New York: December 26, 1936. To Alfred Knopf, praising Max Perkins. Davenport writes to publisher Alfred Knopf saying she's been in bed with the flu since she saw him at Carnegie Hall, and thanking him for the Christmas gift of a book: "It is undoubtedly a magnificent tribute to your... Read More about Typed letter signed ("Marcia Davenport"), to Alfred Knopf

Brussels: 1958. First edition. Read More about Medieval Illuminations, from the Library of Burgundy to the Department of Manuscripts of the...

London: The Imprint, [1913]. First edition. This reprint of an extract from the Bibliographical Decameron appeard a few pages at a time as a separately paginated supplement to the typographical periodical "The Imprint," a title page being include in the first number. The work was left unfinished when The Imprint... Read More about Printers Devices. Being a Partial reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses...

With the symbolic bookplate of Afrikaans poet and pioneering ethologist Eugène Marais. The bookplate measures 4-3/4 x 6-1/4 inches, and was designed by James J. Guthrie (his monogram at lower left); printed: London, 1897. The motto, Dit of Dood, translates as “This or Death” ; in The Dark Stream. The..... Read More about Tractatus de prescriptionibus.] [Running title:] Tractatus prescriptionum. 35 leaf fragment

Christie's, 1987-1990. Compiled by Paul Needham and Felix de Marex Oyens.Six volumes and index; plus “European and American Paintings, Prints, Furniture and Works of Art” (in wraps). Read More about The Estelle Doheny Collection

Los Angeles: December 20, 1914. "… You mention a copy of Sister Carrie 1st Edition at $10.00 …" Dreiser writes a Philadelphia bookseller to request a copy of the first edition of his most important novel, Sister Carrie (1900). "Dear Sir: A letter dated Nov. and addressed to me at... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Theodore Dreiser"), to Philadelphia bookseller Jeremiah F....

New York: Anderson Auction Company, 1912. Mr West's interleaved notes on some pages refer heavily to what Mr L.C. Harper in 1919 told him about the sale including "this sale was a perfectly good fake, that many of the books catalogued did not come from Dulle's (sic) collection...I attended one... Read More about Sporting and colored plate books, the library of the late William C. Dulles of Philadelphia, Pa....

London: Printed for C. Corbett, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet Street, n.d. [ca. 1740?]. Later edition of the work first published in 1691, and frequently reprinted since. 'some pages have ornaments used by Henry Woodfall and another printer. Woodfall died in 1747 but the work does not look 1750-ish. Possibly... Read More about Religio Bibliopol. The Religion of a Bookseller. After the Manner of the Religio Medici, ! by the...

Strassburg: J. H. Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1903. Read More about Versuch einer Dürer Bibliographie

Mt. Vernon NY: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. First Edition, No. 238 of 250 copies, signed by the author. An engaging set of letters to an author from one who has been commissioned to illustrate his book, and a classic argument in favor of book illustrations. Read More about Form Letters: Illustrator to Author

Iowa City, Iowa: Published for the Univ. of Iowa Libraries by the University of Iowa Press, 1990. Third Edition. Read More about Heirs of Hippocrates

Rome: Typis. Sac. Congregationis de Propag. Fide, 1771. First edition. Read More about Alphabetum Veterum Etruscorum et Nonnulla Eorumdem Monumenta

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. Read More about 2 TLS. To E. F. Edgett literary editor of the Boston Evening Transcript