New York: Transcribed and Illustrated at Cooper Union, 1952. Small folio (261 x 167 mm). Calligraphic manuscript on paper. [2], 8 pp. Loosely inserted ink and watercolor drawing. Original hand-sewn blue wrappers; stitched to upper wrapper is a paper label lettered in manuscript: "The Harper and Other Fables." Old scribbles..... More

San Francisco: Published by Bell & Heymans, 1888. First Edition. Folio (350 x 258 mm). 86, ix, [1] pp., including fascinating advertisements. Original wrappers (chipped and foxed). Wrappers with two-color lithographs + 44 b/w lithographs illustrating the text (some extending over 2 pages), all by Britton & Rey, San Francisco..... More

Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., ca. 1915? Square 4to., stapled as issued. COMPLETE: 6 leaves (12 pp.) including front cover and back cover, all printed on soft linen. Front and back cover plus 4 other pages printed in color, the rest monochrome (printed in blue/green) allowing for hand-coloring. Very worn..... More

1785. Two vols., 12mo. xxiv, 422, [2]; [2], 400, [2] pp. Both vols. uncut, vol. II partially unopened. Contemporary "temporary" binding of patterned paper over flexible boards, all-over decoration of green and pink leaves, traces of original paper labels on spines lettered in MS, inside all 4 covers are printed..... More

Heidelberg: Richard Weissbach, 1955. Hardcover. Octavo, 315 pages, original cloth with gilt lettering. ¶ The first scientific catalog of the early German lithography, arranged alphabetically by the artist's last name. First published in 1925, this book is still considered an essential reference work. More

London and New York: Verso, 2010. Softcover. Octavo, 378 pages. ¶ Highly important study on the advent of moveable type and its subsequent impact on Western culture. Originally written in French, the present work was translated into English by David Gerard, and edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wootton. More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 123 pages, original cloth, gilt. With 24 color illustrations. ¶ Bamber Gascoigne offers a broad historical survey of advancements in colour printing from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. From Marie Korey's review in PBSA: "Gascoigne provides an overview of the..... More

Cambridge: University Press, 1931. First Edition. Large 4to. Engraved frontispiece ("La belle ecriture demande un esprit gai"), xl, 226 pp. 81 plates. Original light-brown quarter cloth over decorated ("marbled") cloth boards (very small abrasion at tail of spine). Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Dust-wrapper soiled and defective, inside lined with..... More

New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original publisher's mustard cloth, stamped in black adorned with a spider's web in which is perched a long-armed spider. ¶ First Edition in English and the First American edition. The first title was translated by Mrs. Sophie M. Butts;..... More

Venice: Domenico Giglio; Paolo and Aldo Manutius, 1558; 1564. Ad 1: 8vo. Part 1: [1], 2-138, [4] = 142 ff. Part 2: [1], 2-122, [2] = 124 ff. Contemporary limp vellum with "yapp" edges, title in MS on spine, singular "1" at bottom of spine indicating the first of two..... More

New York: Gemor Press [i.e. The Author], 1944. Second edition. Tall narrow 8vo. [1], 86, [3] pp. With nine copper engravings by Ian Hugo (i.e. Hugh Guiler, Anais Nin’s banker husband), who also designed the cover. Original boards (front cover slightly bumped at head of spine, spine darkened). Signed by..... More

2015. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers. 46 pp. + Catalogue of 17 items. 31 illustrations (some printed in color). NOT ex-library: the text is unblemished and free from stamps and ugly markings! Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "In praise of Aldus Manutius (ca. 1452-1515)" held at PRPH..... More

Paris: J.J. Blaise, 1818. 8vo. 20 ff. + 20 full-page engravings. Contemporary French emerald-green glazed boards, red morocco spine label (trifle rubbed). PRINTED BY PIERRE DIDOT L'AINE (1761-1853). "Pierre published acclaimed editions of Virgil, Horace, La Fontaine, and Racine. Firmin designed the Didot typeface. He also invented stereotypes (plates cast..... More