Los Angeles: DeVorss & Co., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], 13-43 pp. Limitation not stated but this copy is numbered "948." Original dark maroon pebbled cloth. Loosely inserted promotional leaf for "The Trowel" and Chela's "The Way to Civilization." Forgotten Freemasonry for Women. The author of this curious..... More

Union, New York: 1892. Softcover. Dates: 1892-1901. Plain brown leather portfolio. 52 printed receipts with manuscript entries and totals, recto only. Receipts: ca. 8.5" x 5.5" -- Portfolio: 32.5" x 8.5" unrolled; 4" x 8.5" rolled. Leather exterior worn and occasionally ink stained; all receipts folded in three, with varying..... More

New York: The Grolier Club, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. 23 x 15 cm. 112 pp. with color illustrations throughout. Original wrappers. This beautifully produced Grolier Club exhibition catalogue provides an authoritative bio-bibliographical assessment of the life and work of Theodore Low De Vinne as a printer, historian, typographer, and..... More

Unbound. Undated (Late 19th-century). In a large 4to. binder. The condition is clean and quite fresh. A collection of curious Victorian "Cross Writing" examples. "Cross Writing" was usually reserved for love letters or close family members; it was initially a technique to maximize the amount of text that could be..... More

London: Farrand Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 374 pages, frontispiece and 282 figures illustrating the text. Original cloth, gilt. ¶ The definitive statement on the subject, meticulously researched by the acknowledged authority of book illustration processes. Herein the author seeks to introduce a little-known area of book design and..... More

Great Britain: The British Museum, 1965. Softcover. Octavo, 32 numbered pages plus an appendix of 16 black and white illustrations. Four illustrations in color. ¶ One in a series of booklets intended to highlight the most notable holdings of the British Museum. With illustrations from their collection. More

London: Bracken Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 340 pages, original cloth with original dustjacket. Profusely illustrated, including 50 splendid color plates. ¶ Exhaustive collection of the most important illuminations from manuscripts dating between the fourth and sixteenth centuries, reproduced in exquisite color, and a discussion of their paleography. Items..... More

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Quarto, 479 numbered pages. 207 items described and illustrated, principally in color. ¶ One of the most important exhibition catalogues in English of the treasures of the Bibliotheque Nationale, unparalleled in its richness and splendor. More

New York: Boo-Hooray Gallery, 2011. FIRST EDITION. Softcover. 4to. (large), original illustrated wrappers, 100 pp., profusely illustrated with color reproductions of Ed Wood paperback book material, each fully and meticulously described. First edition of the indispensible catalogue of the pioneering exhibition of Ed Wood's degenerate paperbacks, tantamount to a bibliography..... More

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1923. Hardcover. 8vo. 563, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated with 50 plates and 24 text figures. Original green cloth, blocked in black with illustration of a bull's head on front cover. ¶ Strange U.S. Government production illustrating, with alarming realism, the diseases of cattle. This..... More

St. Louis, MO: The Texas Railway Guide Company, 1919. Softcover. Published by The Texas Railway Guide Company of St. Louis, Missouri, the map measures 23" x 23" (570 x 570 mm). Staining and tears along the folds, else near very good. Professionally matted and framed. WITH THE RARE BOOKLET: 8vo..... More

Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, large 8vo. [2], x, [4], 504; [2], iv, [2], 538 pp. With numerous full-page photographic plates. Bound in original publisher's black cloth, rebacked and recornered in very handsome dark brown morocco, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. ¶ This vast and..... More

New York: Sanctuary Books, 2004. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 115 pp., with 108 black and white photographic illustrations of New York street scenes. Original Cloth, in dust-wrapper, in slipcase. ¶ DELUXE ISSUE, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES WITH A SIGNED WEBER PHOTOGRAPH, AND PRESERVED IN A FITTED CASE. THIS COPY..... More