New York: Knopf, 1922. First Edition/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Overall, a handsome copy of this renowned Cather work. Minor shelf/edge wear, small spot of fraying at heel, spine shows even toning (cloth and label), minor sporadic foxing (focused at preliminaries), chip at upper fore-edge, else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, cream.....
Price: $2,500.00
London: The Camberwell Press, 1985. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "The text was photoset in Optima Roman and Greek, and printed by offset lithography on a Zerchell paper. The edition comprises seventy copies, signed and numbered, twenty of which are boxed." (colophon) A very handsome copy of this rather scarce work. Tight.....
Price: $500.00
Portland, ME: Artist Book, 2003. First Edition/Limited Edition. Original Wraps. In the artist's words, "The text and image for this book came verbatim from an out-of-print nineteenth-century catalogue of dolls one could purchase for one's children. Dolls are kind of creepy anyhow, but this one especially so, partly because it.....
Price: $95.00
Portland, ME: Artist Book, 1999. Unique Edition. Hardcover. In the artist's words, "I'd been making things using house shapes for several years, was kind of tired of them, and thought this would be the last one. No, it wasn't." In a period where a fair bit of "book art" is.....
Price: $375.00
Portland, ME: Wolfe Editions, 2005. Limited Edition. Handset type (Bembo 18). Vintage clock faces (pasted down at head) printed by Raphael Tuck & Sons (circa 1900). A beautiful presentation of five "timely" quotations including Warren Zevon's, "We love to buy books because we think we are also buying the time.....
Price: $20.00
Portland, ME: Artist Book, 2001. Unique Edition. Hardcover. In the artist's words, "In 2001 I attended a class at Penland School of Crafts called Historic Books and Boxes and that's where I made this little book. It is styled after a late-eighteenth-century French book that a courtier would carry-printed pages.....
Price: $475.00
Madrid: L'Editiones Castilla, 1952. [miniature]. Limited Edition/Third Iteration. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full green faux-leather boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, yellow edge-stain, frontispiece(s). 63x45mm. 715pp; 734pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $250.00
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1985. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Hassall and including a small (signed) chapbook in a bound-in pocket at the rear pastedown. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Slipcase bright and clean. Quarterbound, black leather spine, grey cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, printed endpages. 8vo. 160pp plus.....
Price: $450.00
Pinner: Golden Cockerel Press, nd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by David Chambers and Christopher Sanford -- bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, blue leather spine, two raised bands, gilt lettering, printed cloth boards, frontispiece, teg. 8vo. 126pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 14.....
Price: $275.00
Middlesex, UK: Private Library Association, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Chambers to renowned collector Harrison Horblit. A very handsome copy. Inscribedy by Chambers, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, pale blue ink lettering, frontispiece, blue topstain. 8vo. 126pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Index.
Price: $75.00
New York: Morrow, 1959. Second Printing. Hardcover. A comprehensive and definitive biography of Jackson, well written and based upon careful use of the whole array of source material. (Nevins, Vol 2, 44p). A handsome set. Minor shelf/edge wear, several small light spots at spine, hint of sun at spine, very.....
Price: $45.00
Bisbee, AZ: Pequeno Press, 1996. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Publisher. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Hand dyed leather boards, patterned endpapers, various cut and folded pages. 71x66mm. 179pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 43 of 50.
Price: $100.00
New York: Dodd, Mead And Company, 1911. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Beautifully illustated with 6 full-page Smith plates. HBS 51357DJH; Nudelman A34. A handsome copy of this noted and increasingly scarce classic. Minor shelf/edge wear, white ink at spine shows fading, very small moisture stain at top of text block.....
Price: $250.00
Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies. Essays by E. Harold Hugo, Rudolph Ruzicka, Edward F. Stevens, Carl J. Weber, Walter Muir Whitehill, Lawrence C. Wroth. A very handsome copy. Tight, bright and unmarred. Halfbound, blue cloth boards, patterned paper boards, green endpages, fold-out plate.....
Price: $75.00
Attica, NY: Self Published, 10/93. Stated First Printing. Original Wraps. Written in Attica prison in 1992 and published in 1993. Inscribed, "God Bless You / Mark Chapman / Attica, NY / Dec. 17, 1994" Inscribed by the author, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed glossy paper wraps, red ink lettering.....
Price: $500.00
Los Angeles, CA: 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Jean Charlot and initialed by Lynton R. Kistler. Bookplate at front pastedown, else tight, bright, and unmarred. White printed boards, tan printed dust jacket, matching printed slipcase. 54x42mm. 140pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 197 of 300.
Price: $450.00
Pittsburgh, PA: Bentley Press, 1931. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Hand printed by Wilder Bentley at The Bentley Press. Original prospectus laid in. Light shelf/edge wear, toning at the spine, chips at spine label, tidemarks at bottom of boards, else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, cream paper spine, patterned paper boards.....
Price: $45.00
London: William Pickering, 1852. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Armorial bookplate of "Jacobus Cowan de Rosshall" and plate of Howard Faron Peckworth, signature of Lewis Turco in each volume. Turco is a noted American poet and collector (though, strangely, fond of embossing stamps). Overall, a very presentable set of this renowned.....
Price: $225.00
Chicago: H.J. Smith & Co, 1887. First Edition Thus/Reprint. Hardcover. Issued a year before by Smith & Miller (Chicago, 1886). Introduction by Sarah Hackett Stevenson. "[A]dapted from the writings of Pye Henry Chavasse." Noted flaws to pamphlet notwithstanding, a very handsome copy with the routinely missing plate book present. Minor.....
Price: $75.00
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988 [1631]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First complete English language translation of the 1631 work. "The book is based on Ji's notes and experiences from his career as a garden designer, which he discusses at length in his introduction. Since architecture is an integral.....
Price: $275.00
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943, 1958, 1963. First Edition(s). Hardcover. A handsome set of this wonderful set on the history of Johns Hopkins Hospital/Medical School. First volume shows touch of toning typical of war rationed paper. Very minor to light shelf wear, Vol. 1 shows owner signature and bookplate on.....
Price: $200.00
London: Sheed & Ward, nd [1957]. Reprint. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, light toning at rear, spine toned, else bright, and clean. Geen cloth boards, brown ink lettering. Small 8vo. 255pp.
Price: $45.00
Culver City, CA: California Spectrum, 1982. First Edition. Glossy Pictorial Wraps. One of the first books by the now well established Jack Chipman, specialist in Bauer Pottery. A rather handsome copy of this exceptional reference volume. Soft crease at spine, light shelf wear and rubbing , focused at edges, else.....
Price: $45.00
Salem, MA: Geo. W. Pease & Co., 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece is tipped-in cdv of the Major. Uncommon in any condition, very scarce as here. A very handsome copy. Minor shelf/edge wear, hint of foxing at preliminaries, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, in blind.....
Price: $545.00
Leipzig, Germany: In Verlage Caspar Fritschens Wittwe, 1747. First Edition. Calf. Translation of title: Display and interpretation of the monograms, individual and distorted first letters of the names, as well as other features and symbols, under which famous painters, copperplate engravers, and other similar artists have hidden themselves in their.....
Price: $350.00