Rare Study of Japanese Papermaking
The Handmade Papers of Japan
Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle & Co, 1952. Rare Study of Japanese Papermaking. Includes specimens from... Read More about The Handmade Papers of Japan
Price: $7,000
Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle & Co, 1952. Rare Study of Japanese Papermaking. Includes specimens from... Read More about The Handmade Papers of Japan
Price: $7,000
London: Messrs Puttick and Simpson, 1884. The library of the Third Earl of Gosford (1806-1864) was sold by private contact to James Toovey, the London Bookseller, who sold the French books in Paris in 1882 at auction, the Aldines by a special catalogue produced by Toovey and the remainder of..... Read More about Catalogue of the Fine, Extensive and Valuable Library of the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Gosford, K. P....
Price: $375
New York: The Marchbanks Press; Douglas C. McMurtrie, Inc.; The Press of the Woolly Whale, 1918, 1920, 1925-26, 1934. Complete Series. Read More about Ars Typographica
Price: $750
Council Bluffs: Yellow Barn Press, 1987. One of 75 on dampened Rives (edition of 150). Includes essays by Alexander Lawson, Howard Coggeshall, Arthur Rushmore, Richard Ellis, and Earl Emmon. Read More about A Goudy Memoir. Essays by and about America's Great Type Designer
Price: $175
New York: Boni and Liveright, [1922]. First Edition. When Liveright published Pound’s own work, he often lost money, but his respect for Pound’s judgment always remained high” (Gilmer). Translations such as this sold well, and in 1922 Liveright entered into a two-year contract for translations, with Pound reserving the right..... Read More about The Natural Philosophy of Love ... Translated with a Postscript by Ezra Pound
Price: $450
Oakland: Rather Press, 1975. First edition, numbered 69 of 150. A little tribute to Jane Grabhorn. Jane Grabhorn (b.1911 – d.1973) was an American artist, typographer, bookbinder, and printer and founded the Colt Press in San Francisco along with William M. Roth and Jane Swinerton. Read More about Jane Grabhorn, Printer
Price: $100
New York: Printed for the Association, 1896. The Century Association was given this library by Mr. Graham's will. Read More about A Catalogue of the James Lorimer Graham Library
Price: $125
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1932. CROSS, F.R. First Edition, one of 950 copies. WITH SIGNED FORE-EDGE PAINTING UNDER GILT EDGES. One of the most successful Derrydale titles, and, though a collection of stories, a leading candidate for The Great American Sporting Novel. We know of no other Derrydale book..... Read More about The Silver Horn and Other Sporting Tales of John Weatherford
Price: $2,500
New York: The Anderson Galleries [Mitchell Kennerley, President] Sale 2121, January 7, 8th 1927 at 2 pm. Sale brought sale $36,975. Hagop Kevorkian was an Armenian-American collector and archaelogist. Read More about The H.[pagop] Kevorkian Collection of Near & Far East Art
Price: $250
New York: The Anderson Auction Galleries, 1901-1909. Priced. "A remarkable collection made during the past twenty-five years, covering the whole period of English literature from the authors of the sixteenth century to the present day, including rare editions of the works of Edmund Spenser, John Heywood, Robert Greene, Abraham Cowley..... Read More about The Library of Louis I. Haber of New York City ... Part I : to be sold December 1 and 2, 1909,...
Price: $200
[Printed at the Office of the Free Press, Auburn, NY.], 1827. Read More about Catalogue of Books belonging to the Phoenix Society, Hamilton College, August 1827
Price: $150
Paris: Librairie de L’Art; London: Remington and Co, 1882. Sale by Christie, Manson, and Woods. Read More about The Hamilton Palace Collection. Illustrated Priced Catalogue
Price: $150
Lexington: The Anvil Press, 1978. First edition, number 214 of 450 copies. Important and abundantly illustrated study of the careers of Austrian-born artist and typographer Victor Hammer (1882-1968). Includes chapters on Hammer's mezzotints and wood engravings, discussions of Hammer's uncial typefaces by R. Hunter Middleton and Hermann Zapf; and Paul..... Read More about Victor Hammer Artist and Printer. [Edited by Carolyn R. Hammer
Price: $250
New York: Anderson Galleries Madison at Fortieth Street, Tuesday Evening November 19, 1912. Read More about Portolan charts of the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth centuries / collected by the late Dr. Theodore...
Price: $100
New York: Boni and Liveright, [1921]. First edition. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed to Alfred Stieglitz. THE DEDICATION COPY OF HARTLEY'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED BY MARSDEN HARTLEY ON THE DEDICATION PAGE TO ALFRED STIEGLITZ: "My dear Stieglitz, This is the book you saved from the chaos of a grim period. I...... Read More about Adventures in the Arts. Informal Chapters on Painters Vaudeville and Poets. [Introduction by...
Price: $25,000
New York: Bangs & Company 91 & 93 Fifth Avenue, 1898. items 1631-1755 are Walton Complete Anglers and Waltoniana. Read More about Catalogue of the library of the late Francis B. Hayes of Boston, Mass. A Large , Well-selected,...
Price: $100
New York: American Art Galleries, 1918. De Luxe Illustrated CatalogueIssue. Printed on Japan vellum paper. Read More about The Notable Art Collection formed by the Late George A. Hearn. Merchant, Art Patron and...
Price: $350
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917. First edition. The first American novel published by Alfred Knopf. Read More about The Three Black Pennys. A Novel
Price: $300
New York: 10 Nov. 1840. Herring Proposes Deal with Carey. The engraver James Herring, along with his collaborator James Longacre, published their famous ground-breaking biographical series, National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans (1834-1839). At some point Herring evidently sold his share in the work to Longacre, for he writes in..... Read More about Autograph Letter signed to Philadelphia publisher E.L. Carey, discussing a possible partnership...
Price: $1,250
Surmounted with a spurious Hogarth signature. Read More about Bookplate of William Hogarth
Price: $350
London: Printed for the Koran Society by R. Carlile, 55 Fleet Street, 1822. One Copy in OCLC. Rare edition of the Koran issued by Richard Carlile (1790-1843), the tinsmith turned radical publisher and writer. As publisher of William T. Sherwin’s ‘Weekly Political Register’, Carlile was imprisoned for seditious libel and..... Read More about The Holy Koran; Commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed. Translated from the original Arabic, and...
Price: $3,000
Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 2000 [i.e., 2004]. First separate edition, one of 200 copies (first printed in an edition of ten copies to accompany a suite of photographs by Steven Gelberg). Peter Howard’s tribute to his British friend Martin Stone, guitarist and legendary bookman. Uncommon. Read More about Martin Stone, Bookscout
Price: $300
[London]: Bath printed, and London reprinted for W. Webster near St. Paul's, and sold by all the booksellers and pamphlet shops in town and country, 1743. First pirated edition, originally published the preceding year. Hoyle’s Short Treatise on Whist circulated in manuscript among his pupils, and was expanded for publication..... Read More about A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist. Containing the Laws of the Game: and also some Rules,...
Price: $1,750
[East Aurora, New York]: The Roycroft Printing Shop, 1896. No. 206 of 700 copies printed. Inscribed “For Mr. Frank W. Noxon with all good wishes from Elbert Hubbard”. Read More about The Journal of Koheleth Being a Reprint of the Book of Ecclesiastes with an Essay
Price: $400
Meriden: Meriden Gravure, 1978. First edition. This is the festschrift done for Harold Hugo after 54 years at Meriden Gravure by all his friends and satisfied customers. Read More about A Portfolio Honoring Harold Hugo for His Contribution to Scholarly Printing. In 35 separate...
Price: $250
Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1941. #219 of 219 copies, signed by Bruce Rogers. “In 1941 Rogers designed Before Life Began, for the Rowfant Club of Cleveland, Ohio, an autobiography of Dard Hunter, historian and practitioner of papermaking by hand. The book was printed at the Press of A. Colish on..... Read More about Before Life Began 1883-1923
Price: $850