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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.
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Open for research.
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
Collection Inventory
This series contains pamphlets dated before 1800.
Arrangement follows the order of the original Excel inventory.
Physical Description2 boxes
Author: Compaing, Monsig.
Venezia: Pietro Valvasense.
Broadside (210 mm.); uncut, fine. Prospectus announcing the publication of "l'Opera della Santità, e de'Doveri de'Sacerdoti".
Physical Description1 box
Author: Grose, Francis
London: S. Hooper
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 Description1 box
Author: King, Edward
London: W. Bulmer & Co.
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.
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Author: Alexander, William
London: G. Nicol.
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 Description1 box
Author: Bickham, George
London: Bickham, George.
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 Description1 box
This series contains pamphlets dated after 1800 and before 1900.
Arrangement follows the order of the original Excel inventory.
Physical Description4 boxes
Author: Payne, John Howard
New York: John Howard Payne
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".
Missing as of 9/9/2014
Physical Description1 item
Author: Eastman, Edwin
Jersey City, N.J.: Clark Johnson
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."
Missing as of 9/9/2014
Physical Description1 item
Stamperia del Seminario di Padova.
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.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
Physical Description1 item
Author: Frazer, Alexander
Philadelphia: David Hogan
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.
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Author: Carey, Mathew
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey
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 Description1 box
Author: [Dennie, Joseph]
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep
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 Description1 box
Author: Trommsdorff, Bartolomeo
Milano: Giovanni Silvestri.
Broadside (164 x 108 mm.); mostly fine. Prospectus for the "edizione secunda notabilmente aumentata".
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Author: Arrigo da Settimello
Milano: Giovanni Silvestri.
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 Description1 box
Author: Vico, Giambattista
Milano: Tipografia di Giovanni Silvestri.
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 Description1 box
Author: Chesterfield, Lord
Milano: Tipografia di Giovanni Silvestri.
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 Description1 box
Author: Nares, Robert
London: Bensley and Son
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 Description1 box
New York
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 Description1 box
Author: Johnson, John
London: Apollo Press.
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 Description1 box
Author: Hornor, Thomas
London: Hornor, T.
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 Description1 box
Author: Redouté, Pierre Joseph.
Paris: Panckoucke, C. L. F.
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.
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Torino: Marzorati, Vercellotti, e Comp.
Bifolium, 4to; previous fold, else near fine. Prospectus for the Biblioteca Economica, religious works, and others.
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Roma: Presso Giunchi.
8vo, unpaged; original self wrappers, top edge a bit darkened, minor wear from handling, else near fine. Order form laid in.
Filed under P.
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Author: Vallardi, Giuseppe
Milano: Pietro e Giuseppe Vallardi.
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 Description1 box
Author: Torrey, Jesse, Jr.
Philadelphia: Sleeper, J.R.
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 Description1 box
Paris: François Pastori et Comp.
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 Description1 box
Philadelphia: Miss Leslie's Magazine
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 Description1 box
Author: Yes
Washington City: Blair & Rives
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 Description1 box
Author: Seyfred, J.F.
New York: J.F. Trow & Co.
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 Description1 box
Author: Neale, Wm. L.
Lexington, Kentucky: True American
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 Description1 box
Worcester, Mass.: William Lincoln and Chris C. Baldwin
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 Description1 box
Washington, D.C.: Gales & Seaton
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 Description1 box
Manchester, N.H.: W.H. Gilmore & Co.
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 Description1 box
Author: Webster, Daniel.
Boston: Little and Brown i.e. Little, Brown
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 Description1 box
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
Bifolium, 12mo; list of publications includes Henry W. Longfellow's writings; Nathaniel Hawthorne's writings; and Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister" and "Faust". Disbound.
Physical Description1 box
Author: Pitts, F.E.
Louisville: Stevenson, E.
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 Description1 box
Author: Baldwin, Jo. G.
New York: D. Appleton & Company.
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 Description1 box
Author: Cooper, J. Fenimore
New York: Stringer & Townsend.
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 Description1 box
Author: Cecchetti, Bartolomeo
Venezia: Tipografia del Commercio.
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 Description1 box
San Francisco: Kenny & Alexander.
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 Description1 box
Norwalk, OH: Fire Lands' Historical Society.
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 Description1 box
New York: S.R. Wells
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 Description1 box
Author: Browning, George
London: Croft & Co.
Broadside, small 8vo (201 mm.); prospectus for this historical novel. Reprinted from the Antiquary, May 24th, 1873. Previous folds.
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Author: Hotze, C.L.
St. Louis: Hendricks, Chittenden & Co.
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 Description1 box
Author: Smith, Walter
Boston: James R. Osgood Co.
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 Description1 box
Modena: Tip. Pontifica ed Arciv. dell'imm. Concezione.
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.
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Author: Palmer, A. Smythe
Dublin: Bell and Sons
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.
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Author: Green, Samuel A.
Boston: Geo. E. Littlefield
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 Description1 box
Author: [Temple, Josiah.]
North Brookfield: Town of North Brookfield, Mass.
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 Description1 box
Author: [Lewis, Harriet Newell O'Brien]
New York: The New York Ledger.
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.
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Author: Stevenson, Seth William
London: George Bell and Sons
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.
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Philadelphia: Peerless Publishing Co.
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.
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London: J.M. Dent and Co.
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.
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Chicago: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
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.
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Author: Arndt, H.R., ed.
Philadelphia: Hahnemann Publishing House.
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].
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Saco, Maine: Mitchell, Daniel L.
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.
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Author: Mylius, William Frederic
London: M.J. Godwin at the Juvenile Library.
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.
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Author: Samuel Johnson
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
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.
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Author: Van Rensselaer, Stephen
General Committee of the Board of Agriculture.
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.
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Author: Staples, Estevan M.L.
New York
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.
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Author: Gilfillan, George, ed.
New York: D. Appleton & Co.
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'".
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Baltimore: Hitchcock, I. Irvine
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.
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Author: Deverell, Gualterus Ruding
London: Statistical Society of London
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.
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Author: Saunders, John Simcoe
Philadelphia: Small, Robert H.
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.
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Author: Rockwell, John A.
New York: John S. Voorhies
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.
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Author: Dana, Charles A.
New York: Hermann J. Meyer
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".
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Author: Horton, R.G.
New York: Derby & Jackson
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.
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Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, & Worthington.
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."
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Author: Mitchel, John & W.G. Swan
Washington, D.C.: Southern Citizen.
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.
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Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company
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.
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Author: Ambrose, D[aniel] Leib
Springfield: Illinois State Journal Company Publishers.
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.
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Author: Logan, Olive.
Philadelphia: Parmelee & Co.
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.
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New York: New York and Hartford Publishing Co.
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.
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Author: Kenly, John R.
Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co.
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.
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Author: Skeat, Walter W.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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.
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Author: [Whittaker, Frederick]
New York: Sheldon & Co.
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.
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Author: McCabe, James D.
Philadelphia: National Publishing Co.
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."
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Author: [William, Earl.]
Harrisburg: B.G. Stauffer
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.
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New York: G.W. Carleton & Co.
Broadside, 16mo (148 mm.); advertisement for books from the publisher; "Capital New Books" advertised on Broadside verso. Previous folds, slight foxing.
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Author: Michelet, Jules
Hartford: James Betts & Co.
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.
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Boston: Little, Brown, & Company.
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.
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Author: Foster, Joseph
Westminster: Nichols and Sons
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.
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Napoli: Leonardo Vallardi.
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.
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Author: [Rayne, M.L]
Detroit: Dickerson, F.B.
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."
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Author: Chambers, George F.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons
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.
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New York: Orange Judd Company.
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.
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Author: Boyd, James P.
Philadelphia: Garretson & Co.
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.
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Author: Burr, Frank A.
Philadelphia: National Publishing Co.
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.
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Detroit: Dickerson, F.B., & Co.
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."
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Boston: Perry Mason & Co.
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.
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London: Walter Scott
Broadside, oblong 32mo (84 x 118 mm.); fine. Prospectus announcing that "17 Copies out of 56 printed remain unappropriated".
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Author: Taylor, Henry O.
Philadelphia: Kay & Brother.
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.
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Author: Purinton, D.B.
New York: Putnam
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.
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Author: Farmer, John S.
London: Alexander P. Watt
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.
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Author: Willard, Frances E. and Jennie Cunningham Croly, eds.
Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton.
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).
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Author: Beach, Charles F., Jr.
New York: Baker, Voorhis & Co.
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.
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Philadelphia: World Publishing Co.
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."
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Author: Ward, Mrs. Humphrey
New York: Macmillan and Co.
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.
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Author: Hartmann, J.
New York: The Truth Seeker Co.
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.
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Author: Ladd, Paris B.
New York: The Truth Seeker Co.
Broadside, 8vo (253 mm.); prospectus provides the table of contents and "Some comments on the Commentaries". Previous folds, very good.
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Author: Bruun, Johan Adolf
Edinburgh: David Douglas.
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.
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Author: Banks, Louis Albert
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.
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".
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Author: Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien
Chicago, Ill.: The Open Court Publishing Co.
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.
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Bielefeld: Velhagen & Klafing
Bifolium, 8vo; map; corners a bit creased, else fine. Prospectus printed in blackletter. Integral order form on back.
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Author: Alger, Israel
Boston: Lincoln & Edmands
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.
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Author: Edgeworth, Maria
London: Baldwin and Cradock
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.
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Author: Junius
Boston: N.A. Thompson
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.
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Author: Sears, Robert
New York: Robert Sears
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.
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Author: Kitto, John
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.
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.
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Author: Kitto, John
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black.
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.
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Author: Shakespeare, William
Paris: Baudry
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.
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Author: Goodrich, S.G.
New York: George W. Elliott
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.
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Author: Bunyan, John
Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley
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.
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Author: Shakespeare, William
London: W. & R. Chambers
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.
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New York: Lloyd, J.T.
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.
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Author: Murray, James A.H.
Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
Bifolium, 4to (330 mm.); specimen page (pp. 139 and 259) inserted; discoloration to front leaf.
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Author: Murray, James A.H.
Oxford: Clarendon Press
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.
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Author: Murray, James A.H.
Oxford: Clarendon Press
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.
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Author: Kipling, Rudyard
London: Macmillan & Co.
Broadside, 16mo (161 mm.); list of titles by Kipling available from the press, including both Jungle Books.
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Author: [Heston, Watson]
New York: The Truth Seeker.
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.
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Author: Forcellini, Scheller, and Luenemann
Boston: J.H. Wilkins & R.B. Carter
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.
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Author: Frye, Alex E.
Boston: Ginn & Company
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'".
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Author: Garrigues, Henry J.
Philadelphia: Saunders, W. B.
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."
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Author: Hyde, James Nevins, & Frank H. Montgomery.
Philadelphia: Saunders, W. B.
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."
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New York: Macmillan Company
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".
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Author: Longus
Paris: Imprimerie de Crapelet.
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.
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Author: Barbour, John
London: Ballantyne et al.
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."
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Milan: Gio. Silvestri.
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".
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Boston: American Board of Commissioners
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.
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New Albany: Foster & Campbell.
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.
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Paris: Imprimerie de C. Thuau.
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.
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New York: American Pictorial Book Establishment
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."
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Author: O'Hanlon, John
Dublin: John O'Daly.
Bifolium, 8vo; integral order form with imprint information has been neatly excised, corners a bit creased. At head of title: "Prospectus."
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London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt.
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.
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Quincy, Ill.: Brooks & Cadogan.
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.
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Author: Agnew, J. S. and J. Holmes Agnew
New York: Wright, J.S.
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.
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Author: Norris, Edwin.
London: Williams & Northgate
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.
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New York: Munn & Co.
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.
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Author: [Woods, Matthew.]
Philadelphia: Dunlap & Clarke
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.
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Author: De'Brignoli, Giovanni
Bologna: Tipografia Sassi.
Bifolium, 8vo; previous fold, else near fine. Prospectus for a work on flowers, apparently never published.
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Author: Martin, Thomas
London: Gale and Curtis.
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.
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Author: Hoover, S[amuel] W.
Dayton, OH: Brethren's Book and Tract Work
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."
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Paris: Baillio.
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.
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Stamperia del Seminario di Padova.
Broadside (189 mm.); near fine. Publisher's advertisement for 2 series, the above-mentioned and "Bibliotheca Classica Scriptorum Prosaicor. Græcor..."
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Paris: Baudouin Frères.
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.
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Author: Sanguinetti, B.P.
Bologna: Francesco Cardinali.
Broadside (274 mm.); previous fold, some foxing, else very good. Prospectus for a work apparently never printed.
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Bruxelles: Établissement Géographique de Bruxelles
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.
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London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
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."
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Author: Duchesne, E.-A.
Paris: Baillière, J.B.
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.
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Boston: Watchman and Reflector.
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.
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Author: Richardson, Stephen
New York: Newsdealers Union.
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.
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New York: Benjamin Wood.
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).
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Author: [Wilkins, W.A.]
New York: American News Company.
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.
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Author: Frueauff, J.F.
Columbia, PA: J.F. Frueauff.
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.
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Author: Cantù, Cesare
Milan: Giacomo Agnelli.
16mo, pp. 10; self wrappers, near fine.
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Rochester, N.Y.: Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
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.
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Chicago: Frank Shepard.
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".
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Author: Rice, Allen Thorndike, ed.
New York: MacCulloch, Hugh B.
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].
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Author: Reeder, A. P.
San Francisco: Samuel Carson & Co.
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.
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Rochester, NY: Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing Co.
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".
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Author: Morgan, W.H.
Peabody, Marion County, Kansas: Morgan, W.H.
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.
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Cincinnati: Barclay & Co.
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.
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Cincinnati: Barclay & Co.
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.
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Cincinnati: Barclay & Co.
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).
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Author: Bowyer
Bowyer
Broadside, folio (401 mm.); announcement of the last volume of Bowyer's Illustrated Record. Shallow tears along edges, previous fold.
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Author: Howard, O.O. and W. Fletcher Johnson
Philadelphia: Dickey-Hanna Co.
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.
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Chicago: Horseman
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.
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Author: Drummond, William Henry
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
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.
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Utica: Utica Sunday Globe
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.
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Author: Groppali, Alessandro
Torino: Fratelli Bocca.
Bifolium, small 8vo; previous fold, light toning, else near fine. Detailed table of contents provided.
Filed under B.
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Paris: Rousselon.
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.
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Modena: Vincenzi.
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.
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Author: Barrelle, A[?]
Brooklyn: Sarles, John W., Rev.
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.
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Author: Ferrario, Giulio
Milano: Ferrario, Giulio
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).
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Author: Cothren, William
Woodbury: William Cothren.
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.
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Author: Moody, D.L.
Hartford, CT: James Betts & Co.
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.
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Author: Bacon, Anderson L.
New York City: Anderson L. Bacon
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.
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Stamperia del Seminario di Padova.
Broadside (190 mm.); fine. Publisher's advertisement listing 3 available titles as well as 3 additional titles in production.
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Author: Tolman, Geo. R.
Boston: Geo. R. Tolman
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.
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London: George Bell & Sons
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.
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Author: Dumont, M.
Paris: Librairie de Roret.
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].
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Author: Yes
Washington: Blair & Rives.
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.
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Author: Yes
Washington City: Blair & Rives
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.
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Boston: S.N. Dickinson
Folio, unpaginated, [2] leaves of plates. Includes short descriptions of both the Profile Mountains and the Profile Rock.
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Author: Harris, Wm. C.
Philadelphia: George W. Childs
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.
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Augusta, ME: Vickery, P.O.
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.
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Author: Johnson, Willis Fletcher and John Habberton
Philadelphia: W.W. Houston & Company.
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.
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London: Varley, John.
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."
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Paris: Béthune et Plon.
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.
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Author: Agassiz, Louis
Boston: Little, Brown and Co.
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."
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Author: Earl, W.
Charlotte, Michigan: Dr. W. Earl & Co.
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.
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New York: De Witt, Robert M.
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.
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New York: Harper's Weekly.
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."
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Author: [Worcester, Joseph E.]
New York: The Independent
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.
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Author: Chase, Edward
Chicago: R.S. Peale & Co.
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.
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New York: Stohlmann, J. E.
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."
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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.
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Philadelphia, PA: Jones Bros. & Co.
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.
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Author: Verne, Jules.
Troy, N.Y.: J. M. Francis, Son & Co.
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.
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Author: Rodenbough, T. F.
New York: Dillingham, G. W.
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.
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New York: Eaton & Mains
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..."
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New York: Eaton & Mains
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."
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New York: Eaton & Mains
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.
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Author: Young, James Rankin
Philadelphia: Standard Publishing Co.
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.
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Philadelphia: International Publishing Company
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."
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Author: Yes
Washington: Blair & Rives.
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.
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London: Beeton, S. O.
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.
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Chicago: Butler, Sheldon & Company
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.
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Author: [Murray, E. C. Grenville, et al.]
London: Vizetelly & Co.?
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.
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St. Louis, MO: Historical Publishing Co.
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.
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Author: Cary, S.F., ed.
New York: Van Dien, R.
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.
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Author: Barnum, P.T.
Cincinnati: Forshee & McMakin.
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.
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Harford, C.T.: Peter B. Gleason.
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.]
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Author: Redpath, James
New York: J.H. Colton
Broadside printed in brown, green, and red.
Filed under J.H. Col.
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Philadelphia: James Elverson
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.
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Author: Habersham, A. W.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
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.
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Author: Dacus, J. A.
St. Louis, MO: N.D. Thompson & Co.
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..
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Author: Jones, Sam. P.
Philadelphia: Scammell & Company
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.
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Author: Beecher, W.C., Samuel Scoville, and Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher
N.Y. City: Chas. L. Webster & Co.
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..
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Author: [Boyd, James Penny]
Philadelphia: P.W. Ziegler & Co.
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.
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Author: [Boyd, James P.]
Chicago: J.S. Ziegler & Co.
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.
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Author: Northrop, Henry Davenport
Philadelphia: W.W. Houston & Co.
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.
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Author: Headley, [Joel Tyler]
Boston: W.H. Thompson & Co.
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..
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Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros.
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.
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Philadelphia: World Publishing Company
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."
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Philadelphia: World Bible House
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.
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Philadelphia, n.d.: Kelley, H. W.
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.
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Author: Atkinson, Wilmer, ed.
Philadelphia: Atkinson, Wilmer
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.
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Author: Fox, Tom.
Philadelphia: Young Men of America
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.
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Author: [Poe, Edgar Allan.]
Philadelphia: Bowen, Eli
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.
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Philadelphia: T.S. Arthur & Sons.
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.
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New York: Orange Judd Company
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.
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New York: Orange Judd Company
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.
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New York: Nelson & Phillips
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.
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New York: Wehman, Henry J., song and handbook publisher
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.
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New York: B.H. Day.
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.
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Philadelphia: Elverson, James
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.
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Author: Mason, Augustus Lynch.
Cincinnati: Jones Brothers & Co.
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.
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This series contains pamphlets dated after 1800 and before 1900.
Arrangement follows the order of the original Excel inventory.
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Author: Bauer, Ferdinand
London: The Basilisk Press
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.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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Author: Bauer, Ferdinand
London: The Basilisk Press
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.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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Author: Bauer, Ferdinand
London: The Basilisk Press
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.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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Author: Bauer, Ferdinand
London: The Basilisk Press
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.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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Author: Boswell, James
Mount Vernon: Rudge, William Edwin.
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.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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Author: Gay, Walter
New York: Japan Paper Company
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.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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New York: Limited Editions Club
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).
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society.
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.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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Author: Strong, Katherine
Chapel Hill, NC: Reflections from Chapel Hill
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.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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Philadelphia: A.J. Holman & Co.
Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus for "a combination of the Authorized and Revised Versions"; specimen page. Text in red and black.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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New York: Japan Paper Company
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.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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New York: Limited Editions Club
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.
Missing as of 9/9/2014
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Author: Ritchie, Ward
San Francisco: Book Club of America.
Bifolium, 12mo; printed in green and black; fine. Provides specimen page. Order form laid in.
Missing as of 2017/1/17.
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Springfield, Mass.
Bifolium, 12mo; color illustrations; fine. List of 8 recent children's books from the Company.
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Philadelphia: World Bible House ?
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."
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St. Paul: Ally Press.
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.
Missing as of 2017/1/17.
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Author: Kellogg, Spencer Jr.
Village of Eden, New York: The Aries Press
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.
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Author: Blake, William
Philadelphia: Carl J.H. Anderson
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.
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Author: Boorde, Andrew
Leicester: Edgar Backus
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.
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Author: Best, George
London: The Argonaut Press
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.
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Author: Ballard, James F.
Boston: James F. Ballard
Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this privately printed catalogue; sample page and sample illustration provided. Previous fold.
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New York: Aldus Book Company
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.
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Author: Montaigne
Alma, California: L-D Allen Press
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.
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Author: Brown, Helen Evans
Pasadena, California: Ampersand Press
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.
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Author: Howes, Wright
New York: Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America Inc.
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".
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Author: Varro, Margit
Chicago: Apprentice House.
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.
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Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Lexington, Kentucky: The Anvil Press
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.
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Author: Dupont, Pierre
Ascona, Suisse: Artibus Asiae.
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.
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Lexington, Kentucky: The Anvil Press
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.
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Author: Collins, Wilkie and Charles Dickens
L-D Allen Press
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Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
Antibes, France: Allen Press
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.
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Author: Ho-Shang-Kung
Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae.
Broadside, folio (305 mm.); fine. Prospectus of the second printing of Erkes's translation; specimen page printed on verso.
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Author: Abbe, Elfriede
Ithaca, New York: Elfriede Abbe
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.
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Author: Soper, Alexander Coburn
Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae.
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Bifolium, folio; color facsimile, text in red and black; minor foxing. Prospectus in German.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Bifolium, folio; facsimile; previous fold. Prospectus for a title from the series Codices Selecti; German and French.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Bifolium, folio; facsimile, text in blue and black; edges and corners showing some wear. Prospectus for 4 titles in all; German.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Single sheet folded into 6-sided pamphlet, 8vo; color illustration. Prospectus for a title from the series Codices Selecti; German.
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Author: Strouse, Norman
Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Bischoff, Bernhard
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Neumüller, W. [and] K. Holter
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Kaiser Friedrich II
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Barre, Massachusetts: Barre.
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".
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers.
8vo, pp. 40; illustrations; original green pictorial wrappers, mostly fine. Integral order form printed on back wrapper verso.
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Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers.
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".
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Barre, Massachusetts: Barre.
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Barre, Massachusetts: Barre.
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.
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Author: Oswald von Wolkenstein
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Unterkircher, Franz
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Broadside, 8vo (228 mm.); color illustration; prospectus in German.
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Author: Anjou, René d'
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Broadside, square 12mo (151 mm.); color photographic illustration on verso; prospectus in German.
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Brooklyn, New York: Angelica Press
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.
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Author: Grahborn, Robert
San Francisco: Arion Press.
Bifolium, 8vo; illustrations printed in brown, blue decorative borders; fine. Prospectus for this edition limited to 425 copies. Order form laid in.
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Author: Grabhorn, Robert
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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).
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Barre, Massachusetts: Barre.
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.
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Author: Hahn, Robert
Omaha, Nebraska: Abattoir Editions
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Lalande, Joseph Jerome La Francais de
Clare, Ireland: The Ashling Press
Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrated prospectus of this edition limited to 405 copies.
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Author: Lalande, Joseph Jerome La Francais de
Clare, Ireland: The Ashling Press
Bifolium, large 8vo; illustrated prospectus of this edition limited to 405 copies; TLS from the distributor, Dawson's Book Shop, loosely inserted.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Kaiser Friederich II
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt
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.
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San Francisco: Arion Press.
Bifolium, 4to; printed in red and black, fine. Seasons greetings from the Press with advertisement for this holiday publication. Specimen psalm provided.
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Author: Martin, Fred
San Francisco: Arion Press.
Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for the Press's fourth publication; TLs from Andrew Hoyem on Press letterhead laid in.
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San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Phoebus, Gaston
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Melville, Herman
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Author: Osborn, Selleck
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Author: Breitkopf, J.G.L.
Ennis, Ireland: The Ashling Press
Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this edition limited to 460 signed and numbered copies; order form loosely inserted. Text in red and black, previous folds.
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Author: Melville, Herman
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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San Francisco: Arion Press.
Bifolium, large 4to; printed in red and black; fine. With 16mo bifolium, "The enclosed type specimen is sent with our compliments".
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Author: Abbott, Edwin A.
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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San Francisco: Arion Press.
Small 4to, unpaginated; illustrations, text printed in red and black; fine. 2 unbound folded leaves. Subscription form and envelope laid in.
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San Francisco: Arion Press
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.
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Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Author: Pratt, T.K.
4to, 47 leaves; prospectus for a work that does not appear to have ever been published; green paper wrappers, stapled.
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Author: Catlin, George
New York: Abbeville Pres
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.
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Author: Bahr, Leonard F.
Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio
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.
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Author: Hammett, Dashiell
San Francisco: Arion Press.
Bifolium, 4to; fine. Prospectus provides specimen pages 3-5; order form laid in.
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Author: Doyle, A. Conan
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Author: Berry, Duc de
New York: Harry N. Abrams
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.
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San Francisco: Arion Press.
8vo, unpaginated; printed in red and black; self wrappers, fine. Catalogue also includes list of previous titles still available from the Press.
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Author: Grayson, Andrew Jackson
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Author: Stevens, Wallace
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Author: Chandler, Raymond
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Author: Chandler, Raymond
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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San Francisco: Arion Press.
Large piece of paper folded into bifolium pamphlet. Printed in red and black. Inside is a reproduction of a 1760 letter from Lawrence Sterne (?).
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Author: Reese, William S.
Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society
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.
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Author: Thistleton, Francis [William Henry Fleet]
San Francisco: Arion Press
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.
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San Francisco: Arion Press
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.
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San Francisco: Arion Press
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".
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Author: Bowles, Paul and Barry Brukoff
New York: H.N. Abrams
Broadside, oblong 8vo (92 x 215 mm.); edition limited to 50 signed and numbered copies.
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Author: Wheatcroft, John
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley
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.
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Afton, Minnesota: Afton Historical Society Press
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".
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San Francisco: Arion Press
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.
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Author: Rewald, John
New York: Harry N. Abrams
Single sheet folded into six-sided pamphlet, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for this "authoritative resource"; integral order form on back page.
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Author: Seymour, M.C.
Brookfield, VT: Ashgate
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.
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San Francisco: Arion Press.
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).
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Author: Senior, Dorothy
London: Adam and Charles Black
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.
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Author: Banks, Edgar J.
London: Association Press
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."
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Author: Horace
Eden, New York: The Aries Press
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.
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Author: Middleton, Richard
Eden, New York: The Aries Press
Bifolium, 16mo; a printed note of thanks for the order of Middleton's piece, the Press's first; signed Spencer Kellogg Jr.
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Author: Harte, Bret
Berkeley, Calif.: The Archetype Press
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.
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Author: Armitage, Merle
Whittier, California: American Institute of Graphic Arts
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.
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Author: Brigham, Clarence S.
Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society
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.
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New York: Aldus Book Company
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.
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Author: Montaigne
Alma, Calif.: L-D Allen Press
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.
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Author: Montaigne
New York: L-D Allen Press
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.
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Author: Aesop
Ithaca, New York: Elfriede Abbe
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.
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Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Glenwood, California: L-D Allen Press
Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for this edition of a Stevenson adventure story, edition limited to 200 copies; specimen title page included. Order form loosely inserted.
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Author: Tolstoy, Leo
Los Angeles, California: L-D Allen Press
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.
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Author: Tolstoy, Leo
Los Angeles, California: L-D Allen Press
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.
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Author: Aeschylus
Ithaca, New York: Elfriede Abbe
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.
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Author: Brigham, Clarence S.
Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society
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.
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Author: Stendhal
New York: L-D Allen Press
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.
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New York: Allen Press
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.
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Author: Turner, Frederick Jackson
Ithaca, New York: Elfriede Abbe
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.
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Author: Paranavitana, S.
Ascona, Switzerland: Artibus Asiae Publishers.
Broadside, folio (308 mm.); color illustration; a bit worn from handling, mostly fine. Order form printed at bottom of Broadside verso.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Bifolium, folio; 2 color facsimiles; text in red and black. Prospectus in German and Italian.
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Author: Alston, R.C.
Leeds: E.J. Arnold & Son Limited
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."
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio
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.
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Brooklyn, NY: Angelica Press
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.
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New York: Anglers Press
TLs on Press letterhead, from the publisher, Meredith P. Bruns, announcing the continuing availability of this bibliography.
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Author: Bahr, Leonard F.
Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio
Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus for "a collection of ten entirely different typographic exercises"; Broadside giving the press's mission statement loosely inserted.
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Author: Swift, Jonathan
New York: Angelica Press
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.
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Author: Bahr, Leonard F.
Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio, Leonard F. Bahr
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.
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Author: Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall
Herts, England: George Allen & Unwin
Bifolium, 4to; illustrated prospectus includes review excerpts, a specimen page (221), and a list of other available publications; integral order form on back page.
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Author: Blake, William
Harper Woods, Michigan: Adagio, The private press of Leonard F. Bahr
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.
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Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
San Francisco: Arion Press.
Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); illustration by Michael Graves for "The Great Gatsby," chapter 8; previous folds, else fine.
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Author: Stein, Gertrude
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Author: Hundertwasser, Friedensreich.
Zürich: ARS VIVA
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.
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Author: Raby, Julian, Zeren Tanindi, and Tim Stanley
London: Azimuth Editions
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.
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Author: Hamilton, Alastair
London: Azimuth Editions
Bifolium, small 8vo; illustrated prospectus; integral order form.
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Author: Inez, Colette
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley
Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a new addition to the Series in Contemporary Poetry; edition limited to 125 signed copies.
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Author: Morris, William
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: The Press of Appletree Alley, Bucknell University
Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for the fifth volume in the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library Limited Edition Series.
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Author: Peacock, Molly
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley
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.
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Author: Roth, Philip
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley
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.
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Afton, Minnesota: Afton Historical Society Press
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.
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Author: Rossetti, Dante and William
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Press of Appletree Alley.
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.
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Author: Smith, Bruce
Lewisburg, PA: Press of Appletree Alley.
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.
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New York: Archway Press
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.
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Author: Denman, Frank
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Bifolium, 4to; color facsimile and illustrations, one of which is full-paged, from the book advertised; text in German.
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Berkeley: Arif Press
Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; list of books available from the press and distributed by Granary Books.
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Author: Schullian, Dorothy M.
Washington, D.C.: Army Medical Library
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.
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Author: Carrà, Massimo.
Milan: Edizioni dell'Annunciata
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.
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Author: Beach, Rex.
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..."
Missing as of 2017/1/17.
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New York: Association Press
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].
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Nowotny, Karl Anton
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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,
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Boston: Barre Publishers.
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".
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Author: Pratt, Frances and Carlo Gay
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Maurus, Hrabanus
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Thomas, Marcel
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Weber, Gertrud and Matthias Strecker
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Lukesch, Anton
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Pollak-Eltz, A. and H. Straka Bull
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Shakespeare, William
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Author: Hammerschmidt, Ernst
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Broadside, folio (337 mm.); color illustration; previous fold. Prospectus in German and English.
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Author: Sinton, Nell
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Virgil
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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San Francisco: Arion Press.
Broadside, 8vo (200 mm.); fine. Prospectus for this edition commissioned by the Episcopal Church, of which 400 copies were printed.
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San Francisco: Arion Press
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.
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Author: DesBarres, Joseph F.W. and others
Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers
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.
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Author: Martin, Fred
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Author: Koch, Rudolf
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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".
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Wolfram von Eschenbach
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Author: Willemsen, Carl Arnold
Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Broadside, folio (342 mm.); color photographic illustration; prospectus in German.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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1 w/out order form
Author: Hoyem, Andrew
San Francisco: Arion Press.
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Bifolium, 4to; 2 color photographic illustrations of the Codex; prospectus in German and English for this new facsimile edition.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt
Bifolium, 4to; text in German and English; color facsimile speciment picture; invitation to subscription.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
Broadside, 4to (251 mm.); color photographic illustation; title in German, expert opinions in German and English.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt
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.
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Glasgow: James Brown & Son
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.
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Author: Shakespeare, William
Montagnola di Lugano, Switzerland: Bodoni
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.
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Lugano-Montagnola, Switzerland: Bodoni
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.
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New York: Book-of-the-Month Club
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.
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Author: Warde, B.L.
London: Ernest Benn
Bifolium, 16mo; prospectus for a typographic work focusing on music title pages; distributed by Maggs Bros. Integral order form.
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London: Ernest Benn Limited
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.
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Paris: Bodoni
Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this history of the press, providing a table of contents and extracts of press opinions. Previous fold.
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Paris: Bodoni
Bifolium, folio; prospectus in German, providing table of contents; integral order form for the German distributor, Oskar Schloss Verlag, Berlin. Previous fold.
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Munich: Bremer Presse
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.
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London: The Book Collector
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.
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Chicago: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Nichols, Dale
Chicago: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Bangor, Pennsylvania: Bookman Press
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.
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Author: Doane, Gilbert H.
Madsion, Wisconsin: Black Mack, the Handpress
16mo, unpaginated; this prospectus includes order form and pre-addressed envelope as well as two sample bookplates, all loosely inserted.
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Book Club of California
Broadside introducing the Book Club of California, laying out its aims, publications, membership, etc. Printed in green and black.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
Bifolium beige colored paper printed in black.
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Author: Tripp, C.E.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: MacKaye, Percy
New York: Bond Wheelwright Company
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.
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Author: Harlow, Neal
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
Bifolium, folio; printed in red and black; previous fold, mostly fine.
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Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni
Verona: Bodoni
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.
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Author: Farnham, Eliza
San Francisco: Book Club of California
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.
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Author: Shaw, James C.
Evanston, Illinois: Branding Iron Press
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.
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Author: Jordan, John E.
San Francisco: Book Club of California
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.
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Author: Meyers, William H.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Shaffer, Ellen
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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."
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Author: Norton, F.J.
London: Bowes & Bowes Publishers Ltd.
Broadside, 4to (261 mm.); prospectus of Norton's bibliography, distributed by Bernard Quaritch. Previous folds.
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Author: Whitman, Walt
Chicago, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Ellis, Havelock
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Berkeley Heights Public Library
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.
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Author: Darien, Peter
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Berkeley Heights Public Library
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.
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Chicago: Black Cat Press
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
Bifolium, folio; illustration, text printed in brown and black; previous folds, some wear from handling. Prospectus for this limited edition of 400 copies,
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Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
San Francisco: Book Club of California
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.
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Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Goff, Frederick R.
New York: Bibliographical Society of America
Bifolium, 4to; prospectus includes specimen page (49) and integral order form addressed to Mrs. Alexander Davidson, Jr. Pre-addressed envelope loosely inserted.
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Author: Alger, Horatio, Jr.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Ishill, Joseph
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Berkeley Heights Public Library
Broadside, 8vo (228 mm.); advertisement for an exhibition; text in green, orange, and blue.
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Chicago: Black Cat Press
Broadside, oblong 16mo (82 mm. x 140 mm.); "Printed direct from Caslon type on Superfine paper." Edition limited to 200 copies.
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Author: Johnson, Kenneth M., ed.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Simpkinson, Francis Guillmard and Captain Edward Belcher
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press
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.
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Author: Da Novara, Francesco Torniello
Verona: Bodoni
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.
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Author: Dürer, Albrecht
Verona: Bodoni
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.
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Author: Littlejohn, David
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Stillwell, Margaret Bingham
New York: Bibliographical Society of America
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Wilde, Oscar
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Aesop
Verona: Bodoni
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.
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Author: Craven, Tunis Augustus Macdonough
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Wikgren, Allen P.
San Francisco: Book Club of California
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.
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Author: Cobden-Sanderson, T.J.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: [Peck, George Washington]
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Long, Haniel
Nevada City, California: Harold Berliner.
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.
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Author: Gogol, Nikolay
Verona: Bodoni
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.
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Author: Taylor, M.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Van Nostrand, Jeanne
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Schlosser, Leonard B.
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press
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.
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Verona: Bodoni
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.
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Author: Leighton, Clare
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Jones, E. Willis
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Hittell, Theodore H.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
Bifolium, 8vo; illustration printed in blue and orange; fine. Reprint of a work originally printed by Valenti Angelo at the Grabhorn Press in 1930.
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Author: Steinbeck, John
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Thompson, Susan Otis
New York: Bowker
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.
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Poynette, Wisconsin: The Bieler Press
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.
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Author: Brady, Ernest W.
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Wesling, Donald
Madison, Wisconsin: Black Mesa Press
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.
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Author: Franklin, Colin
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Polk, Willis
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Berg, Gustav von
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Thayer, James Bradley
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Rawls, James J., ed.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Wentz, Roby
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Duncan, Harry, K.K. Merker, and Ward Ritchie
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for the second title to be published with the support of the Dorothy and David Magee fund.
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Author: Ritchie, Ward
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Harlan, Robert D.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Vischer, Edward
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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New York: Frederic C. Beil
8vo, unpaginated; illustrated catalogue of new titles from the press; order form loosely inserted. Text in red and black.
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Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Bieler Press
Broadside, 4to (243 mm.); list of Broadside titles available from the press, typewritten on cream paper. Previous folds.
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Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Bieler Press
Broadside, 4to (270 mm.); list of upcoming titles from the press. Printing on grey paper, previous folds.
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Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Bieler Press
Broadside, 4to (279 mm.); list of upcoming titles from the press. Printed on blue paper, previous folds.
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Saint Paul, Minnesota: The Bieler Press
Broadside, long 4to (294 mm.); ordering information for individuals and libraries; shipping; standing orders; discount schedules; returns; and consignments. Previous folds.
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Author: Borden, John W.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Harland, Robert D.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: White, Gerald T.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Kurutz, Gary F.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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St Paul, MN: The Bieler Press
Bifolium, 8vo; catalog of upcoming titles from the press. Tear to right edge from previous fold not affecting text.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: M'Alpine, John
Greenock, Scotland: The Black Pennell Press
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.
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Author: D'Ambrosio, Joe
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Kooser, Ted
Minneapolis: The Bieler Press
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.
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Author: Dillon, Richard H.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Teiser, Ruth
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Splatt, Cynthia
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Allyn, Joseph Pratt
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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New York: Bowne & Co.
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.
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Author: Kent, Rockwell
Portland, Maine: Baxter Society
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.
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Author: Levinsohn, John L.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Ford, Henry Chapman
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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New York: Bibliographical Society of America
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'".
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Author: Dreyfus, John
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Everson, William
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Harlan, Robert D.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
Folio, unpaginated; unbound (as issued) in original white pictorial wrappers, a bit worn from handling; mostly fine.
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Los Angeles: Bieler Press
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.
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Author: Hardy, Thomas
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Lasner, Mark Samuels
Boston: Thomas G. Boss
Broadside, 4to (278 mm.); illustrated prospectus for this bibliography printed by the Stinehour Press.
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Author: [Potter, Beatrix]
Kingston, New York: Battledore Ltd.
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.
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Author: Lewis, Oscar
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
Bifolium, 4to; text printed in blue and black; fine. Prospectus provides table of contents; typed letter on Club letterhead and order form laid in.
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Author: Voit, Petr
Praha: Charles Bridge Bookstore & Gallery.
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.
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Author: Bukowski, Charles & R. Crumb
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Graphic Arts
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.
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Author: Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: De Bernieres, Louis
London: Belmont Press
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.
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Author: Hallett, William T.
New York: Broadway Publishing Company.
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.
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Vienna: Bibliotheca Typographica
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.
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Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Boston: Berkeley Printers
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.
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Mount Vernon, NY: Blue-Behinded Ape
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.
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Author: Garland, Hamlin
Chicago: Bookfellows
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.
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Chicago: Black Cat Press
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.
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New York: R.R. Bowker Company
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.
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Author: Zara, Louis
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Lynam, Edward
London: Batchworth Press
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California
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.
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Author: Vlaminck
Boston, Mass.: Boston Book and Art Shop
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.
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Chicago: Black Cat Press
110 mm. x 71 mm., unpaginated; checklist of books also includes "Future titles" and "In preparation" pieces.
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Chicago: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Focken, Hayno
Chicago: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Morris, Henry
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press
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.
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Chicago: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Taft, Charles Sabin
Chicago: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Nichols, Dale
Chicago: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Forgue, Norma
Chicago: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Forgue Norman
Chicago: Black Cat Press
Broadside, oblong 16mo (82 mm. x 139 mm.); postcard-sized announcement of a book sale of Forgue's typographic library. Text printed in red.
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Author: Bembo, Pietro
New York: Bodoni
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.
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Author: Da Boll, Irene Briggs
Freeport, Maine: The Bond Wheelwright Company
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.
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Author: Johnson, Ruth & Foster
Meriden, Connecticut: Bayberry Hill Press
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.
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Author: Morris, Henry
New York: Bird & Bull Press.
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.
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Author: Terence
Verona, Italy: Bodoni
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
12mo, 9 loose leaves in white printed folder as issued; fine. Titles date from 1959 to 1972.
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Author: Johson, Ruth R.
Meriden, Connecticut: Bayberry Hill Press
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.
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North Hills: Bird & Bull Press
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 12mo; illustrations, printed on blue paper; fine. Titles date from 1959 to 1973. Integral order form.
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Author: Aesop
Verona: Bodoni
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
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Author: Bauer, Ferdinand
London: Basilisk Press
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.
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Author: Morris, Henry
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press
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.
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Author: Voltaire, Francois Arouet de
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Starrett, Vincent
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus provides specimen page (18); edition limited to 249 copies. Text in orange and black.
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Author: Templeton, Richard H.
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Barduzzi, Bernardino
Verona: Bodoni
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.
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Poynette, Wisconsin: The Bieler Press
Broadside, 12mo (180 mm.); list of Broadsides and chapbooks from the press printed on grey handmade paper.
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Author: Dickens, Charles
Nevada City, California: Harold Berliner.
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.
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Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
120 mm. x 73 mm., unpaginated (two folded sheets, unbound); prospectus also includes other titles from the press.
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Author: Khayyam, Omar
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Feyrer, Gayle
St. Paul, Minnesota: The Bieler Press
Broadside, 12mo (171 mm.); text printed in pink and black.
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Poynette, Wisconsin: The Bieler Press
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.
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Author: Drake, Albert
Poynette, Wisconsin: The Bieler Press
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".
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Author: Morris, Henry
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press
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."
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Author: Pettis, Charles R.
Ithaca, New York: Bliss Press
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.
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Author: McCuen, Harold E.
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Davis, Frank Marshall
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
Single folded sheet, 16mo; illustrated prospectus of a collection of poems "buried in the Press files for more than thirty years".
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Author: Petty, G. Harvey
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Defoe, Daniel
London: Basilisk Press
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.
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Author: Wolfe, Richard J.
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press
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.
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Author: Barrett, Timothy
North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press
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."
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Author: Davidson, Gustav
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Morley, Christopher
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Zara, Louis
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
Broadside, oblong 16mo (89 mm. x 140 mm.); postcard prospectus of an edition limited to 249 copies. Addressed to Emerson G. Wulling.
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Author: Harris, Carla
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Mardersteig, Giovanni
Verona: Bodoni
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.
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Author: Franklin, Colin
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
Bifolium, 12mo; illustration; printed in brown and black; fine. Prospectus for a title published in conjunction with the Typophiles of New York.
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Madison, WI: The Bieler Press
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.
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Author: Buckley, Christopher
Madison, WI: The Bieler Press
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.
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Author: Gilgun, John
St Paul, MN: The Bieler Press
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.
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Author: Bliss, Carey S.
New Castle, DE: Bird & Bull Press
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.
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Author: Alvarado, Juan Bautista
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Cadnum, Michael
Saint Paul, MN: The Bieler Press
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."
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Author: Butterworth, Elizabeth
London: Basilisk Press
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.
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Author: Guthrie, James
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Snyder, Dee
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
16mo, unpaginated (two folded sheets, unbound); prospectus for this study of Sherlock Holmesiana, limited to 249 copies and "Bound in Pyroxlin leather".
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Author: [Maitland, Terrence]
Boston: Boston Publishing Company
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.
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Author: Franklin, Colin
Austin, Texas: Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University
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.
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Author: Buckley, Christopher
St. Paul, MN: The Bieler Press
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.
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London: Basilisk Press & Bookshop
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.
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Author: Hart, Joanne
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Bieler Press
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."
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Author: Van Winckel, Nance
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Bieler Press
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.
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Author: Turco, Lewis
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Bieler Press
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."
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Author: Young, Gary
Minneapolis, MN: The Bieler Press
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."
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Author: Gill, Eric
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Shakespeare, William
Boston: Bromer Booksellers
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."
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Author: Goldbarth, Albert
Minneapolis, MN: The Bieler Press
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.
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Author: Mitsui, James Masao
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Bieler Press
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."
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Austin: Book Club of Texas
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.
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Author: Morris, Henry
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press
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.
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Author: Sand, George
Sag Harbor, New York: Bookman Press
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.
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Author: Freeman, Arthur
London: The Book Collector
Broadside, 8vo (220 mm.); prospectus for Volume I of the Book Collector: Occasional Series; order form on Broadside verso.
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Author: Freeman, Arthur
London: The Book Collector
Broadside, 8vo (220 mm.); prospectus for Volume I of the Book Collector: Occasional Series; order form on Broadside verso; text in brown and black.
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Austin, Texas: Bookways
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.
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Author: Constant, Samuel Victor
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press
Sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 12mo; illustrated prospectus for a new edition of Constant's work, originally published ca. 1936.
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Author: Parker, John and Carol A. Johnson
Minneapolis: James Ford Bell Library
Broadside, 4to (280 mm.); prospectus provides reduced specimen title page; integral order form. Previous folds.
Filed under Jam.
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Author: Bukowski, Charles and Ken Price
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Graphic Arts
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.
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Author: Freeman, Janet Ing
London: Book Collector.
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.
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Cadiz, Ohio: Banner Card Company
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.
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Author: Montgomery, Edw. E.
Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Company
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.
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Author: De Laurence, Lauren William
Masonic Temple, Chicago: Benares Publishing Company.
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."
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New York: Bodoni
8vo, pp. 16; Catalogue II from the Pegasus Press; published by Harcourt, Brace and Company. Grey printed wrappers.
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Author: Davenport, John
New York: Biblion Balzac
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.
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Chicago: Black Cat Press
Bifolium, 8vo; illustrated catalogue of titles from the press.
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Author: Mann, Thomas
New York: Book of the Month Club
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.
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Author: Morley, Christopher
New York: Book of the Month Club
Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for the Club's special thin paper edition; includes considerable information on the Club.
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Author: Bechtel, Edwin DeT.
Edwin DeT. Bechtel
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.
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Chicago: Black Cat Press
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.
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Author: Bender, Karen Ann
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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."
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Author: Petty, G. Harvey
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
Bifolium, oblong 16mo; short piece by Norman W. Forgue on the upcoming titles from the press.
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Author: Petty, G. Harvey
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus for this collection, edition limited to 249 copies. Text in green and black.
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Author: Brent, Stuart
Chicago: Black Cat Press
88 mm. x 72 mm., unpaginated; miniature pamphlet by the book collector and bookstore owner.
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Author: Pollock, Norman
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
Single folded sheet, 16mo; prospectus for Pollock's history of early photography.
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Author: Hill, Aimo W.
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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London: The Book Collector
Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure, 8vo; illustrated prospectus for a subscription to this bibliophile's quarterly; integral order form.
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Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
Single folded sheet, 16mo; catalogue of titles from the press.
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London: Book Collector
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.
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London: The Book Collector
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.
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Author: Baker, Hozial H.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Shaw, David J., editor-in-chief
London: British Library.
Bifolium, large 4to; fine. Pre-publication offer to members of the Bibliographical Society. Sample page and integral order form provided.
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Book Club of California.
An invitation to attend the club's first Southern California meeting. Self-addressed R.S.V.P. envelope inside.
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San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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Author: Teiser, Ruth and Catherine Harroun, eds.
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Dreyfus, John
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Norris, Frank
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Jeffers, Una
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Harte, Bret
San Francisco: Book Club of California.
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.
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Author: Dickens, Charles
Nevada City, California: Harold Berliner.
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.
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Author: Romtvedt, David
Saint Paul, MN: Bieler Press
Broadside, 8vo (222 mm.); fine. Prospectus for the author's first book-length poetry collection.
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Author: Mathes, W. Michael
San Francisco: Book Club of California
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.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Bieler Press
Bifolium, 8vo; catalog of upcoming titles from the press.
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Author: Petty, G. Harvey
Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
Single sheet folded into six-sided brochure; text in orange and black.
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Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press
Single sheet folded twice, (81 mm. x 60 mm.); special keepsake for the friends of the press. Text in blue and black.
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Author: Schmoller, Hans, Tanya Schmoller, Henry Morris
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press
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.
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Author: Shakespeare, William
London: B. Quaritch
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.
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1 w/out insert
Chicago, Illinois: Black Cat Press
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.
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New York: Brown House Press.
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.
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New York: Brown House Press.
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.
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Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press
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".
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Author: Wordsworth, William
London: The Doves Press
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.
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Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press
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.
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Paris: Editions E. Droz
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.
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Author: Fowler, H.W.
Oxford: Clarendon Press
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.
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London: The Cresset Press
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).
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Author: McCord, David
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cygnet Press
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.
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Author: Melville, Herman
New York: Elf Publishers
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."
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New York: Continental Typefounders Association
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.
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Author: Chrysler, Walter P.
New York: Cheshire House
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.
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Author: Little, William
Oxford: Clarendon Press
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.
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New York: Dolphin.
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.
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New York: The Colophon
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.
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Author: Murray, James A.H.
Oxford: Clarendon Press
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.
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New York: The Colophon
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.
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New York: The Colophon
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.
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Author: Andrews, Irene D.
Washington: Bruin Press
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.
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London: Cobden-Sanderson, T. J.
16mo, pp. 12; catalogue of upcoming titles from the press; pictorial blue wrappers, previous bookseller's stamp to front.
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New York: Colophon
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.
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Author: Cartier, Alfred
Paris: Editions des Bibliothèques Nationales de France
Bifolium, 4to; prospectus for this two-volume bibliography; previous fold.
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Author: Slade, Bertha Coolidge
London: Richard Clay and Sons
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.
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San Francisco: Colt Press
8vo, unpaginated; illustrated catalog of titles, both in and out of print, from the press's first year. Yellow printed wrappers.
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Author: Stewart, George R.
San Francisco: The Colt Press
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.
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Author: Hall, Carroll Douglas
San Francisco, California: The Colt Press
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.
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San Francisco: The Colt Press
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.
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Author: Hornby, C.H. St. J.
Meriden, Conn.: The Domesday Press
Bifolium, 8vo; advanced announcement with a sample page (4) of the finished work and details of production. Edition not to exceed 350 copies.
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Author: Lincoln, Abraham
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers
8vo, pp. 8; prospectus includes specimens pages 3-5; order form printed on the bottom half of p. 8.
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Author: Jordan, Edward S.
Utica, N.Y.: Howard Coggeshall
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.
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Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop
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.
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Author: Rogers, Bruce
New York: Philip C. Duschnes.
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.
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Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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.
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London: Collector's Book Club
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.
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New York: Philip C. Duschnes.
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.
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New York: The Colophon
Broadside, 8vo (228 mm.); prospectus announcing that Volume III of this book collector's annual "will be a book". Printed on yellow paper.
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Author: Oldham, J. Basil
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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.
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Author: Bury, Adrian
London: The Dropmore Press
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.
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Author: Abbe, Elfriede
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press
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.
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Author: Mezey, Robert
West Branch, Iowa: Cummington Press.
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.
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Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press
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.
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Author: Rich, Virtulon
Chicago: The Caxton Club
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."
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Author: Williams, Alexander
Boston: Club of Odd Volumes
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.
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Author: Barker, Nicolas
Ipswich: W.S. Cowell Ltd.
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.
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West Branch: The Cummington Press
Bifolium, 8vo; prospectus lists ten upcoming titles from the press.
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Author: Crow, Elmay
Victoria, British Columbia: Crow Publishing.
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.
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Author: Goldsmith, V.F.
Folkestone: Dawsons of Pall Mall.
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.
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New York: Eakins Press
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.
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Author: Bewick, Thomas
Chicago: Cherryburn Press
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."
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New York: Eakins Press
Bifolium, 16mo; illustrated price list with integral order form; advertisement for "The American Monument, photographs by Lee Friedlander" printed to back page.
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Author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Banffshire, Scotland: The Celnius Press
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.
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Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press
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.
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Author: Holinshed, Raphael
Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press
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.
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Author: Miller, Liam
Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press
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.
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Author: Dilke, O.A.W.
Leeds, England: Elmete Press
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.
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Kalamazoo, Michigan: Private Press & Typofoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing
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.
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Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck
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.
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Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press
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.
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Providence, RI: Burning Deck
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.
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Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press
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.
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Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press
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.
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Dublin, Ireland: Dolmen Press
Broadside, 4to (294 mm.); list, subdivided by subject, of all Dolmen titles in print. Green paper, previous folds.
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Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck
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.
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Iowa City: Corycian Press.
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.
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Providence, RI: Burning Deck
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.
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Author: Easton, Phoebe Jane
Los Angeles, California: Dawson's Book Shop
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.
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West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press
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.
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Author: Economou, George
Iowa City: Corycian Press.
Broadside, oblong 16mo; printed on grey paper, fine. Postcard prospectus advertising this poetry collection limited to 150 copies.
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Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck
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.
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Author: Barker, Nicolas
Sandy Hook, Connecticut: Chiswick Book Shop Inc.
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.
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West Branch, Iowa: Coffee House Press
Single sheet folded into eight-sided brochure, 8vo; illustrated prospectus of upcoming and newly published works from the press. Sales information on back flap.
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Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
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.
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Author: Hinrichs, Kit
San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books
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.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota: Coffee House Press
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.
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Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
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.
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Author: Elkin, Stanley
Louisville: Contre Coup Press
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.
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Providence, RI: Burning Deck
Bifolium, folio; catalogue lists upcoming titles, chapbooks, and backlist; catalogue addressed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press, La Crosse, WI. Previous folds.
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Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
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.
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Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
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.
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Author: Beckett, Samuel
New York: Calder and Rossett
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.
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Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
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.
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Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
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.
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Author: Hutner, Martin
Southbury, Connecticut: Chiswick Book Shop
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.
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Author: Kinsella, W.P.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press
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.
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Author: Edson, Russell
Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
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.
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Author: Levis, Larry
Iowa City: Corycian Press.
Broadside, oblong 16mo (89 x 140 mm.); fine. Postcard prospectus for a signed edition of 150 copies by a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Paris: Editions du cercle de la librairie
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.
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York: Clique
32mo, pp. 61; illustrations and specimen pages throughout; original red pictorial boards (a bit soiled); else fine. Order form bound in back.
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Author: Dante
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press
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.
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Vineburg, California: Engdahl Typography
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.
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Author: Wells, H.G.
Vineburg, CA: Engdahl Typography
Single sheet folded into 8-sided pamphlet, 8vo; prospectus for an edition limited to 150 copies; specimen pages and illustration provided.
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Author: Ginsberg, Allen
Minneapolis: Espresso Editions, Coffee House Press
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.
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Author: Freeman, Arthur
New York: James Cummins
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.
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Riverside, California: Doe Press
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.
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Author: Landry, Christopher
San Francisco, CA: C&L Distributing
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.
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Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
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.
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Author: Hayes, Walter
Ann Arbor: William L. Clements Library.
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.
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Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
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.
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Author: Bowles, Paul and Ned Rorem
North Pomfret: Elysium Press.
Bifolium, 8vo; fine. Prospectus for the correspondence between two writer/composers.
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Author: White, Mus
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop.
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.
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London: The Chiswick Press
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.
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London: The Chiswick Press
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.
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Author: Conway, Martin, John La Farge, and Royal Cortissoz
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.
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.
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Author: Connelley, William Elsey
Topeka, Kansas: William E. Connelley
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.
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Milwaukee: C.N. Caspar's Book Emporium
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.
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Author: Aldin, Cecil
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company
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."
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Author: Merrick, George Byron
Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company
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.
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