Amistad Courier A Newsletter about Miniature Books, Issues 1-24, 1980-1984.
Amistad Press, [ca. 1985]. Red leatherette-backed, decorated paper boards, no dust jacket.
Books & Publishing
Henry Bankes's Treatise on Lithography.
Printing Historical Society. 1976. Reprint. Green cloth, gilt spine title. No dust jacket.
The Private Press.
R.R. Bowker, 1983. Second Edition.
English Book Collectors.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Limited, 1902. First edition, first printing. Full green cloth. Square quarto. 448pp. TEG. Book plate images and collector portraits throughout. A lovely piece of book collecting history.
Proustian Uncertainties : On Reading and Rereading in Search of Lost Time.
Other, 2020. First edition, first printing.
The Permanence of Johann Gutenberg.
U. of Texas, 1974. Second printing.
The Pioneer Americanists : Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers
U. of Michigan, 2017. First edition, first printing. One of 1200 copies.
Benjamin Franklin : Writer and Printer.
Oak Knoll, 2006. First edition, first printing.
Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. First edition, first printing.
The Enchanted Hour : The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction.
Harper, 2019. First edition, first printing.
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts.
Simon & Schuster, 2016. Later printing.
Quattrocentisteria How Sandro Botticelli Saw Simonetta in the Spring
The Grolier Club, 1921. Limited edition 300 copies printed by John Henry Nash of San Francisco for the Grolier Club as one in a series of six books done by eminent American printers. Tall quarto. Cloth spine, marbled paper-covered boards printed on Van Gelder paper with unicorn watermark, extra spine.....
Pilate A Passion Play
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1928. Cover and title page illustrations by David Jones. No statement of edition. 5.5 x 4 inches. Plain black cloth-backed illustrated paper-covered boards. 47 pp. This is an interesting early example of St. Dominic's Presswork founded by Eric Gill and Edward Johnston. Although seemingly a bare.....
Health and Wealth
The Roycrofters, 1908. Sepia tone double page photographs of Hubbard and other in workshop frontis. First edition. Full polished calf, teg, marbled endpapers, tooled decorative vine and leaf pattern in arts and crafts style front panel with incised title and author front panel and spine, 2 raised bands, ribbon marker.....
Currier & Ives : America Reimagined.
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. First edition, first printing.
Peter Schoeffer of Gerusheim and Mainz.
Leo Hart, 1950. First edition, first printing.
Printing the Grand Manner : Charles le Brun and Monumental Prints in the Age of Louis XIV.
Getty Research Institute, 2010. First edition, first printing.
An Outline of Anglo-American Bible History.
London: B.T. Batsford LTD, 1958. First edition, first printing. Errata slip tipped in at p. 12.
The Art of the Book and Its Illustration.
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, [1935]. First US edition, first printing.
Miller's Collecting Books.
Octopus, 2001. Reprint.
A Passion for Books.
World Publishing Company, 1958. Limited edition. Red cloth-backed decorated boards. Housed in publisher's slipcase.
How Literature Saved My Life.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page.
How Literature Saved My Life.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page.
Incunabula and America, 1450-1800 : A Key to Bibliographical Study.
Columbia U. Press, 1931. First edition, first printing. Full red cloth, stamped in silver. 483pp.
The Savoy, An Illustrated Quarterly: THREE VOLUMES, Nos 1-8 [Complete].
Leonard Smithers, 1896. Illustrations By Aubrey Beardsley. First printing thus. Quartos. Publishers cloth. Blue publisher's cloth, elaborately gilt with Beardsley illustrations.