flinders on the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801, will...be of considerable importance". Color plate proof loosely inserted. Also includes the year's other Basilisk Editions, THe Kelmscott Chaucer and The red books of Humphrey Repton.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

Bauer, Ferdinand: The Australian flower paintings of...Introduced by Wilfred Blunt; botanical text by Dr. William T. Stearn., 1976. 1 item.
General

Author: Bauer, Ferdinand

London: The Basilisk Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus includes information on publication specifications, payment, delivery, and the print run (500 copies for sale). Mission statement reads "This new volume, containing a fine sleection of full-size colour facsimiles of drawings made by Ferdinand after he set off with Matthew Flinders on the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801, will...be of considerable importance". Color plate proof loosely inserted. Also includes the year's other Basilisk Editions, THe Kelmscott Chaucer and The red books of Humphrey Repton.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

Boswell, James: Prospectus for the Private Papers of James Boswell, 1928. 1 item.
General

Author: Boswell, James

Mount Vernon: Rudge, William Edwin.

Scope and Contents

Folio, 14pp., with subscription sheet and facsimile of Boswell's holograph text. Format and typography in the hands of Bruce Rogers. Fine in orig. stiff red paper wrappers.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

Gay, Walter: Memoirs of Walter Gay, 1930. 1 item.
General

Author: Gay, Walter

New York: Japan Paper Company

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 8vo; prospectus for a privately printed memoir used as an example of the Papier de Rives available from the Paper Company. With a history of wove paper printed to front.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

1929-1942...Catalogue number fifty-five, 1942. 1 item.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; list of titles from the Club available at Philip C. Duschnes.Titles include Confucius's "The Analetics" (item no. 42) and Edgar Allan Poe's Tales (no. 124).

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

[Catalogue], 1970. 1 item.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; printed in red and black; original white printed wrappers, fine. Order form and typed letter on Society letterhead laid in. With envelope in which the catalogue was mailed.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

Strong, Katherine: ["Seasons greetings" card], 1961. 1 item.
General

Author: Strong, Katherine

Chapel Hill, NC: Reflections from Chapel Hill

Scope and Contents

One card, 12mo; decorated with image of bird "designed and hand colored by Katherine Strong"'; card also thanks the recipients "for your kind assistance". Includes envelope in which the card came, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Laurence McGilvery of the Nexus Bookshop, La Jolla, California.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

[Bible, linear parallel self-pronouncing edition], 1900. 1 item.
General

Philadelphia: A.J. Holman & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for "a combination of the Authorized and Revised Versions"; specimen page. Text in red and black.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

The Dutch influence in old New York, 1924. 1 item.
General

New York: Japan Paper Company

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 8vo; illustrated keepsake from the Paper Company, printed as an example of the available stock. Etching on front cover, blue decorative boarders. Some toning.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, Incorporated. Your favorite books, the Classics of the world's literature, illustrated by the foremost artists and made into volumes of beauty... [prospectus]., 1929. 1 item.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, pp. 23-[28]; ornamented title-p. printed in red and black; a fine copy in orig. red cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, paper label on upper cover. Accompanied by TLS dated September 10, 1929 from George Macy, LEC Director, to Wulling soliciting his subscription, accompanied by a subscription enrollment form. See Smith, p. 252.

General

Missing as of 9/9/2014

Physical Description

1 item

Ritchie, Ward: Frederic Goudy, Joseph Foster, and the press at Scripps College, 1978. 1 item.
General

Author: Ritchie, Ward

San Francisco: Book Club of America.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; printed in green and black; fine. Provides specimen page. Order form laid in.

General

Missing as of 2017/1/17.

Physical Description

1 item

39256. Bradley quality books, 1926. 1 box.
General

Springfield, Mass.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; color illustrations; fine. List of 8 recent children's books from the Company.

Physical Description

1 box

45147. Memorial volume ... The Life and Times of Queen Victoria..., 1901. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: World Bible House ?

Scope and Contents

Folio Broadside (approx. 12" high), illustrated; previous folds, else fine. The Memorial Volume of the Life and Times of Queen Victoria was offered by several distributors, from Chicago, Harrisburg, Philadelphia and New York. The provenance of this suggests World Bible House, Philadelphia. "Agents wanted everywhere. Act promptly. Send 10c. for outfit."

Physical Description

1 box

Recent titles...Summer 1979, 1979. 1 item.
General

St. Paul: Ally Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; black and white illustration; previous fold, else fine. Short catalogue of new and available titles from the Press, as well as ordering information on back. With TLs on Press letterhead addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and original envelope.

General

Missing as of 2017/1/17.

Physical Description

1 item

36887. Kellogg, Spencer Jr.: The oak by the waters of Rowan. A meditative essay...with a forewrd by Evelyn M. Watson, 1927. 1 box.
General

Author: Kellogg, Spencer Jr.

Village of Eden, New York: The Aries Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for the press's second book, "printed on dampened, hand-made paper and...set in fourteen point Goudy 'Antique' and an imported Spanish letter. The Foreward is sixteen point Glado-Italic. The decorations, and one illustration, are by Wanda Gág, a young Bohemian artist"; edition limited to 295 copies. Excerpts from the piece and the foreward included.

Physical Description

1 box

37001. Blake, William: The tiger, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Blake, William

Philadelphia: Carl J.H. Anderson

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); prospectus for this addition to the Linweave Limited Editions. Illustration by Theodore Ross and printed by Carl J. H. Anderson for the Franklin Printing Co.

Physical Description

1 box

37017. Boorde, Andrew: The wisdom of Andrew Boorde, doctor of physic, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Boorde, Andrew

Leicester: Edgar Backus

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, pages uncut, 8vo; prospectus of an abridged edition of Boorde's "The Dyetary of Helth," originally published in the 16th century and published here at the Garswood Press, directed by Falconer Scott, in an edition limited to 550 copies. Includes specimen frontispiece, illustrated by A.E. Christopherson, and specimen page.

Physical Description

1 box

36892. Best, George: The three voyages of Martin Frobisher, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Best, George

London: The Argonaut Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this reprint of the original 1578 edition, "issued in two volumes and printed at The Cambridge University Press on Japon Vellum, Crown 4to size, and bound in quarter real goat vellum with buckram sides, bearing a polar medallion in full colours specially engraved for the Argonaut Press by W. Monk, R.E. The edition is limited to 475 numbered sets." Also makes mention of a work in preparation, "A relation of a journey begun An. Dom. 1610..." by George Sandys; printed with the list of previous publications on the back page. Text in green and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36812. Ballard, James F.: A catalogue of the medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and incunabula in the Boston Medical Library, 1942. 1 box.
General

Author: Ballard, James F.

Boston: James F. Ballard

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this privately printed catalogue; sample page and sample illustration provided. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36854. Initials from French incunabula. With 1011 reproductions and an introduction by Hellmutt Lehmann-Haupt, 1948. 1 box.
General

New York: Aldus Book Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a work limited to an edition of 950 copies; only one reproduction of a French incunabula initial on back page; integral order form addressed to the press. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36868. Montaigne: Essays of Montaigne: Selected, edited and newly done into English by Francis Carmody, 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Montaigne

Alma, California: L-D Allen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this edition of selection from Montaigne's masterwork, limited to 200 copies; illustrated by Mallette Dean. Order form loosely inserted. Text in red, purple, and black, border illustration in green.

Physical Description

1 box

36852. Brown, Helen Evans: Some oyster recipes...decorations by Harry Diamond, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Brown, Helen Evans

Pasadena, California: Ampersand Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for the second in a series of recipe books from the press, "designed by Grant Dahlstrom and printed at his Castle Press"; integral order form on back addressed to the distributor Philip S. Brown of Pasadena, Calif. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36357. Howes, Wright: A bibliography of United States history, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Howes, Wright

New York: Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America Inc.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 5; prospectus for Howes' bibliography, publication No. 3 of the ABAA, including "Aim and scope" ("books printed anywhere, in any language, within the last two and a half centuries (1700 to 1950)"; "Americana versus U.S.-iana"; and "Method".

Physical Description

1 box

36353. Varro, Margit: Designs to music, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Varro, Margit

Chicago: Apprentice House.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for Varro's work on music and visual design. Also includes list of other upcoming publications, including Wood-engraved illustrations by the Swiss designer Imre Reiner; A treatise on the technique of making decorative papers; Everyman's almanac; and Wildflowers of northern Illinois. Also gives the publisher's mission statement: "Apprentice House has been founded as a cooperative non-profit effort in publishing. The books to be published will consist of small editions about cultural and educational activities in the arts and related subjects." Varro's work to be limited to 2000 copies. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36883. Chaucer, Geoffrey: The booke of the Duchesse, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Lexington, Kentucky: The Anvil Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus for this edition of Chaucer's elegy on the death of Blanche, wife of John of Gautn and the second publication from the Press; "The text follows that of the Fairfax ms. 16, Bodleian Library"; edition limited to 225; list of the three titles available from the press (the Chaucer, Pico della Mirandola's "Oration on the Dignity of Man," and "The Four Gospels") printed on back page.

Physical Description

1 box

39545. Dupont, Pierre: La statuaire préangkorienne, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Dupont, Pierre

Ascona, Suisse: Artibus Asiae.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; black and white photographic illustrations; fine. Text printed in French and English. Prospectus for a work that "concerns itself with the earliest Khmer sculpture". Provides 4 specimen plates; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36884. The four gospels, 1955. 1 box.
General

Lexington, Kentucky: The Anvil Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; illustrated prospectus for this edition of William Tyndale's translation from the New Testament, 1526, the Press's third publication; each Gospel to be given its own volume, each to be distributed as they are completed; specimen page (20) and order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

Collins, Wilkie and Charles Dickens: The Wreck of the Golden Mary, 1956. 1 box.
General

Author: Collins, Wilkie and Charles Dickens

L-D Allen Press

Physical Description

1 box

36867. Poe, Edgar Allan: The murders in the Rue Morgue, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Poe, Edgar Allan

Antibes, France: Allen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this edition of one of Poe's most famous stories, limited to 150 copies; distributed by the Chiswick Bookshop, New York, NY. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

39543. Ho-Shang-Kung: Ho-Shang-Kung's commentary on Lao-Tse. Translated and annotated by Eduard Erkes, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Ho-Shang-Kung

Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (305 mm.); fine. Prospectus of the second printing of Erkes's translation; specimen page printed on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

36824. Abbe, Elfriede: The revelation of St. John the Divine, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Abbe, Elfriede

Ithaca, New York: Elfriede Abbe

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for an edition limited to 135 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, "printed in eighteen point Goudy Italian Old Style tyoe on Taireishi paper"; illustrations, design, hand-setting, and hand-printing all done by Elfriede Abbe. Integral order form on back page; pre-addressed envelope and a sample of the paper loosely inserted. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39544. Soper, Alexander Coburn: Literary evidence for early Buddhist art in China, 1959. 1 box.
General

Author: Soper, Alexander Coburn

Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (305 mm.); fine. "The literary evidence collected and translated in this book, primarily from Six Dynasties or early T'ang texts, is designed to make possible a much more accurate estimate of the achievements of the period." Table of contents and integral order form printed on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

37934. Mondsee--Wiener Lieder--handschrift aus Codex vindobonensis 2856, 1966. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color facsimile, text in red and black; minor foxing. Prospectus in German.

Physical Description

1 box

37930. Codex epistolaris carolinus. Band III. Die wichtigste quelle für die geschichte der beziehungen zwischen den päpsten und den fränkischen herrschern im 8. jahrhundert, 1966. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; facsimile; previous fold. Prospectus for a title from the series Codices Selecti; German and French.

Physical Description

1 box

37906. Antiphonary of St. Peter. Codex vindobonensis Ser. n. 2700, 1966. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (401 mm.); colour photographic illustration on verso; "This facsimile-edition belongs to group 'A' ('illuminated manuscripts') of the series Codices Selecti; text in German and English; some soiling, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37932. Die kaiserchronik des stiftes vorau. Codex 276--I. Teil, 1968. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; facsimile, text in blue and black; edges and corners showing some wear. Prospectus for 4 titles in all; German.

Physical Description

1 box

37933. Älteres gebetbuch Maximilians I. Codex vindobonensis 1907, 1968. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; color illustration. Prospectus for a title from the series Codices Selecti; German.

Physical Description

1 box

36845. Strouse, Norman: C-S the master craftsman, by Norman Strouse and John Dreyfus, 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Strouse, Norman

Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided pamphlet, 8vo; prospectus for this history of the Doves Press and the third publication from the press; order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37882. Drogo-sakramentar (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. lat. 9428), 1970. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio (340 mm.); rubber stamp on front; "Einladun zur subskription/Offre de souscription" for a title from the series Codices Selecti; text in German and French. List of previous titles from the series printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

37935. Bischoff, Bernhard: Sammelhandschrift diez b sant. 66. Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Bischoff, Bernhard

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white facsimile; rubber stamp on front. Prospectus for a title from the series Codices Selecti; German and English. List of titles from the series printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37931. Neumüller, W. [and] K. Holter: Codex millenarius. Stift kremsmünster Cim. 1, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Neumüller, W. [and] K. Holter

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color illustration pasted to brown paper laid in; rubber stamp to front cover. Prospectus for a title from the series Codices Selecti; text in German and English. List of previous titles from the series printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37883. Kaiser Friedrich II: De arte venandi cum avibus (Codex Vaticanus, Ms. Pal. Lat. 1071). Über die kunst mit vögeln zu jagen. The art of falconry, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Kaiser Friedrich II

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; large stain to bottom right-hand corner. prospectus for a title in the series Codices Selecti as well as the 31st volume in the series "Codices e vaticanis selecti". Text in German and English. A list of previous titles from the Codices Selecti printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

39389. Fall 1970, 1970. 1 box.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 40; illustrations; original black pictorial wrappers, printed in white and red; mostly fine. Catalogue of titles from Barre Publishers and the Imprint Society. These include Thea Wheelwright's "Along the Maine Coast"; Edmund T. Delaney's "The Connecticut Shore"; and Shipton and Mooney's "National INdex of American Imprints Through 1800".

Physical Description

1 box

37865. Codices selecti, serie C: handschriften fremder kulturen, 1971. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for Group C of the series Codices Selecti, with emphasis on Manuscripts from Foreign Cultures; titles from the list include the Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus, Codex Tro-Cortesianus, Codex Vaticanus B and A, and Codex Dresdensis. Printed in German and English. Rubber stamp at top of front page.

Physical Description

1 box

37863. Gebetbuch Karls V. Codex vindobonensis 1859, 1971. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for this facsimile edition forming part of the series Codices Selecti; text in German, French, and English; list of previous titles from the series printed on the back. Two punch holes, not affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

37928. Krumauer bildercodex. Codex vindobonensis 370, 1971. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; black and white photographic illustrations, facsimiles throughout; self-wrappers. Prospectus for Vol. XIII of the series Codices Selecti; text in German and English. List of previous titles from the series printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39391. Fall 1971, 1971. 1 box.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 40; illustrations; original green pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. Integral order form printed on back wrapper verso.

Physical Description

1 box

39392. Spring & summer 1971 books, 1971. 1 box.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 40; illustrations; original green pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. Titles from the catalogue include Neil Jorgensen's "A Guide to the New England Landscape"; and Edmund T. Delaney's "New York's Greenwich Village".

Physical Description

1 box

37923. Karolingisches sakramentar. Codex vindobonensis 958, 1972. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustration, color photographic illustration pasted to brown paper laid in; minor foxing, 2 hole punches not affecting text. Prospectus for Vol. XXV of the series Codices Selecti. Text in German and English; list of previous titles from the series printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37905. Exultet-rolle. Codex vaticanus lat. 9820. Die früheste bekannte Exultet-rolle, 1972. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for this title from the series Codices Selecti; color photographic illustration pasted to brown paper laid in. 2 hole punches, not affecting text. List of previous titles from the Codices Selecti printed on the back. German and English.

Physical Description

1 box

39388. Fall 1972, 1972. 1 box.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 82; illustrations; original white pictorial wrappers; mostly fine. Catalogue of titles from Barre Publishers, the Imprint Society, and David Godine. These include Alex W. Bealer's "Old Ways of Working Wood"; Captain J.G. Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam"; Mark Silber's photographic work "Rural Maine"; and Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience". Backlist and integral order form provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37884. Sakramentar von metz. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. lat. 1141, 1973. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustration. Prospectus for Vol. XXVIII of Codices Selecti, Group A: Bilderhandschriften (illuminated manuscripts); text in German, English, and French. List of other titles from the series printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

37926. Millstätter genesis--und physiologus-handschrift. Kärntner landesarchiv, sammelhandschrift GV 6/19, 1973. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustrations, lower right-hand corner a bit bumped. Prospectus for Vol. X of the series Codices Selecti group B (text manuscripts); German and English. List of previous titles from the series printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37920. Mosaner psalter-fragment. Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Codex 78 A 6, 1973. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color photographic illustration pasted to brown paper laid in; rubber stamp to front. Prospectus for a title from Group A (illuminated manuscripts) of the series Codices Selecti; text in German and English; list of previous titles from the series printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

37904. Die goldene bulle (Codex Vindobonensis 338), 1973. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; propsectus for this facsimile edition, forming part of Group A (Bilderhandschriften/illuminated manuscripts) of the series Codices Selecti; typescript expert opinions and color photographic illustration from the original work pasted to brown paper both laid in. Small tears and bumps along edges.

Physical Description

1 box

39387. Fall 1973, 1973. 1 box.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 56; illustrations; original green and white pictorial wrappers; fine. Titles from the catalogue include E. Newbold Smith's "American Naval Broadsides (1745-1815)"; and Nicholas Zook's "A Guide to Gardens in New England Open to the Public". Also provides backlist and order form bound in back.

Physical Description

1 box

37929. Oswald von Wolkenstein: Oswald von Wolkenstein lieder. Handschrift A. Codex vindobonensis 2777, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Oswald von Wolkenstein

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color illustration inside, text in red and black. Prospectus for a title in the series Codices Selecti, Group B (text manuscripts); German and English.

Physical Description

1 box

37897. Unterkircher, Franz: Burgundisches brevier, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Unterkircher, Franz

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (228 mm.); color illustration; prospectus in German.

Physical Description

1 box

37917. Anjou, René d': Vom liebentbrannten herzen. Erläutert von Franz Unterkircher, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Anjou, René d'

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, square 12mo (151 mm.); color photographic illustration on verso; prospectus in German.

Physical Description

1 box

36899. Books and ephemera of the Angelica Press, winter 1975-76, 1975. 1 box.
General

Brooklyn, New York: Angelica Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; bound in black orange-brown wrappers; catalog of books available from the press, with specimen pages, and illustrations throughout; also includes selection of bookplates, reproduced in the back; order form has been removed.

Physical Description

1 box

39573. Grahborn, Robert: A commonplace book of cookery. A collection of proverbs, anecdotes, opinions, and obscure facts on food, drink, cooks, cooking, dining, diners, & dieters, dating from ancient times to the present...with a preface by M.F.K. Fisher, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Grahborn, Robert

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations printed in brown, blue decorative borders; fine. Prospectus for this edition limited to 425 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39557. Grabhorn, Robert: A commonplace book of cookery. A collection of proverbs, anecdotes, opinions, and obscure facts on food, drink, cooks, cooking, dining, diners, & dieters dating from ancient times to the present...with a preface by M.F.K. Fisher, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Grabhorn, Robert

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (452 mm.); pictorial vignette, text printed in red and black; previous folds, else fine. Printed for the North Point Press. A selection of proverbs printed within decorative border ("Whoever tells a lie cannot be pure in heart--and only the pure in heart can make a good soup" - Ludwig van Beethoven).

Physical Description

1 box

39390. Fall 1975, 1975. 1 box.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 40; illustrations; original white pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. Catalogue of titles from Barre Publishers and the Imprint Society. These include Bernice Chesler's "In and Out of Boston with (or without) Children"; and "Nineteenth-Century Folk Painting: our spirited national heritage. Works of art from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Tillou". Also provides backlist.

Physical Description

1 box

36891. Hahn, Robert: Routine risks. Poems, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Hahn, Robert

Omaha, Nebraska: Abattoir Editions

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (138 mm.); prospectus postcard from the press advertising three new poetry titles, Hahn's piece, Paul Dilsaver's "Malignant Blues," and William Heyen's "Of Palestine: A meditation"; text in brown and black. Postcard addressed to Emerson G. Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

37921. Medicina antiqua. Codex vindobonensis 93, 1976. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustration, color photographic illustration pasted to brown paper laid in; text in red and black. Prospectus for Vol. XXVII of the series Codices Selecti. Text in German and English; list of previous titles from the series printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

36890. Lalande, Joseph Jerome La Francais de: The art of papermaking. The first English language translation of 'Art de faire le papier'...Paris 1761. Into English by Richard MacIntyre Atkinson, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Lalande, Joseph Jerome La Francais de

Clare, Ireland: The Ashling Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrated prospectus of this edition limited to 405 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36889. Lalande, Joseph Jerome La Francais de: The art of papermaking. The first English language translation of 'Art de faire le papier'...Paris 1761. Into English by Richard MacIntyre Atkinson, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Lalande, Joseph Jerome La Francais de

Clare, Ireland: The Ashling Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrated prospectus of this edition limited to 405 copies; TLS from the distributor, Dawson's Book Shop, loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36292. Bible moralisée. Codex Vindobonensis 2554., 1977. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration, black and red lettering, text in German, French, and English, list of titles from this series, Codices selecti, of which this is Vol. XL. Color facsimile specimen picture Broadside, one image per side, loosely inserted. Very light foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

36280. Kaiser Friederich II: De Arte venandi cum avibus. Codx vaticanus, Ms. Pal. Lat. 1071. Über die Kunst mit Vögeln zu jagen. The art of falconry., 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Kaiser Friederich II

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration; red and black lettering; text in German; list of previous publications from this series, "Codies selecti," of which this is no. XVI. Color facsimile specimen picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted. Very slight foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

36291. Karolingisches Sakramentar. Codex Vindobonensis 958., 1977. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration, red and black lettering, text in German, Italian, and English, chronological table, list of titles from this series, Codices selecti, of which this is Vol. XXV. Color facsimile specimen picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39568. Psalms of David & others, translated by Arthur Golding, 1977. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; printed in red and black, fine. Seasons greetings from the Press with advertisement for this holiday publication. Specimen psalm provided.

Physical Description

1 box

39558. Martin, Fred: A travel book, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Martin, Fred

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for the Press's fourth publication; TLs from Andrew Hoyem on Press letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39572. The psalms of David and others as rendered into English by Arthur Golding, 1977. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; previous fold, mostly fine. Prospectus for the first separate edition of the psalms, translated from Calvin's Latin version, extracted from commentaries on the Psalms printed in London, 1571; edited by Richard G. Barnes. Specimen page provided. Edition limited to 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36289. Mosaner psalter-fragment. Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Codex 78 A 6., 1978. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration, black and red lettering, text in German and English, list of titles from this series, Codices selecti, of which this is Vol. L, color facsimile specimen picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted. Light foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

36281. Phoebus, Gaston: Le livre de la chasse. Das buch von der jagd. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. fr. 616., 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Phoebus, Gaston

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration; red and black lettering; text in German and French; list of the previous titles from this series, "Codices selecti," of which this is Vol. LIII. Color facsimile specimen picture loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39551. Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Melville, Herman

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 23; illustrations; original blue printed wrappers, fine. Prospectus for the Press's 6th publication, an illustrated, handset, folio edition limited to 250 copies of Melville's novel. Copies of a type letter and autograph letter from the Press laid in. With original, specially-printed envelope in which this prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

39559. Osborn, Selleck: An early nineteenth-century paean to natural gas for the deliverance of the whale from Poems...Boston, 1830, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Osborn, Selleck

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, tall 4to; previous fold, else fine. Giftbook from the Press in anticipation of the publication of Moby-Dick. Typed letter on Press letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36888. Breitkopf, J.G.L.: The introduction of linen paper. The first English edition from part of Versuch den Ursprung der Spielkarten, die Einfuhrung des Linenpapiers, und der Anfang der Holzschneiderkunst in Europa zu erforschen...(Leipzig 1784). Translated into English by Cynthia Doran, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Breitkopf, J.G.L.

Ennis, Ireland: The Ashling Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this edition limited to 460 signed and numbered copies; order form loosely inserted. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39560. Melville, Herman: Moby-dick; or, the whale, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Melville, Herman

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 4to; illustration; fine. Prospectus for the Arion Press edition, designed by Andrew Hoyem, illustrated by Barry Moser, and with a note on the California Edition by James D. Hart. Order form and invitation to the publication party laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39564. Type specimen supplement March, 1980, 1980. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; printed in red and black; fine. With 16mo bifolium, "The enclosed type specimen is sent with our compliments".

Physical Description

1 box

39554. Abbott, Edwin A.: Flatland, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Abbott, Edwin A.

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 12-sided pamphlet, 12mo, accompanied by 3 additional printed Broadsides, also 12mo; illustrations; fine. Prospectus for Book VII to be published by the Press, "A fantastical satire set in a two dimensional world peopled by plane geometrical figures, & an early classic of science-fiction". This new edition with an introduction by Ray Bradbury, and limited to 275 copies. With original, specially printed envelope in which this prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

39555. Announcement, fall, 1980, 1980. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Small 4to, unpaginated; illustrations, text printed in red and black; fine. 2 unbound folded leaves. Subscription form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39222. Apocalypse. The revelation of St. John the Divine with woodblock prints by Jim Dine, 1982. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; woodblock illustration; fine. Prospectus announces that "Dine's woodcuts, combined with an unusual typographic rendering of the biblical text by Andrew Hoyem, promise an important contribution to the livres d'artistes". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39553. Rilke, Rainer Maria: Die weise von liebe und tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke. The lay of the love and death of Cornet Christoph Rilke...Translated by Stephen Mitchell. Illustrated by Warren Chappell, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; color illustrations, text printed in red and black; fine. Text printed in German and English for this bilingual edition of "the most popular poem of one of this century's greatest poets". Edition limited to 300 copies. Order form laid in. With original, specially-printed envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

36372. Pratt, T.K.: A Prince Edward Island wordbook., 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Pratt, T.K.

Scope and Contents

4to, 47 leaves; prospectus for a work that does not appear to have ever been published; green paper wrappers, stapled.

Physical Description

1 box

36828. Catlin, George: North American Indian portfolio, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Catlin, George

New York: Abbeville Pres

Scope and Contents

Oblong 4to, unpaginated; illustrated prospectus of a limited edition facsimile of the lithographed portfolio of Catlin's paintings; pamphlet reproduces seven of the pieces from the work; also makes mentions two other limited edition Abbeville facsimiles, The Vatican Frescoes of Michelangelo and Audubon's Birds of America. Photocopy of Abbeville's "Collector's Editions" information and a business card of Morley Klausner, director of the Abbeville Press, both loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36842. Bahr, Leonard F.: Status report 1983, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Bahr, Leonard F.

Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; Leonard F. Bahr's report on the press, "to briefly summarize what has been happening in recent years, what the plans are, and how Adagio goes about its work"; gives a brief overview of the press's recent publications, the types the press uses, and the culture of the press.

Physical Description

1 box

39561. Hammett, Dashiell: The Maltese falcon, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Hammett, Dashiell

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; fine. Prospectus provides specimen pages 3-5; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39569. Doyle, A. Conan: The hound of the Baskervilles, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Doyle, A. Conan

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, large 4to; illustrations; fine. Edition limited to 400 copies. Order form laid in. With original, specially-printed envelope in which this prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

39562. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The great Gatsby, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

4to, 5 leaves with additional 16mo Broadside stapled together; illustrations; previous fold, else fine. Photocopy of a New York Times Magazine article for Sunday, October 28, 1984, featuring the work of the Arion Press. Broadside advertising the newest publication, not mentioned in the article, The Great Gatsby.

Physical Description

1 box

39550. The publishing program of the Arion Press, 1984, 1984. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original grey wrappers printed in red; fine. Catalogue of new titles from the Press, as well as a checklist of previous titles. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36830. Berry, Duc de: Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Berry, Duc de

New York: Harry N. Abrams

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided pamphlet, folio; illustrated prospectus for a facsimile edition of "The King of Illuminated Manuscripts"; also advertises a specially-designed plexiglass case for the work.

Physical Description

1 box

39552. Deluxe limited edition books. Fall, 1985. Publishing program, 1985. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; printed in red and black; self wrappers, fine. Catalogue also includes list of previous titles still available from the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39567. Grayson, Andrew Jackson: Birds of the Pacific slope, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Grayson, Andrew Jackson

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; color reproduction of "Song Finch or Pretty Bird, Tepic, Dec. 1865"; fine. Seasons greetings from the Press, with advertisement for this holiday publication.

Physical Description

1 box

39566. Stevens, Wallace: Poems selected and with an introduction by Helen Vendler with a frontispiece etching by Jasper Johns, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Stevens, Wallace

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; illustration; fine. Prospectus for a work published in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the poet's death in an edition of 326 copies. With original, specially-printed envelope in which the prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

39571. Chandler, Raymond: The big sleep, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Chandler, Raymond

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; black and white photographic illustration, blue-green decorative borders; fine. Integral publication party invitation printed on back. Typed letter on Press letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39570. Chandler, Raymond: The big sleep, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Chandler, Raymond

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (507 mm.); black and white photographic illustration, text printed in blue-green and black; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for an edition illustrated with 40 photographs by Lou Stoumen, introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell, and limited to 400 copies. With order form.

Physical Description

1 box

New years greetings from the Arion Press in San Francisco., 1988. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Large piece of paper folded into bifolium pamphlet. Printed in red and black. Inside is a reproduction of a 1760 letter from Lawrence Sterne (?).

Physical Description

1 box

36870. Reese, William S.: The printers' first fruits: An exhibition of American imprints, 1640-1742, from the collection of the American Antiquarian Society, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Reese, William S.

Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for the catalog of this exhibition, commemorating 350 years of printing in the United States; integral order form. This brochure addressed to Emerson G. Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

38429. Thistleton, Francis [William Henry Fleet]: How I came to be governor of the island of Cacona, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Thistleton, Francis [William Henry Fleet]

San Francisco: Arion Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 8; two-tone illustrations throughout; fine. Prospectus for the Press's 28th book, "A satire on colonial government from Canada in 1852"; edition limited to 300 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38428. Announcement of limited edition books, 1989. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; woodcut vignette; fine. Catalogue of 3 books published in the fall of 1989, including Czeslaw Milosz's "The World, a sequence of twenty poems" and Diana Ketcham's "Le désert de Retz, a history of this eighteenth-century French folly garden". Prospectus also provides information on the Press's subscription program, news, and ordering instructions. Order form for all 1989 titles laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37594. 1992 catalogue, 1992. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original blue printed wrappers; the checklist of books includes Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick, or The Whale"; Rudolph Koch's "The Typefoundry in Silhouette," translated by Alexander Nesbitt; Dashiell Hammet's "The Maltese Falcon," illustrated with 46 period photographs; Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles"; Gertrude Stein's "The World is Round"; Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"; Czeslaw Milosz's "The World"; "Poems of W.B. Yeats"; Ludwig Wittgenstein's "On Certainty"; and Edgar Allan Poe's "Eureka: An Essay on the Material and Spritiual Universe".

Physical Description

1 box

37601. Bowles, Paul and Barry Brukoff: Morocco, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Bowles, Paul and Barry Brukoff

New York: H.N. Abrams

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 8vo (92 x 215 mm.); edition limited to 50 signed and numbered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37858. Wheatcroft, John: Alfresco, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Wheatcroft, John

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley

Scope and Contents

Broadside, tall folio (330 mm.); prospectus for No. 1 of the Press's chapbook series, a poem by the Professor Emeritus of English at Bucknell University; illustrated by Colleen Shannon, borders by W.A. Dwiggens; limited to 125 numbered and signed copies. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37835. [TLs from the Press's publisher, providing a list of titles from the press], 1995. 1 box.
General

Afton, Minnesota: Afton Historical Society Press

Scope and Contents

TLs on Press letterhead; order form and prospectuses for John Runk's photo book "Stillwater: Minnesota's Birthplace"; Eastman Johnson's "Lake Superior Indians"; and Patricia Condon Johnson's "The Shape of Things: the Art of Francis Lee Jaques".

Physical Description

1 box

39351. Fine books and prints in limited editions, 1995. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated; fine. Price list for titles available from the Press, including "Herman Melville: Selected Poems," frontispiece portrait engraved by Barry Moser; and Ludwig Wittgenstein's "On Certainty". Laid in order form and TLs on Press letterhead.

Physical Description

1 box

36829. Rewald, John: The paintings of Paul Cézanne: A catalogue raisonné by John Rewald, in collaboration with Walter Feilchenfeldt and Jayne Warman, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Rewald, John

New York: Harry N. Abrams

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this "authoritative resource"; integral order form on back page.

Physical Description

1 box

36392. Seymour, M.C.: A catalogue of Chaucer manuscripts. Volume II: The Canterbury Tales, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Seymour, M.C.

Brookfield, VT: Ashgate

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus provides two sample pages (74-75) as well as the contents and information on Volume 1: Works before the Canterbury Tales. Order Options forms included in text. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

42473. How to join the subscribers of the Arion Press [heading title], 1998. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; fine. Brochure for prospective subscribers of Andrew Hoyem's Press: "As a member, you will be lending your support to one of the very last enterprises of its kind, an independent publisher of limited editions that uses all the traditional methods of book making and letterpress printing under one roof." Included with the offer is a Press price list of available titles, including, among many others, Rudyard Kipling's "With the Night Mail" (1998); Brillat-Savarin's "The Physiology of Taste," with notes by M.F.K. Fisher (1994); and "The Poems of W.B. Yeats" (1990).

Physical Description

1 box

37732. Senior, Dorothy: Caprice: her book, 1910. 1 box.
General

Author: Senior, Dorothy

London: Adam and Charles Black

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus provides 2 specimen pages from the novel; advertisement for Senior's over novel, "The Clutch of Circumstance" printed on the back; integral order form.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

37799. Banks, Edgar J.: The Bible and the spade, 1913. 1 box.
General

Author: Banks, Edgar J.

London: Association Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; illustrated prospectus of this work aimed to be used both for Biblical and archaeological studies. Rubber stamp to front page reads "This book may be obtained directly from the author, Greenfield Mass."

Physical Description

1 box

36886. Horace: Quinti Horati flacci carmina liber IV. 7: Ad torquatum. Rendered into English verse by George Clinton Jr., 1926. 1 box.
General

Author: Horace

Eden, New York: The Aries Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for this edition of Horace's piece, "printed in black and tile red from Goudy's 'Garamont' type on English hand made 'Kelmscott' paper," limited to 100 copies; also advertises for "The Book Mark of Santa Maria de Jesus: 1515-1582. New translated from the Spanish by George Clinton Jr" and also limited to 100 copies. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36885. Middleton, Richard: The ghost ship, 1926. 1 box.
General

Author: Middleton, Richard

Eden, New York: The Aries Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; a printed note of thanks for the order of Middleton's piece, the Press's first; signed Spencer Kellogg Jr.

Physical Description

1 box

36896. Harte, Bret: The adventure of Padre Vicentio. A legend of San Francisco, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Harte, Bret

Berkeley, Calif.: The Archetype Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for a companion piece to Harte's "The Right Eye of the Commander"; edition limited to 450 copies; prospectus postmarked and addressed to Eleanor Pitcher, c/o the Hutington Library, San Marino, California. Text in brown, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39214. Armitage, Merle: Accent on the arts. A significant autobiography, 1944. 1 box.
General

Author: Armitage, Merle

Whittier, California: American Institute of Graphic Arts

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white illustrations; text printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a limited edition of a collection of letters and excerpts by 19 "distinguished Americans". Integral order form addressed to Edna M. Newton.

Physical Description

1 box

36871. Brigham, Clarence S.: History and bibliography of American newspapers, 1690-1820, 1947. 1 box.
General

Author: Brigham, Clarence S.

Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this authoritative bibliography by the director of the Society, includes sample page and the terms of subscription. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36853. Initials from French incunabula. With 1011 reproductions and an introduction by Hellmutt Lehmann-Haupt, 1948. 1 box.
General

New York: Aldus Book Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a work limited to an edition of 950 copies; five reproductions of French incunabula initials on back page; integral order form addressed to Messrs. Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36861. Montaigne: Essays of Montaigne, 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Montaigne

Alma, Calif.: L-D Allen Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (303 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this edition of Montaigne's "immortal" essays; the press has "based their design on the exquisite books of the Montaigne period...Mallette Dean has drawn unusually attractive headbands and initials"; edition limited to 200 copies and distributed by Roy Vernon Sowers, Alma, Calif. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36860. Montaigne: Essays of Montaigne, 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Montaigne

New York: L-D Allen Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (303 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this edition of Montaigne's "immortal" essays; the press has "based their design on the exquisite books of the Montaigne period...Mallette Dean has drawn unusually attractive headbands and initials"; edition limited to 200 copies and distributed by Philip C. Duschnes, New York. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36825. Aesop: Aesop's fables, retold by Elfriede Abbe, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Aesop

Ithaca, New York: Elfriede Abbe

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a limited edition of 500 numbered and signed copies, illustrated and hand-printed by Abbe; integral order form on back page; pre-addressed envelopes and a leaf providing praise from various authorities loosely inserted. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36865. Stevenson, Robert Louis: Across the plains...with an introductory note by Oscar Lewis; and eight chapter-head illustrations by Mallette Dean, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis

Glenwood, California: L-D Allen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this edition of a Stevenson adventure story, edition limited to 200 copies; specimen title page included. Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36862. Tolstoy, Leo: What men live by, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Tolstoy, Leo

Los Angeles, California: L-D Allen Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; illustrated prospectus for this edition of Tolstoy's parable, limited to 150 copies; illustrated by Mallette Dean and hand-illuminated by Dorothy Allen; distributed by Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, California.

Physical Description

1 box

36863. Tolstoy, Leo: What men live by, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Tolstoy, Leo

Los Angeles, California: L-D Allen Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; illustrated prospectus for this edition of Tolstoy's parable, limited to 150 copies; illustrated by Mallette Dean and hand-illuminated by Dorothy Allen; distributed by Philip C. Duschnes, New York. Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36826. Aeschylus: Prometheus bound, translated from the Greek by Elizabeth Barrett Browning & with woodcuts by Elfriede Abbe, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Aeschylus

Ithaca, New York: Elfriede Abbe

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for an edition limited to 150 copies, numbered and signed; integral order form on back page; pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36872. Brigham, Clarence S.: Paul Revere's engravings, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Brigham, Clarence S.

Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this monograph on the engravings by Paul Revere; includes sample page and terms of subscription. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36864. Stendhal: The private journals of Stendhal, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Stendhal

New York: L-D Allen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this limited edition of 175 copies; "hand-set in Romanée type from the Enschedé foundry in Holland, and printed by hand on an 1830 Acorn-Smith press; the paper is hand-made Crown and Sceptre from England, printed damp. The book is decorated with handsome wood engravings done by Mallette Dean in the French manner of the early Nineteenth century. There are 150 quarto pages, which we have bound in a handmade, antique crimson and gold Fortuny print from Venice"; distributed by the Chiswick Book Shop, New York. Order form loosely inserted. Comes with the original envelope in which this prospectus was mailed, addressed to E.G. Wulling and postmarked Dec 2 1954.

Physical Description

1 box

36869. The noble knight Paris & the fair Vienne. Translated out of the French by William Caxton, 1956. 1 box.
General

New York: Allen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for a reprint of this thirteenth century French romance; "printed on Acorn-Smith handpress...wood engravings by Mallette Dean; each...has been hand-colored by Dorothy Allen...The binding contsists of an Invicta parchment spine, and sides of French paper decorated with wood engravings"; distributed by the Chiswick Bookshop, New York, NY. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36827. Turner, Frederick Jackson: The significance of the frontier in American history...designed, illustrated, hand-set, & hand-printed by Elfriede Abbe, 1956. 1 box.
General

Author: Turner, Frederick Jackson

Ithaca, New York: Elfriede Abbe

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 8vo; illustrated prospectus of this limited edition of 275 copies; printed by Abbe for the Cornell University Press; also provides list of other Abbe limited editions still available.

Physical Description

1 box

39542. Paranavitana, S.: The god of Adam's peak, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Paranavitana, S.

Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae Publishers.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (308 mm.); color illustration; a bit worn from handling, mostly fine. Order form printed at bottom of Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

37925. Sacramentarium veronense (leonianum), 1960. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; 2 color facsimiles; text in red and black. Prospectus in German and Italian.

Physical Description

1 box

36438. Alston, R.C.: The English dictionary. Volume 5 of A bibliography of the English language from the invention of printing to the year 1800., 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Alston, R.C.

Leeds: E.J. Arnold & Son Limited

Scope and Contents

8vo, 2 unbound leaves issued with unpaginated pamphlet of specimen pages; one of the unbound leaves provides the volumes of the Bibliography and, on verso, an order form. Specimen pages and facsimiles. "A systematic record of writings on English, and on other languages in English, based on the collections of the principal libraries of the World." "Privately printed and limited to 500 sets only."

Physical Description

1 box

37866. Codex cospi, calendario messicano 4093. Biblioteca Universitaria Bologna, 1968. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (300 mm.); illustrated prospectus for a title belonging "to group 'C' ('Manuscripts from Foreign Cultures') of the series Codices Selecti"; previous owner's notes in pencil and red ink. Text in German and English.

Physical Description

1 box

36846. A collection of private press typographia, 1973. 1 box.
General

Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; list of the publications currently available from the press; small Broadside with mission statement loosely inserted. Comes with the original envelope in which this brochure came, postmarked and addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press.

Physical Description

1 box

36898. Current offerings of the Angelica Press, 1975. 1 box.
General

Brooklyn, NY: Angelica Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; lists works available from the press, which includes bookplates and Washington Irving's "Christmas at Bracebridge Hall"; upcoming offerings include "Wood type of the Angelica Press" and "Little Angel Books"; sheet with eight specimen book plates loosely inserted. Text in red and black, with original envelope in which this brochure came, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, Wis.

Physical Description

1 box

37603. Angling books of the Americas, 1975. 1 box.
General

New York: Anglers Press

Scope and Contents

TLs on Press letterhead, from the publisher, Meredith P. Bruns, announcing the continuing availability of this bibliography.

Physical Description

1 box

36844. Bahr, Leonard F.: TypoGraphia 1, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Bahr, Leonard F.

Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for "a collection of ten entirely different typographic exercises"; Broadside giving the press's mission statement loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36900. Swift, Jonathan: A voyage to Laputa. From the travels of Lemuel Gulliver, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Swift, Jonathan

New York: Angelica Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; prospectus for this edition limited to 1000 copies, illustrated by Warren Chappell; integral order form. Text in green and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36843. Bahr, Leonard F.: Typographia two, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Bahr, Leonard F.

Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio, Leonard F. Bahr

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); prospectus for the second title from the TypoGraphia series, "planned for typophiles and private press enthusiasts who seek a publication combining the unusual types with a text relating to various aspects of typography and the private press"; the them of this number is "the challenging enigma of defining private press". Text in brown and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36895. Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall: Glaister's glossary of the book, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall

Herts, England: George Allen & Unwin

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus includes review excerpts, a specimen page (221), and a list of other available publications; integral order form on back page.

Physical Description

1 box

36841. Blake, William: Proverbs of hell, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Blake, William

Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio, The private press of Leonard F. Bahr

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); prospectus for this limited edition of Blake's proverbs, providing the first and last of the sixty-nine; "The types have been set by hand and printed in three colors, a page at a time, on cream Frankfurt text. The wrapper is two sheets of Canson Mi-Teintes. The principal text type is Trump Mediaeval Italic. Eight of the Proverbs have been set in Jaguar...The rugged Houtsneeletter was used for the title and American Uncial Initials for the wrapper." Edition limited to 198 copies. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

39563. Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The great Gatsby, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); illustration by Michael Graves for "The Great Gatsby," chapter 8; previous folds, else fine.

Physical Description

1 box

39565. Stein, Gertrude: The world is round, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Stein, Gertrude

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Round 8vo, unpaginated; illustrations, printed in red, blue, and black; fine. Prospectus for the Press's 18th publication, illustrated by Clement Hurd with a companion volume "The World is Not Flat," by Edith Thacher Hurd. Gift certificate and envelope laid in.With original, specially-printed envelope in which the prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

44696. Hundertwasser, Friedensreich.: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Hundertwasser, Friedensreich.

Zürich: ARS VIVA

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, square 4to; text and double-page illustration printed in green, silver, and metallic red on black paper; fine. Prospectus for a portfolio of 10 prints by the Austrian (and later, New Zealand), artist Hundertwasser, in collaboration with the printer Günter Dietz.

Physical Description

1 box

37598. Raby, Julian, Zeren Tanindi, and Tim Stanley: Turkish bookbinding in the 15th century. The foundation of an Ottoman court style, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Raby, Julian, Zeren Tanindi, and Tim Stanley

London: Azimuth Editions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus printed to resemble a 15th century Turkish book; edition limited to 1000 copies and printed on behalf of the Association Internationale de Bibliophile; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37729. Hamilton, Alastair: Europe and the Arab world. Five centuries of books by European scholars and travellers from the libraries of the Arcadian Group, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Hamilton, Alastair

London: Azimuth Editions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; illustrated prospectus; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37724. Inez, Colette: Naming the moons. Illustrations by Florence Putterman, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Inez, Colette

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a new addition to the Series in Contemporary Poetry; edition limited to 125 signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37815. Morris, William: Printing as an art...Introduction by Charles Mann, wood engravings by Linda Holmes, edited by Mary Chenoweth Stratton, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Morris, William

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: The Press of Appletree Alley, Bucknell University

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for the fifth volume in the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library Limited Edition Series.

Physical Description

1 box

37837. Peacock, Molly: Animals at the table...with wood engravings by the English artist Anne Jope, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Peacock, Molly

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a title from the Bucknell University Fine Editions: A Series in Contemporary Poetry; bound by Don Rash and limited to 125 signed copies. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37708. Roth, Philip: His mistress's voice, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Roth, Philip

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this limited edition of a Philip Roth novella, 195 copies printed; calligraphy and binding by Don Rash. The list of other limited editions from the series printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

39300. [Catalogue], 1996. 1 box.
General

Afton, Minnesota: Afton Historical Society Press

Scope and Contents

Oblong 8vo, pp. 13; color illustrations; pictorial self-wrapper, fine. Titles from the Press, including Rena Neumann Coen's "Minnesota Impressionists," Bertha L. Heilbron's "Christmas and New Year's on the Minnesota Frontier," Susan Davis Price's "Minnesota Gardens. An illustrated history," and Mary Henderson Eastman' "Dahcotah: or, life and legeds of the Sioux". Order form printed on back wrapper verso.

Physical Description

1 box

39307. Rossetti, Dante and William: The Rossettis: brothers & brotherhood, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Rossetti, Dante and William

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; small tears from previous fold not affectin text, else fine. Prospectus for the sixth volume of the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library Limited Edition Series, containing unpublished and published letters by the 2 brothers. Introduction by Alicia Craig Faxon; wood engravings by Linda Holmes. 145 copies printed.

Physical Description

1 box

39288. Smith, Bruce: The distance...Wood engraving by Michael McCurdy, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Smith, Bruce

Lewisburg, PA: Press of Appletree Alley.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a title from the Bucknell University Fine Editions, a series in contemporary poetry. Edition limited to 125 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36893. The scribe, 1946. 1 box.
General

New York: Archway Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this series of pen-written books and illustrated books; specimen page (9 of "The Flower lover and the fairies," a Chinese tale illustrated by Jeanyee Wong); also provides a list of titles printed and "in preparation," including a work illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins; integral order back printed on back page. Text in blue and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36451. Denman, Frank: The shaping of our alphabet: A study of the changing type styles, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Denman, Frank

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (199 mm.); illustrated; prospectus for a work that would be published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1955, and described here, in four bullet-points, as "an important contribution to the literature on type and typography". Printed on yellow paper with red ink, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36284. Das bedeutendste Lehrbuch der Chirurgie im Mittelalter. Die chirurgie des Abu'l Qasim. (Abu'l Qasim Halaf Ibn c'Abbas al-Zahraui. Chirurgia). Eine vollständige farbige Faksimile-Ausgabe von Codex Vindobonensis S.N. 2641., 1980. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; color facsimile and illustrations, one of which is full-paged, from the book advertised; text in German.

Physical Description

1 box

36897. Books in print, 1983. 1 box.
General

Berkeley: Arif Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; list of books available from the press and distributed by Granary Books.

Physical Description

1 box

36894. Schullian, Dorothy M.: A catalogue of incunabula and manuscripts in the Army Medical Library. [By Dorothy M. Schullian and Francis E. Sommer], 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Schullian, Dorothy M.

Washington, D.C.: Army Medical Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for a work to be published for The Honorary Consultants of the Army Medical Library; provides table of contents and specimen entries from Part I and Part II; order form and pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted; also loosely inserted, TLS on Army Medical Library letterhead from John F. Fulton and Chauncey D. Leake annoucing the work's publication.

Physical Description

1 box

44698. Carrà, Massimo.: Carrà: tutta l'opera pittorica. Volume I: 1900-1930, 1967. 1 box.
General

Author: Carrà, Massimo.

Milan: Edizioni dell'Annunciata

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaged; staplebound self-wrappers printed in grey and black (light foxing along edges); one color plate, additional illustrations, plain and color, in text; light wear from handling, else very good. Text in Italian.

Physical Description

1 box

Beach, Rex.: The writer who has lived his stories [drop title], 1905. 1 item.
General

Author: Beach, Rex.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 279 mm.); 3 illustrations, including one photographic; text printed in blue and orange; short tears from previous folds, else very good. Announcement (from Harper? Burt?) for the Yukon Edition in 10 volumes of the works of Rex Beach, a writer described as a "Man of Vigor," and the "most American of authors". Includes the promise of "The lure of danger, the lust of combat, the love of man and woman, the primitive hungers all of us feel as our human heritage..."

General

Missing as of 2017/1/17.

Physical Description

1 item

44665. Race relationships in the South, 1910. 1 box.
General

New York: Association Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, bifolium printed on tan paper; illustrations, text printed in purple; previous fold, else about fine. Prospectus for a seven-volume series; press opinions. Contents include works by W.D. Weatherford, Edgar Gardner Murphy, Gilbert Thomas Stephenson, Albert Bushnell Hart, and two titles by Booker T. Washington. Integral order form printed on p. [4].

Physical Description

1 box

37936. Wiener hispana-handschrift. Codex vindobonensis 411, 1971. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color facsimile, text printed in gilt. Prospectus for a title from the series Codices Selecti; German and English. List of titles from the series printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

36290. Trierer apokalypse. Stadtbibliothek Trier. Codex 31. Der umfangreichste illustrierte Apokalypse-Zyklus des gesamten frühen Mittelalters., 1973. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text in German, bibliograhy provided at the end in German and English; list of titles from this series, Codices selecti; color facsimile specimen picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37861. Codex peresianus (Codex Paris), 1968. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for Volume 9 of group "C" (Manuscripts from Foreign Cultures) of the Series Codices Selecti, a facsimile edition of the illustrated Maya-manuscript at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; list of other titles from the Series also printed. Text in English and German.

Physical Description

1 box

37864. Nowotny, Karl Anton: Codex Borgia. Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Nowotny, Karl Anton

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Biflolium, folio; illustrated prospectus for this facsimile forming part of the series Codices Selecti; text in German and English. A list of previous titles from the series printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

37919. Speculum humanae salvationis. Codex cremifanensis 243, 1977. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustration, color photographic illustration laid in; text in red and black. Prospectus for Vol. XXXII from Group A (illuminated manuscripts) of the series Codices Selecti; text in German and English; list of titles from the series printed on the back. All 12 copies held together by a band of paper.

Physical Description

1 box

37903. Missale glagoliticum hervoiae ducis spalatensis (Topkapi Saray, Istanbul), 1971. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for the "Complete colour facsimile edition," forming part of the series Codices Selecti; specimen page, expert opinions, and chronology provided. Published in conjunction with the Mladinska Knjiga-Ljubljana Staroslavenski Institut "Svetozar Ritig" Zagreb. Rubber stamps to front cover. 1 without specimen page,

Physical Description

1 box

39386. Spring 1972, 1972. 1 box.
General

Boston: Barre Publishers.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 95; illustrations; original orange pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. Titles listed in the catalogue include the reference work "Chronological Tables of American Newspapers," compiled by Edward Connery Lathem; James Houston's "Eskimo Prints"; and A. Lassell Ripley's "Sporting Etchings". New works from the Imprint Society include Isaiah Thomas's "The History of Printing in America" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of Seven Gables".

Physical Description

1 box

37868. Pratt, Frances and Carlo Gay: Ceramic figures of ancient Mexico, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Pratt, Frances and Carlo Gay

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for the third titles from the series Artes Americanae, edited by Ferdinand Anders; the other two titles from the series printed on the back: Irmgard Weitlaner Johnson's "Design Motifs on Mexican Indian Textiles" and Ignacio Bernal and Andy Seuffert's "The Ballplayers of Dainzú.

Physical Description

1 box

37922. Maurus, Hrabanus: Liber de laudibus sanctae crucis. Codex vindobonensis 652, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Maurus, Hrabanus

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustration, color photographic illustration pasted to brown paper laid in, text in red and black. Prospectus for Vol. XXXIII of the series Codices Selecti, Group A (illuminated manuscripts); text in German and English; list of previous titles from the series printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37886. Thomas, Marcel: Scènes de l'ancien testament illustrant le psautier de Saint Louis, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Thomas, Marcel

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (200 mm.); color facsimile on Broadside recto, black and white photographic illustration on verso. Prospectus for the color facsimile of the 78 miniatures from the manuscript psautier of Saint Louis in the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris; introduction by Thomas. Text in French, German, and English.

Physical Description

1 box

37876. Weber, Gertrud and Matthias Strecker: Petroglyphen der finca las palmas (Chiapas, Mexiko), 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Weber, Gertrud and Matthias Strecker

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (300 mm.); illustrated prospectus for the fourth volume from the "Amerikanischen Felsbilder/American Rock Paintings and Petrolgyphs"; text in German and English; also lists other titles from the series, Carlo T.E. Gay's "Chalcacingo" and James L. Swauger's "Rock Art of the Upper Ohio Valley". Illustrated with black and white photographs and map.

Physical Description

1 box

37867. Lukesch, Anton: Bearded Indians of the tropical forest, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Lukesch, Anton

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (300 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this monograph documenting "a first encounter with an aboriginal Indian tribe in the 20th century." Prospectus also mentions another title available from the Press, Theodor Koch-Grünberg's "Zwei Jahre Unter den Indianren," a reprint of the 1909-1910 edition.

Physical Description

1 box

37877. Pollak-Eltz, A. and H. Straka Bull: Venezuelan petroglyphs, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Pollak-Eltz, A. and H. Straka Bull

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (300 mm.); prospectus for the third volume from the series "Amerikanischen Felsbilder/American Rock Paintings and Petroglyphs"; text in English and Spanish. "This volume gives an account of the most important petroglyphs and rock paintings to have been discovered in Venezuela. The majority of this material is being published for the first time." Color photographic illustration.

Physical Description

1 box

37885. Dioscurides. Codex vindobonensis medicus graecus 1. Die grösste farbige faksimile-ausgabe der welt, 1975. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (340 mm.); black and white photographic illustration; right-hand edge a bit bumped. Prospectus for Vol. XII of the Codices Selecti series; text in German.

Physical Description

1 box

39549. Shakespeare, William: Venus & Adonis...together with sources for the poem in Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Arthur Golding, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 8; illustration; 2 unbound folded leaves; fine. Prospectus for the third book to be published by the Press. Includes specimen page; paper sample laid in. Prospectus text written by Andrew Hoyem and R.G. Barnes.

Physical Description

1 box

37927. Hammerschmidt, Ernst: Codices aethiopici. Herausgegeben von...Band 1. Illuminierte handschriften der Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz und handschriften vom Tanasee, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Hammerschmidt, Ernst

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (337 mm.); color illustration; previous fold. Prospectus in German and English.

Physical Description

1 box

39556. Sinton, Nell: Under the table at the Donner Party, a dining room frieze2750, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Sinton, Nell

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrations; fine. Prospectus for "An important new graphic work with a 'tough and funny' message by one of America's foremost women artists". Invitation to the publication party laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36283. Exultet-Rolle. Codex Vaticanus lat. 9820., 1977. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration and facsimile of musical score; text in German and English; list of titles from this series, "Codices selecti," of which this is Vol. XLVII. Color facsimile speciment picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted. Light foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

36279. Virgil: Vergilius Augusteus, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Virgil

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration; text in German and English; list of previous titles from this series, "Codices selecti," of which this is no. LVI; foldout facsimile specimen picture loosely inserted. Foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

39547. The standard edition of the book of common prayer as adopted on September 12, 1979 by the General Convention, 1982. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (200 mm.); fine. Prospectus for this edition commissioned by the Episcopal Church, of which 400 copies were printed.

Physical Description

1 box

39373. Catalogue of publications, 1990-91 and checlist, 1975-90, 1990. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original grey pictorial wrappers, printed in red and black; fine. Titles from the catalogue include Edgar Allan Poe's "Eureka"; and "Poems by W.B. Yeats". Typed letter on Press letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37639. DesBarres, Joseph F.W. and others: The Atlantic Neptune, 1966. 1 box.
General

Author: DesBarres, Joseph F.W. and others

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 4to; extensively illustrated prospectus of a 4-volume marine atlas of Nova Scotia, New England, the River and Gult of St. Lawrence, and New York to the Mississippi. List of plates from each volume printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

39247. Martin, Fred: A travel book, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Martin, Fred

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (416 mm.); color illustrations, text printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for the Press's fourth limited edition, "a poetic and philosophical journal of the real and imaginary journey from west to east, incorporating original prints". With order forms, an invitation to the publication party, and a black and white photographic image of the finished work.

Physical Description

1 box

39546. Shaped poetry, 1981. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, large oblong 8vo; illustrations, text printed in red and black; mostly fine. Prospectus for the 8th publication of the Press's series of limited editions, "a typographical tour de force". Portfolio to be limited to 300 sets. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39548. Koch, Rudolf: The typefoundry in silhouette, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Koch, Rudolf

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; illustration, text printed in red and black; mostly fine. Prospectus for the Press's 9th publication, "a visual record of a vanishing trade that began with the invention of printing from movable types and has continued for 500 years".

Physical Description

1 box

37900. Codex fejérváry-mayer, 1969. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (260 mm.); color photographic illustration; prospectus for a "True colour facsimile-edition of the [important ancient Mexican] manuscript in possession of the City of Liverpool Museum". Forms part of the Group C (manuscripts from foreign cultures) in the series Codices Selecti. List of other titles in the Group provided, along with expert opinions. Text in German and English.

Physical Description

1 box

37937. Hamza-nama, 1974. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color illustration pasted into bifolium; text in red and black; edges and corners a bit worn. Prospectus for a title from the series Codices Selecti, Group D (Oriental manuscripts). "Complete colour facsimile edition of all the known and accessible folios from the most important manuscript of the Moghul school." German and English.

Physical Description

1 box

36293. Wolfram von Eschenbach: Willehalm. Codex Vindobonensis 2670., 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Wolfram von Eschenbach

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration, red and black lettering, text in German and English, list of titles from this series, Codices selecti, of which this is Vol. XLVI. Color facsimile specimen picture Broadside, one image per side, loosely inserted. Very light foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

36286. Reichenauer evangelistar. Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Codex 78 A 2., 1977. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration; red and black lettering; text in German and English; list of titles from this series, "Codex selecti," of which this is Vol. XXXI. Color facsimile specimen picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37907. Dioscurides. Codex Vindobonensis medicus Graecus 1, 1977. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustration; text in red and black; Vol. XII of Group A (illuminated manuscripts) from the series Codices Selecti; expert opinion in German; list of previous titles from the series printed on the back. Colour photographic illustration pasted to brown paper laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37902. Willemsen, Carl Arnold: Das falkenbuch Kaiser Friedrichs des zweiten. De arte venandi cum avibus, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Willemsen, Carl Arnold

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (342 mm.); color photographic illustration; prospectus in German.

Physical Description

1 box

36285. Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93., 1978. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration; text in German and English; provides list of titles from this series, Codex selecti, of which this is Vol. XXVII. Color facsimile specimen picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted. Very light foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

39371. Hoyem, Andrew: Picture/poems. An illustrated catalogue of drawings and related writings: 1961-1974, 1975. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out order form

General

Author: Hoyem, Andrew

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; illustrated; fine. Prospectus for a work "published on the occasion of an exhibition, January 18 through March 16, 1975, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37898. Die schönste der drei Maya-Handschriften codex Dresdensis, 1971. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; 2 color photographic illustrations of the Codex; prospectus in German and English for this new facsimile edition.

Physical Description

1 box

36288. Losbuch in deutschen reimpaaren. Codex Vindobonensis S.N. 2652., 1973. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration, red and black lettering, text in German and English, list of titles from this series, Codex selecti, of which this is Vol. XXXVIII. Color facsimile speciment picture pasted to brown paper loosely inserted. Very light foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

36282. Tabula peutingeriana. Codex vindobonensis 324., 1976. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text in German and English; color facsimile speciment picture; invitation to subscription.

Physical Description

1 box

37901. Codex laud, 1964. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (263 mm.); color photographic illustration; prospectus for the "Facsimile edition of MS. Laud Misc. 678 of the Bodleian Library, Oxford...Introduction (in English) by C.A. Burland, London." Includes Burland's expert opinion and a list of other works from the press. Top edge cropped, affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

37888. Tuti-Nama. Cleveland Museum of Art. Wissenschaftlicher kommentar/Scholarly commentary [by] Pramod Chandra. Einführung/Introduction [by] Sherman E. Lee, 1974. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color facsimile pasted in; text in red and black; rubber stamp to front. Prospectus for a title from the series Codices Selecti, Group D--Orientalische Handschriften/Oriental manuscripts. Text in German and English with expert opinion from Sherman E. Lee and Pramod Chandra's "A Newly Discovered Tuti-Nama in: The Burlington Magazine, Vol. CV, Dec. 1963". List of previous titles from the series printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

37887. Siyah qalem, 1976. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color photographic illustration running from front to back; text in German and English. Prospectus for the facsimile edition of "Siyah Qalem: Instanbul, Topkapi Sarayi Müzesi, aus Hazine 2153 und 2160. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C....Complete colour facsimile edition of all the folios (79) attributed to the Master Muhammad Siyah Qalem (i.e., the Black Pen) from the Topkapi Sarayi Müzesi, Istanbul." Prospectus provides an expert opinion, in German and English, by M.S. Ipsiroglu, Malerei der Mongolen, München 1965.

Physical Description

1 box

37918. Codex magliabecchiano cl. XIII.3 (BR 232) anon. Vida de los Yndios, 1960. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (251 mm.); color photographic illustation; title in German, expert opinions in German and English.

Physical Description

1 box

37896. Codices Becker I/II, 1964. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 4to; color photographic illustration; prospectus for a "True-colour facsimile-edition of the two Mixtec manuscripts in the possession of the Vienna Ethnographical Museum (Inv. no. 60 306 and 60 307)"; text in German and English, with reviews from American Antiquity, American Anthropologist, Antiquarian Bookman, and others. A list of "further pertinent books" printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

37899. Codex Egerton 2895, 1966. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 4to (232 x 300 mm.); color photographic illustration on verso; prospectus for the 7th volume of the series Codices Selecti; "True-colour facsimile-edition of the Mixtec manuscript in the possession of the British Museum, London"; text in German and English.

Physical Description

1 box

37908. Drogo-sakramentar. Le sacrementaire de Drogon. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Ms. lat. 9428, 1977. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustration; text in red and black. Prospectus for Vol. XLIX of Group A (illuminated manuscripts) from the series Codices Selecti; expert opinions and the list of previous titles from the series included. Color photographic illustration pasted to brown paper laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37621. [List of Nautical Press publications], 1908. 1 box.
General

Glasgow: James Brown & Son

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 16mo; titles include Brown's Nautical Almanac; Nicholl's Seamanship, second edition; The Nautical Telegraph Code; and Tod's Arithmetical Guide for Marine Engineers.

Physical Description

1 box

36775. Shakespeare, William: The tempest, 1924. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

Montagnola di Lugano, Switzerland: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated (two folded sheets unbound); prospectus provides specimen pages (16-17), with price list of the different binding available; order form loosely inserted. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36773. The Bodoni Press. Lugano-Montagnola, Switzerland. Spring 1925, 1925. 1 box.
General

Lugano-Montagnola, Switzerland: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; catalogue of titles from the press, including the works in preparation, Dante's "La Vita Nuova" and Marlowe's "Tragedies". Maggs Brothers, Booksellers' stamp.

Physical Description

1 box

44711. The Book-of-the-Month Club. An outline of a unique plan for those who wish to keep abreast of the best books of the day, 1926. 1 box.
General

New York: Book-of-the-Month Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 15, [1]; black and white photographic portraits of the committee members; original green staple-bound printed wrappers, about fine. Includes an invitation accomplished in typescript "To become a 'Charter' Subscriber of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc. With Perpetual Free Selecting Service" (order blank inside); a small bifolium titled, "Some Inside Facts About Books, Publishers, and Authors"; a typed letter on Club letterhead; and a pre-addressed envelope. The original proposal of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

Physical Description

1 box

38042. Warde, B.L.: Music title pages 1500-1925, 1926. 1 box.
General

Author: Warde, B.L.

London: Ernest Benn

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; prospectus for a typographic work focusing on music title pages; distributed by Maggs Bros. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36651. Robes of Thespis: Costume designs by modern artists with over 100 plates, including 46 in colour, and numerous drawings in the text..., 1927. 1 box.
General

London: Ernest Benn Limited

Scope and Contents

Two leaves, unbound, 4to; prospectus provides list of chapters (Fantasie in Costume, Irish Dramatic Costume, etc.) with names of illustrators (including Max Beerbohm, Edmund Dulac, and Paul Nash). Text of prospectus by George Sheringham and R. Boyd Morrison, both contributing artists. Small loss to left hand edge, not affecting text. Second leaf lists literary contents and order form on verso. TLS on publisher's letterhead and five specimen plates loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36769. The officina Bodoni: The operation of a hand-press during the first six years of its work, 1929. 1 box.
General

Paris: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this history of the press, providing a table of contents and extracts of press opinions. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36768. Die Officina Bodoni: Das Werkbuch einer Handpresse in den ersten sechs Jahren ihres Wirkens, 1929. 1 box.
General

Paris: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus in German, providing table of contents; integral order form for the German distributor, Oskar Schloss Verlag, Berlin. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36818. The Society of Friends of the Bremer Presse, 1931. 1 box.
General

Munich: Bremer Presse

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; announcement for a new series of books "published in annual sets and are intended only for members of the Society of Friends of the Bremer Press. Their number is limited to 200"; catalog of these titles with specimen pages loosely inserted. These first three additions are "Ballads and Songs of Love," Blaise Pascal's "Pensées," and "Walther von der Vogelweide". Compliments label from the American distributor Duttons pasted to front cover.

Physical Description

1 box

36785. The Book Collector's quarterly. Prospectus for 1932, 1932. 1 box.
General

London: The Book Collector

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for the quarterly's No. V, which includes a piece of Thomas Hardy by D.H. Lawrence; also provides a resume of the first four numbers and some review excerpts; integral order form on back page. Two small losses to top edge, not affecting text, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36754. Announcing three issues of facsimiles of apparently unique early American imprints not found in any American collection, 1935. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for three facsimiles, providing specimen title pages for each work, including "Six New York Imprints 1698-1706," "Three printed New Hampshire Documents of 1699," and "Rates of Exchange in Pennsylvania MDCCVI". Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36753. Nichols, Dale: A philosophy of esthetics, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Nichols, Dale

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus providing reduced specimen of illustrations explaining the text and a table of contents; Broadside prospectus for the same book and order form loosely inserted. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36809. Stevenson, Robert Louis: The select essays, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis

Bangor, Pennsylvania: Bookman Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this edition of Stevenson's essays; specimen pages (72-73) and order form with pre-addressed enveloped loosely inserted; previous owner's pencil notes on envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37009. Doane, Gilbert H.: About collecting bookplates. A letter, 1941. 1 box.
General

Author: Doane, Gilbert H.

Madsion, Wisconsin: Black Mack, the Handpress

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; this prospectus includes order form and pre-addressed envelope as well as two sample bookplates, all loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

The Book Club of California Its Aims and Activities. San Francisco, 1941, 1941. 1 box.
General

Book Club of California

Scope and Contents

Broadside introducing the Book Club of California, laying out its aims, publications, membership, etc. Printed in green and black.

Physical Description

1 box

The Book Club of California Its (sic) Aims and Activities. San Francisco, 1948, 1948. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium beige colored paper printed in black.

Physical Description

1 box

39512. Tripp, C.E.: Ace high. The 'Frisco detective. Or, the girl sport's double game. A story of the Sierra & the Golden Gate city, 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Tripp, C.E.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, tall folio (435 mm.); illustration and text printed in red and black; previous folds, a bit toned, else fine. Prospectus for a limited edition from an author "whose novels (now unfortunately in eclipse) once claimed the goggle-eyed attention of thousands of readers of Beadle's Half-Time Library". Introduction by David Magee and designed and printed at the Grabhorn Press in an edition of 500 copies. With order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36821. MacKaye, Percy: The mystery of Hamlet, King of Denmark; or What we will. A sequence of 4 plays in prologue to The tragical historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare. Written by Percy MacKaye and presented by the Pasadena Playhouse on the nights of April 13 through May 1, 1949, 1949. 1 box.
General

Author: MacKaye, Percy

New York: Bond Wheelwright Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for the production and the printed form of this prequal to Shakespeare's Hamlet; limited edition; "The Lakeside Press (R.R. Donnelley & Sons)--Printers Ragston Paper--especially made and milled for this book Centaur Type designed by Bruce Rogers. Calligraphy--including drawings and symbols--by Raymond F. DaBoll." Order form loosely inserted. Text in brown and black.

Physical Description

1 box

39513. Harlow, Neal: The maps of San Francisco Bay from the Spanish discovery in 1769 to the American occupation, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Harlow, Neal

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; printed in red and black; previous fold, mostly fine.

Physical Description

1 box

36767. Boccaccio, Giovanni: The nymphs of Fiesole...with the woodcuts made by Bartolommeo di Giovanni for a lost quattrocento edition, which were used to illustrate various later texts and have now been reassembled and recut, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni

Verona: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus providing illustrated specimen pages (46-47); edition limited to 225 numbered copies "on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni, Verona. The hand-made paper was specially manufactured by the Cartiere Miliani of Fabriano. The text of Goubourne's translation is set in the Officina Bodoni's Griffo type, a recut of the beautiful roman designed for Aldus Manutius about 1495 by Francesco Griffo." Philip C. Duschnes, American distributor. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36386. Farnham, Eliza: Eliza Farnham's bride-ship: An 1849 circular inviting young women of the East to go to California. Facsimile reproductions of twelve rare California Broadsides or posters, with explanatory comment by various authorities., 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Farnham, Eliza

San Francisco: Book Club of California

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for No. 3 of the Attention, Pioneers! series. Letters in black and red. Text by David Magee. Broadside facsimile of Eliza Farnham's bride-ship loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36805. Shaw, James C.: North from Texas, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Shaw, James C.

Evanston, Illinois: Branding Iron Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); postcard prospectus for a work selected as one of the Fifty Books of the Year 1952; edition of 750 copies; this card announces that for a limited time the press will be holding the remaining inventory on hold for A.I.G.A. members. Postcard addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Apr 6 1953.

Physical Description

1 box

39511. Jordan, John E.: Robert Louis Stevenson's Silverado journal, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Jordan, John E.

San Francisco: Book Club of California

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; text printed in red and black; previous fold, mostly fine. Prospectus for "the first complete publication of the manuscript written by Robert Louis Stevenson during his two months' stay with his bride at the abandoned silver mine on Mount Saint Helena in 1880". Finished piece produced at the Grabhorn Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39509. Meyers, William H.: Journal of a cruise to California and the Sandwich Islands in the United States sloop-of-war Cyane...1841-1844. Edited by John Haskell Kemble, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Meyers, William H.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; text printed in brown and black; previous fold, mostly fine. "This first printing of Gunner Meyers' account of his stay in California and the Hawaiian Islands in 1842-43, and of his spirited drawings of scenes and events in both places, constitutes a work of extraordinary beauty and historical value." Finished piece printed at the Grabhorn Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39499. Shaffer, Ellen: The garden of health. An account of two herbals, The gart der Gesundheit and the Hortus Sanitatis, 1957. 1 box.
General

Author: Shaffer, Ellen

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; illustrations, text printed in red and black; mostly fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 300 copies; specimen page provided. "Adding further to the interest of the book, each copy will have inserted an original leaf from the edition of Hortus Sanitatis printed by Johann Prüss in Strassburg in the year 1499. Every leaf will bear one or more woodcuts."

Physical Description

1 box

37014. Norton, F.J.: Italian printers 1501-1520: An annotated list, with an introduction, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Norton, F.J.

London: Bowes & Bowes Publishers Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (261 mm.); prospectus of Norton's bibliography, distributed by Bernard Quaritch. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36711. Whitman, Walt: The death of Abraham Lincoln...with a note by Paul M. Angle, 1961. 1 box.
General

Author: Whitman, Walt

Chicago, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (83 mm. x 140 mm.); postcard prospectus for "two Lincoln miniatures," the Whitman and "Address of Carl Sandburg. Upon the occasion of Abraham Lincoln's one hundredth inaugural anniversary, with an introduction by Carl Haverlin." Addressed to Mrs. Emerson G. Wulling, stamped and postmarked. Text in brown and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36652. Ellis, Havelock: Exhibition of published works of Havelock Ellis including miscellanea from Joseph Ishill's collection. Frances Wrathall, director, 1962. 1 box.
General

Author: Ellis, Havelock

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Berkeley Heights Public Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; advertisement for this exhibition includes praise for Ellis, including that from H.L. Mencken; and an excerpt of the author's writing. Text in red and blue. Broadside of the same announcement loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36653. Darien, Peter: Darien's world: A compendium of poems in ten slender volumes, 1962. 1 box.
General

Author: Darien, Peter

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Berkeley Heights Public Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus announcing both an exhibition of the poet's work and the publication by the typographer and publisher Joseph Ishill of these ten volumes in an edition of 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36728. Ali Baba and the forty thieves. Translated from the Arabian Nights. Foreward by Lloyd Emerson Siberell, with decorations by Calvin Brazelton, 1962. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (83 mm. x 140 mm.); postcard prospectus for two miniature books from the press, Ali Baba and "'1601,' or Conversation at the Social Fireside as it was in the Time of the Tudors" by Mark Twain. Postcard addressed to Mrs. Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Sep. 5 1962.

Physical Description

1 box

39506. Ukiyo-e, "the floating world". Illustrated by twenty-eight rare examples of Japanese woodblock prints by seventeen great masters of the art, 1962. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustration, text printed in brown and black; previous folds, some wear from handling. Prospectus for this limited edition of 400 copies,

Physical Description

1 box

37614. Chaucer, Geoffrey: The book of Geoffrey Chaucer. An account of the publication of Geoffrey Chaucer's works from the fifteenth century to modern times. By Charles Muscatine, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey

San Francisco: Book Club of California

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus illustrated with a woodcut from the 1498 Wynkyn de Worde edition of the Canterbury Tales; edition limited to 450 copies. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

39475. Stevenson, Robert Louis: San Francisco. A modern cosmopolis...Preface by James D. Hart, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, oblong 8vo; illustrations; fine. Prospectus for Stevenson's history of the city "from its earliest days to the time of his visit at the end of 1879 and during 1880". Finished piece designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley in an edition limited to 450 copies; drawings by Irene Pattinson with photographs from the Collection of Wyland Stanley.

Physical Description

1 box

37016. Goff, Frederick R.: Incunabula in American libraries: A third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections, 1964. 1 box.
General

Author: Goff, Frederick R.

New York: Bibliographical Society of America

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus includes specimen page (49) and integral order form addressed to Mrs. Alexander Davidson, Jr. Pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39460. Alger, Horatio, Jr.: The young miner; or, Tom Nelson in California...Introduction and bibliographical note by John Seelye, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Alger, Horatio, Jr.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustration; fine. Prospectus for this new edition of one of Alger's preposterous Gold Rush novels. Finished work designed by Adrian Wilson and printed on Strathmore Pastelle paper in an edition of 450 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36654. Ishill, Joseph: An exclusive exhibition of Ishill's Variorum consisting of individual & collective pages with handset types & an assortment of graphic embellishments, 1966. 1 box.
General

Author: Ishill, Joseph

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Berkeley Heights Public Library

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (228 mm.); advertisement for an exhibition; text in green, orange, and blue.

Physical Description

1 box

36722. A testament of freedom: Ideas worth fighting for, 1966. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (82 mm. x 140 mm.); "Printed direct from Caslon type on Superfine paper." Edition limited to 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39510. Johnson, Kenneth M., ed.: The sting of the wasp. Political & satirical cartoons from the truculant early San Francisco weekly, 1967. 1 box.
General

Author: Johnson, Kenneth M., ed.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color illustration, text printed in red and black; previous fold, some wear from handling, mostly fine. "The twenty lithographs included in the book--all reproduced in the brilliant colors of the originals--throw revealing light on many aspects of California life during the contentious '70s, '80s, and '90s." Finished piece to be designed and printed by Saul and Lillian Marks of the Plantin Press in an edition of 450 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39476. Simpkinson, Francis Guillmard and Captain Edward Belcher: H.M.S. Sulphur at California, 1837 and 1839. Being the accounts of midshipman...Edited by Richard A. Pierce & John H. Winslow, 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Simpkinson, Francis Guillmard and Captain Edward Belcher

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; map, illustration; text printed in blue and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for these 2 accounts "of visits to San Francisco Bay, up the Sacramento River, and to Monterey; the land, the missions, and the natives were closely observed and described". The finished piece printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in an edition of 450 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36688. The Bird & Bull commonplace book, 1971. 1 box.
General

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus provides an outline of the work's contents, which ranges from pieces on poems about papermaking to the International Paper Historians in Grenoble, France. "The text...is printed on Hodgkinson's hand made "Bird & Bull" Royal, dampened before printing. Four additional pages and the wasp paper sample were hand made at the Press. The text is set in 18 point Centaur." Edition limited to 225 copides. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36774. Da Novara, Francesco Torniello: The alphabet of Francesco Torniello da Novara [1517]. Followed by a comparison with the alphabet of Fra Luca Pacioli. Introduction by Giovanni Mardersteig, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Da Novara, Francesco Torniello

Verona: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus provides three specimen pages of the alphabet, text in Italian; order form and description of the piece both loosely inserted. Text in blue and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36770. Dürer, Albrecht: The little passion...With the poems of the first edition of 1511 by Benedictus Chelidonius Musophilus in Latin with English version, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Dürer, Albrecht

Verona: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Single folded leaf, 8vo; prospectus providing specimens pages and illustration; "half pigskin and Fabriano Ingres boards, in a matching slipcase. Limited to 140 copies set in Dante types." Order slip addressed to the American distributor, the Chiswick Book Shop, New York, NY, loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39503. Littlejohn, David: Dr. Johnson and Noah Webster. Two men & their dictionaries...Illustrated wtih a matched pair of original leaves from "A dictionary of the English language" by Samuel Johnson...(1755) and "An American dictionary of the English language" by Noah Webster...(1828), 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Littlejohn, David

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for an addition to the Club's "tradition of presenting a fine essay on some notable book of the past, illustrated by an original leaf from its first printing". Finished piece to be printed at the Grabhorn-Hoyem Press.

Physical Description

1 box

36907. Stillwell, Margaret Bingham: The beginning of the world of books 1450 to 1470. A chronological survey of the texts chosen for printing during the first twenty years of the printing art. With a synopsis of the Gutenberg Documents, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: Stillwell, Margaret Bingham

New York: Bibliographical Society of America

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus provides content and a brief overview of the work; integral order form has been removed, with a loss of approximately a third of the overview.

Physical Description

1 box

39466. Rezanov reconnoiters California, 1806, 1972. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustration; fine. Prospectus for this reprint of 2 documents, the first a translation of the report written by the Russian explorer Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov; the second, the translation, also from Russian, of the log of the ship Juno, on which Rezanov made his journey. Appendix and illustrations by George von Langsdorff, who was a member of Rezanov's party; edited by Richard A. Pierce; and designed and printed by Jack Werner Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press in an edition of 450 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39465. Spanish approaches to the island of California, 1628-1632, 1972. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, tall 8vo; manuscript facsimile, text printed in red and black; fine. Finished piece to be published in an edition of 400 copies, designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39482. Wilde, Oscar: Irish poets and poetry of the nineteenth century. A lecture delivered in Platt's Hall, San Francisco on Wednesday, April fifth, 1882. Edited from Wilde's manuscript and reconstructed, in part, from contemporary newspaper accounts with an introduction and biographical notes by Robert D. Pepper, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: Wilde, Oscar

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 4to; double-page color illustration, text printed in orange and black; fine. Prospectus for this edition of Wilde's California lecture, designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36763. Aesop: The fables of Aesop printed from the Veronese edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco, with the woodcuts newly engraved and coloured after a copy in the British Museum, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Aesop

Verona: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus of this edition of Aesop's fables, "The illustrations have been coloured by hand at the Atelier Daniel Jacomet in Pescia, watermarked with a goose like that of the original edition"; edition limited to 160 copies; note from the American distributor, Chiswick Book Shop, Sandy Hook, Conn. loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39490. Craven, Tunis Augustus Macdonough: A naval campaign in the Californias--1846-1849. The journal of Lieutenant Tunis Augustus Macdonough Crave, U.S.N. United States sloop of war, Dale, edited by John Haskell Kemble, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Craven, Tunis Augustus Macdonough

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; black and white portrait, text printed in blue and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for the first printing of this historical document, designed and printed at the Ward Ritchie Press in an edition limited to 400 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37612. Wikgren, Allen P.: A leaf from the first edition of the first complete Bible in English. The Coverdale Bible 1535. With an historical introduction...and a census of copies recorded in the British Isles and North America, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Wikgren, Allen P.

San Francisco: Book Club of California

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrated prospectus for this first complete Coverdale Bible printed in the English language, limited to 424 copies and designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy.

Physical Description

1 box

39485. Cobden-Sanderson, T.J.: Four lectures...Edited, with an introductory essay on Cobden-Sanderson's life and ideals, with details of his American pupils, and his lectures in the United States in 1907 by John Dreyfus, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Cobden-Sanderson, T.J.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; decorations printed in gilt, text in red and black; previous folds, mostly fine. Prospectus for a compilation of lectures by Cobden-Sanderson on printing and bookbinding; this edition printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39462. [Peck, George Washington]: Aurifodina. Or, adventures in the gold region, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: [Peck, George Washington]

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; fine. Prospectus for the first reprint of this 1849 imprint, a fictitious personal narrative of Cantell A. Bigly, written in the same satirical vein as Gulliver's Travels. This edition introduced by James D. Hart, illustrated by Bruce Conner, and printed by Andrew Hoyem. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39504. The Coverdale Bible, 1535, 1974. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrations, text printed in red and black; previous fold, mostly fine. Prospectus for a title in which "each copy...will have an original leaf from this Bible, accompanied by a specially commissioned article by Dr. Alan Wikgren," and of which "The Publications Committee feels that the book makes a valid contribution to the unravelling of some of the uncertainties which have surrounded the Coverdale Bible". Finished piece printed in a limited edition of 424 copies by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39540. Long, Haniel: The power within us. Cabeza de Vaca's relation of his journey from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Long, Haniel

Nevada City, California: Harold Berliner.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original wrappers printed in brown and black; fine. Excerpt from preface and specimen pages provided. Edition limited to 750 copies.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

36765. Gogol, Nikolay: The overcoat, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Gogol, Nikolay

Verona: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; title in Cyrillic and latin alphabet; prospectus provides specimen pages (20-21); "printed on handmade Pescia paper and consists of 160 copies"; American distributor Chiswick Book Shop, Sandy Hood, Conn. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

39478. Taylor, M.: The gold digger's song book, containing the most popular, humorous, & sentimental songs...and sung by [Taylor's] original company with unbounded applause throughout California, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Taylor, M.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration and text printed in gilt and black; corners a bit creased, else fine. Prospectus for this musical collection with an introduction by Sister Mary Dominic Ray; edition limited to 450 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39505. Van Nostrand, Jeanne: San Francisco, 1806-1906, in contemporary paintings, drawings and watercolors, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Van Nostrand, Jeanne

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrations; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for an edition limited to 500 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36691. Schlosser, Leonard B.: A pair on paper: Two essays on paper history and related matters. Leonard Schlosser, Henry Morris, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Schlosser, Leonard B.

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for the work, Schlosser's "Some early Milanese Paper Wrappers" and Morris' "More Adventures in Papermaking, Etc." "[P]rinted on dampened paper which has been made by hand at the Press. The Milanese wrappers are printed on specially made toned and flecked sheets which are suggestive of the papers originally used. Handset in Centaur types...and is quarter-bound in Oasis leather with paper sides by Edward G. Parrot. This edition is limited to 220 numbered copies." Text in brown and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36762. The sayings of the seven sages of Greece. Greek original text with English version, 1976. 1 box.
General

Verona: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus provides specimen pages (24-25); "printed on handmade Pescia paper in 160 copies". Distributed in the United States by the Chiswick Book Shop, Sandy Hook, Conn. Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39470. Leighton, Clare: Growing new roots. An essay with fourteen wood engravings, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Leighton, Clare

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifoilum, 8vo; illustrations, text printed in orange and black; mostly fine. This publication designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy from the original wood engravings in an edition limited to 500 signed and numbered copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36741. Jones, E. Willis: Santa's own story of his many lives as he told it to E. Willis Jones with illustrations by Rainey Bennett, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Jones, E. Willis

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 12mo; prospectus includes illustrated specimen pages (24-25); "carefully composed by The Signature Press and printed on white Strathmore Pastel paper in two colors by Alpha Beta Press. It's 249 copies are hand bound in gold-stamped red calfskin by Bela Blau and its production guilded by Norman Forgue." Green Broadside of the Black Cat Press "Purrings" loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39480. Hittell, Theodore H.: El triunfo de la cruz. A description of the building by Father Juan Ugarte of the first ship made in California...With a prefatory note by Oscar Lewis. Decorations by Valenti Angelo, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Hittell, Theodore H.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration printed in blue and orange; fine. Reprint of a work originally printed by Valenti Angelo at the Grabhorn Press in 1930.

Physical Description

1 box

39467. Steinbeck, John: Letters to Elizabeth, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Steinbeck, John

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed in orange and black; fine. Prospectus for this collection of previously unpublished letters by the author to his literary agent, Elizabeth Otis, dating from 1938 to 1965. Edited by Florian J. Shasky and Susan F. Riggs, introduced by Carlton Sheffield, and printed at the Plantin Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39501. A leaf from the 1583 Rembert Dodoens Herbal, printed by Christopher Plantin. With a short essay by Carey S. Bliss, 1977. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4vo; illustrations; printed in red and black; mostly fine. Prospectus for a book in which "each copy...contains an original leaf with woodcuts of various plants". Finished piece to be designed and printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press in an edition of 385 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36791. Thompson, Susan Otis: American book design and William Morris, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Thompson, Susan Otis

New York: Bowker

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (277 mm.); illustrated prospectus includes description of the piece and a blurb from the North American Secretary, William Morris Society, Joseph R. Dunlap. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36665. Chapbooks & Broadsides, 1977. 1 box.
General

Poynette, Wisconsin: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; catalog of titles from the press, terms provided on the back page; TLS on Bieler Press letterhead and addressed to Emerson G. Wulling, loosely inserted. With the envelope in which the prospectus originally was originally mailded, addressed to Wulling and postmarked 19 Jul 1977.

Physical Description

1 box

36713. Brady, Ernest W.: Soliloquy of a postage stamp, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Brady, Ernest W.

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet (74 mm. x 57 mm.); keepsake for the friends of the press; stamp (the object of the soliloquy) affixed to front cover.

Physical Description

1 box

38470. Wesling, Donald: American sentences: the history of West Seneca, New York, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Wesling, Donald

Madison, Wisconsin: Black Mesa Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (89 x 140 mm.); illustration; text printed in red and black; fine. Postcard prospectus for this collection of poetry, illustrated by Kathy Kuehn.

Physical Description

1 box

39507. Franklin, Colin: Themes in aquatint, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Franklin, Colin

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; specimen plate laid in; mostly fine. Prospectus for "the first treatment of the books [illustrated with aquatints] as literature, and is the first book to be produced entirely in England for The Book Club of California". Finished piece printed by the Cambridge University Press; announcement of a publication delay due to a breakdown at the bindery laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39493. Polk, Willis: A matter of taste...writings on architecture in The Wave. Edited with an introduction by Richard W. Longstreth, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Polk, Willis

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrations, decorative border printed in orange; fine. Finished piece to be designed by Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscan Alley. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39486. Berg, Gustav von: From Kapuvár to California, 1893, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Berg, Gustav von

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; vignettes printed in brown; mostly fine. Prospectus for a collection of 7 letters written from San Francisco, Monterey, Yosemite, Fresno, and Los Angeles; translation by Henry Miller Madden; designed and printed by Don Greame Kelley and Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press in an edition limited to 500 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39455. Thayer, James Bradley: A western journey with Mr. Emerson...edited with a foreword and notes by Shirley Sargent, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Thayer, James Bradley

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; specimen title page, text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for this account of Emerson's trip to California, published here in an edition limited to 600 copies, desigend and printed by Richard J. Hoffman.

Physical Description

1 box

39484. Rawls, James J., ed.: Dan de Quille of the big bonanza...Foreword by Oscar Lewis, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Rawls, James J., ed.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 4to; woodcut engraving, printed in orange and black; fine. Prospectus for a collection of de Quille's humorous pieces of journalism, designed and printed by Arlen and Clara Louise Philpott at the Tamal Land Press in an edition of 650 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39489. Wentz, Roby: The Grabhorn Press: a biography, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Wentz, Roby

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for a history of the Press, from its startin in Indianapolis in 1912 to the death of Edwin Grabhorn in 1968. Finished piece designed and printed by Sherwood Grover at the Grace Hoper Press in an edition of 750 copies. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39457. Duncan, Harry, K.K. Merker, and Ward Ritchie: BR. A panel discussion at the Bruce Rogers Centenary held at Purdue University, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Duncan, Harry, K.K. Merker, and Ward Ritchie

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for the second title to be published with the support of the Dorothy and David Magee fund.

Physical Description

1 box

39448. Ritchie, Ward: Paul Landacre, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Ritchie, Ward

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrations; fine. Prospectus of a work on Landacre, best known as an illustrator for the Limited Editions Club. This edition hand set and printed in an edition limited to 600 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39459. Harlan, Robert D.: Chapter nine. The Vulgate Bible & other unfinished projects of John Henry Nash, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Harlan, Robert D.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; printed in orange and black; fine. Prospectus for Club publication no. CLXX, published in conjunction with the Typophiles of New York. Finished piece to be printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39497. Vischer, Edward: Drawings of the California missions, 1861-1878, with a biography of the artist by Jeanne van Nostrand. Introduction by Thomas Albright, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Vischer, Edward

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 4to; color plate tipped in; fine. Prospectus for "the earliest known complete set of California mission views," a collection compiled by the artost for a book that was never completed. Finished piece designed and printed by Andrew Hoyem at the Arion Press. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36803. Books in print. Fall/winter 1982, 1982. 1 box.
General

New York: Frederic C. Beil

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrated catalogue of new titles from the press; order form loosely inserted. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36677. Broadsides available from the Bieler Press. Fall 1982, 1982. 1 box.
General

Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (243 mm.); list of Broadside titles available from the press, typewritten on cream paper. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36663. Fine hand-printed editions of contemporary literature. The 1982 summer/fall book catalog..., 1982. 1 box.
General

Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (270 mm.); list of upcoming titles from the press. Printing on grey paper, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36662. Fine hand-printed editions of contemporary literature. The 1982 spring/summer catalog..., 1982. 1 box.
General

Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); list of upcoming titles from the press. Printed on blue paper, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36661. Ordering information and terms of purchase, August 1982, 1982. 1 box.
General

Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long 4to (294 mm.); ordering information for individuals and libraries; shipping; standing orders; discount schedules; returns; and consignments. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39492. Borden, John W.: Thomas Bewick & the fables of Aesop. Biographical sketch...History of the fables by Janet S. Krueger. With an original leaf from the first edition (1818) of "The Fables of Aesop" and a new impression from one of Bewick's original wood engravings, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Borden, John W.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; wood engraved vignette, text printed in brown and black; fine. Prospectus for this work, whose "special feature...is that each original fable leaf contains the complete text of the fable with 'application' (the moral), along with a fable block illustration, and on the verso, a tail-piece engraving. Finished piece to be designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press and printed by the Cloister Press. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39463. Harland, Robert D.: At the sign of the lark...with an annotated bibliography, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Harland, Robert D.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed in purple and black; fine. At head of title: "William Doxey's San Francisco Publshing Venture". Finished piece bound by Taurus Bindery. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39491. Redwood and lumbering in California forests. With illustrations. A reconstruction of the original Edgar Cherry edition, edited, with an account of its publication in 1884, by Peter E. Palmquist. Including a catalog of all known photographs. Preface by Gary F. Kurutz, 1983. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, oblong 4to; black and white photographic plate laid in; fine. Prospectus for a reprint of the original edition, whose text was written by Charles Goodwin Noyes with an essay by Albert Kellogg. The finished work to be designed and printed at the Yolla Bolly Press by James Robertson. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39483. White, Gerald T.: Baptism in oil. Stephen F. Peckham in southern California, 1865-66, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: White, Gerald T.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrations; printed on peach paper in olive and black; fine. Prospectus for this work on Peckham's career at Ventura's Ojai Ranch to refine oil for the California Petrolium Company. Finished piece designed by Ward Ritchie and printed at the Castle Press; binding by Kater-Crafts Bookbinders. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39456. Kurutz, Gary F.: Benjamin C. Truman. California booster & bon vivant, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Kurutz, Gary F.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for the first title of the series Literary Profiles, "dealing with authors whose contributions to the literary scene of the American West have been significant but largely uncelebrated". Printed by Sherwood Grover at the Grace Hoper Press and bound by Cardoza-James Binding Company.

Physical Description

1 box

36664. The 1984 catalog of the Bieler Press, 1984. 1 box.
General

St Paul, MN: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; catalog of upcoming titles from the press. Tear to right edge from previous fold not affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

39468. The Allen Press bibliography. A facsimile of the hand-printed 1981 edition, and important additions to date, original leaves, and a complete checklist of ephemera, with "an appreciation" by Carey S. Bliss and an epilogue by Lewis Allen, 1985. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration, text printed in orange and black; fine. This facsimile edition printed by offset lithography under the direction of George Waters at the Mastercraft Press in an edition limited to 750 copies. Order form, specimen page, and announcement of publication delay laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36819. M'Alpine, John: Genuine narratives and concise memoirs of some of the most interesting exploits and singular adventures of John M'Alpine, a native highlander from the time of his emigration from Scotland to America 1773, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: M'Alpine, John

Greenock, Scotland: The Black Pennell Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for the reprint of the first book to be printed in Greenock in 1780; edition limited to 226 copies. Order form and specimen pages (25-26) loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39451. D'Ambrosio, Joe: D'Ambrosio: 1986 and beyond, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: D'Ambrosio, Joe

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (139 mm.); printed in green on yellow paper; fine. Invitationto an exhibition of the artist's works, including his most recent work, Edgar Allan Poe's "Al Aaraaf," bound in mirrored polyhedron.

Physical Description

1 box

36679. Kooser, Ted: The blizzard voices, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Kooser, Ted

Minneapolis: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a dramatized narrative on the blizzard of January 12, 1888. "[D]esigned by Gerald Lange & hand printed in two colors with Garamont and 16th Century Roman type (designed & caste by Paul Hayden Duensing) on Frankfurt White, a mouldmade paper from Germany. The book is illustrated with numerous line drawings by Tom Pohrt. The laminated covers & endsheets were specially created for the edition by Kathryn Clark of Twinrocker Handmade Paper. The book was handbound into boards at The Campbell-Logan Bindery. Issued in an author and illustrator signed edition of 200 copies." Prospectus also includes information on other titles available from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

39502. Dillon, Richard H.: Texas argonauts. Isaac H. Duval and the California gold rush...Illustrated by Charles Shaw, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Dillon, Richard H.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; color illustration, text printed in blue and black; some wear from handling. Prospectus for this work, designed and printed by David Holman at the Wind River Press in an edition of 450 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39498. Art deco. The books of François-Louis Schmied, artist/engraver/printer, with recollections and descriptive commentaries on the books by Ward Ritchie. With a preface by Lawrence Clark Powell, 1987. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, oblong 4to; illustration, decorative borders printed in orange; fine. Prospectus for a short chronicle and check-list of Schmied's work, printed by the Premier Printing Corp.

Physical Description

1 box

39477. Teiser, Ruth: Lawton Kennedy, printer. Foreword by James D. Hart, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Teiser, Ruth

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in blue and black; fine. Prospectus for a biography of Kennedy's active years as a printer, in an edition of 450 copies, designed and printed by Jonathan Clark at the Artichoke Press. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39474. Splatt, Cynthia: Isadora Duncan & Gordon Craig. The prose and poetry of action, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Splatt, Cynthia

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, large 8vo; fine. Finished piece illustrated with drawings by Craig and designed and printed in an edition of 450 copies by W. Thomas Taylor at his press in Austin, Texas.

Physical Description

1 box

39469. Allyn, Joseph Pratt: By horse, stage & packet. The far west letters...John Nicolson, David K. Strate, editors, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Allyn, Joseph Pratt

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; printed in brown and black; fine. Prospectus for a new edition of the letters written to the Hartford Press by Lincoln's appointed Associate Judge of the Arizona Territorial government in 1863. This publication designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press and printed by Patrick Reagh Printers in an edition limited to 450 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39213. The wood engraving portfolio, 1988. 1 box.
General

New York: Bowne & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (277 mm.); wood engravings; fine. Prospectus for a portfolio of pieces by contemporary artists, including John DePol and Barry Moser. Edition limited to 200 copies printed from the artist's blocks and published by the South Street Seaport Museum.

Physical Description

1 box

38433. Kent, Rockwell: The jewel. A romance of fairyland, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Kent, Rockwell

Portland, Maine: Baxter Society

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration and facsimile; fine. Prospectus for a facsimile edition of a holographic manuscript by Kent, of which there only existed one; this edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39472. Levinsohn, John L.: Frank Morrison Pixley of the Argonaut, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Levinsohn, John L.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations, printed in orange and black; mostly fine. Prospectus for the second publication of the Literary Profiles series, designed in an edition of 450 copies by Susan Acker of the Feathered Serpent Press and bound by Cardoza-James.

Physical Description

1 box

39495. Ford, Henry Chapman: An artist records the California missions...Edited and with an introduction by Norman Neuerburg, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Ford, Henry Chapman

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, large oblong 4to; color plate tipped in, decorative borders; a bit soiled, else fine. Prospectus for a work reproducing paintings by "one of the foremost 19th century artists of the California missions". Finished piece printed and designed by Patrick Reagh, Printers in an edition limited to 450 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38431. Annual meeting...January 26, 1990, 1990. 1 box.
General

New York: Bibliographical Society of America

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (198 mm.); announcement of the Society's annual meeting at the Pierpont Morgan Library, where "Paul Needham will speak on 'Paul Schwenke and Gutenberg Scholarship: The German Contribution, 1885-1921'".

Physical Description

1 box

39500. Dreyfus, John: A typographical masterpiece. An account...of Eric Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings in producing the Golden Cockerel Press edition of "The Four Gospels" in 1931, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Dreyfus, John

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; illustration, facsimile; mostly fine. Prospectus for a work to be designed and bound in the same format as the work's subject, and printed by the author at the Meriden-Stinehour Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39464. Everson, William: On printing. Edited with an introduction by Peter Rutledge Koch, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Everson, William

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; black and white photographic illustration; fine. Prospectus for the Club's 199th publication, printed in an edition limited to 400 copies designed and printed letterpress by Peter Koch. TLs on Club letterhead by James G. Nance of the Membership Committee.

Physical Description

1 box

39508. Harlan, Robert D.: The two hundredth book. A bibliography of the books published by the Book Club of California, 1958-1993, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Harlan, Robert D.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; unbound (as issued) in original white pictorial wrappers, a bit worn from handling; mostly fine.

Physical Description

1 box

37661. Catalogue 1994, 1994. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 14; original pictorial wrappers; catalogue lists forthcoming titles, including "Black Letter (Gutenberg: An Account" and "The Neolithic Adventures of Taffi-mai Metallu-mai: How the First Letter War Written & How the Alphabet Was Made, Just So Stories" by Rudyard Kipling; also provides titles from the USC Fine Arts Press and titles currently in print from the Press. Order information printed in the back.

Physical Description

1 box

39494. Hardy, Thomas: The vineyards and wine cellars of California, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Hardy, Thomas

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; photographic plate laid in, text printed in tan and black; fine. Prospectus for a work on California vineyards and wine by a South Australian grape-grower. Finished piece designed and printed by James and Carolyn Robertson at the Yolla Bolly Press. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37717. Lasner, Mark Samuels: A selective checklist of the published work of Aubrey Beardsley, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Lasner, Mark Samuels

Boston: Thomas G. Boss

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this bibliography printed by the Stinehour Press.

Physical Description

1 box

37840. [Potter, Beatrix]: The tale of Peter Rabbit. A portfolio of art prints from the original illustration line-blocks made for the first private edition, 1901. With an introduction by Maurice Sendak, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: [Potter, Beatrix]

Kingston, New York: Battledore Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; portfolio of Potter's original illustrations in an edition limited to 250 copies; this prospectus limited to 600 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39496. Lewis, Oscar: A widely cast net. Selections from the work of a veteran California writer chosen with comments by their author...Wayne Bonnett, editor, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Lewis, Oscar

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text printed in blue and black; fine. Prospectus provides table of contents; typed letter on Club letterhead and order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39305. Voit, Petr: Bohemica, 1500-1800, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Voit, Petr

Praha: Charles Bridge Bookstore & Gallery.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; printed in red and black; mostly fine. Prospectus for this 3-volume catalogue of Bohemica. Integral order form. List of publications laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39217. Bukowski, Charles & R. Crumb: The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Bukowski, Charles & R. Crumb

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Graphic Arts

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; color illustrations; a bit soiled, else fine. Prospectus for this collaboration, published in 2 editions, the regular limited to 175 copies, the Deluxe limited to 12 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39481. Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste: A voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands, & around the world in the years 1826-1829...translated by August Frugé and Neal Harlow, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; color photographic illustration, blue decorative borders, text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 250 copies printed by Patrick Reagh. Order form and TLs on Club letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36820. De Bernieres, Louis: A day out for Mehmet Erbil, 1999. 1 box.
General

Author: De Bernieres, Louis

London: Belmont Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo; illustrated prospectus includes specimen page (22) and press opinions; edition limited to 276 copies, illustrations by Eileen Hogan. Reprint with special introduction by the author, of a story originally published in New Writing 8, March 1999. Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36339. Hallett, William T.: Pernicious pork. Or, astounding revelations of the evils of eating swine flesh., 1903. 1 box.
General

Author: Hallett, William T.

New York: Broadway Publishing Company.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo (151 mm.); prospectus for a tract concerning the danger of eating "garbage-fed pork". "Produced in attractive cloth, title page in colors. With a special introduction." Back leaf provides Order Blank. Very good.

Physical Description

1 box

36808. The indispensable books for collectors of fine printing, libraries & museums, booklovers, printers/publishers, typographers/typefounders, 1928. 1 box.
General

Vienna: Bibliotheca Typographica

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. [12]; catalogue of titles from the press with illustrations and facsimiles, one of which had been pasted in; pages uncut; order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36807. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Mr. Higginbotham's catastrophe, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Boston: Berkeley Printers

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus of a reprint of Hawthorne's story originally published in the New England Magazine, December, 1834; two specimen pages (v, 18) provided; introduction by Harry Lyman Koopman and illustrations by Walt Harris; edition limited to 540 numbered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36814. An immoral anthology, 1933. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon, NY: Blue-Behinded Ape

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this bawdy collection of poetry whose contributors include Donne, Dryden, Pope, and Keats; illustrations by André Durenceau; preface and a speciman page (118) included. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36804. Garland, Hamlin: Joys of the trail, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Garland, Hamlin

Chicago: Bookfellows

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for "A new Hamlin Garland title" issued in an edition of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the author; provides specimen page and integral order form; list of additional titles from the Bookfellows printed on back page.

Physical Description

1 box

36749. Lincoln series, 1936. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for two titles in the series, "A House Divided Against itself Cannot Stand" by Abraham Lincoln and "Abraham Lincoln's Religion" by Rev. James A. Reed and William Herndon. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36790. The bibliographies of American imprints., 1945. 1 box.
General

New York: R.R. Bowker Company

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 4to; prospectus for a series of bibliographies "published under the auspices of the Bibliographical Society of America with the cooperation of the Library of Congress and the Newberry Library"; specimen pages from the first installation, Arkansas Imprints, provided in reduced format; text in brown and black, printed on blue paper, previous fold, stain to left-hand margin of front page, not affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

36709. Zara, Louis: The Santa who was late: A short story by Louis Zara. Frontispiece by Dale Nichols, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Zara, Louis

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 16mo; prospectus for this Christmas tale; "[printed] on a beautiful smooth white Strathmore paper. Hand bound by Bela Blau in a rich green smooth leather with front cover design and title on backbone stamped in gold." Printed on green paper.

Physical Description

1 box

37658. Lynam, Edward: The mapmaker's art. Essays on the history of maps...with a foreword by Sir Thomas Kendrick, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Lynam, Edward

London: Batchworth Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus of the author's "scattered essays, brought together in this volume with many of their original illustrations"; contents and specimen page provided; integral order form addressed to the distributor, Myers & Co., London.

Physical Description

1 box

36387. A portfolio of Book Club printers 1912-1962, 1962. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California

Scope and Contents

4to, single sheet folded twice, uncut; red and black engraving to front cover, featuring David Magee's essay on Lawton Kennedy, printer. "The Book Club of California 50th Anniversary Keepsake, consists of twelve folders, each printed by or about presses associated with the printing history of the Book Club." Bottom right-hand corners worn, otherwise fine.

Physical Description

1 box

37028. Vlaminck: Notre pain quotidien (our daily bread). Presented by Georges Duhamel, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: Vlaminck

Boston, Mass.: Boston Book and Art Shop

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 8vo; illlustrated prospectus for this album of "Vlaminck's selected masterpieces," containing nine colored reproductions by pochoir process. Edition limited to 250 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36730. Check-list of Black Cat Press miniature books, 1961-1964, 1964. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

110 mm. x 71 mm., unpaginated; checklist of books also includes "Future titles" and "In preparation" pieces.

Physical Description

1 box

36729. More tales for bibliophiles, 1965. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 110 mm. x 75 mm.; note of thanks to the "'one hundred and two' advance subscribers to date, who have made it possible to go ahead with the production of the three volume set," to be decorated with drawings by Paul Hazelrigg.

Physical Description

1 box

36743. Focken, Hayno: Books interchanged...translated by Theodore W. Koch, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Focken, Hayno

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for Focken's work providing three specimen pages; small tear to right edge of front page, not affecting text. Text in blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36685. Morris, Henry: Omnibus: Instructions for amateur papermakers with notes and observations on private presses, book printing and some people who are involved in these activities., 1967. 1 box.
General

Author: Morris, Henry

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Oblong 16mo (111 mm. x 152 mm.), unpaginated; prospectus includes a synopsis of each chapter on the subject; "printed on a variety of hand made papers--there is paper from the Dard Hunter mill at Lime Rock, Connecticut, from Australia, and from the Bird & Bull Press...There is also a sample sheet from the last wind-driven paper mill in Holland. The text is set in Emerson types and printed on dampened hand made paper from J. Barcham Green's Hayle Mill. This paper has my water-mark and was specially made for the book. The book is hand sewn on tapes, has hand sewn head and tail bands, and is quarter bound with Niger back by Sangorski & Sutcliff." Edition limited to 500 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36725. The twelve signs: How a person may know under which sign they are born. Glasgow: 1796, 1967. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (82 mm. x 139 mm); prospectus for a reprint taken from The Book of Knowledge, including the original preface. Edition limited to 100 copies. Printed in brown and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36726. Taft, Charles Sabin: Abraham Lincoln's last hours, 1968. 1 box.
General

Author: Taft, Charles Sabin

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (112 mm. x 152 mm.); prospectus for three titles from the press, including the Taft's work, Wilfred Hansford Gallienne's "Let Shakespeare Speak," and a yet-untitled miniature book written and illustrated by Dale Nichols. Printed on blue paper.

Physical Description

1 box

36727. Nichols, Dale: Let there be light, 1968. 1 box.
General

Author: Nichols, Dale

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (92 mm. x 140 mm.); prospectus for Nichols' work on Caravaggio. A limited edition, number of copies not given. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36707. Forgue, Norma: [Postcard advertising book sale], 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Forgue, Norma

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (82 mm. x 139 mm.); postcard announcing a book sale, "A list will be sent on request". Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked 3 Jul. 1969.

Physical Description

1 box

36708. Forgue Norman: [Announcement of a book sale], 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Forgue Norman

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (82 mm. x 139 mm.); postcard-sized announcement of a book sale of Forgue's typographic library. Text printed in red.

Physical Description

1 box

36776. Bembo, Pietro: On Etna, 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Bembo, Pietro

New York: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo; prospectus for the English edition of this work, limited to 125 copies and "bound at the Press with morocco back, the sides covered with Ingres paper, and in a matching slipcase". Place of publication taken from the American distributor, the Chiswick Book Shop, New York, NY.

Physical Description

1 box

36700. Da Boll, Irene Briggs: Recollections of the Lyceum & Chautauqua circuits...presented in calligraphic format by Raymond F. Da Boll, 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Da Boll, Irene Briggs

Freeport, Maine: The Bond Wheelwright Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for a work on Da Boll, a soprano "on the road"; limited and autographed edition of 250 copies. Text in maroon and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36644. Johnson, Ruth & Foster: Stowaway Sam: The tale of a precocious monkey and his life on the bound wave...illustrated by the authors, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Johnson, Ruth & Foster

Meriden, Connecticut: Bayberry Hill Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio; illustrated prospectus for "A new book for children of all ages in a very limited edition" offered exclusively at Jepson's Book Store in Meriden, Connecticut. Integral order form at the bottom of Broadside verso. Reproduction of one of the illustrations loosely inserted. Includes the original illustrated envelope in which this prospect came, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, Wisconsin and postmarked Oct. 23 1970.

Physical Description

1 box

36689. Morris, Henry: Guilford & Green, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Morris, Henry

New York: Bird & Bull Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio; prospectus for a work combining two short manuscripts, Henry Morris's "A Visit to Hayle Hall" and Nathan Guilford's "Dear Friend at Home". "[P]rinted one Bird & Bull and Green's dampened hand made paper." Edition limited to 210 copies. Original address for orders (North Hills, Pennsylvania) has been marked out and replaced with the address label of the Chiswick Book Shop, New York, NY. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36771. Terence: Andria: A comedy by Terence. Translated into English by Richard Bernard with 25 illustrations by Albrecht Dürer, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Terence

Verona, Italy: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated specimen page (13); edition limited to 100 copies; order form to the American distributor, the Chiswick Book Shop, New York, NY, loosely inserted. A photocopy of an article from the February 4, 1972 TLS is also inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39452. Publications available for Christmas gifts, 1972. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

12mo, 9 loose leaves in white printed folder as issued; fine. Titles date from 1959 to 1972.

Physical Description

1 box

36645. Johson, Ruth R.: Sam, M.B.E...illustrated by Foster M. Johnson, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: Johson, Ruth R.

Meriden, Connecticut: Bayberry Hill Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to; illustrated prospectus for the fifth book in the series about Sam the precocious monkey, described as "A new amusing book for children" and limited to "just over one hundred numbered copies". Integral order form at the bottom of Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

36694. Bird & Bull number 13, 1972. 1 box.
General

North Hills: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, oblong 8vo (151 mm. x 235 mm.); prospectus for a work on the press, "printed on Hodgkinson's hand made 'Bird & Bull' dampened before printing. There is a 4 page section printed on paper made from Joe Blumenthal's old pillowcases, and another 4 page section printed on most unusual hand made paper from the Bachaus laboratories. The text is set in 18 point Centaur." Edition limited to 140 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39450. A list of Book Club publications available for Chirstmas gifts, 1973. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 12mo; illustrations, printed on blue paper; fine. Titles date from 1959 to 1973. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36764. Aesop: The fables of Aesop printed from the Veronese edition of MCCCCLXXIX in Latin verses and the Italian version by Accio Zucco, with the woodcuts newly engraved and coloured after a copy in the British Museum, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Aesop

Verona: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for this limited edition of 160 copies; photocopy of The Times Literary Supplement, Friday 7 December 1973 review of the piece, titled "A Renaissance book reborn," printed on the inside of bifolium

Physical Description

1 box

36237. Bauer, Ferdinand: The Australian flower paintings of Ferdinand Bauer., 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Bauer, Ferdinand

London: Basilisk Press

Scope and Contents

TLS from Charlene Garry to Waring Jones informing him of the three yearly publications of the Basilisk Press, of which two are "based on previously unpublished material created in the 18th or 19th-centuries and one exact facsimile". The titles included are The Australian flower paintings of Ferdinand Bauer, The red books of Humphry Repton, and a facsimile of The Kelmscott Chaucer. Included are an order form and an addressed envelope to the Basilisk Press. In pristine condition.

Physical Description

1 box

36698. Morris, Henry: The paper maker: A survey of lesser-known hand paper mills in Europe and North America and an account of a unique publication, with a selective index, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Morris, Henry

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for a work originally intended to be an index to the Hercules, Inc. publication of The Paper Maker (1932-1970); "printed on dampened paper made by hand at the Press and specially watermarked...Set in Centaur and Goudy No. 38 types...quarter-bound by Fritz and Trudi Eberhardt in goatskin with paste-paper sides." Edition limited to 175. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36744. Voltaire, Francois Arouet de: Epigrams, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Voltaire, Francois Arouet de

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 12mo (122 mm. x 177 mm.); prospectus providing specimen page in its actual size (p. 20); edition limited to no more than 199 copies. Text in purple and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36742. Starrett, Vincent: Oriental encounters: Two essays in bad taste, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Starrett, Vincent

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus provides specimen page (18); edition limited to 249 copies. Text in orange and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36740. Templeton, Richard H.: The quick brown fox: A chap book...with an introduction by R. Hunter Middleton...Original cover design engraved on wood by Philip Reed, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Templeton, Richard H.

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, oblong 16mo; prospectus for the reprint of a work originally published by the Typophiles of New York in 1945. Text in brown and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36766. Barduzzi, Bernardino: A letter in praise of Verona...in the original Latin text with an English translation by Betty Radice, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Barduzzi, Bernardino

Verona: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for an edition limited to 160 copies; "set in Dante type and printed...on Magnani paper...The binding with a vellum spine has boards covered with a specially decorated Fabriano paper". Integral order form addressed to the American distributor, the Chiswick Book SHop, Sandy Hook, Conn. Printed on yellow paper, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36670. Broadsides, 1975. 1 box.
General

Poynette, Wisconsin: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (180 mm.); list of Broadsides and chapbooks from the press printed on grey handmade paper.

Physical Description

1 box

39541. Dickens, Charles: A Christmas carol in prose. Being a ghost story of Christmas...illustrated by Wolfgang Lederer, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Dickens, Charles

Nevada City, California: Harold Berliner.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; color illustration, text printed in red and black; fine. Provides 2 specimen pages from this limited edition of 750 copies.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

36720. Three hundred and sixty-five days, 1976. 1 box.
General

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

120 mm. x 73 mm., unpaginated (two folded sheets, unbound); prospectus also includes other titles from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

36733. Khayyam, Omar: Lucretius on life & death. Translated in the metre of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat by W.H. Mallock. With an introduction by Frank E. Hartman. Decorations in color by Calvin Brazelton, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Khayyam, Omar

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; prospectus for this miniature book, with specimen pages (in actual size) 17-18 reprinted here. "The Eden type, designed by R. Hunter Middleton was first hand-set by Norman W. Forgue, then reduced to its present size and printed on Strathmore Pastelle paper...Attractively bound, in full leather by Bela Blau." Edition limited to 249 copies. Text in blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

39449. A list of Book Club publications available for Christmas gifts, 1976. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; illustration printed in silver and red; unbound; fine. A list of available titles, published between 1959 and 1976, including those from the Illustrated Keepsake Series. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

36669. Feyrer, Gayle: Demon letting: A selection from a novel by Gayle Feyrer with an original serigraph by Cathie Ruggie, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Feyrer, Gayle

St. Paul, Minnesota: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (171 mm.); text printed in pink and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36671. Broadsides, 1976. 1 box.
General

Poynette, Wisconsin: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (182 mm.); postcard listing the Broadsides and chapbooks from the press; addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of La Crosse, WI and postmarked Aug 8 1976.

Physical Description

1 box

36655. Drake, Albert: Roadsalt: A chapbook of poems, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Drake, Albert

Poynette, Wisconsin: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet, folded into eight-sided brochure, 12mo; prospectus for "A limited edition of one hundred and fifty press-numbered copies designed and hand printed by Gerald Lange...Printed with handset Weiss and Broadway types on twelve leaves of imported Frankfurt Creme paper. Our own Bieler handmade was used for the covers and wrappers. An illustration sequence by artist Cathie Ruggie accompanies the poetry." Also makes mention of Gerald Lange's "Starless & Bible Black" and the forthcoming "Demon Legging: a selection from an unpublished novel by Gayle Feyrer".

Physical Description

1 box

36693. Morris, Henry: Pepper pot, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Morris, Henry

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; prospectus for this miscellany; "printed on dampened handmade paper...and is quarter bound by E.G. Parrot in Oasis leather with paste paper sides. 250 copies are for sale."

Physical Description

1 box

36816. Pettis, Charles R.: Cosmic geometry: Tantric transformations. By Charles R. Pettis, III & Rosina Pettis, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Pettis, Charles R.

Ithaca, New York: Bliss Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (240 mm.); prospectus for the de luxe limited edition of 130 copies, "produced entirely by hand"; stapled to leaf with "Unsolicited comments" and order form; previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36731. McCuen, Harold E.: Entrances and exits. Recollection of Ohio theater, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: McCuen, Harold E.

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated (2 folded sheets unbound); text of prospectus by Madeline Forgue; "Strathmore Ivory Smooth Pastelle paper is used as the best medium for reproduction of the many full page photographs. Reproduction of an early stage showing the various advertisements that were popular at the time has been printed in photo brown on a gray-green antique stock and serves as the end-paper. Bound by Bela Blau in lovely soft green Pyroxylin leather over boards." Edition limited to 249 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36712. Davis, Frank Marshall: Awakening and other poems, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Davis, Frank Marshall

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; illustrated prospectus of a collection of poems "buried in the Press files for more than thirty years".

Physical Description

1 box

36739. Petty, G. Harvey: Alphabet sentences, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Petty, G. Harvey

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus for this work on the history and development of the alphabet, "Printed on Strathmore Pastelle antique paper." Edition limited to 249 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36822. Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Defoe, Daniel

London: Basilisk Press

Scope and Contents

TLS from Charlene Garry of the Press to H.J. Kittleson (Minneapolis, MN) announcing the publication of the press's edition of Defoe's classic tale; edition limited to 500 copies; includes original envelope in which this prospectus came, postmarked 3 Oct 1979; also includes order form for titles available from the press, a postcard announcing the press' second catalogue, and a pre-addressed envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

36696. Wolfe, Richard J.: Jacob Bigelow's American medical botany 1817-1821. An examination of the origin, printing, binding and distribution of America's first color plate book. With special emphasis on the manner of making and printing its colored plates, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Wolfe, Richard J.

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long folio (402 mm.); prospectus for a work printed by the press in conjunction with the Boston Medical Library. "Quarter-bound by E.G. Parrot in Oasis leather with floral patterened sides." Edition limited to 300 copies. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36697. Barrett, Timothy: Nagashizuki: The Japanese craft of hand papermaking, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Barrett, Timothy

North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Ten-sided brochure printed on two leaves pasted together, 12mo; "composed in 16-point Van Dijck types and printed on hand-made Bird & Bull "Nagashizuki" paper. Quarter-bound by E.G. Parrot in Oasis leather and tips, with decorated Japanese paper sides. 300 copies for sale."

Physical Description

1 box

36714. Davidson, Gustav: 19th century American juvenile authors: Little-known pseudonyms, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Davidson, Gustav

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated (two folded sheets, unbound); prospectus for Davidson's study, as well as a list of books "on the horizon" from the press. Printed on pale pink sheets.

Physical Description

1 box

36721. Morley, Christopher: No Crabb--No Christmas, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Morley, Christopher

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (89 mm. x 140 mm.); postcard prospectus for this Christmas tale. "Edition limited to 249 copies, printed in red, green and lback on Strathmore Pastelle paper. Bound by Bela Blau in Pajco red with morocco grain." Printed in red and black, postcard addressed to Emerson G. Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

36732. Zara, Louis: Author's proof, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Zara, Louis

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (89 mm. x 140 mm.); postcard prospectus of an edition limited to 249 copies. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

36718. Harris, Carla: The man in the smock from the memoirs of an ex-girl Friday, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Harris, Carla

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus for a work on Harris' relationship with Norman Forgue. "Decorations by Aimo W. Hill, Jr. printed in two colors." Edition limited to 249 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36777. Mardersteig, Giovanni: The officina Bodoni: An account of the work of a hand press 1923-1977. Edited and translated by Hans Schmoller, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Mardersteig, Giovanni

Verona: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus providing the work's table of contents and a specimen page; "Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed in Verona, Italy at the Stamperia Valdonega, on paper specially made by Cartiera di Sarego, Vicenza." American edition distributed by Oak Knoll Books, New Castle, DE. The work on the Bodoni press is published by Edizioni Valdonega. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39453. Franklin, Colin: Fond of printing. Gordon Craig as typographer & illustrator...Foreword by Edward Craig with an essay by Gordon Craig, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Franklin, Colin

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustration; printed in brown and black; fine. Prospectus for a title published in conjunction with the Typophiles of New York.

Physical Description

1 box

36674. Three new titles, 1980. 1 box.
General

Madison, WI: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, long 4to (253 mm.); prospectus for the following works from the press: "Common ground," a collaboration between poet Gerald Williams and artist Ben-Zion Shechter; "Billy the Kid," a prose poem by Shuntaro Tanikawa; and "First Z Poems," by Dannis Saleh.

Physical Description

1 box

36672. Buckley, Christopher: Pentimento, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Buckley, Christopher

Madison, WI: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long 4to (265 mm.); prospectus for a chapbook of Buckley's poems, illustrated by Gerald Lange. Also includes a short list of other titles available from the press. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36673. Gilgun, John: Everything that has been shall be again: The reincarnation fables of John Gilgun, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Gilgun, John

St Paul, MN: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long 4to (300 mm.); illustrated prospectus for a chapbook of Gilgun's bestiary, illustrated with a wood engraving by Michael McCurdy of the Penmaen Press. "Hand set in Bembo and Poliphilus type are used for the text and display. The engravings are printed in dark brown, the type in black, on Tovil paper from Barcham Green. The book is hand bound in cloth by Scott Husby. Brown Roma paper from the Fabriano mill is used for the endsheets and slipcase." Edition limited to 150 numbered copies signed by the author and the artist and initaled by the printer. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36690. Bliss, Carey S.: A pair on printing: Atkyns' The original and growth of printing. William Caslon and the first English type specimen book. Reproduced in facsimile..., 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Bliss, Carey S.

New Castle, DE: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this facsimile; place of publication from the distributor, Oak Knoll Books. "Introductory texts composed in Van Dijck types and printed on Frankfurt paper. The facsimiles are printed on Mohawk Text, and the book was bound by Gray Parrot in Dutch natural linen with printed spine label." Edition limited to 500 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39473. Alvarado, Juan Bautista: Vignettes of early California: childhood reminiscences...A heretofore unpublished account of Spanish & Mexican California, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Alvarado, Juan Bautista

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; decorative border printed in black and grey; fine. Prospectus of the first publication of this 19th-century manuscript, designed and printed by Patrick Reagh in an edition limited to 650 copies and bound by Kater-Crafts Bookbinders. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36657. Cadnum, Michael: The morning of the massacre, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Cadnum, Michael

Saint Paul, MN: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (198 mm.); illustrated Broadside for the author's first published collection of poetry. Title page illustration by Kathy Shallock. "The chapbook was printed with hand-set Bembo type accompanied by fine fule in a second color. The physical book consists of a double signature of white Arches Text Wove mouldmade paper hand bound into soft covers by Richard de Bas Chamois Chine Blanc handmade paper...Available in an author signed edition of 150 numbered copies."

Physical Description

1 box

37802. Butterworth, Elizabeth: Amazon parrots, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Butterworth, Elizabeth

London: Basilisk Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; prospectus for this pictorial monograph on parrot with 28 plates of paintings by Butterworth; text by Rosemary Low. Limited to 500 copies, printed by CTD Printers and handbound by Smith and Settle. Specimen plate laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36724. Guthrie, James: The miniature world of Norman Forgue...with an introduction by Ward K. Schori, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Guthrie, James

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated (3 folded sheets unbound); prospectus for a limited edition of 249 copies. Handwritten note, "Hope all is well in your world, Norman," loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36723. Snyder, Dee: The ABCs of Baker Street: Guide to the Holmsian habitat...introduction by John Bennett, Shaw, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Snyder, Dee

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated (two folded sheets, unbound); prospectus for this study of Sherlock Holmesiana, limited to 249 copies and "Bound in Pyroxlin leather".

Physical Description

1 box

36256. [Maitland, Terrence]: The contagion of war., 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: [Maitland, Terrence]

Boston: Boston Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to, prospectus of the companion piece to American takes over. With black and white photographic illustrations of scenes from the Vietnam War. Includes quotes from American veterans.

Physical Description

1 box

36908. Franklin, Colin: Doves Press: The start of a worry. Edited with an introduction by Colin Franklin. Foreward by Michael Hornby, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Franklin, Colin

Austin, Texas: Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (298 mm.); prospectus for this history of the Doves Press, limited to 275 copies and printed at the Bird & Bull Press "in Centaur types on Bugra Bütten paper, bound in cloth-backed Fabriano paper over boards". Text in maroon and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36678. Buckley, Christopher: Five small meditations on summer & birds, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Buckley, Christopher

St. Paul, MN: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (112 mm. x 152 mm.); postcard prospectus for a chapbook of Buckley's poems, "handset in Lutetia & Egmont Decorated Initials (watercolored) and printed on Lana Laid, a French mouldmade paper. The sheets were sewn into soft covers of Richard de Bas Papier A Inclusions Florales (a white handmade sheet formed with real flowers!). The edition consists of 200 numbered copies." Postcard addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, WI and postmarked September, 1984.

Physical Description

1 box

36815. Catalogue 4, 1985. 1 box.
General

London: Basilisk Press & Bookshop

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (105 mm. x 148 mm.); illustrated postcard prospectus for the press' fourth catalogue, advertised as listing more than 600 in-print titles. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press and postmarked May 3 1985.

Physical Description

1 box

36656. Hart, Joanne: The village schoolmaster, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Hart, Joanne

Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a work "designed by Emily Mason and Gerald Lange. Carol Ann Smith, a Saint Paul artist, provided the title page illustration. The chapbook was hand printed with Poliphilus and Blado types on Ragston paper. The end-sheets are on Japanese origin and the covers are an English handmade from the mill of Barcham Green. The edition is limited to 200 numbered and author signed copies."

Physical Description

1 box

36675. Van Winckel, Nance: The 24 doors, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Van Winckel, Nance

Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (152 mm.); postcard prospectus for advent calendar poems; "designed by Gerald Lange & produced with the assistance of Emily Mason. The edition was printed with Chic & Italian Olde Style on a special making of Mohawk Letterpress Text. The cover illustration, printed on Magnani Incisioni mouldmade paper, is an original etching by R. Fredrik Nelson. The endsheets are Moriki, a Japanese handmade paper." Text of prospectus in shape of Christmas tree, topped with red Santa Clause wood engraving.

Physical Description

1 box

36676. Turco, Lewis: The compleat melancholick: Being a sequence of "Found, composite, and composed" poems, based largely upon Robert Burton's "The Anatomy of melancholy", 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Turco, Lewis

Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (217 mm.); illustrated prospectus for Turco's collection of poetry, "handset by Emily Mason in Monotype Plantin and printed by Gerald Lange on Mohawk Letterpress Text, an acid-free paper. A hand-colored woodcut from the Augsburg Calendar introduces the poetry. Limited edition consists of 150 numbered & author signed copies hand bound in paste paper boards and quarter cloth at The Campbell-Logan Bindery."

Physical Description

1 box

36658. Young, Gary: In the durable world, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Young, Gary

Minneapolis, MN: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long 8vo (240 mm.); illustrated prospectus for a work "designed by Emily Mason & Gerald Lange. The chapbook was printed with handset Centaur and Nicolas Jensen types on Frankfurt Cream, a mould-made paper. The book is soft bound into covers of handmade Duchene paper. The illustration is a 17th century woodcut taken from Des Rues' popular French guide-book for travelers. The edition is limited to 175 numbered copies signed by the author."

Physical Description

1 box

39471. Gill, Eric: The engraved bookplates...A collection of reproductions of all fifty-three bookplates in their actual size engraved by Eric Gill from 1908 to 1940, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Gill, Eric

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations, text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for this collection of Gill's lesser known commissions, introduced by Michael Renton, afterword by Albert Sperisen, and designed by Christopher Skelton at the September Press. Published in an edition limited to 600 copies supported by the Dorothy and David Magee fund.

Physical Description

1 box

37011. Shakespeare, William: Shall I die? Shall I fly?, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

Boston: Bromer Booksellers

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus of this miniature book, the first edition of a recently discovered Shakespeare poem; "Designed and printed by John Kristensen at Firefly Press in Boston using Centaur and Arrighi types, the edition will comprise 125 regular and 35 deluxe copies, all printed on vintage Saunders paper. Suzanne Moore will flourish the title page of the regular copies with original calligraphy and additionally illuminate in colors and gold the initial letters of each stanza in the deluxe edition. The binding for both editions will be designed by Donald Glaister and executed by Barbara Blumenthal."

Physical Description

1 box

36667. Goldbarth, Albert: Albert's horoscope almanac, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Goldbarth, Albert

Minneapolis, MN: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (226 mm.); prospectus for Goldbarth's "horoscopic poems". "The chapbook was hand printed in two colors on TH Saunders Blue Laid, an English mould-made paper, and bound into soft covers of Larroque Blue, a French handmade. The edition consists of 200 numbered and author signed copies." Text printed in blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36668. Mitsui, James Masao: After the long train, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Mitsui, James Masao

Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8v0 (202 mm.); prospectus for a poetry collection inspired by the author's Japanese-American family's internment during World War II; "printed in three colors with handset Californian type on Basingwerk Parchment, an English paper. The chapbook is bound into soft covers of Duchene, a French handmade paper. A wood engraving by Fred Brian is featured on the title page. The edition is limited to 150 numbered copies signed by the author & the illustrator."

Physical Description

1 box

39479. Book Club publications available for Christmas gifts, 1988. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original white wrappers, decorative border printed in orange; mostly fine. Titles date from 1963 to 1988 and include "Edward Vischer's Drawings of the California Missions, 1861-1878" (Arion Press, 1982); and "Redwood and Lumbering in California Forests" (Yolla Belly Press, 1983). Order form printed on back wrapper verso.

Physical Description

1 box

39458. Original paintings illustrating Texas argonauts offered for sale by auction, 1988. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; chiefly black and white illustrations; original printed wrappers, fine. Catalogue for the Club's first auction, of a collection of Charles Shaw's paintings.

Physical Description

1 box

36817. The Book Club of Texas, 1989. 1 box.
General

Austin: Book Club of Texas

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; announcement of the re-establishment of the Club; includes prospectuses for the first three books, John Graves' "Goodbye to a River," Gertrude Beasley's "My First Thirty Years," and W. Thomas Taylor's "Glorious News! An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth-Century Texas Broadsides". Membership application with pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36699. Morris, Henry: The private press-man's tale. Compiled and edited by Henry Morris with illustrations by Lili Wronker, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Morris, Henry

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (260 mm.); prospectus for a collection of satirical poetry and prose dealing with the Private Press and inspired by Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"; edition limited to 250 copies. Text printed in red.

Physical Description

1 box

36823. Sand, George: The wings of courage. A fantasy, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Sand, George

Sag Harbor, New York: Bookman Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo; prospectus for a work "unavailable in English for more than half a century"; "Printed by letterpress from Monotype Caslon type on Mohawk Superfine paper at the Stinehour Press of Vermon...designed by Jerry Kelly"; edition limited to 300 copies and distributed by John Waite Rare Books, Ascutney, Vermont.

Physical Description

1 box

36787. Freeman, Arthur: Anatomy of an auction: Rare books at Ruxley Lodge, 1919. [By] Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Freeman, Arthur

London: The Book Collector

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (220 mm.); prospectus for Volume I of the Book Collector: Occasional Series; order form on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

36786. Freeman, Arthur: Anatomy of an auction: Rare books at Ruxley Lodge, 1919. [By] Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Freeman, Arthur

London: The Book Collector

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (220 mm.); prospectus for Volume I of the Book Collector: Occasional Series; order form on Broadside verso; text in brown and black.

Physical Description

1 box

37013. Bookways, 1991. 1 box.
General

Austin, Texas: Bookways

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (288 mm.); prospectus for this quarterly journal "devoted to fine books and bookmaking, published by W. Thomas Taylor"; integral envelope addressed to Robert Rulon-MillerJr. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37628. Constant, Samuel Victor: Calls, sounds & merchandise of the Peking street peddlers...with twenty-five wood engravings by Rosemary Covey, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Constant, Samuel Victor

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for a new edition of Constant's work, originally published ca. 1936.

Physical Description

1 box

37839. Parker, John and Carol A. Johnson: Sir Walter Raleigh's speech from the scaffold: a translation of the 1619 Dutch edition, and comparison with English texts, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Parker, John and Carol A. Johnson

Minneapolis: James Ford Bell Library

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (280 mm.); prospectus provides reduced specimen title page; integral order form. Previous folds.

Filed under Jam.

Physical Description

1 box

37841. Bukowski, Charles and Ken Price: Heat Wave, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Bukowski, Charles and Ken Price

Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Graphic Arts

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 4to; illustrated prospectus for this collaboration between author and artist; designed by Barbara Martin, printed by T.J. Owens. Two edition, the regular limited to 170 signed copies, the deluxe limited to 26 signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39320. Freeman, Janet Ing: The postmaster of Ipswich. William Stevenson Fitch, antiquary and thief, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Freeman, Janet Ing

London: Book Collector.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (215 mm.); corners a bit creased, else fine. Prospectus for Volume 2 of the Book Collector's "Occasional Series". Order form printed on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

36901. New sample book from the Banner Card Company, 1900. 1 box.
General

Cadiz, Ohio: Banner Card Company

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 14-sided brochure, 16mo; thirteen of the panels illustrated with card design, five of which have had the actual product (all illustrated in color) pasted to the sample book. Small losses to the edges, not affecting text. A very rare specimen book. Not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

36370. Montgomery, Edw. E.: Practical gynecology., 1900. 1 box.
General

Author: Montgomery, Edw. E.

Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo (125 mm.); prospectus for "The newest books on medicine and allied sciences"; works include "Anesthesia with Cocain," "Cancer of the Stomach," "Surgical Anatomy," "Commercial Organic Analysis," "Diseases of the Stomach," "Compend of Physiology," "Manual of Pathology," "Quantitative Analysis," "The Urine, the Gastric Contents, the Common Poisons, and Milk," "The Mental Affections of Children," "Medical Electricity," "The Student's Medical Dictionary," "The Practice of Medicine," "Diseases of the Eye and their Treatment," "Diseases of the Throat, Nose, and Ear," "Microtomist's Vade Mecum," "The Theory and Practice of Hygiene," "Text-Book of Histology, including Microscopal Technic," "Volumetric Analysis," The Medical Examination for Life Insurance," "Appendicitis," "Surgery: Its Theory and Practice," "Essentials of Medical and Clinical Chemistry," "Kirke's Physiology, sixteenth edition," "and Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine and Surgery". Discoloration, tear to top of spine not affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

42201. De Laurence, Lauren William: The genesis of the Hindu adepts, yoghees and master lamas of central and northern India., 1905. 1 box.
General

Author: De Laurence, Lauren William

Masonic Temple, Chicago: Benares Publishing Company.

Scope and Contents

Oblong 8vo, pp. 32; full-page portrait of the author within an classical Egyptian border; fine in original pictorial wrappers. A promotional give-away from the Benares India Publishing Company touting the works of Dr. L. W. de Laurence, prolific author of books on magic, hypnosis, Hinduism, and Christian syncretism. With ads inside the back cover for five of his works, and inside the front cover for his latest work, Death. Soul Transition. Hindu Spiritualism and Reincarnation, bound in "'Dead Black' Seal Leather."

Physical Description

1 box

36761. The Bodoni editions, 1928. 1 box.
General

New York: Bodoni

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 16; Catalogue II from the Pegasus Press; published by Harcourt, Brace and Company. Grey printed wrappers.

Physical Description

1 box

36811. Davenport, John: Curiosities of erotic physiology, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Davenport, John

New York: Biblion Balzac

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for "A Risque Collection of Erotica by one of the Greatest Eroticists, containing an Inexhaustible Number of Curious Episodes, Anecdotes and Tales"; privately printed at the Robin Hood House and limited to 1000 copies; integral order form on back page. Printed on blue paper, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36750. Purrings from the Black Cat Press, 1938. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated catalogue of titles from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

36789. Mann, Thomas: Joseph in Egypt, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Mann, Thomas

New York: Book of the Month Club

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this boxed two-volume edition with illustrations by Lewis Daniel; also includes information on the Club.

Physical Description

1 box

36788. Morley, Christopher: Bartlett's familiar quotations. Edited by Christopher Morley & Luella D. Everett, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Morley, Christopher

New York: Book of the Month Club

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for the Club's special thin paper edition; includes considerable information on the Club.

Physical Description

1 box

36813. Bechtel, Edwin DeT.: Jacques Callot, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Bechtel, Edwin DeT.

Edwin DeT. Bechtel

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this monograph on the Renaissance artist and engraver, including social history, political history, costume, dance, and theater to which Callot contributed.

Physical Description

1 box

36746. You may not believe it...but..., 1965. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); announcing the discovery of a "long forgotten cache of boks--not miniatures". Also includes albums available from the press' former recording studio.

Physical Description

1 box

36738. Bender, Karen Ann: April stories...Drawings by Elizabeth W. Houghtlin. Introduction by Norman W. Forgue, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Bender, Karen Ann

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus for a work written and illustrated by two eight-year old girls. "Printed from highly readable Fairfield type on a rag-content, soft white paper in two colors."

Physical Description

1 box

36719. Petty, G. Harvey: Daffynitions...observed and calligraphed, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Petty, G. Harvey

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; prospectus for Petty's book of humor and calligraphy, "Beautifully produced with several pages in two colors on Pastelle antique paper". Edition limited to 249 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36734. Purrings from the Black Cat Press, 1978. 1 box.
General

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 16mo; short piece by Norman W. Forgue on the upcoming titles from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

36736. Petty, G. Harvey: Sages of the ages: Wise words by discerning writers of thirty centuries collected, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Petty, G. Harvey

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus for this collection, edition limited to 249 copies. Text in green and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36715. Brent, Stuart: Collecting modern literature, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Brent, Stuart

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

88 mm. x 72 mm., unpaginated; miniature pamphlet by the book collector and bookstore owner.

Physical Description

1 box

36716. Pollock, Norman: The beginnings of photography from camera obscura to dryplate. By the men who made it all possible, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Pollock, Norman

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus for Pollock's history of early photography.

Physical Description

1 box

36737. Hill, Aimo W.: The United States Naval Academy: A brief history, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Hill, Aimo W.

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus Hill's work on the Academy; "Text is composed in Linotype FAirfield, with chapter designations set in Ludlow Eden Bold...Printed on a very light blue Strathmore Pastelle Paper." Edition limited to 249 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36784. The Book Collector, 1980. 1 box.
General

London: The Book Collector

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a subscription to this bibliophile's quarterly; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36735. Purrings, 1986. 1 box.
General

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; catalogue of titles from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

37836. The Book collector introductory subscription offer, 1990. 1 box.
General

London: Book Collector

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; subscription offer for the "only journal for book collectors, librarians and booksellers where all three meet on equal terms"; integral order form printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

36783. The Book Collector, 1990. 1 box.
General

London: The Book Collector

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for a subscription to this "generously illustrated, well-printed...and attractively designed" quarterly. Integral order form; advertisement rates given on loosely inserted leaf.

Physical Description

1 box

39461. Baker, Hozial H.: Overland journey to Carson Valley and California, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Baker, Hozial H.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for a reprint of a work originaly published in Seneca Falls, New York, 1861. This new edition introduced by Ferol Egan and printed by the Cranium Press. Specimen page provided.

Physical Description

1 box

42472. Shaw, David J., editor-in-chief: The Cathedral Libraries catalogue. Volume two: books printed on the continent of Europe before 1701 in the libraries of the Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Shaw, David J., editor-in-chief

London: British Library.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; fine. Pre-publication offer to members of the Bibliographical Society. Sample page and integral order form provided.

Physical Description

1 box

The Books Club of California invites members and their guests and members and guests of the Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs to attend a special reception and dinner, 1982. 1 box.
General

Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

An invitation to attend the club's first Southern California meeting. Self-addressed R.S.V.P. envelope inside.

Physical Description

1 box

The Book Club of California Its (sic) Aims and Activities. San Francisco, 1950, 1950. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Physical Description

1 box

39286. Teiser, Ruth and Catherine Harroun, eds.: Printing as a performing act, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Teiser, Ruth and Catherine Harroun, eds.

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration printed in gilt; text printed in red and black; a bit soiled, else fine. Prospectus for a collection of interviews with printers conducted by the Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library. Edition limited to 450 copies, designed and printed by Arlan Philpott.

Physical Description

1 box

39383. Dreyfus, John: William Caxton and his quincentenary, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Dreyfus, John

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 12mo; text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for Typophile Chap Book 51, the text taken from an address delivered in November, 1975, at the Grolier Club. Edition limited to 1100 copies for Typophiles and Book Club members.

Physical Description

1 box

39381. Norris, Frank: Collected letters. Compiled and annotated by Jesse S. Crisler...with a preface by James D. Hart, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Norris, Frank

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; title page printed in red and black; mostly fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 500 copies, printed in Berkeley by Wm. Henry Powers and Wesley B. Tanner. Provides 2 specimen pages.

Physical Description

1 box

39382. Jeffers, Una: A book of Gaelic airs for Una's melodeon, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Jeffers, Una

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 4to; facsimile sheet music, illustrations; green line borders; fine. Prospectus edition of Jeffers's musical notebook printed in a limited edition of 500 copies by the Premier Printing Corporation from Ward Ritchie's design.

Physical Description

1 box

39359. Harte, Bret: San Francisco in 1866...Being letters to the Springfield Republican. Edited by George R. Stewart and Edwin S. Fussell, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Harte, Bret

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; pictorial vignette, text printed in blue and black; a bit soiled, previous fold. Prospectus for this edition limited to 400 copies, designed and printed by the Grabhorn Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39539. Dickens, Charles: A full and faithful report of the memorable trial of Bardell against Pickwick. Extracted from The Pickwick Papers...with a prologue and epilogue by John F. Banker, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Dickens, Charles

Nevada City, California: Harold Berliner.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; color illustrations; original white printed wrappers, fine. Specimen pages from this edition limited to 750 copies. Order form laid in.

Filed under B.

Physical Description

1 box

39194. Romtvedt, David: Moon. Poems, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Romtvedt, David

Saint Paul, MN: Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (222 mm.); fine. Prospectus for the author's first book-length poetry collection.

Physical Description

1 box

39380. Mathes, W. Michael: Mexico on stone. Lithography in Mexico, 1826-1900, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Mathes, W. Michael

San Francisco: Book Club of California

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; specimen plate; text printed in green and black; fine. Prospectus for a work designed by Jonathan Clark and printed by him at the Artichoke Press, Mountain View, California. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36666. The 1985 catalog of The Bieler Press, 1985. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Bieler Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; catalog of upcoming titles from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

36745. Petty, G. Harvey: Alphabetum zanium, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Petty, G. Harvey

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure; text in orange and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36710. Children's prayers to God, 1979. 1 box.
General

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, (81 mm. x 60 mm.); special keepsake for the friends of the press. Text in blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

39198. Schmoller, Hans, Tanya Schmoller, Henry Morris: Chinese decorated papers. Chinoiserie for three, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Schmoller, Hans, Tanya Schmoller, Henry Morris

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); text printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a title devoted to a collection of Chinese decorated paper purchased by the Schmollers from a friend in Surrey, England, in 1985. Finished piece to be quarter-bound in morocco by Barbara Blumenthal.

Physical Description

1 box

38156. Shakespeare, William: Shakespeare quarto facsimiles executed under the superintendence of F.J. Furnivall...by W. Griggs and Mr. Charles Praetorius..., 1900. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

London: B. Quaritch

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; toning and spotting along edges, mostly fine. Prospectus for a series of photo-lithographic facsimile editions of the Shakespeare quartos, including titles already published, in progress, in preparation. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36747. Holiday list, 1939. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out insert

General

Chicago, Illinois: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; catalogue of titles availabe from the press' "Normandie House" imprint. Broadside prospectus for "A History of the Chicago Ladies' Garment Workers' Union" loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39538. The Brown House announces a subscription series of three limited editions illustrated by Alexander King, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Brown House Press.

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; color illustrations throughout; original white pictorial wrappers (some soiling, stain on back), previous fold. Provides sperimen pages and plates from all three titles, Flaubert's "Salammbô," Henry Fielding's "Tom Jones," and Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov". Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39537. The Brown House' bulletin number one, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Brown House Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (319 mm.); previous fold, some wear from handling. The first (and only?) bulletin from the Press, featuring an article on the making of the limited edition of Flaubert's "Salammbô". This periodical not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

36583. The Cuala Press, September 1911, 1911. 1 box.
General

Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; small catalog, bound with red string, advertising the works availabe and out of print from the press. Includes prospectus for a piece in preparation, "Selections from the writings of Lord Dunsany".

Physical Description

1 box

36373. Wordsworth, William: A decade of years. Poems., 1911. 1 box.
General

Author: Wordsworth, William

London: The Doves Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for the publications of November, 1911 from the Doves Press. Includes, along with the Wordsworth, "Catalgoue raisonné of Books Printed and Published at The Doves Press from its foundation in 1900 to June 1911"; back leaf provides binding information (paper, vellum, or bound). Text in red and black; discoloration, edges and corners worn.

Physical Description

1 box

36584. The Cuala Press, January 1913, 1913. 1 box.
General

Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; catalog, bound in blue string, advertising works available and out of print from the press. Includes a piece in preparation, "New poems by William Butler Yeats". Pages uncut.

Physical Description

1 box

36452. Editions E. Droz, 13 Avenue Felix-Faure, Paris, XVe. 1925-1926, 1925. 1 box.
General

Paris: Editions E. Droz

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 16; illustrated serial publication from the publishing house comprised of prospectuses for upcoming publications. Included here: "Documents Artistiques du Quinzieme Siecle"; A. Piaget and E.Droz's "Pierre de Nesson et ses Oeuvres"; "Documents Scientifiques du Quinzieme Siecle"; A.C. Klebs and E. Droz's "Remedes contre la Peste"; C. Dalbanne and E. Droz's "Documents Typographiques du Quinzieme Siecle"; and H. Expert's "Bibliographie Musicale de la France". Pages uncut.

Physical Description

1 box

36398. Fowler, H.W.: A dictionary of modern English usage, 1926. 1 box.
General

Author: Fowler, H.W.

Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; specimen pages (pp. 358, 416, 457-458); advertisement for Oxford Reference Books, including the Concise Oxford Dictionary, the Pocket Oxford Dictionary, the Concise Etymological Dictionary, and The King's English. Back page features The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English.

Physical Description

1 box

36510. The Cresset Press limited. 11 Fitzroy Square, W.1. Autumn 1927, 1927. 1 box.
General

London: The Cresset Press

Scope and Contents

12mo; pp. 11; illustrated catalogue of upcoming titles from the press, including "Bacon: The essayes or counsels civill and morall of Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, together with the coulers of good and evill"; "The Iliad of Homer, rendered into English by Maurice Hewlett" (small leaf reading "We are able to announce that, since this Catalogue was sent to press, Professor Lascelles Abercrombie has kindly consented to write an Introduction to Maurice Hewlett's Iliad" tipped in); "The Cresset Reprints of Early Books of Country Life"; "The Pleasures of Princes, or Good men's recreations by Gervase Markham, together with The experience angler by Colonel Robert Venables with a preface by Horace Hutchinson"; "The New Orchard and Garden & Country Housewife's Garden by Wililam Lawson with a preface by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde"; "The Chelsea Song-Book"; and "The History of the Yellow Book by Arthur Symons". Yellow printed wrappers (very lightly soiled), stamps in black ("Duplicate") and red ("R.J.G. Oct. 13 1927).

Physical Description

1 box

36577. McCord, David: Oxford nearly visited: A fantasy, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: McCord, David

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cygnet Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for the press's third publication, printed at the Clarendon Press, "which has made of it a characteristically Oxford quarto booklet in the Fell type. There are two eighteenth century Oxford engravings, and initial letters, one of which, an M, showing the Magdalen tower, was designed for this publication." Also gives the two previous publications, "Vlta de Sancto Hieronymo" and "Dwiggins: A characterization" by Paul M. Hollister.

Physical Description

1 box

37046. Melville, Herman: The piazza tales...with drawings by Benj Greenstein, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Melville, Herman

New York: Elf Publishers

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 4; prospectus for this limited edition of 750 copies "printed in the new Granjon type on Charcoal paper, wioth side covers and end-papers of Strathmore Grandee Alphonso purple". One of Greenstein's plates bound in along with two sample pages and the table of contents. "Composition, presswork and binding by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass."

Physical Description

1 box

36505. Modern publicity, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Continental Typefounders Association

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; prospectus for Modern Publicity and the Commercial Art Annual (formerly known as "Posters and Publicity". Contents, subdivided by geography, are provided, as well as an order form on last flap. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36552. Chrysler, Walter P.: Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. announces twelve books to be published by Cheshire House Inc. 1931-1932, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Chrysler, Walter P.

New York: Cheshire House

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; prospectus for the upcoming publications of the press, located in the Chrysler Building. "The paper has been specially made for these editions and was imported through the Japan Paper Company. The books will be bound by the Russell-Rutter Company." Books designed by Richard W. Ellis. Subscription order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36399. Little, William: The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical examples. Prepared by...H.W. Fowler, J. Coulson. Revised and edited by C.T. Onions, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: Little, William

Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; prospectus for dictionary to be published January 1933, available in blue buckram and dark-blue half-morrocco. Also provides information on the origin, the editors and the special features of the dictionary; specimen pages (pp. 1434, 2470); a brief list of other Oxford reference books, and an order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39248. The dolphin. A review of fine printing, 1932. 1 box.
General

New York: Dolphin.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; green border and vignette; previous fold, mostly fine. An advanced announcement for the Limited Editions Club's annual publication on fine printing. "The Dolphin will be both a record and a survey: The record will consist of a series of articles written by internationally known typographers and bibliographers who will discuss the principles, treat on the technique, contribute to the history of the making of books. The survey will be made up of reviews, gathered from international sources, written by persons who possess discrimination and sound judgment." A list of projected contents (including Frederic W.Goudy's "The Desigining of a New Type," and Paul Koch's "The Making of Type: three articles on punch-cutting, matrices, casting") printed on back. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36499. Colophon announcement 1932, 1932. 1 box.
General

New York: The Colophon

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; printed in celebration of its third anniversary, this brochure includes a retrospectus, advertisement for remaining volumes of the quarterly, a book on the work of T.M. Cleland, and Selma Robinson's "City Child" with decorations by Rockwell Kent. TLS from Elmer Adler to Emerson Wullung, and order form with pre-addressed envelope, and a prospectus for the book on T.M. Cleland all loosely inserted. Printed decorative brown paper wrappers, slightly soiled.

Physical Description

1 box

36395. Murray, James A.H.: The Oxford English Dictionary. Being a corrected re-issue with an introduction, supplement, and bibliography of a new English dictionary on historical principles founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society and edited by James A.H. Murray, Henry Bradley, W.A. Craigie, C.T. Onions., 1933. 1 box.
General

Author: Murray, James A.H.

Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; samples pages (vol. VII, pp. 444 & 1166; Supplement, pp. 8, 156); reviews of the original edition, and information on the contents of the twelve volume (with Supplement) that will make up the re-issue. Text in blue and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36496. Three years & this year: A record of the Colophon adventure & an invitation to partake of its future, 1933. 1 box.
General

New York: The Colophon

Scope and Contents

12mo; pp. 29, illustrated; original pictorial blue wrappers with silver stamping, bound with white string; advertised as a "brochure...dedicated to subscribers as a mark of appreciation for support in this common adventure". Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36498. The Colophon new series, 1935. 1 box.
General

New York: The Colophon

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations throughout; advertising a new series from the Colophon quarterly, in which the editors plan on broadening the content. A letter from the editors, an order form and a pre-addressed envelope all loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36806. Andrews, Irene D.: Owners of books: The dissipations of a collector, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Andrews, Irene D.

Washington: Bruin Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus of the first title printed by the press and limited to 500 copies; integral order form; "What critical readers say of Owners of Books" printed on back page.

Physical Description

1 box

36568. Cobden-Sanderson's spring books 1937, 1937. 1 box.
General

London: Cobden-Sanderson, T. J.

Scope and Contents

16mo, pp. 12; catalogue of upcoming titles from the press; pictorial blue wrappers, previous bookseller's stamp to front.

Physical Description

1 box

36420. Annual of book-making, 1937. 1 box.
General

New York: Colophon

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. [4]; prospectus titled "Not by Bread Alone" and includes an appendix describing The Colophon and a list of contributing organizations. Original blue pictorial wrappers.

Physical Description

1 box

37068. Cartier, Alfred: Bibliographie des éditions de Tournes, imprimeurs lyonnais. Mise en ordre avec une introduction et des appendices par Marius Audin et une notice biographique par E. Vial, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Cartier, Alfred

Paris: Editions des Bibliothèques Nationales de France

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this two-volume bibliography; previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36558. Slade, Bertha Coolidge: Maria Edgeworth: 1767-1849. A bibliographical tribute, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Slade, Bertha Coolidge

London: Richard Clay and Sons

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; prospectus provides a short biography of Maria Edgeworth, a list of the plates (p. xi in the work proper), specimen pages (51-53), and a list of publications from Constable and Company, for whom this bibliography was printed.

Physical Description

1 box

36591. Colt Press first anniversary 1939, 1939. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Colt Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrated catalog of titles, both in and out of print, from the press's first year. Yellow printed wrappers.

Physical Description

1 box

36594. Stewart, George R.: Take your Bible in one hand. The life of William Henry Thomes, author of a whaleman's adventures on land and sea, Lewey and I, the Bushrangers, a gold hunter's adventures, etc., 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Stewart, George R.

San Francisco: The Colt Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for an edition of 750 copies. Order form loosely inserted, integral address and postage to the Henry E. Huntington Library & Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif. Previous folds, text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36589. Hall, Carroll Douglas: The Terry-Broderick Duel, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Hall, Carroll Douglas

San Francisco, California: The Colt Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for an account of "the last duel of any consequence in the West". "Designed by Jane Grabhorn and printed on all-rag paper, it will have seven wood-engravings by Mallette Dean, will be limited to 750 copies..." Previous folds, integral address and postage to Edwin F. May of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

Physical Description

1 box

36588. Christmas 1939 from the Colt Press San Francisco, 1939. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: The Colt Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 12mo; prospectus for three upcoming titles from the press, "The Epicure in China"; "Kamehameha"; and "Take Your Bible in One Hand" by George Stewart. Intergral address and postage to Emerson G. Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

36449. Hornby, C.H. St. J.: The Ashendene Press. C.H. St. J. Hornby's foreward to his descriptive bibliography with a note on the press by Will Ransom and a check list of its books, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Hornby, C.H. St. J.

Meriden, Conn.: The Domesday Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; advanced announcement with a sample page (4) of the finished work and details of production. Edition not to exceed 350 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36578. Lincoln, Abraham: The works of Abraham Lincoln. Inclusive edition of his letters, addresses, and state papers. Introduction and notes by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. Illustrated from photographs, portraits, and contemporary prints, 1941. 1 box.
General

Author: Lincoln, Abraham

Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 8; prospectus includes specimens pages 3-5; order form printed on the bottom half of p. 8.

Physical Description

1 box

36555. Jordan, Edward S.: The inside story of Adam and Eve, 1946. 1 box.
General

Author: Jordan, Edward S.

Utica, N.Y.: Howard Coggeshall

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus "To the friends of Adam & Eve: An autographed, numbered Library Edition...and a Standard Edition". Provides history of the book, three reduced specimen pages (7-9), and press reviews. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36465. Don Santiago Kirker: Reprinted from the Santa Fe Republican November 20, 1847, 1948. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop

Scope and Contents

Two stapled leaves, 12mo; prospectus for a piece on Kirker, "one of the most colorful of the early mountain men". Sample page (2) on verso of second leaf. 200 copies printed. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

42469. Rogers, Bruce: The Bruce Rogers world Bible, 1949. 1 box.
General

Author: Rogers, Bruce

New York: Philip C. Duschnes.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed on pale grey paper; fine. Announcement for a new folio Bible designed by Rogers, "comparable to the Oxford Lectern Bible of 1935," "for presentation to churches and schools in memory of those who have lost their lives in the Second World War". Edition to be limited to 975 copies printed by A. Colish. Integral order form printed on back panel; envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39408. A list of the published writings of Percy Simpson, 1950. 1 box.
General

Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, some toning, else fine. Prospectus for a title to be published in celebration of Simpson's 85th birthday. Integral order forms.

Physical Description

1 box

36569. Selected list of titles, 1950. 1 box.
General

London: Collector's Book Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; list of titles from the press, including order form on p. [3]; illustrated Broadside on the club and TLS to Emerson Wulling from Allan Bourne Webb, co-director of the Collector Book Club both loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

42465. The book of Kells, 1950. 1 box.
General

New York: Philip C. Duschnes.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; ornamental illustrations; fine. Invitation to subscribe to a facsimile edition of the illuminated manuscript "published with the authority of the board of Trinity College, Dublin and with the co-operation of the Swiss National Library by Urs Graf-Verlag, Berne". The finished piece will also include an introduction by E.H. Alton of Trinity College and an essay, in English and French, by Peter Meyer at the University of Zurich. A brief excerpt from Meyer's essay on "The Ornamental Style of the Book of Kells" printed on back panel. Order form and envelope addressed to the United States distributor Duschnes laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36495. New Colophon, 1950. 1 box.
General

New York: The Colophon

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (228 mm.); prospectus announcing that Volume III of this book collector's annual "will be a book". Printed on yellow paper.

Physical Description

1 box

36618. Oldham, J. Basil: English blind-stamped bindings, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Oldham, J. Basil

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for an edition limited to 750 copies; specimen page (39); integral order form to back page. Type-written announcement of the publication loosely inserted. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36489. Bury, Adrian: Syon House...with ten original copper-plate engravings by John Buckland Wright and an appreciation of the engraver's work by Henry Rushbury, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Bury, Adrian

London: The Dropmore Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo, reduce reproduction of Wright's original engraving of "Syon House: The Ante Room" pasted in; prospectus for a edition limited to only 175 numbered copies. "The entire edition printed on Cream Wove Hand-made paper and bound in Full Black Niger Morocco, Gilt Top, lettered on the spine in gold, the Duke of Northumberland's Coat of Arms in gold on front and back covers. 41 pages of text printed on Monotype 14-pt. Baskerville." Order form loosely inserted. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36506. Abbe, Elfriede: Seven Irish tales, 1957. 1 box.
General

Author: Abbe, Elfriede

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo, illustrated; announcement of the 7th limited edition by Elfriend Abbe, which includes stories by Thomas Crofton Croker, Patrick Kennedy, and Letitia Maclintock. Edition limited to 275 editions. Back page gives the list of four of the previous limited editions illustrated by Abbe. Printed on green paper.

Physical Description

1 box

39645. Mezey, Robert: White blossoms, 1961. 1 box.
General

Author: Mezey, Robert

West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for the winner of the Lamont Poetry Selection of 1960; provides 2 specimen page and a list of 3 other titles available from the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

36484. The Dolmen Press stock list 1961, 1961. 1 box.
General

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; advertising all current publications from the press. Text in red and black. Previous fold, faint stain to left-hand margin of back page.

Physical Description

1 box

36302. Rich, Virtulon: Western life in the stirrups. A sketch of a journey to the West in the spring and summer of 1832 by...edited with an introduction by Dwight L. Smith., 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Rich, Virtulon

Chicago: The Caxton Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; provides a brief, somewhat uninspiring biography of the author, "an insignificant figure in the history of nineteenth-century America--a minor politician, a moderately successful lawyer, a pillar of his church". Publicized as"Discovered and printed for the first time". "This limited edition, designed by Greer Allen, was printed in the Printing Department of The University of Chicago."

Physical Description

1 box

36585. Williams, Alexander: Social history of the Club of Odd Volumes, 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Williams, Alexander

Boston: Club of Odd Volumes

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (199 mm.); announcement of the publication of Williams' Social history, "lavishly produced and severely limited edition...an anachronism in present-day publishing". Text in red.

Physical Description

1 box

36580. Barker, Nicolas: Stanley Morison, 1889-1967. A radio portrait compiled by Nicolas Barker & Douglas Cleverdon from recollections by T.F. Burns, John Carter, Arthur Crook, Brooke Crutchley, Francis Meynell, Graham Pollard, Janet & Reynolds Stone, Beatrice Warde, 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Barker, Nicolas

Ipswich: W.S. Cowell Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet, folded twice, 8vo, uncut; prospectus for the publication of an original BBC broadcast of the above mentioned contributors in conversation about Stanley Morison. Two sample pages provided. Order form at bottom of the last page has been removed. The last line before the book description is given, "Bertram Reta Ltd are the sole distributors on behalf of the publishers" has been crossed out.

Physical Description

1 box

36523. A list of limited editions in print at The Cummington Press. West Branch, Iowa 52358. Summer 1970, 1970. 1 box.
General

West Branch: The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus lists ten upcoming titles from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

39280. Crow, Elmay: Speck the brownie, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Crow, Elmay

Victoria, British Columbia: Crow Publishing.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (277 mm.); color illustrations; a bit creased, else fine. Prospectus for this "home-workshop produced manuscript series of children's storybooks". Order form printed on verso. With a photocopied ALs on press letterhead by Del Crow and a review from the Vancouver Sun, July 4, 1969.

Physical Description

1 box

40767. Goldsmith, V.F.: A short title catalogue of French books 1601-1700 in the library of the British Museum, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Goldsmith, V.F.

Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall.

Scope and Contents

Folio, pp. viii; self wrappers, mostly fine. Prospectus provides table of contents and the introductory chapter on definitions. Typescript invoice on Dawsons letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37053. The books of the Eakins Press. An anthology & a catalogue, 1974. 1 box.
General

New York: Eakins Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; illustrated catalogue of works available from the press, by authors such as Walt Whitman, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, E.M. Forster, Paul Valéry, and Hans Christian Anderson. Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36572. Bewick, Thomas: A frail memorial, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Bewick, Thomas

Chicago: Cherryburn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a work of selections of Bewick's engravings and writings on the subject of monuments. Limited to one hundred numbered copies and ten press copies, "printed in monotype Baskerville in black on a callendered Japanese paper. The binding, by Kner & Anthony."

Physical Description

1 box

37055. Eakins books price list 1975-1976, 1975. 1 box.
General

New York: Eakins Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; illustrated price list with integral order form; advertisement for "The American Monument, photographs by Lee Friedlander" printed to back page.

Physical Description

1 box

36567. Shelley, Percy Bysshe: Ode to the west wind with two other poems, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Banffshire, Scotland: The Celnius Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus provides information on the press, owned by Derek Riley, professional woodcarver and sculptor, and this piece, the first publication from the press. Limited to 120 copies. Order form loosely inserted. Text in maroon and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36477. Dolmen Press books 1977. With a complete list of titles in print, 1977. 1 box.
General

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 31; press directory on front endpaper, general index on back endpaper; illustrated catalogue for upcoming titles from the press, including two additions to the Dolmen Editions series, Desmond O'Grady's "The Gododdin" and J.M. Synge's "Riders to the Sea". Also provides stock list and title index. Pictorial paper wrappers.

Physical Description

1 box

36486. Holinshed, Raphael: Holinshed's Irish chronicle: The historie of Irelande from the first inhabitation thereof, vnto the yeare 1509. College by Raphael Holinshed, & continued till the yeare 1547 by Richarde Stanyhurst. 1577. With the cancels restored and the woodcut illustrations of the first edition, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Holinshed, Raphael

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for the Dolmen Edition of the Irish Chronicle, "designed by Liam Miller...planned in Imperial Octavo...The book, set in Pilgrim type, will be printed on fine paper in an edition limited to 750 copies." Includes specimen pages 16 and 183 from the finished work. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36478. Miller, Liam: The noble drama of W.B. Yeats, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Miller, Liam

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo, illustrated; prospectus for a work (No. XIII) from the New Yeats Papers series with a list of the book's contents. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

37047. Dilke, O.A.W.: Roman books and their impact, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Dilke, O.A.W.

Leeds, England: Elmete Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; prospectus for a title from the press's series "Books about Books"; "The paper is mould-made and the typeface is Perpetua. This is a fine edition limited to 465 numbered copies of which 40 copies are full-bound in purple calf blocked in real gold". Integral order form; lists of forthcoming publications and previous publications printed on back page.

Physical Description

1 box

36454. Notice, 1977. 1 box.
General

Kalamazoo, Michigan: Private Press & Typofoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); announcing the renewed availability of founts of the 16th century (here demonstrated). Printed on brown handmade paper in red and black ink.

Physical Description

1 box

36792. Burning Deck catalog 1978-1979, 1978. 1 box.
General

Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck

Scope and Contents

Oblong 16mo (102 mm. x 138 mm.), pp. 32; illustrated catalogue from the press; list of out of print titles and a prospectus for Dorothy Donnelly's Kudzu, the last publication of the late Peter Kaplan's Pouboire Press, both loosely inserted. Catalog addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, WI, return address of the press' distributor, Anyart, Providence, R.I. Two small holes from previous staple.

Physical Description

1 box

36476. Dolmen Press books 1978, 1978. 1 box.
General

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 23; catalogue for upcoming titles from the press, including the newest addtion to the Dolmen Editions series, "Holinshed's Irish Chronicle 1577"; retrospectus, pp. 22-23. Pictorial paper wrappers.

Physical Description

1 box

36795. Burning Deck checklist & order form. New titles in 1979, 1979. 1 box.
General

Providence, RI: Burning Deck

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio; provides list of new titles as well as all titles in print; integral order form; addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, WI. Previous owner (presumably Wulling) has checked off some of these titles.

Physical Description

1 box

36472. Dolmen Press Books 1979, 1979. 1 box.
General

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 22; illustrated catalogue of upcoming titles from the press, including works for the series Dolmen editions, "limited editions of writing of Irish interest," here, Austin Clarke's "The Frenzy of Sweeny: A lyrical play in three acts"; pp. 21-[23] retrospectus. Pictorial wrappers.

Physical Description

1 box

36483. Dolmen Press books 1979 stock list and order form, 1979. 1 box.
General

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; provides order form for Dolmen's Irish Bookhandling distributors and a list of new titles announced in the 1979 catalogue as well as all titles in print as of June 30, 1979. Green paper, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36481. Classified list of titles in print at 30 June 1979, 1979. 1 box.
General

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (294 mm.); list, subdivided by subject, of all Dolmen titles in print. Green paper, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36794. Burning Deck, new titles winter 1981/82, 1981. 1 box.
General

Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; catalog provides list of upcoming titles as well as an integral order form. Catalog addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

39672. Fall, 1981, 1981. 1 box.
General

Iowa City: Corycian Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 16mo; printed in red and black; fine. Provides list of new and available titles, as well as terms for bookstores, individuals, and standing orders. With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

36797. Burning Deck books 1983, 1983. 1 box.
General

Providence, RI: Burning Deck

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; catalog includes list of new titles, chapbooks, and backlist; integral order form on back; catalog addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, WI. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36453. Easton, Phoebe Jane: Marbling: A history and bibliography, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Easton, Phoebe Jane

Los Angeles, California: Dawson's Book Shop

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; announcement for "a significant contribution to the study of the arts of the book...Photoset and handset in Bembo types to the design of Joseph Simon and Lillian Marks. In addition there are four marbled samples. Bound in full cloth imported from Holland, with a sample of marbling by Norma Rubovits inset on the front cover. The edition consists of 850 copies." Table of contents also provided here.

Physical Description

1 box

36537. Coffee House Press fall 1984, 1984. 1 box.
General

West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations throughout; prospectuses for upcoming works from the press as well as the list of titles from the Morning Coffee Chapbook Series and press terms. Orange printed wrappers. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

39652. Economou, George: Voluntaries. Poems, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Economou, George

Iowa City: Corycian Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo; printed on grey paper, fine. Postcard prospectus advertising this poetry collection limited to 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36793. Burning Deck books 1985-86, 1985. 1 box.
General

Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; catalog provides list of upcoming titles from the press, chapbooks, and a backlist. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, WI. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36571. Barker, Nicolas: Aldus Manutius and the development of Greek script & type in the fifteenth century...with original leaves from the first Aldine editions of Aristotle, 1497; Crastonus' Dictionarium Graecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagin, 1518, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Barker, Nicolas

Sandy Hook, Connecticut: Chiswick Book Shop Inc.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus includes the table work proper's table of content; a reproduction of a facsimile from Aristotle Vol. IV. Theophrasti di historia plantarum...1497; and a note on the legacy of Aldus. "200 copies printed...Smythsewn...Brillianta dark red cloth, matching case. Designed by Stephen Harvard. Printed and bound at the Meriden-Stinehour Press." Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36527. Coffee House Press, spring 1985, 1985. 1 box.
General

West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into eight-sided brochure, 8vo; illustrated prospectus of upcoming and newly published works from the press. Sales information on back flap.

Physical Description

1 box

36536. Coffee House Press 1986, 1986. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations throughout; prospectuses for upcoming titles as well as a list of the titles from the Morning Coffee Chapbook Series and press terms. Price list/order form and pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted. Printed wrappers, two small holes from previous staple not affecting text. Catalog addressed to Emerson Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

36564. Hinrichs, Kit: Stars & Stripes, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Hinrichs, Kit

San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio; illustrated prospectus for a collection of interpretations of the "Stars and Stripes" by almost a hundred illustrators and graphic artists for the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. Order form at bottom of Broadside. Previous folds. With a letter to the members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts from the director of special sales at Chronicle Books, offering a special discount for the work.

Physical Description

1 box

36535. Coffee House Press 1987 fall catalog, 1987. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; author photos throughout; prospectuses for upcoming, recent, and backlisted titles. Also provides list of titles from the Morning Coffee Chapbook Series. Press information printed on back endpage. Blue printed wrappers with text in pink, two small holes from previous staple not affecting text. Pre-addressed envelope, price list, invoice (for the Coffee House Broadside and Helen Adam's chapbook "Bells of Dis"), and coupon all loosely inserted. Invoice and catalog addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

36534. Coffee House Press 1987 spring catalog, 1987. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations throughout; prospectuses for upcoming and recent publications from the press, as well as advertising for the Coffee House Press tote bag. Press information printed on back endpaper. Pink and brown marble paper wrappers. Addressed to Emerson Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

36586. Elkin, Stanley: The coffee room. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Elkin, Stanley

Louisville: Contre Coup Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus of the publication of a radio play commissioned by National Public Radio in 1979 for the series "Earplay". "The text was set by hand in Van Dijck type and printed on Frankfurt Cream paper. LEttering from titles were executed by Steve Skaggs. The printed sheets were sewn by hand onto tapes and bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in cloth-backed boards covered in paste-paper made especially for this edition by Carol Blinn. There were 95 copies printed, all of which were signed by Stanley Elkin and Michael McCurdy." Text in brown and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36796. Burning Deck books 1988, 1988. 1 box.
General

Providence, RI: Burning Deck

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; catalogue lists upcoming titles, chapbooks, and backlist; catalogue addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, WI. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36533. Coffee House Press 1988 fall catalog, 1988. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated, illustrated; includes prospectuses for upcoming, recent, and backlisted titles from the press. Order form and pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted. Purple and orange paper wrappers, two small holes from previous staple not affecting text. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

36531. Coffee House Press 1988 spring catalog, 1988. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations throughout; includes upcoming, recent, and backlisted titles from the press. Terms and press information also given. Green pictorial wrappers, two small holdes from previous staple not affecting text. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

36565. Beckett, Samuel: Stirrings still, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Beckett, Samuel

New York: Calder and Rossett

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to; illustrated prospectus for "Beckett's new book," illustrated with "original two-color image of Beckett's head, six full-page plates, and illustrations in the text by Louis Le Brocquy". Edition limited to 200 copies, signed by Beckett and Le Brocquy.

Physical Description

1 box

36530. Coffee House Press 1989 fall catalog, 1989. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 21; catalog includes upcoming publications and a backlog of previous works from the press; p. [22] order form, pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted. Purple pictorial wrappers, two small holes from previous staple not affecting text. Addressed to Emerson G. and Jean C. Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

36532. Coffee House Press 1989 spring catalog, 1989. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; includes prospectuses for upcoming, recent, and backlisted titles from the press. Press information printed on front endpage; terms printed on back endpage. Order form and pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted. Blue pictorial wrappers, two small holes from previous staple not affecting text. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

36642. Hutner, Martin: The making of the Book of Common Prayer of 1928...Accompanied by an original leaf printed on vellum at the Merrymount Press, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Hutner, Martin

Southbury, Connecticut: Chiswick Book Shop

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for one of the three finalists for the Felice Feliciano Competition as an outstanding example of book design and production. Provides the table of contents (p. v of finished book) and a specimen page (5). Edition limited to 285 copies. "Printed letterpress with twenty-four illustrations printed offset in two colors at A. Colish, Inc." Order form printed on pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36539. Kinsella, W.P.: The first & last annual six towns area old timers' baseball game, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Kinsella, W.P.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; one of the five multicolor wood engraving done by Gaylord Schanilec for the piece printed on front cover; prospectus for Kinsella's work, one of the Espresso Editions from the press. "Cast in Walbaum type with P.T. Barnum and Vaudeville display at M & H Type. Printed on 100% rat Rives Heavyweight paper, mouldmade in France at the Arjomari mill. Designed by Allan Kornblum and printed by Jill MacKenzie and Julia Druskin at Coffee House Press on a Vandercook 219 proof press. The pages are quarter bound with a leather spine of Jill Jevne.

Physical Description

1 box

36538. Edson, Russell: Tick-tock: Short stories, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Edson, Russell

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; two-color woodcut on front cover by the author. "The stories are handset in Romulus type with Albertus display and printed on 100% rag Lana Laid paper from France. The cover is rippling red handmade Mexican bark paper, produced by the Otomi Indians in Mexico using the oldest papermaking technology in the Western Hemisphere." This work is the first of the press's Demitasse series, which "presents never before published writing by preeminent contemporary poets and prose writers" as well as part of the Espresso Editions of "stories by established writers, published in large format, deluxe limited editions with innovative designs." Prospectus also provides information on letterpress printing. Two order forms loosely inserted, text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

39671. Levis, Larry: Sensationalism. Poems...Drawings by Dellas Henke, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Levis, Larry

Iowa City: Corycian Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (89 x 140 mm.); fine. Postcard prospectus for a signed edition of 150 copies by a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.

Physical Description

1 box

37735. L'argus du livre de collection...10e édition, 1992. 1 box.
General

Paris: Editions du cercle de la librairie

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (296 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this reference work, described as a "bible des incunables et précieux érits, des éditions rares et anciennes"; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39193. Annual register of book values. Booktrade information at its best, 1993. 1 box.
General

York: Clique

Scope and Contents

32mo, pp. 61; illustrations and specimen pages throughout; original red pictorial boards (a bit soiled); else fine. Order form bound in back.

Physical Description

1 box

37570. Dante: Dante's Inferno. Translations by twenty contemporary poets. Frontispiece by Francesco Clemente. Introduction by James Merrill. Edited by Daniel Halpern...Afterword by Giuseppe Mazzotta, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Dante

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for this edition of Inferno, translators including Seamus Heaney, Mark Strand, W.S. Merwin, and C.K. Williams. Excerpt of the introduction and specimen page provided. Designed by Peter A. Anderson and printed letterpress by Michael and Winifred Bixler; bound by Claudia Cohen; edition limited to 125 numbered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37650. Catalogue 1993 and 1994, 1993. 1 box.
General

Vineburg, California: Engdahl Typography

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 12; original pictorial purple wrappers; illustrated catalogue of titles from the press, including Raymond Carver's "Carnations" and "Three Stories"; Tobias Wolff's "The Liar"; M.F.K. Fisher's "Answer in the Affirmative & The Oldest Man"; Jack London's "To Build a Fire & The Mexican"; and a Broadside of a portion of Ezra Pound's "Canto LXXXI". A current list and the list of Red Cat Typographic Pamphlets laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37653. Wells, H.G.: The time machine. Illustrated by Nick Gregoric, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Wells, H.G.

Vineburg, CA: Engdahl Typography

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; prospectus for an edition limited to 150 copies; specimen pages and illustration provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37624. Ginsberg, Allen: Honorable courtship. From the author's journals, January 1-5, 1955. Wood engravings by Dean Bornstein. Edited by Gordon Ball, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Ginsberg, Allen

Minneapolis: Espresso Editions, Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for the edition of Ginsberg's journals, bound by Jill Jevne in an edition limited to 200 copies. A list of other titles from the press printed on the back; order form and pre-addressed envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37574. Freeman, Arthur: Forty poems: 1956-1900, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Freeman, Arthur

New York: James Cummins

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); announcement of this poetry collection, produced at the Press of the Sea Turle and bound by the Garthegaat Bindery; special edition limited to 26 copies bound by Sarah Creighton.

Physical Description

1 box

37723. Six letters to an apprentice. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, George Ade, Ellen Glasgow, Don Marquis, Ring Lardner. With a foreword by Ernest Kroll, 1994. 1 box.
General

Riverside, California: Doe Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); prospectus of this collective piece printed for the Thaumatrope Press, University of California; "In 1930, Ernest Kroll wrote letters to some of the more prominent writers of the day asking how to become a great writer. The six letters in this portfolio, never before printed, are some of the replies he received." Illustrations by Elizabeth Cohen and Carolyn Kilgour; designed by Sidney E. Berger.

Physical Description

1 box

Landry, Christopher: Mystic visitor, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Landry, Christopher

San Francisco, CA: C&L Distributing

Scope and Contents

Stack of 8 1/2x11 sheets stapled at the top left. A picture of the cover is on the front and the second page is the text of an ad to run in the Advocate for six months. The next two pages are the order form and rate schedule. There are four sheets in all.

Physical Description

1 box

36540. Coffee House Press fall & winter 1996-97, 1996. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 28; illustrated throughout; prospectuses for upcoming titles; backlist, pp. 23-24; mission statement and order form; index, pp. 28 and back endpage. Pictorial paper wrappers, catalog addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

39297. Hayes, Walter: The captain from Nantucket and the mutiny on the bounty, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Hayes, Walter

Ann Arbor: William L. Clements Library.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 4to; facsimile; fine. Prospectus for a work "Revealing the extraordinary story of the American sailor from New England who discovered the bounty mutineers on Pitcairn Island and set his stamp on the greatest legend of adventure at sea. Together with never-before-printed old documents and letters." Integral order form; letter on Library letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36541. Coffee House Press fall 97, 1997. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 29; prospectus for upcoming works from the press; back list pp. 22-24. Catalog also gives the press's mission statement, order information with blank order form on p. 27, and an index, pp. 28-29. Pictorial wrappers, catalog addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

39318. Bowles, Paul and Ned Rorem: Dear Paul, dear Ned. The correspondence...Introduction by Gavin Lambert, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Bowles, Paul and Ned Rorem

North Pomfret: Elysium Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for the correspondence between two writer/composers.

Physical Description

1 box

42483. White, Mus: From the mundane to the magical: photographically illustrated children's books, 1854-1945 and beyond, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: White, Mus

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; black and white photographic illustration; some wear from handling, else very good. Prospectus for "the first major bibliography linking the fields of photography and juvenile literature," limited to 1000 copies. Sample page provided. Illustrated order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36574. To the owners of private libraries, heads of families, and others, 1900. 1 box.
General

London: The Chiswick Press

Scope and Contents

12mo; unpaginated; advertising the services of the press to private customers and societies, including a list of some of these productions. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36575. The Chiswick Press. Charles Whittingham & Co. 20 & 21 Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London. Participants in the Grand Prix awarded to the Publishers' Association for Books at the Paris Exhibition, 1900, 1902. 1 box.
General

London: The Chiswick Press

Scope and Contents

12mo; unpaginated; advertising the services of the press to private customers and societies, including a list of some of these productions. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

37676. Conway, Martin, John La Farge, and Royal Cortissoz: The gallery of masterpieces. A collection of reproductions in photo-mezzotint from the finest works of the most famous painters down to the year 1800, 1905. 1 box.
General

Author: Conway, Martin, John La Farge, and Royal Cortissoz

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (484 mm.); prospectus printed on grey paper, text in black and red with white bordering; contents listed. Folds into integral envelope addressed to Rev. E.G. Mitchell, 534 Summit Ave, St. Paul, and postmarked 1905.

Physical Description

1 box

36369. Connelley, William Elsey: Doniphan's expedition: The conquest of New Mexico and California., 1907. 1 box.
General

Author: Connelley, William Elsey

Topeka, Kansas: William E. Connelley

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; photograph of Alexander W. Doniphan; prospectus divided into three sections, "Doniphan's expedition," "Colonel Doniphan as a Soldier," and "Colonel Doniphan as a Lawyer". Final published work also includes the work of Colonel John T. Hughes. Red borders, very good.

Physical Description

1 box

45460. Caspar's catalogue of standard and practical books. No. 47 [cover title], 1908. 1 box.
General

Milwaukee: C.N. Caspar's Book Emporium

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 77; text in double columns; original printed cream stitched wrappers (some soiling); very good and sound. List of genres includes belles lettres, literature, art, fiction, wit and humor, books for women, travels and adventures, juveniles, cookery and housekeeping, gardening, farming, technology, electricity, engineering, carpentry, architecture, and various trades. Accompanied by an illustrated pamphlet accomplished in typescript, addressed to J. A. Groeble of Logan, Utah, and dated February 28, 1908. With the postmarked envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

36464. Aldin, Cecil: Cecil Aldin's little books of life and sport, 1909. 1 box.
General

Author: Aldin, Cecil

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (152 mm.); illustrated prospectus for four volumes of works illustrated by Cecil Aldin, including works by Washington Irving, Richard Steele, and R.S. Surtees. "Each volume with 3 full page colored plates mounted on grey mounts, with numerous black and white drawings on tint ground."

Physical Description

1 box

36592. Merrick, George Byron: Old times on the upper Mississippi. The recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 by George Byron Merrick, 1909. 1 box.
General

Author: Merrick, George Byron

Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (240 mm.); prospectus for Merrick's Recollections, "Issued in a limited edition and printed on handmade, deckle-edged paper". Order form at bottom of verso. Losses from previous folds, not affecting text. Small loss affecting the "ck" of "Merrick." Folds with tape repair.

Physical Description

1 box

36341. Encyclopedia britannica, 1910. 1 box.
General

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 40; [6] plates, some in color; caption title reads "The University of Cambridge announces the new (11th) edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica". Form of application bound in. Some foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

36363. Haggard, H. Rider: Queen Sheba's ring., 1910. 1 box.
General

Author: Haggard, H. Rider

New York: Doubleday

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (139 mm.); prospectus for an H. Rider Haggard adventure novel; verso is prospectus for Mary Stewart Cutting's novel The unforeseen.

Physical Description

1 box

36397. Encyclopaedia Britannica [11th edition], 1911. 1 box.
General

New York: Cambridge University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, long 8vo; four photographic illustrations; form of subscription for the newest edition of the encyclopedia, featuring a special bookcase for the suede bound set in "all-flexible binding grey, limp velvet suede". Text in red and black, small tears from previous folds not affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

44964. Encyclopaedia Britannica (new 11th edition), 1911. 1 box.
General

New York: Cambridge University Press

Scope and Contents

Collection of 8 pieces of promotional material for the 11th (and arguably best) edition of the Encyclopaedia; one pamphlet separated at fold, else fine. Includes: 1. 14-paneled brochure, printed in red and black and illustrated, featuring "A Remarkable Photograph: the new Encyclopaedia Britannica in 2 forms: ordinary paper & India paper" to demonstrate the "immense saving in house room," describing each volume as "light and slender enough to hold in the hand and read with pleasure". Includes order blank for either edition in two different bindings (full morocco or half morocco/full "leather"). Also advertised are various custom bookshelves, including the "Horizontal File-bookcase (mahogany), specially designed to take the new suede binding..." Also on the menu, the double-tier bookcase or the single-tier bookstand. Also features the exceptional qualities of the "New Velvet Suede Binding". 2. A 12-paneled brochure, nearly identical to the item described above, but with photographic illustrations of a very period drawing room adorned with the Encyclopaedia where the order blank is located on the brochure above; also feature "The New Suede Binding" (sans Velvet). 3. 4to illustrated specimen page bifolium: Vol. 13, pp. 318 and 503 (Heraldry and Hinduism); and Vol. 15, pp. 120 and 231 (Jacobs-Jacobsen, and Japan). 4. 8vo bifolium, printed in red and black, plain photographic illustrations; previous folds. At head of title: "Form of subscription..." Order blank printed on p. [4]. 5. 12mo, unpaged pamphlet; staplebound self-wrappers. Drop title: "The Low Price of the Encyclopaedia Britannica". Unattributed testimonials include, "Before buying the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, I, being a poor man, had to consider, not whether I wanted it, but whether it would pay me to have it. An inspection of the specimen volume convinced me that I could not afford to be without it..." [There is no indication from the specimen pages that people were being paid to have the Encyclopaedia.] 6. 8vo, unpaged pamphlet printed on India paper. Includes unattributed subscriber testimonials and press opinions (from the fromer: "A splendid travelling companion" [presumably the author of that statement was either 9'8" or thinking of a different book]; from the latter: "the reader feels the joy of possession" (the Daily Mail)). 7. Leaf removed from "The Outlook" advertising section, promoting "The Second Distribution of The Encyclopaedia Britannica". 8. Another leaf also removed from "The Outlook" advertising section, promoting the "Novel Binding For Indian Paper Volumes of the Encyclopaedia. Includes order blank at the bottom of the page.

Physical Description

1 box

39257. Hard, William: The women of to-morrow, 1913. 1 box.
General

Author: Hard, William

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; 2 illustrations, one of which is a photographic portrait of the author; shallow tears along edges not affecting text. Prospectus provides "Opinions of Prominent Women," (including the President of the N.Y. State Federation of Women's Clubs, a librarian, Vice President of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, and the editor of the Official Register and Directory of Women's Clubs in America): "Mr. Hard possesses the rare faculty of making even statistics vitally interesting"; "His facts are as interesting as other people's fiction. Mary the true helpmate and Marie the waster have never been more convincingly pictured"; "It is not often that we have so clearly indicated the economic, eugenic and social currents beneath the woman movements of the twentieth century". And, from the blurb on the back: "Who can read 'Love Deferred,' without full realization that our very community existence demands a radical readjustment of our standards of life...? What idle woman...can read the chapter on 'The Wasters,' without a blush of shame...?" But thinking gives you wrinkles!

Physical Description

1 box

43009. Harris, Corra: The co-citizens, 1915. 1 box.
General

Author: Harris, Corra

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 171 x 89 mm.), illustrations, decorative borders printed in black and pink; fine. Advertisement for Corra Harris's novel on universal suffrage and, on Broadside verso, The Story of Julia Page, by Kathleen Norris.

Physical Description

1 box

36576. The Chiswick Press. Charles Whittingham & Co. 20 & 21, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London., 1916. 1 box.
General

London: The Chiswick Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; advertisement for the services of the press to private customers and societies, including a list of some of these productions. Also lists recent awards: "Participants in the Grand Prix...and in the Grand Prize awarded to the British Royal Commission's Collective Exhibit of Books and Music at the St. Louis Exhibition, 1904. Also awarded a Grand Prix each for Printing and for Publishing, and a Gold Medal each for Paper and for Bookbinding at the Turin International Exhibtion, 1911. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36463. Tarkington, Booth: Alice Adams, 1921. 1 box.
General

Author: Tarkington, Booth

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo (152 mm.); illustration of Tarkington; pamphlet heading "Have you heard what they're saying about 'Alice Adams?'" With five review excerpts, an author biography, and an order blank on back page.

Physical Description

1 box

37817. Long, Frank Belknap, Jr.: A man from Genoa and other poems, 1926. 1 box.
General

Author: Long, Frank Belknap, Jr.

Athol, Mass.: W. Paul Cook

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (215 mm.); prospectus comprised mostly of press remarks. Light sunning to top edge, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36503. Ransom, William: Private presses and their books, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Ransom, William

New York City: Continental Typefounders Association

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for "A record of that fascinating field of publishing which has made so many contributions to scholarship and to fine bookmaking...1200 copies only for America and England." Also provides contents for each part, which will include check-lists of 300 presses. Two specimen pages, 113 and 204, reporduced.

Physical Description

1 box

39215. New fourteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica at the Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.

Scope and Contents

Small folio, unpaginated; color and black and white specimen plates and photographic illustrations; original white wrappers (minor soiling), printed in grey and red; a good copy.

Physical Description

1 box

36511. Painter, William: The palace of pleasure. With an introduction by Hamish Miles and illustrations by Douglas Percy Bliss, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Painter, William

London: The Cresset Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for a limited edition of 500 copies published in four volumes, "on Arches mould-made paper, printed by the University Press, Oxford...30 copies on Batchelor's hand-made paper". Includes illustrated specimen pp. 68-69. Distributor for the United States Walter V. McKee. Previous bookdealer's green stamp.

Physical Description

1 box

36615. De Ricci, Seymour: English collectors of books & manuscripts (1530-1930) and their marks of ownership...Sandars lectures 1929-1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: De Ricci, Seymour

London: Cambridge University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus includes two photographic illustrations of the antiquarian books, one bound for Major Pearson, the other for Lord Pembroke. Table of contents and a list of "Books for Collectors" from the press also provided. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36611. Heal, Ambrose: The English writing-masters and their copy-books 1570-1800. A biographical dictionary & a bibliography...with an historical introduction on the development of English handwriting by Stanley Morison. Illustrated by 81 collotype plates comprising 23 portraits of the masters and 88 specimens of their hands and 1 photogravure, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Heal, Ambrose

London: Cambridge University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for this bibliography, limited to 300 copies. Includes specimens pages (9, 128) and a specimen plate (XII, of Thomas Ollyfee) is loosely inserted. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36617. James, Montague Rhodes: A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Lambeth Palace by Montague Rhodes James...and Claude Jenkins, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: James, Montague Rhodes

London: Cambridge University Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to; excerpt from the Preface on Broadside verso. Previous folds, small tear to top edge.

Physical Description

1 box

36493. Melville, Herman: Journal up the straits, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Melville, Herman

New York: The Colophon

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 14; prospectus for "a hitherto unpublished work" and includes "something of the story of this strange and important manuscript, its editing, a description of the book itself, and the means by which you may insure the reservation of a copy". Note on back cover claims that "This prospectus contains information not in the book itself". Facsimile of the title page on p. 9; a list of other Colophon imprints on back endpaper. Small stain to top edge of front cover.

Physical Description

1 box

36554. Earliest type specimens from American foundries. Facsimile reproductions in collotype, 1936. 1 box.
General

New Haven, Connecticut: Columbiad Club of Connecticut

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; prospectus for a work on the earliest types made complete in British North Amerca, in what is now Connecticut. "It is proposed to issue 275 copies of the book, printed on Worthy Hand & Arrows paper...The collotypes have been made by the Meriden Gravure Company, and the typography is in actual Binny & Ronaldson types." Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37067. Tchemerzine, Avenir: Bibliographie d'éditions originales ou rares d'auteurs français des XVe, XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Contenant six milles fac-similés de titres et de gravures colligée par Avenir Tchemerzine avec la collaboration de Marcel Plée, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Tchemerzine, Avenir

Paris: Éditions des Bibliothèques Nationales de France

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; prospectus comes with large folded sheet depicting seven specimen pages and the title page, loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36548. Robinson, Boardman: Ninety three drawings. Introductory text by George Biddle, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Robinson, Boardman

Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for a work pubished by the Colorado Spring Fine Arts Center at the Rydal Press of Santa Fe, N.M.; includes a list of the 93 drawings, an author biography, and description of the book proper: "Composition in monotype Perpetua. Text printed by The Rydal Press and illustrations printed by the Meriden Gravure Co. in Full-Tone. Of the first edition one thousand copies have been printed on white offset paper and one hundred copies of a special limited edition on Rives paper." Order form loosely inserted, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36632. Flower, Desmond: English poetical autographs. A collection of facsimiles of autograph poems from Sir Thomas Wyat to Rupert Brooke. Selected and edited by Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Flower, Desmond

London: Cassell & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for a limited edition of 1500 copies includes an introduction to the book proper, a list of the poems being reproduced, and an integral order form. A specimen facsimile (p. 25, Thomas Gray) loosely inserted. Erratum pasted in.

Physical Description

1 box

37576. Brewer, Nicholas R.: Trails of a paintbrush. Beautifully illustrated, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Brewer, Nicholas R.

Boston: Christopher Publishing House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus of Brewer's illustrated autobiography; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36559. Blanche, Jacques-Emile: Portraits of a lifetime: Memoirs, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Blanche, Jacques-Emile

New York: Coward-McCann

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus, order blank provided on bottom half of back page.

Physical Description

1 box

36500. The first Colophon annual of book-making, 1938. 1 box.
General

New York: The Colophon

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (402 mm.); announcement for a free copy of the first annual of book-making with "any two years' subscription to The Colophon, New Series". Order form with perforated edges forms part of the Broadside. Blue paper, text in orange and black. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36497. The Colophon annual of bookmaking, 1938. 1 box.
General

New York: The Colophon

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 12mo; front flap depicts black and white photograph of the finished piece; "binding designed by W.A. Dwiggins and the title-page by Rockwell Kent". Prospectus also lists the participants, an order form, and a note about the publisher.

Physical Description

1 box

37052. Tull, Clyde: Stories from the husk. Edited by Clyde Tull and Anya Plummer, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Tull, Clyde

Mount Vernon, Iowa: English Club of Cornell College

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for an "attempt to correlate creative writing with amateur printing craftsmanship". Bound by the Czech craftsman Joe Kolarik. Table of contents included. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37051. Jolas, Eugene: Planets and angels, 1941. 1 box.
General

Author: Jolas, Eugene

Mount Vernon, Iowa: English Club of Cornell College

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for a chapbook reprinting a piece from Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, January 1941. Shallow tears to edges not affecting text; previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36590. A checklist of Colt Press books, 1943. 1 box.
General

New York: The Colt Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; catalog of books from the press, divided by year of publication. Printed by Phillip C. Duschnes. Order form loosely inserted. Text in orange and black.

Physical Description

1 box

39447. Lorant, Stefan, ed.: The new world. The first pictures of America, 1946. 1 box.
General

Author: Lorant, Stefan, ed.

New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce.

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; 2 double-sided color plates laid into integral folder, text illustrations throughout; mostly fine.

Physical Description

1 box

36640. First list of books published by the Centaur Press, 1949. 1 box.
General

San Francisco, California: Centaur Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; illustrated catalogue of four new titles from the press as well as a list of out-of-print titles. Brown wrappers stamped in yellow, disbound. Text in red and black, order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36549. Cooper, Alvin Carlos: Stroke of midnight, 1949. 1 box.
General

Author: Cooper, Alvin Carlos

Nashville, Tenn.: Counterpoise

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for the second book printed by the press and advertised as "a 20 page booklet illustrated by James Carter and printed in a fine edition by the Hemphill Press". Pamphlet on the press and its previous publication, Robert Hayden & Myron O'Higgins' "The Lion and the Archer" and order form loosely inserted. Printed on blue paper with silver stamping, text in blue and red. Also includes original envelope in which the prospectus came, addressed to E.B. Wulling of LaCrosse, Wisconsin and postmarked Nov 22 1949.

Physical Description

1 box

36507. Healey, George Harris: The Cornell Wordsworth collection: A catalogue of books and manuscripts presented to the University by Mr Victor Emanuel, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Healey, George Harris

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; bibliography of a collection which, "In 1925, Mr Victor Emanuel, a Cornell alumnus, acquired...[from] Mrs. Cynthia Morgan St. John of Ithaca". Copies of this work limited to 750 copies. List of contents and order form on back page. Text in dark blue.

Physical Description

1 box

36641. Distinguished writers in limited editions, 1950. 1 box.
General

San Francisco, California: The Centaur Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); postcard prospectus listing limited edition titles from the press. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac press and postmarked Nov. 16 1950.

Physical Description

1 box

36512. [Postcard prospectus of titles available from the press], 1950. 1 box.
General

Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (141 mm.); postcard addressed to Emerson G. Wulling or the Sumac Press, La Crosse, Wisconsin, postmarked; makes mention of three titles, "Two Conceits for the Eye to Sing if Possible" by Allen Tate; "The Cricket" by Frederick Goddard Tuckerman; and "Three Poems" by Yvor Winters; also mentions "Pamphlets of poetry hand printed on excellent imported papers, each improved with an original woodcut".

Physical Description

1 box

39356. Rogers, Bruce: BR & Breton's the twelve moneths (sic) and Christmas day, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Rogers, Bruce

New York: Philip C. Duschnes.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrations, printing in red and black; a bit toned, else fine. Prospectus for a limited edition of 100 signed copies; provides the author's preface, and illustrated specimen pages.

Physical Description

1 box

36613. Munby, A.N.L.: The catalogues of manuscripts & printed books of Sir Thomas Phillipps. Their composition and distribution, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Munby, A.N.L.

London: Cambridge University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for No. 1 of the Phillipps Studies series. Integral order form on back page, addressed to Bernard Quaritch Ltd. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36614. Munby, A.N.L.: The family affairs of Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Munby, A.N.L.

New York: Cambridge University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for No. 2 of the Phillipps Studies series. Integral order form on back page. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36469. `, 1951. 1 box.
General

Los Angele, California: Dawson's Book Shop

Scope and Contents

Portfolio, 8vo; containing looseleaf prospectuses and sample pages from the first four volumes of "A series of small books...relating to the early history of Alta and Baja California". These include Thomas Coulter's "Notes on Upper California, 1832"; Job Dye's "Recollections of a Pioneer, 1830-1852, Rocky Mountains, New Mexico, California"; Edmund le Netrel's "Voyage of the Heros, Around the World with Duhaut-Cilly"; and Don Meadows' "Baja California, a Biblio-History, 1533-1950". Order form also loosely inserted. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36520. Blake, William: Genesis: The seven days of the created world from the holograph of William Blake., 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Blake, William

New York: The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for "This manuscript, 209 lines of blank verse described as iten no. vii in the Keynes bibliography of Blake". Includes illustrated sample pp. VIII and XI. Prospectus on back page and order form loosely inserted are signed by and addressed to Philip C. Duschnes of New York. Text in brown and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36619. Hind, Arthur M.: Engraving in England in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries. A descriptive catalogue with introductions...Part I: The Tudor period with 39 illustrations., 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Hind, Arthur M.

New York: Cambridge University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus includes specimen page (249) and integral order form; typewritten flyer announcing the book's publication and a plate specimen (127) both loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37104. Reed, Talbot Baines: A history of the old English letter foundries. A new edition revised & enlarged by A.F. Johnson, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Reed, Talbot Baines

London: Faber

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); possibly incomplete prospectus; John Baskerville of Birmingham's "Specimen" printed on verso. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36550. Abbey, J.R.: Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography 1775-1860. From the library of J.R. Abbey. A bibliographical catalogue, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Abbey, J.R.

London: The Curwen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for this privately printed bibliography ion an edition limited to 500 copies. Specimen page 49 included. Former bookdealer's stamp (Bernard Quaritch Ltd.) on both front and back pages. Previous folds, signs of wear.

Physical Description

1 box

36491. Wilson, John: The Royal Philatelic collection. By Sir John Wilson...Editor Clarence Winchester. Published under the patronage of the Viscount Kemsley, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Wilson, John

London: The Dropmore Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; advanced announcement provides its purpose as an advanced announcement, information on the preparation of the prospectus, the work proper, the binding ("in full red Niger morocco, bearing the Royal Arms in gold by permission of His Majesty the King, with gold tops and Tudor end-papers," the price, and the application for acquiring a prospectus. Back page gives brief author biography. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36636. Owens, Harry J.: Faust: A puppet play, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Owens, Harry J.

Chicago: The Caxton Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for Owens' "translation" from the German for the Caxton Club. "The book was printed by Victor Hammer, who...operateds his press at Lexington, Kentucky. The type used is Jessen, a text face designed by Rudolph Koch for the Klingspor foundry at Offenbach-on-Main...The book was hand-set and printed on a hand-press, using a dampened hand-made French paper known as Auvergne...The wood-cuts used were originally made by Fritz Kredel for a German version of this puppet Faust published in 1950 by the Bauer Type Foundry at Frankfort-on-Main...The binding of our puppet Faust was done by Elizabeth Kner from a design made by Harold W. Tribolet of the Lakeside Press. The paste-paper on the covers was made by Nancy Storm." An edition totalling 350 copies. The price and address for order has been crossed out from $10 to $12.50 and from Harold W. Tribolet, Secretary, 350 East Twenty-second Street, Chicago 16 to Chiswick Book Shop, 113 EAst 55th St., New York 22, N.Y.

Physical Description

1 box

36492. Sitwell, H.D.W.: The crown jewels and other regalia in the Tower of London...Edited by Clarence Winchester, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Sitwell, H.D.W.

London: The Dropmore Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color pictorial front cover; announcement of the publication of an edition of "99 numbered copies, signed by the author, half bound in red Niger morocco, gilt all round, blocked front with Regalia design and lettered spine in gold...A further edition, unsigned, bound in royal blue Buckram, blocked front with Regalia design, letter spine in gold". Also included here is a letter from the editor and an advertisement for John Wilson's "The Royal Philatelic collection". Order form loosely inserted. Decorative border in purple ink. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36631. Craig, Maurice: Irish bookbindings 1600-1800, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Craig, Maurice

London: Cassell & Co. Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; prospectus of this edition limited to 750 copies provides an overview of the work as well as an integral order form which has been stamped "To Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd., 6, Dawson St. Dublin" as the supplier. Pp. uncut. Folded specimen page (plate 41) "showing the page size of the book" loosely inserted. Text in blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

37726. The Holkham Bible picture book with introduction and commentaries by W.O. Hassall, 1954. 1 box.
General

London: Dropmore Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrated prospectus of this reproduction of the Holkhma Bible, available in 2 editions, the deluxe edition of 100 signed copies and the unsigned edition. Integral order form. Shallow tears to edges, spotting, some discoloration.

Physical Description

1 box

36517. [Announcement of change of address], 1954. 1 box.
General

Rowe, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 4to (190 mm.); announcement that "after a recess of over two years, [the press is] reopening at the new address above." Signed by Harry Duncan, Lee Hoiby, and Paul Wightman Williams. Previous folds, pages untrimmed.

Physical Description

1 box

36513. [Postcard prospectus for two new pamphlets of poetry], 1955. 1 box.
General

Rowe, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); announcement of the publication of Harvey Shapiro's "The Book and other poems: Five pieces on Jewish themes..." and Dan Stanford's "The Traveler, allegorical lyrics: eight poems from 'New England Earth'". Postcard addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press (La Crosse, WI) and postmarked Mar. 14 1955.

Physical Description

1 box

36557. The king of Caxton book collectors, 1956. 1 box.
General

Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; advertisement for Caxton Printers, feature J.H. Christ of Honolulu, the "King of Caxton Book Collectors," illustrated wtih two photographs of Mr. Christ with his collection. Checklist/order form with pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36457. Hornung, C.-P.: Handbook of early advertising art...3rd enlarged edition, 1956. 1 box.
General

Author: Hornung, C.-P.

New York: Dover Publications

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into twelve-sided brochure, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for Hornung's work in a two-volume set, "pictorial" and "typographical". Give a partial list of the finished piece's contents. Order form and envelope loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36556. Benziger, Marieli: August Benziger: Portrait painter. By Marieli Benziger with the assistance of Rita Benziger, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Benziger, Marieli

Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; self portrait of August Benziger on front page; prospectus provides a table of contents and the work's mission statement. Order form loosely inserted. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36475. MacGreevy, Thomas: Nicolas Poussin, 1960. 1 box.
General

Author: MacGreevy, Thomas

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (182 mm.); published in conjunction with the Poussin Exhibition in Paris. "The essay is illustrated with six half-tone plates after Poussin's paintings and is printed in quarter format from Eric Gill's Pilgrim type and sewn in limp boards. This first printing is limited to five hundred copies." Text in red and black, previous fold. Accompanied with an order form and pre-addressed envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

36515. Pinkerton, Helen: Error pursued: Poems, 1960. 1 box.
General

Author: Pinkerton, Helen

Iowa City, Iowa: The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140mm.); postcard prospectus for a publication from the Cummington Press in conjunction with The Stone Wall Press of Iowa City. "This edition is limited to one hundred and ninety copies printed by hand from Lutetia Italic and Romanée types. One hundred and fifty copies are on Crown & Sceptre paper, bound in Fabriano paper over boards...and forty copies are on various other imported papers, bound in half leather with Laga paper sides...The bindings are by Elizabeth Kner." Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Cross, Wisconsin and postmarked Jun. 10 1960. Return address to The Stone Wall Press.

Physical Description

1 box

36460. Glim, Aesop: How advertising is written--and why, 1961. 1 box.
General

Author: Glim, Aesop

New York: Dover Publications

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); illustrated prospectus for "A brief, inexpensive survey of the methods and approaches of copy writing and advertising"; verso of leaf a prospectus for Glim's "Copy: The core of advertising". Printed on yellow paper, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36462. Becker, Howard: Social thought from lore to science. By Howard Becker and Harry Elmer Barnes, 1961. 1 box.
General

Author: Becker, Howard

New York: Dover Publications

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); illustrated prospectus for the "up-to-date unabridged paperbound edition. The greatest coverage of social thought ever published". Verso provides the contents for each of the three volumes and an order form. Printed on yellow paper, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36461. Keller, Ernest G.: Mathematics of modern engineering. By Ernest G. Keller and Robert E. Doherty, 1961. 1 box.
General

Author: Keller, Ernest G.

New York: Dover Publications

Scope and Contents

Folio folded into six-sided brochure; illustrated prospectus for "An offer that no Engineer can afford to overlook!" Also includes advertisements for eight other related titles.

Physical Description

1 box

36639. Thomajan, P.K.: Kidaze, 1961. 1 box.
General

Author: Thomajan, P.K.

Continental, Ohio: The Centaur Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (152 mm.); propsectus for a collection of "eighteen reminiscences of his New England childhood...each complimented with a striking background drawing by Walter Kaprielian. Three hundred copies, numbered and signed by the author, have been printed on Strathmore Chroma paper by Dwight Agner." Text in orange and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36516. Mezey, Robert: The lovemaker, 1961. 1 box.
General

Author: Mezey, Robert

Iowa City, Iowa: The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); postcard prospectus for Mezey's work, named the Lamont Poetry Selection of 1960. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, Wisconsin and postmarked Aug. 19, 1961.

Physical Description

1 box

36458. MacDougall, Curtis D.: Newsroom problems and policies, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: MacDougall, Curtis D.

New York: Dover Publications

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (273 mm.); illustrated prospectus for the "Revised, up-to-date edition of a standard work [that] reveals the dynamics and forces behind the press and its operation". Verso of leaf provides a list of a sample of case studies mentioned in the finished book, a summary of the contents, and an order form. Four small losses from previous folds affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

44692. Villon, François.: Holzschnitte zu den Balladen, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: Villon, François.

Hannover: Fackelträger-Verlag

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustration; previous fold, contemporary rubber stamps, else very good. Prospectus for a work of Villon's poetry, illustrated by Karl-Heinz Hansen. Text in German.

Physical Description

1 box

39347. Fraser, G.S.: Ezra Pound, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Fraser, G.S.

Paris: Editions Universitaires.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; photographic illustration; fine. Advertisement for the 71st title from the series Classiques du XXe Siècle; with the complete list of titles.

Physical Description

1 box

36522. Agee, James: Four early stories by James Agee. Collected by Elena Harap & illustrated with etchings by Keith Achepohl, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Agee, James

West Branch, Iowa: The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 12mo; stories reprinted from the Harvard Advocate, which had been written during Agee's junior and senior year at Harvard College. "The type is foundry Cloister Old Style, specially cast with reduced capitals as shown here, set up and printed letterpress by hand on dampened Rives paper in a tall quarto...The edition is 285 copies, each signed by Mr. Achepohl, numbered and cased into quarter morocco with sides of hand-decorated Swedish paper." Includes envelope in which this prospectus came, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Feb 22 1965.

Physical Description

1 box

36479. Simms, George Otto: The book of Kells, 1967. 1 box.
General

Author: Simms, George Otto

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

8vo (215 mm.), pp. 85-88 from the catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of which this black and white photographically illustrated advertisement is on pp. 86-87. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37069. Randle, Edwin Hubert : Safi adventure, 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Randle, Edwin Hubert

Clearwater, Florida: Eldnar Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (266 mm.); prospectus comes with bifolium with book description, order form, small printed piece titled "A true story," and an article on the book.

Physical Description

1 box

37071. Randle, Edwin H.: Ernie Pyle comes ashore, and other stories, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: Randle, Edwin H.

Clearwater, Florida: Eldnar Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); prospectus for this limited edition. Previous folds. Post script advertising for the second edition of the author's "Safi Adventure".

Physical Description

1 box

37054. Eakins books, 1973. 1 box.
General

New York: Eakins Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; illustrated catalogue describing "all Eakins books published since the original Anthology-Catalogue".

Physical Description

1 box

37105. Moran, James: Printing presses: History & development from the fifteenth century to modern times, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Moran, James

London: Faber

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 8vo; illustrated prospectus for Moran's survey of "the history of the relief printing press and machine from its inception as an adaptation of a domestic screw press in the middle of the fifteenth century to the giant, fast rotary presses of today". Integral order form addressed to Keith Hogg Bookseller, Tenterden, Kent.

Physical Description

1 box

39212. Du Rietz, Rolf E., ed.: Text. Svensk tidskrift fö bibliografi, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Du Rietz, Rolf E., ed.

Uppsala, Sweden: Dahlia Books

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo; printed in orange and black; fine. Prospectus for a Swedish quarterly journal of bibliography.

Filed under V.

Physical Description

1 box

36560. Dahlstrom, Grant: Books designed, printed, and published by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Dahlstrom, Grant

Pasadena, California: Castle Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. [13]; checklist of these works illustrated with facsimiles; color illustration on front cover.

Physical Description

1 box

39399. Nichols, Dale: The Mayan mystery, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Nichols, Dale

Chicago: Cherryburn Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; fine. Specimen page provided.

Physical Description

1 box

36480. Simms, G.O.: The book of Kells, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Simms, G.O.

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (195 mm.); prospectus for a reproduction of "one of Ireland's greatest treasures [that] has been in the library of Trinity College, Dublin for about three hundred years and is recognised as one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts ever produced." Brown paper, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

36473. Miller, Liam: The new Yeats papers I-XVII, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Miller, Liam

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 14; illustrated prospectus for each of the Yeats papers, each of which "deals with some aspect of Years's life, work and background".

Physical Description

1 box

36474. Dolmen Press books, winter 1977-1978, 1977. 1 box.
General

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 16; catalogue of upcoming publications from the press, three additions to the Dolmen editions, Desmond O'Grady's "The Gododdin," Austin Clarke's "Libery Lane," and "Holinshed's Irish Chronicle 1577"; also makes mention of two pieces from the series New Yeats Papers and a retrospectus, pp. 14-15. Pictorial grey paper wrappers.

Physical Description

1 box

36587. Stillwell, Margaret B.: Rhythm and rhymes: The songs of a bookworm, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Stillwell, Margaret B.

Mount Vernon, New York: The Press of A. Colish

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for Stillwell's illustrated work of poetry, "designed by Bert Clarke. It was set in English Monotype Poliphilus, and printed letterpress on fine natural antique text paper...Miss Stillwell has selected 21 illustrations from 15th and 16th century sources, and she has drawn six delightful little designs for the section half-title pages." Includes specimens pages 34-35.

Physical Description

1 box

37162. Priceless masterpieces of medieval art in museum-quality facsimiles for the private collector, 1978. 1 box.
General

Bristol, Rhode Island: Current Company

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 4to; color illustrated catalogue for four facsimile editions, "The Book of the Hunt 1405-1410," "Bible Moralisée 1220-1230," "The Book of Hours of Mary of Burgundy 1470-1480," and "Emperor Frederick II: The Art of Falconry 1250". A letter from the press's Robert Rulon-Miller (Sr.) and order form loosely inserted. With envelope in which this brochure was originally mailed, addressed to J. Harold Kittleson.

Physical Description

1 box

36485. Plunkett, Oliver: The letters of Saint Oliver Plunkett 1625-1681, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all England. Edited by Monsignor John Hanly and the Irish College in Rome, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Plunkett, Oliver

Dublin: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus includes two specimen pages of text (264-265). "This edition of The Letters of Saint Oliver Plunkett, designed by Liam Miller in Imperial octavo format...The text, set in Pilgrim type, will be printed on fine paper in an edition limited to 1,500 copies." Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37862. Garzelli, Annarosa: La miniatura fiorentina del rinascimento, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Garzelli, Annarosa

Milan: Electa Editrice

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for this facsimile edition; text in Italian. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36482. Dolmen Press distribution, 1979. 1 box.
General

Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (203 mm.); announcing that "From 1 June 1979 Dolmen Press books are warehoused and distributed by Irish Bookhandling Limited". Blue paper.

Physical Description

1 box

37010. Fraser, Claud Lovat: A book of simple toys: A facsimile with an introduction by Seymour Adelman, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Fraser, Claud Lovat

Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College Library

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (227 mm.); prospectus for this facsimile of the original 1917 edition, printed here by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press and limited to 1000 copies. Order form loosely inserted. With original envelope in which it came, addressed to J. Harold Kittleson. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36563. Books in print, 1983. 1 box.
General

Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrated prospectus of titles published by the press; order form printed on back endpaper. Catalog addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, LaCrosse, WI, and postmarked Sep., 1983.

Physical Description

1 box

37043. John, 1983. 1 box.
General

Austin, Texas: Erespin Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (88 x 123 mm.); prospectus from Carol Kent's press, advertising this short work on "An 'insane' man of 19th c. America".

Physical Description

1 box

36385. Plath, Sylvia: Above the oxbow: Selected writings, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Plath, Sylvia

Northampton, MA: Catawba Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; wood engraving from the finished piece by Barry Moser. "The book is illustrated with four original wood engravings by Barry Moser. Presswork is by Daniel Kelcher of Wild Carrot Letterpress. Typographic design and hand binding in half-linen with Roma paper sides are by Barbara B. Blumenthal...Limited to three hundred and twenty-five copies."

Physical Description

1 box

36528. Morning coffee chapbooks, 1985. 1 box.
General

West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for upcoming chapbooks published by the Coffe House Press.

Physical Description

1 box

36529. Coffee House Press, 1985. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; prospectus for upcoming publications from the press, starting with the Coffe House 1986 Calendar. Sale information on back flap.

Physical Description

1 box

36561. The printed poem / The poem as print. Twenty-four Broadsides of American poetry, 1985. 1 box.
General

Colorado Springs, CO: Press at Colorado College

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; introduction by Dana Gioia; prospectus provides the list of poets and the printer's comment; color reproductions of four of the Broadsides loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36566. The Coincidence Press, 1985. 1 box.
General

Oakland, CA: The Coincidence Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo; list of titles availabe from the press, "Fine hand-made books which present contemporary writing"; verso provides reduced sample page from David I. Sheidlower's "Consumerism," printed in black and purple.

Physical Description

1 box

36562. Poe, Edgar Allen: Two tales...with six original lithographs by Charles Keeping, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Poe, Edgar Allen

Beckenham, Kent: Chimaera Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for the press's fifth publication, Poe's tales "The facts in the case of Monsieur Valdemar" and "The story of Hop-Frog". Edition limited to 100 copies. Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39220. A private library of distinction. The world's 100 greatest works of literature bound in genuine leather and decorated with real gold, 1986. 1 box.
General

Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; color photographic illustrations throughout; original brown printed die-cut wrappers, fine. "A special invitation" to "build a truly distinctive private library of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written". Broadside of subscriber reviews laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36521. Howard, Ben: Northern interior: Poems 1975-1982, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Howard, Ben

Omaha, NE: The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (143 mm.); unaddressed postcard prospectus for Howard's collection of poetry, "Printed from Romulus type on Rising Book paper by Harry Duncan. Limited to 260 copies, numbered and signed, casebound in full linen at The Campbell-Logan Bindery". Sold at the Granary Books, 212 N. 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN.

Physical Description

1 box

37030. Chevalier, François and Jacques Taglang: America's Cup yacht designs 1851-1986, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Chevalier, François and Jacques Taglang

Paris: François Chevalier et Jacques Taglang

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 4to; illustrated prospectus, including a specimen plate in its original format (Planche CXIX); also includes a list of the boats whose blueprints are included in the work. Text in blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36526. Oglesby, Mira-Lani: Athena Louise replies, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Oglesby, Mira-Lani

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (165 mm.); postcard prospectus. "Handset in Spectrum and Coronet display, and printed on Curtis Tweed weave using a Vandercook 219. 400 copies have been signed, stamped, and sewn into Canson wrappers." Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, WI. Very slightly soiled.

Physical Description

1 box

36525. Hilton, David: No relation to the hotel. Poems, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Hilton, David

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (178 mm.); illustrated postcard prospectus for Hilton's collection of poetry. "Handset in Ehrhardt and Glamour types and printed on Fabriano Ingres text and cover stock using a Vandercook 219. 400 copies have been signed by the author and artist." Wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, WI.

Physical Description

1 box

36524. Moraff, Barbara: Deadly nightshade: A new collection of poems, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Moraff, Barbara

Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside,12mo (161 mm.); postcard prospectus for Moraff's collection of poetry, "Handset in Goudy's lyric Italian Old Style with Weiss display, and printed on delicious Fabriano Ingres text and cover stock using a Vandercook 219. Illustrations by Kent Aldrich wave in the summer breeze. 400 numbered copies signed by author and artist." Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse WI, and postmarked 7 Jul 1989.

Physical Description

1 box

37725. Hutner, Martin: The making of the Book of Common Prayer of 1928...accompanied by an original leaf printed on vellum at the Merrymount Press, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Hutner, Martin

Southbury, CT: Chiswick Book Shop

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; table of contents and specimen page provided; edition limited to 285 copies, and printed letterpress at A. Colish, Inc.

Physical Description

1 box

36468. Taylor, W. Thomas: The plot of Bartolomé Pagés to free Santa Anna from the chains of his Texian captors in late 1836; the discovery of the plot and his subsequent arrest; his escape, capture, trial, and punishment; concluding with his doleful letter from prison to Sam Houston. With: a further account of modern forgery of the only known copy of the reward poster issued by Sheriff Calder in 1836; the twisting history of copies fake and real; their discovery and exposure, concluding with a few remarks on the staining & baking of paper, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Taylor, W. Thomas

Dallas, Texas: DeGolyer Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for the DeGolyer Library Keepsake Number Four of which "Five hundred copies have been printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor in Janson type on acid-free paper".

Physical Description

1 box

37049. Wesler, Allan: Images encyclopedia, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Wesler, Allan

Surfside, Florida: Enterprises Publishers

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 4to; illustrated prospectus with Broadside advertisement for the same work loosely inserted. "[A]n extraordinary new publication providing a breakthrough in understanding the images, symbols and metaphors from the beginnings of present manking."

Physical Description

1 box

37048. Brannon, Gary: A lake to the south of Itasca: Willard Glazier and the Mississippi fiasco 1881-1891, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Brannon, Gary

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Escart Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a work on the hoax concerning the discovery of the "true" source of the Mississippi. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36573. McGrath, Harold Patrick: [Festschrift honoring McGrath], 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: McGrath, Harold Patrick

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Cheloniidae Press

Scope and Contents

TLS, 2 leaves on Cheloniidae Press letterhead; announcement made by Alan James Robinson to "Collectors of Gehenna Press, Pennyroyal Press, Cheloniidae Press and Friends of Fine Printing," announcing the production of a limited edition of "over 60 recollections, reminiscences, homages, anecdotes, histories, etc. from friends, family, artists and printers spanning Harold's illustrious career [as Master Printer at the above mentioned presses]".

Physical Description

1 box

37714. Letterpress imprints, 1991. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; titles from the catalogue include "Honorable Courtship: From journals of Allen Ginsberg"; and W.P. Kinsella's "The First & Last Annual Six Towns Area Old Timer's Baseball Game" with wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37081. The facts on file bibliography series, 1991. 1 box.
General

New York: Facts on File

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; advertisement for "The first comprehensive inventory of publications by and about every significant American writer from 1588 to 1988"; reduced specimen pages depicted; integral order form; letter from Martin Greenwald, publisher, addressed to Rob Rulon Miller of Rulon-Miller Books.

Physical Description

1 box

37651. Warner, Charles Dudley: Calvin: a study in character from My summer in a garden, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Warner, Charles Dudley

Vineburg, CA: Engdahl Typography

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (153 mm.); prospectus for a pamphlet on "the character of a cat given the author...by Harriet Beecher Stowe"; originally published in "My Summer in a Garden," 1871.

Physical Description

1 box

37652. Pound, Ezra: A Broadside selected from Canto LXXXVI, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Pound, Ezra

San Francisco: Engdahl Typography

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (145 mm.); prospectus for this Broadside, illustrated by Mayona Engdahl in an edition of 500.

Physical Description

1 box

36810. Morris, William: Sir Galahad: A Christmas mystery...with a wood engraving by John DePol, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Morris, William

San Francisco, CA: Bullnettle Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (190 mm.); prospectus for this edition limited to 90 copies, "Set in Dante type & printed in red, black, & grey on Hahnemule Ingres paper, the book features patterened paper covers designed by Coriander Reisbord, who bound the edition"; specimen page on verso. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

39317. Kuch, Michael: Amour & armor, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Kuch, Michael

Florence, MA: Double Elephant Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; etchings and lithographs printed in black and white and color; fine. Prospectus for the Press's second publication, a collection of etchings, lithographs, and poems. Author biography and illustrated dealer discount announcement laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39299. Daniels, John H.: Nothing could be finer. A fifty year history of the heyday of polo and winter resorts in Camden, 1898-1948, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Daniels, John H.

Camden, SC: John Culler & Sons.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; color illustration, black and white photograph, fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 250 copies (also available in a trade edition). Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39348. Casperson, Ralph A.: Biblio. The intimate confessions of a used book dealer, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Casperson, Ralph A.

Niles, MI: Casperson Books.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (354 mm.); black and white photographic illustration, text printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for the author's second book, "a humorous account of two people operating a used-book shop". Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36470. A collection of unusual printed objects: Artist's books, greeting cards, posters, & slim volumes of poetry. All in unique & limited editions, 1997. 1 box.
General

San Jose, NM: Desert Rose Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 23; color-illustrated catalogue of the upcoming publications from the press with brief pieces by Virginia Mudd and Clifford Burke, printers of the press.

Physical Description

1 box

36471. Whalen, Philip: Some of these days: Poems...including many previously unpublished and uncollected poems from the 70s and 80s. A handmade limited edition printed by Clifford Burke, 1999. 1 box.
General

Author: Whalen, Philip

San Jose, NM: Desert Rose Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; includes note from the printer on the piece, "hand set in several sizes of Goudy's Italian Old Style types and printed in an edition of three hundred copies. The paper used is the last remaining stock of a letterpress sheet specially made by the Curtis mill in 1980. Two hundred copies have been sewn into hand-made De Ponte Kahlo paper wrappers; fifty copies have been signed by Mr Whalen and bound in decorated cloth over boards. Both bindings were executed by Martha Little of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Order form included in bifolium. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36456. The pocket nature guides, 1909. 1 box.
General

Garden Cit, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo (160 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this series, advertised as the "Ideal Out Door Companion". Titles include Chester A. Reed's "Bird Guide: Land Birds" and "Flower Guide"; W.J. Holland's "Butterfly Guide"; and Julia Ellen Rogers' "Tree Guide". "The complete set of four handy volumes in flexible leather". Also advertising for The Nature Books Series, Other Practical Garden and Farm Books, The Garden Library, and Outdoor Fiction.

Physical Description

1 box

45152. The American Home Series of New Holiday Books. Sterling Quality. A Money-Making Opportunity, 1915. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: Charles Foster Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium, (approx. 12" high), the whole dealing with publication details for 5 books: Mother Good in Alphabet and Rhyme; Famous Stories from Shakespeare; Little Folks' Stories of Animals; Seeing America; and The Universal Standard Speaker - all with the prerequisite illustrations of binding and illustration. On the bottom half of the front is an enumeration of six advantages of selling a series of books.

Physical Description

1 box

36553. [Advertisement for the Cuneo Studio], 1930. 1 box.
General

Chicago, Illinois: The Cuneo Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text only on front cover; advertisement for the Cuneo Studio binder, which provides "Cleaning and restoring of rare books. Bindings of documents and manuscripts. Binding and repairing of library books. Inlaying and binding of collection of letters. The making of protective cases for rare books or manuscripts." Text in orange and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37045. Publications volume XV, 1935. 1 box.
General

Edinburgh: Edinburgh Bibliographical Society

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for the last volume of the series, includes the list of officers, advertisement for a New Series of Transactions, and index of publications, a list of forthcoming articles, and available reprints. Specimen page of General Index (20) loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36502. New graphic series The Colophon, 1935. 1 box.
General

New York: The Colophon

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; front cover illustrated with two-toned wood engraving; announcing the Colophon's return to its original, larger, size due to popular demand. Prospectus includes excerpts of letters written by subscribers, the responding letter by the editors, and the list of said editors. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36501. The Colophon, 1938. 1 box.
General

New York: The Colophon

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (391 mm.); illustrated advertisement for the Colophon, a book collector's quarterly. Order form forms part of the Broadside. Grey paper, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37556. Szyk, Arthur: The Haggadah. Reproduction in full color on vellum throughout of the illuminated manuscript...Edited by Cecil Roth, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Szyk, Arthur

New York: Philip C. Duschnes

Scope and Contents

Folio, pp. [8]; illustrated prospectus of this limited edition of 250 copies, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe; provides "A few appreciations for the Haggadah," including a reprint of the review in the Times Literary Supplement. Order form laid in. Text in black and tan, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37044. Ballweg, Bettianne: Echoes / The funeral / No. roses / Pills (too many), 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Ballweg, Bettianne

Bozeman, Montana: Evanescent Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); prospectus for two titles from the press, Balllweg's collection and Lee Ruelle's "Freezerbox Alarmclock". With sample sheet and the envelope in which this prospectus was sent, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Nov 21 1977. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39316. Burke, Clifford: Printing poetry. A workbook in typographic reification...With a foreword by William Everson, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Burke, Clifford

San Jose, NM: Desert Rose Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated specimen page printed on blue paper laid in; fine. Prospectus for a reprint of this work, originally printed by the Scarab Press in 1980. Provides table of contents and critical acclaim. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37640. Books of good cheer, 1912. 1 box.
General

New York: Century Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (167 mm.); illustrated list of titles from the press, including Jean Webster's "Daddy-Long-Legs" and Jack London's "The Night-Born".

Physical Description

1 box

37532. Lehrer, Warren: Grrhhhh. A study of social paterns, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Lehrer, Warren

Purchase, NY: Ear/say

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this piece printed at the Center for Editions, SUNY Purchase.

Physical Description

1 box

45456. De Laurence, L. W.: The immanence of God "Know thyself": original teachings and principles of healing as taught by Jesus the master, 1917. 1 box.
General

Author: De Laurence, L. W.

Chicago: De Laurence, Scott & Co.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. [48]; plain text illustrations, some photographic, throughout; original pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; fine. Publisher's catalogue featuring a book that apparently never made it to print (no copies located in OCLC as of May, 2014). The firm, advertised as "Sellers of Occult and Spiritual Books," also promotes here crystal balls, hypnosis ("Now An Established Fact As Shown Above By One Of Dr. de Laurence's Students" [who is totally hypnotising a group of men who are definitely not faking it for the photographer, even though that one guy is definitely looking at the camera]). Temple incense, rings, pens, talisman cases, wholesale diamond jewelry, watches, silver polish, and (occult?) tooth powder also for sale. Because how can one "Know Thyself" with a mouth full of cavities?

Physical Description

1 box

42468. Rogers, Bruce: Pi: a hodge podge of letters, papers, addresses, writen during a period of 60 years, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Rogers, Bruce

New York: Philip C. Duschnes.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations, text printed in brown on tan paper; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for "the first definitive collection of the writings of three-score years by a man who has made a craft of his special skill...and an art of his special craft"; to be designed by Rogers. Integral order form printed at bottom of back panel.

Physical Description

1 box

42462. Malraux, André: The voices of silence, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Malraux, André

New York: Philip C. Duschnes.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; black and white illustrations, text printed in black and green; some minor glue damage to front panel, else very good. Prospectus extravagantly announcing "Now, for the first time in history, the entire storehouse of the world's art has been surveyed as a unit, and related to man's expression in his time, his faith, his place, and his people". Accompanying bifolium from Duschnes, the distributor, with order blank, laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

42466. The Bay psalm book, 1956. 1 box.
General

New York: Philip C. Duschnes.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; facsimile; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for the facsimile edition of "The Whole Book of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Verse," with a historical introduction by Zoltán Haraszti titled "The Enigma of the Bay Psalm Book". Integral order form printed on back panel.

Physical Description

1 box

39700. Festina lente. The journal of..., 1979. 1 box.
General

Rochester, NY: Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 15, [1]; original tan printed wrappers, French flaps, fine. "Sample Issue, June, 1979". Provides the journal's mission statement, "A Note on the Name," and "A Note on the Cary Collection". TLs on Journal letterhead from Caroline Watson, staff, and ALs from Joanna Berg, Journal secretary, with original envelope, laid in. The first issue was printed in February, 1980. This sample issue not in OCLC, nor is it mentioned in the OCLC record for the Journal proper.

Physical Description

1 box

36504. Announcing the first American publications of the Pegasus Press, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Continental Typefounders Association

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; announcement that the Pegasus Press books are being made available in America by the Harcourt, Brace and Company. List of available titles and advertisement for Bodoni Editions. Blue decorative border to front page, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36509. Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer together with a version in modern English verse by William van Wyck. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Volume 1, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey

New York: Covici-Friede

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus provides sample illustration and sample page from the finished work, in which the original and modern versions are in two columns. "Of this book, there will be issued 999 copies, of which 924, each signed by Rockwell Kent, are for sale...and 75 copies, bound in full pigskin, each signed by Rockwell Kent, and each containing an extra run of the illustrations printed in panels of five, each signed by Rockwell Kent." Text in brown and black, previous folds. Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37983. Shakespeare, William: Limited de luxe edition of the Rockwell Kent Shakespeare, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, folio; specimen illustration, page, and title page; printed in orange and black. Prospectus for this edition limited to 750 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36494. The new Colophon. A book collector's quarterly, 1949. 1 box.
General

New York: The Colophon

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into eight-sided brochure, 12mo; published a year after the first appearance of the New Colophon, this brochure consists mainly of excerpts from letters written by subscribers (praise, comments, criticisms, and one "Please discontinue my subscription"). Illustrations and bordering in red.

Physical Description

1 box

36514. A list of publications, 1949. 1 box.
General

Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; illustrated catalogue of books in print and forthcoming publications from the press, which is affiliated to Cummington School of the Arts. Introduction signed by Harry Duncan and Wightman Williams. The forthcoming publications include "Two Conceits, for the Eye to Sing, if Possible: Poems by Allen Tate: with a woodcut by WW"; "Mesa, vol. ii, no.I, edited by Herbert Steiner"; and "Two Pendants by William Carlos Williams with drawings by WW". Order form on last leaf. Printed by the Kraushar Press on grey printed wrappers. Second copy is printed on yellow wrappers with the order form cut out.

Physical Description

1 box

38614. Dante Alighieri: The divine comedy. The prose translation by Charles Eliot Norton with illustrations from designs by Botticelli, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Dante Alighieri

New York: Bruce Rogers & the Press of A. Colish

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; woodcut illustrations; original brown wrappers printed in black and gilt, fine. Prospectus for this edition limited to 300 copies.TLs from S.R. Shapiro, the author the prospectus, laid in. Order form and envelope also loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

Advertisement for a book of poems by Stephen Berg, 1963. 1 box.
General

The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

Poscard advertising Bearing Weapons by Stephen Berg

Physical Description

1 box

36459. Ruzika, Rudolph: Studies in type design, 1968. 1 box.
General

Author: Ruzika, Rudolph

Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College/Friends of Dartmouth Library?

Scope and Contents

Large 8vo (single folio sheet folded twice), unpaginated, uncut; announcement from the Friends of the Dartmouth Library of a work by "America's dean of graphic artists". Text in brown and black, reproduced and printed by The Meriden Gravure Company. Previous book seller's stamp.

Physical Description

1 box

36637. RHM: Robert Hunter Middleton, the man and his letters: Eight essays on his life and career, 1984. 1 box.
General

Chicago: The Caxton Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this festschrift, limited to 1000 copies, celebrating Middleton. Provides the contents with the authors of each essay as well as a specimen page (19). Text in brown and black; previous folds. Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36643. David, Ismar: The book of Jonah. Drawings and design by Ismar David with an introduction by Chaim Potok, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: David, Ismar

Southbury, Connecticut: Chiswick Book Shop

Scope and Contents

Single leaf, folded twice, 4to; illustrated prospectus providing specimen pages 4-5 and a brief introduction to the work, "An artist's vision of the Book of Jonah". Limited to 326 copies signed by the artist. "16 pages of calligraphy and eight illustrations, printed in four colors on Zanders' Elephant Hide...Printed at the Meriden-Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. Bound by Judi Conant, Guildhall, Vermont in Scholco Brillianta brick red cloth." Pages uncut, order form printed on pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39197. Piehl, Frank J.: The Caxton Club, 1895-1995. Celebrating a century of the book in Chicago...with a foreword by Bruce McKittrick, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Piehl, Frank J.

Chicago: Caxton Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; printed in pink and black; fine. Prospectus provides table of contents and specimen page. Published by the Centennial Committee of the Caxton Club "as part of the activities commemorating the Club's centennial year".

Physical Description

1 box

36508. McMurtrie, Douglas C.: The golden book: The story of fine books and bookmaking--past & present, 1927. 1 box.
General

Author: McMurtrie, Douglas C.

Chicago: Pascal Covici

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into eight-sided brochure, 4to; prospectus includes the table of contents, comments from the press, and order form. Decorated front flap, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36408. The Colophon: A book collector's quarterly, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Colophon

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; two-tone, black and yellow, wood-engraving illustrating t.p.; announcingthe publication of a new periodic, whose "primary concern will be with collected and collectable books". "The responsibility for the printing of The Colophon will be with Pynson Printers". Also lists the contributing editors, which included W.A. Dwiggins, Rockwell Kent, and Bruce Rogers. Text in black and orange.

Physical Description

1 box

36488. Pages from Dropmore books, 1950. 1 box.
General

London: Dropmore Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; book of sample pages from titles published by the press, including Robert Bruce Lockhart's "My Rod My Company"; Duff Cooper's "Translations and Verses"; "A Selection from the Occasional Sermons of the Right Reverend Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox"; George Sitwell's "On the Making of Gradens"; and Thomas Cubbin's "The Wreck of the Serica". Publication details of these five titles provided on the back page. Retrospectus and a TLS from the director of the press to a "collector of Private Press books" loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36519. Pamphlets of new poetry, 1950. 1 box.
General

Cummington, Mass.: The Cummington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); postcard prospectus of six new titles from the press "hand-printed on excellent imported papers, each except number 3 with an original print from wood or copper by Wightman Williams, and all first editions limited to 300 copies or fewer". Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, Wis. and postmarked Oct. 17 1950.

Physical Description

1 box

36638. Agner, Dwight: William Maxwell: Ohio's first printer, 1960. 1 box.
General

Author: Agner, Dwight

Continental, Ohio: The Centaur Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (153 mm.); prospectus for the press's first publication. "Handset in Garamond types, and printed and bound in boards by the author...A total of seventy-five numbered copies available." Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36570. Trypanis, C.A.: The elegies of a glass Adonis...with a typographical note by Will Carter, 1967. 1 box.
General

Author: Trypanis, C.A.

New York: Chilmark Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus a limited edition of 450 copies, "signed by the author, each consisting of 40 pages similar to this prospectus in size and paper--a mould-made from the Wookey Hole mill in Somerset--and bound in dark green Fabriano paper boards, gold blocket, in a slip case. This is the second of the Clover Hill Editions published by the Chilmark Press...It is designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, England." Also includes specimen page (19) and a note on the type ("rare 16 point Vicenza italic...") Text in orange and black. Article reprinted from Publisher's Weekly, November 6, 1967, by Paul Standard and titled "Who Designed and Cut the Arrighi Types?" loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36455. Powell, Lawrence Clark: Landscape and literature: The essays of Lawrence Clark Powell in the Southwest Review, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Powell, Lawrence Clark

Dallas, Texas: DeGolyer Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; "designed and printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor from Monotype Perpetua. Seven hundred and fifty cloth-bound copies have been printed on acid-free paper, with an additional one hundred copies printed on Mohawk Ticonderoga paper, signed by the author." Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

44669. Hearn, Lafcadio and Henry Farny, eds.: Ye giglampz, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Hearn, Lafcadio and Henry Farny, eds.

Cincinnati: Crossroad Books

Scope and Contents

Publisher's promotional packet in original envelope includes various advertisements for this facsimile edition, published with the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Also included in the packet is advertising material for "The Dreyfus Affair: the Ben Shahn Prints."

Physical Description

1 box

36490. A prospectus of books to be published by The Dropmore Press during the winter 1950-1951, 1950. 1 box.
General

London: The Dropmore Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 8; illustrated catalogue beginning with the press's mission statement: "The Press was founded with the simple but unusual intention of designing, printing, binding and publishing books of uncommon literary merit for those who take pleasure in good literature finely produced". The titles mentioned here include "A Portrait of Logan Pearsall Smith Drawn from his Letters & Diaries: Edited by John Russell"; "Recollections of Occurences: The Memoirs of Thomas Snagg(e)"; "The London Bookbinder, Masters & Men 1780-1806 by Ellic Howe". Retrospectus of previous titles loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36487. Prospectus, the Dropmore Press, 1952, 1952. 1 box.
General

London: The Dropmore Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; illustrations, some in color; catalogue for upcoming publications from the press, including The Holkham Bible Picture Book; Adrian Bury's Shadow of Eros; and Richard St. Barbe Baker's Famous English Trees. Back page provides a list of the limited editions from the press, many of which are marked as out of print. Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36364. De Vinne, Theodore Low: Notable printers of Italy during the fifteenth century, illustrated with facsimiles from early editions, and with remarks on early and recent printing, 1910. 1 box.
General

Author: De Vinne, Theodore Low

New York: Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; announcement of the publication of a limited edition of 400; two facsimiles, plates 8 and 26 from the final text, are reprinted here, along with a list of the facsimiles on the back leaf. "This prospectus shows the size of leaf, style of text-type and illustrations, and the quality of paper." Previous folds, small stain to bottom edge.

Physical Description

1 box

37169. Livingston, Luther S.: Franklin and his press at Passy, 1915. 1 box.
General

Author: Livingston, Luther S.

New York: Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; second prospectus for this work, addressing the folly of releasing this title at the beginning of the War (October 26, 1914), which subsequently led to a dearth of subscriptions. "Thinking that many of our members may not, at that time, have been able to give proper consideration to the work, and feeling that a larger subscription is due to the memory of our late member, the author, the Committee on Publications ventures to recall the book to your attention."

Physical Description

1 box

36441. Oliver, Simon: The Fleuron: A journal of typography, 1925. 1 box.
General

Author: Oliver, Simon

London: The Fleuron

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus provides contents for the upcoming number of the journal, a list of contributors, and a retrospectus of the first three issues. Discoloration, edges worn.

Physical Description

1 box

37079. The Fanfrolico Press catalogue & announcements January 1928, 1928. 1 box.
General

London: Fanfrolico Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 11; brown printed wrappers with previous bookseller's stamp to front cover; catalogue lists ten previously published titles as well as prospectuses for upcoming publications, including Jack Lindsay's "Helen Comes of Age"; Iohn Eliot's The Parlement of Pratlers"; Hugh McCrae's "Satyrs & Sunlight"; and "A Complete Beddoes".

Physical Description

1 box

37146. Goldsmith, Oliver: The mystery revealed. Containing a series of transactions and authentic testimonials respecting the supposed Cock-Lane ghost, which have hitherto been concealed from the public, 1928. 1 box.
General

Author: Goldsmith, Oliver

Westport: Georgian Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this edition, which "follows faithfully the text of the original pamphlet, 'London: Printed for W. Bristow, in St. Paul's Church-yard; and C. Etherington, York. Mdccxlii' [Mdcclxii], and is the first separate reprinting of this scarce item by Goldsmith." Limited to 375 copies and printed by Richard W. Ellis. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37321. How, Louis: Narcissus and two other poems...with drawings by Walter Dorwin Teague, 1928. 1 box.
General

Author: How, Louis

New York: Harbor Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this work, designed by John S. Fass, and limited to 385 copies. Purple ink stain to front.

Physical Description

1 box

37219. Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, Alvar: Relation, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, Alvar

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for the Buckingham Smith translation of de Vaca's work of Spanish-American history; edition limited to 300 copies. With green envelope in which the prospectus was originally sent, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37314. Prospectus and catalogue of books published by the Halcyon Press...Winter 1929-1930, 1929. 1 box.
General

Maastricht, Holland: Halcyon Press

Scope and Contents

Small 4to, pp. 15; titles include works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Homer. Printed by John & Edward Bumpus, London.

Physical Description

1 box

37078. Plato: Lysis: A dialogue...Translated by K.A. MAtthews and illustrated by Lynton Lamb, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Plato

London: Fulcrum Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. [7]; illustrated prospectus, the first published by the press; includes specimen pages; limited to 750 copies. P. [7] lists other publications from the press, incluing "Nebuchadnezzar and the Story of the Fiery Furnace" and an edition of poems by Michael Drayton. Bound in yellow illustrated wrappers, previous bookseller's stamp to front cover.

Physical Description

1 box

37214. Fogazzaro, Antonio: Eden Anto...translated by Theodore Wesley Koch, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Fogazzaro, Antonio

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for this work published in conjunction with The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco; edition to be limited to 250 copies with illustrations by Rene Gockinga (one of which is reproduced here) and facsimiles from the Grenville and Charlemont copies of the Furioso, as well as a reproduction of a letter of Ariosto referring to this edition. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37223. Lewis, Oscar: Hearn and his biographers. The record of a literary controversy. Including the unpublished correspondence of Elizabeth Bisland, H.E. Krehbiel, Joseph Tunison, Henry Watkin and Dr. George M. Gould relating to the attacks on Hearn published after his death, and comprising the record of the bitterest controversy in American literary history. Together with a group of letters from Lafcadio Hearn to J. Tunison, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Lewis, Oscar

Hartford: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; distributor's stamp on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37145. Maclehose, James: The Glasgow University Press 1638-1931 with some notes on Scottish printing in the last three hundred years...with illustrations in photogravure and collotype, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Maclehose, James

Glasgow: Glasgow University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus provides reviews, two specimen pages, and integral order form addressed to Messrs. Jackson, Wylie & Co. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37320. Wood, Samuel: The cries of New-York, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Wood, Samuel

New York: Harbor Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; Cries of New York, originally published by Samuel Wood in 1808; illustrated specimen page (25) provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37074. Terry, Ellen: Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A correspondence. Edited by Christopher St. John, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Terry, Ellen

New York: The Fountain Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for the first edition, limited to 1500 copies, of the Shaw-Terry letters, designed and printed by D.B. Updike of the Merrymount Press; specimen title page and two others (xxxvi, 167) included. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

36423. Gibbings, Robert: Season 1932. Mr. Robert Gibbings presents his world famous Golden Cockerel in its eleventh year in six completely new and original numbers., 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: Gibbings, Robert

Bershire, England: Golden Cockerel Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; illustrated t.p., prospectus for the season's upcoming titles from the press, which includes Hugh Walpole's "The Apple Trees with engravings by Lynton Lamb"; Lord Dunsany's "Lord Adrian, a play in three acts with engravings by Robert Gibbings"; Rhys Davies' "Daisy Matthews and other tales with four engravings by Agnes Miller Parker"; "Rummy, that noble game expounded in prose, poetry, diagram and engraving by A.E. Coppard & Robert Gibbings"; "Consequences: A complete story in the manner of the old parlous game of consequences in nine long chapters each by a different author"; "Sermons by Artists". Also includes a retrospectus of previous publication, amply illustrated with wood engravings. Also provides three book plates available from the press. Small stain to front cover and fold to back bottom left-hand corner. Lightly soiled.

Physical Description

1 box

37154. Marlowe, Christopher: The complete works of Christopher Marlowe, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: Marlowe, Christopher

London: Golden Hours Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; prospectus for this nine-volume set, with specimen page (50) and specimen plate (wood engravings by various artists). Previous book dealer's stamp to front cover.

Physical Description

1 box

37313. Prospectus and catalogue of books published by the Halcyon Press...1932, 1932. 1 box.
General

Maastricht, Holland: Halcyon Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 15; catalogue of books available from the Press, including works by Edgar Allen Poe, John Keats, John Milton, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Marginal notes.

Physical Description

1 box

37323. How, Louis: The other Don Juan...Illustrations by Steele Savage, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: How, Louis

New York: Harbor Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (274 mm.); prospectus provides title page and specimen page (50) on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

37287. Harrison of Paris presents for the autumn of 1932 two exceptional publications, 1932. 1 box.
General

Paris: Harrison of Paris

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, large 8vo; prospectus for two titles, Glenway Wescott's "A Calendar of Saints for Unbelievers" and "A Typographical Commonplace-book: Quotations and anecdotes variously printed"; a list of other titles available from the press printed on the back. Order form and specimen bifolium from the Calendar both laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37341. Polo, Marco: The travels of Marco Polo, 1933. 1 box.
General

Author: Polo, Marco

Rochester, New York: Printing House of Leo Hart

Scope and Contents

3 ll., TLs from the publisher on the Press's letterhead addressed to Emerson G. Wulling; announcing the publication of this piece illustrated by Dwiggins.

Physical Description

1 box

37144. Johnson, A.F.: Type designs: Their history and development, 1934. 1 box.
General

Author: Johnson, A.F.

London: Grafton & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for "an accout of the development of typography from the point of view of design carried down to the nineteenth century". Facsimile and integral order form included.

Physical Description

1 box

37148. Nielsen, Lauritz: Dansk typografisk atlas 1482-1600, 1934. 1 box.
General

Author: Nielsen, Lauritz

København: Gyldendalske Boghandel

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus in Danish, German, English, and French; three facsimiles reprinted here.

Physical Description

1 box

37155. Boltoin, Reginald Pelham: Indian life of long ago in the city of New York...with illustrations by the author, 1934. 1 box.
General

Author: Boltoin, Reginald Pelham

New York: Joseph Graham

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 4to; illustrated prospectus with a maps and specimen pages provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37109. Irving, Washington: Abottsford and Newstead Abbey, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Irving, Washington

Detroit: Fine Book Circle

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for "this souvenir of an American's literary pilgrimage to the homes of Scott and Byron" with specimen pages (74-75),

Physical Description

1 box

37225. Parsons, George F.: The life and adventures of James W. Marshall, discoverer of gold in California...introduction & notes by G. Ezra Dane, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Parsons, George F.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrated prospectus, providing a facsimile of the title page. Text in black and tan, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37107. Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Tales, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Detroit: Fine Book Circle

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus of a collection of "Hawthorne's best tales," illustrated with original wood-engravings by Paul McPharlin, the book's designer; includes specimen pages and illustration (117-119).

Physical Description

1 box

37114. McPharlin, Paul: The fine book letter. December 1937, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: McPharlin, Paul

Detroit: Fine Book Circle

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. [17]-22, [1]; newsletter includes article "Open sesame: Some craftsmanly children's books" by Samuel Garfinkle with a list of fine children's books; reprint of an illustration from "In Old Kentucky," titled "Miss Katherine Hepburn as Madge".

Physical Description

1 box

37115. McPharlin, Paul: The fine book letter. January-February 1937, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: McPharlin, Paul

Detroit: Fine Book Circle

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; newsletter includes "Of making many books" as well as a list of "Informative books on phases of new and old book making at less than $4 a volume".

Physical Description

1 box

37112. McPharlin, Paul: The fine book letter. July-November 1937, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: McPharlin, Paul

Detroit: Fine Book Circle

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; newsletter includes "Summary of what has gone before" and a list of books on theater.

Physical Description

1 box

The fine book letter.March-June 1937, 1937. 1 box.
General

Detroit: Fine Book Circle

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; newsletter includes "The dilemna of fine book distribution" and a list of books on theater.

Physical Description

1 box

37222. Wagner, Henry R.: The plains and the Rockies, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Wagner, Henry R.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; prospectus for a new and enlarged edition, edited by Charles L. Camp; limited to 500 copies. With the distributor's ticket pasted to front. Text in black and tan, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37218. St. Denis: Joan, the maid of Orleans. Being that portion of the Chronicles of St. Denis which deals with her life and times. From the Chroniques de France, printed in Paris, 1493. Translated by Pauline S. Sowers. With reproductions of some twenty woodcuts from the original edition and a bibliographical note on the work of Antoine Verard, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: St. Denis

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 8vo; prospectus for a work printed for Roy Vernon Sowers in an edition limited to 525 copies; illustrated specimen page provided. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37153. Magna Carta and other charters of English liberties, in revised text and translation by Noël Denholm-Young, 1938. 1 box.
General

London: Guyon House Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for the press's first publication, "set in 16 point Bembo and in Albertus, with charter headings and tailpieces designed by Berthold Wolpe". Edition limited to 256 copies. Order form loosely inserted. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

37080. Leale, John: Recollections of a Tule sailor by John Leale (1850-1932), master mariner, San Francisco Bay with interpolations by Marion Leale, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Leale, John

San Francisco: George Fields

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus of Leale's memoirs with annotations by his daughter Marion.

Filed under F.

Physical Description

1 box

37217. Meyers, William H.: Naval sketches of the war in California. Reproductions in full color of the sketches made by gunner William H. Meyers aboard the United States sloop "Dale" in 1846 and 1847 with a descriptive text by Captain Dudley W. Knox of the United States Navy and an introduction by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Meyers, William H.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet, folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; prospectus of a work published for Random House in an edition limited to 1000 copies. Integral order form addressed to Paul A. Struck, New York City.

Physical Description

1 box

37215. Meyers, William H.: Naval sketches of the war in California. Reproductions in full color of the sketches made by gunner William H. Meyers aboard the United States sloop "Dale" in 1846 and 1847 with a descriptive text by Captain Dudley W. Knox of the United States Navy and an introduction by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Meyers, William H.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet, folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; prospectus of a work published for Random House in an edition limited to 1000 copies. Integral order form addressed to Random House. With Roosevelt's introduction, reprinted in Life magazine, 8/28/39, laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37322. Dante Alighieri: Third and final volume of the Comedy ["Heaven"]...American translation by Louis How, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Dante Alighieri

New York: Harbor Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; press "Comments" and specimen page provided; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37110. McPharlin, Paul: The fine book letter, January 1938-March 1941, 1941. 1 box.
General

Author: McPharlin, Paul

Detroit: Fine Book Circle

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; newsletter includes specimen pages from various titles available from the press and a check list of books in print.

Physical Description

1 box

37106. Lincoln, Abraham: Lincoln's Kalamazoo address against extending slavery. Also his life by Joseph J. Lewis. Both annotated by Thomas I. Starr, 1941. 1 box.
General

Author: Lincoln, Abraham

Detroit: Fine Book Circle

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus includes two specimen pages and integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37317. How, Louis: An evening with Ninon. A didactic poem containing a translation of Racine's Berenice...Decorations by Boris Artzybasheff, 1941. 1 box.
General

Author: How, Louis

New York: Harbor Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; "printed in Caledonia type on Archer paper, with title page and frontispiece in two colors, (shown on inside pages of this announcement). Bound in blue cloth over boards, gold stamped, in slip case". Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37147. Graphis no. 9/10 1945, 1945. 1 box.
General

Zurich, Switzerland: Amstutz & Herdeg Graphis Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, various pagings; illustrations throughout; "In this miniature Graphis no complete articles but only sections of such are reproduced".

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

42464. The new colophon. A book collectors' quarterly, 1948. 1 box.
General

New York: Norbert Halliwell.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to, text in black and orange; prospectus for the resuscitation of the Colophon "By the same staff--in the same spirit," giving the names of the editors and contributing editors, including W.A. Dwiggins and Alfred A. Knopf. Back leaf provides information on the format, advertising, and subscription prices.

Filed under H.

Physical Description

1 box

39444. Singer, Charles: The earliest chemical industry. An essay in the historical relations of economics & technology illustrated from the Alum trade...With a preface by Derek Spence, 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Singer, Charles

London: Folio Society.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; specimen plate; previous fold, mostly fine. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37337. Shipton, Clifford K.: Isaiah Thomas, printer, patriot, and philanthropist, 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Shipton, Clifford K.

New York: Printing House of Leo Hart

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (83 x 139 mm.); postcard prospectus announcing the publication of the second title in the Printers' Valhalla Series. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Jul. 8, 1948.

Physical Description

1 box

39440. Programme 1949, 1949. 1 box.
General

New York: Folio Society.

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 10; printed self-wrappers; fine. New titles from the Society include Isaak Walton and Charles Cotton's "The Compleat Angler"; and "Grimm's Household Tales," illustrated by George Cruikshank. Color plate and order form addressed to distributor Philip C. Duschnes laid in. Subscriber feedback printed on back wrapper.

Physical Description

1 box

37338. Swan, Bradford F.: Gregory Dexter of London and New England, 1949. 1 box.
General

Author: Swan, Bradford F.

Rochester, New York: Printing House of Leo Hart

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrated prospectus for third title in the Printers' Valhalla Series; order form and typescript letter on Press's letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37201. Autumn list 1950, 1950. 1 box.
General

London: Golden Cockerel Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrated catalogue of new titles from the press. Philip C. Duschnes, distributor.

Physical Description

1 box

37205. Komensky, John Amos: The labyrinth of the world and the paradise of the heart...translated by Count Lutzow. Illustrations by Dorothea Braby, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Komensky, John Amos

London: Golden Cockerel Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this edition limited to 370 copies; specimen page (30) and illustration included. US distributor Philip C. Duschnes, New York. Order form and pre-addressed envelope to the distributor loosely inserted. Text in black and tan, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

1951 prospectus, 1951. 1 box.
General

New York: Folio Society.

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 15; illustrations; original brown pictorial wrappers, fine. Titles for the year's series include Anthony Trollope's "Mary Gresley and other stories" and "The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë. Special announcement, order form, and envelope from the American distributor Philip C. Duschnes laid in. Advertisements for the folio society and Bruce Rogers' Twelve Moneths and Christmas Day laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39441. 1951 prospectus, 1951. 1 box.
General

New York: Folio Society.

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 15; illustrations; original brown pictorial wrappers, fine. Titles for the year's series include Anthony Trollope's "Mary Gresley and other stories" and "The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë. Special announcement, order form, and envelope from the American distributor Philip C. Duschnes laid in. With original envelope in which the catalogue was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

37207. Caesar, Julius: Julius Caesar's commentaries. A mondern rendering by Somerset de Chair. Engravings by Clifford Webb, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Caesar, Julius

London: Golden Cockerel Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this edition limited to 320 copies; specimen page (135) and illustration included. Typed letter, signed, on Story Classics letterhead from J.I. Rodale and order form with pre-addressed envelope all loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37203. Beaumont, Francis: Salmacis and Hermaphroditus. A poem attributed to Francis Beaumont. Edited by Gwyn Jones with ten engravings in colour by John Buckland-Wright, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Beaumont, Francis

London: Golden Cockerel Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color illustrated prospectus for this edition limited to 380 copies; specimen page (34) and illustration provided. American distributor Story Classics, Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

39360. M'Ilvaine, William, Jr.: Sketches of scenery and notes of personal adventure in California & Mexico...with a foreword by Robert G. Cleland & reproductions of the sixteen lithographic plates, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: M'Ilvaine, William, Jr.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; printed in red and black; previous fold, mostly fine. Prospectus for a title printed for the Book Club of California in an edition of 400 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39443. Prospectus 1952, 1952. 1 box.
General

New York: Folio Society.

Scope and Contents

Oblong 16mo, unpaginated; illustrations; original blue pictorial wrappers, fine. Titles for the year's series include William Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," introduction by Sir Laurence Olivier; and "The Last Days of Shelley and Byron". Order form and envelope addressed to the American distributor Philip C. Duschnes laid in. With original envelope in which the catalogue was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

37202. 1952 catalog, 1952. 1 box.
General

London: Golden Cockerel Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrated catalogue of new titles from the press; typed letter, signed, from the distributor on "Story Classics" letterhead and order form with preaddressed envelope to Story Classics, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37204. Hartnoll, Phyllis: The Grecian enchanted...with eight aquatints by John Buckland-Wright, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Hartnoll, Phyllis

London: Golden Cockerel Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrated prospectus for this limited edition of 360 copies. US distributor Story Classics, Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37228. Rabelais, Francois: Catalogue of the choice books found by Pantagruel in the Abbey of St. Victor...Translator: Walter Klinefelter, a student of catalogues, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Rabelais, Francois

Burlingame, California: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for a book printed for William P. Wreden, introduced here by Nathan van Patten. Edition limited to 200 copies. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

39442. Prospectus 1953, 1953. 1 box.
General

New York: Folio Society.

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 19; illustrations; original pink pictorial wrappers, a bit soiled. Titles for the year's series include Henry Fielding's "The History of Joseph Andrews," Honoré de Balzac's "Eugénie Grandet"; and Emlyn Williams's "Readings from Dickens". List of previous publications bound in back. Order form and envelope from the American distributor Philip C. Duschnes laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37182. Autumn 1954. British hand-made books, 1954. 1 box.
General

Emmaus, PA: Golden Cockerel Private Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 39; illustrated catalogue for new titles from the press; order forms and letter from the distributor, Rodale Books, loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37200. 1955-1956, 1955. 1 box.
General

Reading, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Private Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 47; illustrated catalogue of recent titles from the press, including Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Zastrozzi" with illustrations by Cecil Keeling; and "Cockalorum: A Bibliography of the Press". Order form addressed to the distributor, G.F. Sims, loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37199. Spring 1955, 1955. 1 box.
General

New York: Golden Cockerell Private Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 24; illustrated catalogue of recent publications from the press, including a new edition of the Green Knight. Order form and pre-addressed envelope to the American distributor, Philip C. Duschnes, loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

Prospectus for Pleasure, 1961. 1 box.
General

New York: Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, printed in green and black on greenish-yellow paper. Invitation for a 2-day event hosted by the Grolier Club and Zamorano Club.

Physical Description

1 box

39095. [Collection of prospectuses], 1963. 1 box.
General

Newnham, Tasmania: Wattle Grove Press

Scope and Contents

7 leaves of various sizes stapled together; previous folds, else fine. Addressed to American book collectors; mission statement laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37227. Skelton, R.A.: James Cook, surveyor of Newfoundland. Being a collection of charts of the coasts of Newfoundland and Labradore, &c. drawn from original surveys taken by James Cook and Michael Lane. London, Thomas Jefferys, 1769-1770. Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the library of the University of California at Los Angeles, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Skelton, R.A.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for this facsimile edition printed for David Magee and limited to 365 copies. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37244. Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr.: California's pictorial letter sheet, 1849-1869, 1967. 1 box.
General

Author: Baird, Joseph Armstrong, Jr.

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; edition printed for David Magee and limited to 475 copies. Order form laid in.Text in red and black, previous folds. With envelope in which this prospectus was originally mailed, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

39832. Prospectus & retrospectus 1970 [cover title], 1970. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations; original blue printed wrappers, fine. Titles include Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"; and James Agee's "The Last Letter to Father Flye"; a list of books in progress provided in the back. Price list laid in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39826. Prospectus of books, 1970. 1 box.
General

Brookline, Massachusetts: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; text printed in red and black; original brown printed wrappers, printed in black and brown; fine. Titles from the catalogue include Henry David Thoreau's "A Plea for Captain John Brown"; James Agee's "The Last Letter to Father Flye"; and Walt Whitman's "Specimen Days". Discount schedule and policy laid in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

Prospectus of books, 1970. 1 box.
General

Brookline, Massachusetts: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; text printed in red and black; original olive pictorial wrappers, printed in black and brown; fine. Titles from the catalogue include Henry David Thoreau's "A Plea for Captain John Brown"; James Agee's "The Last Letter to Father Flye"; and Walt Whitman's "Specimen Days". Specimen pages from the works of John Wesley Powell laid in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39840. Freeman, Arthur: Assays of bias. Poems, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Freeman, Arthur

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed in grey and black; fine. Provides 2 specimen poems. Order form laid in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39839. Powell, John Wesley: The selected prose, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Powell, John Wesley

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (212 mm.); printed on tan paper in green and black; fine. Integral order form.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39358. Prospectus of books, 1970. 1 box.
General

Brookline, Massachusetts: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; text printed in red and black; original olive pictorial wrappers, printed in black and brown; fine. Titles from the catalogue include Henry David Thoreau's "A Plea for Captain John Brown"; James Agee's "The Last Letter to Father Flye"; and Walt Whitman's "Specimen Days". Envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37084. The Bible designed to be read as literature, 1970. 1 box.
General

London: Folio Society

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for this edition of the Bible, an edition illustrated with 32 Old Master drawings, including works by Dürer, Raphael, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Blake. Integral order form on back page for either the standard edition or the leather bound edition. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37140. Dickens, Charles: David Copperfield, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Dickens, Charles

London: Fraser Press

Scope and Contents

Portfolio, 8vo; prospectus announcing the limited edition of Dicken's novel, illustrations by "Phiz" lithographed by the Curwen Press, bound by the Wigmore Bindery. Also includes prospectuses for other titles, each printed on separate Broadsides; type letter, signed from Gordon Fraser to Emerson G. Wulling and order form both loosely inserted along with the press's mission statement.

Physical Description

1 box

39848. Elliott, T.J., trans.: A medieval bestiary...with wood engravings by Gillian Tyler, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Elliott, T.J., trans.

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrations, text printed in orange, blue, and black; fine. Specimen illustrations and poem provided. Order form laid in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39846. Stock, Brian, trans.: Medieval Latin lyrics...original woodcuts by Fritz Kredel, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Stock, Brian, trans.

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; printed on tan paper in red and black; fine. Provides 2 specimen poems. Edition limited to 4000 copies. Order form laid in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

Sterne, Laurence: Sentimental Journey, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Sterne, Laurence

Bedford, England: Fraser Press

Scope and Contents

Portfolio, 8vo; prospectus announcing the limited edition of Sterne's Book., illustrations by "Phiz" lithographed by the Curwen Press, bound by the Wigmore Bindery. Also includes prospectuses for other titles, each printed on separate Broadsides; type letter, signed from Gordon Fraser to Emerson G. Wulling and order form both loosely inserted along with the press's mission statement.

Physical Description

1 box

37143. Austin, Gabriel: The library of Jean Grolier. A preliminary catalogue...with an introductory study "Jean Grolier and the Renaissance" by Colin Eisler, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Austin, Gabriel

New York: The Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for Austin's bibliography limited to 1000 copies. "Designed by Greta Franzen, set in Bembo by William Clowes & Son, Ltd., printed on Curtis rag paper at the Halliday Lithography Corporation, color plates by Princeton Polychrome Press, bound by A. Horowitz & Son." Two specimen pages printed here (1, 45). Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

39835. Fall books 1973 [cover title], 1972. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 22; illustrations, facsimiles; original white wrappers printed in blue, green, and black; fine. Titles include Robert Frost's "Introduction to E.A. Robinson's King Jasper"; and "Selected Songs of Thomas Campion," selected and prefaced by W.H. Auden. Backlist provided, pp. 18-22.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39830. Spring books--seventy two, 1972. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustraitons; original blue wrappers printed in brown and black; fine. Titles include Robert Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"; John Donne's "Death's Duel"; and Walt Whitman's "Democratic Vistas". Price list laid in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

Fall books--seventy two, 1972. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations; original cream pictorial wrappers, fine. With prospectuses for Gordon DeWolf's "Flora Exotica" and Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Wreck of the Deutschland"; announcement to the customers and order form with envelope laid in. In a specially printed envelope, but not addressed or postmarked.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39837. Fall books--seventy two, 1972. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations; original cream pictorial wrappers, fine. With prospectuses for Gordon DeWolf's "Flora Exotica" and Gerard Manley Hopkins's "The Wreck of the Deutschland"; announcement to the customers and order form with envelope laid in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39841. Spring books 1973 [cover title], 1973. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations; original cream pictorial wrappers, fine. Includes backlist. With prospectus for John Donne's "Deaths Duell"; order form and envelope laid in. With original envelope in which this catalogue was mailed.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39301. Roscoe, S.: John Newbery and his successors, 1740-1814. A bibliography, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Roscoe, S.

Wormley, Hertfordshire: Five Owls Press Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; mostly fine. Specimen page provided. Integral order form, United States distributor's label (Justin G. Schiller Ltd.) pasted over original text, original price crossed out with new price, in USD, added in manuscript.

Physical Description

1 box

37239. Montale, Eugenio: Mottetti. The motets of Eugenio Montale in Italian with facing English translations by Lawrence Kart, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Montale, Eugenio

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, large 8vo; announcement of Robert Grabhorn's death laid in. With Emerson G. Wulling's check (endorsed) to Andrew Hoyem to pay for his copy of Mottetti.

Physical Description

1 box

39825. A unique sale of fine editions [cover title], 1974. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; illustrations, printed in orange and black; mostly fine. Advertisement for a "incorporation day sale in celebration of the company's fifth birthday on May 20". Featured titles includes Walt Whitman's "Specimen Days" with introduction by Alfred Kazin; and John Donne's "Deaths Duell," postscript by Geoffrey Keynes. Integral order form.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

Fall & winter 1975. Collection of Broadsides., 1975. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

2 TLS's dated July 19, 1975 and September 17, 1976. Four Broadside advertisements for books. All in the same envelope as above.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39845. Spring and summer 1975. Selected books in print [cover title], 1975. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Oblong 8vo, pp. 32; illustrations; original tan and white pictorial wrappers, fine. Titles include "The Erotic Verse of Paul Verlaine" and Bertold Brecht's "Mahogonny". Printed letter to friends of the press laid in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39827. Fall & winter 1975. Complete books in print, 1975. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Oblong 8vo, pp. 40; illustrations; original blue and white pictorial wrappers, fine. Titles include Bertolt Brecht's "The Rise and Fall of the City Mahogonny," translated by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman; Andre Dubus's "Separate Flights"; Walt Whitman's "Specimen Days," introduction by Alfred Kazin; Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"; H.D.'s "Tribute to Freud"; and Joseph Conrad's "Conrad's Manifesto: preface to a career". Backlist printed in back. Order form and TLs from David Godine on company letterhead laid in. With original specially-printed envelope in which the catalogue was mailed.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37072. Tyger, tyger, 1975. 1 box.
General

Five Trees Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (165 mm.); leaf printed and illustrated for the ALA Women's Book Fair, June 29th, 1975; anecdote recounts a male literary critic explaining why women don't make good poets.

Physical Description

1 box

News from Godine, 1976. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

4 loose pages of the publisher's newletter. Advertisements for 200 years of American sculpture, The sculpture of August Rodin, The spirit of fact, and Roger Fenton of Crimble Hall. All black and white. In original envelope addressed to Emerson Wulling.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39828. Spring and summer 1976. Selected books in print, 1976. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Oblong 8vo, pp. 16; illustrations; original maroon and white pictorial wrappers, fine. Laid in copy of a TLs on Press letterhead and original TLs from Lori Garden, accounts supervisor, acknowledging an order from Emerson G. Wulling.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39831. Fall & winter 1976. Complete books in print [cover title], 1976. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Oblong 8vo, pp. 36; original green and white pictorial wrappers, fine. With TLs on press letterhead from David R. Godine, a pamphlet on "200 Years of American Sculpture," and order form. In original envelope in which the catalogue was mailed.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

Printer's abecedarium, 1976. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Original envelope with an advertisement for printer's abecedarium printed in blue, purple and white. TLS from David Godine advertising a 20% off sale with order form. Three B&W Broadside advertisements for books. One printed on yellow paper advertisingt writing manual of Augustino da Siena.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39836. Fall & winter 1977. Selected books in print [cover title], 1977. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Oblong 8vo, pp. 20; illustrations; original white, blue, and grey printed wrappers, fine. Laid in TLS on press letterhead from David R. Godine, a pamphlet on "200 Years of American Sculpture," and order form.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37481. Gefn Press Books 1977, 1977. 1 box.
General

West Burke, VT: Gefn Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (233 mm.); illustrated prospectus for two titles from the Press. Text in black and tan.

Physical Description

1 box

37249. Harlan, Robert D., ed.: Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 1957-1966, & Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1966-1973, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Harlan, Robert D., ed.

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for the third volume of this work, printed for John Howell Books; "The text is set by hand in the proprietary type of the Grabhorn Press, Franciscan, designed by F.W. Goudy. This prospectus resembles the book in all aspects except for the paper which was handmade especially for this edition by Barcham Green at Hayle Mill in England. It bears the watermarks of the maker and Mr. Hoyem's Arion Press." Edition limited to 225 copies. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

39829. Spring & summer 1978. Selected books in print [cover title], 1978. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Oblong 8vo, pp. 12; illustrations; white, grey, and tan self-wrappers, fine. With 4 newsletters from the press, a TLs on press letterhead from David R. Godin, and order form laid in. In original specially printed envelope in which the catalgoue was mailed.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37129. The first prospectus, 1980. 1 box.
General

Tonbridge, Kent: Florin Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations; first catalogue from the press. Text in tan and black.

Physical Description

1 box

39823. New titles 1983, 1983. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 30; black and white illustrations; original grey pictorial wrappers, back wrapper neatly removed, else fine. Titles include Margery Williams's "The Velveteen Rabbit," illustrated by Ilse Plume; William Maxwell's "Time Will Darken It"; and, "back in print," Paul Fox's "Desparate Characters".

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37152. Thwaite, Anthony: Telling tales with a wood engraving by Simon Brett, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Thwaite, Anthony

Winscombe, Somerset: Gruffyground Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (210 mm.); prospectus for a collection of ten poems "Designed and printed on an Albion press by Graham Williams at The Florin Press...Text set in Lutetia at The Whittington Press...display set in Lutetia and Egmont Inline at The Florin Press. The text paper is Zerkall mould-made, with hand-made Kozo wrappers. The edition is limited to two hundred and thirty copies." Published by Anthony Baker. With a typed letter, signed by Graham Williams, on Weaves Cot letterhead.

Physical Description

1 box

39853. Books for young readers & Godine storytellers. New books and complete backlist, 1984 [cover title], 1984. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 13; illustrations; white pictorial self wrappers, printed in black and orange; mostly fine.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39821. Books in print as of April, 1984, 1984. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 25; self wrappers, fine. Catalogue provides list of awards and honors, "25 essential Godin books for any and all bookstores," and an extensive index. Among the recent awards included are Charles Baudelaire's "Les fleurs du mal," translated by Richard Howard (winner of the 1983 American Book Award for Translation); and Saki's "The Story-teller: thirteen tales," illustrated by Jeanne Titherington.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39822. New titles. 1985, our fifteenth year [cover title], 1985. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 36; black and white illustrations; original green pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. Pieces advertised in this catalogue includes 2 new titles in the "growing paperback library of William Maxwell's distinguished books," "Ancestors" and "The Chateau"; a new translation of Julius Caesar's "The Battle for Gaul"; and A.A. Milne's "The Pooh Song Book".

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37159. Lathem, Edward Connery: Rudolph Ruzicka: Speaking reminiscently. Informal recollections recorded & edited, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Lathem, Edward Connery

New York: The Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 8vo; "The book has been designed by Roderick Stinehour and printed at the Meriden-Stinehour Press". Includes illustrated specimen page.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37275. Hand papermaking, 1986. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis: Hand Papermaking

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 12mo; prospectus for the first issue of this journal on papermaking; table of contents provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37126. Books for winter, 1987. 1 box.
General

Wakefield, West Yorkshire: Fleece Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; illustrations; original blue-grey printed wrappers. Leaf with order information loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37170. Ray, Gordon N.: Books as a way of life. Essays, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Ray, Gordon N.

New York: Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for a publication jointly published by the Grolier Club and the Pierpont Morgan Library; table of contents provided; integral order form has been torn out. Edition limited to 750 copies by the Meriden-Stinehour Press.

Physical Description

1 box

37267. Giraldus Cambrensis: Giraldus Cambrensis. Itinerary through Wales, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Giraldus Cambrensis

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 8vo; illustrated prospectus of Giraldus's account of his journey to Wales in 1188; edited by Brynley F. Roberts and limited to 300 copies, of which 20 bound by Julian Thomas. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37083. Leacock, Stephen B.: The man in asbestos: An allegory of the future, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Leacock, Stephen B.

Berkeley, California: Foolscap Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this work by Canadian humorist Leacock; specimen pages (8-9) included; typed letter, signed from Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence Van Velzer on Foolscap Press letterhead loosely inserted. The press's premier edition, limited to 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39361. Esslemont, David and Glyn Tegai Hughes: Gwasg Gregynog. A descriptive catalogue of printing at Gregynog, 1970-1990, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Esslemont, David and Glyn Tegai Hughes

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; text printed in brown and black; fine. Prospectus for this edition limited to 900 copies, 100 of which are bound by Alan Wood. Provides specimen page and integral order form. List of other titles from the Press printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37838. Tufte, Edward: The visual display of quantitative information, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Tufte, Edward

Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for 2 titles "on the state of the art for graphical displays" by Tufte, the other being "Envisioning Information"; previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37026. Clearwater, Bonnie: West coast Duchamp, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Clearwater, Bonnie

Miami Beach, FL: Grassfield Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; prospectus for this title, published in association with the Shoshana Wayne Gallery of Santa Monica. Integral order form and envelope, addressed to Laurence McGilbery and postmarked 10 Feb 1992.

Physical Description

1 box

37259. Ormond, John: Cathedral builders and other poems with drawings by the author, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Ormond, John

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; prospectus for this poetry collection with an introduction by Rian Ormond Thomas; includes reduced specimen page (12) and integral order form. Edition limited to 250 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37678. Archiv der europäischen lexikographie, 1992. 1 box.
General

Erlangen: Harald Fischer Verlag

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus in German profusely illustrated with title page facsimiles; order form laid in.

Filed under F.

Physical Description

1 box

39842. Books for children [cover title], 1992. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 21; illustrations; original cream pictorial wrappers, fine. Titles include Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas in Wales"; and William Steig's "Rotten Island".

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39838. Spring 1992 catalog [cover title], 1992. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 21; illustrations; pictorial self-wrappers, address on back wrapper removed, affecting text on p. 21, else fine. Titles include William Maxwell's "Time Will Darken It," "The Folded Leaf," and "So Long, See You Tomorrow"; Frances Hodgson Burnett's "A Little Princess"; Robert Louis Stevenson's "My Shadow"; and L.M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables".

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39834. Fall-winter catalog, 1992-1993 [cover title], 1992. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 23; illustrations; white and red pictorial self wrappers, fine. Titles include Francis Steegmuller's "Jean Cocteau: the mirror and the mask"; "Eric Gill: the engravings"; Charles Baudelaire's "Les fleurs du mal"; Ludwig Bemelmans's "La bonne table"; Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden"; Nikolai Gogol's "Sorotchintzy Fair"; and Walter de la Mare's "The Turnip".

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37125. Twelve years young. The Fleece Press in 1992: Forthcoming books & those currently available from stock, 1992. 1 box.
General

Wakefield, West Yorkshire: Fleece Press

Scope and Contents

Oblong 12mo, unpaginated; illustrations; black and white marble paper wrappers; text in black and blue.

Physical Description

1 box

37672. Fine and historic bookbindings from the Folger Shakespeare Library, 1992. 1 box.
General

Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus of a Library exhibition catalogue; TLS from Elizabeth S. Niemyer, the Louis B. Thalheimer Curator of Acquisitions, and order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37623. Colón, Hernando: Abecedarium B y Supplementum. Edición facsímio, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Colón, Hernando

Madrid: Fundacion Mapfre America

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus of this facsimile edition; integral order form. With a typescript letter from the press and a 4to booklet, "Hernando Columbus and the Colombine Library".

Physical Description

1 box

37127. Books to grace your shelves, 1994. 1 box.
General

Wakefield, West Yorkshire: Fleece Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations. Bound in marble paper wrappers.

Physical Description

1 box

37657. Catálogo concordado de la biblioteca de Hernando Colón, 1994. 1 box.
General

Madrid: Fundación Mapfre América

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus in Spanish; integral order form. TLS (in English) from the press's sales manager, Aurelio Matos, laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37662. Norman, Haskell: One hundred books famous in medicine, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Norman, Haskell

New York: Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for the exhibition catalogue curated by Haskell E. Norman; designed by Jerry Kelly, printed at the Stinehour Press, and limited to 1500 copies; specimen page and facsimile illustration provided.

Physical Description

1 box

Jane Turner, ed. : The dictionary of art: The ultimate authority on all the visual arts, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Jane Turner, ed.

New York: Grove's Dictionaries

Scope and Contents

Brochure includes letter from the editor, sample pages, and photos of the works of art featured. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37157. The dictionary of art: The ultimate authority on all the visual arts, 1996. 1 box.
General

New York: Grove's Dictionaries

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 4to; illustrated prospectus features various entries from this 34-volume work, including "Ink," "China, furniture," "Tortoiseshell," and "Islamic art, architecture"; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37123. The Fleece Press new books, 1997. 1 box.
General

Huddersfield, West Yorkshire: Fleece Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; illustrations; original brown printed wrappers bound with yellow string, loss to top left-hand corner. Catalogue lists new titles from the press, including Samuel Webster's Salmagundi and Ronald Blythe's First Friends. A call for wood blocks on the last page.

Physical Description

1 box

37086. Van Velzer, Lawrence G.: Desert dreams a story... with illustrations by Peggy Gotthold, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Van Velzer, Lawrence G.

Santa Cruz, California: Foolscap Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (253 mm.); prospectus for this limited edition of 185 copies, addressed to Rulon-Miller Books of Saint Paul, MN and postmarked 9 Jun 1997.

Physical Description

1 box

37124. Simple pleasures: Books to come from the Fleece Press, 1998. 1 box.
General

Huddersfield: Fleece Press

Scope and Contents

Oblong 12mo, unpaginated; illustrations, binding paper sample tipped in; catalogue of upcoming titles from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

37265. List of publications. Winter 1999, 1999. 1 box.
General

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrated catalogue.

Physical Description

1 box

Publications in print and in preparation 1999-2000, 1999. 1 box.
General

London, England, UK: Hakluyt Society

Scope and Contents

Blue covers. Also lists the subjects of the society's annual lectures. Order form and membership form bound in.

Physical Description

1 box

37820. Sanborn, F.B.: The personality of Thoreau, 1901. 1 box.
General

Author: Sanborn, F.B.

Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this title printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press and limited to 515 copies; specimen page provided.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37821. Thoreau, Henry David: The service, 1902. 1 box.
General

Author: Thoreau, Henry David

Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this edition of an unpublished Thoreau essay, printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press; introduction by Frank B. Sanborn, limited to 500 copies. Small tear from previous folds, not affecting text.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39254. Leland, Chas. Godfrey and John Dyneley Prince: Kuloskap, the master; and other Algonkin legends and poems, 1902. 1 box.
General

Author: Leland, Chas. Godfrey and John Dyneley Prince

New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.

Scope and Contents

Broadsheet, 16mo (158 mm.); illustration; previous fold, top edge toned, else fine. Prospectus for "A Book About Indians, Animals, and Nature". Press opinions printed on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

37156. Khamara, Smara: In the valley of stars there is a tower of silence: A Persian tragedy, 1906. 1 box.
General

Author: Khamara, Smara

London: Green Sheaf

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; color illustrated prospectus of an edition limited to 250 copies; integral perforated order form,

Physical Description

1 box

45134. The Englishwoman: A monthly magazine to further the enfranchisement of women..., 1909. 1 box.
General

London: Grant Richards

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 18.5 cm., with an illustration at the top of the front panel by William Nicholson; fine. Subscription form for a monthly journal in print from 1909 to 1921. Among the contributors are Max Beerbohm, John Galsworthy, Maurice Hewlett, John Masefield, William Nicholson, and Bernard Shaw. Press notices and subscription form on the verso. This form appears to have been printed following the first issue in February, 1909.

Physical Description

1 box

37130. Prospectus of Fortune Press editions, 1925. 1 box.
General

London: Fortune Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; list of titles available from the press, including "The Symposium of Plato," "New Preface to 'The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde,'" and "The Collected Satires of Lord Alfred Douglas". Previous bookseller's stamp to front cover.

Physical Description

1 box

37319. Books suitable for Christmas printed at the Harbor Press, 1926. 1 box.
General

New York: Harbor Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (164 mm.); prospectus provides to Christmas-related titles, "The Cherry Tree Carol" and "Extracts from the Diary of Roger Payne".

Physical Description

1 box

37229. DeVinne, Theodore Low: The Plantin Moretvs Mvsevm at Antwerp, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: DeVinne, Theodore Low

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for DeVinne's essay with an introduction by Oscar Lewis and a frontispiece and initial letter hand-colored by Valenti Angelo. Edition limited to 425 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37216. Holmes, Roberta Evelyn: The southern mines of California, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Holmes, Roberta Evelyn

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (318 mm.); prospectus for "a detailed and well-documented account of the towns and camps of the Sonora mining region during the period of their greatest activity." Illustrated with photographs and reproductions of early lithographs. Edition limited to 250 copies. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37318. A list of books printed at the Harbor Press, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Harbor Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; list includes Robert Frost's "A Way Out" and O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi".

Physical Description

1 box

37180. Skelton, John: Elynour Rummynge, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Skelton, John

San Francisco: Helen Gentry Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for two works from the press, Skelton's work, decorative drawings by Claire Jones; and Tom of Bedlam's Song, introduction by David Greenhood and decorated with ornaments by Lowell Hawk. Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37339. Shakespeare, William: Venus and Adonis with twenty-one illustrations by Rockwell Kent, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

Rochester, New York: Printing House of Leo Hart

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for this edition limited to 1250 copies, each signed by the illustrator; reduced specimen page (51) provided. Lacking order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37340. Shakespeare, William: Venus and Adonis...with illustrations by Rockwell Kent, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

Rochester, New York: Printing House of Leo Hart

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 4to; prospectus for this edition limited to 1250 copies, each signed by the illustrator; illustrated specimen pages (22-23) provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37131. Prospectus of the Fortune Press limited editions. Illustrated by Jean de Bosschère, 1932. 1 box.
General

London: Fortune Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; catalogue of titles available from the press, including "The World of Jean de Bosschère".

Physical Description

1 box

37315. How, Louis: The other Don Juan, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: How, Louis

New York: Harbor Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for How's poem based on Mérimé's prose original; illustrated by Steele Savage.

Physical Description

1 box

45635. Weseen, Maurice H.: A dictionary of American slang, 1934. 1 box.
General

Author: Weseen, Maurice H.

London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 21 x 14 cm.); text printed in navy blue; previous fold, unevenly toned, previously tipped into another volume with lower edge rather damaged from removal. Specimen page ("Can't take it" to "Chair warmer") printed on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

37818. The passion of our lord Jesus Christ, according to the four Evangelists, 1934. 1 box.
General

High Wycombe: Hague & Gill

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; prospectus for this piece, engravings by Eric Gill and printed for Faber & Faber; limited to 300 copies; specimen pages provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37179. Helen Gentry. Juveniles, 1934. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Helen Gentry Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; catalogue of titles from the press's Juveniles series; order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37224. Mercer, A.S.: The banditti of the plains, or the cattlemen's invasion of Wyoming in 1892...with a new introduction by James Mitchell Clarke and illustrations by Arvilla Parker, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Mercer, A.S.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrated prospectus.

Physical Description

1 box

37111. Poe, Edgar Allan: [Selection of the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe], 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Poe, Edgar Allan

Detroit: Fine Book Circle

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (240 mm.); prospectus for a selection of Poe's poetry, including "those empyrean and phantasmagoric pieces on which his fame rests"; reprinted here are the poems "To Helen" and "Eldorado" (specimen page 37).

Physical Description

1 box

37316. How, Louis: Regional rhymes of New York City, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: How, Louis

New York: Harbor Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus; illustrations by Ilse Bischoff; specimen page (1) included; designed by John S. Fass.

Physical Description

1 box

37181. Lowrey, Janette Sebring: Annunciata and the shepherds...with wood-engravings by Willard Clark, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Lowrey, Janette Sebring

New York: Gentry Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for the first work published by the press after moving to New York from San Francisco; edition limited to 1000 copies; order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37620. Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall: The dark river, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall

New York: Gotham Book Mart

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (81 x 140 mm.); postcard prospectus for "A love story of modern Tahiti"; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37132. Prospectus of the Fortune Press limited editions, 1941. 1 box.
General

London: Fortune Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; list of titles available from the press with Broadside prospectus for both Montague Summers' "A Gothic Bibliography" and his "The Gothic Quest" loosely inserted. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

37075. Rilke, Rainer Maria: Rodin. Translated by Jessie Lemont and Hans Trausil. With a preface by H.T., 1945. 1 box.
General

Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria

New York: Fine Editions Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 12mo; prospectus for a translation of Rilke's biography of Rodin. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

37336. The printers' Valhalla, 1947. 1 box.
General

Rochester, New York: Printing House of Leo Hart

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; prospectus catalogue for this series of books, each "devoted to an individual whose career contributed to the development of bookmaking during the five hundred years since the invention of typography". Titles to include "Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press," "Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Massachusetts," "Gregory Dexter of London and New England," and "Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim and Mainz". Integral order form addressed to the Chiswick Book Shop, New York, NY.

Physical Description

1 box

37221. Cosgrave, George: Early California justice, 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Cosgrave, George

Glenwood, California: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 12mo (100 x 152 mm.); postcard prospectus announcing the posthumous publication of Cosgrave's history of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of California, 1850-1944. Postcard addressed to Emerson G. Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

37334. Shipton, Clifford K.: Isaiah Thomas, printer, patriot, and philanthropist, 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Shipton, Clifford K.

Rochester, N.Y.: Printing House of Leo Hart

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a work "intended to introduce you to the man who might well be falled the father of the modern American printing and publishing business"; title forms part of the Printers' Valhalla series. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37206. Edgeworth, Maria: Letters of Maria Edgeworth & Anna Letitia Barbauld, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Edgeworth, Maria

London: Golden Cockerel Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (252 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this edition limited to 300 copies and illustrated by Lettice Sandford. US distributor Story Classics, Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

Physical Description

1 box

37213. Shakespeare, William: The tragedie of King Lear...with woodcuts by Mary Grabhorn, 1959. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

New York: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for the seventh title in the series of the plays of William Shakespeare, all limited to 180 copies. "The text follows the first folio of 1623. The type, Bibel Gotisch, from the original experimental font designed by Rudolph Koch, is printed...on handmade paper imported from England." Stamp of the distributor, James F. Drake, New York, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39096. [Lists of titles from the Press], 1963. 1 box.
General

Newnham, Tasmania: Wattle Grove Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to; previous folds, else fine. Catalogue of works "of contemporary authors in limited editions".

Physical Description

1 box

39097. Flower, Pat: Pistils for two, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: Flower, Pat

Newnham, Tasmania: Wattle Grove Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for a collection of "trivial verses". Prospectus for Rodney Hall's "Forty Beads on a Hangman's Rope" printed on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

44693. Josef Urbach, Essen: maler, grafiker, 1964. 1 box.
General

Essen: Folkwang Schule für Gestaltung

Scope and Contents

Bifoliun, 4to; text printed in orange, blue, and black; text, in German, on pp. [1] and [4] only. Fine.

Physical Description

1 box

37176. Chambers, William: Memories of the Chambers brothers, 1967. 1 box.
General

Author: Chambers, William

London: Galahad Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (225 mm.); prospectus for this edition limited to 200 copies and consisting of extracts from the Mmeoir of William and Robert Chambers, first published in 1872. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37240. Grabhorn, Jane: The compleat Jane Grabhorn. A hodge-podge of typographic ephemera, three complete books, Broadsides, invitations, greetings, place cards, &c., &c., 1968. 1 box.
General

Author: Grabhorn, Jane

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Broadside, tall folio (401 mm.); color illustration at head of Broadside. Prospectus for an edition limited to 400 copies. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37241. Limited editions from the press of Grabhorn-Hoyem, San Francisco, 1969. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated catalogue including "Geoffrey Chaucer's A.B.C." and Allen Ginsberg's "The Moments Return".

Physical Description

1 box

37246. Oldfield, Otis: A pictorial journal of a voyage aboard the three-masted schooner Louise, last of the sailing codfishers out of San Francisco Bay, as recorded in 1931 by the artist...with 19 pictures of life at sea under sail, and with an historical introduction by Karl Kortum, 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Oldfield, Otis

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this posthumous illustrated work in which "nineteen pictures are reproduced by photolithography and colored by letterpress with handcut linoleum blocks". Edition limited to 400 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37141. Swift, Jonathan: A tale of a tub, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Swift, Jonathan

London: Fraser Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrated prospectus for Swift's satire, with materials (Nigerian goatskin, coarse weave cloth from Holland, and hand marbled paper) pasted in; reduced specimen pages and a list of other publications also provided. Typed letter, signed from Gordon Fraser to Emerson G. Wulling and order form with pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

The Fraser Press limited editions, 1970. 1 box.
General

Bedford, England: Fraser Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; catalogue advertising four titles available from the press, Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel," Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews and Shamela," Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," and Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo". Specimen pages from each piece and order form all loosely inserted. TLS from Gordon Fraser.

Physical Description

1 box

37242. Parthenope, Lady Verney: Florence Nightingale's pet owl, Athena. A sentimental history...Introduction by David Magee, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Parthenope, Lady Verney

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for two titles for the press, the other being "Mother Goose. Twenty nursery rhymes selected and illustrated by Philip van Aver". Also includes a short list of three previous publications.

Physical Description

1 box

37247. Parthenope, Lady Verney: Florence Nightingale's pet owl, Athena. A sentimental history, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Parthenope, Lady Verney

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus of "this charming book...from an extremely rare nineteenth century lithographic facsimile in the library at Brigham Young University. All twenty-two illustrations have been reproduced." Edition limited to 300 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39849. Whitman, Walt: Specimen days, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Whitman, Walt

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustrations, text printed in brown and black; fine. Provides summary of each section of the finished piece, published in a trade edition (2,500 copies) and a deluxe edition (1,250 copies). Order form and envelope laid in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

An advertisement for the press of Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. Fine printing, limited editions, typographic design., 1971. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; black and white photographic illustration of Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem followed by a catalogue of titles available from the press, including a fine edition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl. Envelope addressed to Emerson Wulling (Postmarked November 29, 1999) containing 1 article clipped from the Christian Science Monitor November 10, 1999. Also contains part of an article, clipped from Newsweek August 17, 1982, which talks about Andrew Hoyem in the last paragraph. Both laid in (?).

Physical Description

1 box

37248. Ginsberg, Allen: Howl. With new editions & corrections, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Ginsberg, Allen

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this edition limited to 275 copies, all signed by the author. With a note by the author.

Physical Description

1 box

37243. Bierce, Ambrose: Write it right, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Bierce, Ambrose

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (221 mm.); prospectus for a new edition with an introduction by Oscar Lewis and limited to 400 copies. With specimen page (30) and order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39843. Blumenthal, Joseph: Art of the printed book, 1455-1955. Masterpieces of typography from the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Blumenthal, Joseph

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (380 mm.); illustrations, text printed in maroon and black; previous folds, else fine.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37238. Grabhorn-Hoyem pressbooks, 1974. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided brochure, 8vo; list of titles from the pressbooks series still available from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

37177. Genesis Publications. Rare manuscripts & printed books in facsimile, plus other important works as fine limited editions, 1975. 1 box.
General

Guildford, Surrey, England: Genesis Publications

Scope and Contents

16mol pp. 20; catalogue of titles available from the press; original black printed wrappers. With announcement of the exhibition "Genesis Publications of England at Signature Art Gallery" (Newburgh, IN) loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37262. Thomas, R.S.: Laboratories of the spirit, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Thomas, R.S.

Cardiff, U.K.: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this collection of poems, "the first book produced by the University of Wales at Gregynog"; edition limited to 215 copies. Includes two specimen pages. Order form in Welsh loosely inserted along with a TLs (in English) from R. Brinley Jones, Director of the University Wales Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39833. Announcement of "up to 60% off on typographic books", 1977. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Single folded 3 times, 8vo; illustrations, text printed in black and red; fine. Integral order form.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37178. Lee, Jim: In the apartment, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Lee, Jim

Madison, Wisconsin: Gardyloo Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long folio (304 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this work of linoleum cut illustrations; edition limited to 50 copies and designed by John Bennett, bound at Kner & Anthony, Bookbinders. With a promise of a discount for subscribers and an article from "Fine Print: A Review for the Arts of the Book," Volume VI, Number 2, April 1980.

Physical Description

1 box

39847. Dear friend of fine printing & good books [cover title], 1980. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrations; fine. Catalogue advertising "up to 60% off on 16 of Godine's finest titles".

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39379. Dear friend of fine printing & good books, 1980. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; black and white photographic illustrations; previous fold, else fine. Brief catalogue provides a list of titles from the Press relating to printing, bookmaking, graphic arts, photography, and calligraphy. Integral order form.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37161. Goldschmidt, Lucien: The truthful lens. By Lucien Goldschmidt and Weston J. Naef with a foreward by David Hunter McAlpin, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Goldschmidt, Lucien

New York: The Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 4to; illustrated prospectus for a work "developed out of the landmark exhibition held at The Grolier Club...Under the same title, it provided "A Survey of Books Illustrated with Original Photographs, 1844-1914". Order form loosely inserted.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39850. Books make the home. The delights of reading books from David R. Godine [cover title], 1981. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 15; illustrations; blue pictorial self wrappers, mostly fine. Order form bound in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

42489. Bain, Iain: The watercolours and drawings of Thomas Bewick and his workshop apprentices, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Bain, Iain

London: Gordon Fraser.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet; illustrations in color and black and white; mostly fine.

Physical Description

1 box

39851. Open the door to a new world--open a book! [cover title], 1982. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 15; illustrations; white pictorial self wrappers, mostly fine. Titles include Eric Gill's "An Essay on Typography"; and A.A. Milne's "The Pooh Song Book". Order form bound in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37492. Luck, Barbara: Fast pass, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Luck, Barbara

West Burke, Vermont: Gefn Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 8vo (97 x 221 mm.); prospectus for this collection of poems, illustrated by Susan Johanknecht and limited to 150 signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36316. Foley, John Miles: Oral-formulaic theory and research: An introduction and annotated bibliography., 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Foley, John Miles

New York: Garland Publishing

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); prospectus for a work on "The interdisciplinary study of oral literature [which] touches on more than ninety individual literatures..." Bottom half provides order form. Three previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37151. Yeomans, Donald K.: Comet Halley - Fact & folly, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Yeomans, Donald K.

Santa Ana, CA: Gold Stein Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (101 x 151 mm.); postcard prospectus for this history of Halley's comet, limited to 350 copies and bound by Bela Blau. Addressed to Mrs. Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked 19 Jul 1985.

Physical Description

1 box

37168. Paley, Grace: Leaning forward: poems...Afterward by Jane Cooper, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Paley, Grace

Penobscot, Maine: Granite Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 12mo (101 x 151 mm.); postcard prospectus announcing the publication of Paley's collection, limited to 125 copies, "designed by Bea Gates, set in Monotype Bell by Michael Bixler. Bound in Easthampton, Massachusetts by Sarah Creighton and Carol J. Blinn who made the paste paper". Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked April 2 1986.

Physical Description

1 box

39854. A treasury of books [cover title], 1987. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 15; illustrations; grey and red pictorial self-wrappers, mostly fine. Titles include William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Max Hall's "The Charles: the people's river".

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39844. Weitzman, David: Superpower: the making of a steam locomotive, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Weitzman, David

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; illustrations; mostly fine. Integral order form.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

39852. A treasury of books...Quality books for holiday giving [cover title], 1988. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 15; illustrations; original grey pictorial self-wrappers, a bit worn from handling. Order form bound in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37558. Herman, Joseph: Cerddi Waldo Williams, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Herman, Joseph

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; prospectus in English and Welsh; edition limited to 350 copies. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37592. Petrarca, Francesco: Phisicke against fortune as well prosperous as adverse. Forty-six dialogues...translated by Thomas Twyne, illustrated by Hans Weiditz, introduction by Lewis S. Spitz, essay by William M. Ivins, Jr., 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Petrarca, Francesco

Berkeley, CA: Foolscap Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrated prospectus of this edition limited to 175 copies; illustrated specimen page (77) provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37557. Ryder, John: Intimate leaves from a designer's notebook, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Ryder, John

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; edition limited to 400 numbered copies and printed by David Esslemont; specimen illustration and page; list of price increases from the press, list of subscription prices, and order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37602. Morris, Jan: A Machynlleth triad, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Morris, Jan

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus of this three-part history of the Welsh town of Machynelleth; illustrated by Brenda Berman, designed by John Ryder and printed in an edition of 400 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37616. Bibliography of American imprints to 1901, 1993. 1 box.
General

Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz

Scope and Contents

11 stapled leaves, folio; facsimiles throughout; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37831. Norman, Haskell F.: One hundred books famous in medicine, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Norman, Haskell F.

New York: Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (274 mm.); prospectus for this exhibition catalogue, documenting "the dissemination of formative theories and discoveries from the ancient world to the present, from Hippocrates to Watson & Crick"; designed by Jerry Kelly and printed at the Stinehour Press in an edition limited to 1500 copies. Previous folds. With order form

Physical Description

1 box

37830. Lohf, Kenneth A.: Poets in a war. British writers on the battlefronts and the home front of the Second World War, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Lohf, Kenneth A.

New York: Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (235 mm.); prospectus for this history of World War II poets, including T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas; designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. Limited to 1000 casebound copies. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39319. Wandrei, Howard: The last pin...Edited and introduced by D.H. Olson. Illustrated by Gary Gianni, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Wandrei, Howard

Minneapolis: Fedogan & Bremer.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); previous folds; stapled to pamphlet listing titles from the press and Broadside providing discount rates.

Physical Description

1 box

42474. The book of Jonah, 1996. 1 box.
General

Cleveland: Hamilton Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; wood engraving; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a bilingual, Hebrew and English edition of "The Book of Jonah," illustrated by Barry Hoffman in an edition limited to 300 copies. Bookstore wholesale order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39298. Van Velzer, Lawrence: Desert dreams. A story...with illustrations by Peggy Gotthold, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Van Velzer, Lawrence

Berkeley, California: Foolscap Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large oblong 8vo; color illustrations; fine. Prospectus comprised mostly of reader's responses to this limited edition of 185 signed and numbered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39219. Tufte, Edward: Visual explanations. Images and quantities, evidence and narrative, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Tufte, Edward

Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; color illustrations; fine.

Physical Description

1 box

37158. Paterson, Robert F.: America and the defenders of the America's cup. A set of sixteen superbly hand-coloured prints after original pencil drawings, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Paterson, Robert F.

New York: Gosden Head

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus provides reduced reproductions of six of the prints as well as a larger reproduction of the print of "Rainbow". "This set of prints is now on display and for sale at the Sporting Gallery and Bookshop."

Physical Description

1 box

37023. The cries of London. The first part. With thirty-two woodcuts, 1970. 1 box.
General

Detroit: Gale Research Co.

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. [5]; facsimile of this short piece originally published at Hodgson's Wholesale Warehouse, here "printed for friends of Gale Research Co."

Physical Description

1 box

37881. A selection of complete colour facsimile editions, 1976. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Graphic K.G.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, elephant folio; list of titles of facsimile editions, printed for the ABA's 76th Convention & Trade Exhibit in Chicago. Titles include Medicina Antiqua (Codex Vindobonensis 93); Bible Moralisée (Codex Vindobonensis 2554); and Kaiser Friedrich II's De Arte Venandi cum Avibus (The Art of Falconry, Codex Vaticanus, Ms. Pal. Lat. 1071). Previous folds, ink notes in margins.

Physical Description

1 box

37088. Gibbon, Edward: The decline and fall of the Roman empire, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Gibbon, Edward

Holmes, PA: Folio Society

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for the eight-volume set of Gibbon's historical work; offer includes a free copy of the Society's two-volume set of Greek Myths, illustrated by Grahame Baker.

Physical Description

1 box

39856. Shakespeare, William: A plan for the "Sonnets" of a proposed Shakespeare set & printed by Claude Fredericks for his friends at Christmas mcmliv [cover title], 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

Pawlet VT: Fredericks, Claude.

Scope and Contents

Edition limited to 200 copies, 8vo, pp. [12]; loose in original cream printed wrappers over plain blue wrappers, fine. Printed after the 1609 folio.

Physical Description

1 box

44705. [Clemens, Samuel.]: He walked with kings [drop title], 1916. 1 box.
General

Author: [Clemens, Samuel.]

New York: Harper Brothers

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large folio; illustrations, text printed in red and black; previous folds, short tears along edges, a few touching letters and illustrations without loss, else very good. Advertisement for the National Edition of the works of Mark Twain, with quotes by Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson. The text discussing the cost of paper and ink refers to "before the war," which gives some indication as to when this was printed. Apparently part of Harper's 1916 promotion to boost lagging sales of Twain's collected works, which they also promoted in their magazine that year.

Physical Description

1 box

Dear Sir, 1963?. 1 box.
General

Newnham, Tasmania: Wattle Grove Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside with 2 previous folds. The same letter that is stapled to the front of the Collection of prospectuses.

Physical Description

1 box

44663. Kearns, James.: Performers, 1960. 1 box.
General

Author: Kearns, James.

New York: Grippi Gallery

Scope and Contents

12mo, Broadside folded into 6-sided brochure; illustration; text printed in black and orange; rubber stamp of the Museum of Modern Art, else about fine. Prospectus for a portfolio of 12 etchings by Kearns accompanied by an "Impression" by John Ciardi in an edition limited to 50 numbered copies and 10 artist proofs.

Physical Description

1 box

37236. An advertisement for the press of Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. Fine printing, limited editions, typographic design., 1971. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; black and white photographic illustration of Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem followed by a catalogue of titles available from the press, including a fine edition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl.

Physical Description

1 box

37261. New and forthcoming books. Winter 1991, 1991. 1 box.
General

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Two unbound bifolia, 8vo; titles include "An ABC Tour About France by Peter Allen"; with a list of titles already available from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

37108. Franklin, Benjamin: Satires & bagatelles, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Franklin, Benjamin

Detroit: Fine Book Circle

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for Franklin's "lighter writings"; includes specimen pages (82-83) of Franklin's piece "A witch trial at Mount Holly" from the Pennsylvania Gazette, October 22 1730, purporting to be news from Burlington, New Jersey. Illustrations by Paul McPharlin, the designer of the book.

Physical Description

1 box

37128. Advance announcement 1984, 1984. 1 box.
General

Biddenden, Kent: Florin Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated catalogue of titles from the press; type letter, signed from the press's Graham Williams and order form both loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37257. New and forthcoming books. Autumn 1990, 1990. 1 box.
General

Newton, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 10-sided pamphlet; tall 8vo; includes items "Available Now" as well as forthcoming titles, which include "Gwasg Gregynog: A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing at Gregynog 1970-1990"; integral order form. Each copy with a photocopied sheet with prices and notes laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37593. Koenig, Eberhard: The 1462 Fust & Schoeffer Bible. An essay...Introduction by Christopher de Hamel with an original leaf from the 1462 Bible, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Koenig, Eberhard

Akron: Bruce Ferrini/Hamill & Barker

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; table of contents, edition limited to 166 copies; printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, Texas. "There are twelve monochrome plates, printed offset by Wind River Press. The binding is one-quarter leather, bound by BookLab in Austin."

Filed under F.

Physical Description

1 box

37226. Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, Alvar: Relation, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca, Alvar

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for the 1871 Buckingham Smith translation and the second in the press's series of "important source books of Spanish American history". Decorations hand-colored by Valenti Angelo with an edition limited to 300 copies. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37150. A chart of the history of printing in Europe. An outstanding wall decoration for public and school libraries, book collectors, printers, and a wall decoration for the home, 1931. 1 box.
General

Kansas City, Missouri: Grolier Book Shop

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this map with black and white reduced reproduction of the piece; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37149. Oswald, John Clyde: Printing in the Americas, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Oswald, John Clyde

New York: Gregg Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for Oswald's history; provides table of contents, a list of interesting facts ("Do you know that the only newspaper founded by Benjamin Franklin was in the German language?"); and a specimen page (34). Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39249. 1950 prospectus, 1949. 1 box.
General

New York: Folio Society.

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 16; 2 plates, illustrations throughout; original red pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. Titles listed in this catalogue include Thackeray's "Henry Esmond"; "Poems of Keats"; Flaubert's "Salambo"; "Voltaire's England," with engravings by Hogarth; "The Iliad of Homer"; William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"; Prévost's "Manon Lescaut," with a study by Edward Sackville-West; and Melville's "Typee". Also includes a list of recent publications (including "Grimm's Folk Tales," with etchings by George Cruikshank; and "The Odyssey of Homer). Enrollment form printed on p. 15.

Physical Description

1 box

37160. Kredel, Fritz: Dolls and puppets of the eighteenth century as delineated in twenty four drawings, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Kredel, Fritz

New York: Gravesend Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 12mo; prospectus for a picture book, limited to 500 copies. Distributed by the Chiswick Book Shop.

Physical Description

1 box

37142. The Fraser Press limited editions, 1970. 1 box.
General

Bedford, England: Fraser Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; catalogue advertising four titles available from the press, Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel," Henry Fielding's "Joseph Andrews and Shamela," Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights," and Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo". Specimen pages from each piece and order form all loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37245. Grabhorn-Hoyem pressbooks, 1974. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided brochure, 8vo; list of titles from the pressbooks series still available from the press. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37266. Stephens, Meic: Beirdd Gregynog. Gregynog poets, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Stephens, Meic

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus in Welsh and English for this collection of 12 poems by well-known Welsh poets and printed in an edition limited to 400 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37264. Esslemont, David and Glyn Tegai Hughes: Gwasg Gregynog. A descriptive catalogue of printing at Gregynog 1970-1990, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Esslemont, David and Glyn Tegai Hughes

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; reduced specimen page (9); edition limited to 900 numbered copies, 100 of which bound by Alan Wood. A list of other titles available from the press provided. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36426. Aesop: The book of the subtyl historyes and frables of Esope whiche were translated out of the Frensshe into Englysshe by William Caxton, 1929. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out order form

General

Author: Aesop

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus. "Two hundred copies have been printed on unbleached Arnold paper from England...The book is set in the same type used for this announcement and the special decorative book divisions and initials were designed by Valenti Angelo. Bound in full red niger morocco at the Press". Previous fold. Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37333. Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut: Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim and Mainz with a list of his surviving books and Broadsides, 1950. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out order form

General

Author: Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut

Rochester, New York: Printing House of Leo Hart

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 4to; illustrated prospectus of a new title from the Printers' Valhalla; frontispiece by Fritz Kredel; order form laid in. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37604. Magee, David: The hundredth book. A bibliography of the publications of the Book Club of California & a history of the Club, 1958. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1in Book Club of California Folder

General

Author: Magee, David

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; printed by the Press for the Book Club of California in an edition limited to 400 copies. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37258. Von Eschenbach, Wolfram: The romance of Parzival and the Holy Grail, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Von Eschenbach, Wolfram

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (449 mm.); prospectus for "the outstanding literary classic of Medieval Germany," in an edition limited to 210 copies and designed by David Esslemont; "The wood engravings printed by offset lithography at the Westerham Press, Kent." Illustration on verso. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39378. New titles, 1984, 1984. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

2 w/out order form

General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Small 4to, pp. 31; black and white illustrations; original grey pictorial wrappers, printed in red and black; mostly fine. Titles from the catalogue include "The Nutcracker, a ballet cut-out book"; Philip Young's "Hawthorne's Secret: an untold tale"; and Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market". Order form laid in.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

37237. Grabhorn-Hoyem pressbooks, 1974. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

2 w/out order form

General

San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided brochure, 8vo; list of titles from the pressbooks series still available from the press; text in red and black. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37335. The printers' Valhalla, 1947. 1 box.
General

Rochester, New York: Printing House of Leo Hart

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; prospectus catalogue for this series of books, each "devoted to an individual whose career contributed to the development of bookmaking during the five hundred years since the invention of typography". Titles to include "Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press," "Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Massachusetts," "Gregory Dexter of London and New England," and "Peter Schoeffer of Gernsheim and Mainz". Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37263. Davies, Gareth Alban, ed.: The pleasant history of Lazarillo de Tormes, 1991. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out order form

General

Author: Davies, Gareth Alban, ed.

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for David Rowland's 1586 translation with woodcuts and wood engravings by Frank Martin; "Designed by David Esslemont, printed and published by Gwasg Gregynog in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies...All copies bound by Alan Wood." Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37260. Whitman, Walt: Wrenching times. Poems from "Drum-taps"...selected by M. Wynn Thomas. Wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec, 1991. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

6 w/out A Keepsake

General

Author: Whitman, Walt

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this selection of poems originally published in 1865; "Designed by David Esslemont, printed and published by Gwasg Gregynog in a limited edition of 450 numbered copies...400 copies bound by Alan Wood". Integral order form. With "A keepsake to mark the American launch of Wrenching Times" at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Houghton Library, and the Grolier Club.

Physical Description

1 box

36278. Boccaccio: Life of Dante. A translation of Boccaccio's "Trattatello in Laude di Dante" by Philip Wicksteed., 1904. 1 box.
General

Author: Boccaccio

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for the Riverside Press Edition of Boccaccio's biographical work on Dante: "printed on a hand-press from type in the same manner as 'The last fight of the revenge,' published in 1902, and is therefore the second book in a series to be so treated." Edition limited to 250 unnumbered copies. "This circular shows the size of page, quality of paper, and style of typography. Small stain to bottom left-hand corner.

Physical Description

1 box

37700. The Atlantic monthly, 1905, 1905. 1 box.
General

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

Scope and Contents

16mo, pp. 8; original printed wrappers; 2 photographic plates; prospectus for the year's edition of the Atlantic Monthly; highlights include Henry David Thoreau's private journal and the serialization of a work by Margaret Sherwood.

Physical Description

1 box

39303. Mr. Heinemann's autumn novels, 1911, 1911. 1 box.
General

London: William Heinemann.

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 8; illustrations, mostly photographic author portraits; self-wrappers printed in red and black; fine. New titles from the Press include Max Beerbohm's "Zuleika Dobson" ("How Zuleika Dobson wen to Oxford and became the Helen of an Undergraduate Troy"); and Upton Sinclair's "Love's Pilgrimmage". Integral order form printed on front wrapper.

Physical Description

1 box

37342. A Christmas book-list 1920, 1920. 1 box.
General

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; catalogue includes titles by George Lyman Kittredge, Courtney Langdon, and Charles Hall Grandgent. Order form laid in. With original printed envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37343. Various books from the list of Harvard University Press appropriate for Christmas gifts 1921, 1921. 1 box.
General

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, pp. 18; titles include "Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings" from the Fogg Art Museum; "Giotto and Some of His Followers" by Osvald Sirén; and "Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil," translated by Theodore Chickering Williams. Order form and an announcement of a delay in publishing Professor Post's "History of European and American Sculpture" laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37355. To be published in 1928, 1928. 1 box.
General

London: Haslewood Books

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; list of titles to be published and previously published by the Press, including "Fleurs et Harlequinades. A series of Drawings by Gino Severini" and "A Book of Towers and Other Buildings of Southern Europe. A series of Dry-points engraved by Ricahrd Wyndham".

Physical Description

1 box

37356. Wyndham, Richard: A book of towers and other buildings of southern Europe. A series of dry-points engraved...with an introduction and descriptions by Sacheverell Sitwell, 1928. 1 box.
General

Author: Wyndham, Richard

London: Haslewood Books

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for two titles from the Press, "A Book of Towers" and "Eve's Legend, by Lord Holland, 1824. With wood engravings by Hester Sainsbury, coloured by hand"; illustrations, one of which is tipped in.

Physical Description

1 box

37403. Marlowe, Christopher: The life and death of Tamburlaine the great. A play in two tragical discourses...first published in 1590 and now reprinted with illustrations by R.S. Sherriffs, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Marlowe, Christopher

London: Hesperides Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this edition limited to 400 copies and printed at the Curwen Press. Specimen page and illustration provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37405. Béroalde, François: The way to succeed. A work containing the reason of all that was, is and shall be, being a complete translation by Oliver Stonor of Le moyen de parvenir...with and introduction by Arthur Machen, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Béroalde, François

London: Hesperides Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this new edition, limited to 475 copies; specimen page (48) and integral order form provided. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37404. Maplet, John: A greene forest...with an introduction by W.H. Davies, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Maplet, John

London: Hesperides Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this work, originally published in 1567, now in a limited edition of 575 copies and printed at the Cambridge University Press; facsimile of the original title page and specimen page (139) provided; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37000. Po Chü-i: The lute girl, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Po Chü-i

Chicago: Lakeside Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); prospectus for the seventh of the Linweave Limited Editions, illustrated by Victor Helleu. Edges slightly worn, some sunning. The finished work not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

37441. Gibbings, Robert: Iorana! A Tahitian journal...with wood-engravings by the author, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: Gibbings, Robert

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus of this work by an author best known for his publications at the Golden Cockerel Press, England. This edition limited to 350 copies. Specimen page and illustration provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37280. The Haworth Press MCMXXXIII, 1933. 1 box.
General

Halifax, England: Haworth Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 7; catalogue of books from the press, including "The Poems of Sir John Suckling, KT" and "Miscellanea from the works of The Duke of Buckingham"; list of additional titles and titles from the "Courtier's Library" also provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37357. Thompson, Edmund B.: Portraits on our postage stamps, 1933. 1 box.
General

Author: Thompson, Edmund B.

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); postcard prospectusfor this monograph on the collection of miniature engravings; edition limited to 1000 copies. At bottom of recto: "Clip dollar bill to this card & return." Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Jun. 6, 1933.

Physical Description

1 box

37365. Brown, Theron: Battle of the frogs. A discovery of the rare & singular disturbances of an historic night; with other considerations of moment comprising the Epic of Windham...with decorations by Ray Holden, 1934. 1 box.
General

Author: Brown, Theron

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (119 mm.); illustrated prospectus of the first separate edition of Brown's "The Epic of Windham".

Physical Description

1 box

36417. Curtis, Edward S.: The North American Indian. Being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska. Written, illustrated, and published by...Edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Foreward by Theodore Roosevelt. Field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan. In twenty volumes, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Curtis, Edward S.

Boston: Charles E. Lauriat Co.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet, folded into six-sided brochure, 4to; two specimen plates from the finished work loosely inserted, Exerpt from Roosevelt's foreward and Curtis's general introduction. Back side reprint of the original prospectus of Curtis's history. Text in red and black, discoloration to far edges.

Physical Description

1 box

37386. Coppard, A.E.: Cherry ripe...With a bibliographical note by George Brandon Saul and decorations by Valenti Angelo, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Coppard, A.E.

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for this first edition limited to 300 copies; to be released at the same time as a more limited edition by the English Tintern Press, although the latter edition will be lacking three of the poems included in the Hawthorn edition.

Physical Description

1 box

37371. Fuller, Margaret: The complete history of the deluge, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Fuller, Margaret

Windham, Conn.: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (157 mm.); postcard prospectus for this Christmas book. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and post marked Dec. 17, 1936.

Physical Description

1 box

37397. The Heritage Press announcement 1936, 1936. 1 box.
General

New York: Heritage Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 26; original pictorial wrappers; catalogue of titles from the press include Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," illustrated by Norman Rockwell; W.H. Hudson's "Green Mansions;" Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler;" Charles Dickens's "The Pickwick Papers;" Irving Stone's "Lust for Life," illustrated by Vincent van Gogh; "The Song of Songs which is Solomons," illustrated and illuminated with pure gold by Valenti Angelo; and A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad"; order form in back.

Physical Description

1 box

37506. Borzoi books. Autumn 1937, 1937. 1 box.
General

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 8vo; titles from the press include Genevieve Teggard's "The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson"; "The Borzoi REad," edited by Carl van Doren; and Thomas Mann's "Joseph and his Brothers" and "The Magic Mountain".

Physical Description

1 box

37345. Updike, Daniel Berkeley: Printing types: their history, forms and use, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Updike, Daniel Berkeley

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press

Scope and Contents

TLs from David T. Pottinger, Associate Director of the Press on the Press's letterhead, 1 leaf; announcing the publication of the title's second edition.

Physical Description

1 box

37370. Moore, Clement C.: A visit from St. Nicholas...illustrated by Valenti Angelo, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Moore, Clement C.

Windham, CT: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; prospectus for two titles, "A Visit" and "The Complete History of the Deluge, in verse and drawings in color by Margaret Fuller".

Physical Description

1 box

37373. Thompson, Edmund: The printer's common-place book, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Thompson, Edmund

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); postcard prospectus for an edition of 350 copies. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Feb. 25, 1967.

Physical Description

1 box

37400. The first prospectus of the Heritage Club, 1937-1938, 1937. 1 box.
General

New York: Heritage Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 20; original pictorial wraps; introduction; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37289. Important books, 1937. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: Hollander and Davidson

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (139 mm.); postcard prospectus addressed to E.G. Wulling and postmarked Sep. 1937.

Physical Description

1 box

37438. Cather, Willa: The autograph edition of the novels and stories of Willa Cather. The first collected edition revised by the author and limited to 970 copies of which 950 numbered copies are for sale. Designed by Bruce Rogers, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Cather, Willa

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 13; prospectsu for the publication of the collected works of Willa Cather; text in margins printed in tan; with specimen title page and page 251 (from "The Song of the Lark"); 2 facsimiles; and the list of volumes in order of official arrangement. Prospectus also provides information about the author, the format, the binding (by The Riverside Press), and Bruce Rogers the designer. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37439. Goodspeed, Charles E.: Yankee bookseller. Being the reminiscences of...With many illustrations, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Goodspeed, Charles E.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this work, published in two editions, one of which to be a limited to 300 copies, signed, and numbered; specimen page (207) provided. Integral order form addressed to Goodspeed's Book Shop.

Physical Description

1 box

37447. The Huntington Library quarterly, 1937. 1 box.
General

San Marino, California: Huntington Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for the Library's new periodical; specimen table of contents for the first number provided; also gives a list of the contents of the Huntington Library Bulletins, Nos. 1-11. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37288. Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut in collaboration with Ruth S. Granniss and Lawrence C. Wroth: Das Amerikanische buchwesen, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut in collaboration with Ruth S. Granniss and Lawrence C. Wroth

Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this German work, "the first to cover the whole field of the American book in all its various aspects"; table of contents provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37380. Books from Hawthorn House 1938, 1938. 1 box.
General

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; original pictorial green wrappers; catalogue of titles includes "The Constitution of the United States of America" and Clement C. Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas" with decorations by Valenti Angelo. Order form laid in; with original envelope in which this catalogue was sent, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Nov. 29, 1938.

Physical Description

1 box

37378. [Holiday postcard from the press], 1938. 1 box.
General

Windham, Conn.: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (137 mm.); holiday postcard from the press, "Perhaps a merrier one with books from Hawthorn House, but anyway...a merry Christmas!"; addressed to Emerson G. Wulling, State Teachers College, La Crosse, Wis. and postmarked Dec. 10, 1938.

Physical Description

1 box

37377. The Constitution of the United States of America, 1938. 1 box.
General

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); postcard prospectus for the "fireside companion of the American citizen"; addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Oct. 6, 1938.

Physical Description

1 box

37443. Sterling, George: After sunset, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Sterling, George

San Francisco: John Howell

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this poetry collection in an edition limited to 250 copies; wood engraving by R.H. Barlow and printed by Groo Beck. Specimen pages (27-28, The Wiser Prophet) reprinted here.

Physical Description

1 box

37344. WAD to RR. A letter about designing type, 1940. 1 box.
General

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for the third publication by the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37361. Books from Hawthorn House, December 1940, 1940. 1 box.
General

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; pictorial green wrappers; catalogue includes prospectus for "Notes on the Care & Cataloging of Old Maps" by Lloyd A. Brown.

Physical Description

1 box

37375. Thompson, Edmund: Maps of Connecticut before the year 1800. A descriptive list, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Thompson, Edmund

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this edition limited to 250 numbered copies illustrated with 4 collotype plates; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37379. Thompson, Edmund: Maps of Connecticut before the year 1800. A descriptive list, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Thompson, Edmund

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); postcard prospectus for two titles, "Maps" and "Constitution of the United States of America". Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Jun. 20, 1940.

Physical Description

1 box

36610. Pottinger, David: Printers and printing, 1941. 1 box.
General

Author: Pottinger, David

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus gives an overview of each chapter as well as a specimen page (62). "The type face used for Printers and Printing is fourteen point Bembo, specially imported from England for this work. There are seven illustrations, three of which show the interiors of old-time printing shops. One of these is the Stradanus engraving of a sixteenth-century shop, which is here reproduced (by collotype) through the courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from its exceedingly rare copy of the Nova Reperta. The paper is Glenbourn Deckle Edge." Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37383. A book list at Christmas, 1941, 1941. 1 box.
General

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; original pictorial printed wrappers; illustrations throughout.

Physical Description

1 box

37376. Brown, Lloyd A.: Notes on the care & cataloguing of old maps, 1941. 1 box.
General

Author: Brown, Lloyd A.

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for this manual by the curator of maps at the William L. Clements Library. With envelope in which this advertisment originally came, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Jan. 30, 1941.

Physical Description

1 box

37374. Thompson, Edmund: Maps of Connecticut for the years of the Industrial Revolution, 1801-1860. A descriptive list, 1942. 1 box.
General

Author: Thompson, Edmund

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, tall 4to (302 mm.); illustrated prospectus for the companion volume to the House's "Maps of Connecticut before the year 1800"; edition limited to 250 numbered copies. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37369. Thompson, Edmund: Maps of Connecticut for the years of Industrial Revolution, 1801-1860, 1943. 1 box.
General

Author: Thompson, Edmund

Windham, Conn.: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; prospectus for this edition limited to 250 copies, selected as one of the "Fifty Books of the Year" in 1943.

Physical Description

1 box

37398. The Heritage Club prospectus for series G, June 1943-May 1944, 1943. 1 box.
General

New York: Heritage Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 27; original pictorial wrappers; titles in the catalogue include Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace"; Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi"; Herman Melville's "Moby Dick; or, the whale"; "Andersen's Fairy Tales"; "Homer's Iliad," translated by Alexander Pope; Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage"; Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses"; and "The Poems of Edgar Allen Poe". Order form and pre-addressed envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37368. Thompson, Edmund: Maps of Connecticut for the years of Industrial Revolution, 1801-1860. A descriptive list, 1944. 1 box.
General

Author: Thompson, Edmund

Windham, Conn.: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (83 x 140 mm.); illustrated postcard prospectus for this edition limited to 250 copies. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Jun. 3, 1944.

Physical Description

1 box

37401. [Catalogue], 1947. 1 box.
General

New York: Heritage Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 16; original pictorial wrappers, order form printed on inside back wrapper; titles in this catalogue include Daniel Defoe's "The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe"; "Beowolf," illustrated by Lynd Ward; Jonathan Swift's "The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver"; and Oscar Wilde's "Salomé", illustrated and illuminated by Valenti Angelo. TLs from George Macy on the Club's letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37446. Wright, Lyle H.: American fiction, 1774-1850. A contribution toward a bibliography...Revised edition, 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Wright, Lyle H.

San Marino, California: Huntington Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; new edition of a title originally published in a limited run in 1939; this piece printed by The Ward Ritchie Press. Integral order form with stamp of the distributor Roy Vernon Sowers Fine Prints and Rare Books, Glenwood, California, added later. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37505. Shirley, Dame: The Shirley letters from the California mines, 1851-1852. With an introduction and notes by Carl I. Wheat, 1949. 1 box.
General

Author: Shirley, Dame

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; specimen pages (v, 3, 169); TLs on press letterhead from Richard C. Ernst announcing the publication of this piece, designed by W.A. Dwiggins. Order form envelope (lacking order form) also laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37346. Graphic forms, 1949. 1 box.
General

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (375 mm.); invitation and program to "four discussion meetings on the arts as relating to the book. Sponsored jointly by the Bookbuilders Workshop of Boston" and the Harvard University Press". Text in grey and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37452. Image 2, 1950. 1 box.
General

London: Image

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; prospectus for the second number of this periodical arts periodical; contents include "Images of Movement" and "The National Gallery of British Sports". The contents for Image 3 and 4 also listed. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37285. LeFanu, W.R.: A bio-bibliography of Edward Jenner 1749-1823, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: LeFanu, W.R.

London: Harvey and Blythe

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for a survey of the writings of the discoverer of vaccination; facsimile page of Jenner's autograph history as well as the table of contents both provided; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37445. Cleland, Robert Glass: The Irvine Ranch of Orange County, 1810-1950, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Cleland, Robert Glass

San Marino, California: Huntington Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this piece of California history; integral order form addressed to Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles. Text in brown and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37453. Esarey, Logan: The Indiana home...with pictures by Franklin Booth and Bruce Rogers, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Esarey, Logan

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; reprint of this collection of essays on pioneer life in Indiana; designed by Bruce Rogers with an introduction by R. Carlyle Buley. Limited to 1550 numbered copies. Illustrated specimen page (16) provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37347. Nash, Ray: Printing as an art, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Nash, Ray

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (204 mm.); prospectus for this title produced by the Society of Printers, Boston and designed by Bruce Rogers. Text in blue and printed on grey paper.

Physical Description

1 box

37451. Stern, Madeleine B.: Imprints on history. Book publishers and American frontiers, 1956. 1 box.
General

Author: Stern, Madeleine B.

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus; pencil notes in margins. Order form and advertisement for "A 50 cent bonus offer" for those who catch the three typographical errors in this title's prospectus laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37450. Fauser, Alois, ed.: Bamberger apokalypse, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Fauser, Alois, ed.

Wiesbaden: Insel-Verlag Zweigstelle

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this reproduction of the illuminated miniatures, reprinted "with permission from the Bavarian Ministry for Education and Culture and the Bamberg STate Lambrary"; this edition limited to 500 copies. American distributor Herbert Reichner, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37303. Heine, H.H.: A detailed bibliography of Edgar Rice Burroughs' works, 1962. 1 box.
General

Author: Heine, H.H.

Albany: H.H. Heine

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to; mimeographed prospectus; specimen page on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

42461. Boswell, James: The life of Samuel Johnson, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: Boswell, James

New York: The Heritage Club.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrations and text printed in black and tan; previous fold, else near fine. Announcement for "A Special Out-of-Series Edition" in three volumes of Boswell's "Life," "with all of the known marginal notes of Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, edited with an introduction, by Edward G. Fletcher". Reduced sample pages and illustrations provided.

Physical Description

1 box

[Catalogue], 1969. 1 box.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; printed in red and black; original white printed wrappers, mostly fine. Order form and typed letter on Society letterhead laid in. No Envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

39393. [Catalogue], 1969. 1 box.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; printed in red and black; original white printed wrappers, mostly fine. Order form and typed letter on Society letterhead laid in. With envelope in which the catalogue was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

The first series, 1970. 1 box.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; illustrations; previous fold, else fine. Order form and envelope laid in. With original envelope in which this catalogue was mailed. No TLS.

Physical Description

1 box

37296. The Heron Press celebrates, 1971. 1 box.
General

Williamsburgh, Massachusetts: Heron Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original green wrappers; catalogue of titles from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

39396. [Catalogue], 1971. 1 box.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; illustrations; previous fold, else fine. Titles listed include N.P. Willis's "American Scenery"; and "The Poetry of Robert Frost".Order forms and envelope laid in. With original envelope and TLs on Society letterhead from Vice President William J. Whitaker to Emerson G. Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

37480. Books currently available from the Janus Press. Autumn 1976, 1976. 1 box.
General

West Burke, VT: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folded into 10-sided pamphlet, 12mo; list includes "The Tower of Babel: an Anthology"; Franz Kafka's "Der Kübelreiter/The Bucket Rider," "Conversation with the Supplicant," and "Ein Landarzt/A Country Doctor"; Federico Garcia Lorca's "Romance de la Guardia Civil Espanola/Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard"; "Mother Goose"; and "The Janus Press 1955-1975. Catalouge Raisonne" by Ruth Fine Lehrer. With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37485. Books currently available from the Janus Press. Spring 1976, 1976. 1 box.
General

West Burke, Vermont: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Two leaves, oblong 4to; titles include Claire Van Vliet's "Sky and Earth: Variable Landscape" and Thom Gunn's "The Missed Beat". Text in black, green, and yellow; original folds. Note written in pencil reading "Thank you four your order!" laid in. Original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37486. The Janus Press. Spring 1977, 1977. 1 box.
General

West Burke, Vermont: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 8vo; two lists, "Books currently available from The Janus Press in Spring 1977" and "New publications from The Janus Press available Spring 1977" laid in with a specimen page from Peter Schuman's "Bread and Puppet White Horse Butcher".

Physical Description

1 box

37489. 1978 Janus Press checklist, 1978. 1 box.
General

West Burke, Vermont: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (399 mm.); illustrated list of titles from the press. Original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37413. Books &cetera from the printing office at High Loft, 1979. 1 box.
General

Seal Harbor, Maine: High Loft

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; list of 4 titles, including "After Reading Thoreau" by Adin Ballou and "Letter from a Maine Island by A.H." Ink notes in margins.

Physical Description

1 box

37416. Mazlish, Anne: Hearing the weather fall...with drawings by Robert S. Neuman, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Mazlish, Anne

Seal Harbor, Maine: High Loft

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, oblong 12mo; illustrated prospectus for this publication of Mazlish's poem, limited to 150 copies and bound by Gray Parrot. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37487. Two thirds of nineteen hundred & seventy-nine, 1979. 1 box.
General

West Burke, Vermont: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (382 mm.); illustrated list of titles from the press, including Seamus Heaney's "Hedge School," and "Herball: Two Dialogues of Creatures Moralised". Text in black and tan, original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37488. The 1979 Janus Press checklist, 1979. 1 box.
General

West Burke, Vermont: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (384 mm.); illustrated list of titles from the press; with separate announcement of the publication of Margo Lockwood's "Bare Elegy" laid in. Original envelope

Physical Description

1 box

37521. Best titles of 1979, 1979. 1 box.
General

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 4to (264 mm.); reprint from a review by Susan Shafarzek in the Library Journal praising 4 titles from the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

37418. News & notes from the printing office at High Loft, Seal Harbor, Maine, 1980. 1 box.
General

Seal Harbor, Maine: High Loft

Scope and Contents

Broadside folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 12mo; illustrated; announcement of upcoming projects and publications.

Physical Description

1 box

37490. The Janus Press checklist of publications 1980, 1980. 1 box.
General

West Burke, Vermont: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (380 mm.); illustrated list of titles from the press, including the projected "Janus Press Miscellany" to celebrate the Press's 25th anniversary. Original envelope. Envelope also contains an advertisement for the poem "Pegasus Pete" by Mollie Ames.

Physical Description

1 box

Checklist, 1981. 1 box.
General

West Burke, Vermont: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

1981 Janus Press Checklist, text in black with pink illustration of elephants. In original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37499. Carroll, Lewis: The hunting of the snark. Illustrated by Henry Holiday. The annotated Snark by Martin Gardner. The designs for the Snark by Charles Mitchell. The listing of the Snark by Selwyn H. Goodacre. Edited by James Tanis and John Dooley, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Carroll, Lewis

Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this work "published in cooperation with the Bryn Mawr College Library"; letter from the press's manage, David Mike Hamilton, a specimen page and illustration, and the order form with pre-addressed envelope all laid in. Two editions offered for sale, the Subscriber's Edition (limited to 395 copies) and the Collector's Edition (limited to 1995 copies).

Physical Description

1 box

37414. [Catalogue], 1982. 1 box.
General

Seal Harbor, Maine: High Loft

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, oblong 8vo; illustrated catalogue whose titles include "an edition in only fifty copies of a rare series of poems about Sutton Island by Hortense Flexner with translations by the French Academician, our neighbor, Marguerite Yourcenar"; small announcement printed in red for a woodcut by Elaine Young laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37462. Ives Street Press 1982, 1982. 1 box.
General

Mount Carmel, Connecticut: Ives Street Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; prospectus for two titles from the press, Thomas McAfee's "Flight" and Bruce Guernsey's "Canoe/The Nest/The Apple". TLs addressed to Emerson Wulling of the Sumac Press from Barbara L. Cash on Press letterhead laid in. With original envelope in which this prospectus was mailed, postmarked Mar. 19, 1983.

Physical Description

1 box

37461. A tribute to William Addison Dwiggins on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, 1983. 1 box.
General

New York: Inkwell Press

Scope and Contents

4to, typescript leaf stapled to specimen pages; edition limited to 500 copies and printed by the Haddon Craftsmen.

Physical Description

1 box

37464. Ives Street Press 1983, 1983. 1 box.
General

Mount Carmel, Connecticut: Ives Street Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; list of titles available form the press; with original envelope in which this prospectus was mailed, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Sep. 22, 1987.

Physical Description

1 box

37491. Broadside, 1983. 1 box.
General

West Burke, Vermont: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (316 mm.); illustrated list of titles from the press, text in grey and black. Original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37448. 1986 checklist of titles, 1986. 1 box.
General

Springfield, Missouri: Iguana Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; illustrated catalogue of titles from the press. Text in grey, blue and black

Physical Description

1 box

37459. Torre, Vincent: Tales & fables, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Torre, Vincent

New York: Inkwell Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; prospectus with multiple specimen pages and illustrations by the author; typescript description of the book and a list of other titles from the press laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37538. Book from Libanus Press! 1987!, 1987. 1 box.
General

Washington, D.C.: Libanus Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; pictorial self wrappers; titles in this illustrated catalogue include Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood," Plato's "Symposium," Alexander Pope's "Imitations of English Poets," and Samuel Butler's "Quis Desiderio...?"

Physical Description

1 box

37465. [Broadside catalogue], 1988. 1 box.
General

Sweden, Maine: Ives Street Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (304 mm.); list of titles from the press; small Broadside advertising Mark Strand's "Four Prose Poems" laid in. With envelope in which this prospectus was originally mailed, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press and postmarked Sept. 13 1988.

Physical Description

1 box

37502. Publications and catalogues available for sale at H.P. Kraus, 1991. 1 box.
General

New York: H.P. Kraus

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo.

Physical Description

1 box

Rubin, Gail: Rules for Romance, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Rubin, Gail

Minneapolis, MN: Icebreaker Publications

Scope and Contents

Sample of the publication with an order form laid in. TSL from Gail Rubin and retailer information sheet wrapper around sample.

Physical Description

1 box

44695. Gunn, Thom.: Unsought intimacies: poems of 1991...Three etchings, Theophilus Brown, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Gunn, Thom.

Berkeley: Koch, Peter

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; specimen illustration; very light wear from handling, else fine. Contents also include specimen poem, "Night with the Speed Bros."

Physical Description

1 box

37619. Long, David: Perfection, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Long, David

Saint Paul: Kutenai Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus of Long's short story; designed by Emily Strayer and illustrated by Kirk Goetchius; limited to 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37727. Ammons, A.R.: Two Broadsides, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Ammons, A.R.

Brooktondale, NY: Larch Tree Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (229 mm.); prospectus for two poetry Broadsides, "Stand-In" and "Rarities"' each limited to 126 copies; intergral order form on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

37834. Fry, Michael et al.: Scotland and the Americas, 1600 to 1800: two hundred years of interaction, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Fry, Michael et al.

Providence, Rhode Island: John Carter Brown Library

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for the exhibition catalogue for an event held at the Forbes Magazine Galleries; table of contents provided; integral order form. With the prospectuses of the exhibition and the lectures being held during the exhibition.

Filed under John.

Physical Description

1 box

37833. Kraus, H.P.: Catalogue 200: the printed book, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Kraus, H.P.

New York: H.P. Kraus

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for this book dealer's 200th catalogue commemorating "fifty years at our current location"; limited to 800 copies printed at the Stinehour Press. Previous fold, order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37855. Berliner, Isaac: City of palaces...drawings by Diego Rivera, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Berliner, Isaac

New York: Jacoby Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this collaboration originally published in 1936; designed by Jerry Kelly and printed at the Stinehour Press in and edition of 1000 copies. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39306. Mayes, Frances: The book of summer, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Mayes, Frances

Woodside, CA: Heyeck Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustration; fine. Prospectus for the author's fifth poetry collection, illustrated by Corrine Okada. List of additional titles available from the Press laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

42481. Dekesel, Christian E.: A bibliography of 16th century numismatic books, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Dekesel, Christian E.

Crestline, CA: George Frederick Kolbe/Fine Numismatic Books.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (295 mm.); illustrations, printed in green and black; previous folds, slight edge wear from handling, else very good. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

42460. Knapp, Tracey: Match in a bottle: poems...Drawings by Kurt Gohde, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Knapp, Tracey

North Andover, MA: Kat Ran Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaged; text printed in red and black; unbound, fine. Announcement of the publication the complete poems by Knapp. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

42480. The good schoolmaster [heading title], 1998. 1 box.
General

Baltimore: Hill Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; decorative vignettes; fine. Prospectus for a collection of nine essays by Bacon, Fuller, Swift, Johnson, Paine, Lamb, Thoreau, Ruskin, and Huxley. Specimen page from Thomas Fuller's essay "The good Schoolmaster" on upper cover; list of additional titles still available printed on back panel.

Physical Description

1 box

John Rowland and William Workman; Griffith Park-a definitive history, 1999. 1 box.
General

Historical Society ot Southern California

Scope and Contents

Two Broadside advertisements for publications and a TLS from Thomas F. Andrews. Order form and envelope included.

Physical Description

1 box

Urban birds &c., 1999. 1 box.
General

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

TLS to Rulon Miller books wrapped around: A Broadside with the Incline Press trade terms; An article about the include press with a sample of marbled paper glued onto it; Broadside announcements for Forty Sheets to the Wind, Urban Birds and New Borders.

Physical Description

1 box

The journal of contemporary photography volume 2, 1999. 1 box.
General

Brewster, MA: Leo & Wolf Photography. Inc.

Scope and Contents

Piece of paper folded into a 6-sided pamphlet. With prices for trade edition, deluxe edition and museum edition as well as samples and table of contents. Broadside with prices, order form for limited edition prints, and order form for journal laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

The journal of contemporary photography volume 2, 1999. 1 box.
General

Brewster, MA: Leo & Wolf Photography. Inc.

Scope and Contents

Piece of paper folded into a 6-sided pamphlet. With prices for trade edition, deluxe edition and museum edition as well as samples and table of contents. Letter to Mr. Rulon Miller signed in blue pen by Steven Albahari. Photocopy of a Wall Street Journal article about the publication dated January 28, 1999. Order forms for the Journal and free signed limited edition prints laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38372. Catalogue 1999, 1999. 1 box.
General

London: Primrose Hill Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 26; illustrations; original white pictorial wrappers, text printed in brick red, fine. Titles from the catalogue include "Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy"; Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"; and the serial "Bookplate International". Also includes titles from the Primrose Academy, including "The Dostoevsky Suite" and "Anglo-Russian Relations," with introduction by W.E. Butler. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36240. Heartman, Charles F.: The New-England Primer issued prior to 1830., 1922. 1 box.
General

Author: Heartman, Charles F.

Metuchen, New Jersey: Heartman, Charles F.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo, advertisement and praise for the publication of the bibliography of the early editions of the New-England Primer, "the 'Greatest Little Book' ever published". Previous folds, stamp marks on front and back from a previous book dealer.

Physical Description

1 box

37540. Recent notable books, 1922. 1 box.
General

London: T. Werner Laurie

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 32mo; catalogue includes "L'entente cordiale des bebes: A selection of English nursery rhymes done into French. For English and French homes"; "Psychic Messages from Oscar Wilde"; and "Abraham Lincoln. A short history," by John G. Nicolay; a list of the series "Laurie's two-shilling fiction library" also printed here.

Physical Description

1 box

37533. Kent, Rockwell: N by E, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Kent, Rockwell

Chicago: Lakeside Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated announcement of the publication for Kent's "N by E" and "Moby Dick".

Physical Description

1 box

37294. Munroe, David Hoadley: The Grand National 1839-1930...with foreward by William V.C. Ruxton...and E.A.C. Topham...Illustrated, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Munroe, David Hoadley

New York: Huntington Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this history of "the world's greatest steeplechase"; specimen page; edition limited to 501 copies, "bound in linen and buckram, with an all-over design in colour, from a drawing by Mr. Annand".

Physical Description

1 box

37381. Brown, Theodore: Battle of the frogs. A discovery of the rare & singular disturbances of an historic night; with other considerations of moment comprising The epic of Windham...with decorations by Ray Holden, 1934. 1 box.
General

Author: Brown, Theodore

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 16mo; illustrated prospectus printed on integral envelope; edition limited to 260 copies. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

37360. Two books & a reminder, 1935. 1 box.
General

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 16mo; illustrated prospectus for two titles, Brendan Gill's "Death in April & Other Poems," edition limited to 160 copies; and Earle M. Harvey's "My Present Fancies. A selection of carefully wrought love poems"; reminder printed in the back advertising for "The Hungry Steam Shovel &c.," illustrated by children and with an introduction by Charles Hanson Towne. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37366. Two books in retrospect and one in prospect, 1935. 1 box.
General

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; illustrated prospectus advertising "Portraits on our Postage Stamps"; "Battle of the Frogs," and, in prospect, a series of decorative initial letters by Valenti Angelo for a new edition of Bacon's Essays. Cover vignette of this prospectus also by Angelo.

Physical Description

1 box

37428. Nursery rhyme Broadsides, 1935. 1 box.
General

New York: Holiday House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (240 mm.); prospectus for a series of Broadsides decorated by Valenti Angelo. Reduced, 3-color (original in 4 colors) specimen of "A was an Archer" printed on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

37394. Whitman, Walt: Leaves of grass...illustrated by Rockwell Kent, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Whitman, Walt

New York: Heritage Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this edition from "The greatest American illustrator and the greatest American poet"; printed at the Lakeside Press. Integral order form addressed to the distributor, the Argus Book Shop, Chicago.

Physical Description

1 box

37422. Fine books for children, 1936. 1 box.
General

New York: Holiday House

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; original pictorial wrappers; illustrated catalogue of titles from the press, including "Aucassin and Nicolette," translated by Andrew Lang; and Percival Stutters's "How Percival Caught the Tiger".

Physical Description

1 box

37421. Fine books for the child's permanent library, 1936. 1 box.
General

New York: Holiday House

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; original pictorial wrappers; illustrated catalogue of titles from the press, including their Nursery Rhyme Broadsides and a series of Stocking Books.

Physical Description

1 box

37425. Aucassin and Nicolete, 1936. 1 box.
General

New York: Holiday House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for this limited edition of 225 copies, translated by Andrew Lang and illustrated by Maxwell Simpson. Designed by Helen Gentry and printed by William E. Rudge's Sons. Slip advertising an unlimited edition of the same title laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37220. California in the fifties, 1936. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: John Howell

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 8vo; prospectus for this illustrated work containing "fifty views of cities and towns in California and the West drawn by such noted early artists as Thomas A. Ayres, Emil Dresel, Charles C. Kuchel, Eugene Camerer, C.B. Gifford and others between the years 1855 and 1861"; one of these, of George H. Baker's "Sacramento, the capital of California, 1857", reproduced here. Table of contents provided. Edition limited to 1000 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37372. Saul, George Brandon: Unimagined rose, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Saul, George Brandon

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); postcard prospectus for this collection of poetry in a first edition of 160 copies, numbered and signed by the author; bottom of Broadside recto also mentions the dwindling supplies of "A Printer's Common-Place Book". Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and postmarked May 25, 1937.

Physical Description

1 box

37424. Fine books for children, 1937. 1 box.
General

New York: Holiday House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for three books from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

37359. Wright, Nathalia: The inner room, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Wright, Nathalia

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); postcard prospectus for the sonnet sequence and winner of the Albert Stanburrough Cook Prize, Yale University, 1937; this edition limited to 250 copies. Bottom of recto mentions two earlier books, Death in April by Brendan Gill, and Geroge Brandon Saul's Unimagined Rose. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Jun. 21, 1938.

Physical Description

1 box

37399. [Catalogue], 1938. 1 box.
General

New York: Heritage Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 13; original pictorial wrappers; titles in this catalogue include Dmitri Merejkowski's "The Romance of Leonard da Vinci," illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci; Charles Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop"; "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust," illustrated by Eugène Delacroix; John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"; Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vicar of Wakefield"; and John Milton's "Paradise Lost," with the illustrations of William Blake printed in color for the first time. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37507. Neurath, Otto: Modern man in the making, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Neurath, Otto

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrated prospectus; synopsis of the work's contents provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37362. Whittier, John Greenleaf: Snow-bound. A winter idyl, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Whittier, John Greenleaf

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (139 mm.); postcard prospectus for this poem, illustrated by Ray Holden; edition limited to 700 copies. Addressed to Eemerson G. Wulling and postmarked Oct. 1939.

Physical Description

1 box

37427. The seven voyages of Sindbad the sailor from the Arabian Nights Entertainments. Woodcuts by Philip Reed, 1939. 1 box.
General

New York: Holiday House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, tall 4to (307 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this edition limited to 1000 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37358. Thompson, Edmund: Maps of Connecticut before the year 1800. A descriptive list, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Thompson, Edmund

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (163 mm.); postcard prospectus, illustrated with map facsimile; edition limited to 250 copies. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Apr. 18, 1940.

Physical Description

1 box

39185. Trinka, Zdena: Home sweet home. A life story of the man who gave the world the greatest song of home, 1942. 1 box.
General

Author: Trinka, Zdena

Lidgerwood, North Dakota: International Book Publishers

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (85 x 140 mm.); a bit toned, else fine. Prospectus for the Autographed Edition.

Physical Description

1 box

37286. Maugham, W. Somerset: The unconquered, 1944. 1 box.
General

Author: Maugham, W. Somerset

New York: House of Books

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (225 mm.); prospectus for the newest number of the press's "Crown Octavo Series" with the list of the previous titles included. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37290. Orcutt, Alice: The song of Magdalen, 1946. 1 box.
General

Author: Orcutt, Alice

New York: Douglass Howell

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 4to; illustrated prospectus for the press's first title, limited to 500 numbered copies, case bound by Gerhard Gerlach.

Physical Description

1 box

39223. Hunter, David: Papermaking. The history and technique of an ancient craft, 1947. 1 box.
General

Author: Hunter, David

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo; printed in green; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for the first non-limited edition. Typography and binding design by W.A. Dwiggins. Table of contents and integral order form printed on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

39186. Trinka, Zdena: A little village called Lidice...With a foreword by Joseph Auslander, noted poet, 1947. 1 box.
General

Author: Trinka, Zdena

Lidgerwood, North Dakota: International Book Publishers

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (228 mm.); a bit toned, red pencil underlining (of "Joseph Auslander"), small tear at bottom edge not affecing text, previous folds, else a good copy. Prospectus for the special limited first edition of a history of the return of the women and children to the Czech village of Lidice after World War II.

Physical Description

1 box

39271. Bruce, Claire: Through the mill with B.R. A play on BRinting, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Bruce, Claire

New York: James Hendrickson.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 12mo; photographic illustration, text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for Typophile Chap Book XXI, a playlet that "attempts to catch the elusive Bruce Rogers in a lighter moment during the eliciting of his book, Paragraphs On Printing". Integral order form printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

37498. Cambridge Press title-pages, 1640-1665. A pictorial representation of a printer with a hobby of the work done in the first printing office in British North America., 1954. 1 box.
General

Takoma Park, Maryland: Walter L. Kimber

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (284 mm.); prospectus for a companion work to George Parker Winship's "Cambridge Press, 1638-1692"; praise and commentaries from various institutions, including the John Carter Brown Library, the Boston Athenaeum, the Bibliographical Society, and the Library of Congress.

Physical Description

1 box

37504. Denman, Frank: The shaping of our alphabet. A study in changing type styles, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Denman, Frank

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 4to (266 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this "important contribution to the literature on type and typography"; integral order form. Printed on yellow paper in red ink, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37283. Ginzburg, Ralph: An unhurried view of erotica...Introduction by Dr. Theodor Reik. Preface by George Jean Nathan, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Ginzburg, Ralph

New York: Helmsman Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to; with order form and pre-addressed envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37298. Bodoni, G.B.: Manuale tipografico. A facsimile with an introduction by J.M. Mosley and Robert F. Lane, 1960. 1 box.
General

Author: Bodoni, G.B.

London: Holland Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to; illustrated prospectus for this facsimile edition of a work originally finished in 1818; integral order form addressed to the Chiswick Book Shop, New York. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37301. Gill, Eric: The engraved work of Eric Gill. A new enlarged edition, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: Gill, Eric

London: HMSO

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this enlarged work, includes 7 examples of Gill's work.

Physical Description

1 box

37575. O'Crouley, Pedro Alonso: A description of the kingdom of New Spain by Sr. Dn. Pedro Alonso O'Crouley, 1774. Translated and edited by Seán Galvin, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: O'Crouley, Pedro Alonso

San Francisco: John Howell

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrated prospectus for this reproduction, designed and printed by LAwton and Alfred Kennedy, calligraphy by Albert Meakin.

Physical Description

1 box

39285. Sterling, Charles: The master of Claude, queen of France. A newly defined miniaturist, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Sterling, Charles

New York: H.P. Kraus.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 4to; black and white photographic reproductions; fine. Prospectus for a work on "the splendid series of one hundred and twenty-eight miniatures that adorn Queen Claude's Prayer Book, one of the smallest illustrated manuscripts ever created". A list of other books about manuscripts and rare books printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37514. Happy holidays from Konglomerati, 1977. 1 box.
General

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, tall 8vo; illustrated brochure listing titles from the Press, including a restoration reprint of William B. Sprague's American edition of "Cinderella"; Konglomerati notecards; and the Konglomerati magazine. Integral order form and original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37539. Deluxe edition books for collectors, 1977. 1 box.
General

Salisbury, Connecticut: Lime Rock Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrated list of titles from the press, including "Dylan Thomas's New York," and "Original Illustrations for 'Enjoying the Southwest'"; TLs on Press letterhead from the president, W.N. Seymour and the order form with pre-addressed envelope all laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37478. Nyholm, Janet: From a housewife's diary, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Nyholm, Janet

West Burke, VT: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 4to (204 x 236 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this limited edition of 250 copies, illustrated by Jerome Kaplan and assisted by the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. Text in red and black, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37484. Snodgrass, W.D.: Traditional Hungarian songs, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Snodgrass, W.D.

West Burke, VT: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small oblong 4to (203 x 235 mm.); illustrated prospectus for these songs, originally collected by Bartok & Kodaly; decorations by Dorian McGowan; printed for Charles Seluzicki. With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37471. Pollack, Felix: Subject to change, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Pollack, Felix

La Crosse, WI: Juniper Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; prospectus for this poetry collection limited to 350 copies; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37516. [List of periodicals], 1978. 1 box.
General

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 32mo (81 x 122mm.); lists the periodicals published by the press, "Concrete," "Kong," and "Faces".

Physical Description

1 box

44700. Leonardo da Vinci.: The codex Atlanticus, Vol. XII, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Leonardo da Vinci.

New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation

Scope and Contents

Press kit for last volume of the limited facsimile reprint of the Codex; includes brochures, Broadsides, illustrations, facsimiles, and order information from an interested customer. In original Corporation envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37417. [Prospectus for 2 titles], 1979. 1 box.
General

Seal Harbor, Maine: High Loft

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for two titles, Anne Mazlish's "Hearing the Weather Fall" and selections from "Jubilate Agno" by Christopher Smart. Small sheet of thanks for a recent order laid in. With original envelope in which this prospectus was mailed, postmarked Jul. 2, 1979.

Physical Description

1 box

37482. Cortese, James: What the owl said, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Cortese, James

West Burke, Vermont: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for Cortese's work as well as Galway Kinnell's "Fergus Falling". With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37525. Salzmann, Jerome: Catnip pie...with illustrations by Ann Laird Jones, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Salzmann, Jerome

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 32mo; illustrated prospectus providing 4 sample pages.

Physical Description

1 box

37415. The book of Jonah with woodcuts by Elaine Young and a commentary on the King James setting, 1981. 1 box.
General

Seal Harbor, Maine: High Loft

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 8vo; prospectus for an edition limited to 200 numbered copies, bound by Gray Parrot, with side-papers designed by Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lions Press, England. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37470. Jump River review. Literary quarterly, 1981. 1 box.
General

Wausau, Wis.: Jump River Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small oblong 8vo (135 x 211 mm.); illustrated postcard prospectus for two pieces from the press, the Review and Peter Stambler's poetry collection "Widerness Fires". Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

37518. Farris, Christine: Mining the beaches for watches and small change, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Farris, Christine

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; illustrated prospectus of this poetry collection illustrated by Steve Smith and sponsored by the Konglomerati Florida Foundation for Literature and the Book Arts, Inc. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37444. Wagner, [Henry Raup] and [Charles Lewis] Camp: The plains & the Rockies. Fourth edition revised, enlarged and edited by Robert H. Becker. A critical bibliography of exploration, adventure and travel in the American West, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Wagner, [Henry Raup] and [Charles Lewis] Camp

San Francisco: John Howell

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet; prospectus for this new edition designed by Andrew Hoyem and printed at the Arion Press. Integral order form and envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

39282. Wagner, Henry R. and Charles L. Camp: The plains & the rockies. A bibliography of narratives of exploration, travel, and adventure, 1800-1865 by Robert H. Becker, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Wagner, Henry R. and Charles L. Camp

San Francisco: John Howell Books

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; a bit soiled, else fine. Prospectus for the fourth edition, enlarged and revised; 2 specimen pages provided. Printed at the Arion Press.

Physical Description

1 box

37460. Torre, Vincent: The Italian commedia dell'arte, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Torre, Vincent

New York: Inkwell Press

Scope and Contents

4to, typescript leaf stapled to numberous specimen pages; prospectus for this edition limited to 200 numbered and signed copies. "Printed in offset by Haddon Craftsmen in black ink only." Order form in back; list of other titles from the press laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37463. Strand, Mark: Four prose poems, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Strand, Mark

Harrison, Maine: Ives Street Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (192 mm.); prospectus for this poetry collection illustrated by Josef Albers in an edition limited to 187 copies. With original envelope in which this prospectus was mailed, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press and postmarked 21 Sep. 1983.

Physical Description

1 box

37469. Stambler, Peter: Witnesses: a guided tour to 19th century America, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Stambler, Peter

Medina, Ohio: Jump River Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); prospectus for this collection of poems in which "Each poem is based on the discoveries of European visitors to the New World". Integral order form at bottom of Broadside.

Physical Description

1 box

37500. Eberhart, Richard: Florida poems...with drawings by Karen Tucker Kuykendall, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Eberhart, Richard

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this limited edition collection of poems by this Pulitzer Prize-winning author; also includes advertisements for the Press's limited edition holiday cards by Florida artists. Integral order form has been removed, effecting illustrations to the cards advertisement as well as the advertisement for Jerome Salzmann's "Catnip Pie".

Physical Description

1 box

37519. Eberhart, Richard: Florida poems...with drawings by Karen Tucker Kuykendall, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Eberhart, Richard

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus for this limited edition of 1000 copies, sponsored by the Konglomerati Florida Foundation for Literature and the Book Arts, Inc. Specimen poem included.

Physical Description

1 box

37291. Walter, Eugene: Monkey poems & semi-likewise, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Walter, Eugene

Austin, TX: Bradley Hutchinson

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 8vo (159 x 250 mm.); illustrated prospectus of this edition limited to 500 copies, of which some are bound in cloth or leather by the Jensen Bindery.

Physical Description

1 box

37304. A bookbinder's Florilegium, 1988. 1 box.
General

Austin, Texas: Humanities Research Center

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; prospectus for the Center's second publication, printed by Carol Kent in an edition limited to 140 copies; preface by Decherd Turner, introduction by John P. Chalmers.

Physical Description

1 box

37501. Hall, Joan Joffe: Summer heat. Three stories, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Hall, Joan Joffe

Willington, CT: Kutenai Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this short story collection, designed and printed by Emily Strayer, cast at the Golgonooza Letter Foundry, and illustrated by Anthony Corsaro. Edition limited to 200 copies. A trade edition also for sale.

Physical Description

1 box

37568. Vision of a collector: the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress, 1991. 1 box.
General

Washington: Library of Congress

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; prospectus for this catalogue, distributed by W. Thomas Taylor, Austin Texas. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37567. Whitman, Walt: Leaves of grass, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Whitman, Walt

New York: Library of American Poets

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a new printing of the first edition of Whitman's oeuvr, limited to 2500 copies; order form, printed announcement, and advertisement for the Library laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37599. Van der Krogt, Peter: Globi Neerlandici: the production of globes in the low countries, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Van der Krogt, Peter

Utrecht: HES Publishers

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrated prospectus for this "detailed survey...given of the globemakers in Amsterdam, as well as those in the southern Netherlands (Antwerp, Louvain, and Brussels) from the first attempts in the first half of the 16th century to the mass production of the 19th and 20th centuries". Limited to 1000 copies. Reduced specimen pages (125, 65); integral order form addressed to Sotheby's Books, Bedford, Great Britain.

Physical Description

1 box

37794. Delgado-Gomez, Angel: Spanish historical writing about the New World, 1493-1700, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Delgado-Gomez, Angel

Providence, RI: John Carter Brown Library

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a title funded by the Comité Conjunto Hispano-Norteamericano para La Cooperación Cultural y Educativa, the Fundación Ramón Areces, the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities, the Consulate General of Spain in Boston, Massachusetts, and Amtraco, L.P.

Filed under John.

Physical Description

1 box

37859. Lohf, Kenneth A.: New York elegies & other poems, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Lohf, Kenneth A.

Pomona, New York: Kelly-Winterton Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (235 mm.); prospectus for this poetry collection; introduction by Patrick T. Lawlor, designed by Jerry Kelly, and printed at the Stinehour Press. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39216. Quinn, David Beers: Sir Francis Drake as seen by his contemporaries. An essay...with bibliographical supplement of works relating to Drake at the John Carter Brown Library compiled by Burton van Name Edwards, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Quinn, David Beers

Providence: John Carter Brown Library

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet; black and white illustrations and facsimiles; fine. Integral order form.

Filed under John.

Physical Description

1 box

39314. Rashley, Elizabeth, ill.: An avian alphabet with linocuts...& alliterative allegations by Nyr Indictor, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Rashley, Elizabeth, ill.

Witney, Oxford: Inky Parrot Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, large 8vo; lincut illustrations; fine. "This book is published under the old 'Inky Parrot Press' imprint as it is being printed letterpress [by Harry Crook] at the old Oxford Polytechnique, now Oxford Brookes University". Edition limited to 98 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

42475. Topp, Chester W.: Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, 1849-1905. Volume III: Hotten, Chatto & Windus, and Chapman & Hall, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Topp, Chester W.

Denver: Hermitage Antiquarian Bookshop.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; pink-grey paper printed in green; fine. Prospectus includes praise for the first Volume of Topp's bibliography; a reduced specimen page; and an integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37419. [Catalogue], 1920. 1 box.
General

New York: Holiday House

Scope and Contents

32mo, unpaginated; original pictorial wrappers; catalogue of titles from the press, "a publishing venture devoted exclusively to the finest books for children"; titles include Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid"; and Boomba Lives in Africa" by Caroline Singer and C. Le Roy Baldridge.

Physical Description

1 box

36371. [March, Francis Andrew]: March's thesaurus dictionary., 1925. 1 box.
General

Author: [March, Francis Andrew]

Philadelphia: Historical Publishing

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus provides guidelines on how to use March's thesaurus, and a sample page (577) with text in red and black. Previous folds, edges and corners with multiple tears, not affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

37442. Trollope, Anthony: The Barsetshire Novels...large paper edition, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Trollope, Anthony

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for the author's collection of novels, edited and with an introduction by Michael Sadleir; published by the Shakespeare Head Press in an edition limited to 500 copies and bound at the Riverside Press. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39181. Trinka, Z'Dena: Medora, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Trinka, Z'Dena

Lidgerwood, No. Dak.: International Book Publishers.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (150 mm.); a bit toned, else fine. Prospectus for a novel of the "fabulous Badlands with its lone Chateau and the secret it has held for over half a century". Advertised with its "prized companion piece," "Teddy: the saga of the Badlands".

Physical Description

1 box

37364. Hawthorn House. A note on the choice of a name, 1934. 1 box.
General

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; booklet includes a list of titles available from the press, including "Map of Windham Connecticut" and "Anecdotes Told Me by Lady Denbigh," by Horace Walpole.

Physical Description

1 box

37420. Night before Christmas, 1937. 1 box.
General

New York: Holiday House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (145 mm.); prospectus for this holiday chapbook designed by Helen Gentry.

Physical Description

1 box

37384. [Order form for remaining titles from the Press after a hiatus from publishing], 1942. 1 box.
General

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, tall 4to (316 mm.); order form filled out by Emerson G. Wulling, requesting 2 copies of The Constitution of the United States of America; handwritten note in right-hand margin from the House's printer, Edmund Thompson, informing Wulling that the title he has requested is sold out. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37295. James Hendrickson announces that he is now available on a free lance basis to publishers, business organizations and individuals..., 1945. 1 box.
General

New York: James Hendrickson

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; announcement of Hendrickson's availability as a designer and supervisor of the printing of books; reduced facsimiles of book jackets, menus, and pages designed by Hendrickson.

Physical Description

1 box

36427. Torre, Vincent: Vincent Torre at the Ink-Well Press, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Torre, Vincent

New York: Ink-Well Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; Vincent Torre illustrations throughout; prospectus of the works designed and illustrated by Vincent Torre and published by the press.

Physical Description

1 box

37517. Konglomerati magazine, 1970. 1 box.
General

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 32mo; prospectus for this periodical edited, designed, and printed by Richard Mathews and Barbara Russ. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37523. Konglomerati magazine, 1970. 1 box.
General

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet; illustrated prospectus for the forthcoming Volume six of the Magazine.

Physical Description

1 box

37522. [Order form brochure], 1978. 1 box.
General

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet; integral order form; prospectus for Concrete II and the Konglomerati Magazine tipped in.

Physical Description

1 box

37537. Bonnardot, Alfred: The mirror of the Parisian bibliophile...translated by Theodore W. Koch. Illustrated by José Longoria, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Bonnardot, Alfred

Chicago: Lakeside Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrated prospectus with extracts from reviews and letters received. Inscribed by the translator.

Physical Description

1 box

37396. Fine books which are "Collector's items" for only $5 each!, 1937. 1 box.
General

New York: Heritage Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; catalogue of titles from the Heritage Press and the Limited Editions Club, including Charles Dickens's "The Personal History of David Copperfield," Abbé Prevost's "The Story of Manon Lescaut," Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins.

Physical Description

1 box

37534. Audubon, John James: Audubon's America. The narratives and experiences of...Edited by Donald Culross Peattie, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Audubon, John James

New York: Houghton Mifflin

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; color portrait and specimen print (Putorius Vison [Mink]); two editions available, the Limited Edition consisting of 515 signed and numbered copies, and the Regular Edition.

Physical Description

1 box

37503. White, Newman Ivey: Shelley, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: White, Newman Ivey

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original salmon printed wrappers (slightly soiled); facsimile and illustrations (one in color); prospectus for White's biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley; specimen page (445) provided; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37395. Benét, William Rose: Mother Goose. A comprehensive collection of rhymes...Illustrated by Roger Duvoisin, 1943. 1 box.
General

Author: Benét, William Rose

New York: Heritage Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus; integral order form addressed to the distributor, Argus Book Shop, Chicago.

Physical Description

1 box

37692. Stein, Gertrude: Picasso...Music: Virgil Thomson, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Stein, Gertrude

New York: JHW Editions

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; prospectus of Stein's two prose essays on Picasso ("Picasso," 1909, and "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso," 1923), with Virgil Thomson's musical portrait "Bugles and Birds: A Portrait of Picasso," 1940; cloth-covered clam box hand-made for the edition by Judi Conant; printing, typesetting, and binding by The Stinehour Press. Order form laid in.

Filed under .

Physical Description

1 box

45016. Hergesheimer, Joseph.: The works, 1919. 1 box.
General

Author: Hergesheimer, Joseph.

New York: Knopf, Alfred A.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches); printed on blue paper; previous folds, else fine. Advertisement for 5 works by Hergesheimer, including "The Lay of Anthony," "Mountain Blood," "Gold and Iron," "The Three Black Pennys," and "Java Head".

Physical Description

1 box

42493. Melville, Herman: Moby Dick, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Melville, Herman

Chicago: Lakeside Press.

Scope and Contents

Collection of prospectuses from the Press relating to the 1930 publication of Melville's "Moby Dick"; mostly very good or better. Items include "Give Us Small Books"; "The Christening of 'Moby Dick'"; and the large 4to brochure "Four American Books".

Physical Description

1 box

37382. A book-list from Hawthorn House, 1936. 1 box.
General

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 16mo; list includes "Cherry Ripe" by A.E. Coppard with decorations by Valenti Angelo; and "Maps in Miniature: Notes Critical and Historical on their use on postage stamps" by Walter Klinefelter. With envelope in which this prospectus was mailed, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling and postmarked Dec. 7, 1936.

Physical Description

1 box

37300. Gifford, Humfrey: A posie of gilloflowers each differing from other in colour and odour, yet all sweet...edited with an introduction by F.J. Harvey Darton, 1933. 1 box.
General

Author: Gifford, Humfrey

London: Hawthornden Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus of a reprint of a work originally published in 1580; specimen page (76) provided; integral order form addressed to Maggs Brothers, London. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39395. The first series, 1970. 1 box.
General

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; illustrations; previous fold, else fine. Order form and envelope laid in. With original envelope in which this catalogue was mailed. TLS from William J. Whitaker.

Physical Description

1 box

37402. First list 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

London: Hesperides Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 6; original blue printed wrappers; titles include Christopher Marlowe's "Tamburlaine" and Dante Alighieri's "La Vita Nuvoa," with D.G. Rossetti's translation.

Physical Description

1 box

37406. First list 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

London: Hesperides Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 6; original blue printed wrappers; titles include Christopher Marlowe's "Tamburlaine" and Dante Alighieri's "La Vita Nuvoa," with D.G. Rossetti's translation. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37711. Galt, Margot Fortunato: The country's way with rain, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Galt, Margot Fortunato

St. Paul, Minnesota: Kutenai Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for a collection of poems; designed by Emily Strayer and limited to 150 copies. One of the copies has an invitation to a book signing and reading by the author.

Physical Description

1 box

37385. Fuller, Margaret: The complete history of the deluge in verse and pictures, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Fuller, Margaret

Windham, Connecticut: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Bifoliun, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this children's book to be illustrated with 22 drawings in color; illustrated specimen page (9).

Physical Description

1 box

37282. Viguers, Ruth Hill, Marcia Dalphin, and Bertha Mahony Miller: Illustrators of children's books 1946-1956, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Viguers, Ruth Hill, Marcia Dalphin, and Bertha Mahony Miller

Boston: Horn Book

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; illustrated prospectus provides table of contents, reduced specimen pages, and publication information. "Reviewers' comment" printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

37468. Wood engravings. Being an impression from the original blocks in the collection at the Glad Hand Press, 1975. 1 box.
General

Stamford, Connecticut: Robert M. Jones

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for this pictorial work displaying woodblocks from the 17th century through 1940; edition limited to 100 copies. Distributed by the Chiswick Book Shop, Sandy Hood, CT.

Physical Description

1 box

37515. A 1981 checklist of titles, 1981. 1 box.
General

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; list includes poetry, children's books, every volume of the Konglomerati magazine, and forthcoming titles; also lists Ruth Pettis's "The Goudy Presence at Konglomerati Press". Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37284. Some recent and forthcoming publications, 1928. 1 box.
General

Shaftesbury: High House Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 12mo; list of recent and forthcoming titles, including "Rymes of the Minstrels: selections from a fifteenth-century manuscript" and William Shenstone's "A Pastoral Ballad".

Physical Description

1 box

37426. Fine books for children, 1938. 1 box.
General

New York: Holiday House

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; original pictorial wrappers; illustrated catalogue of titles from the press, including Kenneth Grahame's "The Reluctant Dragon"; and William Allen Butler's "Tom Twist".

Physical Description

1 box

37508. Hunter, Dard: My life with paper, 1947. 1 box.
General

Author: Hunter, Dard

New York: Alfred A. Knopf

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (280 mm.); prospectus for this book historian's autobiography; with praise and commentaries by other bibliophiles. Integral order form. Printed on yellow-green paper with blue ink, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37302. Landwehr, John: VOC. A bibliography of publications relating to the Dutch East India Company 1902-1800. Edited by Peter van der Krogt. Introduction by C.R. Boxer. Preface by G. Schilder, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Landwehr, John

Utrecht: HES Publishers

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; includes facsimiles, specimen pages (248, 293), illustrations, and integral order form for this bibliography, limited to 1000 copies. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

37279. Roberts, Verne L. and Ivy Trent: Bibliotheca mechanica, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Roberts, Verne L. and Ivy Trent

New York: Jonathan A. Hill

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for a reference work drawing from the Verne L. Roberts collection of rare and imporant works "in the fields of mechanics, biomechanics, the strength of materials, and the history of technology". Limited to 150 deluxe and 1000 regular copies and printed by W. Thomas Taylor. Specimen page (158) provided.

Physical Description

1 box

44701. Leonardo da Vinci.: The codex Atlanticus, Vol. I, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Leonardo da Vinci.

New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation

Scope and Contents

Square folio, unpaged; staplebound self-wrappers, upper cover folding plate printed on verso; color and plain illustrations throughout; minor discoloration and foxing, else about fine. Typescript letter on Corporation letterhead and blank order form laid in. Prospectus for the first of a twelve-volume limited facsimile reprint of the Codex.

Physical Description

1 box

37281. Paultre, Roger: Les images du livre. Emblêmes et devises, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Paultre, Roger

Paris: Hermann

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus, includes five reduced reproductions of works cited in the book proper.

Physical Description

1 box

42470. [Rogers, Bruce]: A keepsake for collectors of Rogersiana [heading title], 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: [Rogers, Bruce]

Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Machine Company.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (174 mm.); fine. Keepsake on Rogers's Oxford Lectern Bible.

Physical Description

1 box

37479. A checklist of the books the Janus Press published in 1977, 1977. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 not in envelope

General

West Burke, VT: Janus Press

Scope and Contents

Two leaves, 4to; list of titles, some already out of print, from the press, including Ted Hughes's poem "Chiasmadon" and "Bread and Puppet White Horse Butcher," written and illustrated by Peter Schummann. Text in tan and black, blue decorative boarders, previous fold. In an envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37520. [Christmas catalogue], 1979. 1 box.
General

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; list of titles and notecards available from the press; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37524. [Christmas catalogue], 1983. 1 box.
General

Gulfport, Florida: Konglomerati Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; catalogue of titles and notecards available from the Press. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37297. Zinman, Michael: The American Bible. Original leaves from rare and historic bibles printed in the colonies and the United States during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries...with an introduction by Mark Noll, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Zinman, Michael

Ardsley, New York: Haydn Foundation for the Cultural Arts

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; original gilt-stamped red wrappers; facsimiles and illustrations of the work throughout. Edition limited to 100 sets. One copy has a letter signed by Barbara Weingarten.

Physical Description

1 box

37966. Shakespeare, William: Shakespeare: A review and a preview, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Folio, mixed paginations; 4 plates; original linen, printed in red and housed in brown box, fine. An illustrated prospectus for the Club's editions of the works of Shakespeare; includes the section: "What has been said of Shakespeare," by John Milton and others; George Macy's "A note upon a new Shakespeare"; and "Pages and pictures from the new Shakespeare". Illustrated pamphlet "Some notes upon a project for an illustrated Shakespeare" and order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39226. Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co. have the pleasure of announcing that they have arranged with the Trustees of the late William Morris for the publication of a limited edition of the following eight volumes, 1901. 1 box.
General

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text printed only on front side; edges very mildly toned, else fine. Titles include The Odyssey of Homer and The Aeneids of Virgil. This series to honor Morris's original plan to publish the full series of his works at the Kelmscott Press, a project cut short by his death in 1896. This edition to be limited to 315 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38145. A list of books in belles lettres issued in choice and limited editions. MDCCCXCI-MDCCCCVII, 1907. 1 box.
General

Portland, Maine: Mosher Books

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 67, [1]; original blue wrappers printed in red and black (some minor soiling), toning along edges, small loss to lower-right hand corners not affecting text. A complete list of titles from all the series of the press, including "The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe with an essay on his poetry by Andrew Lang" and Robert Browning's "Pippa Passes," both from the Old World Series; "Prose Selections by Oscar Wilde" from the Brocade Series; a complete list of the contents from the serial "The Bibelot"; W.B. Yeats's "The Land of Heart's Desire" and "A Little Garland of Celtic Verse," both from the Lyric Garland series; "A Little Book of Nature Thoughts from Walt Whitman" from the Vest Pocket series; Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Hand and Soul"; "The Poems of Oscar Wilde"; Robert Louis Stevenson's "Father Damien"; Rennell Rodd's "Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf" with an introduction by Oscar Wilde; and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "A Defense of Poetry". Index at end. Order form, "Special Instructions," and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

41775. The plan of Minneapolis: a brief description of the plans prepared by the civic commission of Minneapolis and now exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1915. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 12; original brown wrappers printed in dark brown; light edge wear, else near fine. "The plans in this room are based upon the certainty that the city limits of Minneapolis will contain, within thirty years, a population of more than one million."

Physical Description

1 box

37816. Specimens in miniature of what it has given in the past and will bring in the future, 1919. 1 box.
General

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Magazine

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; illustrated prospectus and retrospectus of the magazine's work, mostly shown through the use of color photographic illustrations, including pictures of Great Danes, a dance of North Africa, "the barn owl: a relentless enemy of rodents," "the Virginia deer: a food staple of the earliest American colonists," "the land of the Nile," elephants of Ceylon, a woman of Bethlehem, etc.

Physical Description

1 box

38038. De Ricci, Seymour: The book collector's guide...A practical handbook of British and American bibliography, 1921. 1 box.
General

Author: De Ricci, Seymour

New York: Maggs Bros.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; prospectus advertises that "This will enable, at a glance, any owner of a first edition of, say, Byron, Dickens or Thackeray, to ascertain exactly what standard copies are sold for".

Physical Description

1 box

38043. Heywood, Thomas: The first and second parts of King Edward the fourth. A facsimile reprint of the unique copy of the first edition (1599) in the library of Charles W. Clark. With an introductory note by Seymour de Ricci, 1922. 1 box.
General

Author: Heywood, Thomas

London: Maggs Bros.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (153 mm.); edition limited to 150 copies. "No Shakespearean library should be without it."

Physical Description

1 box

39283. Theocritus: The idyls...rendered into English prose by Andrew Lang. Illustrated after drawings by W. Russell Flint, 1922. 1 box.
General

Author: Theocritus

London: Medici Society Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; 2 decorative vignettes; edges a bit toned, else fine. Specimen pages provided. A list of Riccardi Press books listed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38144. A list of books in belles lettres issued in choice and limited editions, 1925. 1 box.
General

Portland, Maine: Mosher Books

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 44; original cream printed wrappers (light soiling), fine. Catalogue includes titles from various series, including Charles Baudelaire's "Poems in Prose in the "Ideal Series"; Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Lyrical Poems" in the "Lyric Garland" series; and a memorial facsimile edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". Also provides complete list of contents from the serial "The Bibelot" and index. Order forms laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36393. Eden, Emily: The semi-attached couple...with an introduction by John Gore, 1927. 1 box.
General

Author: Eden, Emily

London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot Limited

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for works forming part of the Rescue Series, "designed to afford a number of pleasing and dignified reprints...of the best among the many novels of bygone generations which, after having deserved and achieved a wide vogue and reputation, have gone out of circulation and long been unknown to the general reader." A specimen page (82) of the Semi-Attached Couple is provided, along with other volumes in the series, including Marmion Savage's The Bachelor of the Albany and Eaton Stannard Barrett's The Heroine. Press opinions of these two latter titles are given on the back leaf. Small tear to bottom of spine, discoloration at edges.

Physical Description

1 box

38048. Salvator, Ludwig Louis: Los Angeles in the sunny seventies...Translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. Introduction by Phil Townsend Hanna, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Salvator, Ludwig Louis

Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; propsectus provides "An Opinion by Robert Ernest Cowan"; edition limited to 900 copies, distributed by Jake Zeitlin; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39255. Sterne, Laurence: A sentimental journey...Hand-set in Naudin type with fifteen illustrations by Polia Chentoff, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Sterne, Laurence

Paris: Éditions Narcisse.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; plate laid in, text printed in brown and green; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a limited edition of 400 copies published in conjunction with the Black Sun Press. Prices and and publication dates printed in typescript. Specimen page and a list of 3 titles in preparation included. Distributed in the United States by the Bookshop of Harry F. Marks, New York.

Physical Description

1 box

38015. The monthly letter...Number three, August, 1929, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration of the Club's edition of "Baron Munchausen".

Physical Description

1 box

38016. The monthly letter...Number two, July, 1929, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; photographic illustration of the Club's edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass".

Physical Description

1 box

38011. The monthly letter...Number seven, December, 1929, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; specimen page from Carl Purington Rollins' "Snow-Bound," which was published in January, 1930.

Physical Description

1 box

38014. The monthly letter...Number four, September, 1929, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; title page and specimen illustration, by Alexander King, of the Club's edition of "Gulliver's Travels".

Physical Description

1 box

38013. The monthly letter...Number five, October, 1929, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; title page of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," designed by Frederic Warde, which was published by the Club the following month.

Physical Description

1 box

38012. The monthly letter...Number six, November 1929, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; yellow and black wood-cut illustration by John Held, Jr. for "The Travels of Baron Munchausen," the Club's December publication.

Physical Description

1 box

TLS dated September 23, 1929, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Physical Description

1 box

TLS dated November 2, 1929, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Physical Description

1 box

TLS dated October 4 , 1929, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Physical Description

1 box

38077. Arms, Dorothy Noyes: Churches of France...with fifty full-page etchings reproduced by special process and one original signed etching by John Taylor Arms, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Arms, Dorothy Noyes

New York: Macmillan Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; full-page black and white illustration by John Taylor Arms; edition limited to 200 copies. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38081. First list, 1929. 1 box.
General

London: Mandrake Press

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, unpaginated; original yellow wrappers, sunning to edges, distributor's rubber stamp, very good. Literary quotations printed on wrapper versos. Titles from the press include "The Paintings of D.H. Lawrence" and Giovanni Boccaccio's "The Amorous Fiametta".

Physical Description

1 box

38143. A list of books in belles lettres issued in choice and limited editions, 1929. 1 box.
General

Portland, Maine: Mosher Books

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 44; the whole printed on green paper, negligible toning, very good. Catalogue lists titles from various series, including Hilaire Belloc's "Tristan and Iseult" in the "Old World Series"; Robert Browning's "Italy My Italy" in the "Venetian Series"; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese" from the "Vest Pocket Series"; and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Ballads and Sonnets" in the "Quarto Series". Also provides a complete list of the table of contents for each number of the serial "The Bibelot". With index.

Physical Description

1 box

38168. Addison, Joseph: From the Tatler, Thursday, February 9, 1709. An essay...The trial of the wine-brewers. With an introduction and an inquiry into Mr. Addison's drinking by Edward F. O'Day, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Addison, Joseph

San Francisco: John Henry Nash

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; 2 wood cut vignettes. Prospectus for this edition of Addison's essay, limited to 385 copies. "The binding is hand-made marbled paper boards in lovely wine tones".

Physical Description

1 box

37963. Its second series, 1930-1931, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 18; original printed yellow wrappers, fine. Titles in the catalogue include William Makepeace Thakeray's "Vanity Fair, a novel without a hero"; "Tales by the brothers Grimm"; Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame de Paris"; Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Marble Faun, or The romance of Monte Beni"; and Leo Tolstoi's "Anna Karenina". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38010. The monthly letter...number nine, February, 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; color specimen illustration from "Two Medieval Tales" by Robert Louis Stevenson, which was published the following month by the Club.

Physical Description

1 box

37991. The monthly letter...Number twelve, May, 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; reduced specimen page and illustration by W.A. Dwiggins from Tartarin of Tarascon. This number also includes an article on Rip Van Winkle, printed by the Village Press for the Club.

Physical Description

1 box

37988. The monthly letter...Number fifteen, August, 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; reproduction of a copper engraving by Rudolph Ruzicka for the Club's edition of La Fontaine's "Fables," to be published the following month. This number also includes an article on Robinson Crusoe.

Physical Description

1 box

37987. The monthly letter...Number sixteen, September, 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; reproduction of a woodcut illustration by Frans Maseréel for "Notre Dame de Paris" laid in. Newsletter includes two articles, on La Fontaine's "Fables" and Victor Hugo's "Notre Dame".

Physical Description

1 box

37992. The monthly letter...Number eleven, April, 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; specimen page from Rip Van Winkle, set in Kaatskill type; article, "Boccaccio and Us," printed in conjunction with the Club's publication of The Decameron.

Physical Description

1 box

37993. The monthly letter...Number ten, March, 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; specimen page from the Club's Decameron, illustrated by T.M. Cleland and printed in green and black.

Physical Description

1 box

37989. The monthly letter...Number fourteen, July, 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; specimen page, color illustration by Edward A. Wilson and typography by the Grabhorn Press, of the Club's edition of Robinson Crusoe, which was to be published the following month.w/ A letter to our members.

Physical Description

1 box

37986. The monthly letter...Number seventeen, October, 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; this number includes the reproduction of an illustration by Zhenya Gay for "Confessions of an English Opium Eater," which was to be published at the end of November, 1930.

Physical Description

1 box

37990. The monthly letter...Number thirteen, June, 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; specimen page of "Undine," illustrated by Allen Lewis; this title was to be published July, 1930.

Physical Description

1 box

37985. The monthly letter...Number 29, October 1931, 1931. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; includes the article: "Tom Jones: an exercise," in conjunction with the Club's release of Fielding's novel.

Physical Description

1 box

36621. Morison, Stanley: Ichabod Dawks and his news-letter with an account of the Dawks family of booksellers and stationers 1635-1731, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Morison, Stanley

New York: Macmillan Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus illustrated with several facsimiles and a specimen page (6). Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

37006. Von Tilzer, Harry: A bird in a gilded cage, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Von Tilzer, Harry

New York: Marchbanks Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); prospectus for the third title from the Linweave Limited Editions, illustrated by John Held Jr. and printed by Hal Marchbanks at his press. Includes "Notes on 'A Bird in a Gilded Cage'".

Physical Description

1 box

37005. Chase, Daniel: The course, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Chase, Daniel

Boston: Merrymount Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); prospectus for the second title from the Linweave Limited Edition, illustrated by John Burlin and printed by D.B. Updike at the Press. Includes "The Men Who Shaped 'The Course'". Discoloration to Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38030. Salaman, Malcolm C., ed.: Fine prints of the year 1931, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Salaman, Malcolm C., ed.

New York: Minton, Balch & Company

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; 4 black and white illustrations; prospectus of this edition of a yearly publication of prints, usually limited to about 750 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37002. Southey, Robert: After Blenheim, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Southey, Robert

Baltimore, MD: Norman T.A. Munder

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); prospectus for the sixth title of the Linweave Limited Editions series. Illustrations by Paul Hesse and printed by Munder.

Physical Description

1 box

38170. Phillips, Catherine Coffin: Portsmouth Plaza. The cradle of San Francisco, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: Phillips, Catherine Coffin

San Francisco: John Henry Nash

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 5; wood cut illustration of Robert Louis Stevenson; original cream pictorial wrappers, fine. Prospectus for an addition to Nash's California bibliography, with illustrations by William Wilke. Edward F. O'Day's "The Unity that Makes a City" also printed here.

Physical Description

1 box

38018. A portfolio...comprising pages from the fifth series to be published...October, 1933-September, 1934, 1933. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

4to, portfolio; original orange wrappers, brown paper label to front. Includes pamphlet titled "Some pretty important opinions from some pretty important people"; specimens include illustration by Rockwell Kent and pages from "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent.," "Frankenstein," "The Travels of Marco Polo," "The Canterbury Tales". With original envelope in which this portfolio was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

37964. Prospectus of the fifth series of the books published...October 1933-September 1934, 1933. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 22; original orange wrappers, brown label printed in white on front, fine. Titles from the catalogue include Manuel Komroff's "The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian"; Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent."; Aristophanes' "Lysistrata," illustrated with etchings and pen drawings by Pablo Picasso; Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales"; Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov," translated by Constance Garnett, designed by D.B. Updike, and printed at the Merrymount Press; Charles Dickens's "The Cricket on the Hearth," introduction by Walter de la Mare and printed at the Golden Cockerel Press; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein"; and Anatole France's "At the Sign of the Queen Pédauque". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38174. Ray, Milton S.: The Farallones, the painted world, and other poems of California. With fifty-three illustrations and with a supplementary history and description of the Farallones, including notes on their plant, bird, and animal life...In two volumes, 1934. 1 box.
General

Author: Ray, Milton S.

San Francisco: John Henry Nash

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 5; very light toning along edges, else fine. Propsectus provides two short essays, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz's "Milton S. Ray: a California poet" and Harry S. Swarth's "Milton S. Ray: a California ornithologist".

Physical Description

1 box

37965. A prospectus of the sixth series of the fine books published...November 1934-October 1935, 1934. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Large 8vo, pp. 34; original brown wrappers bound with yellow string, printed in black and gilt, fine. Titles from the catalogue include Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," designed and printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press; Sir Thomas More's "Utopia," introduction by H.G. Wells; O. Henry's "The Voice of the City and other stories," illustrated with water-colors by George Grosz; Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-glass and what Alice found there"; Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of Seven Gables," illustrated by Valenti Angelo; Herman Melville's "Typee"; and James Joyce's "Ulysses, illustrated by Henri Matisse. With expert opinions printed in the back. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37947. A prospectus of the seventh series of its fine books, November 1935-October 1936, 1935. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 30; original burgundy wrappers gilt, fine. Titles from the catalogue include Henry David Thoreau's "Walden or Life in the woods," printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press; François Rabelais' "The Books of Garguantua and Pantagruel," designed by W.A. Dwiggins; and Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy," designed by Eric Gill. Opinions printed in back. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38142. [Catalogue], 1935. 1 box.
General

Portland, Maine: Mosher Books

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 15; self wrappers, fine. A complete list of titles printed by Mosher, including Robert Browning's "Lyric Love" and many of the works by Oscar Wilde. Also includes list of privately printed editions and "A list of interesting books".

Physical Description

1 box

37945. A prospectus from the Limited Editions Club concerning the fine book to be published in its eighth series, November 1936-October 1937, 1936. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 30; original brown wrappers, stamped in brown and gilt, fine. Catalogue of titles includes Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street" with a new introduction by the author; Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations" with a long preface by George Bernard Shaw; John Milton's "Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd," printed by John Henry Nash; Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur: the history of King Arthur and his noble knights of the round table," printed by William Caxton; Oscar Wilde's "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," introduction by G.K. Chesterton; Alexandre Dumas fils' "CAmille (la dame aux camellias"; Aristophanes' "The Frogs"; and Carlo Collodi's "Pinocchio, the story of a puppet"; opinions by authorities including John Henry Nash and M. Lincoln Schuster printed in the back. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38169. Prieto, Guillermo: San Francisco in the seventies. The city as viewed by a Mexican political exile, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Prieto, Guillermo

Los Angeles: John Henry Nash

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; woodcut vignettes, previous folds, 3 small stains. Prospectus for an addition to Nash's California bibliography, illustrated by William F. Rauschnabel and limited to 650 copies. Distributed by Dawson's Book Shop.

Physical Description

1 box

38172. Carrillo, Don Carlos Antonio: Exposition addressed to the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Union...concerning the regulation and administration of the Pious fund. Translated and edited by Herbert Ingram Priestley, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Carrillo, Don Carlos Antonio

San Francisco: John Henry Nash

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds. Prospectus for this American edition of an address given by Carrillo, Deputy for Alta California. Limited to 650 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38017. A prospectus of the tenth anniversary series of the fine books published by the Limited Editions Club together with some notes upon a project for an illustrated Shakespeare, 1938. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; titles from the tenth series include "The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt"; Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"; Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome"; Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables," introduction by André Maurois and illustrations by Lynd Ward; Robert Louis Stevenson's "Kidnapped"; Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press; George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah"; Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde"; Theodore Dresier's "Sister Carie"; Charles Baudelaire's "Fleurs du Mal," illustrated by Auguste Rodin. Also includes section of opinions by such authorities as Alfred A. Knopf, Sinclair Lewis, and John Henry Nash. TLS from George Macy, Director and order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37551. Terry, George S.: Duodecimal arithmetic, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Terry, George S.

London: Longmans, Green and Co.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, large 8vo; reduced specimen pages and plates illustrate the summary of the work's thesis; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38171. Ellis, W.T.: Memories. My seventy-two year in the romanic county of Yuba, California...with an introduction by Richard Belcher, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Ellis, W.T.

Eugene: John Henry Nash

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds. Prospectus for a work printed for the University of Oregon on the early history and civil engineering of Yuba County, beginning with the first white settler in 1842.

Physical Description

1 box

38147. Stokes, I.N. Phelps: New York past and present. Its history and landmarks, 1524-1939. One hundred views reproduced and described from old prints, etc., and modern photographs. Compiled from the original sources for the New York Historical Society on the occasion of the New York World's Fair 1939, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Stokes, I.N. Phelps

New York: New York World's Fair

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; one color and one black and white illustration. Prospectus includes press opinions, the table of contents, and a physical description of the piece.

Physical Description

1 box

37944. The advance announcement of..., 1940. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; illustrations, facsimiles; original grey wrappers, printed in red, some edge wear; interior fine. prospectus for three titles from the press, John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"; Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows," illustrated by Arthur Rackham, introduction by A.A. Milne; and Boccaccio's "Decameron". Title page and specimen pages from each piece bound in; order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37982. Eleven years of the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1940...Catalogue number forty, 1940. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Oblong 4to, unpaginated; self wrappers, edges toned, shallow tears and creases. Catalogue of titles from the Club available from the dealer Philip C. Duschnes.

Physical Description

1 box

37968. Twelve years of the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1941...Catalogue number forty-seven, 1941. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; list of titles from the Club available from Philip C. Duschnes.Titles include Pierre Loti's "An Iceland Fisherman" (no. 21) and Dante's "The Divine Comedy" (no. 41), printed at the Oficina Bodoni, Verona.

Physical Description

1 box

37954. Pan-Americana & the lucky thirteenth! A prospectus of the fine books (three made in Mexico, Brazil, & Argentina) to be distributed to the lucky members...during the twelve months between November, 1941 and October, 1942, 1941. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 34; original blue wrappers, white label printed in red on front, fine. Titles from the catalogue include "The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660-1669"; "The Education of Henry Adams," printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press; Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"; Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"; "Tales by Hans Christian Andersen"; and "The Literary Works of Abraham Lincoln". Expert opinions in the back. Order form bound in.

Physical Description

1 box

37949. A prospectus descriptive of the twelve fine books to be published...in the fourteenth annual series, 1942. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 22; original cream wrappers, printed in brown, some shelf wear. Titles from the catalogue include Herman Melville's "Moby Dick; or, The whale"; Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," printed by the Aldus Printers; Ambrose Bierce's "Tales of Soldiers and Civilians"; Alexander Pushkin's "Eugen Onegin"; Henry Fielding's "The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great"; Erasmus's "In Praise of Folly," illustrated with mezzotints by Lynd Ward"; Sophocles's "Oedipus Rex," introduction by Thornton Wilder; and Gustave Flaubert's "The Temptation of Saint Anthony". Order form laid in. With TLs on Club letterhead from George Macy, Director.

Physical Description

1 box

37969. 1929-1943...Catalogue number sixty-two, 1943. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; list of titles from the Club available at Philip C. Duschnes. Includes Homer's "The Iliad" (no. 24), preface and translation by Alexander Pope; and George Bernard Shaw's "Back to Methuselah," (no. 112) with a preface by the author.

Physical Description

1 box

37952. Prospectus of the fifteenth series of the fine books published...November 1943-October 1944, 1943. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 30; original club wrappers, white label printed in blue on front, fine. Introduction by Dryden Linsley Phelps. Titles from the catalogue include "Plato: the Republic"; "The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe"; Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi"; Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage"; Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses"; Sinclair Lewis's "Babbitt"; and Nikolai Gogol's "Chichikov's Journeys; or, Home life in old Russia [the book known as Dead souls]". Also includes 2 books in progress, "The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon, knight, the king's solicitor general," designed by Valenti Angelo; and "Virgil: The Aeneid". Order form bound in back.

Physical Description

1 box

38304. Bookmen's holiday. Notes and studies written and gathered in tribute to Harry Miller Lyndenberg, 1943. 1 box.
General

New York: New York Public Library

Scope and Contents

8vo, mixed pagination; fine. Prospectus for this festschrift featuring 47 American "authors, editors, historians, librarians, booksellers, and book collectors"; includes a reprint of the work's table of contents. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37951. Prospectus of the sixteenth series of the fine books published...November 1944-October 1945, 1944. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 30; original magenta decorative wrappers, label in black and gilt to front, fine. Titles from the catalogue include "The Essays of Montaigne," with an introduction by André Gide; Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray," introduction by André Maurois and printed by the Aldus Printers; and Samuel Taylor Colderidge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". Also includes a list of works in progress, including "The Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson" and Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37980. Check list no. 82. Spring, 1947, 1947. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; checklist from the dealer Philip C. Duschnes for titles from the Club and Heritage Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38303. Wetherbee, Winthrop, Jr.: A bibliography of Donn Byrne, 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Wetherbee, Winthrop, Jr.

New York: New York Public Library

Scope and Contents

8vo; pp. 8; self-wrappers, fine. Prospectus for this Bibliography as well as "other recent publications" from the Library for 1948-1949. Integral order form printed on p. 8.

Physical Description

1 box

37950. A prospectus of the fine books to be published...in the nineteenth series, 1950, 1950. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, original blue wrappers gilt, minor shelf wear. Titles from the catalogue include Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov," translation by Constance Garnett; Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw"; and A. Conan Doyle's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: the stories," designed by W.A. Dwiggins. Order form laid in. With TLs on Club letterhead from George Macy, Director.

Physical Description

1 box

38301. Spinden, Herbert J.: Tobacco is American. The story of tobacco before the coming of the white man, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Spinden, Herbert J.

New York: New York Public Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; brown woodcut vignette, one black and white illustration; fine. Prospectus for the second publication from the Arents Tobacco Collection at the Library in an edition limited to 500 copies. Specimen page and a mention of the Collection's first publication, "A Few Words about Pipes, Smoking & Tobacco," also included.

Physical Description

1 box

42486. Stevens, Henry: Recollections of James Lenox and the formation of his library...Revised and elucidated by Victor Hugo Paltsits, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Stevens, Henry

New York: New York Public Library.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, else very good. Revised edition limited to 1000 copies. Specimen page provided.

Physical Description

1 box

38150. Currier, Thomas Franklin: A bibliography of Oliver Wendell Holmes...Edited by Eleanor M. Tilton for the Bibliographical Society of America, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Currier, Thomas Franklin

New York: New York University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, edges a bit toned. Prospectus provides 2 specimen pages; finished piece to be published by the Anthoensen Press with 25 illustrations produced by the Meriden Gravure Company. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38135. Italian manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Introduction by Bernard Berenson, 1953. 1 box.
General

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; black and white sample illustration. Prospectus for this catalogue compiled by the Library staff and verified by Meta Harrsen; edition limited to 750 copies. Sample entry and integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37971. Catalogue one hundred fifteen. A complete catalogue. Twenty-five years of Limited Editions Club books, 1954. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 24; original white printed wrappers, mostly fine. List of titles available from the dealer Philip C. Duschnes, including George Eliot's "Silas Marner"; Voltaire's "Zadig"; Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Idylls of the King," illustrated by Lynd Ward; J.W. von Goethe's "Reynard the Fox"; Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressida"; Aesop's "Fables"; Francis Bacon's "Essays"; Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince"; and The Dolphin. Order form bound in back.

Physical Description

1 box

38051. Gathorne-Hardy, Robert: A month of years, 1956. 1 box.
General

Author: Gathorne-Hardy, Robert

Standford, Dingley: Mill House Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for a book printed to mark the Press's 30th anniversary; edition limited to 50 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38133. Christmas greetings, 1956, 1956. 1 box.
General

Newark, N.J.: Pierpont Morgan Library

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; black and white and color illustrations throughout; catalogue of holiday greeting cards available from the Library and printed by the Olsen Press; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37973. Catalogue 125. A complete catalogue. Twenty-seven years of Limited Editions Club books. 1929-1957. First through twenty-fourth series, 1957. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 20; original white printed wrappers, mostly fine. Catalogue of titles from the Club available from the dealer Philip C. Duschnes, including Theodore Dresier's "An American Tragedy" (no. 9); Daniel Defoe's "Moll Flanders" (no. 167); Anatole France's "Revolt of the Angels" (no. 207); "Rousseau's Confessions" (no. 215); Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" (no. 230); and "Tales of Hoffmann" (no. 238). Order form bound in.

Physical Description

1 box

38302. Skeel, Emily Ellsworth Ford: A bibliography of the writings of Noah Webster...Edited by Edwin H. Carpenter, Jr., 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Skeel, Emily Ellsworth Ford

New York: New York Public Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds. New edition of a work originally published in 1912 as "Notes on the Life of Noah Webster" (Skeel was Webster's great-granddaughter). Integral order form and specimen page. Edition limited to 500 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38134. Harrsen, Meta: Central European manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Harrsen, Meta

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; black and white photographic illustration, text in red and black. Prospectus for the second volume of a series of regional catalogues of pieces from the Library; finished piece printed by the Spiral Press with plates by the Meriden Gravure Company and limited to 850 copies. Sample entry and integral order form printed on back; envelope to the distributor, Philip C. Duschnes, laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37972. Catalogue one hundred forty-five. A complete catalogue. Thirty-one years of Limited Editions Club books, 1929-1960. First through twenty-eighth series, 1960. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 24; original printed blue wrappers, minor shelf wear. Lists titles available from the dealer Philip C. Duschnes, including "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," signed by Mrs. Alice Hargreaves, the original Alice (no. 5); Stendhal's "Charterhouse of Parma," preface by Honoré de Balzac (no. 51); "Eclogues of Virgil" (no. 88); James Fenimore Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans" (no. 161); Theophile Gautier's "Mademoiselle de Maupin," preface by the author (no. 176); Alexandre Dumas' "Three Musketeers" (no. 280); H.G. Wells's "Tono-Bungay" (no. 288); and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Two Medieval Tales" (no. 296). Order form bound in back.

Physical Description

1 box

37541. The Limited Editions Club, 1966-1967. The thirty-fifth series, 1966. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 14; original marble wrappers, brown gilt-stamped paper label; titles in catalogue include Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind"; Ambrose Bierce's "The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter"; "American Indian Legends chosen from the collections of Henry W. Schoolcraft, Geroge Bird Grinnell, and others," printed at the Lakeside Press; and Louis May Alcott's "Little Women". Order form on p. [15].

Physical Description

1 box

37979. Catalogue one hundred ninety-two. A complete catalogue. Forty years of Limited Editions Club books, 1929-1969. First through thirty-seventh series, 1969. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 31; original white wrappers printed in black and green. Catalogue of titles from the Club available from the dealer Philip C. Duschnes, including Henry James's "The Ambassadors" (no. 10); "Arabian Nights Entertainment," translated by Richard Burton, illustrations by ARthur Szyk" (no. 24); "Beowulf," illustrated by Lynd Ward (no. 40); "The Confessions of Saint Augustine" (no. 81); Honoré de Balzac's "Droll Stories," designed by W.A. Dwiggins" (no. 114); "Frost's Poems," preface by the poet (no. 155); Honoré de Balzac's "Old Goriot" (no. 272); Charles Dickens's "Pickwick Papers," introduction by C.K. Chesterton (no. 290); Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man," illustrated by Lynd Ward (no. 322); and Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" (no. 377). Order form bound in, envelope loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

38046. Winter books, 1973-1974, 1973. 1 box.
General

Boston: Museum Publications of America

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 32; color and black and white illustrations throughout; original photographic wrappers, fine. Titles include "The Theatrical World of Osaka Prints," published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art; "Winslow Homer," published by the Whitney Museum of American Art & New York Graphic Society; "Art of the Book 1455-1955," published by the Pierpont Morgan Library; and "The Bauhaus: Weimar Dessau Berlin Chicago," published by the MIT Press. Order forms and letter from David R. Godine, President, loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37660. Vielliard, Françoise: Manuscrits français du Moyen Âge. Catalogue établi, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Vielliard, Françoise

Cologny-Genève: Fondation Martin Bodmer

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus in French from the series Bibliotecha bodmeriana; table of contents and specimen illustration provided.

Physical Description

1 box

38054. Annenberg, Maurice: Type foundries of America and their catalogues, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Annenberg, Maurice

Baltimore: Maran Printing Services

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 8; illustrations; original white printed wrappers, some edge wear. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37948. Prospectus of the fine books to be published...in the forty-fifth series, 1979-1980, 1980. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 11; original white and yellow decorated wrappers, fine. Titles from the catalogue include Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Two Tales"; Homer's "The Odyssey," in the prose translation by T.E. Lawrence; Jonathan Swift's "The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver"; Giuseppi Tomasi's "The Leopard"; "The Poetry of Robert Graves," selected by the poet; and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," with an introduction by Charles F. Scribner III and printed at the Stinehour Press. A list of projected volumes (Orwell's Nineteen Eight-four," Henry James's "The Europeans," etc.) in the back. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37600. Fowles, John and Berry Brukoff: The enigma of Stonehenge, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Fowles, John and Berry Brukoff

Verona, Italy: Mondadori & Sons

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 8vo (92 x 216 mm.); edition limited to 100 numbered and signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38053. Burke, Clifford: A toy, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Burke, Clifford

Anacortes, Washington: Margaret's Press

Scope and Contents

8 folded sheets, square 8vo; order form laid in. With original envelope in which the prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

38107. Simic, Charles: Shaving at night. Poems...Woodcuts by Helen Siegl, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Simic, Charles

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; text printed in pink and black. Prospectus for this poetry collection includes a sample poem, "Dark Farmhouses"; edition limited to 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38027. Lundquist, Robert: Before the rain. Poems, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Lundquist, Robert

Santa Cruz, California: Moving Parts Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo. Includes specimen poem and information on a booksigning, exhibition, workshop, and seminar. Edition limited to 500 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38075. Tenniel, John: Sir John Tenniel's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass. Prints from the original wood engravings, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Tenniel, John

London: Macmillan Publishers LTD

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; prospectus includes a short biography of Tenniel with emphasis on his work on Alice's adventures; Broadside "Specification" with order form on verso laid in. The prints accompanied by Leo J. de Freitas' authoritative account of commercial wood engravings of the 1860s and 70s. The finished piece printed by the Rocket Press and limited to 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39687. [List of titles] 1986, 1986. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Meadow Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (415 mm.); illustrations printed in red; previous folds, else fine. With announcement of a spring book sale printed in typescript on Press letter head, in original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37029. Chevalier, François: America's Cup yacht designs 1851-1986, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Chevalier, François

La Jolla, California: Laurence McGilvery--Books on Art

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus with reduced specimen pages. Edition limited to 2700 copies signed by both authors, Chevalier and Jacques Taglang. With original illustrated envelope; previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

38103. Kingston, Maxine Hong: Hawai'i one summer. Four woodcuts in brilliant color by Deng Ming-Dao, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Kingston, Maxine Hong

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, small 8vo; text in red and black. Prospectus for a collection of 11 prose miniatures, including an excerpt; edition limited to 75 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39635. Kingston, Maxine Hong: Hawai'i one summer. Four woodcuts in brilliant color by Deng Ming-Dao, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Kingston, Maxine Hong

San Francisco: Meadow Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 4to; printed in red and black; fine. Excerpt provided; finished work limited to an edition of 150 copies. "Special offers" laid in. With original envelope in which the prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

38049. Young, Gary: Three days: Michael. Poems, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Young, Gary

Santa Cruz, California: Moving Parts Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (101 x 151 mm.); prospectus for a Broadside in a limited edition of 100, printed in support of the Santa Cruz AIDS Project. With a prospectus for Lucille Clifton's "A Meditation on Ten Oxherding Pictures". In original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

38127. History of art 1990, 1990. 1 box.
General

London: Harvey Miller Publishers

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 23; red decorative wrappers, fine. Catalogue of titles from the press, including Otto Pächt's "Book Illumination in the Middle Ages"; John Beckwith's "Ivory Carvings in Early Medieval England"; "A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles"; N.J. Morgan's "Early Gothic Manuscripts 1250-1285"; Lilian Armstrong's "Renaissance Miniature Painters & Classical Imagery"; and P.P. Bober and R.O. Rubinstein's "Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture". Catalogue includes index.

Physical Description

1 box

38126. Yes: News, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Yes

London: Harvey Miller Publishers

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (295 mm.); printed on green paper. Lists 4 titles from the press, including Deborah Kahn's "Canterbury Cathedral and its Romanesque Sculpture;" T.J. Brown's "A Palaeographers View"; and Christa Grössinger's "Northern Europe." Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

38125. The Lambeth apocalypse. MS 209 in the collection of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace, London. Complete facsimile edition, 1991. 1 box.
General

London: Harvey Miller Publishers

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; color photographic illustrations. Prospectus for this facsimile edition of a work originally commissioned ca. 1260; companion text volume written by Dr. Nigel Morgan; edition limited to 500 copies. TLs on press letterhead from H.I. Miller laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37549. Johnson, Samuel: A dictionary of the English language, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Johnson, Samuel

White Plains, New York: Longman Publishing Group

Scope and Contents

Three leaves, stapled together; prospectus for a facsimile edition of Johnson's dictionary.

Physical Description

1 box

38047. Whitman, Walt: Wrenching times. Poems from Drumtaps...Selected by M. Wynn Thomas, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Whitman, Walt

Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; prospectus for this limited edition by Gwasg Gregynog, Wales with wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Also advertises Siah Armajani's "Bridge Book," co-published with the Walker Art Center.

Physical Description

1 box

37682. McGrath, Thomas: The bread of this world; Praises III, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: McGrath, Thomas

Stockholm, Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for a poetry chapbook printed by Gaylord Schanilec.

Physical Description

1 box

37566. Weaver, Will: Snares, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Weaver, Will

Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (233 mm.); prospectus for the Center's fifth "Winter Book"; illustrated by Deborah Mae Broad and designed and printed under the direction of Gaylord Schanilec; bound by Dennis Ruud and the Campbell-Logan Bindery. Edition limited to 300 copies. With order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37591. Logan Elm Press books 1993-94, 1993. 1 box.
General

Columbus, Ohio: Logan Elm Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, portfolio; includes the list of Forthcoming titles, OSU Creative Writing Program Keepsake Series, and 6 blank postcards featuring color reproductions of the books being advertised; integral order form; envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37710. Blasphemies and the cause of plagues. Being excerpts from a confessional text, 1993. 1 box.
General

Long Bell Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; prospectus for a title from the series "Cape Town to Cairo"; three specimen pages and illustrations; limited to 100 copies. Previous titles from the same series include Walter Abish's "How German Is It" and Evan Connell's "Points for a Compass Rose".

Physical Description

1 box

37595. New, recent, and bargain books. Spring/summer 1993, 1993. 1 box.
General

St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 13; original yellow pictorial wrappers; order form printed on p. 12.

Physical Description

1 box

37572. MIS:Press computer books. Spring 1993, 1993. 1 box.
General

New York: MIS:Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 17; color illustrations; order form printed on p. [18].

Physical Description

1 box

37644. Kalibabky, Mike: The promise, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Kalibabky, Mike

Chisholm, MN: Moonlight Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (102 x 132 mm.); postcard prospectus for a "historical fantasy of Minnesota's Mesba Iron Ore Mining Range for both children and adults"; illustrated by Betty Beissel Vachon.

Physical Description

1 box

39325. Goldstein, Edzia J.: We were innocent: eight vignettes, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Goldstein, Edzia J.

Venice, California: Shulamis Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (215 mm.); printed on tan paper in black and brown; fine. Prospectus for the Press's first publication, "a collection of childhood reminiscences about surviving the Holocaust". Printed handset and designed by Marcia Brown in a limited edition of 150 copies. Binding bt the Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis. "Shulamis Press was established in 1996 to make available in fine limited editions, works that explore Jewish themes."

Physical Description

1 box

42492. Schanilec, Gaylord and Richard Fred Arey: Waterfalls of the Mississippi, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Schanilec, Gaylord and Richard Fred Arey

St. Paul: Minnesota Outdoor Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; upper cover covered in fingerprint smudges, else good. Prospectus for a sumptuously illustrated work on 8 waterfalls found in the Twin Cities and the only waterfalls found along the length of the Mississippi. Edition limited 226 copies. Typed letter, signed by Arey, on Press letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

42476. Stokes, I.N. Phelps: The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909: compiled from original sources and illustrated by photo-intaglio reproductions of important maps, plans, views, and documents in public and private collections, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Stokes, I.N. Phelps

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; illustrations; fine. Prospectus for a reprint edition limited to 500 copies published by Martino and the Lawbook Exchange. "The Iconography of Manhattan Island represents the result of a two-fold purpose: to collect, to condense, and to arrange systematically and in just proportion, within the confines of a single work, the facts and incidents which are of the greatest consequence in the history of New York City..." - I.N. Phelps Stokes. Table of contents provided.

Physical Description

1 box

39296. [Catalogue], 1999. 1 box.
General

Madrid: Moleiro Editor

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; color illustrations and facsimiles; pictorial self-wrappers; mostly fine. Order form and invitation to the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Fall 1999/Winter 2000 catalogue, 1999. 1 box.
General

New York: New Directions Books

Scope and Contents

Catalogue includes The Christ of Fish by Yoel Hoffman, A Paradise of Poets by Jerome Rothernberg, and Cape of storms by Nina Berberova.

Physical Description

1 box

37618. Churchill, Winston: The crisis...with illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy, 1901. 1 box.
General

Author: Churchill, Winston

New York: Macmillan Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for Churchill's novels "The Crisis" and "Richard Carvel" as well as Maurice Hewlett's "The Life and Death of Richard Yea and Nay". List of "Other New Novels" printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38052. Hosmer, James K.: The expedition of Lewis and Clark. Reprinted from the edition of 1814 with an introduction and index. Second edition, 1902. 1 box.
General

Author: Hosmer, James K.

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (203 mm.); illustrated with two miniature portraits of Lewis and Clark; press opinions printed on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

36254. London, Jack: The call of the wild., 1903. 1 box.
General

Author: London, Jack

New York: Macmillan Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo, advertising Jack London's most popular work as well as Nancy Huston Banks' Round anvil rock; The Kempton-Wace letters; C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne's Thompson's progress; James Lane Allen's The mettle of the pasture; People of the whirlpool; and Gwendolen Overton's Anne Carmel.

Physical Description

1 box

45467. London, Jack.: Jack London by himself [cover title], 1913. 1 box.
General

Author: London, Jack.

New York: Macmillan Company

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaged; plain photographic illustration, text printed in red and black; original cream pictorial self wrappers printed in red and black; fine. Promotional pamphlet issued to advertise the publication of London's late novel The Valley of the Moon. Includes a brief autobiographical essay, two author portraits, and publisher's ads printed on the final leaf. Prospectus for BAL 11948.

Physical Description

1 box

38039. Two Baxter books, 1919. 1 box.
General

London: Maggs Bros.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (142 mm.); prospectus for two titles, "Baxter Colour Prints, pictorially presented by H.G. Clarke" and "Baxter Colour Prints...Their history and methods of production and other interesting matter relating to operations of processes akin to his methods..."

Physical Description

1 box

37197. Cordier, Henri: Ser Marco Polo: Notes and addenda to Sir Henry Yule's edition, containing the results of recent research and discovery, 1920. 1 box.
General

Author: Cordier, Henri

London: John Murray

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (190 mm.); prospectus for this supplementary volume, advertised as shedding "New light on Ser Marco Polo"; synopsis of contents printed on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

36375. Cordier, Henri: Ser Marco Polo: Notes and addenda to Sir Henry Yule's edition, containing the results of recent research and discovery, 1920. 1 box.
General

Author: Cordier, Henri

London: John Murray

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (191 mm.); prospectus for a work publicized as "[embodying] much fresh and important information obtained as the result of voyages undertaken by travellers"; Broadside verso provides a synopsis of contents. Blue paper, some discoloration.

Physical Description

1 box

39207. Jensen, Carl Christian: An American saga, 1927. 1 box.
General

Author: Jensen, Carl Christian

Boston: Little, Brown & Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; photographic illustration, facsimiles; previous folds, minor soiling, mostly fine. Prospectus of the Danish author's memoirs as a teen-age runaway, landing in New York. Table of contents and reproduced TLs on Atlantic Monthly letterhead to Alfred R. McIntyre. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37953. Your favorite books..., 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; 3 specimen illustartions; self wrappers, printed in green and black. Catalogue of the first 12 books from the Club, including Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," designed and printed at the Grabhorn Press and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym," designed and printed by John Henry Nash. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38082. Noolas, Rab: Merry-go-downs. A gallery of gorgeous drunkards through the ages. Collected for the use, interest, illumination and delectation of serious topers...and decorated with gusto by Hal Collins, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Noolas, Rab

London: Mandrake Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrations and illustrated specimen page; previous folds, uniformly sunned. Edition limited to 600 copies; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38085. Falls, C.B.: The story of the birth of Jesus Christ according to the gospels of Saint Matthew and Saint Luke, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Falls, C.B.

New York: Marchbanks Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, square 8vo; specimen pages and illustrations; edition information and order form printed on additional laid in bifolium. "[M]ade into a book, designed, illustrated and hand lettered throughout" by Falls; edition limited to 1000 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38031. Bell, Horace: On the old West Coast. Being further reminiscencesof a ranger...Edited by Lanier Bartlett, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Bell, Horace

New York: William Morrow & Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus of a posthumous addition to Bell's "Reminiscences of a Ranger," published in 1881. Provides table of contents and integral order form. Available in two edition, the De Luxe Edition, limited to 210 numbered and signed copies, and the regular trade edition.

Physical Description

1 box

38019. [Collection of 10 announcements printed by the Club], 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Ten Broadsides, each 16mo; announcements include publication delays, publication dates, the sale of original drawings and illustrations, and Club news.

Physical Description

1 box

36439. Samples: a book containing fine illustrations and fine pages from the books to be published by the Limited Editions Club in its sixth series with a prefatory essay by Hervey Allen, 1934. 1 box.
General

New York: The Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Folio, pp. [56] in various pagings; book of sample title pages and pages for upcoming titles from the Limited Editions club, including "The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson with critical introduction by Edward F. O'Day"; "A Christmas Carol in prose being a ghost story of Christmas by Charles Dickens with illustrations by Gordon Ross and an introduction by Stephen Leacock"; "Green Mansions: A romance of the tropical forest by W.H. Hudson with an introduction by Wm. Beebe and illustrations by Edward A. Wilson"; "The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer"; "Slovenly Peter (Der Struwwelpeter) translated into English jingles from the original German of Dr. Heinrich Hoffman by Mark Twain with Dr. Hoffman's illustrations, adapted from the rare first edition, by Fritz Kredel"; "Utopia written in Latin by Sir Thomas More and done into English by Ralph Robynson"; "Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found there by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel"; "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy gentleman...by Laurence Sterne. Vol. II, with illustrations by T.M. Cleland"; "Typee: A romance of the south seas by Herman Melville with an introduction by Raymond Weaver and illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias"; "The Voice of the City and other stories by O. Henry. A selection, with an introduction, by Clifton Fadiman and illustrations by George Grosz"; "The House of the Seven Gables: A romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks and illustrations in color by Valenti Angelo"; "Ulysses by James Joyce with an introduction by Stuart Gilbert and illustrations by Henri Matisse". Prospectus for the Gutenberg Bible loosely inserted. Brown gold-stamped paper wrapping in spiral binding. Loss to corners, not affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

37543. Mitchell, Edwin Valentine: The art of authorship, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Mitchell, Edwin Valentine

New York: Loring & Mussey

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo; illustrated prospectus for a work covering "the whole field of book-writing," with chapters on authors' workshops, methods of work, inspiration, notebooks, publicity, and publishers. List of other titles from the press printed on Broadside verso. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38076. Greenhood, David and Helen Gentry: Chronology of books & printing (300 B.C.-A.D. 1935), 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Greenhood, David and Helen Gentry

New York: Macmillan Company

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; prospectus for "A handy device for the collector and bibliographical student, with a conspectus of type design from 1454 to the present day"; 2 specimen pages reprinted here; press opinions printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38034. [List of three publications from the Press], 1935. 1 box.
General

New Orleans: Midameres Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (300 mm.); titles include Lieutenant Cook's "Remarks on a Passage from the River Balise, in the Bay of Honduras, to Merida"; and Hernando Cortes's "Ordenanzas of March 20, 1524". Printed on blue paper, illustrative map at top. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38166. John Henry Nash announces, 1937. 1 box.
General

Burlingame, California: John Henry Nash

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; decorative vignette at top of front page; previous fold. Announcement of the publication of three titles, including John Bidwell's "A Journey to California," Alexander Forbes's "California," and Guillermo Prieto's "San Francisco in the Seventies". Distributed by William P. Wreden Rare Books.

Physical Description

1 box

39313. Travels and adventures, 1939. 1 box.
General

London: John Murray.

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; printed on blue paper; self-wrappersl mostly fine. Catalogue of travel and adventure books from the publisher. Titles include Moma Clarke's "Light and Shade in France," the second printing of Daisy Bates's "The Passing of the Aborigines. A life time spent among the natives of Australia"; Edward Whymper's "Scrambles Amongst the Alps"; Major R. Raven-Hart's "Canoe Errant"; and Lady Evelyn Cobbold's "Kenya: the land of illusion".

Physical Description

1 box

37981. Ten years of the Limited Editions Club together with Heritage Press books. Catalogue number thirty-six, 1939. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Oblong 4to, unpaginated; self wrappers (light soiling), corners a bit bumped. List of titles from the Club and the Press available from the dealer Philip C. Duschnes. Catalogue includes, from the Heritage Press, Feodor Dostoievski's "Crime and Punishment," translated by Constance Garnett and Irving Stone's "Lust for Life," illustrated by works by Vincent van Gogh.

Physical Description

1 box

38084. 1940 hand-colored calendar. A different flower for each month, stencilled in as many as eight colors by hand, 1939. 1 box.
General

New York: Marchbanks Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (82 x 140 mm.); black and white illustration; postcard prospectus for this floral calendar.

Physical Description

1 box

37962. The ten great American classics selected by fifty of America's leading literary men and other fine books now offered to collectors for the first time, 1941. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 34; original blue wrappers, white label printed in red, fine. Titles include "The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson," designed and printed by John Henry Nash; and "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," designed and printed by John Henry Nash. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38176. The poet of the month. A series of poetry pamphlets, 1941. 1 box.
General

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 23, [1]; facsimiles throughout; original grey wrappers, purple printing; fine. Prospectus for "a series of poetry pamphlets issued monthly on an annual subscription basis". Titles include "Some Poems and a Devotion of John Donne," William Carlos Williams' "The Broken Span," and Rainer Maria Rilke's "Some Hitherto Untranslated Poems". Sample poems throughout. Integral order form, envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37961. A prospectus describing twenty of the fine books recently published...of which you may now obtain only five, 1942. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 30; original orange printed wrappers, minor shelf wear. Titles from the catalogue include Prosper Merimée's "Carmen," printed by Aldus Printers; Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo," introduction by André Maurois, illustrated by Lynd Ward; Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"; "Plutarch: The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans," designed and decorated by W.A. Dwiggins; "The Poems of William Shakespeare"; James Fenimore Cooper's "The Prairie"; Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"; and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island," introduction by the author and printed at the Stratford Press. Order form laid in. With TLs on Club letterhead from George Macy, Director.

Physical Description

1 box

38175. An anthology of contemporary Latin American poetry. Antologia de la poesia americana contemporanea, 1942. 1 box.
General

New York: New Directions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus, in English and Spanish, for the press's "contribution to a quickened cultural understanding in what, with all-inclusive pride, we are learning to call The Continent". Provides list of poets represented, including Argentina's Jorge Luis Borges and Chile's Pablo Neruda. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38177. The poet of the month, 1942. 1 box.
General

New York: New Directions

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for the year's monthly "Poet of the Month" series, with sample poems from each publication, including John Berryman's "Poems," Robert Penn Warren's "Eleven Poems on the Same Theme," and Dylan Thomas's "The Hunchback in the Park". Integral order form; schedule for the series printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38178. The poets of the year, 1942. 1 box.
General

New York: New Directions

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus provides the publishing schedule for the 1942 and 1943 series of the "Poet of the Month" as well as sample poems from 10 of the publications. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38083. Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut: The terrible Gustave Doré, 1943. 1 box.
General

Author: Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut

New York: Marchbanks Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, oblong 16mo; black and white illustration; integral envelope with autograph address and postmark; some soiling, else fine. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39201. Divine, A.D.: Firedrake. The destroyer that wouldn't give up, 1943. 1 box.
General

Author: Divine, A.D.

Rochester, NY: McCurdy & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (139 mm.); illustration; printed on yellow paper; fine. Postcard prospectus; integral order form printed on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

39200. Fosdick, Harry Emerson: On being a real person, 1943. 1 box.
General

Author: Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Rochester, NY: McCurdy & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (139 mm.); printed in green on grey paper. Postcard prospectus for a title "To help you with your personal problems". Integral order form; McCurdy's address and postage on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

39199. Fosdick, Harry Emerson: On being a real person, 1943. 1 box.
General

Author: Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Rochester, NY: McCurdy & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (217 mm.); black and white photographic illustrations; printed on pale blue paper in dark blue ink; previous folds, some soiling. Prospectus for "A heartwarming book on everyday personal problems". Table of contents provided. Integral order form printed at the bottom of Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38079. Vesalius, Andreas: The epitome of Andreas Vesalius. Translated by L.R. Lind, 1949. 1 box.
General

Author: Vesalius, Andreas

New York: Macmillan Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; black and white illustrations and facsimile; facsimile edition of "the basis of modern human anatomy," originally published in 1543.

Physical Description

1 box

38029. 24 miniatures of Rembrandts in the Metropolitan, 1950. 1 box.
General

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; typescript announcement of the publication of collections of miniatures of pieces in the Museum; loose order form for the 24 miniatures of Rembrandts in the Metropolitan addressed to the distributor, the Book-of-the-Month Club. 4 specimen miniatures also laid in. With original envelope in which this prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

36620. The Rothschild Library: A descriptive catalogue of the important collection of English books of the eighteenth century formed by Lord Rothschild at Merton Hall, Cambridge, 1954. 1 box.
General

London: Maggs Bros.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for an edition limited to 400 copies; includes specimen page (543). Order form loosely inserted. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

38028. Zapf, Hermann: Manuale typographicum, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Zapf, Hermann

New York: Museum Books Inc.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 12-sided pamphlet, 12mo. This piece described as "100 typographic pages with quotations from the past and present on types and printing in 16 diffrerent languages"; edition limited to 1000 copies. Prospectus also provides the list of types described in the finished work. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

38032. The arts in therapy for disabled soldiers and sailors, 1960. 1 box.
General

New York: Museum of Modern Art

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for a competition and exhibition sponsored by the Museum in collaboration with Artists for Victory, Inc. Provides information on rule, awards, and suggestions. Integral entry blank.

Physical Description

1 box

38074. Rist, John: Depositio cornuti typographici...from the translation by William Blades. Edited by James Moran, 1962. 1 box.
General

Author: Rist, John

London: Maximillian Editions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo. Prospectus for "A comic or mirthful play performed at the reception and confirmation of a Journeyman who has learned the noble Art of Printing," written by Rist in 1654. This edition limited to 500 copies; distributed by Bertram Rota Limited. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37024. The apocalypse of Saint-Sever, 1972. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; brochure titled "Two books" provides prospectus for "The Apocalypse of Saint-Sever" and Henri Matisse's "Jazz". Color illustration from each piece included.

Physical Description

1 box

38035. The decimal superstition, 1972. 1 box.
General

Draguignan, France: Mélissa Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 16; catalogue of titles from the Press, including "Dogs' Eggs: A study of Powysology" and a number of works by Count Potocki.

Physical Description

1 box

36241. Warhol, Andy: Mick Jagger, 1975., 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Warhol, Andy

New York: Multiples Inc.

Scope and Contents

12mo, printed card stock of ten sheets (15 x 10 1/2 cm) laid into printed cardstock portfolio (folded in half vertically, as issued); ten color illustrations, one per sheet. Publisher's prospectus for the publication of "A portfolio of 10 silkscreen prints on Arches Watercolor Rough paper. 29 1/8 x 44 inches. A signed and numbered edition of 250." Includes price list.

Physical Description

1 box

38152. Announcing...delightful texts, handsome printed; exquisite miniature volumes, 1975. 1 box.
General

Lancaster, New Hampshire: New England Books

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); reduced specimen pages and true-to-size title page. Prospectus for three titles from the press, George Washington's "Rules of Civility," Abraham Lincoln's "On the Practice of Law," and Robert Frost's "How to Read a Poem". Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38106. Wright, Charles: Dead color. Poems, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Wright, Charles

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 12mo; woodcut illustration by Leigh McLellan printed in tan, text printed in grey and black. Prospectus for this collection of 10 poems illustrated with woodcuts by McLellan; edition limited to 50 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38095. Meadow Press 1980, 1980. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; woodcut illustration printed in green; text in red and black. List of 6 upcoming and available titles from the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38108. [List of available titles], 1980. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 12mo; illustration printed in yellow, text printed in brown. Lists 8 titles, including Broadsides, available from the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38099. Luck, Barbara: Cracked open, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Luck, Barbara

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 12mo (114 x 159 mm.); illustration and decorations printed in yellow, text printed in red. Prospectus for a Meadow Press Broadside, limited to 100 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38025. Bain, Iain: The watercolours and drawings of Thomas Bewick and his workshop apprentices, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Bain, Iain

Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, small 8vo; 8 black and white and color illustrations. Prospectus for this limited edition of 500 copies printed in 2 volumes.

Physical Description

1 box

38101. [List of available titles], 1982. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 12mo; olive paper, text in black and grey. List of 10 titles, including Broadsides, available from the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38105. Kirkpatrick, Patricia: Learning to read. Three poems, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Kirkpatrick, Patricia

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (160 mm.); text in red, yellow and black. Postcard prospectus of this chapbook limited to 100 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38036. Miller, Scott: The S.P.O.I. illustrated guide to contemporary hallucinations and their causes with some possible preventative cures, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Miller, Scott

Claremont, California: Scott Miller

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; illustration; printed by Scott Miller of the Art Department at the Claremont Graduate School. Limited to 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38093. Heyen, William: Ensoulment, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Heyen, William

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 12mo; text in green and brown. Prospectus for this poetry Broadside, limited to 100 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38094. Oates, Joyce Carol: Small hymns, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Oates, Joyce Carol

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 12mo; text in grey and pink. Prospectus for this poetry Broadside illustrated by Mary Ann Hayden and limited to 100 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38097. Vincent, Stephen: Passages, poems, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Vincent, Stephen

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (178 mm.); text in red and brown. Postcard prospectus of this poetry chapbook limited to 75 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38096. Ritchie, Jean: Black waters, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Ritchie, Jean

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, square 8vo (184 x 190 mm.); printed on grey decorative paper, text in grey and black. Prospectus for this poetry Broadside limited to 75 copies; calligraphy by Georgianna Greenwood and illustrations by Leigh McLellan.

Physical Description

1 box

39689. Gascoyne, David: Variations on a phrase. A poem...and a drawing by S.W. Hayter, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Gascoyne, David

San Francisco: Meadow Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, narrow, oblong 12mo; printed in blue and black; fine. "170 copies are published by Charles Seluzicki, Fine Books, and printed by Leigh McLellan".

Physical Description

1 box

39686. Publications in print, 1984. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Meadow Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); printed in grey and black; edges worn from handling. List of titles as well as 2 forthcoming Broadsides and a chapbook.

Physical Description

1 box

39688. Israel, Laura: Leon...with a linoleum cut in color by Leigh McLellan, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Israel, Laura

San Francisco: Meadow Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (190 mm.); blue paper, printed in red, white, and black; hole punch to top edge, else fine. Prose piece printed in an edition of 75 copies by McLellan. With original envelope in which this prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

39683. Greger, Debora: Blank country. Poems...with a lithograph by Madel Greger, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Greger, Debora

San Francisco: Meadow Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, tall folio (303 mm.); illustration printed in blue; previous folds, else fine. Collection of "twenty poems by Debora Greger [that] display the strength, virtuoso style and intricately woven verbal craftsmanship of her work". Edition limited to 130 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39684. Jensen, Laura: A sky empty of Orion. Poems...Drawings by Janice Mae Schopfer, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Jensen, Laura

San Francisco: Meadow Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 16mo; printed in blue and black; fine. Edition to be limited to 130 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39640. Cowley, Malcolm: The urn: a poem...with a drawing by Peter Blume, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Cowley, Malcolm

San Francisco: Meadow Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, tall 8vo (251 mm.) text printed in brown and black; previous fold, else fine. Edition limited to 20 copies. With original envelope in which prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

38104. [List of available titles], 1987. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 12mo; text in yellow and black. List of 18 titles, including Broadsides, available from the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39685. [List of forthcoming titles], 1987. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Meadow Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (382 mm.); printed in pink and black; previous folds, else fine. List of titles, including Broadsides and forthcoming works, available from the Press. Order information printed on bottom of verso. With original envelope in which the list was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

36440. Hampl, Patricia: Spillville, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Hampl, Patricia

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Milkweed Editions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; color photographic illustration of the finish piece, press reviews, and a brief description: "Spillville is a museum quality work of book art created in the tradition of artists' books published in Paris during the 1920s and '30s." Back page provides specifications: "27 [Steven] Sorman engravings...printed on cream-colored Kitikata paper. The engraved pages are colléd to a gray Rives BFK paper, which are then printed and die-cut individually by Norman Fritzberg at the Hansestadt Letterfoundry in St. Paul, Minnesota. The engravings were printed by master printers Jon Swenson and Bernice Ficek-Swenson, and by Anya Szykitka, at Land Mark Editions in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The body text was set in 14 point Bembo, English Monotype Series 270, by Michael and Winifred Bixler of Skaneateles, New York. The display type, Felix Titling, English Monotype Series 399, was specially cast by Norman Fritzberg."

Physical Description

1 box

38050. Schanilec, Gaylord: Farmers progressive proofs, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Schanilec, Gaylord

Stockholm, Wisconsin: Midnight Paper Sales

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrations; prospectus for the proofs of Schanilec's illustrations of the 1989 book "Farmers". Edition limited to 15 signed sets.

Physical Description

1 box

37642. Longman dictionary of English language and culture, 1993. 1 box.
General

Harlow, Essex, England: Longman

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; color-illustrated prospectus, specimen pages stapled in; dictionary ranges from word definitions to scenes of political life (the inauguration of George Bush, Sr.) and music (Madonna, David Bowie, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley).

Physical Description

1 box

37643. The Longman language activator, 1993. 1 box.
General

Harlow, Essex, England: Longman

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; illustrated prospectus for "the world's first production dictionary"; specimen pages bound in.

Physical Description

1 box

37795. Logue, Mary: A house in the country, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Logue, Mary

Minneapolis: Midnight Paper Sales

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrated prospectus of this collection of essays, designed and hand-printed by Gaylord Schanilec; edition limited to 250 copies, 50 of which are bound by Dana Brummitt.

Physical Description

1 box

37695. Kusukawa, Sachiko: A Wittenberg University Library catalogue of 1536...with a foreword by C.H. Lohr, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Kusukawa, Sachiko

Cambridge, England: LP Publications

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (210 mm.); prospectus for the third title of the Libri Pertinentes series, "an occasional series aiming to present, at affordable prices, evidence, derived either from surviving books or from catalogues and other records, for substantial libraries, both specialist and general in the period 1500 to 1700". Earlier titles are Alain Wijffels' "Late sixteenth-century lists of law books at Merton College" and Christiaan Coppens' "Reading in Exile: the libraries of John Ramridge (d. 1568), Thomas Harding (d. 1572) and Henry Joliffe (d. 1573), recusants in Louvain".

Physical Description

1 box

38056. Tomlinson, William and Richard Masters: Bookcloth, 1823-1980, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Tomlinson, William and Richard Masters

Montecito, California: Montecito Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; prospectus for the study of early bookcloth, Winterbottom's trade, and identification of qualities and design. Integral order form. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

39218. Simic, Charles: Displaced person, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Simic, Charles

New York: New Directions

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (103 x 153 mm.); postcard prospectus; fine. Prospectus for a collection of poetry published in an edition of 150 signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38055. Sheller, John, ed.: Cetus. The whale. An illustrated companion to Moby Dick, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Sheller, John, ed.

Pacific Palisades, California: Melville Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustration by Catherine Kanner; the work to have accompanying text by Melville, Shakespeare, and Milton. Edition limited to 300 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37542. Marshall, Anthony: Trafficking in old books, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Marshall, Anthony

Melbourne, Victoria: Lost Domain

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

42484. Hautman, Pete: Bad beat, with Joe Crow's rules for poker and life & wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Hautman, Pete

Stockholm, WI: Midnight Paper Sales.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; wood engraving vignette in blue and black; near fine. Invitation to the publication party and open house celebrating "Bad Beat".

Physical Description

1 box

37800. Beato de Liébana. Códice de Fernando I y doña Sancha, 1998. 1 box.
General

Barcelona: Moleiro editor

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; illustrated prospectus of this facsimile edition; mostly comprised of specimen pages; integral order form. Published in conjunction with the Ministerio de cultura and the Biblioteca nacional. Letter in English from the editor, Mrs. A. Sanata, laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37027. Marees-Gesellschaft, 1900. 1 box.
General

Berlin: Julius Meier-Graefe

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; text in German, printed in red and black. Stain to front page, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

45139. The Queen as Woman, wife, mother, and sovereign. The life of Queen Victoria and the story of her reign..., 1901. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: International Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Folio Broadside, the whole dealing with publication details and statement after statement of why the book should be purchased ("Our terms are liberal. Agents wanted Everywhere"); previous folds, else fine. "An elegant canvassing book containing most of the illustratiions, and enough of the text to show what the complete book will be and representing the bindings, together with all necessary printed instructions for selling..." This is an exact reprint of the same as issued by Eaton & mains, New York (see above).

Physical Description

1 box

38045. [Annoucement], 1920. 1 box.
General

London: Maggs Bros.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (215 mm.); announcement that "illuminated MSS. and early printed books will in future be displayed in the Mediaeval Rooms expressly built & arranged for this purpose". Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

38044. [Announcement], 1920. 1 box.
General

Paris: Maggs. Bros.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (139); announcement of the dealer's opening of a new branch in Paris.

Physical Description

1 box

38041. Ezquerra del Bayo, Joaquin: Catalogue of the portrait miniatures belonging to the Duke of Berwick and Alba, 1920. 1 box.
General

Author: Ezquerra del Bayo, Joaquin

London: Maggs Bros.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); prospectus for this work privately published for the Duke of Berwick and Alba.

Physical Description

1 box

38151. Long, Heniel, ed.: New Mexico writers. A weekly page of poetry, prose, and criticism, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Long, Heniel, ed.

Albuquerque: New Mexico Sentinel

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; printed on blue paper, 2 edges significantly toned, else fine. Prospectus for a weekly literary "page"; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38149. An invitation to join with the Newberry Library in the publication of a series of writing books in facsimile, 1930. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Newberry Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; 2 facsimiles, text in red and black. Prospectus proposing this new series, of which the first title is projected to be the 1525 edition of "Opera di Giovanniantonio Tagliente".

Physical Description

1 box

37550. A short history of the house of Longman, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Longmans, Green & Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; history of the Company used as a publisher's advertisement.

Physical Description

1 box

37984. Twelve fine books issued to its subscribing members, 1940. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustration; previous fold. Comprised entirely of opinions about the Club.

Physical Description

1 box

37970. Limited Editions Club publications 20% discount sale, 1950. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds. List of books from the Club available for sale at a discount from Philip C. Duschnes. Includes Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerace(sic)," illustrations by Sauvage; and "Marcus Aurelius Meditations".

Physical Description

1 box

37731. Cambridge Press title-pages, 1640-1665, 1954. 1 box.
General

Meriden, Connecticut: Meriden Gravure Company

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (101 x 151 mm.); prospectus for the supplement to George Parker Winship's "The Cambrigde Press 1638-1692," distributed by Sidney A. Kimbler, Duxbury, Mass.

Physical Description

1 box

38109. [Autograph postcard, Signed by the Press's Leigh McLellan to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press], 1980. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Green Meadow Press postcard, 16mo. McLellan's response to Wulling's request for all Press prospectuses: "I believe you have all flyers I have ever sent".

Physical Description

1 box

37531. Bartlett, John: Bartlett's familiar quotations...Eleventh edition edited by Christopher Morley and Louella D. Everett, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Bartlett, John

New York: Little, Brown and Company

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original red, blue, yellow printed wrappers; illustrated prospectus; speciman pages reproduced.

Physical Description

1 box

39446. Wroth, Lawrence C., ed.: A history of the printed book, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Wroth, Lawrence C., ed.

New York: Limited Editions Club.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for the third number of The Dolphin. Table of contents printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37535. Bukowski, Charles: Crucifix in a deathhand. New poems, 1963-65, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Bukowski, Charles

New York: Loujon Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (280 mm.); prospectus for the Loujon Press Award Book of 1965, in a limited edition of 3100; etchings by Noel Rockmore. Lists praise and commentaries, including those of Henry Miller and the Gallery of Modern Art, Denver. Text in blue and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

TLS dated September 22, 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Physical Description

1 box

TLS dated January 21, 1930, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Physical Description

1 box

[letter], 1930. 1 box.
General

Ludlow Typograph Society

Scope and Contents

Letter to Mr. Emerson Wulling

Physical Description

1 box

37946. A prospectus of the ninth series of the fine books published...November 1937-October 1938, 1937. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Club

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 30; original blue-black wrappers gilt, fine; titles from the catalogue include James Boswell's "The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D."; W. Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage," introduction by Theodore Dreiser; Anatole France's "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, member of the institute"; Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace"; Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life among the lowly"; Oscar Wilde's "Salomé"; and Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," introduction by André Maurois. Opinions from authorities including Alfred A. Knopf and Sinclair Lewis in the back. TLs on Club letterhead from George Macy, Director, and order form laid in (can't find order form).

Physical Description

1 box

38078. Leighton, Clare: Country matters...with seventy-three splendid wood engravings, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Leighton, Clare

New York: Macmillan Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; 4 wood engravings, one of which is full-page, by the author; prospectus for the sequal to Leighton's "Four Hedges,"

Physical Description

1 box

38037. Mozley, Charles: Wolperiana. An illustrated guide to Berthold L. Wolpe with various observations...Introduced by E.M. Hatt, 1960. 1 box.
General

Author: Mozley, Charles

London: Merrion Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (202 mm.); 2 illustrations. Edition limited to 300 copies. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37536. Miller, Henry: Order & chaos chez Hans Reichel, 1966. 1 box.
General

Author: Miller, Henry

Tucson, Arizona: Loujon Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (250 mm.); prospectus announcing the book's awards in "Typography, Type Direction & Design, as one of the best books published in 1966--in TDC's Thirteenth Annual Awards Show". Text in red and black, previous folds. Three editions available, the Inscription Edition, the Signed 99-Copy Leather Edition, and the Limited Cork Edition.

Physical Description

1 box

38026. Orwell, George: Nineteen eighty-four. The facsimile of the extant manuscript. Edited by Peter Davison. Preface by Daniel G. Siegel, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Orwell, George

Weston, Massachusetts: M&S Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; facsimile and color photograph of finished product. Facsimile with Davison's transcriptions on facing pages; edition limited to 325 copies. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38040. Palau y Dulcet, Antonio: Manual del librero hispano-americano, 1926. 1 box.
General

Author: Palau y Dulcet, Antonio

London: Maggs Bros.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; prospectus for the "Spanish 'Brunet,'" sections A-G (the first three of a projected 6 volumes). Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38098. Simic, Charles: Interlude, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Simic, Charles

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 12mo (102 x 160 mm.); prospectus for the Press's first poetry Broadside, with wood engraving by Sarah Chamberlain; edition limited to 135 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38100. Handbound blank books, 1981. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Meadow Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (99 x 141 mm.); advertisement for blank books bound and decorated by Leigh McLellan; printed in grey and red.

Physical Description

1 box

37031. Schwartz, Ellen Halteman: Northern California art exhibition catalogues (1878-1915). A descriptive checklist & index, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Schwartz, Ellen Halteman

La Jolla, California: Laurence McGilvery

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); prospectus for this bibliography, edition limited to 500 copies. Also advertising for Schwartz's previous work, "Nineteenth-Century San Francisco Art Exhibition Catalgoues: A Descriptive Checklist and Index".

Physical Description

1 box

36442. McNear, Suzanne: Excerpts from a Wisconsin childhood, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: McNear, Suzanne

Stockholm, WI: Midnight Paper Sales

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; color illustration at head of front page; prospectus of a book designed and printed by Gaylord Schanilec and limited to 120 copies. Discoloration to top edge.

Physical Description

1 box

36379. Prospectus & retrospectus of the Nonesuch Press editions, 1927. 1 box.
General

Edinburgh: The Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 22; prospectus for the following titles. Mona Wilson's "The Life of William Blake"; "The Poetry and Prose of William Blake"; "Blake's Pencil Drawings: Eighty-two collotype reproductions of drawings chosen and annotated by Geoffrey Keynes"; William Cobbett's "The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine, with other records of his early career"; "The New Testament"; George Herbert's "The Temple"; M. de Voltaire's "The Princess of Babylon"; James Thomson's "The Seasons"; James Laver's "A Stitch in Time or Pride prevents a fall"; Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy"; "The Works of Sir John Vanbrugh, edited by Bonamy Dobrée, and his letters, now collected for the first time by Geoffrey Webb; uniform with the Nonesuch edition of Congreve, Rochester, etc."; "The Pythian Odes of Pindar, translated by H.F. Wade-Gery and C.M. Bowra"; John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress and The life and dath of Mr. Badman". Also includes a retrospectus of the limited editions published from May 1924 to February 1927, "exhausted". Original printed paper wrappers, discoloration, edges and corners lightly worn.

Physical Description

1 box

39355. Claudius, Matthias: Ausgewählte schriften, 1919. 1 box.
General

Author: Claudius, Matthias

Halle/Saale: Max Niemeyer Verlag.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (159 mm.); uniformly toned, previous fold. Prospectus printed in German blackletter.

Physical Description

1 box

39434. Completion of the 1923 programme, 1923. 1 box.
General

London: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original white pictorial wrappers, toned along edges, some wear from handling, else very good. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36378. The apocrypha. Reprinted according to the authorized version of 1611, 1924. 1 box.
General

London: The Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; t.p. illustrated with reproduction in collotype of the original copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden; provides sample pages (64-65) and full-page advertisement on back leaf.

Physical Description

1 box

39431. Nonesuch books for Christmas, 1925, [and] for the spring, 1926. With a hand-list of books hitherto published by the Press, 1925. 1 box.
General

Cambridge: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 15; original grey gilt boards, bottom half of spine split; interior fine. Titles to be published include "The English Poems of John Milton," with 53 illustrations by William Blake; and "Histories or Tales of Past Times Told by Mother Goose, with morals". Announcement of Plato's Symposium laid in. Catalogue also includes a retrospectus.

Physical Description

1 box

Nonesuch books for Christmas, 1925, [and] for the spring, 1926. With a hand-list of books hitherto published by the Press, 1925. 1 box.
General

Cambridge: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 15; original grey gilt boards, darker gray than the copy above. Plastic jacket added. Titles to be published include "The English Poems of John Milton," with 53 illustrations by William Blake; and "Histories or Tales of Past Times Told by Mother Goose, with morals". Announcement of Plato's Symposium laid in. Catalogue also includes a retrospectus.

Physical Description

1 box

36381. Prospectus and retrospectus of the book published by the Nonesuch Press 1923-1925 in limited and ordinary editions. The second impression, revised., 1925. 1 box.
General

London: The Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 7, [1]; advertises the publication of the entire writings of William Blake; Bishop Henry King's poems; the Nonesuch Congreve and Wycherley, followed by the Nonesuch Rochester and Otway; "The Death of Christopher Marlowe"; Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"; "Songs of the Gardens"; and blank books. Also lists books previously published. Previous fold, discoloration, pages untrimmed.

Physical Description

1 box

36377. Blake, William: The Nonesuch Blake, 1925. 1 box.
General

Author: Blake, William

Bloomsbury, England: The Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus providing specimen pages (pp. 1, 54) for the definitive edition of the works of William Blake. Black and white plate, one of the fifty-eight collotype plates in the Nonesuch Blake, loosely inserted. Back leaf consists of the "advertisement" for the work. Previous folds, some discoloration to margin of the plate, otherwise very good.

Physical Description

1 box

38315. Burger, C. P., Jr., ed.: Het boek, 1927. 1 box.
General

Author: Burger, C. P., Jr., ed.

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; black and white photographic illustrations, facsimiles, and illustrations throughout; text in red and black. Prospectus, in English and Dutch, for Volume XV1, parts 1-3 of "the Dutch periodical for bibliographers and booklovers"; table of contents (in Dutch) provided. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38406. Mercator, Gerard: The treatise of Gerard Mercator...facsimile edition with an introduction by Jan Denucé and a note by Stanley Morison, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Mercator, Gerard

New York: Pegasus Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; facsimile; preivous fold, else fine. Facsimile edition of the Antwerp, 1540 edition, here limited to 180 copies and printed at the Officina Bodoni, Verona. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38347. Pole, Reginald: Nights and hours, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Pole, Reginald

Los Angeles: Primavera Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; printed in black and orange; fine. Prospectus for this collection of poetry, limited to 300 copies; 2 specimen poems provided; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39421. Ancient songs chiefly on Moorish subjects. Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Percy with a preface by David Nichol Smith, 1932. 1 box.
General

New York: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifoium, large 4to; previous folds, a bit soiled. Prospectus for this limited edition of 230 copies. Provides 2 specimen pages.

Physical Description

1 box

38344. Cooper, James Fenimore: The lake gun...with an introduction by Robert E. Spiller, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: Cooper, James Fenimore

New York: William Farquhar Payson

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; steel engraved illustration; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for an edition of this Cooper short story, originally appearing in the journal "The Parthenon" but never published in book form; limited to 450 copies. Prospectus inscribed by the publisher.

Physical Description

1 box

39416. Ford, H.L.: Shakespeare 1700-1740. A collation of the editions and separate plays with some account of T. Johnson and R. Walker, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Ford, H.L.

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus provides 2 specimen pages. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38398. A circular of works and projects...Spring 1935, 1935. 1 box.
General

Flansham, Sussex, England: Pear Tree Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); 6 woodcut vignettes; edges and corners a bit worn; very good.

Physical Description

1 box

36366. Nathan, Robert: One more spring., 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Nathan, Robert

Stamford, Connecticut: The Overbrook Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaged; prospectus for "a new edition designed & illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins"; "W.A. Dwiggins...has made seventeen brilliant chapter headings, which are reproduced in color...The book is hand-set in English Caslon type and is printed on Van Gelder all-ray paper, in an edition of 750 copies, of which 550 copies are offered for sale". Includes a sample page (16); order form loosely inserted. Original green printed wrappers, bound with white string. In contemporary envelope with contents typed to front.

Physical Description

1 box

38580. Spring and summer, 1936, 1936. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 16; original red printed wrappers, black and gilt decorative label; fine. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38578. A group of notices concerning books of value and interest to all collectors, 1936. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; loose-leaf pamphlets laid in original pink wrappers, text printed in brown and red; fine. Includes illustrated prospectus and speciman pages. Titles include Stephen Crane's "A Battle in Greece" with decorations by Valenti Angelo; and "Cupid's Horn-Book". Order form also laid in

Physical Description

1 box

38586. Smith, Chard Powers: Prelude to man, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Smith, Chard Powers

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; text printed in red and black; previous fold, small tear from fold not affecting text. Prospectus for this "magnificent epic of evolution," edition limited to 375 copies. List of subscribers with integral order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39437. Prelude to plenty...Limited editions, winter 1937-8, 1937. 1 box.
General

London: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 15; original grey pictorial wrappers, printed in brown; fine. Titles featured in the catalogue include Rouuseau's Confessions and William Blake's illustrations for Thornton's Virgil. Order form and special announcement laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Dickens, Charles: Letter from George Maoy on Heritage Press stationary explaining why he cannot deliver a set of the Nonesuch Dickens to the Dayton Co. book department., 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Dickens, Charles

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside; Dated August 3, 1937. Letterhead of the Heritage Press. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

39432. Dickens, Charles: The Nonesuch Dickens (Nonesuch Dickensiana on front), 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Dickens, Charles

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

Large 8vo, pp. 130; text illustrations throughout; original blue gilt pictorial cloth, mostly fine. Prospectus and retrospectus divided into 4 sections, including Arthur Waugh's "Charles Dickens and his Illustrators" and a bibliographical list compiled by Thomas Hatton. Order form bound in back.

Physical Description

1 box

38393. Announcements for autumn 1937, 1937. 1 box.
General

Flansham, Sussex, England: Pear Tree Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; rubber stamp of distributor B.F. Stevens & Brown, London; mostly fine. Catalogue announcing six titles from the press.

Physical Description

1 box

38577. Volumes to be published by November 1937 and previous publications still in print, 1937. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 16; self wrappers (a bit soiled); fine. Titles include "Love Letters of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn" and "Select Essays of Charles Lamb". A supplement to the Press's edition of A.E. Housman's "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy" laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38342. Simmons, Amelia: American cookery. Or, the art of dressing viands, fish, poultry & vegetables, and the best modes of making pastes, puffs, pies, tarts, puddings, custards & preserves, and all kinds of cakes, from the imperial plumb to plain cake. Adapted to this country, & all grades of life, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Simmons, Amelia

Hartford: Prospect Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. "Printed by Hudson & Godwin for the author, 1796"; reprinted here for the Press by Hawthorn House in an edition limited to 185 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38329. Olschki, Leo S.: La bibliofilia. Rivista di storia del libro e delle arti grafiche di bibliografia ed erudizione...anno XXXIX (1937)--Volume XXXIX, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Olschki, Leo S.

Firenze: Leo S. Olschki

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. xx; text in and black; some toning along edges, previous fold, very good.

Physical Description

1 box

38395. Autumn announcements 1938, 1938. 1 box.
General

Flansham, Sussex, England: Pear Tree Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large folio (435 mm.); previous folds, mostly fine. List of titles separated into two columns titled "Intaglio Plate Books" and "Books Printed from Type".

Physical Description

1 box

38391. A list of books...Summer 1938, 1938. 1 box.
General

Flansham, England: Pear Tree Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; rubber stamp of distributor, D.F. Stevens & Brown, London. Titles include William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and William Shakespeare's "The Phoenix and the Turtle" (from the Green Pastures Series).

Physical Description

1 box

39436. Nonesuch news. Number one B, March 1939, 1939. 1 box.
General

: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

Small 4to, pp. 16; illustrations; printed self wrappers, fine. This issue advertises several titles, including Milton's "Comus," and the Nonesuch Herodotus.

Physical Description

1 box

39435. Nonesuch news. Number two B, April 1939, 1939. 1 box.
General

New York: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

Small 4to, pp. 8; self-wrappers; mostly fine. "Issued most months to the Nonesuch Fellowship, a society of the patrons of the Nonesuch Press". This number mostly concerned with the production of the Nonesuch Dickens.

Physical Description

1 box

36748. Kramer, Sidney: A history of Stone & Kimball and Herbert S. Stone & Co. with a bibliography of their publications 1893-1905... Preface by Frederic G. Melcher, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Kramer, Sidney

Chicago: Normandie House

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus includes specimen title page, the table of contents, and specimen pages of the first page of Chapter IV and p. 273. "The types for this volume are Linotype Caslon and handset Ludlow True-Cut Caslon. It will be printed ona fine ivory laid, rag-content paper." Edition limited to 500 copies. Integral order form on back page.

Physical Description

1 box

38512. Hall, James Norman: The friends, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Hall, James Norman

Muscatine, Iowa: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a work of literary criticism in blank verse on Edwin Arlington Robinson. Edition limited to 380 copies. Specimen provided.

Physical Description

1 box

38576. The Peter Pauper Press is pleased to announce eight new titles in its series of deluxe limited editions at $2 the copy, 1940. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 22; self wrappers, vignette printed in blue-green; fine. Titles from the catalogue include "The Sayings of Jesus"; "Chinese Fairy Tales," decorated by Valenti Angelo; "Odes of Keats and Shelley"; and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Golden Touch," illuminated in gold.

Physical Description

1 box

38755. The manuscripts collected by the late A. Edward Newton. Public sale, 1941. 1 box.
General

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries

Scope and Contents

First edition; 4to, pp. 22; facsimiled; original blue boards, reproduction of A. Edward Newton's bookplate label to front and housed in matching blue portfolio, postmarked, white address label "With the compliments of Warren R. Howell" in his hand; corners show wear and rubbing, boards fine. Laid in notice from the Galleries reading "On page 15 of the Newton brochure the price of the Newton catalogue is state. However, your catalogue will be sent to you when issued free of charge as usual". A collection of reprinted tributes to the collector and a prospectus of the contents of the forthcoming auction catalogues to be issued in three parts. Newton's collection featured mostly English and American literature, as well as works illustrated by William Blake, Bibles, first editions and presentation copies, and Omar Khayyam.

Physical Description

1 box

38566. New books for 1941, 1941. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; in original maroon printed wrappers, fine. Catalogue of titles from the press includes "Fairy Tales" by the Brothers Grimm; Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac"; "Aesop's Fables"; "Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"; "The Songs of William Shakespeare"; and Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-glass and what Alice found there," illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. Catalogue also includes previously published editions, including Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Hunting of the Snark". The Press's "Perennials" also provided in the back, including "The Love Poems of John Donne"; Charles Lamb's "Roast Pig"; and Elizabeth B. Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese".

Physical Description

1 box

38569. Beautiful limited editions, 1942. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 16; original white pictorial wrappers, signs of handling, else fine. Titles from the catalogue include "The Poems of Sappho"; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha"; and "The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius". Also provides a list of previous titles still available. Letter to the reader and order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38353. A retrospect and prospectus, 1923-1948, 1948. 1 box.
General

New York: Phaidon Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 15; black and white illustrations, many full-page, throughout; original white wrappers printed in red and black (some soiling); interior fine. Provides lists of titles by subject and series, including A. Bredius's "Rembrandt's Paintings" (from the select list of Dutch and Flemish art); Leo van Puyvelde's "Flemish Drawings" (from the Drawings in the Collection of H.M. the King at Windsor Castle); Enrique Lafuente's "The Paintings of Velazquez" (from the list of Spanish Art); W. Uhde's "The Impressionists" (from the list Great Masters of the Past Hundred Years); Jacob Burckhardt' "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" (from the Phaidon Pocket Editions); and William Cohn's "Chinese Painting" (from the list Some New Phaidon Books). Typescript announcement printed on Oxford University Press letterhead of the publication of the Press's "Pre-Raphaelite Painters," by Robin Ironside and John Gere, laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39410. Alexander Pope and his contemporaries. Essays in honour of George Sherburn, 1949. 1 box.
General

New York: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for a compilation of essays published in celebration of Sherburn's 65th birthday; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38504. Portfolio, 1949. 1 box.
General

Cincinnati: Portfolio

Scope and Contents

Four-leaf typescript letter on Magazine letterhead from Robert Lang describing the history of Portfolio, from its pre-WWII conception to the making of the first number, which included an article on 18th century Italian typographer Giambattista Bodoni and "a series of interesting retail store wrapping paper designs". In original cream and pink envelope and order forms.

Physical Description

1 box

38505. Portfolio, 1949. 1 box.
General

Cincinnati: Portfolio

Scope and Contents

Two typescript leaves on Magazine letterhead from Robert Lang concerning the publication of the first issue of Portfolio with a list of some of the charter subscribers, including the New York Herald Tribune, Alfred A. Knopf, and the New York Public Library. With pamphlet listing "some of the distinguished designers and artists featured in the first issue" and original green and cream envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

39415. Boswell, James: Boswell's life of Johnson. Together with Boswell's journal of a tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's diary of a journey into north Wales. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill...Revised and enlarged edition by L.F. Powell, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Boswell, James

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; printed self-wrappers, mostly fine. Prospectus provides press opinions, an excerpt of the preface, and specimen pages. Final 2 pp. list works of Johnsoniana ("Johnsons' England," "Samuel Johnson's Prefaces and Dedications," etc.). Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39420. Thorp, Joseph: B.H. Newdigate. Scholar-printer, 1869-1944, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Thorp, Joseph

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; printed in red and black; previous fold, some toning. Prospectus for a work on the founder of the Arden Press and long-time "presiding genius" of the Shakespeare Head Press. 2 specimen pages provided. Published by Basil Blackwell.

Physical Description

1 box

38409. King Penguin books. A complete descriptive list. 1950, 1950. 1 box.
General

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 15; illustrations throughout; original red pictorial wrappers; mostly fine. Catalogue provides the list of titles from a series "inspired by the Insel-Bücherei, a series of books of similar format published by the Insel Verlag of Leipzig". These include Carl Winter's "Elizbathan Miniatures," R.A. Symonds's "A Book of English Clocks," John Gloag's "The English Tradition in Design," Kenneth Rowntree's "A Prospect of Wales," Malcolm Smith's "British Reptiles," and Edward Bawden's "Life in an English Village". Specimen page from Wilfrid Blunt's "Tulipomania" laid in. Also includes list of out-of-print titles (like Phyllis Barclay-Smith's "British Birds) and books in preparation (like E.B. Ford's "British Butterflies").

Physical Description

1 box

38349. Jefferson, Thomas: The papers...Editor: Julian P. Boyd. Associate editors: Lyman H. Butterfield and Mina R. Bryan. [Volume 1], 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Jefferson, Thomas

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; prospectus provides 2 specimen pages and a short abstract of the series' contents. Integral order form and envelope laid in. With original, specially-printed envelope in which this prospectus was sent.

Physical Description

1 box

39409. Wrenn, C.L. and G. Bullough, eds.: English studies today. Papers read at the International Conference of University Professors of English held in Magdalen College, Oxford, August, 1950, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Wrenn, C.L. and G. Bullough, eds.

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, a bit toned, else fine. Prospectus provides excerpt from the preface and table of contents. Integral order form printed on back. Published by the Clarendon Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39413. Oxford English texts. A series of texts constituted by critical recension of the original printings collated with such manuscripts as are extant and most of them containing facsimile title-pages and other illustrations, 1952. 1 box.
General

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 14; printed self-wrappers, mostly fine. Integral order from printed on back wrapper. Published by the Clarendon Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39414. Robbins, Rossell Hope, ed.: Secular lyrics of the XIVth and XVth centuries, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Robbins, Rossell Hope, ed.

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; mostly fine. Prospectus for a new volume of the series of Middle English lyric collections begun by Carleton Brown; includes previous volumes edited by Brown ("English Lyrics ofthe XIIIth Century" and "Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century"), and a list of additional titles from the series. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39412. Craster, Edmund: History of the Bodleian Library, 1845-1945, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Craster, Edmund

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo; previous fold, else fine. Integral order form on verso. Published at the Clarendon Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38345. Jennings, O.E.: Wild flowers of western Pennsylvania and the upper Ohio Basin...Watercolors by Andrey Avinoff. Volume one [and two], 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Jennings, O.E.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this edition limtied to 3000 copies; short description of each volume's contents and a section devoted to "The Critics"; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38513. Engle, Paul: Arden-America. Averell Harriman, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Engle, Paul

Iowa City: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in blue and black; fine. Prospectus provides 2 specimen pages for this privately printed poetical work.

Physical Description

1 box

38494. Avis, F.C.: The bookman's concise dictionary, 1956. 1 box.
General

Author: Avis, F.C.

New York: Philosophical Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in brown; fine. Prospectus provides press comments, a specimen page, and an integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38339. Metz, Peter: The golden gospels of Echternach. Codex aureus epternacensis, 1957. 1 box.
General

Author: Metz, Peter

New York: Praeger

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; color illustration laid in; previous folds, rubber stamp from distributor, Chiswick Book Shop, very good. Prospectus for "The most important popular presentation of medieval book illuminations in American art book publishing". Press reviews of the original German edition printed in back.

Physical Description

1 box

38387. Foss, Sam Walter: The song of the library staff, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Foss, Sam Walter

Berkeley: Peacock Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 16mo (71 x 122 mm.); printed in green; rubber stamp of new price (1.75); fine. Prospectus for a limited edition illustrated by Merle Johnson; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38477. Books, 1968. 1 box.
General

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (379 mm.); printed on brown paper; previous folds, very good. At head of title: "th prshbl prss lmtd"; lists titles available from press. Also includes "New titles proposed and in progress".

Physical Description

1 box

38330. Knower, Daniel: The adventures of a forty-niner...with an introduction & extended notes by Kenneth M. Johnson, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Knower, Daniel

Ashland: Lewis Osborne

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrations; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus of "an informal record of great value--of society, business and politics in gold-rush San Francisco and vicinity"; specimen page and illustration included. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38331. Burrows, Rufus and Cyrus Hall: A long road to Stony Creek. Being the narratives...of their eventful lives in the wilderness west of 1848-1858. Introduction & annotation by Richard Dillon, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Burrows, Rufus and Cyrus Hall

Ashland: Lewis Osborne

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 12mo; illustrations and map, fine. Prospectus for this edition limited to 650 copies; 2 specimen pages and specimen map included.

Physical Description

1 box

38155. Russell, Norman H.: Indian thoughts: the small songs of God, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: Russell, Norman H.

La Crosse: Northeast/Juniper Books

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; small vignette printed in grey, text in red and black. Prospectus for this poetry collection, supported by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Specimen page and integral order form provided.

Physical Description

1 box

38542. You are now my enemy. A brief monograph regarding the friendship & correspondence of two journeymen, including what drew them together, what split them apart, & how their trade reunited them, 1972. 1 box.
General

Kirkwood: Printery

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 100 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38478. 19 Saint Patrick's Day 73. Titles in print & in preparation, 1973. 1 box.
General

Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long folio (481 mm.); text printed in maroon and black; previous fold, mostly fine. List of titles available and in preparation from the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38540. Young Joseph: An Indian's views of Indian affairs. With an introduction by Dee Brown & wood-engravings by Gillian Tyler, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Young Joseph

Kirkwood: Printery

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; wood-engraving vignette, text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for "Young Joseph's translated narrative retracing the relations between the Nez Perce & the white man"; apparently translated by Arthur Chapman. Edition limited to 110 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38468. Books in stock...19 June 1974, 1974. 1 box.
General

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 12mo; text printed in black and brown; fine. List of titles from the Press and Press description provided.

Physical Description

1 box

38425. Four books, 1976. 1 box.
General

Newburyport, MA: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (212 mm.); fine. List of titles from the Press includes B. Moser's "Botanical Wood Engravings" and "Men of Printing". Distributed by Christian F. Verbeke, Rare Books.

Physical Description

1 box

38543. Adams, John: By a vote of Congress. Being the text of a letter dated June 18, 1775...to Elbridge Gerry containing a facsimile of the original letter in the collection of Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, and an account of those events preceding the letter by Randolph K. Tibbits, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Adams, John

Kirkwood: Printery

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for this facsimile edition limited to 145 copies. With original envelope specially printed for this prospectus.

Physical Description

1 box

38354. Owens, Chris: The darkened heart, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Owens, Chris

Stoughton, Wisconsin: Patchanna Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, square 12mo (154 x 132 mm.); fine. Prospectus for a chapbook that "represents the intiail bookwork by graphic artist Chris Owens"; edition limited to 30 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38426. MacAlpine, Arthur: Man in a metal cage. Thirty-three poems...Five wood engravings by Barry Moser, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: MacAlpine, Arthur

Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (226 mm.); fine. Prospectus for "a first volume of poems by Arthur MacAlpine, poet and former prize fighter". Edition limited to 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38427. Moser, Barry: Fifty wood engravings, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Moser, Barry

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long folio (659 mm.); wood engraving; text printed in red and black; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for a portfolio of 50 original wood engravings limited to 100 copies. With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

38410. Autumn 1979, 1979. 1 box.
General

Lincoln, Massachusetts: Penmæn Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; illustrations throughout; original tan pictorial wrappers, printed in red and green; fine. Catalogue lists recent titles from the press, including "Banquet: stories by Rosellen Brown, Maxine Kumin, Jean McGarry, Joyce Carol Oates & Lynne Sharon Schwartz" and "Clear Sky, Pure Light: encounters with H.D. Thoreau," edited by Christopher Childs. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38461. Hamady, Walter: The quartz crystal history of Perry township since the earliest creation of life. Being an eye witness account of the first Druze settler to show up in driftless Wisconsin, town of Perry, county of Dane, etcetera, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Hamady, Walter

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (266 mm.); previous folds; reduced illustrated specimen pages; fine. Edition limited to 225 copies. With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

38472. Hamady, Walter: Seeds & chairs. Selected poems...drawings by Jack Beal, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Hamady, Walter

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (89 x 139 mm.); illustration; mostly fine. Postcard prospectus for a collection of poetry limited to 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38469. Prognostifications..., 1979. 1 box.
General

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 10-sided pamphlet, 12mo; printed in brown. Provides list of available titles; "Coming Attractions"; and an extensive definition of "The Standing Order". With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

39241. Wakoski, Diane: Making a sacher torte. 9 poems about food & eating...12 wonderful illustrations to go along by Ellen Lanyon, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Wakoski, Diane

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustration, printed on green Shadwell papers dry; fine.

Physical Description

1 box

38424. Carroll, Lewis: Alice's adventures in wonderland, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Carroll, Lewis

Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long folio (422 mm.); illustration by Barry Moser; text printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for the Pennyroyal Alice "Celebrating the sesquicentenary of the birth of Lewis Carroll"; edition limited to 300 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

Carroll, Lewis: Dear Bookcollector, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Carroll, Lewis

Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Typewritten letter accouncing th publication of Looking Glass and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Includes a form to sign up for the mailing list. In original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

38473. Blackburn, Paul: The omitted journals, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Blackburn, Paul

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (89 x 140 mm.); postcard prospectus of "nine formational journal pieces omitted in the definitive edition," foreword by Edith Jarolim. Integral stamp for the 1984 summer Olympics.

Physical Description

1 box

36242. Oppenheim, Meret: Collaboration Meret Oppenheim., 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Oppenheim, Meret

Zurich: Parkett Publishing

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to, color and black and white photographic illustrations of Oppenheim's and others' works, provides a complete list of the contents of previous Parkett publications (this being no. 4).Text in German and English. Back side publicizing The New Art Magazine. Invoice from Parkett to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis inserted. Order sheet postcard tipped in.

Physical Description

1 box

38455. Wilde, John: 44 Wilde 1944, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Wilde, John

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (253 mm.); previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for a collection of 44 images taken from Wilde's sketchbook, mostly kept during 1944. Edition limited to 200 signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38348. DePol, John, illustrator: A commonplace book, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: DePol, John, illustrator

Maple Shade, N.J.: Pickering Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; printed in brown and black; label from distributor, Oak Knoll Book, New Castle, Delaware; fine. Prospectus for a work whose "texts have been permitted to run at their own pace, each page suggesting individual styling and varied typographic treatment". Edition limited to 100 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38332. The art of anastatic printing. Three mid 19th century accounts, 1986. 1 box.
General

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; illustration; fine. Prospectus for a work with pieces by Philip de la Mote, S.H. Cowell, and C.J. Jordan. Limited to 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38350. Crawford, John Wallace: Broncho vs. bicycle. A tale of the old West, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Crawford, John Wallace

Santa Fe: Press of the Palace of Governors

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, small 8vo; illustrations by cartoonist Sarah Laughlin. Prospectus for an edition limited to 250 copies and printed for the Museum of New Mexico.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

38417. Welty, Eudora: The robber bridegroom, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Welty, Eudora

Northampton, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for this novel, originally published in 1942, and here designed and illustrated by Barry Moser; edition limited to 150 signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38358. Gilgun, John: The Dooley poems, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Gilgun, John

Los Angeles: Robin Price

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large 8vo (255 mm.); decorations printed in grey-green; fine. Prospectus for Gilgun's collection of northwest Missouri poetry, edition limited to 150 copies.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

39428. The Oxford English dictionary, 1991. 1 box.
General

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (297 mm.); illustration; previous fold, rubber stamp. Prospectus for "The greatest dictionary in any language". Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37627. Young, Gary: Wherever I looked. Poems, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Young, Gary

Los Angeles: Robin Price

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, oblong 8vo; prospectus for this poetry collection, illustrated by Mary Allan and bound by David Brock; limited to 85 copies. Also advertising a portfolio of two woodblock prints by Mary Allan, "hand printed by Keiji Shinohara, in the ukiyo-e style" in an edition of 35 copies.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

36356. Dictionary of Icelandic verbs., 1993. 1 box.
General

Reykjavík: Ordabók Háskólans, Institute of Lexicography

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 33; prospectus to the dictionary also titled "Technical Report 5"; includes information on the collections of the Institute as well as the structure of each entry. TLS from Gunnlaugur Ingólfsson, acting director, to Prof. Anatoly Libermann, of the University of Minnesota, loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

37638. [Catalogue], 1994. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: Robin Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original black pictorial wrappers; upcoming titles listed include the anthology "On Printing & Sprituality" and "Ravaged with Joy," a previously unpublished transcript with live recording of William Everson's poetry reading at UC Davis in 1975; catalogue also lists books in and out of print, Broadsides, and titles available from other publishers. Errata slip and order form with pre-addressed envelope laid in.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

37698. The Book of Revelation, 1995. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: Robin Price

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (216 mm.); illustrated prospectus of this edition, illustrated by Barbara Benish, bound by David Brook; edition limited to 50 copies. With the announcement of Robin Price's lecture "Paradise Lost and Regained: The Making of the Book of Revelation," given at the Beverly Hills Public Library.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

38374. Fine press and artist's books, autumn 1996 catalog, 1996. 1 box.
General

Middletown, CT: Robin Price

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus includes 3 parts, "Manifesto," "Shameless Promotion," and "The Books". Special illustrated prospectus of "Altar Book for Górecki" laid in.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

39324. Saussure, Ferdinand de: Saussure's first course of lectures on general linguistics (1907). From the notebooks of Albert Riedlinger. Edited by Eisuke Komatsu...Edited and translated by George Wolf, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Saussure, Ferdinand de

New York: Pergamon.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrated; previous folds, else a good copy. Prospectus also advertises Saussure's second and third courses. Integral order form printed on back. Additional order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

42479. Simpson, Tommy: A duet, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Simpson, Tommy

Middletown, CT: Robin Price.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (278 mm.); fine. Prospective for a collaborative work by the printer, artist Tommy Simpson, and binder Sarah Creighton in an edition limited to 30. With order form.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

42478. Romero, Pepe: Announcing a typographic print featuring the words of classical guitarist...[heading title], 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Romero, Pepe

Middletown, CT: Robin Price.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (278 mm.); fine. Prospectus for a Broadside limited to 150 copies reproducing text from "The Journey of the Guitar: a portrait of Pepe Romero," also to be published by Price, in 1998.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

38333. The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, English Literature, 1475-1700, 1997. 1 box.
General

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to; illustrative border; fine. "Originally privately printed and limited only to 150 copies, this three-volume work described over 1,150 books and 169 rare manuscripts"; this edition limited to 700 copies. Integral order form printed on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

Ravaged with Joy, 1998. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: Robin Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside advertising a recording of William Everson at UC Davis on may 16, 1975.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

38501. Ferguson, John: Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions & books of secrets. New foreword by William Eamon, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Ferguson, John

Staten Island: Pober Publishing

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in orange and black. Prospectus for a bibliography in which the author "considered...works on alchemy, mining, papermaking and printing, farming, gardening, and animal husbandry, surgery and medicine, winemaking, distilling, and cookery, glassmaking and metallurgy, divination, astrology, and much more." Edition limited to 250 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39224. Books for the end of the, 1999. 1 box.
General

Middletown, Connectictu: Robin Price

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original blue wrappers, printed in red; fine. Catalogue of new and recent titles from the Press. Prospectus for "The Journey of the Guitar: a portrait of Pepe Romero" laid in.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

Tattersfield, Nigel: John Bewick engraver on wood 1760-1795, 1999. 1 box.
General

Author: Tattersfield, Nigel

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in orange and black. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

44712. Culp, D. W., ed.: Twentieth century Negro literature; or, A cyclopedia of thought on the vital topics relating to the American Negro. By one hundred of America's greatest Negroes [cover title], 1902. 1 box.
General

Author: Culp, D. W., ed.

Toronto: J. L. Nichols & Co.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 12, [2]; black and white photographic plate of W. H. Crogman, a professor of Greek and Latin at Clark University; original drab printed wrappers (heavily dampstained), edges chipped and worn with some losses, one touching a couple of letters without loss of meaning; a good only copy. Contents include an introduction by Crogman; a list of authors; and a table of contents. In custom green cloth chemise, printed paper cover lable.

Physical Description

1 box

39264. Gogol, Nicolas: Récits de Pétersbourg. Traduction de Boris de Schloezer, 1925. 1 box.
General

Author: Gogol, Nicolas

Paris: Éditions de la Pléiade, J. Schiffrin & Cie.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (190 mm.); printed on grey paper, edges a bit toned, else fine. Prospectus for a new volume from the 8-volume "Collection les Auteurs Classiques Russes," which also includes works by Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Leskov, and Lermontov.

Physical Description

1 box

39438. The Nonesuch library, 1927. 1 box.
General

London: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; facsimiles; pictorial self-wrappers, fine. Catalogue provides reduced specimen title pages of the works advertised, including "Selected Poetry and Prose" by Colderidge and "A Shakespeare Anthology".

Physical Description

1 box

36374. Blake, William: The poetry and prose of William Blake, 1927. 1 box.
General

Author: Blake, William

London: The Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for "Eight distinguished books published by The Nonesuch Press in unlimited editions". Includes, along with Blake's works, Romer Wilson's "Latterday Symphony," Bernard and Elinor Darwin's "The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo," "The Book of the Bear," Ernst Toller's "Brokenbrow," "Ernst Toller's "Masses and Man," "The Week-end Book," and J. Leslie Hotson's "The Death of Christopher Marlowe".

Physical Description

1 box

38394. A circular of books finished and in the making at the Pear Tree Press, 1928. 1 box.
General

Flansham, Sussex, England: Pear Tree Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; light foxing along edges, else fine.

Physical Description

1 box

38407. Saunders, O. Elfrieda: English illumination, 1928. 1 box.
General

Author: Saunders, O. Elfrieda

Paris: Pegasus Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; rubber stamp of distributor Bernard Quaritch, London; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a title from the Pantheon Series; also makes mention of Tancred Borenius and E.W. Tristram's "English Mediaeval Painting".

Physical Description

1 box

38405. A selection of books on calligraphy, illumination and also facsimile editions, 1928. 1 box.
General

New York: Pegasus Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; previous fold, else fine. Titles from the catalogue include Sir Thomas Arnold and Professor A. Grohmann's "The Islamic Book" and Stanley Morison's "Caractères de l'ecriture". Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39279. Programme of books finished, in the making, and to be made, 1930. 1 box.
General

Sussex: Pear Tree Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; decorations printed in green and tan, specimen illustration printed in tan and black; previous folds, else a fine copy. Uncut list of titles from the Press, including James Guthrie's "The Proportional System of Typographic Composition"; "Intaglio Bookplates"; William Blake's "The Felpham Edition of Songs of Innocence"; and John Milton's "Lycidas". Also lists titles from the Blackletter series and out of print titles.

Physical Description

1 box

38384. Praeputii incisio. A history of male and female circumcision with chapters on hermaphrodism, infibulation, eunuchism, priapism and divers other curious and phallic customs, 1931. 1 box.
General

New York: Panurge Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; printed on blue paper; previous fold, else fine. "Only 1500 press-numbered copies have been privately printed for members of the medical and legal professions and adult collectors of erotica."

Physical Description

1 box

38386. Levine, Esar: Chastity belts. An illustrated history of the bridling of women containing numberous excerpts from curious, facetious, and erotic books, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Levine, Esar

New York: Panurge Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed on blue paper; fine. Prospectus for a work advertised as "An illustrated calendar of sexual instruments!" and "A bijou of erotic and anthropoligic tidbits!" Limited to 2000 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38385. Windsor, Edward: The Hindu art of love, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: Windsor, Edward

New York: Panurge Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; printed on green paper; fine. Prospectus preface begins thus: "There are three great fundamentals of Hindu civilization: the caste system, child marriage, and the Ars Amoris Indica". Table of contents includ chapters on erotic literature of the Hindus and "Ganika or Glorified Prostitution". Edition limited to 1500 press-numbered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39405. Plimpton, George A.: The education of Shakespeare. Illustrated from the schoolbooks in use in his time, 1933. 1 box.
General

Author: Plimpton, George A.

New York: Oxford University Press

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, unpaginated; facsimiles; printed self-wrappers, previous folds, mostly fine. Prospectus comprised mostly of press opinions and specimen pages and facsimiles. Order form addressed to the author printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38574. The first three volumes of the...series of two-dollar limited editions, 1934. 1 box.
General

New Rochelle, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; black and white photographic illustration; previous folds, else fine. Despite the title, this pamphlet provides a list of the first 6 titles from the Press's two-dollar series.

Physical Description

1 box

39403. Smith, Percy J.: Lettering. A handbook of modern alphabets, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Smith, Percy J.

New York: Oxford University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; borders in black and red; previous folds, mostly fine. Prospectus for a work that "outlines the principles underlying good modern lettering, with a special view to the needs of students". Provides table of contents and specimen page. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39427. Goudy, Frederic W.: The capitals from the Trajan column at Rome, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Goudy, Frederic W.

New York: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; specimen illustration printed in grey and black; previous folds, a bit soiled. Prospectus for "an interpretation by the celebrated type designer and author...of the finest extant lettering of the imperial era". Provides 2 specimen pages. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39270. Dickens, Charles: The Nonesuch Dickens, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Dickens, Charles

London: Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; color photographic illustration tipped in; printed self-wrappers; previous fold, rust stain from removed paper clip, else fine. Cover title: "A portrait in natural color of the Nonesuch Dickens".

Physical Description

1 box

39251. Dickens, Charles: The Nonesuch Dickens, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Dickens, Charles

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; color photographic folding plate; original lavendar pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. "Prospectus and a Portrait" of the Nonesuch Edition of the works of Dickens. Press opinions include a blurb by Mr. Evelyn Waugh. Order form and TLs from the Press laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Dickens, Charles: The Nonesuch Dickens, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Dickens, Charles

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original lavendar pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. "Prospectus and a Portrait" of the Nonesuch Edition of the works of Dickens.

Physical Description

1 box

38396. Blake, William: Songs of Innocence, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Blake, William

Flansham, Sussex, England: Pear Tree Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text printed in green and black; rubber stamp from distributor B.F. Stevens & Brown, previous fold, good. Prospectus for the Felpham Edition of the "Songs"; limited to 300 copies. Order form and TLs from John Freeman of the Press both laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38392. A list of books of ourselves, 1937. 1 box.
General

Flansham, England: Pear Tree Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 8vo; rubber stamp of distributor, B.F. Stevens & Brown, London; fine. Titles include the quarterly "The Book Craftsman for printers and collectors of fine editions" and William Collins's "Od to Evening," a plate book.

Physical Description

1 box

38575. Beautiful books. An announcement of six books in fine editions, 1937. 1 box.
General

New Rochelle, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 16; original tan wrappers, black and brown lettering; fine. Titles include "Satires and Hoaxes of Dr. Benjamin Franklin" and Lafcadio Hearn's "Japanese Fairy Tales," illustrated by Valenti Angelo. Press comments provided in the black. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39429. Jervis, W.W.: The world in maps...A study in map evolution, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Jervis, W.W.

New York: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; map facsimile; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus provides 2 specimen pages as well as advertisement for 2 additional titles relating to geography, the fifth edition of "The Oxford Advanced Atlas," edited by John Bartholomew; and R.E. Dickinson and O.J.R. Howarth's "The Making of Geography". Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38520. Pitzer, Robert Claiborne: Three frontiers. Memories and a portrait of Henry Littleton Pitzer, pioneer in Illinois, Iowa and Colorado, as recorded by his son...Illustrations by William E.L. Bunn, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Pitzer, Robert Claiborne

Muscatine, Iowa: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; two wood-cut illustrations printed in red; edges and corners a bit bumped from handling, else fine. Prospectus of this limited edition of 550 copies includes specimen page and integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36751. Woodward, Chester: Out of the blue: Essays on books, art and travel...Introduction by Douglas C. McMurtrie, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Woodward, Chester

Chicago: Normandie House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus providing specimen title page and table of contents; "handsomely printed on Linweave Text laid paper," edition limited to 490 copies. Integral order form on back page. Text in blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

38583. Books for spring, 1939. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; decorative border printed in brown; previous fold, else fine. Titles include "An Uncensored Anthology" and "The Sayings of Confucius". Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38581. Three new gems of fine bookmaking, 1939. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. List of 5 new titles from the Press; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38571. A brief catalogue of beautiful books, 1939. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, unpaginated; self wrappers, fine. Titles listed include Rudyard Kipling's "Barrack-room Ballads and Departmental Ditties" and "Love Poems of Lord Byron". Catalogue also provides a list of upcoming titles for the fall of 1939, including Samuel Taylor Colderidge's "The Ancient Mariner" and "Persian Fairy Tales," decorated by Valenti Angelo. Peter Pauper Perennials include William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience" and Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanack". "Other Limited Editions" listed in the back. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38518. Derleth, August: Atmosphere of houses. A new volume of the Sac Prairie saga...with wood-engravings by Frank Utpatel, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Derleth, August

Muscatine, Iowa: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (310 mm.); text printed in red and black; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for the eighth volume of Derleth's American saga, and "a portion of Derleth's as yet unpublished spiritual autobiography, Evening in Spring". Edition limited to 290 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38568. For spring: Four new limited editions of the Peter Pauper Press, 1940. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon, New York: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; self-wrappers, pictorial vignette printed in green; fine. Titles include "A Patriotic Anthology" and "Epigrams from the Greek Anthology". Also provides a list of previously published and still available limited editions, including "The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel and other ballads". Order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38572. Corwin, Norman: The plot to overthrow Christmas, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Corwin, Norman

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; fine. Prospectus heading reads "A free book with every ten-dollar order," an incentive to get readers to buy 5 books from the Press. List of available titles and integral order form provided.

Physical Description

1 box

38573. The Peter Pauper Press announces..., 1940. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; fine. Provides titles of works published in the spring; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39397. Gravel, Fern: Oh Millersville!, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Gravel, Fern

Muscatine, Iowa: Prairie Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 16mo; printed on yellow paper, mostly fine. Prospectus for a collection of poetry "written in the first half-decade of the present century by a little girl who lived in an Iowa town which she chose to call Millersville". Provided here are several specimen poems.

Physical Description

1 box

39424. Roberts, Charles W., Jesse W. Harris, and Walter G. Johnson: A handbook of English, 1944. 1 box.
General

Author: Roberts, Charles W., Jesse W. Harris, and Walter G. Johnson

New York: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, tall folio (382 mm.); previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this handbook, as well as other available titles on the English language.

Physical Description

1 box

38148. Books from the North River Press in specimen pages: a handbook, 1947. 1 box.
General

New York: North River Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (82 x 140 mm.). Postcard prospectus for this work in which "printing processes, printer's terms, and proofreader's marks are concisely explained".

Physical Description

1 box

38503. Portfolio, 1949. 1 box.
General

Cincinnati: Portfolio

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (100 x 1149 mm.); printed in yellow and black. Postcard announcing that the Magazine's first issue has been sold out and the upcoming release of the second issue.

Physical Description

1 box

38502. Portfolio, 1949. 1 box.
General

Cincinnati: Portfolio

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (100 x 149 mm.); printed in yellow and black. Postcard announcing the arrival of the Magazine's first issue.

Physical Description

1 box

38338. Nesbitt, Alexander: Lettering. The history and technique of lettering as design, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Nesbitt, Alexander

New York: Prentice-Hall

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; 4 reduced specimen pages and photographic portrait of author; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus provides abstract of the work's two parts, a table of contents, and an author biography.

Physical Description

1 box

38408. Penguins. A retrospect. 1935-1951, 1951. 1 box.
General

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 17; original tan pictorial wrappers, printed in brown and blue; mostly fine.

Physical Description

1 box

39439. Shakespeare, William: The Nonesuch Press presents a new Shakespeare, designed by Sir Francis Meynell and dedicated by her special permission to Her Majesty the Queen, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

London: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, unpaginated; printed self-wrappers, mostly fine. Provides specimen pages and a summary of the "Coronation Shakespeare". Address label of the Press's New York office pasted to back wrapper verso.

Physical Description

1 box

39419. Moxon, Joseph: Mechanick exercises on the whole art of printing (1683-4)...Edited by Herbert Davis & Harry Carter, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Moxon, Joseph

London: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this reprint of a work written by the Hydrographer to Charles II. Specimen pages; integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39417. Thomas Bewick, 1753-1828. Two bicentenary volumes, 1953. 1 box.
General

London: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrations, facsimiles; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for 2 titles, Montague Weekley's "Thomas Bewick" and S. Roscoe's "Thomas Bewick: a catalogue raisonné". With specimen pages. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38336. Berry, W. Turner, A.F. Johnson, and W.P. Jaspert, eds.: The encyclopaedia of type faces, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Berry, W. Turner, A.F. Johnson, and W.P. Jaspert, eds.

New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text in red; fine. Prospectus for the second edition of the Encyclopaedia, including "New Features" (180 new faces, more full alphabets, etc.) and an abbreviated table of contents. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38316. Kronenberg, M.E.: Campbell's annales de la typographie néerlandaise au XVe siècle. Contributions to a new edition by..., 1956. 1 box.
General

Author: Kronenberg, M.E.

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (270 mm.); prospectus for a new edition of the Campbell's 1874 work; summary of each chapter provided. A list of other titles from the Press provided on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

42490. Lechlitner, Ruth: The shadow on the hour, 1956. 1 box.
General

Author: Lechlitner, Ruth

Iowa City: Prairie Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (305 mm.); text printed in green and black; previous fold, fore-edge a bit toned, else very good. Prospectus for a new collection of the author's poems includes 6 review blurbs. Integral order form printed at foot of verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38337. Poems in folio, 1957. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Poems in Folio

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; fine. "An invitation to suscribe" for a monthly poetry Broadside, "the first edition of a new poem by an outstanding American or English poet". Authors invited to submit include W.H. Auden, e.e. cummings, Robert Frost, Robert Graves, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38327. Prévost, Abbé: The story of the Chevalier des Grieux and of Manon Lescaut...with illustrations by T.M. Cleland, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Prévost, Abbé

Stamford, Connecticut: Overbrook Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for an edition in the original 1753 French of Prévost's saucy novel, limited to 200 copies; integral order form addressed to distributor Philip C. Duschnes, New York with envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38496. Diringer, David: The illuminated book. Its history and production, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Diringer, David

New York: Philosophical Library

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; black and white illustration reproductions; fine. Prospectus for a work that "surveys the fascinating history of the medieval book". Table of contents and a list of illustrations provided. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38352. The catalogue of the Plume Library, Maldon, 1959. 1 box.
General

Maldon, Essex: Plume Library

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus of a catalogue of the Plume Library, which contains "6500 books and pamphlets, mostly of the seventeenth century, but some earlier, and was collected by Dr. Thomas Plume". Specimen page and integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39211. Shahn, Ben: Maximus of tyre. On the dispute about images. Calligraphed, illustrated, and with an introduction by..., 1964. 1 box.
General

Author: Shahn, Ben

New York: Pantheon Books

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrations printed in red; fine. Prospectus for an artist's book printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38356. The Plantin dialogue on calligraphy & printing in the 16th century, 1964. 1 box.
General

Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus Museum

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 12mo; printed in tan, red, and black; fine. Prospectus for a new facsimile edition of the French and Flemish parallel text of 1567; this edition limited to 500 copies and distributed in the United States by the Stinehour Press, Vermont.

Physical Description

1 box

38522. Broomell, Myron H.: In the iron temple. Poems, 1964. 1 box.
General

Author: Broomell, Myron H.

Iowa City: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; blue decorative borders, text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for Broomell's fourth poetry collection. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38521. Catich, Edward M.: Eric Gill. His social and artistic roots, 1964. 1 box.
General

Author: Catich, Edward M.

Iowa City: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large 8vo; woodcut printed in blue, text printed in orange and black; fine. Integral order form on prospectus verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38388. Thomajan, P.K.: Meanuettes, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Thomajan, P.K.

Berkeley: Peacock Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; printed in blue; fine. Prospectus for a limited edition (number not given); integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38390. Castagna, Edwin: Three who meet the challenge: Joseph L. Wheeler, Lawrence Clark Powell, Frances Clarke Sayers, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Castagna, Edwin

Berkeley: Peacock Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; printed in red; fine. Prospectus for a limited edition; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38523. Blumenthal, Walter Hart: Who knew Shakespeare? What was his reputation in his lifetime?, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Blumenthal, Walter Hart

Iowa City: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo; green decorative border, text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus begins with "The stupid idea that Bacon wrote Shakespeare has discouraged critical challenge of the latter's authorship of the plays. The only full-fledged exposition of dissent has been that of veteran bookman Walter Hart Blumenthal"; and ends with "The question of authentication cannot be ended by cultist derision of probing doubt of a dissenter such as Blumenthal." Integral order form on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38389. The peacock reviewer, 1966. 1 box.
General

Berkeley: Peacock Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (216 mm.); previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for "A literary magazine devoted to reviews and commentary concerning the world of books and authors". Integral order form; with separate Press manifesto.

Physical Description

1 box

38464. This is a list of stuff getting offered as schmaltzy gift possibles, 1969. 1 box.
General

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (296 mm.); text printed in brown and black in 2 colums; previous folds, else fine. Provides 9 available titles and 7 titles in progress.

Physical Description

1 box

38357. Wakeman, Geoffrey: English hand made papers suitable for bookwork, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: Wakeman, Geoffrey

Loughborough, Leicestershire: Plough Press

Scope and Contents

Single page folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; edges a bit bumped, else fine. Prospectus for a compilation of "28 different varieties of paper from six mills".

Physical Description

1 box

37553. Second series of American poets Broadsides, 1972. 1 box.
General

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Pomegranate Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 8vo (178 x 203 mm.); illustrated advertisement for a series of Broadsides by American poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure; each piece to be illustrated by Karyl Klopp. A list of authors printed in the first series provided at the bottom; these include Joyce Carol Oates and Richard Eberhart. The Press address printed on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38443. [Hamady, Walter]: Thumbnailing the hilex. Interminable gabberjabbs, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: [Hamady, Walter]

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long folio (371 mm.); illustration printed in green; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for "the third in a series of sentimental narrative footnoted poems," edition limited to 125 signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38539. Wahl, Jean: Voices in the dark. Fifteen poems of the prisons & the camp...Translated by Charles Guenther, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Wahl, Jean

Kirkwood, Missouri: Printery

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (284 mm.); previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for this posthumous poetry collection by the French existentialist philosopher, originally written in a Nazi concentration camp. Edition limited to 120 copies, signed by the translator.

Physical Description

1 box

37715. Stefanik, Ernest C., Jr.: John Berryman. A descriptive bibliography, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Stefanik, Ernest C., Jr.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (215 mm.); prospectus providing the bibliography's table of contents and a list of titles from the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography, including works on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, and Eugene O'Neill.

Physical Description

1 box

39423. Ray, Gordon N.: The illustrator and the book in England, 1790-1914, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Ray, Gordon N.

New York: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (101 x 152 mm.); illustrations; fine. Prospectus for this exhibition catalogue based on the Pierpont Morgan Library's show of the same name.

Physical Description

1 box

38449. Schwerner, Armand: Triumph of the will, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Schwerner, Armand

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadisde, square 8vo (203 mm.); illustration printed in green and black; fine. Prospectus for a poetry chapbook, limited to 150 signed copies and illustrated by Arthur Thrall.

Physical Description

1 box

38441. Petrakis, Harry Mark: Chapter seven...from The hour of the bell, a novel concerning the Greek War of Independence, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Petrakis, Harry Mark

Driftless, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (293); illustration by Warrington Colescott; fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 150 signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38420. Smyth, Paul [and] Barry Moser: Thistles and thorns, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Smyth, Paul [and] Barry Moser

Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; original tan pictorial wrappers, text printed in red and black; fine. Propsectus for Smyth's poem, illustrated by Moser. With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

38456. Olson, Toby: Doctor Miriam. Five poems by her admiring husband...& made more celebrational through the drawings by Sondra Freckelton and Jack Beal, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Olson, Toby

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; printed in blue and brown; fine. Prospectus for a poetry collection published "to coincide with, and surprise on, the occasion of Miriam Meltzer Olson officially becoming (ph&d) doctor". Edition limited to 144 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

Olson, Toby: Three & one/four poems, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Olson, Toby

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside with illlustration. Printed in brown on yellow paper.

Physical Description

1 box

38415. Mariani, Paul: Timing devices: poems, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Mariani, Paul

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 8vo; text printed in red and blue; fine. Prospectus for 2 titles, Mariani's poetry collection and Jane Yolen's tale "The Lady and the Merman". Discount Schedule for a list of titles still in print laid in. With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

38351. Bliss, Douglas Percy: Edward Bawden...with a bibliography by Barry McKay, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Bliss, Douglas Percy

Toronto: Pendomer Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 8vo; color reproduction of "Lindsell Church, No. 2," and reproduction of the line drawing "1932 Brick House Garden Party"; prospectus for this study of the British artist's works to be printed in 2 editions, the Standard Edition and the Special Edition, limited to 200 numbered copies. Illustrated order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38411. [Catalogue], 1979. 1 box.
General

Lincoln, Massachusetts: Penmæn Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; illustrations; fine. List of 6 new and upcoming titles from the Press. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38412. Coover, Robert: Charlie in the house of Rue. Wood engraving by Jerome Kaplan, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Coover, Robert

Lincoln, Massachusetts: Penmæn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; wood engraving; fine. Prospectus for the first title of the Press's Fiction Series, available in two editions. List of 2 other titles from the series listed on back. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38462. Olson, Toby: Bird songs. Eleven new poems...with illustration by John Digby, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Olson, Toby

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (227 mm.); illustration printed in blue-grey; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus of an "Edition to patrons and standing orders only".

Physical Description

1 box

38447. Our usual terms & some attractions..., 1981. 1 box.
General

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. List of 11 upcoming titles from the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38442. Titles available direct, 1981. 1 box.
General

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (272 mm.); previous folds, else fine. List of titles available from the Press, almost all poetry collections.

Physical Description

1 box

38463. Brown, Arthur: Song of the sly mongoose, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Brown, Arthur

Perry Township: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (288 mm.); illustration printed in blue; grey paper; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a collection of 8 poems, illustrated by Janet Morgan and limited to 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38446. Hamady, Walter: Hand papermaking. A book of suspicions...Illustration by Jim Lee, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Hamady, Walter

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long folio (369 mm.); illustration; printed on brown paper; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this book on papermaking in an edition limited to 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

Hamady, Walter: Hand papermaking. A book of suspicions by Walter Hamady, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Hamady, Walter

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, shorter than the one above and without illustration. Announces new, higher price of $350.

Physical Description

1 box

38413. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft: Frankenstein; or, the modern Prometheus, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Boston: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large folio (632 mm.); illustration; text printed in red and black; previous folds, else fine. New edition of Shelley's novel, illustrated with wood-engravings by Barry Moser and accompanied by 4 critical essays, including one by Joyce Carol Oates; edition limited to 350 copies. Distributed by Bromer Booksellers.

Physical Description

1 box

36383. Francis, Robert: The trouble with God [Six From Moser], 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Francis, Robert

Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Duplicate of "Six From Moser." Broadside, long folio (562 mm.); prospectus for six works illustrated by Barry Moser, inlcuding "The Trouble with God,"E.M. Beekman's "Totem and other poems"; Allen Mandelbaum's "A Lied of Letterpress"; "Pan"; Paul Smyth's "The Cardinal Sins: A bestiary"; and "An Alphabet".

Physical Description

1 box

38419. Plath, Sylvia: Above the oxbow. Selected writings, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Plath, Sylvia

Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; mostly fine. Prospectus for a collection of 3 poems, a short story, and a journal entry, "all dealing with Northampton, Massachusetts and the Connecticut Riber Valley". Illustrations by Barry Moser in an edition limited to 325 copies. Printed for the Catawba Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38153. Melville, Herman: The writings of Herman Melville, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Melville, Herman

Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (357 mm.); previous fold. Prospectus for the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the works of Melville, complete in 10 volumes. Also advertising Mary K. Bercaw's "Melville's Sources" and Melville's "The Piazza Tales and other prose pieces, 1839-1860". Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38450. (A) frictionless (. g(new)ru(year)2(u), 1987. 1 box.
General

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrations; printed in brown and grey or tan paper. "Here is the one hundred eleventh small volume from this press."

Physical Description

1 box

38451. Hamady, Walter: Gabberjæb number (6), 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Hamady, Walter

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); printed on tan paper; previous folds, else fine. At head of title: Neopostmod(rin)ism (pr) dieser rasen ist kein hundeklo (or) guberzompthin...(or) the incognita of Rita's deep time coexisting within central discoveries of the thermodynamic dichotomy of Western thought: by Wsh (the) Hamady."

Physical Description

1 box

38355. Hall, Edwin: Sweynheym and Pannartz and the origins of printing in Italy: German technology and Italian humanism in Renaissance Rome, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Hall, Edwin

McMinnville, Oregon: Phillip J. Pirages

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; color photographic illustrations; fine. Prospectus for a work printed at the Bird & Bull Press, limited to 239 copies; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Margo Egdon: Margo for the millenia, [1999?]. 1 box.
General

Author: Margo Egdon

Little Rock, AK: Pasquinade Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside. Black lettering with the middle of the O filled in with light blue.

Physical Description

1 box

39354. Voretzsch, Karl: Sammlung kurzer lehrbücher der romanischen sprachen und literaturen, 1913. 1 box.
General

Author: Voretzsch, Karl

Halle (Saale): Max Niemeyer Verlag.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (220 mm.); toned along edges, previous fold. Prospectus printed in German.

Physical Description

1 box

39302. Paul, Hermann: Altdeutsche textbibliothek, 1925. 1 box.
General

Author: Paul, Hermann

Halle (Saale): Max Niemeyer.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (190 mm.); uniformly toned, previous fold, else a very good copy. Text in German.

Physical Description

1 box

36445. The Nonesuch Press announces, on alternate Wednesdays from October 6 to December 15, at 5:30 P/M., in the Wigmore Hall a series of six period concerts, 1580 to the present day, 1925. 1 box.
General

Cambridge: The Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; a series of concerts "offered as illustrations in the history of music". Information on tickets provided on the back page. Advance order form loosely inserted. Discoloration, top right-hand corner torn, not affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

39411. A selected list of books for Christmas gifts, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; 2-toned illustration (red and black); previous fold, else fine. Titles include Githa Sowerby's retelling of "Cinderella" and Stanley Casson's "Some Modern Sculptors". Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39209. Marshall, Archibald: The novels, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Marshall, Archibald

Minneapolis: Powers Mercantile Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, square 12mo; previous fold, near fine. Prospectus for a uniform set of Marshall's novels, which, not to read them is "nowadays...considered bad form by those who keep abreast of the times in the literary world". List of titles provided on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39210. Audubon, John James: Audubon's the birds of America, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Audubon, John James

Minneapolis: Powers Dry Goods Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for an edition "available to the general public," with introduction by William Vogt. Specimen page (plate 102, Blue Jay), printed on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

39406. Williams, Sidney Herbert and Falconer Madan: A handbook of the literature of the Rev. C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Williams, Sidney Herbert and Falconer Madan

New York: Oxford University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; reduced facsimiles; previous folds, toning. Prospectus for a work "To lovers of 'Alice,'" published in an edition of 750 copies. Provides specimen pages and facsimiles; integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38585. Whitman, Walt: Leaves of grass, 1943. 1 box.
General

Author: Whitman, Walt

New York: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

Biofolium, folio; black and white photographic illustration; previous fold, else fine. Call for sponsors for the Mid-Century Commemorative Edition of Whitman's masterpiece. Enrollment form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39225. Kronenberg, M.E., F.K.H. Kossmann, L. Brummel, eds.: Het boek, 1944. 1 box.
General

Author: Kronenberg, M.E., F.K.H. Kossmann, L. Brummel, eds.

The Hague: Martinus Nihjoff

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (250 mm.); woodcut illustration; printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for volume XXXII of "the only Netherlands journal for bibliographers and booklovers".

Physical Description

1 box

39404. Oxford editions of standard authors, 1947. 1 box.
General

London: Oxford University Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; fine. Featured authors include Dante, Milton, and Sir Walter Scott. Distributed by Frank Hollings, London.

Physical Description

1 box

38346. The return to fundamentals. An explanation of the purposes and ideals of the Powgen Press, 1950. 1 box.
General

New York: Powgen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in black and gilt; previous fold, else fine. Short mission statement from the Press: "Two fundamentals are always observed: first, that every piece of printing must always be thoroughly appropriate in design as well as competent in execution; and, second, that the buyer of printing must have, at all times, the fullest cooperation in meeting the demands for excellence at prices in keeping with the modern budget".

Physical Description

1 box

37103. Jennett, Seán: The making of books, 1951. 1 box.
General

Author: Jennett, Seán

New York: Pantheon Books Inc.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (215 mm.); illustrated prospectus for "a fresh survey of the many processes that transform an author's manuscript into a finished book". Contents provided; integral order form. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38517. Hearst, James: Limited view, 1960. 1 box.
General

Author: Hearst, James

Iowa City: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (303 mm.); text printed in red and black; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for this poetry collection in which the poet "is concerned, as always, with no particular poetic movement or school; his cast of thought and mode of expression are peculiarly his own." Integral order form on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38500. Lingenfelter, Richard E.: Presses of the Pacific Islands, 1817-1867. A history of the first half century of printing in the Pacific Island, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Lingenfelter, Richard E.

Los Angeles: Plantin Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. "In this book Richard E. Lingenfelter sketches the early history of printing in each of the island groups, drawing principally from the letters, diaries, journals and reminiscences of the missionaries and other visitors to the islands." Illustrated with woodcuts by Edgar Dorsey Taylor; limited to 500 copies and distributed by Dawson's Bookshop.

Physical Description

1 box

38475. Titles in print (old & new) as of Independence Day, 1980. 1 box.
General

Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (267 mm.); previous folds, else fine. List of titles with price and binding information.

Physical Description

1 box

38476. Why did you didn/t. Expanded quotables, 1980. 1 box.
General

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (106 x 151 mm.); mostly fine. Postcard prospectus for a sequal book of quotes made by local school children.

Physical Description

1 box

38421. Moser, Barry: A selection of nine wood engravings, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Moser, Barry

Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large folio; 9 reduced reproductions of above-mentioned wood engravings; previous folds, else fine. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38474. Kherdian, David: Homage to Adana, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Kherdian, David

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (261 mm.); illustration printed in blue; text in red and black. Prospectus for an edition limited to 120 press-numbered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38471. Oppenheimer, Joel: Del quien lo tomó. A suite, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Oppenheimer, Joel

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (89 x 139 mm.); fine. Postcard prospectus for a collection of 3 poems in an edition of 228 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36384. Moser, Barry: An unillustrated talk on illustrating books, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Moser, Barry

Northhampton, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet, folded into 8-sided brochure; prospectus for the "Pennyroyal Lectures" by Barry Moser, which also include "Illustrating the Classics: Homer, Virgin, and Dante"; "On Illustrating Books"; "Frankstein"; Eryngium and the White Knight's Horse"; "On Wood Engraving"; "The Books of Pennyroyal Press"; "Illustrating Alice"; "On Books"; "Moby-Dick"; "Huckleberry Finn"; "The Wizard of Oz"; "A Personal Approach to the Design and Illustration of Books".

Physical Description

1 box

38598. Reynolds comprehensive atlas and gazetteer of the world. Including 1920 census, 1921. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis: Powers

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 16mo; color illustration; mostly fine. Prospectus for "The most useful book in the world"; provides a partial list of the book's features and press comments.

Physical Description

1 box

38317. Byvanck, A.W. et G.J. Hoogewerff: La miniature hollandaise et les manuscrits illustrés du 14e au 16e siècle aux Pay-bas septentrionaux, 1923. 1 box.
General

Author: Byvanck, A.W. et G.J. Hoogewerff

La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large folio; text in red and black; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for the French edition of this work (advertisement for the English edition, "Dutch Miniatures in Manuscripts of the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries" printed on back). Edition limited to 300 copies; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38314. Nijhoff, W.: L'art typographique dans les Pays-bas, 1926. 1 box.
General

Author: Nijhoff, W.

La Haye: M. Nijhoff

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; facsimiles throughout; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus text by Emile H. van Heurck.

Physical Description

1 box

39372. Announcing the first American publications, 1926. 1 box.
General

New York: Pegasus Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; blue decorative borders; previous fold, else fine. List of titles now availabe in the United States, including Tancred Borenius and E.W. Tristram's "English Mediaeval Painting"; and Stanley Morison's "The Moyllius Alphabet". Prospectus distributed by the Continental Typefounders Association.

Physical Description

1 box

A Portrait in Natural Colour of the Nonesuch Dickens., 1937?. 1 box.
General

Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

Pamplet with staples on the spine. Contains the same color photo of the Nonesuch Dickens as the lavendar booklets pasted in.

Physical Description

1 box

39250. Dickens, Charles: The Nonesuch Dickens, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Dickens, Charles

Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, mixed paginations; color photographic folding plate; original green-grey pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. A collection of sample pages and illustrations from the Nonesuch edition of Dickens's works. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38582. Carroll, Lewis: The hunting of the snark. With illustrations in color by Edward A. Wilson, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Carroll, Lewis

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; printed on green paper, text in purple and black; fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 275 copies. Specimen page provided.

Physical Description

1 box

38340. Baldwin, Hanson W.: The Navy at war. Paintings and drawings by combat artists by special arrangement with the Navy Department...Introduction by Admiral A.J. Hepburn, 1943. 1 box.
General

Author: Baldwin, Hanson W.

Minneapolis: Power's

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; color illustration reproduction of a watercolor, "Air Defense (in the Battle of Santa Cruz)" by Lieutenant Dwight C. Shepler"; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for an illustrated work with pieces by Lieutenant Commander Griffith Baily Coale, Lieutenant Shepler, Lieutenant William F. Draper, Lieutenant (jg) Mitchell Jamieson, and Lieutenant Albert K. Murray. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39425. Books for our time. Book design in today's world, 1951. 1 box.
General

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; illustration; printed on yellow paper; prevous folds, else fine. Prospectus for this exhibition catalogue; provides table of contents and index.

Physical Description

1 box

38343. Profiles through the ages. A graphic alphabet of genius, 1953. 1 box.
General

New York: Profile Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, small 8vo; 2 illustrated specimen pages; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus of a work "for those who cherish history...for those who are in love with typography," to be distributed by Museum Books.

Physical Description

1 box

39422. William Morris and the art of the book, 1976. 1 box.
General

Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (152 mm.); illustration; fine. Prospectus for a work "intended to celebrate the accomplishment of one of the foremost men in the history of the printing arts," based on the Pierpont Morgan Library exhibition. Accompanied by an order form and a photocopied letter announcng the publication.

Physical Description

1 box

38440. [William IX, Duke of Aquitaine]: Guillem de Poitou, his eleven extant poems translated by Paul Blackburn, edited and foreward by George Economou & two title page drawings by Roland Ginzel, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: [William IX, Duke of Aquitaine]

Mt. Horeb, Wisc.: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (292 mm.); illustration printed in grey; fine. Prospectus for this edition limited to 165 copies considered by the Press "the most elegant title to date".

Physical Description

1 box

38444. Lanyon, Ellen, illust.: Squatting flies/quotables...calligraphy by Michael Hughey, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Lanyon, Ellen, illust.

Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, square 12mo; illustration; printed on grey-green paper; fine. Prospectus of a compilation of observations made by 16 schoolchildren; edition limited to 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39430. The Oxford library of the world's great books. Patron's edition, 1982. 1 box.
General

New York: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Large 4to, unpaginated; color photographic illustrations; original grey gilt wrappers, fine. Order form and typed letter on Press letterhead laid in. Special offer provided by American Express.

Physical Description

1 box

Wakoski, Diane: Cut-back & the End, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Wakoski, Diane

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press.

Scope and Contents

Beige long and narrow Broadside announcing new mailing list. With envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

37015. Burdick, Laura: A tapestry of languages, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Burdick, Laura

Los Angeles: Occidental College Tiger Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; prospectus for a work "printed by the author as an advanced student project". "This book is a highly visual collage of Spanish, Armenian, Arabic, Japanese, and Russian translations of a Ralph Ellison quotation." Edition limited to 55 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

45446. A little journey thru the world's finest newspaper plant. The new home of the Pittsburgh Press, a Scripps-Howard Newspaper, 1927. 1 box.
General

Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Press

Scope and Contents

Oblong 8vo, unpaged; plain photographic illustrations throughout, text and typographical decorations printed in blue and orange; original stiff white pictorial staplebound wrappers (a few soil spots); very good. An attractive little promotional pamphlet for both the Plant and the Press. SMU only in OCLC as of May, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

44697. Die Propyläen kunstgeschichte, 1960. 1 box.
General

Berlin: Propyläen-Verlag.

Scope and Contents

Small 4to, unpaged; staplebound pictorial self-wrappers (foxing along edges); 2 plates of illustrations printed on rectos and versos, additional illustrations in text; some wear from handling, else very good. Order form bound in. Text in German.

Physical Description

1 box

For Nearly Five Centuries, 1953. 1 box.
General

Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. A short history of the press writted by Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt. Reproduction part of the press' first printed book on the outside of the booklet.

Physical Description

1 box

Ferguson, John: Museums. Their history & their uses…Three Volumes in two . . . With a 700p. Bibliography., 1999. 1 box.
General

Author: Ferguson, John

Staten Island: Pober Publishing

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; black and white illustrations; fine. Prospectus for a history of museums and collecting; provides the table of contents, a list of the collectors and collections discussed, and topics essayed. Edition limited to 250 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

Ferguson, John: Revised index. Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions & books of secrets. New foreword by William Eamon, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Ferguson, John

Staten Island: Pober Publishing

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in orange and black.

Physical Description

1 box

Ferguson, John: An Essential Reference. Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions & books of secrets. New foreword by William Eamon., 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Ferguson, John

Staten Island: Pober Publishing

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in orange and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36382. Welty, Eudora: The robber bridegroom. Designed and illustrated by Barry Moser, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Welty, Eudora

Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, single sheet folded twice, uncut; "The text is set in 12 point Dante, designed by the archtypographer Giovanni Mardersteig and composed Monotype by Michael and Winifred Bixler at their typofoundry in Skaneateles, New York. The book was printed on Mohawk letterpress by Harold P. McGrath in an edition of one hundred and fifty copies signed by both Moser and Welty. It is bound in full leather."

Physical Description

1 box

Dear Pennyroyal Friends, 1987. 1 box.
General

Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Typewritten letter to Pennyroyal customers.

Physical Description

1 box

39295. Murray, David: Museums. Their history & their uses...New introduction by Paul Findlen, 1999. 1 box.
General

Author: Murray, David

Staten Island: Pober Publishing.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; black and white illustrations; fine. Prospectus for a history of museums and collecting; provides the table of contents, a list of the collectors and collections discussed, and topics essayed. Edition limited to 250 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38341. Allen, Hervey: Bedford village, 1944. 1 box.
General

Author: Allen, Hervey

Minneapolis: Power's

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; color illustration titled "...1764 on the Pennsylvania Frontier"; fine. Prospectus for a novel of Colonial America, part of the series beginning with The Disinherited and a sequal to The Forest and the Fort. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

42467. October House Classics, 1957. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

only 1 of Broadside

General

New Fairfield, CT: October House.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; fine. Advance notice of a series of early English texts designed by Bruce Rogers to include "Beowulf," "The Robin Hood Ballads," "The Life of Saint George," "Treatise on the Blazing Arms," "Morte d'Arthur," "The Canterbury Tales," and others. Broadside advertisement for the first, "The Lyf of Saynt George," with integral order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36380. Prospectus and retrospectus of the book published by the Nonesuch Press 1923-1925 in limited and ordinary editions, 1925. 1 box.
General

London: The Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 7, [1]; advertises the publication of the entire writings of William Blake; Bishop Henry King's poems; the Nonesuch Congreve and Wycherley, followed by the Nonesuch Rochester and Otway; "The Death of Christopher Marlowe"; Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"; "Songs of the Gardens"; and blank books. Also lists books previously published. Previous fold, discoloration, pages untrimmed.

Physical Description

1 box

38570. A catalogue. With extracts from our history, 1936. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. vi; self-wrappers, fine. Titles listed include "The Constitution of the United States" and Abraham Lincoln's "Famous Speeches". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38516. Carruth, Hayden: The Norfolk poems...[1 June to 1 September 1961], 1961. 1 box.
General

Author: Carruth, Hayden

Iowa City: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (303 mm.); text printed in green-grey and black; previous folds, else fine. Integral order form printed on prospectus verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38448. Hamady, Walter: Gabberjab number (5) five...for Mother's Day, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Hamady, Walter

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, square 8vo (201 mm.); printed on green paper; fine. Prospectus for the Press's 100th book, "a collage book of two footnoted poems".

Physical Description

1 box

38460. Wakoski, [Diane and Ellen] Lanyon: Making a sacher torte, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Wakoski, [Diane and Ellen] Lanyon

Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, square 8vo (214 mm.); printed on purple paper; fine. Prospectus for a collection of 9 poems by Wakoski with illustrations by Lanyon combined "in this thematically united book about food and cooking, eating and drinking".

Physical Description

1 box

38416. Caroll, Lewis: Looking-glass, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Caroll, Lewis

Hatfield, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Long folio (560 mm.); illustration; text printed in blue and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a new edition of Carroll's "What Alice Found Through the Looking-Glass"; illustrated with wood-engravings by Barry Moser. Distributed by Taurus Books.

Physical Description

1 box

38497. Hammer, Victor: Manifesto. Type design in relation to language and to the art of the punch cutter. Foreword by Carolyn Reading Hammer. Wood engraving by John De Pol. Chronology and specimen settings of the Uncial alphabets, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Hammer, Victor

Maple Shades, New Jersey: Pickering Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; black and white photographic illustration tipped in; text printed in brown and black; fine. Prospectus for Hammer's work in which he "explains his philosophy of letter design; his belief that the 'maker of letters' should work in the service of the language". Edition limited to 50 copies. Small Broadside announcing a special edition of ten copies laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36317. Tidcombe, Marianne: The Doves Bindery., 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Tidcombe, Marianne

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books

Scope and Contents

Sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; color photographic illustration The tale of King Florus and the fair Jehane (1893) from the Doves Bindery to front cover. Prospectus to a companion piece to Marianne Tidcombe's The bookbindings of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, in which "Dr Tidcombe gives a detailed history of the Bindery, followed by a complete catalogue of the books, over 120 of which are described in full and illustrated (18 in colour." The work includes separate chapters on the Kelmscott Chaucer, Pupils of the Bindery, and Binding Doves Press books. Also provides "a limited quantity of folded, collated and untrimmed sets of sheets...available for sale". Brochure also includes order form, publicity for Tidcombe's earlier work on T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, and an announcement for the Doves Bindery exhibition in the King's Library, The British Library galleries, 5 April-7 July 1991.

Physical Description

1 box

37637. The Book of Revelation. Illustrations & text of the final chapter of the New Testament by St. John the Divine. Original linoleum cuts by Barbara Benish, 1994. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: Robin Price

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus providing thorough information about the conception of the book, the artist, text, design, illustrations, typography, and materials. Second copy has a typed progress report, announcement of a woodblock portfolio by Mary Allan, and a printout of Barbara Benish's resume.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

38373. The book of revelation, 1995. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: Robin Price

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (216 mm.); color photographic illustrations; edges a bit toned, else fine. Second copy is much less toned. Prospectus for a limited edition of 50 copies, linoleum cuts Barbara Benish, illumination by Robin Price.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

39407. Shakespeare, William: Shakespeare's sonnets. Edited with introduction and notes by Tucker Brooke, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Shakespeare, William

New York: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; a bit toned, previous folds, else fine. Prospectus states: "The present edition seeks to show that the Quarto of Shakespeare's Sonnets in 1609, while textually faithful to the poet's manuscript, obscured its general meaning by transposing a number of the sonnet groups". Provides 2 specimen pages and integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38519. Klinefelter, Walter: A small display of old maps and plans, 1962. 1 box.
General

Author: Klinefelter, Walter

Iowa City: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus advertising this work as a collection of stamps "whose designs reproduce, or call to mind, maps that were first executed in the days of exploration and discovery, and plans that were drawn for the establishment of towns and the building of fortifications". Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38499. [Catalogue], 1972. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: Plantin Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; woodcut vignette; leaves unbound, fine. List of titles available "as of Summer 1972"; these include Kenneth M. Johnson's "Aerial California" and Frances J. Brewer's "The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine". Dawson's Book Shop, distributor.

Physical Description

1 box

37552. Bly, Robert: Six winter privacy poems, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: Bly, Robert

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Pomegranate Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (223 mm.); edition limited to 250 copies, illustrated by Karyl Klopp. 1 copy is pasted to a sheet of white paper, the other has a label addressed to the print department of the Museum of Modern Art.

Physical Description

1 box

38457. Wakoski, Diane: The wandering tattler. Six poems/one fable...with eleven illustrations by Ellen Lanyon, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Wakoski, Diane

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long 4to (335 mm.); illustration; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 130 copies. "Easily, this is the most sumptuous book so far issued from this press."

Physical Description

1 box

38453. Hilberry, Conrad: Housemarks, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Hilberry, Conrad

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (302 mm.); illustration; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a collection of housemarks taken from Rudolf Koch's "Book of Signs" and adapted by Hilberry.

Physical Description

1 box

38418. Six from Moser [The Trouble With God], 1984. 1 box.
General

Northampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Duplicate of "The Trouble with God. "Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; fine. List of six titles illustrated by Barry Moser.

Physical Description

1 box

38514. Conrad, Philip: A share of the crop, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Conrad, Philip

Iowa City: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; text printed in green and black; fine. Prospectus for "A new book of light and serious verse"; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38458. Lewis, Harry and Sam Gilliam: Pulsars, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Lewis, Harry and Sam Gilliam

Mt. Horeb, Wis.: Perishable Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large 8vo (271 mm.); fine. Prospectus for "Three progressive states of a single poem & an original intergalactic mixed-media silk screened & sewn print". Edition limited to 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36376. The complete programme of the Nonsuch Press for MCMXXIV, 1924. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out letter

General

London: The Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 15; prospectus for the following works: "Henry Vaughan, Silurist: A choice of poems with an essay from the mount of olives, the preface to Silex Scintillans, and two autobiographical letters"; "Genesis: The first chapter of the first book of Moses in the authorized version: with twelve wood-cuts by Paul Nash, 375 copies on Zanders hand-made paper. The text in the Neuland type of Rudolf Koch and the cuts printed from the wood"; "The Complete Works of William Wycherley now first collected and edited by the Rev. Montague Summers. Uniform with the Nonesuch Congreve"; "Pure Poetry: An anthology, edited and with an introduction by George Moore"; "The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton, faithfully reprinted from the sixth edition. With aboue 150 designs by E. McKnight Kauffer"; "Elizabeth Raper's Receipt Book, 1770. Edited by Major Bartle Grant"; "Songs of the Gardens: A selection by Peter Warlock from the songs sung at the London pleasure gardens in the 18th century"; "The Apocrypha: Translated from the original tongues by special command of his Majesty King James the first"; "The Week-end Book: A sociable anthology with many remarkable literary and musical features". Includes samples from "The Anatomy of Melancholy" and "The Apocrypha". Loosely inserted are an annoucement for a Recital of Sociable Songs from the Week-end Book by Mr. John Goss and the Cathedral Quartet, TLS to Hector B. Pettitt from the press in response to a request for previous prospecti , a blank sheet of paper with the Nonesuch Press letterhead, and an order form. Original blue printed paper wrappers, edges and corners worn, tear to top half of spine.

Physical Description

1 box

38584. Prospectus from the Peter Pauper Press, 1937. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out offer for free book laid in

General

Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original peach decorative wrappers printed in brown; fine. Announcement for a free book (Stephen Crane's The Blood of the Martyr) laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36365. Prospectus & retrospectus of Nonesuch Books, 1926. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out order form

General

Cambridge, England: The Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; prospectus for the publication of Nonesuch titles for the winter of 1926 and spring of 1927. Works include "John Evelyn: Memoires for my Grandson"; Amand M'Kittrick Ros' "Irene Iddesleigh"; Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno; with nine illustrations in colour by E. McKnight Kauffer"; "The Book of the Bear: Twenty-one Tales, translated from the Russian by Jane Harrison and Hope Mirrlees, with pictures by Ray Garnett"; Abraham Cowley's "The Mistress and Other Poems"; "The Works of Thomas Otway"; "The Divine Comedy. In Italian and English, with about 40 double-page collotype4 reproductions of illustrations by Botticelli"; James Thomson's "The Seasons"; "The Works of Sir John Vanbrugh, edited by Bonamy Dobrée, and his Letters, now collected for the first time by Geoffrey Webb, uniform with the Nonesuch edition of Congreve, Rochester, etc."; William Cobbett's "The Life and Adventures of Peter Porcupine, with other records of his early career in England and America"; "Pencil drawings by William Blake"; Mona Wilson's "A Life of William Blake"; Romer Wilson's "Latterday Symphony"; and an edition of Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" with William Blake illustrations. Also lists books published before 1926, during the spring and summer of 1926, and unlimited editions.

Physical Description

1 box

38397. Guthrie, James, ed.: The book craftsman. A magazine for printers and collectors of fine editions, 1934. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out order form

General

Author: Guthrie, James, ed.

Sussex, England: Pear Tree Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; fine. Prospectus also includes a list of the Press's "Intaglio Plates Books" and Type books.

Physical Description

1 box

38579. Summer and fall, 1936, 1936. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out order form

General

Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 16; original green wrappers, black and gilt decorative label; fine. Titles include "The Sonnets of William Shakespeare"; and "Select Essays of Charles Lamb". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Catalogue, 1980. 1 box.
General

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press

Scope and Contents

Booklet with gray cover. Two of the copies have an order form slipped in. New titles include A Lied of Letterpress and A Family Letter.

Physical Description

1 box

39418. Moxon, Joseph: Mechanick exercises on the whole art of printing (1683-4)...Edited by Herbert Davis & Harry Carter, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Moxon, Joseph

Fair Lawn, New Jersey: Oxford University Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this reprint of a work written by the Hydrographer to Charles II. Specimen pages; integral order form printed on back with rubber stamp of American distributor, the Chiswick Book Shop, New York.

Physical Description

1 box

36444. Shakespeare, William: The Nonesuch Shakespeare, 1928. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

each inserted into a copy of the 1928 prospectus

General

Author: Shakespeare, William

Cambridge, England: The Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; first three pages samples from Much Adoe About Nothing; back page provides advertisement: "The paper of the edition itself will be a trifle smoother in surface than that of this speciman, which is designed to show only the size of the page and the character and arrangement of the type." Discoloration, small loss to bottom left-hand corner not affecting text.

Physical Description

1 box

36446. The 1928 prospectus of Nonesuch books, 1928. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

only 1 with prospectus for Limited Editions inserted

General

London: The Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 19, [20]; prospectus for upcoming titles from the press, including the Nonesuch Shakespeare, North's Plutarch, De Motu Cordis by Dr. William Harvey, Selected Poems of Thomas Beedome, Letters from Joseph Conrad, The Works of Izaak Walton, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, Miss Wilson's Life of William Blake, Pilgrim's Progress and The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, Pindar's Pythian Odes, Blake's Poetry & Prose. Original brown printed wrappers. Prospectus for Nonesuch Unlimited Editions loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36355. Prospectus and retrospectus for 1929 of The Nonesuch Press, 1929. 1 box.
General

Bloomsbury, England: The Nonesuch Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 27, [1]; original marbled wrappers with label; listing of the upcoming publications from the press, including Vathek; The complete Walton; Don Quixote; North's Plutarch; Lamartine's Graziella; Fontenelle's Plurality of worlds; a bibliography of Jane Austen; and The works of George Farquhar. Latter part of the piece lists past publications, from May 1923 to May 1929 and of Nonesuch unlimited editions. Ballot card loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36300. Prospectus and retrospectus of the Nonesuch Press., 1930. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

only one with label pasted in

General

London: Nonesuch Press

Scope and Contents

8vo; pp. 31; original marble paper wrappers with white label, spine tearing; "With compliments of Dulau & Co." pasted to front endpaper; 1930 edition of this yearly publication, which provides prospecti for upcoming releases by the press. The offerings here: Florio's Montaigne. Newly edited by J.I.M. Stewart...bound in whole native-dyed niger; Homer's Iliad with Pope's translation. Decorated by Rudolph Koch...on Dutch mould-made paper, bound in whole dyed niger; Donne's The courtier's library. Edited by Evelyn Simpson, M.A...set in the Fell types; Selected essays of William Hazlitt. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes...buckram gilt, uniform with the Nonesuch Donne and Blake; A bibliography of William Hazlitt. Compiled by Geoffrey Keynes; Love among the haystacks. By D.H. Lawrence. With a reminiscence by David Garnett; Astrophel & Stella. By Sir Philip Sidney. Edited by Mona Wilson; Selected poems of Alice Meynell, with a prefatory note by Wilfred Meynell; The history of Herodotus. Edited by A.W. Lawrence. Pp. 24-31 form the Retrospectus of Nonesuch Limited Editions published from May 1923 to June 1930.

Physical Description

1 box

38525. Carruth, Hayden: North winter...Decorations by Dale Ballantyne, 1964. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

2 w/out discount card

General

Author: Carruth, Hayden

Iowa City: Prairie Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration printed in green, text printed in orange and black; fine. Prospectus for this work of poetry and the Press's thirtieth publication; includes specimen page and slip announcing the 20% Press discount for libraries laid in. Integral order form on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38308. Lawson, Alexander: The compositor as artist, craftsman, and tradesman...with wood engravings by Joseph Sanders, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Lawson, Alexander

Athens, Georgia: Press of the Nightowl

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for a "distillation of [Lawson's] years of research into the history of typesetting"; edition limited to 300 copies; with specimen page. Also provides list of previous titles from the Press, including "Father Catich's Visit with Bill Dwiggins" and Martha Lacy Hall's "Call It Living".

Physical Description

1 box

38306. Nightowl books, 1967. 1 box.
General

Stoughton, Mass.: Press of the Nightowl

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; printed on brown paper, text in black and green. Prospectus from the Press mentioning both recent and earlier publications.

Physical Description

1 box

38310. Mills, William: I know a place. Three stories, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Mills, William

Baton Rouge: Press of the Nightowl

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 8vo (111 x 223 mm.); text printed in black and tan, printed in 3 columns; prospectus for this short story collection featuring "the industrial-agrarian society along the Mississippi River in South Louisiana"; printed in two editions, the regular limited to 275 copies, the special edition limited to 30 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38307. Garrett, Charlotte: Presences, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Garrett, Charlotte

Baton Rouge: Press of the Nightowl

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for this poetry collection, limited to 200 copies; two other titles from the Press advertised on back. 2 identical announcements for a discount for "Private Press Proprietors" laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38313. Hall, Martha Lacy: Call it living. Three stories, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Hall, Martha Lacy

Athens, Georgia: Press of the Nightowl

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text in green and black, fine. Prospectus for this short story collection, limited to 200 copies; press comment by Walker Percy; advertisement for 2 other titles from the Press included.

Physical Description

1 box

38309. Limited editions, 1984. 1 box.
General

Athens, Georgia: Press of the Nightowl

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; printed in brown ink on tan papers. Pamphlet features new poetry and short stories printed in limited editions at the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38724. Green, Arthur Robert: Sundials, incised dials or mass-clocks. A study of the time-markers of Medieval churches, containing descriptions, photographs, diagrams and analysis of dials, chiefly hemisphere, but also in various other counties, 1926. 1 box.
General

Author: Green, Arthur Robert

New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations; soiling; bookplate of J.R.R. Tolkien; a good copy. List of photographic illustrations from the finished work printed on back. At head of title: "The Historic Monuments of England".

Physical Description

1 box

38563. Check list of Pynson Printer imprints, 1929, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Pynson Printers

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; printed on blue paper; fine. Titles from the catalogue include Willa Cather's "April Twilights and other poems," printed for Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; and Arthur MacLeish's "Nobodaddy," printed for Dunster House, 1926.

Physical Description

1 box

38627. Sixth list. Fall and winter, 1929-1930, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 11; original green decorative wrappers; rubber stamp of distributor A. Leland Ziglatzki; fine. Titles include a limited edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," decorated by Valenti Angelo; Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"; the Nonesuch Press's "Don Quixote" and "The Prose and Poetry of William Blake"; the Fountain Press's edition of Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own," signed by the author; and the Spiral Press's "The Selected Poems of Herman Melville".

Physical Description

1 box

38628. Announcement for the spring of 1929, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 12; original yellow printed wrappers, tan decorative border and Press device; fine. Titles include "Rockwell Kent Bookplates and Marks"; the Spiral Press's edition of "The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe"; the Golden Cockerel Press's edition of Gustave Flaubert's "Salammbo" and "The Canterbury Tales"; and the Bremer Presse's edition of Homer's "Iliad & Odyssey".

Physical Description

1 box

39370. Announcement for fall & winter 1929-1930. Sixth list, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House.

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 11; original green pictorial wrappers, printed in red and black; mostly fine. Titles from the catalogue include Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," printed by the Grabhorn Press with decorations by Angelo Valenti; Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," printed by the Pynson Printers; the Nonesuch Press edition of Cervantes's "Don Quixote"; "The Prose and Poetry of William Blake"; the signed edition of Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own"; and the Spiral Press edition of "The Selected Poems of Herman Melville".

Physical Description

1 box

38646. Voltaire: Zadig. An introduction by David Garnett & illustrations by Valenti Angelo, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Voltaire

New York: Rimington & Hooper

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrations printed in brown; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this new edition limited to 999 copies; includes illustrated specimen page

Physical Description

1 box

38699. Preliminary announcement of the Spiral Press series in American literature, 1929. 1 box.
General

New York: Spiral Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; previous fold, else fine. Titles include "Poems of Edgar Allan Poe" and "The Selected Poems of Herman Melville". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38651. Whitney, Charles S.: Bridges. A study in their art, science, and evolution...Illustrated with photographs and drawings of old and new bridges of many lands, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Whitney, Charles S.

New York: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 2000 copies provides the table of contents and an integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38647. Gilman, Lawrence: Music and the cultivated man, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Gilman, Lawrence

New York: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; rubber stamp of distributor A. Leland Ziglatzki, else fine. Prospectus mainly comprised of press comments; integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38648. Nozière, Fernand: Three gallant plays. A Byzantine afternoon. Beauty and the beast. The slipper of Aphrodite...Translated by Clarence Stratton, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Nozière, Fernand

New York: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; rubber stamp of distributor A. Leland Ziglatzki, else fine. Prospectus of this limited edition of 1000 copies; integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39242. Twain, Mark: The adventures of Tom Sawyer...Illustrations by Donald McKay, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Twain, Mark

New York: Random House.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; 3 2-toned (green and black) illustrations; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this "elaborate edition" includes 2 illustrated specimen pages, text printed in double columns.

Physical Description

1 box

38742. List for September-December, 1930, with description of all previous publications including those which are out of print, 1930. 1 box.
General

London: Scholartis

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 31; self wrappers, edges a bit bumped, else fine. Titles include E.H. Blakeney's "Horace: on the art of poetry; Edmund Spenser's "Complaints"; "Songs and Slang of the British Soldier, 1914-1918," edited by John Brophy and Eric Partridge; several English translations of George Sand's novels; Voltaire's "The White Bull and other of the lighter pieces"; and Goethe's "Werther".

Physical Description

1 box

38780. Lone, E. Miriam: Some noteworthy firsts in Europe during the fifteenth century...with illustrations, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Lone, E. Miriam

New York: Southworth Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; decorative border; previous fold, else fine. Specimen for a title printed by the Press for Lathrop C. Harper, and a sequal to Lone's "A Selection of Incunabula". Table of contents and specimen page and title page provided. Edition limited to 425 copies; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38652. Hunter, Dard: Papermaking through eighteen centuries, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Hunter, Dard

New York: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; rubber stamp of distributor A. Leland Ziglatzki; fine. Prospectus for an expanded version of Hunter's "Old papermaking". Integral form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37004. Poe, Edgar Allen: To Helen, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Poe, Edgar Allen

New Haven, CT: Carl Purington Rollins

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); prospectus for this title from the Linweave Limited Editions series, illustrated by Carolyn Edmundson and printed by Rollins at the printing office of the Yale University Press. Includes "Notes of interest on 'To Helen'".

Physical Description

1 box

36999. The Congo, 1931. 1 box.
General

Mount Vernon, NY: Printing House of William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); prospectus of a collection of anonymously written poems, illustrated by Alexander King and designed by W.A. Dwiggins. No. 4 of the Linweave Limited Edition. Small loss to bottom right-hand corner not affecting text; shallow tears to edges.

Physical Description

1 box

38629. Announcement for fall and winter, 1931-1932, 1931. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 8; original peach pictorial wrappers, fine. Titles include "The Fables of La Fontaine" and H.G. Wells's "The Time Machine," with a new preface by the author and illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins.

Physical Description

1 box

37814. Crane, Stephen: The red badge of courage. An episode of the American Civil War, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Crane, Stephen

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrated prospectus of the limited edition of Crane's American classic, printed by the Grabhorn Press in an edition limited to 980 copies. Also makes mention of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables".

Physical Description

1 box

38630. Current prices of Nonesuch Press and Random House books, 1931. 1 box.
General

New Yorkj: Random House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; printed in olive and black; previous folds, else fine. Heading reads: "The Purpose of this Bulletin"; includes a complete list of limited editions published by Random House (starting with Candide) and the Nonesuch Press. Also includes a list of Miscellaneous Books distributed by Random House, starting with Troilus and Creseyde. Trade Editions from Random House (The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci) provided on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38612. An announcement and a first list of three books designed and printed by Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray, 1931. 1 box.
General

Middlesex: Raven Press

Scope and Contents

Small 4to, unpaginated; wood cut illustrations; original pictorial brown wrappers; minor foxing, else fine. Titles from the list include William Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis" and John Milton's "Samson Agonistes".

Physical Description

1 box

37003. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: Kubla Khan, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

New York : Rogers-Kellogg-Stillson

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); prospectus for this title from the Linweave Limited Editions series, illustrated by "Uriel Birnbaum". Includes "Notes on the Making of 'Kubla Khan'".

Physical Description

1 box

38743. List for September-December, 1931, with descriptions of all previous publications including those which are out of print, 1931. 1 box.
General

London: Scholartis

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 32; self-wrappers, edges a bit bumped, else fine. Titles include Milton's "Paradise Regained," edited by E.H. Blakeney; and Captain Francis Grose's "A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue".

Physical Description

1 box

38654. The Rudge rubric. Number three, January 1931, 1931. 1 box.
General

New York: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

16mo, pp. 16; original orange pictorial wrappers, fine. Compilation of short pieces making mention of the various recent titles from the Press (with a title index printed on back wrapper verso). These include "A Catalogue of the Private Papers of James Boswell" and Voltaire's "An Essay upon the Civil Wars of France," advertised as "the first and only book written entirely in the English language by Mr. de Voltaire". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38649. The Rudge rubric. Number five, September 1931, 1931. 1 box.
General

New York: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

16mo, pp. 16; original tan pictorial wrappers, fine. Compilation of short pieces making mention of the various recent titles from the Press (with a title index printed on back wrapper verso).

Physical Description

1 box

38650. Yes: Modern photography. "The Studio" special autumn number, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Yes

New York: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; black and white photographic illustration ; fine. Prospectus for an issue of this magazine to be illustrated with "about one hundred illustrations by leading camera artists of America, France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, etc." Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38655. Spring list, 1931, 1931. 1 box.
General

New York: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; decorations printed in green; rubber stamp of distributor A. Leland Ziglatzki, else fine. Titles include Vol. IX of "Commercial Art" and "Modern Interiors".

Physical Description

1 box

38794. Rosenbach, A.S.W.: Early American children's books, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: Rosenbach, A.S.W.

Portland, Maine: Southworth Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; facsimile and color illustration; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for the catalogue of Rosenbach's private collection of early American children's books.

Physical Description

1 box

38625. Publications for fall and winter, 1933-1934, 1933. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. vii; original blue-grey printed wrappers, text in black and red; fine. Catalogue includes James Joyce's "UIysses," "Provided that this book is cleared by the courts, it will be published in November, in a complete, unabridged edition, with a new introduction by James Joyce". Also lists a new limited edition of William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury"; the Nonesuch Press's edition of "The History of Herodotus"; and Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," illustrated by Rockwell Kent.

Physical Description

1 box

38615. Rome, Richardson and Clem Yore: High country, 1933. 1 box.
General

Author: Rome, Richardson and Clem Yore

Richardson Rome

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 16mo; lithographic illustration; fine. Prospectus for this collection of lithographic reproductions of the artist's Colorado block prints. ALs to Emerson [Wulling] on back by Rome.

Physical Description

1 box

39195. Printing, 1933. 1 box.
General

Sussex: Saint Dominic's Press

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, unpaginated; original tan printed wrappers, edges toned, wrappers detached. Catalogue advertising the Press's Christmas cards, posters, and notepaper (prices printed in red on back wrapper verso).

Physical Description

1 box

38795. Rosenbach, A.S.W.: Early American children's books...with bibliographical descriptions of the books in his private collection. Foreword by A. Edward Newton, 1933. 1 box.
General

Author: Rosenbach, A.S.W.

Portland, Maine: Southworth Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus made up exclusively of sample pages, including the title page, a sample from the foreword, the introduction, and the work proper.

Physical Description

1 box

39243. Boccaccio, Giovanni: The decameron, containing, an hundred pleasant novelles. The first English translation reprinted...from the edition printed by Isaac Jaggard MDCXX-MDCXXV. Illustrated by more than one hundred woodcuts from the edition printed at Venice in MCDXCII, 1934. 1 box.
General

Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni

Oxford: Shakespeare Head. Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated title page, text printed in blue and black; fine. Prospectus for a limited edition of 300 copies on Batchelor's Kelmscott Handmade paper to be published by Basil Blackwell. Specimen pages, text printed in double columns, provided. Order form addressed to Blackwell laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38603. Brown, Charles Brockden: Alcuin, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Brown, Charles Brockden

New Haven: Carl & Margaret Rollins

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; facsimile; printed self-wrappers, fine. Prospectus for a type-facsimile edition of "the first book of America's first professional man of letters," originally published New-York: T. & J. Swords, 1798.

Physical Description

1 box

38683. The Rydal Press miscellany, Number 1. February, 1936, 1936. 1 box.
General

Santa Fe: Rydal Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; fine. Titles from the catalogue include the second edition of Erna Fergusson's "Mexican Cookbook"; and M. Mespoulet's "Creators of Wonderland," illustrated by Carroll, Tenniel, and Grandville.

Physical Description

1 box

38773. Simon, Oliver, ed.: Signature [third year], 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Simon, Oliver, ed.

London: Signature

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; decorative border in black and red, fine. Prospectus provides press opinions, contents for the upcoming issues of the serial, subscription rates and production information, and a list of the contents from the previous numbers, which includes Holbrook Jackson's "A Sanctuary of Printing: The Record Room of the Oxford University Press" and Paul Beaujon's "Progress in Bible Production".

Physical Description

1 box

38779. Moore, Anne: A misty sea, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Moore, Anne

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustration printed in blue; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this collection of poems in a limited edition of 300 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37635. Klinefelter, Walter: A bibliographical check-list of Christmas books, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Klinefelter, Walter

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for a checklist of "over five hundred items published by private presses, commercial presses and individuals in the United States"; specimen page (55); edges worn, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38782. Klinefelter, Walter: More Christmas books...introduction by Wilbur Macey Stoney. Index by Will Ransom, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Klinefelter, Walter

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (222 mm.); previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for a title building upon Klinefelter's "A Bibliographical Checklist of Christmas Books" (1937). Order form tipped to Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

42226. Hunter, David: Papermaking by hand in India, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Hunter, David

New York: Pynson Printers.

Scope and Contents

Large folio, bifolium; near fine. Prospectus for Hunter's exquisite work on Indian papermaking, a companion to his earlier "Pilgrimage," limited to 370 copies. Checklist of works by Hunter on paper printed on p. [4].

Physical Description

1 box

38607. Two first editions & three hitherto unobtainable works of major authors in an important new series in American literature, 1939. 1 box.
General

New York: Rockland Editions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds, edges a bit bumped; mostly fine. Titles from the list include Noah Webster's "Selected Essays and Fugitiv Writings" and "Davy Crockett: American Comic Legend". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38608. Dorson, Richard M., ed.: Davy Crockett: American comic legend, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Dorson, Richard M., ed.

New York: Rockland Editions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations, one full-page; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for "a collection of Tales and Legends on and about the Mississippi streamer, Salt River raorer and half-horse, half alligator hero of the Kentucky canebrakes, Kurnel Krockit himself". Illustrated with woodcuts taken from almanacs. Edition limited to 925 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38687. Freedman, H. [and] Maurice Simon, eds. : The first complete and unabridged English translation of the Midrash Rabbah with introductions, notes, glassary, and indices...With a foreword by Rabbi Dr. I. Epstein, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Freedman, H. [and] Maurice Simon, eds.

London: Soncino Press

Scope and Contents

Large 8vo, unpaginated; decroative border printed in red; rubber stamp of distributor, B.F. Stevens & Brown LTD; fine. Prospectus for 2 editions, the first and limited edition of 1000 copies, and the de luxe edition of 50 copies. Table of contents and translators (of which there are 8) provided with press opinions printed on back. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38790. Osborne, Lucy Eugenia: The Chapin Library, Williams College. A short-title list, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Osborne, Lucy Eugenia

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this library catalogue comprising some 12,000 volumes, arranged by subject. Edition limited to 500 copies. Table of contents printed on back; specimen page laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38792. Clarke, Hermann Frederick: John Hull. A builder of the Bay Colony, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Clarke, Hermann Frederick

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for the biography of the "iniator of the art of the silversmith in the New England colonies"; edition limited to 500 copies. Sample page showing part of the table of contents printed on back. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38785. Rumball-Petre, Edwin A.R.: America's first bibles. With a census of 555 extant bibles, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Rumball-Petre, Edwin A.R.

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a work on American-printed bibles with special emphasis on the three German Bibles printed by the Saur family in Germantown, Pennsylvania between 1743 and 1776. Table of contents provided on back. Edition limited to 500 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38626. Spring, 1941, 1941. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 28; original blue pictorial wrappers; fine. Titles include "The Basic Works of Aristotle"; Gertrude Stein's "Ida"; "A New Edition of the Pulitzer Prize Plays, including Our Town and Abe Lincoln in Illinois"; "The Complete Greek Drama"; "The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories"; a list of titles from the One-Volume series, include the Complete Prose and Poetry of Blake; and a list of books "In Active Demand," including Capt. Dudley Knox's "Naval Sketches of the War in California (1846-1847)". Order form bound in.

Physical Description

1 box

38616. The reader, 1941. 1 box.
General

New York: Reader

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; black and white drawings and photographic illustrations; mostly fine. Prospectus for the magazine "The Reader," featuring the authors Clifton Fadiman, Sinclair Lewis, Carl van Doren, and Alexander Woollcott. Typed letter on special letterhead initialed by these 4 authors.

Physical Description

1 box

38538. Print. A quarterly journal of the graphic arts, 1941. 1 box.
General

New Haven: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, else fine. Index of the contents of the first 4 numbers of the magazine, separated into a general index, an index of book reviews, and the index of work of contemporary artists. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38634. Books for fall, 1942, 1942. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; self wrappers, printed in olive and black; unobstrusive pencil markings in margins, previous folds, else fine. Catalogue also provides backlist, which includes "The Poems of W.H. Auden" and "Complete Prose and Poetry of William Blake". Back pages devoted to the complete list of titles from the Modern Library, including Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace," Ring Lardner's "Collected Short Stories," W. Somerset Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence," Emile Zola's "Nana," "The Education of Henry Adams," and Nostradamus's "Oracles".

Physical Description

1 box

38680. Miers, Earl Schenck and Richard Ellis, eds.: Bookmaking & kindred amenities. Being a collection of essays..., 1942. 1 box.
General

Author: Miers, Earl Schenck and Richard Ellis, eds.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; previous fold else fine. Essays by eight authors published in association with the Haddon Craftsmen. Pieces include Richard Ellis's "The Book in History" and Philip Van Doren Stern's "The Revolution in Reading". Two other titles from the Press advertised on the back; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38783. McCauley, Robert H.: Liverpool transfer designs on Anglo-American pottery, 1942. 1 box.
General

Author: McCauley, Robert H.

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for a work which "offer[s] to the collector and lover of antiques the first comprehensive work which has been published dealing with early Liverpool pottery and the black and white transfer designs thereon relating to American trade and American history". List of illustrations, specimen page, and order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38632. Books for summer, 1943, 1943. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; self wrappers, printed in blue and black; fine. New titles include Isak Dinesen's "Winter's Tales"; also lists titles from the Popular-Priced Juveniles, which include Jean de Brunhoff's Babar books. WWII-inspired emblem on back reads "Books are weapons in the war of ideas".

Physical Description

1 box

38633. Books for spring, 1943, 1943. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; self wrappres printed in red and black; fine. Titles include John Burk's "The Life and Works of Beethoven" and Sinclair Lewis' "Gideon Planish". Margaret Wise Brown's picture book "Baby Animals" listed with the Popular-Priced Juveniles. WWII-inspired emblem on back reads "Books are weapons in the war of ideas".

Physical Description

1 box

38631. Books for fall, 1943, 1943. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; self-wrappers, printed in red and black; large loss of a quarter of pp. 3-4. Lists include titles from the Popular-Priced Juveniles, such as Maitland Edey's "American Water Birds"; and titles from the Illustrated Modern Library, including the Holy Bible, the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. WWII-inspired emblem on back reads "Books are weapons in the war of ideas".

Physical Description

1 box

38695. The book of Oz Cooper. An appreciation of Oswald Bruce Cooper. With characteristic examples of his art in lettering, type designing, & such of his writings as reveal the Cooperian typographic gospel, 1949. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; photographic portrait of Cooper, text printed in red and black; mostly fine. Provides table of contents, which includes essays by William A. Dwiggins and Frederic W. Goudy.

Physical Description

1 box

38701. Gibson, R.W.: Francis Bacon. A bibliography of his works and of Baconiana to the year 1750, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Gibson, R.W.

Oxford: Scrivener Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; specimen page with illustration reproduction and facsimile; fine. Prospectus for a bibliography covering the years 1597 to 1750 in an edition limited to 1000 copies; table of contents printed in back. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38886. Belgen, Theodore C. & E.W. McDiarmid, eds.: Sherlock Holmes: master detective, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Belgen, Theodore C. & E.W. McDiarmid, eds.

La Crosse, WI: Sumac Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; illustration printed in grey, text in red and black; small stain, else fine. Prospectus for a collection of essays on Sherlock Holmes, printed for the Norwegian Explorers, St. Paul & Minneapolis. Table of contents and specimen page provided.

Physical Description

1 box

37198. Sitwell, Sacheverell: Old garden roses. A new book on the origins and subsequent development of the rose in the late XVIII and XIX centures. By Sacheverell Sitwell and James Russell with an introduction by Graham Thomas, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Sitwell, Sacheverell

London: George Rainbird Ltd

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for this work to be published in six parts and illustrated by Charles Raymond; integral order form addressed to the American distributor, Rodale Books Inc. of Emmaus, PA.

Filed under Rainbird.

Physical Description

1 box

39639. Gærtner, Johannes Alexander: Vox humana, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Gærtner, Johannes Alexander

Lunenburg, Vermont: Stinehour Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; 1/2-inch tear to fore-edge not affecing text, a bit soiled. Text in Latin and English; specimen page. Prospectus for a collection of 28 poems written in Latin and published in an edition limited to 150 copies. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38740. Eisenhower, Dwight D.: The inaugural address, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Worcester, Massachusetts: Achille J. St. Onge

Scope and Contents

TLs from St. Onge on Press letterhead; announcement dated November, 1954, of a miniature edition of Eisenhower's inaugural address, published in a limited edition of 1000 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38601. Ramsden, Charles: Bookbinders of the United Kingdom (outside London), 1780-1840, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Ramsden, Charles

London: Queen Anne Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; black and white photographic illustration from finished book; fine. Prospectus for a list of "about 2750 binders working in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales". Edition limited to 500 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38889. McDiarmid, E.W. and Theodore C. Blegen, eds.: Exploring Sherlock Holmes, 1957. 1 box.
General

Author: McDiarmid, E.W. and Theodore C. Blegen, eds.

La Crosse, WI: Sumac Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in red and black; toning along edges, else fine. Prospectus for a new collection of essays on Sherlock Holmes printed for the Norwegian Explorers of Minneapolis and Saint Paul; notes about the contributors provided; integral order form. Edition limited to 400 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38697. Greenly, Albert Harry: A selective bibliography of important books, pamphlets, and Broadsides relating to Michigan history, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Greenly, Albert Harry

Lunenburg, Vermont: Stinehour Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; order form stapled to prospectus, else fine.

Physical Description

1 box

38902. [Envelope with 3 prospectuses], 1958. 1 box.
General

San Jose, California: Talisman Press

Scope and Contents

3 Broadside prospectuses, all 8vo (222 mm.); 2 of which are illustrated; fine. Includes an announcement of the inauguration of the Press; Leonard Nathan's "Western Reaches"; and Ann Stanford's "Magellan". In original envelope with order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38851. Van Duyn, Mona: Valentines to the wide world, 1959. 1 box.
General

Author: Van Duyn, Mona

Iowa City: Stone Wall Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (286 mm.); a bit worn, fine. Prospectus for Van Duyn's first poetry collection, illustrated by Fred Becker in an edition limited to 180 copies. List of titles in print from the Cummington Press and the Stone Wall Press also provided. With illustrated specimen page.

Physical Description

1 box

38885. The seafarer, 1959. 1 box.
General

La Crosse, WI: Sumac Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice; 12mo; fine. Prospectus for this edition of a poem anonymously written pre-975, the date of the Exeter Cathedral manuscript in which it was originally found. Limited to 300 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38848. Kees, Weldon: The collected poems, 1960. 1 box.
General

Author: Kees, Weldon

Iowa City: Stone Wall Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (92 x 141 mm.); printed in red and black on blue paper, postmark rubber stamp; else fine. Postcard prospectus for Kees's collected work, edited by Donald Justice and limited to 200 copies. The finished piece to contain the works The Last Man, The Fall of the Magicians, and Poems: 1947-1954.

Physical Description

1 box

38852. Roethke, Theodore: Sequence, sometimes metaphysical, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: Roethke, Theodore

Iowa City: Stone Wall Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 16mo; printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for Roethke's poetry collection illustrated with wood engravings by John Roy in an edition limited to 330 hand-printed copies. With original envelope in which the prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

38722. Books in print, 1964. 1 box.
General

Lunenburg, Vermont: Stinehour Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; text in blue and black; fine. Titles from the catalogue include Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Great Stone Face" (1957); and John R. Nash's "Our Devil Takes a Holiday" (1963). With original specially-printed envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

39272. Riddell, Maria: Robert Burns. A memoir, 1966. 1 box.
General

Author: Riddell, Maria

Greenock: Signet Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; decorative band printed in red; edges a bit worn and creased, else fine. Small bifolium pasted inside the original bifolium. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38850. Pauker, John : Excellency, 1968. 1 box.
General

Author: Pauker, John

Iowa City: Stone Wall Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (85 x 144 mm. ); printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for a poetry collection illustrated by Thomas Kovacs in an edition limited to 230 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38890. Blegen, Theodore C.: The saga of Saga Hill, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Blegen, Theodore C.

La Crosse: Sumac Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; black and white photographic illustration, text printed in black and blue; fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 300 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37677. Catlin, George: Catlin's North American Indian portfolio, hunting scenes, and amusements of the Rocky Mountains and prairies of Amerca: a reproduction, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Catlin, George

Chicago: Swallow Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (560 mm.); illustrated prospectus of a facsimile edition limited to 1000 copies; introduction by Harold McCracken. Tears from previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38752. Dickens, Charles: Dickens in parts, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: Dickens, Charles

Yorkshire, England: Scolar Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (265 mm.); pictorial border; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for the reproduced facsimile editions of the original serialization of Dickens's oeuvre, beginning with Nicholas Nickleby.

Physical Description

1 box

38334. The printing art, 1973. 1 box.
General

Hatfield, England: Stellar Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; integral order form removed. Prospectus for a new quarterly, a sequal to the Press's "The Black Art"; "The Printing Art will appeal to those still practicing the tradition printing and allied crafts and to others (bibliographer and librarians, for example) who have a professional interest in them". With a list of upcoming articles, including Roby Wentz's "Discovery of the Alta California Job Book" and "At the Sign of the Dolphin: the Influence of George W. Jones".

Physical Description

1 box

38600. Browne, Michael Dennis: Sun exercises, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Browne, Michael Dennis

Loretto, Minnesota: Red Studio Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, long 8vo; illustrations; fine. Prospectus for 2 titles, Browne's poetry collection, illustrated by Annie Hayes; and "Dim Lake" by Gregory W. Bitz, Leon Hushcha, and Jonathan Sisson. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38721. [Catalogue] 1976/7, 1976. 1 box.
General

Totowa, New Jersey: Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications & Minerva Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 48; black and white illustrations throughout; original green wrappers, text printed in brown; fine. Titles include "Old Master Paintings in Britain: An index of Continental Old Master paintings executed before c. 1800 in public collections in the United Kingdom," compiled by Christopher Wright; "Natural History Auctions, 1700-1972: A register of sales in the British Isles compiled with an introduction by J.M. Chalmers-Hunt"; Edward Joy's "English Furniture, 1800-1851"; "Art at Auction, 1975-76: The year at Sotheby Parke Bernet," edited by Anne Jackson; and Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong's "Inigo Jones: The theatre of the Stuart Court". Titles from the Minerva Press include Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"; and William Shakeapeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Index in back.

Physical Description

1 box

38371. Abbe, Dorothy: Stencilled ornament and illustration. A demonstration of William Addison Dwiggin's method of book decoration, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Abbe, Dorothy

Sandy Hook, Conn.: Püterschein-Hingham

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations; distributor label (Chiswick Book Shop) affixed to back; fine. Prospectus for a work on Dwiggin's experimental stencilling; edition limited to 120 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38723. Burke, Clifford: Printing poetry...with a foreword by William Everson, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Burke, Clifford

San Francisco: Scarab Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text printed in tan and black; fine. Prospectus for "a guide to the craft of fine bookmaking". Broadside of "Special Pre-Publication Offer" laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38708. [Catalogue], 1981. 1 box.
General

New York: Sandstone Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; black and white illustrations throughout, text printed in red and black; self wrappers, fine. Titles from the Press include Eric de Maré's "The Victorian Woodblock Illustrators"; John Barr's "The Officina Bodoni"; and Denis Twitchett's "Printing and Publishing in Medieval China". Titles from the Fraser Press include François Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel"; Jonathan Swift's "A Tale of a Tub"; and Charles Dickens's "David Copperfield". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38883. Wulling, Emerson G.: A comp's-eye view of Wilder Bentley and the Archetype Press, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Wulling, Emerson G.

La Crosse, WI: Sumac Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); printed in red and blue; soiling, else fine. Postcard prospectus for "A personal essay about a scholar Poet, Printer, Painter".

Physical Description

1 box

38935. Duncan, Harry: Doors of perception. Essays in book typography, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Duncan, Harry

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; title page printed in brown and black; fine. Prospectus for a collection of 5 essays, printed in an edition of 325 signed copies. Designed by Carol J. Blinn at the Warwick Press and printed by Daniel Keleher.

Physical Description

1 box

38932. Fine, Ruth E. and William Matheson: Printers' choice. A selection of American press books, 1968-1978. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier club, New York, December 19, 1978-February 3, 1979...Bibliographical descriptions and notes by W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Fine, Ruth E. and William Matheson

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; frontispiece facsimile and one other facsimile in text; original brown printed wrappers, printed in blue and black; fine. Edition to be limited to 325 copies. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38690. Two books, 1985. 1 box.
General

Wellingborough: September Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; two illustrations, one printed in red; fine. Prospectus for two titles, John Dryden's "Alexander's Feast"; and Stephen Leacock's "Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas".

Physical Description

1 box

Clancy, Tom: Red storm rising, 1986. 1 item.
General

Author: Clancy, Tom

New York: Putnam

Scope and Contents

Bifolium folder with several stapled 8 1/2x11 stacks of sheets laid in. Includes Q&A with the author, press release, and photocopied articles from Time and USA today. Facsimile of the cover on front.

General

Missing as of 2017/1/17.

Physical Description

1 item

38698. Kent, Rockwell: The golden chain: a fairy story, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Kent, Rockwell

Dallas: Somesuch Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (112 x 151 mm.); text printed in pink and black; fine. Postcard prospectus of this limited edition of 200 copies based on the original 1922 work, which was published in an edition of 8 copies. Reissued here as part of the fine press miniature books series. Preface by Stanley Marcus.

Physical Description

1 box

38712. The four Gospels of 1931, 1988. 1 box.
General

Washington, D.C.: Christopher Skelton

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustration; fine. Prospectus for a facsimile edition of the Golden Cockerel Press Gospels. Specimen page laid in. Distributed by Joshua Heller Rare Books

Physical Description

1 box

38750. Hodnett, Edward: Five centuries of English book illustration, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Hodnett, Edward

Hampshire, England: Scolar Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (295 mm.); black and white illustrations, prospectus printed in brown, grey, and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus of a critical account and bibliography of English book illustration; table of contents provided here. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38749. Books and book production, 1988. 1 box.
General

Hampshire, England: Scolar Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (296 mm.); printed in orange, grey, and black; previous fold, else fine. List of titles from the Press on books and book production, including G.L. Brook's "Books and Book-collecting"; Robin Myer's "The British Book Trade from Caxton to the Present Day"; and "Aspects of Printing from 1600". Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38747. Felmingham, Michael: The illustrated gift book, 1880-1930, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Felmingham, Michael

Hants, England: Scolar Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (297 mm.); two-toned illustration (blue and grey); previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this history of the gift book, which includes "a chronologically-arranged checklist of the illustrated books of over seventy artists," including Aubrey Beardsley, Edmund Dulac, and Arthur Rackham; table of contents provided here. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38744. McLean, Ruari & Antonia: Benjamin Fawcett, 1808-1893, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: McLean, Ruari & Antonia

Hants, England: Scolar Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (210 mm.); color illustration; fine. Prospectus for a work on the British engraver and color printer Benjamin Fawcett, including a check-list of all known publications containing his plates. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38844. De Pol, John: From dark to light. Wood engravings for the Stone House Press, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: De Pol, John

Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (235 mm.); previous fold from integral envelope in which the prospectus was mailed, else fine. Prospectus for this collection of wood engravings with an essay by Joan and John Digby and an introduction by M.A. Gelfand. Edition limited to 200 signed and numbered copies. Announcement at bottom of Broadside that "This book has just been selected for the 1988 AIGA book show".

Physical Description

1 box

36315. Gordon Craig, Edward: The black figures of...104 full page reproductions with an unpublished essay by the artist., 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Gordon Craig, Edward

Irchester, Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (314 mm.); illustration to front side. Prospectus for the limited edition of Gordon Craig's figure woodcuts, presented by "Lindsay Newman with an illustrated introduction which includes photographs by Helen Craig, and the first full descriptive documentation of the figures as prints". Print run of 500 unnumbered copies (Ordinary Edition, £104) and 10 numbered copies (Special edition, £372). Previous fold, else fine.

Physical Description

1 box

38618. Wroth, Lady Mary: Love's victory. The Penshurst manuscript, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Wroth, Lady Mary

London: Roxburghe Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; facsimile; fine. Prospectus for this reproduction of a Jacobean manuscript; specimen page provided. Edition limited to 250 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38845. Checklist Stone House Press books & ephemera, 1978-1988, 1989. 1 box.
General

Washington, D.C.: Stone House Press

Scope and Contents

2 folio leaves, printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. Announcement of this bibliography published with a joint imprint of the Press and the New York Public Library and distributed by Joshua Heller Rare Books, Washington, D.C. Compiled by Catherine T. Brody and with an introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle, former President, Bibliographical Society of America.

Physical Description

1 box

38713. The example of the arts...poems...presented by the Scripps College typography class, 1991. 1 box.
General

Claremont, California: Scripps College Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (279 mm.); previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for a poetry collection featuring works by 6 authors; verso advertises performance by Susan Share and her "unique books and collapsible structures".

Physical Description

1 box

38914. Unger, Amy C.: Why is this night different?, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Unger, Amy C.

Minneapolis: Tabula Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; woodcut illustrations; fine. Prospectus for a memoir celebrating Passover.

Physical Description

1 box

37569. Cook, Ralph T.: City Lights Books: a descriptive bibliography...Lori A. Cook, ed. Foreward by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Cook, Ralph T.

Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (211 mm.); prospectus for this bibliography of "one of the most interesting and influential publishing ventures in postwar America." Text printed in green.

Physical Description

1 box

37571. Bianchi, Daniel Berkeley: The Merrymount Press: a centenary keepsake, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Bianchi, Daniel Berkeley

Bridgewater, Connecticut: Stinehour Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 4to; illustrated prospectus for this keepsake celebrating the hundred anniversary of the establishment of the Merrymount Press. Edition limited to 200 copies. Order form and pre-addressed envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37596. Stones, Margaret: Jefferson and the natural world. A commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. Featuring a limited-edition set of botanical prints from original watercolor drawings of Virginia flora, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Stones, Margaret

Charlottesville, Virginia: Stinehour Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 4to; illustrated prospectus from the University of Virginia Library; portfolio limited to 500 copies; portfolio handmade by Judi Conant. Order form and letter from the Library's president laid in. With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

38606. Publications steaming from the Rocket Press, 1994. 1 box.
General

Oxfordshire, England: Rocket Press

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; original blue pictorial wrappers; fine. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37801. Ward, K. Anthony: First editions. A field guide for collectors of English and American literature, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Ward, K. Anthony

Brookfield, VT: Scolar Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (274 mm.); illustrated prospectus; advertisement for Mirjam M. Foot's "Studies in the History of Bookbinding" on Broadside verso; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37712. Lorca, Federico García: Songs of childhood. Translated by William Jay Smith. Wood engravings by John De Pol. The first bilingual edition, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Lorca, Federico García

Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 12mo; prospectus for this first bilingual edition, designed by M.A. Gelfand, printed by Jim Ricciardi, and bound by Frank Casto. Two limited editions, the regular and the deluxe, available; the first of 100 copies, the latter of 20. Announcement of the publicationof William Heyen's "With Me Far Away: A memoir" also included. Order information on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

37716. Landis, Dennis Channing, ed.: European Americana: a chronological guide to works printed in Europe relating to the Americas, 1493-1776 [i.e., 1750]. Volumes 5 and 6, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Landis, Dennis Channing, ed.

New York: Readex

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus of the last 2 volumes of this bibliography with a reprint of the preface.

Physical Description

1 box

37860. Heijbroek, J.F. and T.C. Greven: ["A new book on decorated paper"], 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Heijbroek, J.F. and T.C. Greven

Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum Foundation

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (296 mm.); prospectus for this exhibition catalogue on decorated paper: "The book includes a supplement...to Albert Haemmerle's standard work on decorated paper." Text in Dutch with a detailed summary in English. Paper specimen pasted to prospectus.

Physical Description

1 box

37857. Smith, William Jay: The cyclist, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Smith, William Jay

Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (249); prospectus for a Press poetry chapbook; wood engravings by John De Pol and designed by M.A. Gelfand; edition limited to 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38754. Kapr, Albert: Johann Gutenberg. The man and his invention...Translated by Douglas Martin, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Kapr, Albert

Brookfeld, VT: Scolar Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 4to; black and white illustrations; fine. Prospectus for "The most illuminating biography of Gutenberg to date--now translated into English for the first time". Typed letter on Press letterhead laid in. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39352. Kapr, Albert: Johann Gutenberg. The man and his invention...Translated by Douglas Martin, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Kapr, Albert

Brookfield, VT: Scolar Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 4to; black and white illustration, text printed in blue and black; previous fold, corners a bit creased, else fine. Prospectus for "The most illuminating biography of Gutenberg to date". Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39315. Anaïs Nin: a book of mirrors, 1996. 1 box.
General

Huntington Woods, MI: Sky Blue Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; photographic illustration, printed on purple paper; fine. Integral order form printed on back. TLs on Press letterhead from the editor Paul Herron laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39350. Zempel, Edward N. and Linda A. Verkler, eds.: First editions: a guide to identification. Third edition, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Zempel, Edward N. and Linda A. Verkler, eds.

Peoria, IL: Spoon River Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; text printed in blue; edges a bit creased, else fine. Prospectus provides information on content, format, reviewers' comments, and integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39304. Anaïs Nin: a book of mirrors, 1997. 1 box.
General

Balfour Huntington Woods, MI: Sky Blue Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original blue pictorial wrappers, fine. Prospectus for an anthology consisting of approximately 75 contributions by 64 authors, scholars, and artists. Order form, review excerpt, and TLs on Press letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39398. Mansbridge, Georgia: Bruce Robers, American typographer, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Mansbridge, Georgia

New York: Stone House Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed in blue on grey paper; previous fold, mostly fine. Prospectus for this deluxe edition limited to 125 copies. A trade edition with the imprint of the Typophiles also advertised here.

Physical Description

1 box

The Barry Halper collection of baseball memorabilia, 1999. 1 box.
General

Sotheby's?

Scope and Contents

Brochure and poster advertising the sale of the Barry Halper Collection. Brochure has integral order form for the collection catalogue.

Filed under S.

Physical Description

1 box

38679. Stebbins, N.L.: Stebbins' illustrated coast pilot, 1902. 1 box.
General

Author: Stebbins, N.L.

New York: Rudder Publisher Company

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (217 mm.); black and white photographic illustration; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a pictorial work that also provides "the characteristics of the lights and fog signals, together with sailing directions for entering all the principal harbors". At head of title: "What light is that? Stebbins' Illustrated Coast Pilot will tell you!"

Physical Description

1 box

43898. Photographic history of the Civil War, 1911. 1 box.
General

New York: Review or Reviews Company.

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaged; black and white photographic illustrations, text printed in black and red; original pictorial wrappers (some soiling to upper cover), previous folds, else very good and sound. Prospectus includes testimonials by, among many others, Theodore Roosevelt ("It is a genuine feat"). Laid in order blank for the 10-volume set, available in three different bindings.

Physical Description

1 box

38741. [Catalogue], 1928. 1 box.
General

London: Scholartis Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; occasional pencil notes in margins, rubber stamp of distributor B.F. Stevens & Brown LTD., else fine. Titles include "Letters of D.G. Rossetti to his Publisher, F.S. Ellis"; and "Rousseau: Lettres à Malesherbes".

Physical Description

1 box

36542. Miner, Charles: Essays from the desk of poor Rober[t] the scribe, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Miner, Charles

New York: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; facsimile of the first edition's original cover on front page; prospectus for a facsimile edition by the director of the Wyoming Historial & Geological Society (although written in Wilkes-Barré, Pa.). Edition limited to 500 copies. Accompanying sample page showing "the size of the letterpress, the type, and the paper used," loosely inserted. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38546. Mortlock, C.B.: G.B.S. and Ellen Terry. Letters of a "paper courtship" of hte 'nineties...Reprinted from the London Daily Telegraph, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Mortlock, C.B.

New York: Putnam

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 15; 3 black and white photographic illustrations; self wrappers, fine. Prospectus for the limited first edition of the letters between George Bernard Shaw and Ellen Terry.

Physical Description

1 box

38653. The American artists series. Whitney Museum of Modern Art, 1931. 1 box.
General

New York: William Edgwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; fine. Prospectus for a new series of art books to coincide with the opening of the Whitney Museum of American Art. "The purpose of the books, like that of the Museum, which sponsors them, is to promote a wider knowledge and appreciation of the best in American art." List of titles available and in preparation provided. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

36390. Maycock, A.L.: Things seen in Cambridge, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Maycock, A.L.

London: Seeley, Service & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; thirteen photographic illustrations; includes reviews and a list of titles from the Things Seen series; text in blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

38613. Latimore, Sarah Briggs and Grace Clark Haskell: Arthur Rackham, a bibliography, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Latimore, Sarah Briggs and Grace Clark Haskell

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (111 x 141 mm.); fine. Postcard prospectus for "A story for librarians, Arthur Rackham collectors, and for those who occasionally buy books".

Physical Description

1 box

38716. The American renaissance series, 1936. 1 box.
General

New York: William R. Scott

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; woodcut printed in blue; edges chipped and toned; a good copy. Titles from the series include Edgar Allan Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom" and Henry D. Thoreau's "Life without Principles"; illustrated specimen page of Poe's short story.

Physical Description

1 box

38866. Delacroix, Eugene: The journal...translated from the French by Walter Pach. Illustrated with reproductions of the paintings and drawings of the artist, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Delacroix, Eugene

New York: Paul A. Struck

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrations, title page printed in red and black; previous folds, else fine. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38685. Hagerman, Herbert J.: Letters of a young diplomat...Excerpts from letters written to his father and mother during his service as Second Secretary of the Embassy of the United States in St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1898 to 1901, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Hagerman, Herbert J.

Santa Fe: Rydal Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; fine. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36391. Schary, Edwin G.: In search of the Mahatmas of Tibet, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Schary, Edwin G.

London: Seeley, Service & Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (218 mm.); photographic illustration, text in blue and black; Broadside verso prospectus for C.E. Whittaker's "Arctic Eskimo: A record of 50 years' experiences & observations among the Eskimo of the frozen north". With photographic illustration of "Kila nad Kanneyuk--marriageable girls: A smile is the habitual greeting, understood by all. Their coats are wide at the shoulder to permit drawing in the hands to warm them on the body." Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

38865. Weitenkampf, Frank: The illustrated book, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Weitenkampf, Frank

New York: Paul A. Struck

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; black and white portrait reproduction ; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for a work on the illustrated book in which "The illustrated book is here considered as an entity produced as a workmanlike job, not simple a text with pictures or a collection of pictures with text"; specimen page and table of contents provided. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38537. Print, 1940. 1 box.
General

New Haven: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; printed in red and black, fine. Prospectus for the early numbers of Volume 1 of this quarterly journal of the graphic arts; table of contents of Vol.1, No. 2 reprinted on back. Specimen pages and print laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38536. Print. A quarterly journal of the graphic arts, 1940. 1 box.
General

New Haven: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Broadside, long folio (520 mm.); text printed in red and black; small 1-inch tear along left-hand edge not affectin text, previous folds. Prospectus deplaying page proofs of the Editor's column from Volume 1, Number 2.

Physical Description

1 box

38776. Ruzicka, Rudolph: Thomas Bewick, engraver, 1943. 1 box.
General

Author: Ruzicka, Rudolph

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, integral order form removed, 12mo; black and white engraving. Postcard prospectus for this work, also designed by Ruzicka and set in his Fairfield type and printed by the Typophiles of the Press. Edition limited to 250 copies, of which "175 remain".

Physical Description

1 box

38859. A new experience in wonderful reading, 1948. 1 box.
General

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Story Classics

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 11; black and white specimen illustrations, some full-page, throughout; original black and blue pictorial wrappers, fine. Catalogue of the first series from the Press, including "Selected Short Stories of Thomas Hardy," (specimen page reprinted here) and "The Continental Tales of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow". Order forms and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38864. A new adventure in publishing, 1948. 1 box.
General

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Story Classics

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 12; black and white illustration from "Continental Tales of Longfellow"; original blue pictorial wrappers, printed in purple and green; mostly fine. Prospectus for the first 6 titles from the series. Integral order form printed on back wrapper verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38863. A new adventure in publishing, 1948. 1 box.
General

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Story Classics

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 12; black and white illustration from "Stories of Anton Chekhov"; original blue pictorial wrappers, printed in black and green; mostly fine. Prospectus for the first 6 titles from the series. Integral order form printed on back wrapper verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38602. Morison, Stanley: Four centuries of fine printing, 1949. 1 box.
General

Author: Morison, Stanley

New York: Herbert Reichner

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; text in red and black; fine. Postcard prospectus for a title "by one of the world's foremost authorities on printing and typography," and a revised edition of an earlier work published 20 years earlier. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37034. The history of modern painting, 1949. 1 box.
General

Geneva : Skira

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided brochure, folio; prospectus for this three-volume set, including two color reproductions pasted in, Cezanne's "The boy in a red waistcoat" and Picasso's "The child with the pigeon"; text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

38860. These are the story classics, 1949. 1 box.
General

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Story Classics

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; black and whilte illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, fine. Catalogue of new titles from the press include Anton Chekhov's "The Beggar and Other Stories" and "The Best of Maupassant". Reduced specimen pages provided. Integral order form printed on back wrapper verso.

Physical Description

1 box

39376. Beautiful limited editions, 1949. 1 box.
General

Emmaus, PA: Story Classics

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 16; black and white illustrations throughout; original blue pictorial wrappers (a bit soiled), mostly fine. Titles listed in the catalogue include Anton Chekhov's "The Beggar and Other Stories"; "The Short Stories of Wilkie Collins"; Thackeray's "Rebecca and Rowena"; and Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Treasure of Franchard". Integral order form printed on back wrapper verso, envelope and special announcement laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38861. [Catalogue], 1949. 1 box.
General

Emmaus, Penn.: Story Classics

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 15; black and white illustrations throughout; original blue printed wrappers, "Special Announcement" tipped in to front, fine. Titles from the catalogue include "Short Stories of Wilkie Collins"; Thackeray's "Rebecca and Rowena"; and Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Treasure of Franchard". Member comments printed in the back; integral order form on back wrapper verso, envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38604. A catalogue of selected precious manuscripts, historic documents, and rare books, profusely illustrated with a frontispiece in gold and colours and about 150 full-page plates in photogravure, 1950. 1 box.
General

London: William H. Robinson Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for a catalogue, mostly of book from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872). Provides an abbreviated list of some of the work mentioned in the finished book. Specimen color plate laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38682. Wyllie, Irvin G.: The self-made man in America. The myth of rags to riches, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Wyllie, Irvin G.

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (216 mm.); black and white illustration; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a "history of an idea clarifies the businessman's attitude towards education, explains how the success idea was propagated, by whom and for what purposes".

Physical Description

1 box

38737. Brooks, Van Wyck: From a writer's notebook, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Brooks, Van Wyck

Worcester, Massachusetts: Achille J. St. Onge

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (152 mm.); black and white photographic illustration; left-hand edge untrimmed, mostly likely originally bound in as a publisher's advertisement; fine. Prospectus for a miniature book in an edition limited to 1000 copies and printed by the Chiswick Press, London.

Physical Description

1 box

38694. [List of titles from the Swallow Press, Sage Books, and Big Mountain Press], 1956. 1 box.
General

Denver: Alan Swallow

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; fine. Titles include George S. McCue's "A Graphic History of English Stressed Vowels" (printed by Sage Books) and Robert L. Patterson's "The Sage Grouse in Wyoming". Broadside (toned edges) providing a list of new titles and "A note on our lists" laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38693. Schroeder, John W.: The great folio of 1623: Shakespeare's plays in the printing house, 1956. 1 box.
General

Author: Schroeder, John W.

Hamden, Connecticut: Shoe String Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (83 x 141 mm.); fine. Postcard prospectus, also mentioning the availability of "Shakespeare: of an age and for all time. The Yale Shakespeare Festival Letters".

Physical Description

1 box

38867. Timperley, C.H.: William Bulmer and the Shakspeare Press. A biography of William Bulmer from A dictionary of printers and printing...London, 1839, with an introductory note on the Bulmer-Martin types by Laurence B. Siegfried...Original wood engravings by John De Pol, 1957. 1 box.
General

Author: Timperley, C.H.

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; photographic illustration, reduced specimen title page; fine. Prospectus for a work published "Honoring the 200th anniversary of the birth of William Bulmer" in an edition limited to 1600 copies. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38719. Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey & Thomas Rae: The book of the private press...with a foreword by John Ryder, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Handley-Taylor, Geoffrey & Thomas Rae

Greenock, Scotland: Signet Press

Scope and Contents

Oblong 16mo, unpaginated; pages perforated, one of which has been removed; original blue pictorial wrappers, fine.

Physical Description

1 box

38869. Brewster House book news, 1958. 1 box.
General

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; facsimile; previous folds, else fine. Newsletter from the Press advertising 2 titles, "Aldus Manutius and his Thesaurus Cornucopiae of 1496" (available in the deluxe edition and the trade edition); and "William Bulmer and the Shakspeare Press". Integral order form addressed to distributor James F. Drake, New York, NY.

Physical Description

1 box

38868. Brewster House book news, 1958. 1 box.
General

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; facsimile; previous folds, else fine. Newsletter from the Press advertising 2 titles, "Aldus Manutius and his Thesaurus Cornucopiae of 1496" (available in the deluxe edition and the trade edition); and "William Bulmer and the Shakspeare Press". Integral order form addressed to distributor Philip C. Duschnes, New York, NY.

Physical Description

1 box

38610. Gibbings, Robert: The wood engravings...Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston, 1959. 1 box.
General

Author: Gibbings, Robert

Chicago: Quadrangle Books

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (280 mm.); wood engraving illustrations; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for the collected works of "a leading figure in the modern revival of English wood engraving". Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38849. Elliott, George P.: Fever & chills, 1961. 1 box.
General

Author: Elliott, George P.

Iowa City: Stone Wall Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; illustration printed in grey, text in red and black; fine. Prospectus for Elliott's long poem printed in an edition of 220 numbered and hand-printed copies. List of books in print from the Stone Wall Press and the Cummington Press also provided.

Physical Description

1 box

38847. Levine, Philip: On the edge and other poems, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: Levine, Philip

Iowa City: Stone Wall Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (83 x 140 mm.); small stain, else fine. Postcard prospectus for a poetry collection limited to 220 copies and printed by hand.

Physical Description

1 box

38689. Johnson, Ray: The paper snake, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Johnson, Ray

New York: Something Else Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; black and white illustrations; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for Johnson's play with a short essay on his work by William Wilson. Integral order form. With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

38688. The dream of the rood, 1967. 1 box.
General

Flemington, NJ: St. Teresa's Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (239 mm.); previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a handset edition of a ninth century Anglo-Saxon poem printed in a limited edition of 150 copies. Includes order form and original envelope in which the prospectus was mailed. The Press located in the Carmelite Monastery of Flemington.

Physical Description

1 box

38884. Klinefelter, Walter: A further display of old maps and plans, 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Klinefelter, Walter

La Crosse, WI: Sumac Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for a continuation of the author's 1962 work "A Small Display of Old Maps and Plans". Specimen page provided. Edition limited to 300 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37564. Red Angel Press books, 1974. 1 box.
General

Medomak, Maine: Red Angel Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated list of titles, in print and out, from the Press; includes "The Assassination: A concise record of the weekend that John F. Kennedy was killed, symbolically illustrated"; Herman Melville's "Cetology" and "Rock Rodondo"; and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Sights from a Steeple".

Physical Description

1 box

38937. Shaw, Bernard: Flyleaves. Edited with an introduction by Dan H. Lawrence and Daniel J. Leary, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Shaw, Bernard

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; decorations printed in brown; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for Shaw's inscriptions he added to his book's flyleaves in order to make his library more saleable in 1949. This edition limited to 350 copies and printed at the Bird & Bull Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38936. Durfort, Claire de: Ourika. Translated into English with an introduction and epilogue by John Fowles, 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Durfort, Claire de

Austin: W.Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; decorations printed in blue; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for Duras' novel published by Taylor and printed at the Bird & Bull Press in an edition limited to 500 copies. Small notice from "H.M." of the Bird & Bull Press laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38617. Roseliep, Raymond: A day in the life of Sobi-shi, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Roseliep, Raymond

Ruffsdale, PA: Rook Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (88 x 139 mm.); fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 150 signed and numbered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38843. Gelfand, Jim: Rimbaud's sail, songs, 1979. 1 box.
General

Author: Gelfand, Jim

Roslyn, New York: Stone House Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (89 x 139 mm.); fine. Postcard prospectus for the first book to be published on the Press's premises. Edition limited to 100 copies. Also mentions the availability of Gelfand's "Treasure Chest, Song Poems," published (but not printed) by the Press in 1977.

Physical Description

1 box

38703. Ferry, David: A letter, and some photographs (a group of poems), 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Ferry, David

Seattle: Sea Pen Press and Paper Mill

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (93 x 133 mm.); pencil underlining, mostly fine. Postcard prospectus for this poetry collection, illustrated with stone lithographs by Suzanne Ferris and bound by Gray Parrot. Edition limited to 120 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37033. Thorson, Victoria: Great drawings of all time: The twentieth century, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Thorson, Victoria

New York: Shorewood/Kodansha

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; color prospectus for this two-volume set; includes color reproductions of works by Marc Chagall, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and Sol Lewitt.

Physical Description

1 box

38609. D'Wolf, John: A voyage to the North Pacific and A journey through Siberia more than half a century ago, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: D'Wolf, John

Bristol, RI: Rulon-Miller Books

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (404 mm.); black and white illustration, text printed in blue and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this limited edition of 225 copies, signed by Harold Turner, the editor, and Anne Hughes, the artist.

Physical Description

1 box

38720. [Catalogue], 1983. 1 box.
General

New York: Sandstone Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, square 12mo; black and white illustrations; text printed in red and black; fine. Titles include Colin Bloy's "A History of Printing Ink, Balls, and Rollers, 1440-1850," and David Kindersley's "Optical Letterpressing". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38771. [List of 4 poetry Broadsides], 1983. 1 box.
General

Claremont, California: Scripps College Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (145 mm.); printed in yellow and blue; fine. Postcard prospectus for 4 limited editions of 150 copies poetry Broadsides, by contemporary poets, including Seamus Heaney and Adrienne Rich.

Physical Description

1 box

38842. Krapf, Norbert: Heartwood. New poems...with nine wood engravings by John de Pol, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Krapf, Norbert

Roslyn, New York: Stone House Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (114 x 139 mm.); illustration printed in brown; fine. Postcard prospectus for this poetry collection printed in an edition limited to 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38691. The September Press, 1984. 1 box.
General

Willingborough: September Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, small 8vo; text printed in red and black; fine. Short pamphlet on the history of the Press, the Press's mission statement, and a list of projected titles.

Physical Description

1 box

38704. Turner, Frederick Jackson: The significance of the frontier in American history, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Turner, Frederick Jackson

Madison: Silver Buckle Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large 8vo (233 mm.); text in tan, grey, and black; fine. Prospectus for a new edition of Turner's essay, originally delivered on July 12, 1893 at the American Historical Association in Chicago. Published here by the fine press publishers of the Memorial Library of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Physical Description

1 box

38715. Leithauser, Brad: A seaside mountain, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Leithauser, Brad

Minneapolis: Sarabande Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (102 x 153 mm.); fine. Postcard prospectus for this poetry collection in an edition limited to 300 copies and printed by Heritage Printers; distributed by Granary Books.

Physical Description

1 box

38841. Lowman, Al: Remembering Carl Hertzog. A Texas printer and his books, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Lowman, Al

Dallas: Still Point Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; title page printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for Lowman's account of "personal experiences with the late Carl Hertzog, and provides insight into the characteristics which contributed to the achievements of the legendary El Paso printer, designed, and typographer." Edition limited to 300 copies; order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39244. Evelyn, John: Acetaria. A discourse of sallets...with an introduction by Kit Currie, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Evelyn, John

Dallas: Still Point Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; color title page vignette, text printed in green and black; fine. Prospectus for this limited edition, designed and produced by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press, of the first book (1699) in English written on the subject of salads. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38710. Rowe, Willyum: Sure as death, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Rowe, Willyum

Rhinebeck, NY: Space Heater Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (102 x 153 mm.); black and white illustration; fine. Postcard prospectus for Rowe's "first hardcover book," limited to 500 copies. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38881. More Walter Klinefelter, 1986. 1 box.
General

La Crosse, Wis.: Sumac Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo; printed in blue; fine. Prospectus for the continuation of the 1976 Klinefelter Biblio-List and its first addenda (1981); this comprising of a list of 50 publications since 1981. With a photocopy of a typed letter, on Press letterhead, concerning this second addenda.

Physical Description

1 box

38611. Ritchie, Neil: Sacheverell Sitwell. An annotated and descriptive bibliography, 1916-1986, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Ritchie, Neil

Firenze, Italy: Neil Ritchie

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; black and white illustration; fine. Prospectus for this bibliography, published in time for the subject's 90th birthday. Edition limited to 425 copies. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37032. Tasker, Rolly: The Rolly Tasker portfolio, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Tasker, Rolly

North Fremantle, Western Australia: Rolly Tasker, America's Cup Museum

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (297 mm.); color illustrated prospectus for this edition limited to 1000 copies, numbered and signed by the author. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37012. Goodrich, Samuel: Peter Parley's visit to the city of New-York, from Parley's history of New York, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Goodrich, Samuel

New-York: South Street Seaport Museum

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for this reprint of Goodrich's piece, originally published by Mahlon Day & Co. in the early 1840's; two specimen pages (9-10) included. "An edition of 300 copies on Mohawk Superfine Text was printed at Bowne & Co., Stationers, South Street Seaport Museum."

Physical Description

1 box

38933. Bert Clarke, typographer. A catalogue of an exhibition of selected works at the New York Public Library with an introduction by John Dreyfus and catalogue notes by Mr. Clarke, 1987. 1 box.
General

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large 8vo (260 mm.); top edge a bit creased, else fine. Prospectus for a catalogue designed by Bert Clarke.

Physical Description

1 box

38751. Book illustration, 1988. 1 box.
General

Hants, England: Scolar Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (295 mm.); printed in cream and blue; previous fold, mostly fine. List of titles on book illustration published by the Press, including Basil Hunnisett's "Steel-engraved Book Illustration in England"; Edward Hodnett's "Image and Text"; and Robert Blair's "The Grave," illustrated by William Blake. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38772. Los Angeles women letterpress printers, 1988. 1 box.
General

Claremont, California: Scripps College Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; fine. Postcard prospectus for a work showcasing 18 female printers, including Robin Price and Lillian Marks, in an edition limited to 100 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38706. Viola, Herman J.: The national archives of the United States, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Viola, Herman J.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; text printed on Institution letterhead in blue and black typescript; previous folds, else fine. Order form and envelope laid in

Physical Description

1 box

38430. Killion, Tom: Walls: a journey across three continents, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Killion, Tom

Santa Cruz, CA: Quail Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration; fine. Prospectus for "the first book to be published by The Quail Press in ten years"; edition limited to 100 numbered copies and 26 deluxe copies. Sheet providing information on dealer discounts laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38938. Wilson, Adrian: Two against the tide. A conscientious objector in World War II. Selected letters, 1941-1948...Edited and with commentary by Joyce Lancaster Wilson, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Wilson, Adrian

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed in brown and black; fine. Prospectus for the first edition of Wilson's war-time letters, edited by his wife. Published in an edition of 850 copies .

Physical Description

1 box

37671. Witt, Mario M.: A bibliography of the works written and published by David Steel and his successors and heirs. With an introduction by Brian Lavery, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Witt, Mario M.

London: Anthony J. Simmonds

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (296 mm.); announcement of the publication of a bibliography of British maritime books by Steel (1733-1799); specimen page printed on Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38335. Loux, Stephanie: Oh mother, and other poems, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Loux, Stephanie

San Francisco: Protean Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original grey wrappers; text in brown and black; fine. Prospectus for a poetry collection limited to 70 copies; specimen poem included. With original envelope in which the prospectus was sent.

Physical Description

1 box

38717. Complete list 1991/92, 1991. 1 box.
General

Winchester, Hampshire: St. Paul's Bibliographies

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; fine. Titles include Denis F. Keeling's "British Library History: A Bibliography 1985-1988"; "Six Centuries of the Provincial Book Trade in Britain"; D. Gallup's "Ezra Pound: A Bibliography"; and J. Payne's "A Bibliography of W.H. Hudson". Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38913. Blake, William: William Blake's illuminated books, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Blake, William

London: Tate Gallery Publications

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; color photographic illustration; fine. Prospectus for the "Collected Edition" of Blake's illuminated work, published in uniform format. "Jerusalem" and "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" each printed in its own volume. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38934. Taylor, W. Thomas: Texfake. An account of the theft and forgery of early Texas printed documents...With an introduction by Larry McMurtry, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Taylor, W. Thomas

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; fine. Prospectus for a work investigating the forged copies of the Texas Declaration of Independence, originally appearing in 1988.

Physical Description

1 box

37684. Vision of a collector: the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress, 1991. 1 box.
General

Austin, Texas: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (280 mm.); prospectus for "the gathering of one hundred essays, each devoted to a notable book or manuscript from the Rosenwald Collection," a collection of 2600 titles, focusing on European and American illustrated books from the fifteenth through the 20th centuries. Printed for the Library of Congress. With a letter from the printer.

Physical Description

1 box

37680. Bertin, Charles: Christopher Columbus, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Bertin, Charles

Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); postcard prospectus of William Jay Smith's translation of the Belgian playwright's piece, originally commissioned in 1970 by the Thyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis. Edition limited to 200 copies, twenty of which comprise the deluxe edition. The regular edition was designed by Geroge Laws, set by Michael and Winifred Bixler, illustrated by John De Pol; the deluxe edition was designed and bound by Deborah M. Evetts, the book conservator at the Pierpont Morgan Library.

Physical Description

1 box

37654. Kwang-tse: Am I now?, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Kwang-tse

Jerusalem: Shalom Yehuda Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (225 mm.); illustrated prospectus in English and Hebrew; edition limited to 50 numbered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37683. Tyler, Ron: Audubon's great national work. The royal octavo of The birds of America...Illustrated by thity-two color plates and including original plates from the first and second editions, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Tyler, Ron

Austin, Texas: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for an edition limited to 225 copies; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37615. Smyth, Elaine: Plain Wrappers Press, 1966-1988. An illustrated bibliography of the work of Richard-Gabriel Rummonds with bibliographic descriptions...and a foreward by Decherd Turner, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Smyth, Elaine

Austin, Texas: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this bibliography, limited to 340 copies; photographic illustration and order form tipped in.

Physical Description

1 box

37707. Edson, Russell: Submarine bells. A selection of nine poems...with etching by David Rathman, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Edson, Russell

Minneapolis: Red Egypt Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to; prospectus for this limited edition of 20 copies, printed by Phillip Gallo at the Hermetic Press and bound by Jill Jevin.

Physical Description

1 box

37713. Routledge French technical dictionary. Dictionnaire technique anglais, 1994. 1 box.
General

New York: Routledge

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; illustrated catalogue; reduced specimen pages provided. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37641. Serif. The magazine of type & typography, 1994. 1 box.
General

Claremont, CA: Serif

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for a new magazine typographic magazine.

Physical Description

1 box

37728. Heyen, William: With me far away: a memoir, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Heyen, William

Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this memoir available in 2 editions, a deluxe edition of 25 copies and a regular edition limited to 175 copies. Order information an a list of forthcoming publications provided. Text in orange and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38714. Standish, Craig Peter, ed.: Henry Miller: a book of tributes, 1931-1994, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Standish, Craig Peter, ed.

Orlando: Standish Books

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; black and white photographic illustration of Henry Miller; original grey printed wrappers, fine. Table of contents includes William Carlos Williams's "To the Dean" (1949); and Erica Jong's "Goodbye to Henry-san" (1980). Order form and 3-leaf Press announcement laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37697. Peckham, John F.: Adventures in printing. A talk on the career of Harold Hugo given at the Club of Odd Volumes...with a memoir by John F. Peckham & William J. Glick, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Peckham, John F.

Lunenburg, Vermont: Stinehour Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus of the printed version of Peckham's lecture; order form and pre-addressed envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37856. Liebaers, Herman: Books over bombs: IFLA in Moscow, August 1991: a footnote, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Liebaers, Herman

Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (253 mm.); prospectus for this memoir, published in chapbook form, of the 1991 Conference, in Moscow, of the International Federation of Library Associations, which coincided with the siege of the Russian Parliament. Introduction by George Wickes, wood engraving by John De Pol; edition limited to 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39353. Durham, James G. and Virginia Thomas: Sacred buffalo. The Lakota way for a new beginning...Photographs by David Bjorkman. Drawings by James G. Durham, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Durham, James G. and Virginia Thomas

Boulder, CO: Sycamore Island Books.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; color and and black and white photographic illustrations; fine. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37590. Yau, John: Genghis Chan, private eye...color etchings by Ed Paschke, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Yau, John

Chicago: Friends of the Ryerson and Burnham Library, Art Institute of Chicago

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for a portfolio, limited to 200 copies, printed by Jack Lemon of the Landfall Press, and hand-set by Pam Barrie at the Green Windows Press. Order form with pre-addressed envelope laid in.

Filed under Ryerson.

Physical Description

1 box

38846. Gelfand, Jim: Where I live: environments, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Gelfand, Jim

New York: Stone House Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (230 mm.); previous fold, previous owner's notes on Bookseller's discounts in bottom margin, else fine. Prospectus for this artist's book, designed by Jerry Kelly and limited to 10 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

44699. Picasso.: Suite érotique, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Picasso.

Bremen: Carl Schünemann Verlag

Scope and Contents

Folio, bifolium; color illustration; fine. Text in German.

Physical Description

1 box

38656. Janneau, Guillaume: Modern glass...An account of the modern renaissance of decorative glass, accompanied by one hundred and thirty illustrations representing selected examples of the contemporary glass-maker's art, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Janneau, Guillaume

New York: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; vignette printed in blue; fine. Prospectus provides an annotated table of contents; integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39377. Audubon, John James: Audubon's the birds of America, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Audubon, John James

New York: Paul A. Struck.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (311 mm.); previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for an edition "available to the general public," with introduction by William Vogt. Specimen page (plate 102, Blue Jay), printed on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38793. Rosenbach, A.S.W.: Early American children's books, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Rosenbach, A.S.W.

Portland, Maine: Southworth Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (381 mm.); illustration and facsimile printed in red; previous folds, edges a bit worn, very good. Prospectus for a work describing over 800 books, published in 2 editions, the Regular Edition and the Special Edition, both signed. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38658. Rogers, Bruce: Paragraphs on printing, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Rogers, Bruce

New York: William E. Rudge

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; small black and white photographic illustration of Bruce Rogers; toning, else fine. TLs from Fred Rudge advertising the 2 editions of this work. Press comments by Carl Rollins and George Macy; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38718. A story of licentious Florence, 1950. 1 box.
General

Serendipity Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; decorative border printed in red; fine. Prospectus for a future title from the press, "a biographical essay about the Italian Renaissance poet Angelo Poliziano who lived from 1454 to 1494". Title expected to be published in 2 years but does not appear to have been completed, at least under the given title.

Physical Description

1 box

38862. A new adventure in publishing, 1951. 1 box.
General

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Story Classics

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; black and white illustrations, some full-page; original grey pictorial wrappers, integral order form printed on back wrapper has been neatly removed; else fine. Catalogue provides a list of available titles as well as press and member opinions.

Physical Description

1 box

38738. A listing of miniature books, 1955. 1 box.
General

Worcester, Massachusetts: Achille J. St. Onge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; fine. Titles include Henry David Thoreau's "Selected Quotations from his Writings," edited by Amy W. Smith and printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press; and Dwight David Eisenhower's "The Inaugurational Address and Prayer," printed by the Chiswick Press, London.

Physical Description

1 box

38681. Blumenthal, Walter Hart: Bookmen's bedlam, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Blumenthal, Walter Hart

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for "An olio of literary oddities, 'a choice item which no book fancier should overlook,' a charming and witty guide to the world of strange books". Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38888. Klinefelter, Walter: A fourth display of old maps and plans, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Klinefelter, Walter

La Crosse, WI: Sumac Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); illustration; printed in red and blue; rust stain and foxing. Postcard prospectus for the fourth installation of Klinefelter's series of works on maps and plans.

Physical Description

1 box

37733. Stockley, Cynthia: The claw: a story of South Africa, 1911. 1 box.
General

Author: Stockley, Cynthia

New York: Putnam

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (178 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this novel with excerpt from James L. Ford's review in the New York Herald; illustration of the skyline of lower New York City, from the Hudson River by Edwin J. Meeker on printed Broadside verso.

Physical Description

1 box

38789. Johnston, Paul: Biblio-typographica. A survey of contemporary fine books, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Johnston, Paul

New York: Southworth Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; facsimile; fine. Prospectus for a work printed at the Press for the Continental Typefounders Association. Table of contents and integral order form on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38774. Simon, Oliver, ed.: Signature [fifth year], 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Simon, Oliver, ed.

London: Signature

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this quadrimestrial of typography and graphic arts includings production information and a list of contents from previous numbers. Illustrators from past numbers include Max Ernst, Inigo Jones, and Picasso.

Physical Description

1 box

38700. Leonard da Vinci: Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. Anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings...with translations, emendations, and a biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley [and] J.B. de C.M. Saunders, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Leonard da Vinci

New York: Henry Schuman

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white illustrations, text printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a work published in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Leonard da Vinci.

Physical Description

1 box

38544. Bradley, Van Allen: The book collector's handbook of values. An encyclopedia of rare books for collectors, dealers, and librarians, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: Bradley, Van Allen

Lake Zurich, Illinois: Putnam

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; photographic illustration; mostly fine. Prospectus for this work in which the author "encompasses the classic works, rare Americana, scientific and historical works, press books, color plate books, and modern first editions, including the avant-garde and beat writers from both sides of the Atlantic". Distributed by Val Allen Bradley Inc.

Physical Description

1 box

38702. Ashbrook, Paul: Paintings, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Ashbrook, Paul

Evanston, Ill.: Schori Miniature Books

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; color painting reproduction, black and white photograph; mostly fine. Prospectus for a "Deluxe miniature book. The grandest miniature book of modern times." Edition limited to 249 copies. List of previous Schori miniature books printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37554. Random House unabridged electronic dictionary, 1995. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (360 mm.); with sample CD-Rom.

Physical Description

1 box

44966. [Drop title]: A plan for the New York Region, 1931. 1 box.
General

New York: Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaged; plain text illustrations, mostly photographic, throughout; original pictorial wrappers, white printed paper cover label; about fine. Advertisement for the 10-volume New York-New Jersey metropolitan area plans, published from 1927-1931. Blue order blank laid in. A vibrant, very attractively designed specimen. This prospectus not in OCLC as of April, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

Exhibit of books, Early 1930s?. 1 box.
General

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Pamphlet for an exhibit of books & manuscripts loaned by A.S.W. Rosenbach at Constant Southworth's summer home in Cumberland, Maine. Includes a map and directions. Possibly was originally tucked into another pamphlet?

Physical Description

1 box

38931. Books available from the Kairos Press, 1987. 1 box.
General

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; fine. Titles from the Kairos Press and printed by W. Thomas Taylor include J.M. Caroll's "Just Such a Time. Recollections of Childhood on the Texas Frontier, 1858-1867" and Dante Alighieri's "The Stone Beloved".

Physical Description

1 box

38778. A catalogue of books printed and for sale, 1937. 1 box.
General

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, pp. 15; self-wrappers, minor toning, else fine. Titles form the Press include Dana Kinsman Merrill's "The Development of American Biography. A short history of life-literature in this country from Colonial time to 1930"; George Cameron Stone's "A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times"; Walter Klinefelter's "Christmas Books," limited to 350 copies; and Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Prologue of the Canterbury Tales," rendered into semi-modern English by Arthur Burrell.

Physical Description

1 box

36277. Vanderbilt, William K.: To Galápagos on the Ara. First expedition., 1927. 1 box.
General

Author: Vanderbilt, William K.

New York: William Edwin Rudge

Scope and Contents

Single sheet, folded into six-sided brochure, 4to; three photographic illustrations and two specimen pages (pp. 49 and 127). Includes pricing and print run for the two editions (Library edition: 300 copies; De Luxe edition: 200 copies).

Physical Description

1 box

38781. Klinefelter, Walter: A bibliographical check-list of Christmas books, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Klinefelter, Walter

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for an expansion of Klinefelter's original essay "Christmas Books," in which the author has compiled a list of over 500 Christmas books. Specimen page provided.

Physical Description

1 box

38635. Random House books for the fall and winter, 1930-1931, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Random House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; printed in orange and black; edges and corners a bit creased, previous folds. Catalogue announcing new titles, including "The Complete Poems of Robert Frost" and "N by E: Rockwell Kent's New Book on Greenland". Specimen illustration by W.A. Dwiggins for H.G. Well's "The Time Machine," laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37664. Quatre siècles de reliure en Belgique 1500-1900, 1993. 1 box.
General

Bruxelles: Eric Speeckaert

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; illustrated prospectus of a work published on the occasion of the bookseller's fifteenth anniversary; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38787. Anthoensen, Fred : Types and bookmaking containing notes on the books printed at the Southworth-Anthoensen Press...and A bibliographical catalogue by Ruth A. Chaplin. With specimens of its work, types, borders &c., &c., &c., 1943. 1 box.
General

Author: Anthoensen, Fred

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 4to; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus with reprint of Lawrence C. Wroth's foreword; table of contents printed on back. Edition limited to 500 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38644. The third list. Autumn, 1930. With which are included certain facts concerning past publications as well as a selection of items in immediate anticipation, 1930. 1 box.
General

New York: Rimington & Hooper

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; original orange pictorial wrappers, fine. Titles include Virginia Woolf's "Beau Brummel," designed and decorated by W.A. Dwiggins; Dwiggins's "A Technique for Dealing with Artists"; George Cruikshank's "Punch and Judy"; Washington Irving's "Voyages and Discoveries of the Companions of Christopher Columbus"; Voltaire's "Zadig," with an introduction by David Garnettt and illustrations by Valenti Angelo; and Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Tree & What Christmas Means as We Grow Older".

Physical Description

1 box

38565. Hunter, Dard: A papermaking pilgrimage to Japan, Korea, and China, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Hunter, Dard

New York: Pynson Printers

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; 1 plate of 2 black and white photographic illustrations; fine. Prospectus text written by Alfred Stanford; list of titles on papermaking by Hunter printed on back. TLS on Press letterhead and an announcement of publication laid in to one copy.

Physical Description

1 box

38561. Kent, Rockwell: Later bookplates & marks...with a preface by the artist, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Kent, Rockwell

New York: Pynson Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 12mo; 3 illustrations, one of which printed in 2-tones, fine. Prospectus for the sequal to Kent's "Bookplates and Marks," printed by the Press in 1929.

Physical Description

1 box

38684. Horgan, Paul: The habit of empire...With landscapes by Peter Hurd, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Horgan, Paul

Santa Fe: Rydal Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in green and black; fine. Prospectus for a "romantic narrative" of the Old Mexican soldier Juan de Oñate. Integral order form on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38784. Kimball, Fiske: Mr. Samuel McIntire, carver. The architect of Salem, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Kimball, Fiske

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustrations laid in, vignette and decorative border printed in orange; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a work published for the Essex Institute of Salem, Massachusetts.

Physical Description

1 box

38788. Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut, ed.: Bookbinding in America. Three essays, 1941. 1 box.
General

Author: Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut, ed.

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; one plate of black and white photographic illustrations laid in; self-wrappers, fine. Titles from the work include Hannah Dustine French's "Early American Bookbinding by Hand," Joseph W. Rogers's "The Rise of American Edition Binding," and Lehmann-Haupt's "On the Rebinding of Old Books". Table of contents provided; prospectus for "A companion book on the subject of American printing" on back. Order forms laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38033. Motif, No. 1, November, 1958, 1958. 1 box.
General

London: Shenval Press Limited

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for a "new journal of the visual arts, aiming to delight both mind and eye". Order form and envelope laid in. Cruikshank's illustration of Fagin in his cell printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38619. Balsamo, Luigi: Bibliography. History of a tradition...Translated from the Italian by William A. Pettas, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Balsamo, Luigi

Berkeley: Bernard M. Rosenthal

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for "the first comprehensive work in English to place Bibliography in the broad historical framework"; table of contents reprinted here. Also mentions a previous publication, Harry G. Fletcher's "Documentary Essays on the Life and Works of Aldus Manutius, III". Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37670. New books for book collectors, 1991. 1 box.
General

Aldershot, Hants, England: Scholar Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, folio; illustrated list of books from the press include "British Royal Bookplates and Ex-libris of Related Families" by Brian North Lee; "Morton's Medical Bibliography, fifth edition"; and "Sir John Tenniel, Alice's White Knight" by Rodney Engen"; a list of recent books on book illustration, production, and design printed on the back; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37626. Farmer, David: Stanley Marcus. A life with books, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Farmer, David

Dallas: Still Point Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for this biography of the founder of the Book Club of Texas; edition limited to 450 copies, designed by W. Thomas Taylor.

Physical Description

1 box

38882. Klinefelter, Walter: The world minutely mapped. An atlas of postal paper, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Klinefelter, Walter

La Crosse, Wisconsin: Sumac Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (215 mm.); fine. Prospectus for this edition limited to 60 copies printed for the author by Emerson G. Wulling at the Press. Integral order form addressed to Klinefelter, Red Lion, PA.

Physical Description

1 box

38705. Morris, William: A note...on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press together with a short description of the Press and an annotated list of the books printed thereat, 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Morris, William

New York: Abner Schram

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (216 mm.); reproduction of the first page of the text from the original Kelmscott edition; fine.

Physical Description

1 box

38887. A Walter Klinefelter biblio-list, 1976. 1 box.
General

La Crosse, WI: Sumac Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (138 mm.); text printed in red and black; fine. Postcard prospectus for a bibliography of the works of Klinefelter, author of books on Sherlock Holmes, carto-philately, and Christmas books. Edition limited to 295 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38930. Blumenthal, Joseph: Robert Frost and his printers, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Blumenthal, Joseph

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); fine. Prospectus of an overview of the "production and physical details of each of the more than thirty fine editions of Frost's works produced by him and other printers and designers such as Thomas Bird Mosher, Norman T.A. Munder, Rudolph Ruzicka, W.A. Dwiggins, Paul Johnson, Grant Dahlstrom, Ward Ritchie, John Fass, Roland Wood, Ray Nash, Peter Beilenson, Roderick Stinehour, and many others". Edition limited to 1000 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38711. Dürer, Albrecht: Tagebuch der reise in die Niederlande. With illustrations from his sketchbook, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Dürer, Albrecht

Zürich: Edition Seefeld

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations; fine. Prospectus for this edition of Dürer's journal, edited by Fedja Anzelewsky; limited to 185 copies. Order form and typed letter printed on Press letterhead laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37797. Pollard, A.W.: Italian book-illustrations and early printing. A catalogue of the early Italian books in the library of C.W. Dyson Perrins, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Pollard, A.W.

Austin, Texas: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this bibliography originally published in 1914; illustrated specimen page; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39269. Bodoni, G.B.: Manuale tipografico, 1966. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 without black wrappers or label

General

Author: Bodoni, G.B.

Parma, Italy: Franco Maria Ricci.

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; illustrations and facsimiles throughout; original black wrappers, pictorial paper label, "for Mr. Emerson G. Wulling," in manuscript; mostly fine. Prospectus written in Italian, English, and French. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38707. Blake, William: The four zoas. The torments of love and jealousy in the death and judgment of Albion the ancient man...derived from his original drawings, engravings and the manuscript dated 1797 by Landon Dowdey, 1983. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

one with envelope

General

Author: Blake, William

Chicago: Swallow Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white illustrations; typed letter on press letterhead from Mort Wiseman, publisher, laid in. Order form and envelope also laid in. With original specially printed envelope in which the prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

38686. Davis, W.W.H.: El gringo. Or, New Mexico & her people...With an introduction by Harvey Fergusson, 1938. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

one with pencil writing

General

Author: Davis, W.W.H.

Santa Fe: Rydal Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed in brown and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus provides an excerpt of Fergusson's introduction from this limited edition of 700 copies. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38786. Wroth, Lawrence C.: The colonial printer, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Wroth, Lawrence C.

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; black and white photographic illustration laid in; fine. Prospectus for the second edition of Wroth's work (original published in 1931), expanded to include material relating to "the spread of printing in the period between the Revolution and 1800". Table of contents provided. Edition limited to 1500 copies; order form and pamphlet titled "The Reviewers meet the Colonial Printer" laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38796. Wroth, Lawrence C.: Types and bookmaking, 1943. 1 box.
General

Author: Wroth, Lawrence C.

Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; original blue printed wrappers, fine. Reprint of a review of Wroth's work taken from "Notes for Typophiles," New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, July 25, 1943. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37709. Schreiber, Fred: Simon de Colines. An annotated catalogue of 230 examples of his press, 1520-1546. With an introduction by Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Schreiber, Fred

Austin, Texas: W. Thomas Taylor

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus of a title printed for the friends of the Brigham Young University Library; two editions available, one limited to 650 copies, the other to 100 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38777. Dakin, Arthur Hazard, ed.: A Paul Elmer More miscellany, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Dakin, Arthur Hazard, ed.

Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (83 x 141 mm.); fine. Postcard prospectus for a collection of 44 pieces from More's anonymous publications, "including passages on Homer, Herrick, Thomas Traherne, Jane Austen, Whittier, Tennyson, Meredith, Nietzsche, Zola, Brunetière, Kipling, Tagore, James Anthony Froude, Theodore Dreiser, the Classics, and Humanism".

Physical Description

1 box

38791. Fisch, Max H.: Nicolaus Pol Doctor 1494, 1947. 1 box.
General

Author: Fisch, Max H.

New York: Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for the catalogue of Pol's library, housed in the Cleveland and Yale collections as well as the list of books known to have belonged to him. Printed by the Press for Herbert Reichner in an edition limited to 1000 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38775. Dwiggins, W.A.: MSS. by WAD, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Dwiggins, W.A.

Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; printed in blue; fine. Postcard prospectus for the collected writings of Dwiggins; introduction by Watson Gordon and note by Hermann Püterschein. Designed by Dwiggins and set in his Caledonia type in an edition of 900 copies. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

45462. Colledge, William A., Nathan Haskell Dole, & George J. Hagar, eds.: The new standard encyclopedia, 1904. 1 box.
General

Author: Colledge, William A., Nathan Haskell Dole, & George J. Hagar, eds.

New York: University Society Inc.

Scope and Contents

Large, slim 8vo, unpaged; color frontispiece, plain and color illustrations and plates throughout, including maps and photographs; original cream pictorial wrappers (some minor dampstainign) printed in brown, yapp edges, spine head chipped, top edge of last few leaves trimmed not affecting text. Prospectus for the 12-volume encyclopedic work, consisting mostly of samples pages and plates. Provides a partial list of the work's contributors, including Grover Cleveland, author of the entry on the Democratic Party.

Physical Description

1 box

36405. Jespersen, Otto: Growth and structure of the English language. Second edition, just issued, 1912. 1 box.
General

Author: Jespersen, Otto

Leipzig: B.G. Teubner

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 6, [2] pages of advertisement for other Teubner publications; prospectus provides a summary of the book's contents and review excerpts; order form. J.R.R. Tolkien's bookplate. Small stains to front cover.

Physical Description

1 box

37007. Williams, Michael: Old San Francisco, 1916. 1 box.
General

Author: Williams, Michael

San Francisco: Hill Tolerton

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. iv, [2]; publisher's announcement, including two specimen pages (15-16), one of which is illustrated with a map of San Francisco. This work was never published.

Physical Description

1 box

39161. Throwbridge, Bertha Chadwick, with the assistance of Charles McLean Andrews: Old houses of Connecticut, from material collected by the Committee on Old Houses of the Connecticut Society of the Colonial Dames of America, 1923. 1 box.
General

Author: Throwbridge, Bertha Chadwick, with the assistance of Charles McLean Andrews

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

Small folio, unpaginated; 2 photographic illustrations and 2 architectural plans; fine. Prospectus mostly comprised of specimen pages and illustrations.

Physical Description

1 box

39025. Marshall, John: The life of George Washington, commander in chief of the American forces during the war in which established the independence of his country and first President of the United States, compiled under the inspection of the honourable Bushrod Washington from original papers bequeathed to him by his deceased relative...with and introduction by Hon. Henry St. George Tucker, 1929. 1 box.
General

Author: Marshall, John

New York: Walton Book Company

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus of 3-volume set printed in an edition limited to 3000 copies. Specimen page provided.

Physical Description

1 box

38905. Tusser, Thomas: Five hundred points of good husbandry...With an introduction by Sir Walter Scott and a benediction by Rudyard Kipling incorporated in a foreword by E.V. Lucas, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Tusser, Thomas

London: James Tregaskis & Son

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; engraved title page; fine. Prospectus for a new edition of a work originally "published for the first time 350 years ago, and owing to its immediate popularity fourteen editions were published within twenty-five years" and published here "at the express desire of Mr. Rudyard Kipling". This limited edition of 500 copies designed by Robert Ashwin Maynard and printed at the Sign of the Raven, Harrow Weald, Middlesex, by Horace Walter Bray; bound by Bain & Co. Specimen page provided.

Filed under T.

Physical Description

1 box

36433. Norris, Frank: Frank Norris of "The Wave". Stories & sketches from the San Francisco weekly, 1893 to 1897. Foreward by Charles G. Norris. Introduction by Oscar Lewis, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Norris, Frank

San Francisco: The Westgate Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for a collection of pieces originally published in the weekly serial the Wave during the 1890's when Frank Norris was the assistant editor. Includes "five previously unpublished short stories, an amusing group of parodies of Bret Harte, Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Anthony Hope and Richard Harding Davis, and a series of sketches signed by "Justin Sturgis," a name here first identified as a nom de plume of Frank Norris." Edition limited to 500 copies, designed and printed by The Grabhorn Press. Text in black and orange, previous fold.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

38132. A catalogue...1931, 1931. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 47; original white pictorial wrappers, fine. Titles listed include George M. Stephenson's "The Religious Aspects of Swedish Immigration"; Elmer Edgar Stoll's "Poets and Playwrights"; Willard C. Olson's "Problem Tendencies in Children"; Wesley E. Peik's "The Professional Education of High School Teachers"; M.J. Van Wagenen's "Comparative Pupil Achievement in Rural, Town, and City Schools"; Fred Engelhardt's "Selecting Sites for School Buildings"; Earl Hudelson's "Class Size at the College Level"; Marion L. Faegre's "Child Care and Training"; Chloe Owings' "Studies in Parental Sex Education"; Ruth E. Atkin's "The Measurement of the Intelligence of Young Children by an Object-Fitting Test"; Thomas S. Roberts's "The Birds of Minnesota"; C.O. Rosendahl's "Tree and Shrubs of Minnesota"; Marion L. Vannier's "Nursing Procedures"; Alice Felt Tyler's "A Syllabus of Modern European History"; and Leo J. Brueckner's "Scales for the Rating of Teaching Skill". Also provides list of serial publications and author and title indices.

Physical Description

1 box

36274. Brewer, Luther A.: My Leigh Hunt library., 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: Brewer, Luther A.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; announcement for this privately printed limited first edition; of Brewer's collection the prospectus writes "It is by far the most comprehensive in existence." Order form makes up the bottom half of the p. [3].

Physical Description

1 box

39131. Tinker, Edward Larocque: The palingenesis of craps, 1933. 1 box.
General

Author: Tinker, Edward Larocque

New York: Press of the Woolly Whale

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; decorative border and decorations printed in green and black; fine. Prospectus for the second title published by the Press to be offered for sale.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

39027. Prospectus, 1933. 1 box.
General

London: Woodstock Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, small 8vo; mostly fine, corners a bit creased. Prospectus for 2 upcoming titles from the press, "The Compleat Jockey," from an early seventeenth century text attributed to Gervase Markham; and F. Somner Merryweather's "Bibliomania in the Middle Ages," a new revised edition prepared by H.B. Copinger. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

38131. Publications, 1934. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 13; original white printed wrappers, fine. A complete list of all titles published by the Press, including Ira S. Allison's "Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, No. 22"; William Anderson and Bryce E. Lehman's "An Outline of County Government in Minnesota"; Roland S. Vaile's "Grocery Retailing, with special reference to the effects of competition"; Richard E. Scammon and Leroy A. Calkins' "Development and Growth of the External Dimensions of the Human Body in the Fetal Period"; and James J. Umstattd's "Student Self-Support at the University of Minnesota". Index, pp. 11-13.

Physical Description

1 box

38940. Coppard, A.E.: Cherry ripe poems, 1935. 1 box.
General

Author: Coppard, A.E.

Chepstow, Monmouthshire: Tintern Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; specimen wood engraving by Sylvia Marshall, printed in purple, green, and black;previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for this poetry collection published in an edition not to exceed 200 copies. Specimen page provided.

Physical Description

1 box

38903. Conversations of Dr. Franklin & Mr. Jay, 1936. 1 box.
General

New Haven: Three Monks Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (227 mm.); toning to left-hand edge, else fine. Prospectus for the publication of a recently-discovered manuscript written by John Jay in Paris, 1783-84 while he was working with Franklin to negotiate peace with Britain. Handprinted and designed under the supervision of Carl Purington Rollins, Printer to Yale University.

Physical Description

1 box

38941. Davies, Rhys: The skull, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Davies, Rhys

Chepstow, Monmouthshire: Tintern Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; 3 wood engravings by Sylvia Marshall; previous fold, mostly fine. Prospectus for a short story by Davies to be published in an edition of 110 copies. Specimen pages provided. 2 other titles from the Press mentioned on the back page.

Physical Description

1 box

39016. Van Gogh, Vincent: Letters to an artist...to Anton Ridder van Rappard, 1881-1885. With an introduction by Walter Pach, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Van Gogh, Vincent

New York: Viking Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations, printed in blue and black; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for the publications of a stash of newly discovered illustrated letters by the artist. Printed in 2 editions, one of which is limited to 650 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39148. Church, Peggy Pond: Familiar journey, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Church, Peggy Pond

Santa Fe: Writers' Editions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; fine. Prospectus for a collection of poems in an edition designed and printed at the Rydal Press; limited to 430 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39038. Webb books 1937, 1937. 1 box.
General

St. Paul: Webb Book Publishing Co.

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; original green printed wrappers (soiling); fine. Titles from the press include James M. Drew's course "Blacksmithing"; Maurice H. Decker's "Practical Home Tanning and Fur Dressing"; H.M. Lamon and J. W. Kinghorne's "Practical Poultry Production"; C.S. Plumb's "A study of Farm Animals"; and A.D. Wilson and C.W. Warburton's "Field Crops". Integral order form printed on inside of back wrapper.

Physical Description

1 box

39147. Storm, Marian: The life of Saint Rose. First American saint and only American woman saint, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Storm, Marian

Santa Fe: Writers' Editions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; a bit worn from handling, else fine. Prospectus for a history of the Peruvian saint Rose of Lima, also known for being the first saint born in the New World. Edition limited to 430 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39146. Fechin, Alexandra: March of the past, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Fechin, Alexandra

Santa Fe: Writers' Editions.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, top left-hand corner creased, else fine. Prospectus for a work comprised of 2 stories on the Russian revolution published in an edition limited to 500 signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39401. Walpole, Horace: The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence. Editor: Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Walpole, Horace

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; plate; original blue pictorial wrappers, toned, edges chipped and worn, spine starting to split; title page detached. Provides specimen pages and plate.

Physical Description

1 box

39129. Cary, Melbert B., Jr.: A bibliography of the Village Press...with an account of the genesis of the Press by Frederic W. Goudy and a part of the diary for 1903 of Will Ransom, its co-founder, 1938. 1 box.
General

Author: Cary, Melbert B., Jr.

New York: Press of the Woolly Whale

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for a work "issued to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the founding of the oldest private printing office in America," illustrated in collotype by Goudy, husband and wife, in an edition of 250 copies. 2 specimen pages provided.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

39159. Collectors' items. Books selected from the publications of the Yale University Press and of interest to collectors because of their contents or formats, 1938. 1 box.
General

New Haven: Yale University Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 14; original brown printed wrappers; fine. Titles devided into 5 sections and include "The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb"; Paul Claudel's "The Book of Christopher Colubmus"; Robert W. Neeser's "American Naval Songs and Balloads"; St. John de Crèvecoeur's "Sketches of Eighteenth Century America"; Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews' "Shaker Furniture. The craftsmanship of an American communal sect"; Gisela M.A. Richter's "Red-figured Athenian Vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art"; Hiram Bingham's "The Exploration and Excavation of Machu Picchu"; R. Selden Rose's "Wine Making for the Amateur"; and Jean Ribaut's "The True Relation of the Discovery of Terra Florida. A facsimile reprint".

Physical Description

1 box

39127. A miscellany comprising those books from this Press that may be had by the public and of which copies remain at the time of printing, 1939. 1 box.
General

New York: Press of the Woolly Whale

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; woodcut title page vignette printed in pink, fore-edge tipped in purple; fine. Titles include "The Terms of the Armistice, fourth Armstice Day issue" in sheet aluminum binding; and "Treasure in the Forest: Wells," with colored stencils by W.A. Dwiggins.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

39374. Delightes for ladies to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories with beavties, banqvets, perfumes & waters. Reade, practice, & censure, 1939. 1 box.
General

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Private Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; facsimile title page, text printed in brown and black; fine. Prospectus for a reprint of the original 1609 edition on female cosmetics, "England's first practical treatise on cooking and beauty culture". Integral order form and list of "other similar books" printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

Delightes for ladies to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories with beavties, banqvets, perfumes & waters. Reade, practice, & censure, 1939. 1 box.
General

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Private Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; facsimile title page, text printed in orange and black; fine. Prospectus for a reprint of the original 1609 edition on female cosmetics, "England's first practical treatise on cooking and beauty culture". Integral order form and list of "other similar books" printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39034. Melville, Herman: The encantadas. Or, enchanted isles...With an introduction, critical epilogue & bibliographical notes by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Melville, Herman

Burlingame, California: William P. Wreden

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; text printed in brown and black; mostly fine. Prospectus for a limited edition of 550 copies; order form laid in.

Filed under Wreden.

Physical Description

1 box

36597. Goudy, Frederic W.: Typologia: Studies in type design and type making, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Goudy, Frederic W.

Berkeley: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 8vo; prospectus illustrated with photograph of Goudy ("One of the greatest typographic figures of any year, of any age") at a matrix-engraving machine. Integral address and order form on back page. Order form addressed to Philip C. Duschnes of New York. Previous folds, text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

39130. Dwiggins, W.A.: A technique for dealing with artists, 1941. 1 box.
General

Author: Dwiggins, W.A.

New York: Press of the Woolly Whale

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (83 x 140 mm.); fine. Postcard prospectus for a booklet that "really bridges the gulf between Artist and Business Man" which Dwiggins originally compiled for personal use and to educate his clients.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

37466. Ths is the army, 1942. 1 box.
General

New York: This is the Army, Inc.

Scope and Contents

3 leaves, TLs to Emerson G. Wulling from Col. Chas. F.H. Johnson on company letterhead, 4to; announcing the publication of a work published in order to raise moeny for the Army Emergency Relief Fund, in a limited edition, each copy inscribed by Irving Berlin; introduction by Maxwell Anderson and with contributions by Alexander Woollcott and Hendrik Van Loon, among others. Foxing, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39716. Albright, Rachel: Poems of the middle west, 1942. 1 box.
General

Author: Albright, Rachel

Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; author photograph; previous folds, fore-edge toned and chipped. Provides sample poems, press reviews, and an integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36388. Catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson 1815, 1943. 1 box.
General

Washington: United States Government Printing Office

Scope and Contents

Large 8vo, pp. 17, [1], black and white facsimiles; prospectus for the library that would become the foundation for the Library of Congress.

Physical Description

1 box

39011. Mason, Henry L.: Hymn-tunes of Lowell Mason. A bibliography, 1944. 1 box.
General

Author: Mason, Henry L.

Cambridge, Mass.: University Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; pictorial self wrappers, blue decorative borders; fine. Prospectus for the bibliography of "The Father of Protestant Church Music in America".

Physical Description

1 box

42463. Charter of the United Nations and statute of the International Court of Justice, together with interim arrangements concluded by the governments represented at the United Nations conference on international organization: facsimile edition, 1945. 1 box.
General

Berkeley: University of California Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; facsimiles; previous fold, some soiling; distributor Philip C. Duschnes's rubber stamp on front panel; good over all. Advertisement announcing that "This edition of the United Nations Charter and the accompanying documents is an exact facsimile of the volumes which were officially signed by the delegates of the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco on June 26, 1945". Prospectus provides sample pages in actual and reduced size.

Physical Description

1 box

36595. Mertins, Louis and Esther: The intervals of Robert Frost. A critical bibliography by Louis and Esther Mertins. With an introduction by Fulmer Mood, 1947. 1 box.
General

Author: Mertins, Louis and Esther

Berkeley: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this bibliography, which includes facsimile of a poem in Frost's hand; and an integral order form at bottom of back page. Text in red and black. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39048. Bell, H. Idris and C.H. Roberts: A descriptive catalogue of the Greek papyri in the collection of Wilfred Merton...Volume I. With fifty-one plates, 1948. 1 box.
General

Author: Bell, H. Idris and C.H. Roberts

London: Emery Walker Limited

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a catalogue of the "fifty best" papyri items collected by Wilfred Merton between 1924 and 1926 with collotype facsimiles for each text. Two specimen pages provided

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

36367. The new colophon. A book collectors' quarterly, 1948. 1 box.
General

New York: Zeitlin et VerBrugge

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to, text in black and orange; prospectus for the resuscitation of the Colophon "By the same staff--in the same spirit," giving the names of the editors and contributing editors, including W.A. Dwiggins and Alfred A. Knopf. Back leaf provides information on the format, advertising, and subscription prices. Order form loosely inserted. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

39050. Arberry, A.J., trans.: The Ruba'iyat of Jalal Al-Din Rumi. Select translations into English verse, 1949. 1 box.
General

Author: Arberry, A.J., trans.

London: Emery Walker

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for an English translation of a newly-discovered manuscript in the collection of Chester Beatty, originally containing nearly 2,000 quatrains, but here pared down to 360. Edition to be limited to 500 copies. 2 specimen pages provided.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

39049. Arberry, A.J., ed.: The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam edited from a newly discovered manuscript dated 658 (1259-60) in the possession of A. Chester Beatty...with comparative English versions by Edward Fitzgerald, E.H. Whinefield, and the editor, 1949. 1 box.
General

Author: Arberry, A.J., ed.

London: Emery Walker Limited

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for an edition limited to 500 copies in hand-made paper. 2 specimen pages provided.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

38995. Rollins, Carl Purington: Off the dead bank. Addresses, reviews, and verses, 1949. 1 box.
General

Author: Rollins, Carl Purington

New York: Typophiles

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; decorative borders; previous fold, else fine. Provides specimen page from a work compiled from 4 decades of output by the author. Published in an edition limited to 300 copies and printed at the Yale University Press.

Physical Description

1 box

36602. Bean, Walton: Boss Ruef's San Francisco: The story of the Union Labor Party, big business, and the graft prosecution, 1952. 1 box.
General

Author: Bean, Walton

Berkeley: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for the "dramatic story of political graft, of the man who symbolized it, and of the newspaper man who exposed him". Integral order form at bottom of sheet, photographic illustration on verso. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

Arrighi: The first writing book. An English translation and facsimile text of...Operina, the first manual of the Chancery hand, with introduction and notes by John Howard Benson, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Arrighi

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for an English translation of a text originally printed in Rome in 1522, and the second in the series Studies in the History of Calligraphy, sponsored by Harvard College Library and the Newberry Library. Price written in manuscript in green pen. Typewritten card dated 10/9/54 laid in Inclues price and where to send orders.

Physical Description

1 box

39149. Arrighi: The first writing book. An English translation and facsimile text of...Operina, the first manual of the Chancery hand, with introduction and notes by John Howard Benson, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Arrighi

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for an English translation of a text originally printed in Rome in 1522, and the second in the series Studies in the History of Calligraphy, sponsored by Harvard College Library and the Newberry Library. Price written in manuscript in green pen. Order form addressed to the distributor, the Chiswick Book Shop, New York, laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38972. Blake, William: Songs of innocence and of experience, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Blake, William

London: Trianon Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in brown; fine. Prospectus for a facsimile edition of Blake's illuminated poem, published for the William Blake Trust and distributed in the United States by Philip C. Duschnes. Specimen page, order form, and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39151. Blanck, Jacob: Bibliography of American literature. Volume I, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Blanck, Jacob

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (139 mm.); printed in blue; fine. Prospectus for the first volume of the BAL, covering Henry Adams to Donn Byrne.

Physical Description

1 box

39013. Joyce, James: Letters...Volumes II and III. Edited 1966 by Richard Ellman, 1966. 1 box.
General

Author: Joyce, James

New York: Viking Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; black and white photographic illustrations and facsimiles; edges a bit bumped, else fine. Integral order form addressed to the Gotham Book Mart, New York.

Physical Description

1 box

39160. Hazen, Allen T.: A catalogue of Horace Walpole's library...with "Horace Walpole's Library" by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Hazen, Allen T.

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; 2 black and white illustrations; previous folds, corners a bit creased, else fine. Prospectus for the 3-volume catalogue; specimen page provided; list of the 34 projected volumes of the Walpole correspondence to be complete in 1975 printed on back. Photocopy of an newspaper clipping from the New York Herald Tribune Books, Sunday, January 1, 1933, laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

42488. Kelley, Robert E. and O.M. Brack, Jr.: Samuel Johnson's early biographers, 1970. 1 box.
General

Author: Kelley, Robert E. and O.M. Brack, Jr.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8- (now 6-) sided pamphlet; illustration, printed on stiff tan paper; near fine. Prospectus for a study on seven Johnson biographers with a list of additional books of interest provided. Integral order form has been neatly removed.

Physical Description

1 box

39123. Mueller, Lisel, John Knoepfle, and Dave Etter: Voyages to the inland sea. Essays and poems, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Mueller, Lisel, John Knoepfle, and Dave Etter

La Crosse: Wisconsin State University

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small folio (280 mm.); illustration printed in grey; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for a collection of pieces published jointly with the Center for Contemporary Poetry, the Murphy Library, and the English Department at the University. "The first volume in a projected series on contemporary midwestern poetry". Edition limited to 500 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39124. Pollack, Felix, James Hearst, and John Woods: Voyages to the inland sea, II. Essays and poems, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: Pollack, Felix, James Hearst, and John Woods

La Crosse: University of Wisconsin

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration printed in pink; fine. Prospectus for the second volume in a series of midwestern poetry, edited by John Judson.

Physical Description

1 box

39125. Seventhall, R.E., Thomas McGrath, and Robert Dana: Voyages to the inland sea, 3. Essays and poems, 1973. 1 box.
General

Author: Seventhall, R.E., Thomas McGrath, and Robert Dana

La Crosse: University of Wisconsin

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration printed in mauve; fine. Prospectus for the third volume in a series of midwestern poetry, published in an edition of 400 copies. Specimen page provide; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39008. The Veritas missal for Sundays and principal feasts with the new official liturgical texts of the readings and prayers, 1973. 1 box.
General

Dublin: Veritas Publications

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. [4]; self-wrappers, printed in brown and black; fine. 4 specimen pages provided. Published for the Talbot Press Liturgical Books.

Physical Description

1 box

39126. Greenberg, Alvin, George Chambers, and Raymond Roseliep: Voyages to the inland sea, IV. Essays and poems, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Greenberg, Alvin, George Chambers, and Raymond Roseliep

La Crosse: University of Wisconsin

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration printed in yellow; fine. Prospectus for the fourth volume in a series of midwestern poetry, published in an edition of 500 copies. Excerpt from the introduction by John Judson printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

42471. Heathorn, R.J.: Learn the book, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Heathorn, R.J.

Wayzgoosers.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; printed in red and black; fine. "A magical learning machine using free brain power now ready" - heading title. Prospectus consisting of an excerpt from Heathorn's piece, originally published in "Punch" in 1962.

Physical Description

1 box

39117. Limited editions of books & prints, 1975-6, 1975. 1 box.
General

Cheltenham, Glos.: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 8; black and white illustrations throughout; original orange pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; fine. Titles include Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark"; and an edition of four hand-colored lithographs of Virginia Woolf by Richard Kennedy. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37022. Albers, Josef: Homage to the square, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Albers, Josef

Beford Village, New York: Tyler Graphics Ltd

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; hand printed screen miniature of the artist's last print, Homage to the Square, "commemorating his 88th birthday".

Physical Description

1 box

37018. Albers, Josef: Never before, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Albers, Josef

Beford Village, New York: Tyler Graphics Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this "portfolio of twelve original five-color screen prints"; includes a miniature specimen print.

Physical Description

1 box

39031. A little rebellion now & then. Sixteen of America's finest typographers-printers and an Englishman, print on the American Revolution, 1976. 1 box.
General

Santa Cruz, California: William James Association

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a series of Revolutionary Broadsides in an edition of 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39089. Levine, Philip: The names of the lost, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Levine, Philip

Iowa City: Windhover Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (153 mm.); text printed in red and black; fine. Postcard prospectus for a poetry collection published in a signed limited edition of 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39116. Books to be printed & published...during 1977, 1977. 1 box.
General

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, pp. 15; illustrations, many photographic, throughout; white photographic self wrappers; fine. Titles from the Press include "The Song of Songs"; and "Marlborough, town and countryside". Also includes list of titles still available and integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

42477. Robbins, Rae Gallant: The Bloomsbury group: a selective bibliography, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Robbins, Rae Gallant

Portland: Walking Dream Books.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large 4to; printed on blue paper; fine. Prospectus for the "First bibliography to gather together the members of the Bloomsbury group as an intellectual force". Integral order form provided.

Physical Description

1 box

41000. Wells, Dean F.: The ghosts of Rowan Oak: William Faulkner's ghost stories for children, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Wells, Dean F.

Oxford, MS: Yoknapatawpha Press.

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 8; black and white illustrations; pictorial self wrappers, general light shelf wear, occasional ink check marks in margins, else a good copy. Publisher's catalogue featuring Wells's account of the ghost stories her uncle, William Faulkner, would tell when she was a child. Blank order form printed inside back wrapper.

Physical Description

1 box

38915. TWB books mail-order customer price list, 1981. 1 box.
General

Woolwich, Maine: TBW Books

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 8vo (161 mm.216 mm.); fine. List of titles from the book club with the photocopy of a TLs from Thea Wheelwright. In original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

38962. Fall 1981. The Toothpaste Press catalog, 1981. 1 box.
General

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press

Scope and Contents

Oblong 12mo, unpaginated; black and white illustrations throughout; original blue printed wrappers, fine.

Physical Description

1 box

39245. Kicknosway, Faye: Asparagus, asparagus, ah sweet asparagus, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Kicknosway, Faye

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 8vo (141 x 202 mm.); illustration printed in green; fine. Prospectus for a collection of poetry, illustrated by the author and published in an edition limited to 1200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38963. The Toothpaste Press books in print 1982, 1982. 1 box.
General

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; 2 black and white illustrations, printed on peach paper; previous folds, else fine.

Physical Description

1 box

37021. Stella, Frank: Swan engravings, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Stella, Frank

Bedford Village, New York: Tyler Graphics Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for "A series of black and white etchings on TGL handmade paper"; miniature reproduction of one of the etchings tipped in. "This brochure was printed in an edition of 4000 copies." Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

37020. Motherwell, Robert: Lament for Lorca, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Motherwell, Robert

Beford Village, New York: Tyler Graphics Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 4to; prospectus for handprinted lithograph in an edition limited to 52 copies; miniature of the image tipped in. "This brochure was printed in an edition of 3000 copies." Text in brown and black.

Physical Description

1 box

39063. Werner, Arno: One man's work. Introduced and edited by Carol J. Blinn, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Werner, Arno

Easthampton: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; color illustration; fine. Prospectus for an edition of a speech on bookbinding delivered by Werner at the Houghton Library in 1981. Designed and printed letterpress by Blinn in a limited edition of 200 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38964. [List of titles], 1983. 1 box.
General

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds, else fine. Titles available from the Press in the fall of 1983.

Physical Description

1 box

38961. Winter 1983 titles, 1983. 1 box.
General

St. Paul, MN: Toothpaste Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, small 4to; blue tipped edge; fine. Titles include "Singularities: A science fiction story series" and Thomas M. Disch's "Ringtime". Order form and discount announcement from the distributor Bookslinger laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Books...1983 & 1984, 1983. 1 box.
General

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 15; black and white illustrations throughout; original tan pictorial wrappers, text printed in brown; fine. Titles from the catalogue include "Matrix 3," and "The Mirror and the Eye: fifty Sufi Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam". Integral order form. Some of the books are crossed out and labelled O.P.

Physical Description

1 box

39110. Books...1983 & 1984, 1983. 1 box.
General

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

Small 8vo, pp. 15; black and white illustrations throughout; original tan pictorial wrappers, text printed in brown; fine. Titles from the catalogue include "Matrix 3," and "The Mirror and the Eye: fifty Sufi Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam". Integral order form. Compliments from Blackwell's an invitation to an exhibition of Whittingham Press Books laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39176. Now available. The first book from a new California fine press, 1983. 1 box.
General

Covelo: Yolla Bolly Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for 2 titles from the Press, Louis Adamic's "Robinson Jeffers: a portrait"; and Robinson Jeffers's "Cawdor".

Physical Description

1 box

36601. Boccaccio, Giovanni: Decameron: The John Payne translation revised and annotated by Charles S. Singleton, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni

Berekeley: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for an edition of Boccaccio's masterpiece limited to 2000 copies; order form with pre-addressed envelope and a letter to the "Dear friend of Boccaccio" from James H. Clark, director of the press, loosely inserted. Text in red and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

Fitzenmeyer, Frieda: Once upon a time, book one, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Fitzenmeyer, Frieda

Easthampton: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; color decoration; fine. Laid in reciept for $25. With original envelope addressed to Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

39041. Books...currently available, 1984, 1984. 1 box.
General

St. Paul: Yellow Barn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; title page text printed in green; mostly fine. Prospectus for 4 titles from the Press, distributed by Granary Books; Granary Newsletter 6 laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39064. Hopkins, Kenneth: She is my bright and smiling and shy dear. Poems...Illustrations by Carol J. Blinn, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Hopkins, Kenneth

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; original tan printed wrappers, fine. Thorough prospectus of this poetry collection with sections on the author, the illustrator/printer, and press reviews. Broadside providing printing information in typescript laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39053. Hopkins, Kenneth: She is my bright and smiling and shy dear...Illustrated by Carol J. Blinn, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Hopkins, Kenneth

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Photocopied TLs on Press letterhead; previous folds, else fine. Laid into pictorial bifolium. Prospectus for a collection of poems published in an edition limited to 75 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

I delight in men over seventy, 1985. 1 box.
General

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Small, folded card with a quote from Oscar Wilde. Note in pencil: For Emerson from Carol with affection.

Physical Description

1 box

39114. Books...1985, 1985. 1 box.
General

Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

Small folio, unpaginated; black and white illustrations throughout; original purple pictorial wrappers, printed in blue and black; fine. Titles from the Press include a reprint of "Matrix 1" as well as "Matrix 3"; and "The Wood-engravings of Gwenda Morgan". List of titles still available provided. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

[Empty envelope], 1986. 1 box.
General

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Addressed to Emerson Wulling, postmarked 1986.

Physical Description

1 box

Isn't it about time you collected Warwick Press books?, 1986. 1 box.
General

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium card with an illustration of a duck looking at a clock.

Physical Description

1 box

39055. Blinn, Carol J.: From stripper to publisher or, how printing changed my life, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Blinn, Carol J.

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; fine. Prospectus of two lectures by the owner of the Press, printed in an edition of 125 copies designed and printed letterpress by Blinn.

Physical Description

1 box

39057. Fitzenmeyer, Frieda: Once upon a time/Book two, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Fitzenmeyer, Frieda

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, square 16mo; color illustration; fine. Prospectus for Fitzenmeyer's second book, drawn, printed, and hand watercolored by Carol Blinn. Review reprint from "Fine Print," Volume 13, No. 1, January 1987 laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39113. Books coming...1986-7, 1986. 1 box.
General

Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 15; illustrations, some in color, throughout; original pink pictorial wrappers, printed in black and red; fine. New titles from the Press include "T.E. Lawrence: Letters to E.T. Leeds with a memoir of T.E. Lawrence by E.T. Leeds"; "A Miscellany of Types compiled at the Whittington Press"; and "Matrix 6". List of books still available on p. 15; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37832. Bly, Robert: The winged life: the poetic work of Henry David Thoreau...wood engravings by Michael McCurdy, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Bly, Robert

Covela, CA: Yolla Bolly Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (360 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this work on Thoreau's poetry; limited to 100 copies. Previous folds, light foxing.

Physical Description

1 box

39058. Fitzenmeyer, Frieda: Once upon a time/Book four, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Fitzenmeyer, Frieda

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (226 mm.); previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for the fourth book in Fitzenmeyer's series of children's books. Edition limited to 175 signed copies

Physical Description

1 box

Anderson, Doug: Yankee Magazine article, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Anderson, Doug

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a Jan. 1988 article about the press from Yankee Magazine.

Physical Description

1 box

39112. Wallpapers printed at the Curwen Press with an introduction by David McKitterick, 1988. 1 box.
General

Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for a portfolio published in an edition limited to 100 sets. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39037. Velez de Guevara, Luis: Ines reigned in death...Translated by Joseph R. Jones & Kenneth Muir, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Velez de Guevara, Luis

Lexington: Windell Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a new edition of a seventeenth century Spanish play. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39167. Symons, Julian: Oscar Wilde: a problem in biography...Wood engravings by John de Pol, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Symons, Julian

Iowa City: Yellow Barn Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (233 mm.); wood engraving printed in red; find. Prospectus for the publication of the Lucy Lecture delivered at Amherst College, April 7, 1988. Edition limited to 200 copies and distributed by William Graf Books.

Physical Description

1 box

39175. Muir, John: My first summer in the Sierra, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Muir, John

Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (254 mm.); wood engraving; printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for this illustrated and limited edition celebrating the John Muir sesquicentennial.

Physical Description

1 box

38432. Longstreet, Stephen: Jazz--the Chicago scene. An exhibition...containing retrospective commentary by the artist. With an introduction by Richard Wang. The Joseph Regenstein Library...October-November, 1989, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Longstreet, Stephen

Chicago: University of Chicago

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 28; black and white illustrations throughout; original pictorial wrappers, fine. Exhibition catalogue.

Physical Description

1 box

39076. Blinn, Carol J.: The fabric, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Blinn, Carol J.

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (292 mm.); white hand-made paper laid on blue hand-made paper; text in typescript; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for a Valentine's Day limited edition keepsake of 20 copies of a poetry chap book by Blinn. With red paper heart on which is printed "Take heart!" laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36437. Armajani, Siah: Bridge Book, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Armajani, Siah

Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 4to; prospectus for a book on Armajani's work as a sculptor and proponent of public art: "Seven of Armajani's bridges will be highlighted in the Bridge Book. Images of these bridges will be reconstructed from blocks in the artist's studio and printed in color in wood relief by MCBA's artist-in-resident, Gaylord Schanilec...Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies". Prospectus includes color fold-out of "Fourth Bridge (1974-75), Chicago Illinois". Order form loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

39153. Raphael, Sandra: An oak spring Pomona, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Raphael, Sandra

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; color illustration and reduced illustrated specimen page; fine. Prospectus for the second volume of a series of catalogues describing the other materials at the Oak Spring Garden Library. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

36313. Matrix 11., 1991. 1 box.
General

Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (253 mm.); brown paper prospectus for Matrix 11 in which "we hope to include articles on the current state of European typefounding, Tapa bark papers of the Pacific, the Compulsive Printer of Portage, Indiana, the plates of type-founding engraved in 1694 for the Académie des Sciences (and never before published), John O'Connor's Canals Barges & People, Emery Walker's 1888 lecture on Letterpress Printing, Danish typography and architecture, twentieth-century European punchcutters, hand-printed wallpapers, the Fleece Press, setting up a Monotype workshop, marbling..." Bottom half order form for stiff covers ofr quarter leather.

Physical Description

1 box

39111. Plans for 1991, 1991. 1 box.
General

Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 7; black and white illustrations throughout; original tan pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; fine. Catalogue of upcoming titles from the Press. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36312. Matrix 12., 1992. 1 box.
General

Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (231 mm.); brown paper prospectus for the newest installation of the series in which "we hope to include articles on John and Paul Nash, Chinese Ceremonial Papers, the Fleece Press, Emery Walker's library, hand-cut type ornaments, the Cossar newspaper press, Gage-Cole (the Kelmscott and Cranach pressman), HMSO, the Colum Cille Gaelic type, William Morris and Eric Gill, Japanese Chiyogami papers, the Gregynog [sic] Press, Jan van Krimpen". Bottom half order form for the stiff covers or quarter leather.

Physical Description

1 box

36314. Matrix 2 reprint., 1993. 1 box.
General

Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large 8vo (271 mm.); prospectus for the reprint of Matrix 2 which "will be as much a new edition as a reprint..." Bottom half provides order form for stiff covers (£55) or quarter leather (£175).

Physical Description

1 box

38917. Totem. The Papago legend of the creation of the giant cactus, called saguaro, with twelve photographic images by Wolf von dem Bussche. Introduction by Malcolm Margolin, 1993. 1 box.
General

Berkeley: Three Plowshares

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 8vo; black and white photographic illustrations throughout, text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus comprised mostly of specimen pages. Laid in announcement for Totem portfolios still available as of March 31, 1997.

Physical Description

1 box

37622. H.D.: Within the walls. With wood engravings by Dellas Henke, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: H.D.

Iowa City: Windhover Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; prospectus for this previous unpublished manuscript "by a writer whose work documents the major transformation of modernism"; limited to 300 copies, bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery; 30 copies in binding designed and executed by Pamela Spitzmueller of the Iowa Center of the Book.

Physical Description

1 box

37656. Mellinkoff, Ruth: Outcasts: signs of otherness in northern European art of the late Middle Ages, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Mellinkoff, Ruth

Berkeley: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a new title from the California Studes in the History of Art, described as a "richly illustrated two-volume study...[on] the motifs, attributes, artistic devices, and themes used by medieval artists to brand or denigrat5e those figures considered outcases: Jews, heretics, Muslims, blacks, executioners, prostitutes, lepers, gamblers, footsoldiers, entertainers, and peasants"; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37813. Jay, Ricky et al.: The magic magic book. An inquiry into the venerable history & operation of the oldest trick conjuring volumes, designated "blow books"...adorned with original renderings from the atelier of these esteemed delineators of artistic impression: Vija Celmins, Jane Hammond, Glenn Ligon, Justen Ladda, Philip Taaffe, William Wegman..., 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Jay, Ricky et al.

New York: Whitney Museum Library

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, small 4to; prospectus for this pictorial work, limited to 225 copies, plus 75 artists' copies. Notes on contributors printed on back; color specimen print laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37701. The Holy Bible, 1995. 1 box.
General

New York: Turner Publishing

Scope and Contents

2 stapled leaves, 4to; prospectus for a "Vatican Library Bible"; TLS from Laura Farb, Assistant to the Senior Director of Special Sales, addressed to Mr. Rob Mulon-Miller [sic]; with photographic illustration of the finished piece.

Physical Description

1 box

39030. The illustrators to the St Dominic's Press. An exhibition of private press books & the wood engravings made by Eric Gill, Desmond Chute, David Jones, Philip Hagreen & other artists from the Press between 1916 & 1937, 1995. 1 box.
General

London: Wolseley Fine Arts Plc

Scope and Contents

Broadisde, 8vo (210 mm.); black and white photographic illustrations; printed in red and black. Prospectus for the exhibition catalogue printed in association with the Rocket Gallery; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37842. Book farm. Fall 1995, 1995. 1 box.
General

Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; list of upcoming and available titles from the Press, including "The Bread of Days," classical Mexican poetry translated by Samuel Beckett; D.H. Lawrence's "The Man who Died"; John Steinbeck's "Zapata"; Ambrose Bierce's "One of the Missing"; MFK Fisher's "Boss Dog"; and Wallace Stegner's "Two Rivers". Order form and pre-addressed envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

Valentine's day greetings from Warwick Press & Carol J. Blinn, 1996. 1 box.
General

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium card with an illustration of a duck on the front.

Physical Description

1 box

Hall, Donald: Ric's progress. A poem...Drawings by Carol J. Blinn, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Hall, Donald

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo; previous fold, else fine. With announcement for dealer discounts.

Physical Description

1 box

39196. Packer, James E.: The forum of Trajan in Rome. A study of the monuments. Volume one, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Packer, James E.

Berkeley: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated unbound leaves; color and black and white illustrations; fine. Specimen pages reduced at seventy-five percent of original size provided; contents for all three volumes listed on back. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39322. Stevens, Wallace: Vassar viewed veraciously. 16 pencil sketches...with an introduction & notes by D.H. Woodward, 1997. 1 box.
General

Author: Stevens, Wallace

Iowa City: Windhover Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustration; fine. Prospectus for this edition limited to 350 copies, designed and printed by Janice Frey, Don Howell, Kim Merker, and Jim Snitzer at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. Provides 2 quotes from the introduction.

Physical Description

1 box

[Empty envelope], 1998. 1 box.
General

Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Addressed to Emerson Wulling. A phone # and notes written in pencil on the front: M Dec '98 ordered, Postmarked 23 Freb 1998. Came with Smitty's Cocks?

Physical Description

1 box

42485. Garland, Hamlin: The return of a private...Wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Garland, Hamlin

Council Bluffs, IA: Yellow Barn Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; wood engraving in blue, black, and white; near fine. Prospectus for Garland's 1891 short story, here published in a limited edition of 150 copies. Envelope for order form (lacking) and small slip advertising dealer discounts laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

[Empty envelope], 1999. 1 box.
General

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Addressed to Emerson Wulling, postmarked 1999.

Physical Description

1 box

36407. Roberts, Thomas S.: The birds of Minnesota, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Roberts, Thomas S.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; color reproduction of the frontispiece to Volume 2; prospectus announces ninety-two full-page color plates and a choice between a gold-stamped cloth binding and a de luxe binding designed by William A. Kitteridge, limited to 300 numbered and signed copies. Includes sample pages vol. 1, p. 280 and vol. 2, p. 334, both of which have illustrations in text.

Physical Description

1 box

39026. Shaw, Bernard: The collected works of George Bernard Shaw, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Shaw, Bernard

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for the trade publication of the Ayot St. Lawrence Edition of Shaw's complete works in 30 volumes, limited to 1790 numbered sets. Specimen page from the Preface provided. Distributed by Jake Zeitlin, Los Angeles.

Physical Description

1 box

39023. Wilde, Oscar: The selfish giant, 1931. 1 box.
General

Author: Wilde, Oscar

New Rochelle, New York: Walpole Printing Office

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; tinted illustration printed in grey; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for Wilde's fairy tale in an edition of 750 copies, illustrated by André Durenceau and printed by the Peter Pauper Press. Specimen page and integral order form included.

Physical Description

1 box

39029. Declaration of independence, 1931. 1 box.
General

New Rochelle, New York: Walpole Printing Office

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large 8vo (253 mm.); text printed in orange and black; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for "A matchless edition" of the Declaration of Independence, printed jointly by the Walpole Press and the Peter Pauper Press in an edition of 950 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

44642. Specimen pages reprinted from some of the books made at the Press of the Woolly Whale, N.Y. [drop title], 1932. 1 box.
General

New York: Press of the Woolly Whale

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaged; text printed in red, blue, and black; original string-tied self-wrappers; fine. Includes specimen pages from Eleanor Hallowell Abbott's Christmas chapbook "Molly Make-Believe" (1931); Richard Le Gallienne's poem "War" (1929); the Press's first publication, James Russell Lowell's "The Vision of Sir Launfal" (1928); and "Mademoiselle from Armentières" (1930), illustrated by Alban B. Butler, Jr.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

36551. Goodspeed, Edgar J.: The Rockefeller McCormick New Testament. Edited by Edgar J. Goodspeed, Donald W. Riddle, and Harold R. Willoughby, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: Goodspeed, Edgar J.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus for a facsimile edition of this holograph illuminated Bible, "found in 1927...in a Paris antique shop". Prospectus includes the contents of each volume (v.1: color facsimiles; v. 2: The text; v. 3: The miniatures"). Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39014. Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of: The letters...edited, with an introduction, by Bonamy Dobrée. In six volumes, 1932. 1 box.
General

Author: Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

New York: Viking Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. 8; original pink wrappers, printed in red; small tears along edges, otherwise a good copy. Prospectus for the first complete edition of the letters of Lord Chesterfield, "containing some fourteen hundred hitherto unpublished letters"; table of contents and specimen page provided. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38692. Schweizer graphische mitteilungen. Revue suisse de l'art et des industries graphiques. The Swiss printing review, 1933. 1 box.
General

St. Gallen: Zollikofer & Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; fine. Prospectus for this monthly publication printed in German, French and English.

Physical Description

1 box

38912. [List of 3 books], 1936. 1 box.
General

Meriden, Connecticut: Timothy Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); fine. List of 3 titles from the Press, Albert Carlos Bates's "Some Notes on Early Connecticut Printers"; Gregg Anderson's "Recollections of the Grabhorn Press"; and "The DeVinne & Marion Presses. A Chapter from the Autobiography of Frank E. Hopkins".

Physical Description

1 box

39033. Evelyn, John: Acetaria, a discourse of sallets, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Evelyn, John

Brooklyn, New York: Woman's Auxiliary, Brooklyn Botanical Garden

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; facsimile of the original 1699 edition; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a facsimile edition of an early work on salad herbs, originally published in London by B. Tooke. Printed by the Haddon Craftsmen in a limited edition of an undetermined number. Integral order form and envelope addressed in manuscript to Dean Frederick J. Wulling; postmarked stamp.

Physical Description

1 box

39156. Walpole, Horace: The Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence. Edited by W.S. Lewis, 1937. 1 box.
General

Author: Walpole, Horace

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; pictorial self-wrappers; fine. Prospectus includes excerpts from the correspondence with Anne, Countess of Upper Ossory; press reviews; and a list of subscribing libraries and institutions, in order of state or country. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38978. Powys, Llewelyn: A baker's dozen, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Powys, Llewelyn

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (190 mm.); printed in orange and black; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for an autographed limited edition of 493 numbered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39375. Hyll, Thomas: A most briefe and pleasaunt treatyse, teachynge howe to dress, sowe and set a garden, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Hyll, Thomas

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, facsimile of original title page printed in brown; fine. Prospectus for a reprint of the "earliest book on gardening to be published in the English language". Integral order form printed on back. Identical to the other copy except the "Announcing is printed in black and the title in brown.

Physical Description

1 box

Hyll, Thomas: A most briefe and pleasaunt treatyse, teachynge howe to dress, sowe and set a garden, 1939. 1 box.
General

Author: Hyll, Thomas

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, facsimile of original title page printed in brown; fine. Prospectus for a reprint of the "earliest book on gardening to be published in the English language". Integral order form printed on back. Identical to the other copy except the "Announcing is printed in brown and the title in black.

Physical Description

1 box

39152. An unusual printer's specimen book, 1939. 1 box.
General

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (82 x 140 mm.); fine. Postcard prospectus for a compilation of the specimen types from the Press's composing room.

Physical Description

1 box

38976. Smith, George W.: When Lincoln came to Egypt, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Smith, George W.

Herrin, Illinoi: Trovillion Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; black and white portrait of Lincoln; mostly fine. Prospectus for the Limited Autographed Edition. Integral order blank.

Physical Description

1 box

36579. Smith, George W.: When Lincoln came to Egypt, 1940. 1 box.
General

Author: Smith, George W.

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Private Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrative portrait of Lincoln on front cover; prospectus announcing "A new Lincoln book--with much new matter". Also gives author biography and a note on the book's production, "set in 12 point Kenntonian type, printed on Virgil White Wove antique paper...designed by Hal W. Trovillion...End papers, consisting of a pictorial map of Southern Illinois, tracing various places visited by Lincoln, drawn by William J. Goodacre, distinguished illustrator and map-maker of Santa Barbara." Order blank on bottom of back page. Brown text, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38975. Trovillion, Violet and Hal W.: The tussie mussies. A collection of flower and garden sentiments in prose and poetry, 1941. 1 box.
General

Author: Trovillion, Violet and Hal W.

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; fine. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

36596. Goudy, Frederic W.: The alphabet and elements of lettering. Revised and enlarged with many full-page plates & other illustrations drawn and arranged by the author, 1942. 1 box.
General

Author: Goudy, Frederic W.

Berkeley: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus provides the table of contents and an integral order form at bottom of back page; text in red and black. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39015. Woollcott, Alexander: The letters...Edited and with an introduction by Beatrice Kaufman and Joseph Hennessey, 1944. 1 box.
General

Author: Woollcott, Alexander

New York: Viking Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small. 8vo; black and white photograph and facsimile; previous fold, else fine.

Physical Description

1 box

39005. Ettenberg, Eugene M: Type for books and advertising, 1947. 1 box.
General

Author: Ettenberg, Eugene M

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; black and white reduced specimen page facsimiles and author photograph; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for a handbook that "puts at your command the fundamentals of typography and the work of outstanding present-day designers for use in improving your working skill with type faces".

Physical Description

1 box

39039. Indiana authors and their books, 1949. 1 box.
General

Indiana: Wabash College

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (152 mm.); a bit soiled, else fine. Prospectus for a work produced by Wabash College and the Lilly Endowment.

Physical Description

1 box

36299. Walker, R.A.: How to detect Beardsley forgeries., 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Walker, R.A.

Beford U.K.: R.A. Walker

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (215 mm.); prospectus for a limited edition of 25o, of which 215 will be for sale. "Printed by The Leagrave Press on Basingwerk Parchment, Demy 8vo, in Garamond type..." Previous folds, slight tear to right-hand edge not affecting text.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

36450. Winters, Yvor: In defense of reason, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Winters, Yvor

Denver, Colorado: University of Denver Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 16mo (140 mm.); postcard prosectus addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press and postmarked Nov. 27 1950, announcing the reprint of Winter's work of criticism. Printed by the University of Denver Press in cooperation with The Swallow Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38328. Johannsen, Albert: The house of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Johannsen, Albert

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to; typescript letter on Press letterhead titled "A memo"; previous folds. Prospectus mostly comprised of press reviews, most substantially from the Antiquarian Bookman.

Physical Description

1 box

36603. Donne, John: The sermons of John Donne, edited, with introductions and critical appartus, by George R. Potter and Evelyn M. Simpson. Vol. 1, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Donne, John

Berkeley: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus of the first volume (of ten) of Donne's sermons, illustrated with facsimile of the fronispiece of LXXX Sermons (1640); includes specimen page (223) and a description of the edition. Integral order form at bottom of last page. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38129. Belgen, Theodore C. et al.: Book collecting and scholarship. Essays by Theodore C. Blegen, James Ford Bell, Stanley Pargellis, Colton Storm, & Louis B. Wright, 1954. 1 box.
General

Author: Belgen, Theodore C. et al.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 12mo; text in red and black, previous fold. Prospectus for three titles from the Press, with special emphasis on "Book Collecting and Scholarship"; other titles include "Jesuit Relations and other Americana in the Library of James F. Bell". Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

36604. Donne, John: The sermons of John Donne, edited, with introductions and critical appartus, by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter. Vol. 6, 1955. 1 box.
General

Author: Donne, John

Berkeley: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for the sixth (of ten) volume of Donne's sermons; illustrated with a of the author by an anonymous artist. Includes specimen page (292) and integral order form at the bottom of the last page.

Physical Description

1 box

38973. Blake, William: William Blake's illustrations to the Bible, 1957. 1 box.
General

Author: Blake, William

Jura, France: Trianon Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; 6 black and white specimen illustrations; original grey printed wrappers, some light toning along edges, fine. Prospectus for an edition of Blake's Biblical illustrations, of which there are almost 200, published in celebration of the bicentenary of Blake's birth for the William Blake Trust in an edition of 506 copies. Order form and envelope laid in. A list of previous titles from the Trust printed inside back wrapper.

Physical Description

1 box

38128. Publications from the James Ford Bell collection of special interest to book collectors and historians, 1957. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text in red and black, fine. Prospectus for three titles from the Press; intergral order form; specimen pages from each publication laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39154. Johnson, Samuel: The Yale edition of the works of Samuel Johnson, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Johnson, Samuel

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; engraved portrait of Johnson; previous fold, edges toned, else fine. Prospectus for the first volume of the complete set of Johnson's works. Integral order form printed on back.

Physical Description

1 box

39009. Rabbula gospels (Syriac ms. Pluteus I, Pars anterior, No. 56 of the Biblioteca Medica-Laurenziana of Florence), 1959. 1 box.
General

Olten: Urs Graf-Verlag

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, minor soiling, else fine. Prospectus for the facsimile edition of the oldest illuminated manuscripts of the gospels preserved in its entirety; introduction by Mario Salmi, iconographical analysis by Carlo Cecchelli, and linguistic-paleographical analysis by Giovanni Furlani; edition limited to 680 numbered copies. Integral order form addressed to the United States distributor Philip C. Duschnes.

Physical Description

1 box

37467. Beckmann, Josef Hermann and Ingeborg Schroth, eds.: Picture Bible of the late Middle Ages. M. 334 in the possession of the University Library, Freiburg i. Br. and M. 719-720 in the possession of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1960. 1 box.
General

Author: Beckmann, Josef Hermann and Ingeborg Schroth, eds.

Lonstanz, Germany: Jan Thorbecke Verlag

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this limited edition facsimile; color facsimile illustration tipped in; American distributor Philip C. Duschnes, New York.

Physical Description

1 box

39281. The typographic book 1450-1935, 1963. 1 box.
General

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; printed in orange-brown and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a survey exhibiting "upwards of three hundred and fifty title and text pages drawn from presses working in the European tradition"; introduction by Stanley Morison, supplemental material by Kenneth Day. With order form and envelope; a 2-page typescript description of the title on special press letterhead; in original specially printed envelope for the prospectus.

Physical Description

1 box

37589. Morison, Stanley and Kenneth Day: The typographic book, 1450-1935, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: Morison, Stanley and Kenneth Day

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; typescript description and order form laid in; specimen page (12) provided on back page.

Physical Description

1 box

36238. Moran, James: The composition of reading matter., 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Moran, James

London: Wace & Company Limited

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to, illustrative reproductions on pp. [2-3] of the publicized work's pp. 34 and 47; bottom half of front and back advertising the publication of Moran's study on the history of the setting of alphabet characters "from the composition of type by hand to film-setting and the use of computers". Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

38999. Speckter, Martin K.: Disquisition on the composing stick, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Speckter, Martin K.

New York: Typophiles

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; black and white photographic illustration; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus for Typophilr Chap Book No. 49. Checklist of Typophile chap books still in print printed on back. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39093. Shaw, Bernard: Passion play. A dramatic fragment, 1878, 1971. 1 box.
General

Author: Shaw, Bernard

Iowa City: Windhover Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, small stain on back, else fine. Prospectus for a blank verse fragment originally written when Shaw was 22.

Physical Description

1 box

44694. Patteeuw, Roland.: Etalon: facetten van geometrisch-abstrakte en konstruktieve kunst na 1945, 1972. 1 box.
General

Author: Patteeuw, Roland.

Tielt: Veys, Uitgeverij E.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; author photographic portrait, text printed in blue; fine. Text in Dutch.

Physical Description

1 box

39036. Year of the dog, 1972. 1 box.
General

Putney, Vermont: Year of the Dog Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; 2 Japanese characters on front printed in red; woodcut printed in blue-green; fine. Prospectus for the first number of a periodical "offering a fusion of art with poetry, essays, and short fiction. The issue to be printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Manuscript note laid in apologization for a delay in publication.

Physical Description

1 box

38911. Toucan Press books, 1973. 1 box.
General

Guernsey: Toucan Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; woodcut illustration; previous folds, else fine. Catalogue of titles from the Press, divided by subject. Works include John Lauson's "The Felon's Account of his Transportation at Virginia in America" (printed in two edition); a collection of Guernsey Historical Monographs; and the third "Thomas Hardy Year Book". Broadside prospectus for "The Mysterious Power of Linda Martel" by Ray Marter, laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

37019. Albers, Josef: Gray instrumentations I, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Albers, Josef

Bedford Village, New York: Tyler Workshop Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for a "portfolio of twelve original hand printed silkscreen prints"; miniature handprinted screen speciman tipped in. With original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

38130. Eddy, Samuel and Thaddeus Surber: Northern fishes, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Eddy, Samuel and Thaddeus Surber

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; black and white illustrations. Prospectus for this work describing 153 fishes with 93 illustrations; also mentions three other publications, including Clyde M. Christensen's "Common Edible Mushrooms". Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38959. The Toothpaste Press catalog, 1975. 1 box.
General

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press

Scope and Contents

Oblong 12mo, unpaginated; black and white illustrations throughout; original green printed wrappers, fine.

Physical Description

1 box

36432. Jones, Dan Burne: The prints of Rockwell Kent: A catalogue raisonné...With a foreward by Carl Zigrosser, 1975. 1 box.
General

Author: Jones, Dan Burne

Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, oblong 8vo; illustrated with three of Kent's prints; order form on back cover, signed by the author. Three book plates designed by Kent for the author loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

38956. Hilton, David: The candleflame. Poems, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Hilton, David

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; fine. Postcard prospectus for this poetry collection printed in an edition limited to 750 copies. Includes specimen poem and a list of other forthcoming and available titles printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

38957. New Toothpaste Press books, 1976. 1 box.
General

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; printed on yellow-orange paper; fine.

Physical Description

1 box

39066. Blinn, Carol J.: On becoming three & thirty, 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Blinn, Carol J.

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 12mo (102 x 152 mm.); printed in green and black; minor ink stains, else fine. Postcard prospectus for a celebration of the Press's third anniversary and the author/printer's thirtieth birhtday.

Physical Description

1 box

37924. Grosjean, Georges: Mapamundi: der katalanische weltatlas aus dem jarhe 1375. Mit ausführlichem historischem und kartographischem kommentar..., 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Grosjean, Georges

Dietikon-Zürich: Urs Graf Verlag

Scope and Contents

Singe sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, folio; color photographic illustrations. Prospectus in German.

Physical Description

1 box

39056. Abe, Eishiro: [Print], 1977. 1 box.
General

Author: Abe, Eishiro

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; text printed on special hand-made paper tipped in; fine. Prospectus for a limited edition of 100 of a print of Eishiro Abe, "papermaker and Living National Treasure of Japan. The calligraphy, Nagashizuki, mite tanoshi translates "Nagashizuki, a joy to watch". In original envelope in which this prospectus was mailed.

Physical Description

1 box

39007. Voet, L.: The Plantin Press at Antwerp (1555-1589). A bibliography, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Voet, L.

Amsterdam: B.V. Uitgeverij W. van Hoeve

Scope and Contents

8vo, pp. unpaginated; black and white facsimile; fine. 2 specimen pages and integral order form provided.

Filed under U.

Physical Description

1 box

38955. Morice, Dave: A visit from St. Alphabet, 1980. 1 box.
General

Author: Morice, Dave

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for a poem reworking The Night Before Christmas. Specimen illustration laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39006. Titles in print, 1980. 1 box.
General

Greensboro, North Carolina: Unicorn Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo, fine. List of titles separated by series, such as Important Asian and Third World Translations, Unicorn French Series, Unicorn German Serioes, and the Unicorn Keepsake Series. Titles include the second printing of Apollinaire's "Calligrams"; and "Ca Dao Vietnam: a bilingual anthology of Vietnamese folk poetry".

Physical Description

1 box

38994. Kershaw, Alister: Adrian Lawlor: a memoir...Illustrated by Anthony Palliser, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Kershaw, Alister

Francestown, New Hampshire: Typographeum Bookshop

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (215 mm.); fine. Prospectus for a memoir on the Australian artist and writer in an edition handset and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk in an edition of 85 numbered and signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38989. Risk, R.T.: Why Potocki?, 1981. 1 box.
General

Author: Risk, R.T.

Francestown, New Hampshire: Typographeum Bookshop

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (216 mm.); fine. Prospectus for "the account of three visits made by the author to the Villa Vigoni, the Provençal home of the eccentric private printer and poet, Count Potocki of Montalk. Handset and printed by the author in an edition limited to 100 numbered and signed copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36311. Matrix 2 reprint, 1982. 1 box.
General

Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (252 mm.); brown paper prospectus for a reprint Matrix 2 the "rarest of the series," having been originally published in an edition of 450 with 40 specials in 1982. Includes articles on Russian wood-engraving, Gill's designs for the Golden Cockerel Type, the technique of Chinese wood-block printing, the restoration of iron hand-presses, René Hague and the Press at Pigotts, Brocard Sewell's "My Days at the St Dominic's Press," antique wood type at I.M. Imprint, Rampant Lions and Senecio Presses. "The print run will be based on the initial demand." Bottom quarter order form for stiff covers or quarter leather.

Physical Description

1 box

36599. Morris, William: The ideal book: Essays and lectures on the arts of the book...Edited with an introduction by William S. Peterson, 1982. 1 box.
General

Author: Morris, William

Berkeley, California: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (278 mm.); illustrated advertisement for this collection of Morris essays. Integral order form at bottom of page, integral postage on verso, addressed to Emerson G. Wulling. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39088. New titles (and some earlier ones), 1982. 1 box.
General

Iowa City: Windhover Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, oblong 8vo; woodcut, text printed in red and black; fine. Titles from the list include the fourteenth-century French play "Robert the Devil," translated by W.S. Merwin; and William Morris's "Socialist Diary".

Physical Description

1 box

36600. Malory, Sir Thomas: Caxton's Malory: A new edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le morte darthur based on the Pierpont Morgan copy of William Caxton's edition of 1485. Edited with an introduction and critical appara tus by James W. Spisak. Based on work begun by the William Matthews. With a dictionary of names and places by Bert Dillon, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Malory, Sir Thomas

Los Angeles: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus with page and photographic illustrations of the book proper, printed in two volumes. Order form and a letter "To the reader from the publisher" loosely inserted. Previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

39090. Gioia, Dana: Daily horoscope, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: Gioia, Dana

Iowa City: Windhaven Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 16mo (102 x153 mm.); printed in red and black; fine. Postcard prospectus for a collection of six poems in an edition limited to 225 copies and illustrated with a linoleum cut by Thomas Kovas.

Physical Description

1 box

36389. Hodson, Donald: County atlases of the British Isles published after 1703. A bibliography, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Hodson, Donald

Herfordshire, England: Tewin Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (293 mm.); prospectus for Volume 1: Atlases published 1704 to 1742 and their subsequent editions. Order form provided at bottom of page. Blue paper, previous folds, publisher's original address crossed out and replaced with "16 Hertford Road" in pencil.

Physical Description

1 box

38991. Campbell, Roy: Mass at dawn. A poem set to music by Christopher Connolly, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Campbell, Roy

Francestown, New Hampshire: Typographeum Bookshop

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (216 mm.); fine. Prospectus for a work handset and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk in an edition limited to 80 copies signed by the composer.

Physical Description

1 box

39091. Slesinger, Warren: With some justification, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Slesinger, Warren

Iowa City: Windhover Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (169 mm.); fine. Postcard prospectus for "Nine poems in the form of dictionary definitions".

Physical Description

1 box

39092. Williams, William Carlos: Flowers of August. Drawings by Keith Achepohl, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Williams, William Carlos

Iowa City: Windhover Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 12mo (125 x 157 mm.); fine. Prospectus for a poetry collection originally appearing in "Others for 1919: An anthology of new verse".

Physical Description

1 box

39094. D'Almeida, George: Memoirs of an Ismaric spear, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: D'Almeida, George

Iowa City: Windhover Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 16mo; printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for a poem spoken by the spear of Archilochus, the Greek satiric poet and mercenary soldier. Published in a limited edition of 230 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38909. Hickman, Leland, ed.: Temblor contemporary poets, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Hickman, Leland, ed.

North Hollywood, CA: Temblor

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); previous folds, water damage. Prospectus for the sixth issue of this short-lived poetry magazine, which was published from 1985 to 1987. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38960. The Toothpaste Press spring cleaning sale, 1985. 1 box.
General

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (355 mm.); printed on blue paper; previous fold, else fine. Order form for all available titles from the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38988. Gribble, George Dunning: Scarecrows. A dialogue...With an introduction by Guy Gribble, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Gribble, George Dunning

Francestown, New Hampshire: Typographeum Bookshop

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (216 mm.); fine. Prospectus for a play by a little-known British author, popular in the 1920s. Handset and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk in an edition of 75 numbered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39177. Miller, Joaquin: True bear stories...Foreword by William Everson. Woodblocks by Vincent Perez, 1985. 1 box.
General

Author: Miller, Joaquin

Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 12mo; black and white photographic illustration and one other illustration; mostly fine. Prospectus for the fourth and final title from the Press's California Writers of the Land series. Edition limited to 250 copies; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38908. Emory, William H.: William H. Emory's report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Emory, William H.

Austin: Texas State Historical Association

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, folio; illustrations, some in color, throughout; edges a bit worn, else fine. Prospectus for a new edition of Emory's report, originally published in 3 volumes from 1857 to 1859. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

38993. Mosley, Diana: The writing of Rebecca West. With a new afterword, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Mosley, Diana

Francestown, New Hampshire: Typographeum Bookshop

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (215 mm.); printed in blue and black; fine. Prospectus for a work hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk in an edition of 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39072. Fitzenmeyer, Frieda: Once upon a time [book three], 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Fitzenmeyer, Frieda

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; color illustration; fine. Prospectus for the third book of a series of children's books written by Fitzenmeyer and illustrated by Carol J. Blinn. Edition limited to 175 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39321. Blake, William: Illustrations of the book of Job in twenty-one plates, invented and engraved, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Blake, William

London: William Blake Trust.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustration reproduced in black and white; fine. List of titles in the Illuminated Books Collected Edition printed on back; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39032. Nash, John: The wood-engravings, 1987. 1 box.
General

Author: Nash, John

Liverpool: Wood Lea Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 4to; 4 wood-engravings; corners and edges a bit creased, else fine. Prospectus for a catalogue of Nash's wood-engravings, compiled by Jeremy Greenwood with an introduction by John O'Connor; printed by W.S. Maney & Son in two limited editions, one of 750 copies, the other of 50 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39035. Zweig, Janet: Sheherezade. A flip book...with moving text...by Holly Anderson, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Zweig, Janet

Cambridge, MA: Janet Zweig

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 12mo (109 x 153 mm.); illustration; text printed in silver on stiff purple paper; fine. Postcard prospectus, postmarked.

Filed under Z.

Physical Description

1 box

38992. White, Claire Nicolas: River boy...Drawings by Robert White, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: White, Claire Nicolas

Francestown, New Hampshire: Typographeum Bookshop

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (215 mm.); fine. Prospectus for a short story "about a boy's exploration of the Nissequogue River on Long Island" in an edition hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk in an edition limited to 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39010. Wormell, Christopher, wood engraver: English country traditions...Text by Ian Niall, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Wormell, Christopher, wood engraver

London: Victoria and Albert Museum

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; wood engravings; fine. Prospectus for a title printed by the Hand Press Limited, Westerham, Kent; order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39069. Great leftovers (and a few new offerings), 1989. 1 box.
General

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; white pictorial wrappers; fine. Catalogue of titles available from the Press. Order form laid in. With original envelope. Contains a form for updating mailing list address.

Physical Description

1 box

39078. Barr, John: The war zone. Poems, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Barr, John

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for "the first complete publication of Mr. Barr's poems about the Vietnam War" in an edition limited to 500 copies designed and printed letterpress by Carol J. Blinn.

Physical Description

1 box

39172. Colebrook, Frank: William Morris: master-printer...A lecture given on the evening of November 27, 1896 to students of the printing school, St. Bride Foundation Institute in London. With an introduction by William S. Peterson. Wood engravings by John De Pol, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Colebrook, Frank

Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; woodcut printed in grey; fine. Distributed by William Graf Books, Iowa City.

Physical Description

1 box

39067. Fitzenmeyer, Frieda: Once upon a time/Book five, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Fitzenmeyer, Frieda

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; color decorative border; fine. The fifth in a series of children's pop-up books by Fitzenmeyer, illustrations by Carol J. Blinn. Edition limited to 125 copies, designed, printed, and bound by Blinn.

Physical Description

1 box

37681. The Russians: Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, 1991. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: Neil Uchitel

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for the first book printed by Uchitel at the USC Fine Arts Press in an edition of 50 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36403. Armajani, Siah: Bridge Book, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Armajani, Siah

Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center

Scope and Contents

Broadside, small 8vo (172 mm.); poster board post card announcing the availability of the book at the Walker Art Center and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Stamped and addressed to Rob Rulon-Miller, St. Paul, MN. Verso illustrated.

Physical Description

1 box

39173. Saxe, Stephen O.: American iron hand presses: the story of the development of the iron hand press...Wood engravings by John DePol, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Saxe, Stephen O.

Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; wood engravings; fine. Prospectus provides a list of the presses covered by the finished piece; these include the Stanhope Press and the Albion Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39171. Morris, Willie: My two Oxfords...Wood engravings by John DePol, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Morris, Willie

Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; wood engraving, blue decorative front; fine. Prospectus for a limited edition of 210 copies signed by the author and the artist.

Physical Description

1 box

37655. Lillich, Meredith Parsons: The armor of light. Stained glass in western France, 1250-1325, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Lillich, Meredith Parsons

Berkeley: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a new title in the California Studies in the History of Art, described as "the first to look closely at the Gothic stained glass of western France during the late Capetian era"; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37734. Michael, Ian: Early textbooks in English, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Michael, Ian

Reading: University of Reading, Reading and Language Information Centre

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; prospectus for an addition to the Textbook Studies series and the Colloquium on Textbooks, Schools and Society; order form addressed to U.S. distributor, Ian Jackson, Berkeley, CA.

Physical Description

1 box

39077. Limited edition posters, 1993. 1 box.
General

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (228 mm.); color illustration vignette at top of Broadside; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for 2 posters, both announcing lectures, the first at the University of Kentucky ("Warwick Press: A personal view"), the latter at the University of Vermont ("On-the-job Training at WarwickPress, or, How I got my spotty business education while trying to print").

Physical Description

1 box

37573. Computer talk made easy, 1993. 1 box.
General

Highlands Ranch, CO: Wells International

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

37636. Beerbohm, Max: A stranger in Venice, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Beerbohm, Max

London: Winged Lion

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for Beerbohm's essay on Venice, written after traveling through Italy in 1906; edition designed by Simon Rendall and printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona; edition limited to 780 numbered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39174. Symons, Julian: Does literature exist?...The Lurcy Lecture, Amherst College, March, 1992, 1993. 1 box.
General

Author: Symons, Julian

Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; blue decorative border, title page text printed in red; fine. Prospectus for the reprint of a lecture, "an attack on deconstruction and some of its principal practitioners in literature, a talk by turns indignant and gently ironic". Specimen page provided. Distributed by Truepenny Books, Tuscon.

Physical Description

1 box

37793. Rendell, Kennth W.: Forging history: the detection of fake letters and documents, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Rendell, Kennth W.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus with emphasis on Rendall's hand in uncovering the forgery of the Hitler diaries. Small mention of another title from the Press, Charles Hamilton's "American Autographs: Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War Leaders, Presidents"; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

39068. Blinn, Carol J.: Night flight. A poem, 1994. 1 box.
General

Author: Blinn, Carol J.

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, oblong 12mo (114 x 135 mm.); decorations printed in blue and yellow; fine. Prospectus for an "intimate short poem" describing "her singular adventure while flying at night in a small airplane". Printed letterpress in an edition of 50 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

36310. Matrix 15, 1995. 1 box.
General

Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (231 mm.); pink paper prospectus for the 15th issue of the Matrix, "rather too far off to be able to predict its contents with much certainty". Bottom half order sheet for copies in stiff covers and in quarter leather.

Physical Description

1 box

37699. Garrett, Wendell D.: Monticello and the legacy of Thomas Jefferson...with architectural drawings from the Historic American Building Survey, annotated by William L. Beiswanger, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Garrett, Wendell D.

New York: Thornwillow Press

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; original pink printed wrappers; photographic frontispiece and architectural plate pasted in; edition limited to 250 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39071. Fallon, Peter: Caesarean. A poem...Illustrations by Carol J. Blinn, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Fallon, Peter

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 12mo (158 mm.); text printed in red and black; Broadside tipped to grey handmade paper; fine. Prospectus for a limited edition of 120 copies in which "Irish poet Peter Fallon draws the reader a sharp portrait of life and death on his small sheep farm in County Meath".

Physical Description

1 box

39323. Kees, Welson: Five lost poems. With an engraving by Barry Moser, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Kees, Welson

Iowa City: Windhover Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (203 mm.); previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a collection printed handset in an edition limited to 250 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

37819. Lauterbach, Ann and Ellen Phelan: A clown, some colors, a doll, her stories, a song, a moonlit cove, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Lauterbach, Ann and Ellen Phelan

New York: Whitney Museum

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, small 4to; illustrated prospectus of a collaboration between the poet Lauterbach and the artist Phelan; limited to 120 copies; specimen illustration and poem provided.

Physical Description

1 box

39170. Lieberman, J. Ben: The liberty bell on the Kelmscott Goudy Press...With an introduction by Jack Walsdorf and an afterword by Jethro K. Lieberman. And the story of the John DePol wood engraving of the famous press, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Lieberman, J. Ben

Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; wood engraving; fine.

Physical Description

1 box

39349. Walsdorf, Jack and Kathleen Symons, compilers: Julian Symons remembered. Tributes from friends, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Walsdorf, Jack and Kathleen Symons, compilers

Council Bluffs, IA: Yellow Barn Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; black and white plate tipped in; fine. Prospectus for a tribute to the English man of letters after his passing in 1994, published in an edition limtied to 225 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39080. Baskin, Leonard: Smitty's cocks. Eight woodengravings...With an introduction by Carol J. Blinn and an original framing label printed by Harold P. McGrath, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Baskin, Leonard

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; color photographic illustrations pasted in; text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for a collection of several unseen woodengravings by Baskin in an edition limited to 200 copies designed, printed letterpress, and handbound by Blinn. Informative ephemeral pieces on the Press and dealer discounts laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39075. Barr, John: Centennial suite, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Barr, John

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; color illustration; fine. Prospectus for "The centennial poem, Bronxville, New York, 1898-1998". Also lists three books currently still in print at the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

Barr, John: Centennial suite, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Barr, John

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; color illustration; fine. Prospectus for "The centennial poem, Bronxville, New York, 1898-1998". Also lists three books currently still in print at the Press. Dealer discount slip and advertisement for the Warwick Press laid in. Original envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

42487. Levy, Newman: Sandy MacPherson: book collector, 1998. 1 box.
General

Author: Levy, Newman

Council Bluffs, IA: Yellow Barn Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustration in brown and tan; fine. Prospectus for "the story of the greatest book collector who ever lived". Order form, dealer discounts, and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39169. Coleman, Carroll D.: The parson-printer of Lustleigh, 1999. 1 box.
General

Author: Coleman, Carroll D.

Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; illustration printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for a reprint of an article originally published in the 1935 issue of the Colophon. Edition limited to 130 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39168. Walsdorf, Jack: Elbert Hubbard: William Morris's greatest imitator, 1999. 1 box.
General

Author: Walsdorf, Jack

Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; 2 black and white photographic portraits, text printed in red and black; fine. Prospectus for a limited edition of 150 copies. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36340. Pierce, R.V.: The people's common sense medical advisor, in plain English; or medicine simplified., 1900. 1 box.
General

Author: Pierce, R.V.

Buffalo, N.Y.: World's Dispensary Medical Association.

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (214 mm.); illustrated prospectus for a "Newly revised and complete edition" or this layman's medical reference book. Order form at bottom of verso. Previous folds, otherwise fine.

Physical Description

1 box

45448. Leadbeater, C. W.: The life after death and how theosophy unveils it, 1914. 1 box.
General

Author: Leadbeater, C. W.

Los Angeles: Theosophical Publishing House.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 216 x 146 cm); rubberstamped imprint rather obstructed by additional rubberstamp, "On Sale at Book Tables"; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for a new edition of Leadbeater's short tract on life after death, including a chapter, "Thoughts are Things," by socialist and women's rigthts activist Annie Besant. Most likely printed during the first World War, with reference to "these days, when thousands swiftly lay down their 'garments of flesh' on the battlefields..."

Physical Description

1 box

39158. Fund for the establishment of the Carl Purington Rollins Printing-office, 1930. 1 box.
General

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; printed in red and black; fine. Announcement for the expansion of the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

36752. Lincoln group papers, 1935. 1 box.
General

Peoria, Illinois: Van Norman Book Co.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for "The address delivered before the Lincoln Group of Chicago, 1934-1935 by authorities on varied aspects of Abraham Lincoln's life and interests". Includes contents; edition limited to 300 copies. Text in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

38906. Typography, 1936. 1 box.
General

London: Typography

Scope and Contents

Folio, pp. 7; pictorial self-wrappers (some soiling), printed in brown and black; illustrations throughout; mostly fine. List of articles from the periodical. Order form laid in. Published by the Shenval Press.

Physical Description

1 box

38977. For Christmas nothing beats a good book both rare and beautiful, 1945. 1 box.
General

Herrin, Ill.: Trovillion Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; printed in orange black; fine. Catalogue of titles available for the Christmas season from the Press. Integral order form printed on the back.

Physical Description

1 box

38980. Trovillion Private Press books, 1948. 1 box.
General

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds, else fine. Titles from the list include William Lawson's "The Country House-wife's Garden," "Recipes & Remedies of Early England, garnered from many sources and here set forth by Violet & Hal. W. Trovillion"; and William Herndon's "Lincoln, Ann Rutledge, and the pioneers of New Salem". Integral order form printed on back; with a notice addressed to librarians, collectors, and "book-lovers everywhere"; a prospectus for Herndon's work; and a pink pre-addressed envelope to the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39155. Johnson, Allen, ed.: The chronicles of America, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Johnson, Allen, ed.

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

8vo, unpaginated; pictorial self-wrappers, fine. Prospectus for a collection of 50 volumes, each concerned with "a topical unit, a complete story, and may be read separately from the others, but the fifty volumes together are needed to tell the whole story of America". Titles divided into 8 sections and include Ellsworth Huntington's "The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America," Constance Lindsay Skinner's "Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of 'the dark and bloody ground'"; and Samuel P. Orth's "'Our foreigners': a chronicle of America in the making".

Physical Description

1 box

37076. Howe catalogue, 1983. 1 box.
General

Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); advertisement for the first two parts of the catalogue of the Parkman Dexter Howe Library at the Universtiy of Florida. Integral order form. Prospectus addressed to Emerson G. Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

39133. Vesalius, Andreas: The illustrations from the work of Andreas Versalius of Brussels with annotations and translations, a discussion of the plates and their background, authorship and influence, and a biographical sketch of Vesalius by J.B. de C.M. Saunders and Charles D. O'Malley, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Vesalius, Andreas

Cleveland: World Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrations; previous folds, else fine. Order form addressed to Marboro Books, New York, laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39134. Vesalius, Andreas: The illustrations from the work of Andreas Versalius of Brussels with annotations and translations, a discussion of the plates and their background, authorship and influence, and a biographical sketch of Vesalius by J.B. de C.M. Saunders and Charles D. O'Malley, 1950. 1 box.
General

Author: Vesalius, Andreas

Cleveland: World Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrations; previous folds, ink stain to top right-hand corner, else fine. Order form and envelope addressed to Philip C. Duschnes, New York, laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38326. [List of titles], 1953. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: University of Oklahoma Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 12mo; text in red and black; fine. Prospectus features new titles from the Press, including J. Evetts Haley's "The Xit Ranche of Texas" and Thos. J. Dimsdale's "The Vigilantes of Montana". Integral order form addressed to distributor Dawson's Bookshop, Los Angeles.

Physical Description

1 box

38325. [List of titles], 1953. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: University of Oklahoma Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 16mo; text in red and black; fine. Prospectus features three titles, Walter Collins O'Kane's "The Hopis," Chris Emmett's "Shanghai Pierce," and Alice Marriott's "Hell on Horses and Women". Also lists "Other books of interest" on back, including C.L. Sonnichsen's "Cowboys and Cattle Kings" and Grant Foreman's "Indian Removal". Integral order form addressed to the distributor, Dawson's Book Store, Los Angeles.

Physical Description

1 box

39135. Chaucer, Geoffrey: The works of Geoffrey Chaucer. A facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with the original 87 illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Introduction by John T. Winterich with a glossary for the modern reader, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Cleveland: World Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; printed in red and black; photographic illustrations; previous folds, else fine. Integral order form addressed to Philip C. Duschnes, New York.

Physical Description

1 box

39137. Chaucer, Geoffrey: The works of Geoffrey Chaucer. A facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with the original 87 illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Introduction by John T. Winterich with a glossary for the modern reader, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Cleveland: World Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; printed in red and black; photographic illustrations; previous folds, else fine. Integral order form with rubber stamp of additional distributor, Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles.

Physical Description

1 box

39136. Chaucer, Geoffrey: The works of Geoffrey Chaucer. A facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer with the original 87 illustrations by Edward Burne-Jones. Introduction by John T. Winterich with a glossary for the modern reader, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey

Cleveland: World Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; printed in red and black; photographic illustrations; previous folds, else fine. Integral order form with the label of additional distributor, James F. Drake, New York.

Physical Description

1 box

38998. [Checklist of chap books published from 1940 to 1969], 1969. 1 box.
General

New York: Typophiles

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (355 mm.); printed in green typescript; previous folds, minor sunning to bottom left-hand corner, else fine. List published by the Chiswick Bookshop, indicating that titles with prices are available for purchase. List comprise of 48 titles with previous owner's pencil checkmarks.

Physical Description

1 box

39070. St. Francis: Canticle of the sun, 1983. 1 box.
General

Author: St. Francis

Easthampton: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice, 12mo; fine. Prospectus for an edition of St. Francis's "laudatory poem to the natural world," illustrated by Carol J. Blinn.

Physical Description

1 box

39022. Calderone, Mary Steichen and Edward Steinchen: The first picture book. Everyday things for babies...Afterword by John Updike, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Calderone, Mary Steichen and Edward Steinchen

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 4to; black and white photographic illustration; fine. Prospectus for the ninth book from the Artists and Writers Series published by the Library Fellows of the Museum in an edition limited to 250 copies. This title originally published in 1930 with an introduction by Mary Calderone and photographic illustrations by her father, Edward Steichen. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

[Collection of cards and postcards], 1994?. 1 box.
General

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Plastic sleeve with 3 blank illustrated postcards, a label, and several small blank cards. A cut-out of a label addressed to Emerson Wulling is also in the sleeve. No date, but postcards are copyrighted 1994.

Physical Description

1 box

39074. Hall, Donald: Ric's progress. A poem...Drawings by Carol J. Blinn, 1996. 1 box.
General

Author: Hall, Donald

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo; previous fold, else fine. With announcement for dealer discounts.

Physical Description

1 box

38958. 7 new titles, 1980. 1 box.
General

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, long 8vo; green tipped edge; some pencil markings in margins, else fine. Titles include Helen Adam's "Gone Sailing" and "Dental Floss Magazine".

Physical Description

1 box

39012. Borm, Stanley: Materials and specifications for a rail frence, 1974. 1 box.
General

Author: Borm, Stanley

Menomonie, Wisconsin: Vagabond Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; printed in brown, red, and green; fine. Prospectus for a description taken from an 1850 almanac.

Physical Description

1 box

38990. Aldington, Richard: Bubb Booklets. Letters...to Charles Clinch Bubb. Edited by Dean H. Keller with a preface by Alister Kershaw, 1988. 1 box.
General

Author: Aldington, Richard

Francestown, New Hampshire: Typographeum Bookshop

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 8vo (209 mm.); fine. Prospectus for a collection of 18 letters written between 1916 and 1919 to the American private printer. Finished work to be printed letterpress by R.T. Risk in an edition of 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

38974. At the sign of the silver horse...Vol. III, No. 1, 1943. 1 box.
General

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; 2 black and white illustrations; previous folds, else fine. Newsletter from the Press makes, mentioning the book publisher's hardships during the War, and advertising a limited edition of 277 copies of Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince".

Physical Description

1 box

38982. At the sign of the silver horse...Vol. V, No. 1, 1945. 1 box.
General

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; one facsimile; previous fold, else fine. Newsletter from the Press including, among other things, a list of new books.

Physical Description

1 box

41666. Three Victor records that will teach you to speak French correctly in cases of emergency [cover title], 1917. 1 box.
General

Victor Talking Machine Company.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; color and black and white illustrations, some photographic; previous fold, tear affecting illustration and some text without loss of meaining, edges worn and a bit soiled, distributor's rubber stamp on back cover. Advertisement for French-language records aimed at American soldiers in France: "The records are furnished in sets of three in a special waterproof container, which, in addition to the records, contains two booklets in which all the phrases used on the records are printed". Page specimen from one of these booklets is reproduced here. Prospectus as the Missouri History Museum only, according to OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

38979. Announcing two old reprints, 1938. 1 box.
General

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; printed in orange and black; fine. Prospectus for 2 titles, Thomas Hyll's "A Most Briefe and Pleasaunt Treatyse Teachynge Howe to Dress, Sowe, and set a Garden," retitled as "First Garden Book"; and "Delightes for Ladies, to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories: with beauties, banquets, perfumes & waters," originally published in 1609. 2 prospectus biofolia for each title laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38981. Close-out of limited editions, 1938. 1 box.
General

Herrin, Illinois: Trovillion Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio; lacking integral order form, affecting text of some of the book descriptions. Titles from the list include "Christmas Entre Nous" and "Kipling Speaks to the Young Man".

Physical Description

1 box

39132. Glaiser, Geoffrey Ashall: An encyclopedia of the book, 1960. 1 box.
General

Author: Glaiser, Geoffrey Ashall

Cleveland: World Publishing

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; black and white photographic illustrations and facsimiles; integral order form cleanly removed, affecting one of the illustrations; else fine. Provides 2 specimen pages.

Physical Description

1 box

39109. Woolf, Virginia: Street haunting. A London adventure, 1930. 1 box.
General

Author: Woolf, Virginia

San Francisco: Westgate Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; fine. Prospectus for the first edition limited to 500 signed copies of this minor work by Woolf. Integral order form. ("Because of the demand for first editions of Virginia Woolf's books, and the smallness of this edition, it is urged that orders be placed promptly.")

Physical Description

1 box

TLS signed K.K. Merker. Announcement that the press is printing again., [1982]. 1 box.
General

Iowa City: Windhover Press

Physical Description

1 box

39059. Fitzenmeyer, Frieda: Once upon a time, book one, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Fitzenmeyer, Frieda

Easthampton: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; color decoration; fine. Laid in order form filled out in typescript by Emerson G. Wulling. With original envelope addressed to Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

39108. Publishing and the geography, 1930. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Westgate Press.

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; cream pictorial self-wrappers; fine. Catalogue of titles available from the Press, including Virginia Woolf's "Street Haunting: a London adventure"; "The Letters of George Sterling to Ambrose Bierce"; and "Virginia City. The story of the Nevada mines based on original source materials".

Physical Description

1 box

39145. Long, Haniel: Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca. His relation of the journey from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536, 1936. 1 box.
General

Author: Long, Haniel

Santa Fe: Writers' Editions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; fine. Prospectus for a piece designed and printed by Walter L. Goodwin, Jr., and Bruce Genry at the Rydal Press in an edition limited to 400 copies. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

38997. Typophile publications, 1968-1969, 1968. 1 box.
General

New York: Typophiles

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; 8 reduced specimen pages; fine. Prospectus for 3 chapbooks from the press, Stanley Morison's "Letter Forms: typographic and scriptorial"; C. Volmer Nordlunde's "Letter from a Danish Typographer"; and Carl Purington Rollins's "Theodore Low de Vinne".

Physical Description

1 box

36296. Holy Bible. Modern phrased version. Authorized King James text. Genesis to Nehemiah., 1979. 1 box.
General

Topeka, Kansas: Washburn College

Scope and Contents

4to; pp. 3 [i.e. iii]-xviii, [2]; black and white and color illustrations and facsimiles, four of which are full-page. Typed letter from the publisher and order forms with envelope loosely inserted. Original brown pictorial paper wrappers.

Physical Description

1 box

39178. Steinbeck, John: Flight. A story...with an afterword by Wallace Stegner. Illustrations by Karen Wikström, 1984. 1 box.
General

Author: Steinbeck, John

Covelo, California: Yolla Bolly Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color illustration; edges showing a bit of wear from handling, else fine. Prospectus for a title from the Press's California Writers of the Land series, whose other titles are listed on the back. Edition limited to 250 copies and published for Carolyn and James Robertson. Typed letter from the publishers laid in, along with an order form and envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

39115. Books...1988, 1989, & 1990, 1988. 1 box.
General

Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press

Scope and Contents

Small folio, pp. 15; illustrations printed in tan throughout; original coral pictorial wrappers printed in tan and black; fine. Titles from the Press include "Matrix 8" and Caroline Martin's "Lap Games, and other songs for children". Integral order form bound in back.

Physical Description

1 box

39081. Books up my sleeve: hidden treasures from Warwick Press, 1996. 1 box.
General

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

16mo, unpaginated; original grey pictorial wrappers, fine. Announcement of dealer discounts laid in; order form bound in.

Physical Description

1 box

39028. Wroth, Lawrence C.: Abel Buell of Connecticut. Silversmith, type founder & engraver, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Wroth, Lawrence C.

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside, large 8vo (241 mm.); orange decorative border, text printed in orange and black; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus of a biography of an American silversmith whose career spanned the Revolution and is best known as the first type founder in America. Distributed by Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles.

Physical Description

1 box

38954. [List of titles], 1981. 1 box.
General

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; fine. Catalogue divided into 3 sections, "Forthcoming Books," "Current Titles," and "Also Available". Also provides information on the Press and ordering.

Physical Description

1 box

Great leftovers (and a few new offerings), 1989. 1 box.
General

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

12mo, unpaginated; white pictorial wrappers; fine. Catalogue of titles available from the Press.

Physical Description

1 box

39054. Blinn, Carol J.: A fowl letter book...Foreword by Théophile Homard, 1989. 1 box.
General

Author: Blinn, Carol J.

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; color illustration; fine. Prospectus for an illustrated alphabet book. 16mo Broadside on Théophile Homard laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39065. Weil, James L.: Your poems, 1990. 1 box.
General

Author: Weil, James L.

Easthampton: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 12mo; text printed in red and black on tan paper; fine. Prospectus for a poetry chap book printed in a limited edition of 125copies designed, printed, and bound by Carol J. Blinn.

Physical Description

1 box

39062. Weil, James L.: Lovely lessons. Poems, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Weil, James L.

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifoliujm, 12mo; fine. Prospectus for a poetry chap book printed in an edition of 125 copies designed, printed, and bound by Carol J. Blinn.

Physical Description

1 box

39061. Barr, John: Natural wonders. Poems...Illustrationsw by Carol J. Blinn, 1991. 1 box.
General

Author: Barr, John

Easthampton: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; 2 paper samples tipped in; fine. Prospectus for Barr's second poetry collection to be published by the Press; edition limited to 75 copies; specimen poem included.

Physical Description

1 box

37663. Fitzenmeyer, Frieda: Once upon a time book six...illustrations by Carol J. Blinn, 1992. 1 box.
General

Author: Fitzenmeyer, Frieda

Easthampton, MA: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 16mo; illustrated prospectus for "the flying adventures of a duck named Buddy and her sidekick, Percy"; limited to 125 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

39073. Fitzenmeyer, Frieda: Once upon a time. Book seven, 1999. 1 box.
General

Author: Fitzenmeyer, Frieda

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 32mo (89 mm.); color illustrations; fine. Prospectus for the seventh title from the series of childrens' books written by Fitzenmeyer and illustrated by Carol J. Blinn. Edition limited to 100 signed copies printed letterpress and handbound by Blinn.

Physical Description

1 box

39246. The Bruce Rogers world Bible, 1950. 1 box.
General

Cleveland: World Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; black and white illustration, text printed in red and black; previous fold, else fine. Prospectus for "The most beautiful Bible ever published in America," in an edition limited to 975 copies and distributed by S.R. Shapiro, New York.

Physical Description

1 box

39079. Barr, John: The dial painters. Poems, 1995. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out dealer discount slip

General

Author: Barr, John

Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; printed in orange and black; fine. Prospectus for a collection of 15 poems in an edition limited to 110 signed copies designed, handbound, and printed letterpress by Carol J. Blinn. Press reviews and announcement to standing order patrons laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39157. Blanck, Jacob: Bibliography of American literature...for the Bibliographical Society of America. Volume one. Henry Adams to Donn Byrne, 1955. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out envelope or order form

General

Author: Blanck, Jacob

New Haven: Yale University Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; previous folds, else fine. Prospectus provides specimen page; list of projected authors to be included in the bibliography printed on back. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39128. Fuhrmann, Otto W.: Gutenberg and the Strasbourg documents of 1439. An interpretation...to which has been appended the text of the documents in the original Alsatian, the French of de Laborde, and modern German and English translations fully annotated, 1940. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out order form

General

Author: Fuhrmann, Otto W.

New York: Press of the Woolly Whale

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 4to; edges slightly toned, else fine. Prospectus provides some explanatory remarks condensed from the author's preface; three specimen pages; and a note from the publisher. Order form laid in.

Filed under W.

Physical Description

1 box

38996. Bertha S. Goudy, first lady of printing, 1958. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out rsvp slip

General

Mount Vernon: Typophiles

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, small 8vo; previous fold, else fine. Invitation to the release part of this celebretory work on the "outstanding woman printer of our times," issued by "The Distaff Side" and containing signatures designed and printed by The Spiral Press, the Marchbanks Press, Jane Grabhorn, John Anderson, Clark & Way (designed by Bruce Rogers), and the Peter Pauper Press (designed by Dorothy Abbe). Articles by Bruce Rogers, George Macy, Mabel Dwiggins, Alice Goudy Lochhead, Paul A. Bennet, and Fred. W. Goudy. Limited to 200 copies and distributed by Edna Beilenson of the Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York. R.S.V.P laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

39024. Bland, David: A history of the book illustration. The illuminated manuscript and the printed book, 1958. 1 box.
General

Author: Bland, David

London: Westerham Press Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrations, one of which is in color; previous folds, else fine. Table of contents, specimen page, and specimen illustration provided. Rubber stamp of United States distributor James F. Drake, NY on back.

Physical Description

1 box

37796. Chaucer: The Ellesmere Chaucer, 1995. 1 box.
General

Author: Chaucer

Tokyo: Yushodo Co

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus of the facsimile edition, co-published by Yushodo and the Huntington Library Press; edited by Daniel Woodward and Martin Stevens; integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

43907. Funk & Wagnalls standard dictionary with cyclopedia and atlas of the world, 1903. 1 box.
General

New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaged; color plate, text illustrations throughout, text printed in red and black; original pale green decorative wrappers printed in green and red; some heavy foxing to upper cover top and bottom fore-edge, spine tape repaired, interior about fine. Prospectus with samples pages of the condensed cyclopedia. Not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

43899. The century dictionary & cyclopedia & atlas of interest to the business man and in the home, 1904. 1 box.
General

New York: Century Co.

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. 24; 2 color plates, including one double-paged map, plain text illustrations throughout; decorative staplebound self-wrappers printed in black and brown; some soiling and foxing along edges, else very good. Prospectus provides, among other things, several specimen pages.

Physical Description

1 box

36271. Laborde, A. comte de: Les manuscrits a peintures de la cité de Dieu de Saint Augustin., 1909. 1 box.
General

Author: Laborde, A. comte de

Paris: Société des bibliophiles françois, Édouard Rahir

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio (380 mm.) plate of reproduction of Planche L from the piece loosely inserted; prospectus offers list of contents, conditions, and an example of a page (p. 423) from the work. Untrimmed.

Physical Description

1 box

44961. Grimm, German.: [Title in Russian]: Mikel'andzhelo Buonarroti, 1913. 1 box.
General

Author: Grimm, German.

St. Petersburg: Griaduschii Den

Scope and Contents

First edition, folio, pp. 15; mounted photoghraphic illustrations throughout; original pictorial staplebound wrappers; toning along edges, spine ends perished, else very good. An unrecorded prospectus for the Russian edition of German Grimm's work on Michelangelo and the Italian Renaissance. The front wrap was illustrated by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, revered artist and member of the Russian movement Mir Isskustva. He also did the lay-out for the finished book. Prospectus not in OCLC as of April, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

44708. Lajos, Kassák.]: Ma, 1919. 1 box.
General

Author: Lajos, Kassák.]

Budapesten: Akadémiai Kiadó

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaged; text in double column; unbound (as usual) pictorial self wrappers printed in red and black; previous folds, else very good and sound. Text in Hungarian.

Physical Description

1 box

36269. Raschen, Henry: Gutenberg. A reproduction of a portrait in oils by...after the original (artist unknown) in the Art Museum at Munich. Together with a replica page from the Mazarin or forty-two line Bible. These comprising what is to be called the Gutenberg Keepsake. Sent out by the Zellerbach Paper Company to the friends and patrons of their house., 1923. 1 box.
General

Author: Raschen, Henry

San Francisco: John Henry Nash

Scope and Contents

Single folio sheet folded into four-page brochure, large 4to, uncut; wood-engraving adorning t.p., color print of the portrait of John Gutenberg pasted in, color facsimile on facing page.

Physical Description

1 box

36448. Osborne, Thomas: First two volumes of Bibliotheca Harleiana: or, a catalogue of the library of the late Earl of Oxford, 1926. 1 box.
General

Author: Osborne, Thomas

Oxford, England: Oxford University Press

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; facsimile of the 1742 Johnson prospectus, which included conditions, an account of the library, and advertisements for other Osborne publications; this facsimile limited to 350 copies. Marble wrappers with paper label, spine split at top and bottom, corners show wear. Only one copy located by OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

36401. The Holy Bible. Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised by His Majesty's special command. Appointed to be read in churches, 1935. 1 box.
General

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; prospectus for a folio Bible, of which "There will be two editions, printed from the same type; one with small margins on Wolvercote paper...the other, on English hand-made linen-rag paper...Of the hand-made paper edition 200 copies only will be printed." Includes specimen pages 478, 1194, and xii. Order forms for both editions loosely inserted. Blue wrappers with paper label, edges and corners show some bumping. Also contains a black and white photographic reproduction of the cover and a page of Sysyems Saturnium. Dated 1930 in pencil note at the bottom of one page.

Physical Description

1 box

37035. Oriental art in America: Recent acquisitions in American museums, 1937. 1 box.
General

Chicago: The New Orient Society of America

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; includes list of officers of the Society as well as the list of plates; specimen plate (11) of a black and white photograph of a Cambodian stone head from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts loosely inserted.

Physical Description

1 box

36402. Rogers, Bruce: The Holy Bible. Containing the Old and New Testaments. Translated out of the original tongues and with the former translations diligently compared and revised., 1949. 1 box.
General

Author: Rogers, Bruce

Cleveland: World Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; "The edition for sale will be 975 numbered copies...The 18-point Goudy Bible type is set in double columns...The stock is a high-content rag paper specially made for this book by the Worthy Paper Company." Includes specimen pages 1-2 and 536. Order form loosely inserted. Blue paper wrappers with gilt lettering, previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

39357. Lande, Lawrence: The Lawrence Lande collection of Canadiana in the Redpath Library of McGill University. A bibliography collected, arranged, and annotated by...with an introduction by Edgar Andrew Collard, 1965. 1 box.
General

Author: Lande, Lawrence

Montreal: Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadiana Historical Research.

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaginated; illustrations and facsimlies throughout, title page printed in brown and black; edges toned, a bit soiled, else fine. Prospectus for a bibliography of approximately 2300 books, pamphlets, and Broadsides from "one of the most important private collections in this country".

Physical Description

1 box

36354. Paul VI, Pope: Pauli pp. VI allocutio pro pace. Praefatus est U Thant., 1967. 1 box.
General

Author: Paul VI, Pope

Parmae: Franco Maria Ricci typis Bodonianis.

Scope and Contents

Folio, pp. 15, illustrated; prospectus for a 700 copy reprint with the original fonts. 400 copies were signed by U Thant, the sales proceeds of which were destined to help the National Library at Florence after it had been severely damaged by floods. "With this notice Franco Maria Ricci, publisher personally invites [Mr. Waring Lowes?] to subscribe one of the copies of the work as an act of solidarity and friendship towards The National Library of Florence."

Physical Description

1 box

36272. Fracé, Charles: Springbok jigsaw puzzle map. Minnesota., 1969. 1 box.
General

Author: Fracé, Charles

New York: Springbok Editions

Scope and Contents

Portfolio, folio (310 mm.), includes map with key to the favorite places and passtimes in the state; with color plate of what the finished puzzle, in the shape of the state, will look like. Portfolio proper soiled, tear to bottom of spine.

Physical Description

1 box

36295. Codex Caesareus Upsaliensis. The gospels of Henry III for the Goslar Cathedral. Published for the 350th anniversary of the University Library of Uppsala., 1970. 1 box.
General

Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiskell

Scope and Contents

4to, pp. [5]; two color facsimiles from this limited edition of 500. Text in Swedish and English. Edges and corners slightly worn.

Physical Description

1 box

44710. Hobson, R.L.: A catalogue of Chinese pottery and porcelain in the David Collection...Illustrated with one hundred and forty plates in colour & printed in types specially designed by Eric Gill, 1934. 1 box.
General

Author: Hobson, R.L.

Westminster: Stourton Press

Scope and Contents

Folio, unpaged; color photographic plate laid in with tissue guard, upper cover printed in blue and black; unbound (as usual) self-wrappers; about fine. Typed letter signed "Fairfax Hall" on Press letterhead addressed "To the Trade" and dated in manuscript 6th June, 1939; regards the trade price of the ordinary edition of this catalogue.

Physical Description

1 box

44714. Peoples journal, 1949. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: Peoples Journal

Scope and Contents

Broadside (approx. 559 mm.), color wood and metal type printing in blue and red, with the larger text printed in red over blue (and quite poorly aligned); previous fold, else fine. Advertisement for the Journal, whose "Literature Is Pure, Elevated, and Invigorating...It's Scientific Record is not excelled by that of any other Magazine, and its Editorials are short, spicy and to the point." Also promises "Splendid Premiums": steel engraving "Papa's Birthday" or chromolithograph "Pomona's Pearls". AAS only in OCLC as of March, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

44500. Sitwell, Sacheverell, Handasyde Buchanan, & James Fisher.: Fine bird books, 1700-1900: a bibliographical record of two centuries of coloured plate bird books, 1953. 1 box.
General

Author: Sitwell, Sacheverell, Handasyde Buchanan, & James Fisher.

New York: D. Nostrand Company Ltd

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large folio; laid in specimen color plate of a black headed tragopan (Ceriornis melanocephala), text printed in red and black; about fine. Prospectus for both the standard and limited editions; provides a specimen entry (of Audubon's Birds of American elephant folio) and the list of plates.

Physical Description

1 box

45471. Semi-de luxe calendars featuring new brilliant glassine pictures [cover title], 1955. 1 box.
General

Superior Gift Line

Scope and Contents

Folio, single grey stiff card folded into 6-side portfolio; 4 sides with mounted color samples, ranging from one to 20 illustrations; some wear from handling, minor exterior dampstaining, else very good and sound. Instructions and prices provided on rear cover. Illustrations of varying sauciness depending on how far back they are mounted; for example, one top illustration, titled "Western Sweethearts," features a lovely blond in full (and modest) cow girl regalia, posing with her handsome steed; the 20th illustration, "Reflections," depicts a busty nude thoughtfully reclining in front of a mirror, bedecked in the usual burlesque trimmings.

Physical Description

1 box

44709. Marini, Marino.: Werkausgabe, 1968. 1 box.
General

Author: Marini, Marino.

Bremen: Carl Schünemann Verlag

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; color plate tipped to p. [3], facsimile, text printed in grey, red, and black; fine. Text in German.

Physical Description

1 box

36467. Weimann, Christopher: Marbled papers: Being a collection of twenty-two contemporary hand-marbled papers, showing a variety of patterns and special techniques, 1978. 1 box.
General

Author: Weimann, Christopher

Los Angeles, California: Dawson's Book Shop

Scope and Contents

Broadside, folio (488 mm.); "This is primarily a book whose object is to demonstrate the enormous variety and evocative beauty of marbled papers...composed in Van Dijck types...printed on heavyweight Ingre-Büttenpapier...quarter bound by E.G.Parrot in Oasis leather and boards with Oasis tips. Two hundred copies have been printed at the Bird & Bull Press." Text in green and black, previous folds.

Physical Description

1 box

45151. For the Happy Christmas Time We Come with the Freshest, Daintiest, and Most Instructive Series of Holiday Books !!!, 1900. 1 box.
General

New York: Eaton & Mains

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium, (approx. 18" high), the whole dealing with publication details for "4 books: Popular History of the World and Triumphs of the 19th Century; Little Tots' Menageri by John Delius, director of London Zoological Gardens ("the richest, rarest, and most instructive animal alphabet ever devised for the babies"); The Story of Abraham Lincoln or The Journey from the Log Cabin to the White House; and, The Beautifgul Story of Jesus - all with the prerequisite illustrations of binding and illustration. "We want agents and we want them now to sell these high-class, instructive, attractive holiday books..." Together with a 2-page typed letter, dated September 1900, printed from mimeograph solictiing agents and touting the product: "The enclosed circular which fully describes our fall and holiday books for 1900 speaks for itself..." Four detailed paragraphs explain the content of each of the four books in this circular. "We know that these books offer you an extraordinary opportunity for profitable work. All signs point to an enormous book year ... The agent's outfit consists of four prospectuses representing the contents, illustrations, and bindings of the four beautiful books described..."

Physical Description

1 box

45144. Something new in Holiday books. We manufacture our own books and hold them exclusively for our own agents ... We positively guarantee exclusive territory..., 1900. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: World Bible House

Scope and Contents

Large quarto bifolium (approx. 12" high), illustrated; previous folds, else fine. Not an advertisement for books but rather an advertisement for agents: "It requires no capital to work for us. 30 days credit. Distance no objection." Illustrations show the "canvasing outfit, consisting of six new books, open, and standing on end" (see no. ). "From $15.00 to $25.00 per week on catalogue goods alone. On the inside is a large table showing how sales and profits break down state to state.

Physical Description

1 box

45148. Recognized the world over as the best! The Universal Series of Holiday Books for 1901. Bigger - Brighter- Better than ever, 1901. 1 box.
General

New York: Eaton & Mains

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium, (approx. 18" high), the whole dealing with publication details for "six great books" (Picture Book Garden, The Child's Story of the New Testament, The Child's Story of The Greatest Century, The Standard American Speaker and Entertainer, The Popular Compendium of Useful Information, and Fairy-Land and Mother Goose). Includes conditions for publication and notes that this is "a splendid opportunity to make money for everyone handling this series of books ... We are prepared to offer you unprecedented terms to take up their sale."

Physical Description

1 box

45140. The Queen as Woman, wife, mother, and sovereign. The life of Queen Victoria and the story of her reign..., 1901. 1 box.
General

New York: Eaton & Mains

Scope and Contents

Folio Broadside, the whole dealing with publication details and statement after statement of why the book should be purchased ("Our terms are liberal. Agents wanted Everywhere"); previous folds, else fine. "An elegant canvassing book containing most of the illustratiions, and enough of the text to show what the complete book will be and representing the bindings, together with all necessary printed instructions for selling..." This is an exact reprint of the same as issued by the International Publishing Co., Philadelphia (see below).

Physical Description

1 box

Abe Lincoln's Yarns and Stories. In this most humorous book of the day have been gathered all the authentic yarns, stories, anecdotes ... by Colonel Alexander K. McClure, 1901. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: International Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Folio Broadside, 16" tall, previous folds, else fine. Both sides detailing and touting the Abe Lincoln book, and enticing agents to sell it: "Agents making $3 to $14 per day. Agents can get the most liberal terms by applying now." Identical to copy above except smaller and printed in blue.

Physical Description

1 box

44707. Melville, [Herman], & Rico Lebrun.: Encantadas, 1963. 1 box.
General

Author: Melville, [Herman], & Rico Lebrun.

New York: Gehenna Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, large folio; illustrations, text printed in red and black; previous folds, else about fine. Prospectus for the publication of two sketches from Melville's "The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles," illustrated with six drawings by Rico Lebrun. Edition limited to 150 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

43358. Clancy, Tom: Red storm rising, 1986. 1 box.
General

Author: Clancy, Tom

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Scope and Contents

Red and white pictorial folder containing promotional material for Clancy's second novel. Contents include the list of tour dates, author bio and interview, a plot synopsis of Red Storm Rising, and two reviews of Clancy's first novel The Hunt for Red October.

Physical Description

1 box

37659. Hi-pritex. High definition printing, 1994. 1 box.
General

Japan: Mizuno Pritech

Scope and Contents

Portfolio, folio; collection of prospectuses and press information; with wall calendar, 1995. Text in English and Japanese.

Physical Description

1 box

43929. Miller, Martin J.: Hunting big game in the wilds of Africa containing thrilling adventures of the famous Roosevelt expedition, 1909. 1 box.
General

Author: Miller, Martin J.

Dayton, OH: Forshee Manufacturing Co.

Scope and Contents

Broadside (630 x 430 mm.); 3 illustrations, text printed in double column; previous folds, minor tape repair to verso, else very good. Advertisement for "A vast treasury of all that is marvelous and wonderful in darkest Africa," with a call for agents "in every county to sell this very Valuable book," bound in extra fine silk finish cloth. Prospectus not in OCLC.

Physical Description

1 box

45154. Abe Lincoln's Yarns and Stories. In this most humorous book of the day have been gathered all the authentic yarns, stories, anecdotes ... by Colonel Alexander K. McClure, 1901. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: International Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Folio Broadside, 16" tall, previous folds, else fine. Both sides detailing and touting the Abe Lincoln book, and enticing agents to sell it: "Agents making $3 to $14 per day. Agents can get the most liberal terms by applying now."

Physical Description

1 box

36443. Leonardo da Vinci: Codex Atlanticus, 1973. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out TLS and subcscription card

General

Author: Leonardo da Vinci

Firenze, Italy: C.E. Giunti-Barbera

Scope and Contents

4to, unpaginated; prospectus for a reprint of the Codex Atlanticus with color and black and white full-page facsimiles and illustrations. White printed wrappers, fold to back top left-hand corner, discoloration. TLS from Stephen Boyar and self-addressed subscription card.

Physical Description

1 box

36304. Bauer, Ferdinand: The Australian flower paintings of...Introduced by Wilfrid Blunt; botanical text by Dr. William T. Stearn., 1976. 1 box.
General

Author: Bauer, Ferdinand

London: The Basilisk Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, folio; prospectus includes information on publication specifications, payment, delivery, and the print run (500 copies for sale). Mission statement reads "This new volume, containing a fine sleection of full-size colour facsimiles of drawings made by Ferdinand after he set off with Matthew Flinders on the first circumnavigation of Australia in 1801, will...be of considerable importance". Color plate proof loosely inserted. Also includes the year's other Basilisk Editions, The Kelmscott Chaucer and The red books of Humphrey Repton.

Filed under Bas.

Physical Description

1 box

45135. A new triumph in book making. The International Series for 1900, 1900. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: International Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium, 18" tall, previous folds, else fine. Extensively illustrated, and giving all the particulars on the current series of subscription publications from International Publishing, including The Circle of the Century: Its Noted Men and Great Events, by Charles Morris ("No other book on earth like this / It is a harvest for agents"); a series of five "holiday books" including The Child's History of the United States which "are all shown in one large splendid canvassing outfit which folds up like a doctor's convenient medicine case"; and, Happy Little Americans for Little Ones Bright ("this charming volume just the book all parents want for their children"). All books described include details on bindings, illustrations, page counts, etc.

Physical Description

1 box

45143. 1900 Holiday Books 1900. Six sparkling new books covering a variety of subject to suit all ages ... Our series of books out-sold all others last year because they were the best..., 1900. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: World Bible House

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium (approx. 19" high), previous folds, else fine. Details six featured books, Chinese Horrrs, Persecution of the Christians, and Wonderful Developments of the Nineteenth Century among them. The publisher seeks agents: "A $5 OutfitFree. It makes no difference how good a salesman you are, you can do business with a cheap outfit; don't let anyone fool you into taking an outfit unless it is all enclosed in a case and has a handle..."

Physical Description

1 box

45141. The model son - husband - soldier - lawyer - citizen - and statesman. The authentic life of President McKinley our third martyr president..., 1901. 1 box.
General

New York: Eaton & Mains

Scope and Contents

Folio Broadside, the whole dealing with publication details and arguments for why the book should be purchased ("Sold only by subscription. Agents wanted..." Previous folds,some light staining in the upper left corner (oil, perhaps?), else very good.

Physical Description

1 box

45138. The International Series of holiday books for 1901. Hail to the first Christmas of the 20th Century, 1901. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: International Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Folio bifolium, 18" tall, previous folds, else fine. Extensively illustrated, and giving all the particulars on the current series of subscription publications from International Publishing, including The Good Child's Delight with Pictures Bright ("A brand new book full of bright new stories"); and a series of five "holiday books" including The Teachings of Jesus, Great American Men and Women, The New Popular Reciter and Book of Elocution, The Child's Story of Birds, Beasts, and Reptiles, and The Country of Ours: Its History and Achievements ("agents who wish to make money sell no other series / bound in cloth - no imitation, but REAL cloth"). All books described include details on bindings, illustrations, page counts, etc.

Physical Description

1 box

Scope and Contents

This series contains pamphlets dated after 1800 and before 1900.

Arrangement

Arrangement follows the order of the original Excel inventory.

Physical Description

11 boxes

Lund, Judith Navas: Whaling Masters, 2001. 1 item.
General

Author: Lund, Judith Navas

Gloucester, MA: Ten Pound Books

Scope and Contents

Published jointly with the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Kendall Whaling Museum. Broadside with previous fold. With an address label addressed to Rob Rulon-Miller.

General

Missing as of 2017/1/17.

Physical Description

1 item

Prospectus, 2010. 1 box.
General

Sheldon & Co.

Scope and Contents

Description of the publisher's prospectus from 2010, mounted on foam board.

Physical Description

1 box

Weaver, Aafa Michael: Sandy point, 2000. 1 box.
General

Author: Weaver, Aafa Michael

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. The edition consists of 125 copies. The back of the pamphlet has a list of prices and contact information.

Physical Description

1 box

International journals, 2001. 1 box.
General

Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó

Scope and Contents

Broadside listing three journals offered by the press. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Kirkpatrick, Patricia: Orioles, 2005. 1 box.
General

Author: Kirkpatrick, Patricia

Minneapolis, MN: Accordion Productions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in green and orange. By Regula Russelle and C.B. Sherlock "in collaboration with students & colleagues."

Physical Description

1 box

Kjelsberg, Arne: On book Collecting, 2005. 1 box.
General

Author: Kjelsberg, Arne

Pasadena, California: Ampersand Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with order form and slip of paper about Arne Kjelsberg laid in. Printed in blue and white.

Physical Description

1 box

Kjelsberg, Arne: [On Book Collecting?], 2005. 1 box.
General

Author: Kjelsberg, Arne

Pasadena, California: Ampersand Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with order form and slip of paper about Arne Kjelsberg laid in. Printed in blue and white. In an unopened, black envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

Venaria Reale, 2005. 1 box.
General

Savigliano, Italy: L'Artistica Editrice

Scope and Contents

Booklet with sample pages. Large color photo and announcement in the form of a letter laid in. The booklet is in Italian; the letter is in English.

Physical Description

1 box

O'Malley, Mary and Mac Francis: Mo'm of the anglers' the memoirs and recipes of Mary o'Malley, 2008. 1 box.
General

Author: O'Malley, Mary and Mac Francis

New York: The Anglers' Club of New York Privately Printed

Scope and Contents

Large piece of paper folded 4 times into 1 6-sided pamphlet. Includes scaled-down sample pages and integral order form. Previous fold.

Filed under A.

Physical Description

1 box

Sanvito, Bartolomeo: Bartolomeo Sanvito the life and work of a renaissance scribe, 2009. 1 box.
General

Author: Sanvito, Bartolomeo

Hampshire, UK: Association Internationale de Bibliophile

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. With sample page. Order form laid in. Catalogue of 124 manuscripts copied by Sanvito, with 126 color reproductions. Includes illustrated essays. Limited edition of 350 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

A skilled workforce: training and collaboration in the book trades from the 16th century, 2011. 1 box.
General

London, England, UK: N.P.

Scope and Contents

Program of the 33rd annual Conference on Book Trade History. With a schedule of the conference and biographies of the speakers. Booking form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Catesby, Mark: The natural history of carolina, florida and the bahama islands, 2013. 1 box.
General

Author: Catesby, Mark

London: Addison Publications

Scope and Contents

Bifolium pamphlet printed in red and black. Edition comprises 60 sets of all original 265 watercolor drawings.

Physical Description

1 box

Catesby, Mark: The natural history of carolina, florida and the bahama islands, 2013. 1 box.
General

Author: Catesby, Mark

London: Addison Publications

Scope and Contents

Bookmark-shaped. Announcement of the publication of a facsimile of Mark Catesby's watercolor drawings. With a list of the press' other publications on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

The highgrove florilegium in the book arts fair, 2013. 1 box.
General

London: Addison Publications

Scope and Contents

Broadside with verso blank. Invitation to a view of the Highgrove Florilegium at the RBMS Book fair in Minneapolis.

Physical Description

1 box

36692. Wilson, Alexander: The foresters: A poetic account of a walking journey to the falls of Niagara in the autumn of 1804. With wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates, 2000. 1 box.
General

Author: Wilson, Alexander

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus of a work by Alexand Wilson (1766-1813); "[C]omposed in Dante types, printed on Arches mouldmade paper". Edition limited to 150 copies. Text printed in green and black.

Physical Description

1 box

The journals of Captain James Cook, 2000. 1 box.
General

Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer

Scope and Contents

Broadside with two previous folds. Lists the special price available until December 2000. Accompanied by a TLS from Kristin Payne.

Physical Description

1 box

The handmade papers of japan, 2001. 1 box.
General

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Inclues list of contents and a small slip laid in advertising 25% bookseller discount. Limited edition of 175 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

The Bury Bible, 2001. 1 box.
General

Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer

Scope and Contents

Broadside with integral order form on verso. Sample text on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

Books for distribution, 2002. 1 box.
General

San Antonio, Texas: Borderlands Press

Scope and Contents

Four-sided brochure in black and white. With a list of books available and their prices. Stamped and addressed to Rulon-Miller Books.

Physical Description

1 box

François Levaillant and the birds of africa, 2004. 1 box.
General

Johannesburg, South Africa: Brenthurst Press

Scope and Contents

Three-fold brochure printed in color with integral order form. There is also a folded 8 1/2 x11 order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

John Ingatius Bleasdale: a friend of wine in new worlds, 2006. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with order form and envelope laid in. With a sample page printed inside. Printed in a limited edition of 250 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

Greenwood, Robert: A valiant enterprise, 2007. 1 box.
General

Author: Greenwood, Robert

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium on beige paper with order form and envelope laid in. Edition limited rto 350 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

James Weld Towne pioneer san francisco printer, publisher & paper purveyor, 2008. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium advertisement for the club's 223rd publication. Cover printed in color. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Kruska, Dennis: James Mason Hutchings of yo semite (sic) a biography and bibliography, 2009. 1 box.
General

Author: Kruska, Dennis

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with order form and envelope laid in. printed in a limited edition of 250 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

Wagener, Richard: California in relief thirty wood engravings by Richard Wagener, 2009. 1 box.
General

Author: Wagener, Richard

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with sample woodcut. Edition Limited to 300 signed copies. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Clio on the coast: the writing of california history 1845-1945, 2010. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Large piece of paper folded twice into bifolium pamphlet. Printed in black, red and beige. With order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Chalmers, Claudine: Paul Frenzeny's Chinatown sketches, 2012. 1 box.
General

Author: Chalmers, Claudine

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed on beige paper. With order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Reagh, William: William Regh a long walk downtown, 2012. 1 box.
General

Author: Reagh, William

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Black and white print of a 1937 photograph taped onto inside front cover. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Wagerer, Richard: The Sierra Nevada Suite, 2013. 1 box.
General

Author: Wagerer, Richard

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with a quote an excerpt from the book and a woodcut. With a letter to members, order form and two envelopes laid in. There is also an invitation to the publication party on June 3, 2013.

Physical Description

1 box

Donne, John: How weak are my performances, 2014. 1 box.
General

Author: Donne, John

Banholt, the Netherlands: Bonnefant Press/In de Bonnefant

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in green and black. Contains a sample page. Announcement for the recent printing of Matthew Sweeney's Two Cities laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Wentzel, Monique: The woods were never quiet stories by Monique Wentzel, 2014. 1 box.
General

Author: Wentzel, Monique

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Large piece of paper folded into bifolium pamphlet. Printed in brown and black. With order form, envelope, TLS, and Invitation to a party celebrating the Club's 232nd publication laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

36717. I'm fine, 2000. 1 box.
General

Chicago: Black Cat Press

Scope and Contents

Single folded sheet, 78 mm. x 72 mm.; keepsake for the friends of the press.

Physical Description

1 box

Bly, Carol: Fiction & nonfiction writing courses, 2006. 1 box.
General

Author: Bly, Carol

Carol Bly

Scope and Contents

Booklet w/three folds. Addressed to Rob Rulon-Miller. TLS dated February 2006 listing talks, classes, and publications available.

Filed under C.

Physical Description

1 box

Dictionnaire encyclopedique du livre: le tome 3 de N à Z. (Volume 3, N-Z), 2012. 1 box.
General

Paris: Editions du cercle de la librairie

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with order form laid in. All text in French. TLS in English from Pascal Fouché, the director.

Physical Description

1 box

Chyhoeddiadau Diweddar/Recent Publications, 2000. 1 box.
General

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed in red and black. Lists the books published in Spring 2000 and August 2000. Text in English and Welsh.

Physical Description

1 box

Jones, R. Geralt: Gwyddau yng gregynog/Geese at gregynog, 2000. 1 box.
General

Author: Jones, R. Geralt

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Broadside prospectus for Geese at Gregynog and some works in progress. Written in English on one side, Welsh on the other. Previous fold. Printed in black with a woodcut illustration at the top. .

Physical Description

1 box

Hughes, Glyn Tegai: The Twelve/Y deuddeg, 2000. 1 box.
General

Author: Hughes, Glyn Tegai

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Trifold pamphlet, one third is the integral order form. Written in Welsh and English. Photocopied slip with the handwritten note "subscription date extended to 31st January 2000."

Physical Description

1 box

Chute, Robin: Shooting flying, 2001. 1 box.
General

Author: Chute, Robin

Winchester, England, UK: Foxbury Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with integral order form. Limited edition of 500 copies. TLS from Robin Chute dated November 5, 2001 laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Jones, David Lewis: Eirene: a tribute, 2001. 1 box.
General

Author: Jones, David Lewis

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Broadside with previous fold. Announces that the original binding has sold out the copies currently being bound will be available October 2001.

Physical Description

1 box

The tower of the winds, 2002. 1 box.
General

Santa Cruz, California: Foolscap Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in black on beige paper. The inside contains text with cut off blocks of text on either side.

Physical Description

1 box

Books in Print, 2002. 1 box.
General

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Booklet with light blue covers. With information about the press and a list of current and upcoming publications.

Physical Description

1 box

The Book of Ruth, 2003. 1 box.
General

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in red and black. A bilingual (English and Welsh) survey and envelope are laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Dowd, Anthony and James Brockman: The special bindings of gwasg gregynog, 2003. 1 box.
General

Author: Dowd, Anthony and James Brockman

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in red and black. With a slip of paper advertising an offer for overseas customers only staped on the lower left cover. With biographies of the contributors and a sample page.

Physical Description

1 box

Books in print 2003, 2003. 1 box.
General

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Black and white with red covers. Publications include a selection of Wilfrid Owen's poetry and The Pleasant History of Lazarillo de Tormes ed. By Gareth Alban Davies.

Physical Description

1 box

Rogers, Byron: The Lost Children, 2005. 1 box.
General

Author: Rogers, Byron

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Bilingual order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Pennant and his welsh landscapes, 2005. 1 box.
General

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Trifold booklet with order form laid in. The book is edited with an introduction by Gwen Walters, illustrated by Rigby Graham, and designed by Robert Meyrick. With a sample color illustration from the book. Edition limited to 250 copies. Bilingual (English and Welsh) order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Katakis, Michael: Despatches, 2008. 1 box.
General

Author: Katakis, Michael

Santa Cruz, California: Foolscap Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with an excerpt from the book on the back. With a promotional postcard laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Ong, George and Eric J. Holzenberg: "For Jean Grolier & his friends" 125 years of grolier club exhibitions and publications, 2009. 1 box.
General

Author: Ong, George and Eric J. Holzenberg

New York: The Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Invitation for members to subscribe to the publication. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Goethe poems, 2000. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/order form

General

Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Book is printed in a limited edition of 200 copies with an introduction by J.T Reed. One copy contains a bilingual (English and Welsh) order form. Booklet printed in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

Williams, Kyffin: Cutting Images, 2002. 1 box.
Scope and Contents

1 w/out order form

General

Author: Williams, Kyffin

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in gray and black. With order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Mirror of the australian navigarion, 2000. 1 box.
General

Le Maire, Jacob: Hordern House

Scope and Contents

Broadside with two previous folds. First of a folio series illustrated with full-page plates.

Physical Description

1 box

Marx, Enid: Marco's animal alphabet, 2000. 1 box.
General

Author: Marx, Enid

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside with a sample of an illustration from the book. The Broadside has been folded twice into a bifolium pamphlet with a description of the publication.

Physical Description

1 box

Catalogue 2000, 2000. 1 box.
General

London: Primrose Hill Press

Scope and Contents

30 page catalogue with index. Advertisements for Rampant Lion Press and the Fine Book Association laid in. Two postcards advertising the books Wood Engraving and American Bookplates also laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Galletti, Sonia: European americana, 2001. 1 box.
General

Author: Galletti, Sonia

John Carter Brown Library

Scope and Contents

Letter announcing the acquisition of European Americana. Includes former and current prices. Two sheets blank on verso each with two previous folds.

Filed under John.

Physical Description

1 box

Western jewry: an account of the achievements of the jews and judaism in california, 2001. 1 box.
General

San Francisco, CA: Henry Hollander, Bookseller

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with self-addressed envelope and TLS laid in. TLS contains integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Herschel, Isabelle: Catalogue of the Herschel Library, 2001. 1 box.
General

Author: Herschel, Isabelle

New York: Jonathan A. Hill

Scope and Contents

Broadside folded twice and mailed to Rulon-Miller Books. Printed in a very limited edition.

Physical Description

1 box

can Leeuwen, Jan Storm: BMC part XIII hebraica, 2004. 1 box.
General

Author: can Leeuwen, Jan Storm

The Netherlands: Hes & de Graaf Publishers BV

Scope and Contents

Piece of paper folded twice. Printed in black, gray, and red. Includes a sample page.

Physical Description

1 box

Dutch decorated bookbinding in the eighteenth century, 2006. 1 box.
General

The Netherlands: Hes & de Graaf Publishers BV

Scope and Contents

Paper folded into a 6-sided pamphlet. With sample pages and an integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Books on display incline press at codex 2007, 2007. 1 box.
General

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Broadsheet printed in red and green with Zerkall Butten watermark. Books listed include Art For Life by Carolyn Trant, Sunspots by Ray Greenblatt, and Handmade Type by James Mosley.

Physical Description

1 box

Random notes, 2007. 1 box.
General

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Trifold pamphlet printed in red and black. Anncounced 1st Justin Howe Memorial Lecture and several publications.

Physical Description

1 box

Random notes, 2012-2013. 1 box.
General

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed on yellow paper with several announcements laid in; a slip of paper with the Press' address printed in red and blue;an announcement for Steel Horizeon by Johnathan Wonham, limited edition of 200 copies; bifolium announcement of Danger & Destiny by David Blamires; Small Broadside advertising 2 free exhibitions celebrating the 200th anniversary of Grimms' Fairytales; Bifolium announcement of a new series of chapbooks printed on blue paper; Bifolium announcement of The Days Out the Weeks Away by Ian McMillan; Broadside announcement of the 18th New Year Booklet; Broadside advertisement of The Typography of an Artist by Gerald Cinamon. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Jabès, Edmond: Desertstones, 2008. 1 box.
General

Author: Jabès, Edmond

Millwood, NY: Haybarn Editions

Scope and Contents

TLS with one previous fold. Watercolor illustration on one half of verso. Attached to order form, envelope, and a postcard with a paperclip.

Physical Description

1 box

Joyce, James: Finnegans Wake, 2009. 1 box.
General

Author: Joyce, James

London: Houyhnhnm

Scope and Contents

Prospectus for a critically emended version. Contains scaled-down pictures of sample pages of the book. The edition is published by an arrangement with Penguin Books Ltd. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Constructed on lines of truth and beauty the publications of William Pickering, 2009. 1 box.
General

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, printed in red and black. The book is a limited edition of 200 copies. A broadsheet sample of the cover of A Guide to the Study of Heraldry published by William Pickering in 1840 is laid in. Business card for Incline Press also laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Cinamon, Gerald: Erweiss, 2010. 1 box.
General

Author: Cinamon, Gerald

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Printed by Graham Moss at Incline Press. Orange covers. Order form an broadshet advertisement for the same book laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Baskerville: transitional giant, 2011. 1 box.
General

Evanston, Illinois: Hesterberg Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium purple cover with TLS, sample pages, and prospectus laid in. In the original specially printed envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

Berkson, Bill: Not an exit, 2011. 1 box.
General

Author: Berkson, Bill

Jungle Garden Press

Scope and Contents

Includes sample pages. A handwritten card advertising a 40% bookseller discount laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

A visit ftom st. nicholas, circa 1930s. 1 box.
General

Windham, Conn.: Hawthorn House

Scope and Contents

Postcard advertising an edition of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" with illustrations by Calenti Angelo. Postcard postmarked Oct. 26, 193?

Physical Description

1 box

The works defining a private press, 2013. 1 box.
General

Evanston, Illinois: Hesterberg Press

Scope and Contents

Sewn booklet with purple covers. A catalogue raissoné of the Hesterberg Press from 1975 to 2013, including three books currently in production. List of books still available to purchase pasted on back flap. TLs signed by William Hesterberg laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Boccaccio, Giovanni: Minerva, mantone and circes extracted from his de muliebris claris, 2013. 1 box.
General

Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in red and black on blue paper. Advertises an edition commemorating Boccacio's 700th anniversary.

Physical Description

1 box

Wonham, Johnathan: Steel horizon, 2013. 1 box.
General

Author: Wonham, Johnathan

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in red and black. Includes sample page. Order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Sterne, Laurence: Hezekiah and the Messengers, 2013. 1 box.
General

Author: Sterne, Laurence

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed in black and red.

Physical Description

1 box

The shadow shoes, 2014. 1 box.
General

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside postcard printed in black and two shades of green on a light blue background. Invitation to the manhattan fine press book fair on April 5&6, 2014.

Physical Description

1 box

Hampl, Patricia: The summer house, 2000. 1 box.
General

Author: Hampl, Patricia

Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Scope and Contents

Eight-sided pamphlet printed in brown and black. Addressed to B.J. Carpenter and Rob Rulon-Miller.

Physical Description

1 box

Spring 2003 catalogue, 2003. 1 box.
General

Pacific Palisades, California: Melville Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Advertises 3 books: Prayers written at vailima; cletus, the whale; In the direction of the beginning.

Physical Description

1 box

Fall 2003 catalogue, 2003. 1 box.
General

Pacific Palisades, California: Melville Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Advertises the same 3 books as the spring catalogue: Prayers written at vailima; cletus, the whale; In the direction of the beginning. With an announcement for a limited edition of The Owl and the Pussycat laid in. Order form also laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Precious manuscripts and early printed works in facsimile editions. 2003/04 publishing programme., 2003. 1 box.
General

Stuttgart: Müller and Schindler Stuttgart

Scope and Contents

TLS from Charlotte Kramer laid in. Integral order form and order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

A book of booksellers, 2004. 1 box.
General

London, UK: Markham, Sheila

Scope and Contents

Broadside. Order form on verso

Physical Description

1 box

Schanilec, Gaylord: Mayflies of the driftless region, 2005. 1 box.
General

Author: Schanilec, Gaylord

Stockholm, WI: Midnight Paper Sales.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with color print of a mayfly pasted in. Order form and stampled envelope laid in. In an envelope with photocopied article about the book.

Physical Description

1 box

Minkoff, Robert: The leaves of fate, 2011. 1 box.
General

Author: Minkoff, Robert

Kinsgton, New York: McPherson & Company, Publishers

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Announces the publication of the concluding volume of In the Land of Whispers. Integral order form for all 3 volumes in the trilogy.

Physical Description

1 box

The minnesota center for book arts presents the 2012 winter book: lessons for our time, 2012. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Scope and Contents

Bifolium announcement for the publication celebration on December 15, 2012. The order form has an announcement for the book on verso. Also includes a Broadside photocopy of an article about Patrick Ellam from the Arizona Daily Star.

Physical Description

1 box

Kimmerer, Robin Wall: Minidewak readings from braiding sweetgrass, 2013. 1 box.
General

Author: Kimmerer, Robin Wall

Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in green and black. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

A second book of booksellers, 2014. 1 box.
General

London, UK: Markham Sheila,

Scope and Contents

Broadside. Order form on verso

Physical Description

1 box

Bernard, kenneth: Nullity (with subtitles), 2001. 1 box.
General

Author: Bernard, kenneth

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press.

Scope and Contents

Broadside folded 3 times. Announcement of Whitman Sampler by Richard Wiley laid in. Red date stamp on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

Burton, Richard: Works of sir richard burton, 2001. 1 box.
General

Author: Burton, Richard

Vancouver, BC: Pierway inc.

Scope and Contents

10-sided pamplet printed in black and brown. Facsimile works advertised include wanderings in West Africa, A Complete System of Bayonet Exercises, and A mission to Gelele. Dealer discount schedule laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Traversing the body, 2003. 1 box.
General

Middletown, CT: Robin Price

Scope and Contents

Catalogue of new titles and other available items. Black cover with blue lettering.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

Invitation, 2003. 1 box.
General

London: Björn Löwendahl and Wolfgang J. Kaiser

Scope and Contents

Broadside. Invitation to members of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie to visit the new London premises.

Physical Description

1 box

Bloom, Amy: By-and-by, 2005. 1 box.
General

Author: Bloom, Amy

Middletown, CT: Robin Price.

Scope and Contents

Broadside with previous fold.

Filed under R.

Physical Description

1 box

Harris, Moira and Leo J. Harris: Minnesota on paper, 2006. 1 box.
General

Author: Harris, Moira and Leo J. Harris

St. Paul, Minnesota: Pogo Press, Incorporated

Scope and Contents

Broadside advertising a pre-publication special offer.

Physical Description

1 box

Searching for Richard Austin, 2008. 1 box.
General

San Francisco, California: Poltroon Press, Imp.

Scope and Contents

Broadside postcard addressed to Rulon-Miller Books. Invitation to a talk by Richard Austin on June 20, 2008.

Physical Description

1 box

Hazen, Hazen & Pober: American geological literature 1669-1850 2nd edition., 2000. 1 box.
General

Author: Hazen, Hazen & Pober

Staten Island: Pober Publishing

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in orange and black. Foreword by Stephed Jay Gould.

Physical Description

1 box

Needham Paul: A selection of Incunabula, 2000. 1 box.
General

Author: Needham Paul

Staten Island: Pober Publishing

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; text printed in orange and black. With a description of the book and list of prices.

Physical Description

1 box

The sain john's bible: the word into art, 2000. 1 box.
General

Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

Scope and Contents

Excerpt from the December 2000 issue of Smithsonian magazine describing the Saint John's Bible.

Filed under Saint.

Physical Description

1 box

Herz, Nat and Kurt Seligmann: The Impossible Landscapes, 2000. 1 box.
General

Author: Herz, Nat and Kurt Seligmann

Barbara Singer

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Integral order form. TLS from Barbara Singer to Mr. Rullon(sic)-Miller.

Physical Description

1 box

Killion, Tom: The high sierra of california, 2000. 1 box.
General

Author: Killion, Tom

Santa Cruz, CA: Quail Press

Scope and Contents

Prospectus for an edition illustrated and edited by Tom Killion with text by Gary Snyder,. Bifolium booklet with sample illustrations and letter giving pre-publication dealer discounts laid in. Printed in blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

Celebration of the first volume, 2000. 1 box.
General

Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

Scope and Contents

Invitation to a celebration of the publication on April 20, 2001. Postcard addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rulon Miller. Announcement of the publication of the first volume, with a note about an upcoming article in Smithsonian Magazine.

Physical Description

1 box

Firbank, Ronald: Letters to his mother, 2001. 1 box.
General

Author: Firbank, Ronald

London: Roxburghe Club

Scope and Contents

Broadside. Book is distributed by Maggs Bros. Limited.

Physical Description

1 box

Percy, Henry: The wizard earl's advice to his son, 2002. 1 box.
General

Author: Percy, Henry

London: Roxburghe Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with a color portrait of Henry Percy on the inside front cover.

Physical Description

1 box

The photograph and the american dream 1840-1940, 2003. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles, CA: Skirball Cultural Center

Scope and Contents

Large piece of paper folded into 6-sided pamphlet. Printed in red and black. Advertisement for an exhibition that ran from October 18, 2003 to January 4, 2004. With a list of lectures and programs offered.

Physical Description

1 box

The art of the saint john's bible, 2004. 1 box.
General

Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

Scope and Contents

Pamphlet folded three times. Advertises individual prints for sale in the form of single or double page.

Filed under Saint.

Physical Description

1 box

TLS from Eric Hollas, OSB., 2004. 1 box.
General

Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

Scope and Contents

TLS dated April 2, 2004. Signed by Eric Hollis, the Senior Associate for Arts and Cultural Affairs.

Physical Description

1 box

A glimpse of the saint john's bible/the illuminator, 2005. 1 box.
General

Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

Scope and Contents

Folder with a plastic-wrapped DVD about the bible and a Broadside sheet of facts laid in.

Filed under Saint.

Physical Description

1 box

Bartalos, Michael: 29 degrees north, 2005. 1 box.
General

Author: Bartalos, Michael

San Francisco: San Francisco Center for the Book

Scope and Contents

10-sided pamphlet printed on one side. Advertises an inaugural limited edition publication. Printed in color.

Physical Description

1 box

Vision of the new temple, 2006. 1 box.
General

Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with sample pages and a schedule of the international exhibition tour.

Filed under Saint.

Physical Description

1 box

A dynasty of dealers: a study of the art market in nineteenth-century london., 2012. 1 box.
General

London: Roxburghe Club

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

Herz, Nat and Kurt Seligmann: The Impossible Landscapes, [2000?]. 1 box.
General

Author: Herz, Nat and Kurt Seligmann

Barbara Singer

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Integral order form. Orange sticker in the front that says, "Still available!" and one on the inside listing the dealer discounts.

Physical Description

1 box

Stein, Gertrude: Paris France, 2000. 1 box.
General

Author: Stein, Gertrude

Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press

Scope and Contents

Large postcard with address label. Addressed to Robert Jr. Rulon-Miller.

Physical Description

1 box

36598. The Aldine Press. CAtalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of books by or relating to the press in the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles, incorporating works recorded elsewhere, 2001. 1 box.
General

Los Angeles: University of California Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus includes reduced specimen page and a history of the library's collection. Order form loosely inserted. Text in brown and black.

Physical Description

1 box

36847. The Saint John's Bible heritage edition, 2006. 1 box.
General

Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

Scope and Contents

Folio, pp. [10]; oversized illustrated prospectus for a reproduction of this illuminated bible with illustrations by Donald Jackson; includes specimen bifolium, a specimen frontispiece to the Gospel of John, and a specimen leaf of the opening of Book IV of Psalms, all loosely inserted.

Filed under Saint.

Physical Description

1 box

Newspaper clipping with the headline "RVN Embassy provided with Vietnamese films, books, music, tapes. Dated 20-1-71, 20-1-71. 1 item.
General

Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing Co.?

General

Missing as of 2017/1/17.

Physical Description

1 item

Scope and Contents

This series contains pamphlets lacking date statements or whose dates have not been established.

Arrangement

Arrangement follows the order of the original Excel inventory.

Physical Description

12 boxes

"The Grand Old Man" his life and achievements William Ewart Gladstone by Frank W. Gunsaulus, D.D., undated. 1 box.
General

Philadelphia: International Publishing Company

Scope and Contents

Folio Broadside. Previous folds. No date on broadside, but the book was published in 1898 according to OCLC.

Filed under 19th c..

Physical Description

1 box

Emerson Wulling printer for pleasure, undated. 1 box.
General

Saint Paul, MN: Rulon-Miller Books

Scope and Contents

Large bifolium. With color woodcut on inside front cover. Printed in a signed limited edition of 166 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

London, Jack: "A New Idea in Fiction" the Star Rover by Jack London, undated. 1 item.
General

Author: London, Jack

New Yot

Scope and Contents

Pamplet printed in blue with a photo portrait of Jack London on the front. Includes a short Essay on Jack London's life. No date.

General

Missing as of 2017/1/17.

Physical Description

1 item

Krumberger, John: Black, brown, yellow, pale, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Krumberger, John

Minneapolis, MN: Accordion Productions

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in purple and red on brown paper. Chapbook & Broadside by Regula Russelle and C.B. Sherlock.

Physical Description

1 box

Gruchow, Paul: Putting tomatoes by, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Gruchow, Paul

Minneapolis, MN: Accordion Productions

Scope and Contents

Prospectus. Booklet with red covers and a sewn spine. By Regula Russelle and C.B. Sherlock "in collaboration with students & colleagues."

Physical Description

1 box

Accordion Productions' fine press art book collaborations, undated. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: Accordion Productions

Scope and Contents

Two Broadsides that go together. On is the history of the press and one is a membership form.

Physical Description

1 box

The highgrove florilegium, undated. 1 box.
General

London: Addison Publications

Scope and Contents

Bookmark-shaped. Announcement of the publication of 175 sets of prints. With a list of the press' other publications on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

Current publications, undated. 1 box.
General

London: Addison Publications

Scope and Contents

Broadside, one previous fold. Lists books currently available including The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands and The Corpus Apocalypse.

Physical Description

1 box

The highgrove florilegium, undated. 1 box.
General

London: Addison Publications

Scope and Contents

Broadside. Limited edition of 175 numbered copies. Published for the Prince's Charities Foundation.

Physical Description

1 box

Alte druckwerke aus ungarn (auf ungarisch), undated. 1 box.
General

Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó

Scope and Contents

Broadside, one previous fold. Book description written in German, integral order form in English.

Physical Description

1 box

Books on shamanism, undated. 1 box.
General

Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó

Scope and Contents

Broadside, one previous fold. Lists books on shamanism available from the press including five volumes of the Bibliotheca Shamanistica and Volume 2 of Ethnologia Uralica.

Physical Description

1 box

Documents diplomatiques sur l'histoire du bassin des carpates 1918-1932 vol. I, undated. 1 box.
General

Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó

Scope and Contents

Broadside, one previous fold. Written in French. Includes an integral order form (bon de commande)

Physical Description

1 box

Documents diplomatiques sur l'histoire du bassin des carpates 1918-1932 vol. II, undated. 1 box.
General

Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó

Scope and Contents

Broadside, one previous fold. Written in French. Includes an integral order form (bon de commande)

Physical Description

1 box

Documents diplomatiques sur l'histoire du bassin des carpates 1918-1932 vol. III, undated. 1 box.
General

Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó

Scope and Contents

Broadside, one previous fold. Written in French. Includes an integral order form (bon de commande)

Physical Description

1 box

Letter from akadémiai kiadó, undated. 1 box.
General

Budapest, Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó

Scope and Contents

Signed by Ms Réka Atzél.

Physical Description

1 box

Facsimilia als wandschmuck, undated. 1 box.
General

Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt

Scope and Contents

Bifolium pamphlet. With scaled-down samples of illustrations. Written in German. On the inside there is a blank white space where the name of a supplier can be added.

Physical Description

1 box

The english bible in america, undated. 1 box.
General

New York, NY: American Bible Society

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed on blue paper. Includes pre-publication dealer prices.

Physical Description

1 box

Clairmont, Robert: Quintillions, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Clairmont, Robert

Roosevelt Island, NY: American Sunbeam Publisher

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed on one side. Printed in blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

Biblia Sacra, undated. 1 box.
General

Antiquariat Bibermüle AG Heribert Tenschert

Scope and Contents

Bifolium in German and English. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Horae B.M.V., undated. 1 box.
General

Antiquariat Bibermüle AG Heribert Tenschert

Scope and Contents

Bifolium in German and English. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Announcing tristram shandy from the Arion Press, undated. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press

Scope and Contents

Prospectus for the publication of an edition of tristram shandy. In blue-green wrappers. Illustrated with photographs. Water damage on the top left of the front cover. TLS laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Artibus asiae curat editonem, undated. 1 box.
General

Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae.

Scope and Contents

Broadside advertising Artibus Asiae press and its publications. Lists consultative committee and subscription rates. The name of the previous editor-in chief (Alfred Salmony) has been crossed out and the name of the new editor-in-chief (Alexander G. Soper) is typed below. Illustrated with a copy of an Indian painting pasted on.

Physical Description

1 box

Subscribing to the Arion Press, undated. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press

Scope and Contents

Single sheet printed in grayish-blue, red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

Arion Press Publishers and Printers of Fine Editions, undated. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Arion Press.

Scope and Contents

Single sheet folded twice. Text in red and black. Advertises Current publications and

Physical Description

1 box

Les contenances de la table, undated. 1 box.
General

Sebastopol, USA and London: Ben Kinmont and Bernard Quarithch Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in red and black. A facsimile of the first English language edition. Designed by Philip Reagh and printed in a limited edition of 100 copies.

Physical Description

1 box

Bachaus, Theodore: The booksellers of san seriffe, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Bachaus, Theodore

Bird & Bull Press.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with book's table of contents and description of the book on the inside. Slip advertising 25% bookseller discount taped to front.

Physical Description

1 box

Larson, Jennifer: The Book Club of California: A Short History, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Larson, Jennifer

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

3-fold pamphlet signed in pencil.

Physical Description

1 box

Gearhart, France May and Edna: Let's play by the Gearharts, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Gearhart, France May and Edna

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with reduced samples of the original prints. Book printed in a limited edition of 1000 copies. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Kruska, Dennis: James Mason Hutchings of yo semite (sic), undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Kruska, Dennis

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed in black, green and light brown. Announcement from the publications committee of the Book Club of California.

Physical Description

1 box

Teiser, Ruth: Lawton Kennedy, printer. Foreword by James D. Hart, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Teiser, Ruth

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

Printed in red and black. Contains and essay by Ruth Teiser. Stain on the bottom right.

Physical Description

1 box

Wilkie, Everett C. Jr.: Texas printings, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Wilkie, Everett C. Jr.

Austin: Book Club of Texas

Scope and Contents

Broadside with 4 previous folds. Blank on one side. Printed in black and red. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Jordan, John W. ed. : To the people of texas, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Jordan, John W. ed.

Austin: Book Club of Texas

Scope and Contents

Broadside with 4 previous folds. Blank on one side. Printed in black and red. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Four new pamphlets, undated. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: James Ford Bell Library

Scope and Contents

Broadside with two previous folds. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

A catalogue of the Cotsen Children's Library, undated. 1 box.
General

Kingston, New York: Battledore Ltd.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with sample pages.

Physical Description

1 box

Aims and Activities, undated. 1 box.
General

San Francisco: Book Club of California.

Scope and Contents

4 different pamplets describing the aims and activities of the club. Undated.

Physical Description

1 box

Kestenbaum, Stuart: A deep blue amen, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Kestenbaum, Stuart

Cave Paper

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed on handmade paper.

Physical Description

1 box

Poetry: Introduction 1, undated. 1 box.
General

London: Faber

Scope and Contents

Broadside

Physical Description

1 box

Godine for Young Readers, undated. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Broadside. Photocopy of a David R. Godine catalog stapled together on the top left.

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

Envelope and order form, undated. 1 box.
General

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Small manila envelope with an order form and Broadside sxplaining discount schedule and policy

Filed under G.

Physical Description

1 box

Dreyfus, John: Into print the selected writings of john dreyfus, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Dreyfus, John

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

1 page folded into a six-sided brochure.

Physical Description

1 box

Morison, Stanley: Early italian writing-books renaissance to baroque, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Morison, Stanley

Boston: David R. Godine.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Sample page inside. Printed for the members of "Hoc Volo."

Physical Description

1 box

Lankes, J.J.: The woodcut art of J.J. Lankes, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Lankes, J.J.

Lincoln, Massachusetts: David R. Godine?

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Contains two sample pages and integral order form. Previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

We hope that you will support the work of the fine press book association., undated. 1 box.
General

Boulder, CO and Kirkcudbrightshire, UK: Fine Press Book Association

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed on orange paper. Integral order form and a form for entering contact details. Reproduction of a woodcut on the front.

Physical Description

1 box

"This time" and "Being in doubt", undated. 1 box.
General

Minneapolis, MN: Flying Paper Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with price list and individual slips describing book laid in. Price list also laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

The story of the middle ages, undated. 1 box.
General

New York: Folio Society.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium advertisement for a five-volume work. Also offers a 2-volume set of Greek myths just for replying. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

A new acquisition: an important manuscript inventory of the Count d'Hoym, undated. 1 box.
General

New York: Grolier Club

Scope and Contents

Broadside. Press release about the Grolier Club Library's acquisition of the final manuscript inventory of the book and art collections of Karl Heinrich, Count d'Hoym. "For immediate release."

Physical Description

1 box

Miscellanea: a selection of pages, prints & ephemera produced at Greynog since 1978, undated. 1 box.
General

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in gray and blue. Text in English and Welsh. Folded sheet with a list of other titles from the press and bilingual order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Jones, R. Geralt: Gwyddau yng gregynog/Geese at gregynog, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Jones, R. Geralt

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Broadhseet with previous fold. Woodcut illustration at the top. Text in English and Welsh.

Physical Description

1 box

News from gwasg gregynog, undated. 1 box.
General

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Broadside prospectus for Geese at Gregynog and some works in progress. Written in English on one side, Welsh on the other. Previous fold. Printed in light blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

With compliments/Gyda chyfarchion, undated. 1 box.
General

Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog.

Scope and Contents

Broadside slip of paper with the street and e-mail addresses of the press. Written in English and Welsh.

Physical Description

1 box

Pharmacopoeia field notes, undated. 1 box.
General

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Linda Gammell

Scope and Contents

Prospectus for a hand-bound book of digital prints. White Broadside printed in black in an unmarked envelope.

Physical Description

1 box

Annotated dictionary of fore-edge painting, undated. 1 box.
General

Glendale, CA: Jeff Weber Rare Books

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Order form laid in. Some wear and dark smudges on the left fold and lower left cover.

Filed under J.

Physical Description

1 box

European Americana, undated. 1 box.
General

Providence: John Carter Brown Library

Scope and Contents

Three-fold pamphlet with order form laid in. Black text printed on beige.

Filed under John.

Physical Description

1 box

Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph: The Crossbow, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph

London: Holland Press

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed in black and blue on light blue paper.

Physical Description

1 box

The Australian Maritime Series No. 5, undated. 1 box.
General

Potts Point, Sydney, Australia: Hordern House

Scope and Contents

Bifold pamphlet with order form attached. The publication was edited by Hordern House for the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Physical Description

1 box

A series of interpretations on the theme of water printed for the designer bookbinders international competition, undated. 1 box.
General

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium printed in black, blue, and gray.

Physical Description

1 box

Randall davies and his book of nonsense, undated. 1 box.
General

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Printed in black on green paper. With a gray slip advertising a pre-publication discount laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Random notes, undated. 1 box.
General

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Book-mark sized advt. for the press. Printed in red and black.

Physical Description

1 box

The anglo-american arab printing machine, undated. 1 box.
General

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Gray Broadside printed in red and black. Advertises an instructional DVD on how to use an anglo-american arab press.

Physical Description

1 box

For news and information about work in progress., undated. 1 box.
General

Oldham, England, UK: Incline Press

Scope and Contents

Small notice about the press's website and wordpress blog. Printed in red and blue.

Physical Description

1 box

Rainmaker editions, undated. 1 box.
General

Las Vegas, NV: International Institute of Modern Letters

Scope and Contents

Piece of paper folded twice. Announcement of the launch of Rainmaker editions, which includes works by Toni Morrison, Gunter Grass, and Wole Solinka. Sheet of paper with a quote from Maya Angelou laid in. Order form and envelope laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Publications of the John Carter Brown library, undated. 1 box.
General

Providence: John Carter Brown Library

Scope and Contents

Catalogue for some of the press's publications. Publications include European americana, Urbanism in the america colonies and el Tapaboca. No date, but presumably recent since it gives e-mail addresses. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

A checklist of books published by william pickering 1820-1853, undated. 1 box.
General

Pomona, New York: Kelly-Winterton Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with two sample pages laid in. A small slip with the booksellers discount laid in. integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

1883 book of commandments, undated. 1 box.
General

Salt Lake City, UT: Ken Sanders

Scope and Contents

Broadside, 2 previous folds. With photographs of the finished book. Integral order form. Printed in a limited edition of 100 copies and a deluxe edition of 26 lettered copies.

Physical Description

1 box

Orange crush/bone island mambo, undated. 1 box.
General

Key West, FL: Key West Island Books

Scope and Contents

Bright pink Broadside. Announcement for Orange Crush on one side and Bone Island Mambo on the other. Announces a book signing on May 4th at the Key West Island Bookstore.

Physical Description

1 box

Gols der turkmenen/gols of the turkmen, undated. 1 box.
General

Perchtoldsdorf, Austria: Langauer, Udo

Scope and Contents

Large piece of paper folded 3 times. Illustrated with color photographs of Turkish carpets.

Physical Description

1 box

The journal of contemporary photography volumes I-IV, undated. 1 box.
General

Brewster, MA: Leo & Wolf Photography. Inc.

Scope and Contents

Pamphlet offering the first four volumes of the journal. With samples of photos from each journal. Order form for trade editions, deluxe editions and museum editions.

Physical Description

1 box

Simic, Charles: On the music of the spheres, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Simic, Charles

Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Scope and Contents

Black bifolium with no markings, description of the project, sample of an illustration, and order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

The village church facades of santiago de guatamala, undated. 1 box.
General

Menlo Park, CA: Libros San Cristobóbal La Antigua

Scope and Contents

Limited edition portfolio of hand-colored engravings. Sponsored by the Catherine Doctor Creative Investment Fund. Produced by Libros San Cristobóbal La Antigua.

Physical Description

1 box

Antique map reproductions from the John Carter Brown library, undated. 1 box.
General

Providence: John Carter Brown Library

Scope and Contents

Catalogue of antique map reproductions printed in color. One copy has two order forms laid in. and some of the entries marked as sold. The other has one order form laid in.

Filed under John.

Physical Description

1 box

New England in early printed maps 1513-1800, undated. 1 box.
General

Providence: John Carter Brown Library

Scope and Contents

Three-fold pamphlet printed in blue, black and white. Integral order form with pre-publication discount order form laid in.

Filed under John.

Physical Description

1 box

Hellinga, Lotte: BMS Part XI england, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Hellinga, Lotte

The Netherlands: Hes & de Graaf Publishers BV

Scope and Contents

Large piece of paper folded twice into bifolium pamphlet. With a description and sample page inside. Unfolded, the piece of paper has another sample page on verso. Biography of the compiler and integral order form on back. One copy has a previous fold.

Physical Description

1 box

Bible of st. louis, undated. 1 box.
General

Madrid: Moleiro Editor

Scope and Contents

Catalogue also advertises the Anglo-Catalan Psalter. Order form, envelope, and Broadside advertisement laid in.

Filed under Mol.

Physical Description

1 box

Concerning the third series, undated. 1 box.
General

New York: Limited Editions Press

Scope and Contents

Form asking members to suggest books they would like to have published in the third series.

Physical Description

1 box

Longman dictionary of contemporary english, undated. 1 box.
General

Harlow, Essex, England: Longman

Scope and Contents

Booklet with sample pages. Order form and poster laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Connaughty, Sean: A history of the earth as interpreted by one of its inhabitants, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Connaughty, Sean

Minneapolis, MN: Marshall Arts

Scope and Contents

Trifold. Printed in beige. An edition of 13 handmade boxes with audio, video, and prints. Contains the dates of an exhibit and its opening night.

Physical Description

1 box

Murray, Charles Fairfax: Catalogo dei libri posseduti da Charles Fairfax Murrya, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Murray, Charles Fairfax

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books.

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed on beige paper. Includes pre-publication dealer prices.

Physical Description

1 box

Giolito de'Ferrari, Gabriel: Annali, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Giolito de'Ferrari, Gabriel

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books.

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed on green paper. Includes pre-publication dealer prices.

Physical Description

1 box

Hemingway, Ernest: Bullfighting, sport & industry, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Hemingway, Ernest

Sacramento, CA: Meeker Publications

Scope and Contents

Bifolium addressed to Rob Rulon-Miller. Dealer discount list laid in. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Verhoeven, Ben and Gaylord Shanilec: Sylva farm 590, undated. 1 box.
General

Author: Verhoeven, Ben and Gaylord Shanilec

Stockholm, WI: Midnight Paper Sales.

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Bifolium with a fold-out piece of rice paper with a brown woodcut.

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1 box

Le Sueur: Winter prairie women, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Le Sueur

Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts

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Bifolium. Printed in blue and black.

Physical Description

1 box

Lessons for our time, undated. 1 box.
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Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts

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Unopened Envelope addressed to Rob Rulon Miller from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Printed in red. Specially printed to promote the publication celebrations of Lessons for our Time.

Physical Description

1 box

Letter from the Limited Editions Club to Wulling., undated. 1 box.
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Limited Editions Club

Physical Description

1 box

Life of general Grant, undated. 1 box.
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Philadelphia: National Publishing Co.

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1 printed Broadside with the headline "The Best Illustrated Life of General Grant" on one side, and "Explanation" on the other.

Physical Description

1 box

6x9 32-page reproduction of the 1948 Geo. Bruce & co. type specimen book., undated. 1 box.
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Indianapolis, IN: David W. Peat

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Broadside printed on black on green paper. With an excerpt from a price list of printing equipment.

Filed under P.

Physical Description

1 box

Fine books about books, undated. 1 box.
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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press

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Broadside with previous fold. Printed in orange and black.Books advertised include ABC for Book Collectors, By His Own Labor, and Practice to Deceive.

Physical Description

1 box

Les vélins de Poiteau at Turpin: preview, undated. 1 box.
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Paris, France: Pierre Bergé & associés

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Color pamphlet with text in English and French. Includes pictures of the book,reproductions of the illsutrations, and biographies of the authors.

Physical Description

1 box

Publishers of Significant Books, undated. 1 box.
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Berkeley: Peacock Press

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Broadside, folded in 3 places. With an illustration of a peacock and a quote from P.J. Thomajan.

Physical Description

1 box

Nelson, Clifford M. : Schmeckebier's catalog & index . . . A new bio-bibliographical introduction, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Nelson, Clifford M.

Staten Island: Pober Publishing.

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Bifolium printed in red and black on beige paper. With description of the publication and prices.

Physical Description

1 box

"To My Godson on his Christening", undated. 1 box.
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Iowa City: Stone Wall Press

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Poem with no attribution, abstract woodcut, text printed in black w/ page numbers 37-38.

Physical Description

1 box

The book of psalms, undated. 1 box.
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Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

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Bifolium with sample pages and integral order form.

Filed under Saint.

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1 box

A monumental achievement and historical undertaking, undated. 1 box.
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Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

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Broadside folded into 8-sided pamphlet. With examples of pages and announcements for related merchandise. Also lists exhibition dates.

Filed under Saint.

Physical Description

1 box

[postcard], undated. 1 box.
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Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

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Broadside with a color photo of an illustrator working. Blank on verso.

Filed under Saint.

Physical Description

1 box

Saint john's bible heritage edition, undated. 1 box.
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Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

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Folder with information about the publication. 8 1/2x11 sheet showing which of the 360 sets will be available for purchase and which will be reserved for benefactors. There is also a stapled stack of color printouts with information about the Heritage Edition and its completion schedule.

Filed under Saint.

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1 box

Manuale tipografico, undated. 1 box.
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Franco Maria Ricci?

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Advertisement for a 900 copy reprint of the Manuale tipografico.

Physical Description

1 box

What katy did: in recognition of feminism in the american experience, undated. 1 box.
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Santa Barbara, California: Randall House

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Illustrated with pictures of covers of the books in the catalogue.

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1 box

Go west, young woman, undated. 1 box.
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New York, NY: Rostenberg & Stern

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Broadside. Avertises facsimile reprints of 19th-century travel accounts by American women.

Physical Description

1 box

Business card of Fr. Eric Hollas, OSB, undated. 1 box.
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Collegeville, Minnesota: Saint John's University and Abbey

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Bifolium business card of Fr. Eric Hollas, OSB, Senior Associate for Arts and Cultural Affairs at Saint John's. Front cover has a red background and a photograph of a madonna and child statue.

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1 box

When harry met marion, undated. 1 box.
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Smith's Bookshop Limited

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Advertisement for a biography og Harry Emmet. Printed on a magenta piece of 8 1/2x11 paper.

Physical Description

1 box

Art for the new collector III: re-emerging american artists., undated. 1 box.
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New York, NY: Spanierman Gallery, LLC

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In original envelope addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Mcgilvery/Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. Broadside press release and a list of works that can be viewed in the gallery and online. 4 double-sided Broadsides and one one-sided Broadside with integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Zapf, Hermann: Zapf Hermann and his design philosophy, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Zapf, Hermann

Chicago, IL: STA-HZ

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Bifolium, ripped apart at the spine and now in two pieces. Includes integral order form and integral STA membership form. Addressed to Emerson Wulling.

Physical Description

1 box

Star bookworks, undated. 1 box.
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Apache Junction, AZ: Starr Bookworks

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Four-sided pamphlet. Has photos of the bindings available from the bindery.

Physical Description

1 box

The art of publishers' bookbindings 1815-1915, undated. 1 box.
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Los Angeles, CA: William Dailey Rare Books Ltd

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Bifolium printed in color. The first 100 copies numbered and signed by the author.

Physical Description

1 box

Maret, Russell and Annie Schlecter: Swan & Hoop 2: a roman inscription, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Maret, Russell and Annie Schlecter

New York, NY: Russell Maret

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Postcard illustrated with photos. Blank on one side.

Physical Description

1 box

Maret, Russell: Swan & Hoop 1: mediaeval in padua, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Maret, Russell

New York, NY: Russell Maret

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Postcard with photos of the publication on one side.

Physical Description

1 box

Gehl, Paul F. : Swan & Hoop 3: a meditation in rome, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Gehl, Paul F.

New York, NY: Russell Maret

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Postcard with photos of the publication on one side. Book has an essay by Russell Maret and photographs by Annie Schlecter.

Physical Description

1 box

A Specimen of an Etymological Dictionary Attributed to John Mitchell Kemble, undated. 1 box.
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Rulon-Miller Books

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2 sheets, one with an announcement of the publication of the recently-discovered manuscript and a page with a sample entry.

Physical Description

1 box

Thoreau, Henry David: Wild fruits, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Thoreau, Henry David

Concord, MA: Thoreau Society

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Broadside with color information on front, book information on verso.

Physical Description

1 box

New webster's international encyclopedia, undated. 1 box.
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Trident Press International

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2-fold color pamphlet with order form laid in.

Physical Description

1 box

Moser, Barry: No shortcuts: an essay on wood engraving, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Moser, Barry

Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Center for the Book

Scope and Contents

Folded Broadside. Previously folded and mailed to Robert Rulon-Miller. Limited edition with a limited number of copies available unbound. Announcement also has discount schedule.

Physical Description

1 box

Browne, Michael Dennis and Patricia Hempl: 2 for 5, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Browne, Michael Dennis and Patricia Hempl

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

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Six-sided pamphet printed in blue and black. Invitation to the publication party laid in. Iintegral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Geriadur Prifysgol cymru (a dictionary of the welsh language), undated. 1 box.
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Cardiff, Wales, UK: University of Wales Press (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru)

Scope and Contents

Six-sided pamphlet in English and Welsh. Sample page with bilingual explanations. Integral bilingual order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Printed catalogues of french book auctions and sales by private treaty 1643-1830 in the library of the grolier club, undated. 1 box.
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Northhampton, Massachusetts: Veatchs Arts of the Book

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Broadside advertising a sale catalogue of french libraries. Printed on one side only.

Physical Description

1 box

Pinsky, Robert: Shirt, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Pinsky, Robert

Winnetka, IL: Vixen Press

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Edition size written in red pen inside. The book has a forword by Louise Glück.

Physical Description

1 box

Dunnigan, Brian Leigh: Frontier metropolis: picturing early detroit, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Dunnigan, Brian Leigh

Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press

Scope and Contents

Color catalogue with scaled-down sample pages.

Physical Description

1 box

American heritage dictionary software, undated. 1 box.
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Writing Tools Group

Scope and Contents

Broadside printed in blue and black. Offers both Deluxe Third Edition and Third Standard Edition. Integral order form.

Physical Description

1 box

Rumphius, Georgius Everhardus : The ambrose herbal, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Rumphius, Georgius Everhardus

UK: Yale Books

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with scaled-down sample pages. With a description of the book and quotes from critics.

Physical Description

1 box

Pollak, Oliver B. : A year at the sorbonne, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Pollak, Oliver B.

Council Bluffs, IA: Yellow Barn Press.

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Bifolium pamplet with sample page laid in. Small piece of paper with a list of dealer discounts pasted to the bottom of the second page.

Physical Description

1 box

"Happy in my stomach", undated. 1 box.
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YMCA Refugee and Rehabilitation Services

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Piece of paper folded into 6-sided pamphlet. Detachable order form and sample recipe for stewed chicked with pineapple sauce. Cookbook published to raise money for the YMCA Refugee and Rehabilitation Services.

Physical Description

1 box

Chopin, Fryderyk: Early european maps of japan, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Chopin, Fryderyk

Tokyo: Yushodo Co

Scope and Contents

Bifolium with the majority of text in Japanese. Includes thumbnail-size samples of the maps. Title and contact information are bilingual.

Physical Description

1 box

Chopin, Fryderyk: Piano concerto No. 2 in F minor, op. 21, undated. 1 box.
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Author: Chopin, Fryderyk

Tokyo: Yushodo Co

Scope and Contents

Bifolium. Announcement of a facsimile edition of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2

Physical Description

1 box

Bhutan, undated. 1 box.
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Cambridge, MA: Friendly Planet

Scope and Contents

Large bifolium. Limited edition offered to patrons who make a donation of $10.000. Book is recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest boo (5x7 feet).

Physical Description

1 box

Verbatim the language quarterly, undated. 1 box.
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Essex, Connecticut: Verbatim

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Large Broadside advertising the periodical printed on cardboard. Brown lettering on beige. Verso blank.

Physical Description

1 box

Print, Suggest