Item 323783The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken].
Price: $350
New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. The Merrrymount Edition. Read More Item Details for The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken] Add to Wish List
Item #323783
Price: $350
New York: R.H. Russell, 1898. The Merrrymount Edition. Read More Item Details for The Nightingale. [Translation by H.W. Dulken] Add to Wish List
Item #323783
Price: $75
New York: The Grolier Club, 1971. First edition, one of 1000 copies. With the former owner's signature of legendary, Washington Irving scholar, Andrew Breen Myers. Read More Item Details for The Library of Jean Grolier. A Preliminary Catalogue … With an Introductory Study "Jean Grolier and the Renaissance" by Colin Eisler Add to Wish List
Item #305552
Price: $3,500
London … Bristol: Willis and Sotheran ... Lasbury, 1863. PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of a few copies. A facsimile on vellum of an extremely rare book (one copy known), from the earliest days of the English reformation. A dramatic dialogue in verse complaining of the oppression of the laity by..... Read More Item Details for A proper dyalogue betwene a gentillman and a husband man eche complaynynge to other their miserable calamite through the ambicion of clergye. With a compendious olde treatyse shewynge howe that we ought to have the Scripture in Englysshe. Hans Luft. 1530. Edited, with an introduction, by Francis Fry Add to Wish List
Item #223098
Price: $650
Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. No. 458 of 500 copies. "an unfinished binding done by me at Miss Emily Preston's bindery, N.Y. Patty P.L. Sesler" and below in another hand J.S. Brown. Emily Preston was a Cobden-Sanderson student who ran a bindery at 223 East 17th St., NYC and was..... Read More Item Details for The Service. Edited by F. B. Sanborn Add to Wish List
Item #317740
Price: $200
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1910. Firrst Edition. Limited to 483 copies. Bixby's Copy. Bixby had had privately printed in 1898 the “Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell Private Correspondence,” the originals of which were in his collection. The Dickens-Kolle letters were in Harry B. Smith's private collection. Henry William Kolle was..... Read More Item Details for The Dickens-Kolle Letters. Supplemental to the Letters from Charles Dickens to Maria Beadnell [Introduction by Henry H. Harper]. Edited by Harry B. Smith Add to Wish List
Item #19733
Price: $100
Saint Louis: Privately Printed for W. K. Bixby [By D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press], [October], 1922. One of 250 copies printed. Mrs. Frances Washington was the widow of George Augustus Washington. The original of this letter was in Bixby's fine collection. Read More Item Details for Martha Washington's Letter Written from Philadelphia, June 15, 1794 to Mrs. Frances Washington [Introducation by W. K. Bixby] Add to Wish List
Item #19737
Price: $600
Boston: New Algonquin Club, January 11, 1906. First Edition. Rare Testamonial, Printed on Vellum. RARE. Never seen. Testimonial honoring William K. Bixby, the noted bibliophile. Includes remarks by Albert Bushnell Hart. A browned newspaper clipping regarding the affair is laid in. The presentation from the committee is printed on vellum..... Read More Item Details for Fourth Annual Banquet of the Bibliophile Society Add to Wish List
Item #19740
Price: $275
[Boston: [Printed by D. B. Updike, the Merrymount Press ] Privately Printed by W. K. Bixby for Historical Societies and Personal Friends, 1922. One of 250 copies printed. Privately Printed. Read More Item Details for Two Letters: I. Anthony Wayne and Lake George. Letter from General Anthony Wayne to General Schuyler. Ticonderoga, March 23, 1777. II. Washington's Announcement of Arnold's Treason. Letter from George Washington to the Judge Advocate General September 26, 1780 Add to Wish List
Item #19748
Price: $550
Boston: Issued exclusively for the Members of The Bibliophile Society, 1907. First edition, one of 470 copies only. Bixby's Own Copy, Printed on Vellum. PRINTED ON VELLUM, on one side of the leaf only. W. K. BIXBY'S COPY with his bookplate. Engraved decorated title and plate by M. & W...... Read More Item Details for Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau. “Musings” by Wiliam Cullen Bryant [Introduction by Curtis Hidden Page] and “Godfrey of Boulogne” by Henry D.Thoreau [Introduction by F. B. Sanborn] Add to Wish List
Item #19736
Price: $400
London: The Trianon Press for the William Blake Trust, 1954. No. 198 of 1600 numbered copies. The Trianon Press Songs of Innocence. Read More Item Details for Songs of Innocence Add to Wish List
Item #314268
Price: $4,000
[New York]: [William Edwin Rudge; The Viking Press], 1928-1937. One of 570 numbered copies, this being no. 252, designed by Bruce Rogers. This set was designed by Bruce Rogers in the last of his eight years at William Rudge's plant. The acquisition of the papers by Isham is itself a...... Read More Item Details for Private Papers of James Boswell from Malahide Castle in the collection of Lt.-Colonel Ralph Heyward Isham. Prepared for the Press by Geoffrey Scott. [With:] Boswell's Journal of the Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson [and:] Index Add to Wish List
Item #301136
Price: $400
New York: The Typophiles, July 7. 1948. Signed by Will Bradley, Paul Bennett and David Silve with Silve's handwritten directions to the printer in pencil on a seperate sheet. Read More Item Details for Broadside: WILL BRADLEY DEAN OF American Typographers. On Your Eightieth Birthday... The Typophiles Add to Wish List
Item #313191
Price: $250
London: The Leadenhall Press, 1894. First edition of the author's first book. First Book, Fine Copy. Read More Item Details for English Farming and Why I Turned it up Add to Wish List
Item #365019
Price: $150
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1915. One of 475 copies printed on japan Vellum paper. Read More Item Details for The Cotter's Saturday Night Add to Wish List
Item #261772
Price: $200
Boston: C.F. Libbie, 1901. ALL THREE PARTS. with Parts 2 & 3. Read More Item Details for Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the late Frederick W. French, of Boston, member of the Grolier Club, Club of Odd Volumes, Rowfant Club, Caxton Club, etc. : magnificent collection of fine and rare books, many in sumptuous bindings by the finest binders of the world ... Cobden-Sanderson, Miss Prideaux, Roger de Coverley: to be sold by auction Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, April 23rd, 24th, 25th, 1901 Add to Wish List
Item #307533
Price: $6,000
London: Chiswick Press, 1893. No. 11 of 13 copies printed on vellum (there were also 88 copies printed on paper). One of 13 Copies on Vellum. This work consists of two important ordinances issued by the Spanish monarchy on November 20, 1542, and June 4, 1543. Under the active influence..... Read More Item Details for The New Laws of the Indies for the Treatment and Preservation of the Indians Promulgated by the Emperor Charles the Fifth 1542-1543. A facsimile reprint of the original Spanish edition together with a literal translation into the English language. To which is prefixed an Historical Introduction by Henry Stevens of Vermont and Fred W. Lucas Add to Wish List
Item #236066
Price: $450
San Francisco: Printed for Ransohoffs by The Grabhorn Press, 1941. First Edition, thus, one of 250 copies. Churchill's Words, Grabhorns' Printing. Read More Item Details for Broadcast Addresses to the People of Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Russia and the United States, by the Prime Minister of the British Empire, Winston Churchill MCMXL-MCMXLI Add to Wish List
Item #339735
Price: $750
Kew Richmond Surrey: 22 April, 1954; 20 October, 1954; 30 January, 1955. Cockerell to Paul Standard. Charming letters from the aging museum director, collector, and calligrapher, to his American counterpart Paul Standard, founding member of the Typophiles and champion of calligraphy. In the first, Cockerell expresses his delight on receiving..... Read More Item Details for 3 Autograph Letters, signed (“Sydney Cockerell”), to Stella and Paul Standard Add to Wish List
Item #257741
Price: $100
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1925. First Edition, One of 485 copies (of which 450 are for sale). Designed by Bruce Rogers. Inscribed on ther front free-endpaper "To my friend/ Col. Marston E. Drake-/ with the regards of one of the/ authors of this biik./ Eldridge L. Adams. July 1928"..... Read More Item Details for Joseph Conrad: The Man [and] A Burial in Kent by John Sheridan Zelie. Together with some Bibliographical Notes Add to Wish List
Item #303749
Price: $250
Boston: Privately Printed by the Merrymount Press, 1913. First edition, one of 500 copies. A handsome compilation of "facts and documents rather than a continuous and interrupted story" (preface). The account of the voyage itself was compiled from the log book, as well as letters and journals. [WITH:] An autograph..... Read More Item Details for The Story of George Crowninshield’s Yacht Cleopatra’s Barge on A Voyage of Pleasure to the Western Islands and the Mediterranean 1816-1817. Compiled from Journals, Letters, and Log-Book Add to Wish List
Item #353959
Price: $3,500
London: Joseph Masters, 1850. PRINTED ON VELLUM, apparently the only copy thus. Printed on Vellum. Following the manuscript tradition, liturgical printing in both the Catholic and Anglican churches frequently employed vellum as well as paper. D.B. Updike writes that economic considerations were also a factor: “As early printed books were..... Read More Item Details for A List of Printed Service Books, according to the ancient uses of the Anglican Church Add to Wish List
Item #223102
Price: $150
New York: The Grolier Club, 1927. First edition, one of 325 copies. A study of late 18th century American newspapers, with many large folding facsimiles. Extended version of a paper read in 1924 before the Societe d'Histoire Moderne of Paris by the esteemed professor Fay of the University of Clermont-Ferrand..... Read More Item Details for Notes on the American Press at the End of the Eighteenth Century Add to Wish List
Item #253320
Price: $75
[Boston, Mass.]: Printed for W.K. Bixby [at the Merrymount Press], [April, 1922]. First edition, one of 250 copies. Inscribed by Bixby on ffep to Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Homer t Bolton Landing. Read More Item Details for Two Poems...Reproduced from the Original MSS. See'n Things at Night & To M.L. Gray Add to Wish List
Item #351776
Price: $2,250
Villa des Palmiers, Salies-de-Béarn, France: nd [1927]. With architectural drawings and referencing Troilus & Criseyde. Gill writes to his friend, J.G. Wilson of the Bumpus Bookshop in London, regarding his engraving, "Flying Buttresses," mentioning his work on Troilus & Criseyde for the Golden Cockerel Press, and mentioning another of his..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed ("Eric Gill" and "E.G."), to John Gideon Wilson of J. & E. Bumpus Bookshop in London Add to Wish List
Item #303935
Price: $1,750
Pigotts, North Dean, High Wycombe: June 9, June 17, and July 2, 1933; and May 13, 1936. To the secretary of the Men's Dress Reform Party. Three letters to Dr. Alfred Charles Jordan (1872-1956), British radiologist, co-founder of the New Heath Society, and Honorary Secretary of the Men's Dress Reform..... Read More Item Details for A group of 3 Autograph Letters Signed and 1 Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Gill"), to Dr. A.C. Jordan about giving a prize of his "Clothes," and regarding a party given by the Men's Dress Reform Party Add to Wish List
Item #303936