Prospectus from The Peter Pauper Press
Peter Pauper Press, no date [ca 1938]. Small 4to.; paper wraps with stapled binding, softcover; edgeworn wraps with slits on spine ends else internally very good. More
Books About Books
Book Collecting A Comprehensive Guide
NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons (1989). 2nd printing; 8vo.; paper backed boards, hardcover; 320 pages; black and white illustrations; very good in a very good dust jacket. More
Childhood Re-Collected Early Children’s Books From the Library of Marjorie Moon
Oxford: Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (1994). 8vo.; stiff wraps, softcover; 114 pages; black and white and color illustrations; very good. More
Bookseller of Kabul
NY: Back Bay Books, 2004. 8vo; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; 288 pages; lightly edge-rubbed else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
A Splendor of Letters The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
NY: HarperCollins Publishers (2003). Stated First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; backed boards, hardcover; xviii, 444 pages; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
Books on the Ladder of Time A Speech Given in 1960 to Celebrate the Fiftieth Annual Exhibition of Children’s Books Suggested as Holiday Gifts at the New York Public Library
no place: The Macmillan Co., 1969. Square 24mo.; stiff wraps with french folds, softcover; 32 pages; very good. More
Book Traveller.
NY:Dodd, Mead & Company (1975). 8vo. cloth covered boards, hardcover, 63 pages. First edition. biography of a travelling book salesman; a fine, clean, tight copy in a lightly edgeworn dustjacket. More
The People and The Book The Background of Three Hundred Years of Jewish Life in America
NY: The New York Public Library, 1954. First edition; small 4to.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 134 pages; A tricentennial exhibition at The New York Public Library Sponsored by The Louis M. Rabinowitz Foundation October-December 1954.; boards are edgeworn with a dent on top edge and endpapers are foxed else a...... More
Brady & Lawless's Favorite Bookstores
Kansas City, Missouri: Sheed, Andrews & McMeel, 1978. First edition; 8vo; red boards, hardcover; ix, 259 pages; line drawings by Carl Pugliese; a very good, tight, clean copy in a very good dustjacket. More
Self-Portrait Book People Picture Themselves
NY: Random House, 1976. 1st edition with 2 in the numberline; oblong cloth covered boards, hardcover; unpaginated; over six hundred self portraits of contemporary literary figures; signed by Burt Britton; a very good, clean, tight copy in a lightly edge-chipped dustjacket with one small spot. More
Book (Eyewitness Books)
NY: Alfred A. Knopf (1993). Stated First American Edition with a 1 present in the number line; 4to.; glossy pictorial boards, hardcover; 63 pages; color photographic illustrations; former owner’s name written in ink on contents page else a very good clean tight copy in very lightly bumped boards. More
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006. Second printing; sm. 12mo; paper covered boards, hardcover; 216 pages; a very good, clean, tight copy in a very good dustjacket. More
Aspects Of Book Collecting A Handbook with Examples
Garden City: Adelphi University Library, 1977. 8vo., stiff wraps, paperback; published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Swirbul Library Gallery, Adelphi University Library, October 8-December 23, 1977. More
The First Hundred Years Association of Book Travelers 1884-1984
NY: Association of Book Travelers, 1984. First edition; stiff decorative wraps, softcover; viii, 55 pages; a history of the organization; gift inscription else a very good, clean, tight copy. More
The Book That Changed My Life : 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them
NY: Gotham Books, 2006. 1st edition, 1st printing; 12mo.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 197 pages; a very good, clean copy. More
Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old & New.
London: Bracken Books, (1984). Facsimile of the Bell & Sons 1896 edition; 12mo.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 243 pages plus index; b&w illustrations, very good in very good dust jacket. More
From Mother Goose to Dr. Seuss Children’s Book Covers 1860-1960
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books (1999). First edition with a 1 present in the number line; square sm 4to.; stiff wraps with french folds, softcover; 173 pages; color illustrations; very good. More
Venus Bound The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press and Its Writers
NY: Random House (1994). Stated First US Edition; cloth backed boards, hardcover; xxii, 358 pages; black and white illustrations; revised edition of The Good Ship Venus; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket. More
A Book Dragon
NY: Henry Holt, 1987. 2nd printing; 8vo; cloth backed boards, hardcover; 197 pages; black & white decorations; a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a lightly edgeworn dustjacket. More
Prairie Women Images In American and Canadian Fiction
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press (1986). First edition with a 1 in the number line; small 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; xi, 300 pages; endpapers and page edges are foxed else a very good clean tight copy in a edgeworn and sunned dust jacket. More
The Bondage of Ballinger
Chicago, IL: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1903. 1st edition; 16m. green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and design, hardcover; 214 pages; the bondage of a book collector; lightly soiled cover (see picture) else a very good, clean, tight, unmarked copy. More
Bookishly Yours
York, PA: Magicana for Collectors, 1987. 1st edition; #176 of 300; 8vo; brown stapled wraps with gilt lettering, softcover; 15 pages; photographic illustrations; a very good, clean, tight copy in its original envelope. More
The Joys of Collecting Children’s Books
Hong Kong: Ford Press, 1968. Stated First edition, Limited to 500 copies; Miniature; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, hardcover; 106 pages; very good. More
Bookmen's Holiday Notes And Studies Written And Gathered In Tribute To Harry Miller Lydenberg
New York: The New York Public Library, 1943. First edition limited to 1000 copies; small 4to.; red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, hardcover; xiii, 573 pages; black and white illustrations; some internal foxing else a very good tight copy in boards at are very lightly rubbed and..... More
YANKEE BOOKSELLER: Being the Reminiscences of Charles E. Goodspeed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. First edition; 8vo; blue cloth covered boards, hardcover; 325 pages; black & white photographic illustrations; two book labels pasted on the front endpaper, one for Frederic Melcher and another “Ex Libris Charles E Goodspeed”; faded spine else a good, clean, tight copy. More