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1958140939327Paris: Editions La Terrain Vague 1958. First Edition Trade Issue. Very Good. Inscribed in French by Marcel Duchamp on page following front transparency then signed and dated. Translated the inscription reads "Dear Alma I appreciate the catalogues you sent me etc. and here's another book with no pretense. Salutations Marcel Duchamp New York City 1960." 231 pp. with b&w folding transparency of La Marieé Mise a Nu par ses Célibataires Même. Printed wrappers. In French. First edition trade issue. Very Good with rubbing along edges of wrappers vertical crease to spine internally clean and bright. Some pages unopened. A rare signed copy of the writings of the pioneering artist associated with the Cubist Dadaist and conceptual art movements; the title translates to Salt Merchant in English. Editions La Terrain Vague unknown books
196014620Various Majority Institute WV: np ca. 1960-1980. First Edition. Very good. 1.5 linear feet approx. in total of various printed and holograph materials largely organized into a series of some 20 thick file folders. A folder-level inventory is available on request. Conditions vary but generally very good. <br/><br/>Wobbe's bibliography of Graham Greene Garland 1978 remains the standard on the famed and prolific British author. Offered here are Wobbe's working research files and production materials utilized in the publishing of the bibliography. Highlights include: over fifty original photographs title pages dust jackets a complete photo reproduction of Greene's BABBLING APRIL etc. considered or included in the finished bibliography including 22 original photos utilized in the layout itself - with notations and other printer's annotations; a unique 10-volume typed bound and slip-cased collection of Greene's complete early contributions to THE SPECTATOR -— all transcribed in full by Wobbe — used in the production of his article “Graham Greene's Literary and Theater Reviews and Articles in THE SPECTATOR 1932-1941” Bulletin of Bibliography & Magazine Notes Jan. - March 1977; an extensive collection of clippings photo-mechanical reproductions and often Wobbe's own meticulously typed and holograph transcriptions many with Wobbe's additional notes of Greene appearances including many that remain difficult to access to this day; correspondence with scholars collectors auction houses and dealers who provided corrections and other information for the bibliography; Wobbe's holographic and typed bibliographic lists notes etc. on and about Greene; as well as various drafts for portions of the bibliography itself. In short a vivid working portrait of a diligent bibliographer compiling a still-important bibliography on a major 20th century writer. np unknown books
1997WRCAM24315New York 1997. Six volumes. Thick quarto. Cloth. As new. The complete set of this essential reference finally completed after more than two decades of toil by the staff of the John Carter Brown Library led by John Alden and Dennis Landis. This is the starting point for researching any pre-1751 European imprints relating to America. The grandest American bibliographical project since Sabin and Evans. You don't have a reference library if you don't have this. Volumes I through IV and VI are available at $275 each. hardcover books
198827109Endicott: Castalio Press 1988. First edition. Leather Bound. Near Fine/none. Full green leatherbound book illustrated and printed in gilt. 8vo. 658 pp. Includes an introductory essay by Herbert Warren Wind. Some light handling wear else a near fine copy. Superb golf reference book. Illustrated with some pictures. This is one of only twenty special copies produced in full leather and SIGNED by Donavan Murdocch and Wind. This is Copy #7 Herbert Warren Wind's own copy presented to him at the time of publication. The book comes with a certificate from his widow Rose Wind Stone authenticating the provenance of this copy. Castalio Press unknown books
1976102950Folio. San Francisco: Book Club of California 1976. Folio 99 pages. Richly illuminated and illustrated throughout with 43 specimen leaves. Original quarter red cloth and boards fine original plain dust-jacket age toned and lightly worn. § Limited to 400 copies printed at the Arion Press and signed by Angelo. This is “a special copy hand colored by the artist†so inscribed by Angelo. A beautiful record of Angelo’s career incorporating checklists of his work as illustrator printer publisher and author as well as a brief autobiography and contributions from Oscar Lewis Robert Grabhorn Sherwood Anderson and Annis Duff. Original prospectus inserted along with letterpress invitation to Angelo’s 80th birthday party at the San Francisco Public Library. Book Club of California hardcover books
1928WRCAM26923New York 1928. Three volumes in all. Facsimiles. Tall quarto. Original gilt cloth t.e.g. with: AMERICANA COLLECTION OF HERSCHEL V. JONES A CHECK-LIST 1473 - 1926 COMPILED BY WILBERFORCE EAMES. New York. 1938. xii220pp. Original gilt cloth t.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown of third volume. Bright very good set. First two volumes in slightly worn cloth slipcase. A fine reference to a superb collection of early Americana. Illustrated with handsome title page facsimiles. Compiled by Wilberforce Eames. hardcover books
199319050101Austin: W. Thomas Taylor 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 40 copies of the deluxe edition total edition 340 quarto size 75 pp. Plain Wrapper Press was the imprint of Richard-Gabriel Rummonds a leading handpress printer during the twentieth century who printed many fine press editions of well-known authors such as Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino; this bibliography comprises Rummonds' work during the twenty years the Press was in operation. Like Rummonds' fine press publications this volume the deluxe edition is printed with an attention to typography and elegance a tactile as well as an academic experience.<br/><br/>The Foreword is by Decherd Turner 1922-2002 an ordained Presbyterian minister and an avid book collector who was director of the Bridwell Library in Dallas Texas where he built one of the largest collections of fifteenth-century books in the American Southwest.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Quarter white vellum with purple cloth boards printer's device of the Plain Wrapper Press in black on the spine burgundy endpapers title page with same printer's device in burgundy inside a grey rectangle with black ruled borders text printed in burgundy and black throughout eight pages of colour photographs of works from the Press at the centre of the book; monotype Dante Magnani mouldmade paper quarto size 12" by 8" pagination: 1-6 7-74 1 colophon one of 40 copies of the deluxe edition total edition 340 unnumbered.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is fine overall with clean boards straight corners with no rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; light sunning to the front board else fine.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. W. Thomas Taylor hardcover books
199516530Council Bluffs Iowa: Yellow Barn Press and Fairleigh Dickinson University 1995. Fine in fine slipcase. Number 45 of 150. Full linen with red leather spine label two-cloth covered slipcase. In addition to the biographical material there is an annnotated bibliography and 21 pages of facsimiles of Pickering Press productions. 76 pages. Tall quarto. Prospectus laid in. Yellow Barn Press and Fairleigh Dickinson University hardcover books
197618369Ireland: Dolmen Editions 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Small quarto in dustwrapper. A fine hardbound copy in dustwrapper. Illustrated bibliography of twenty five years of publications by the Dolmen Press. Compiled by Liam Miller. One of 650 trade copies. Beautiful and useful. <br/><br/> Dolmen Editions hardcover books
1982WRCAM38931New York 1982. xlviii954pp. Thick quarto. Cloth. As new. A continuation of this indispensable resource describing books about the Americas printed in Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century. hardcover books
1962887411962. CHINESE BIBLIOGRAPHY YAMAMOTO SHOTEN publisher. MINDAI SASHIZUHON ZUROKU Naikaku Bunko Shozô Tanpen Shosetsu no Bu. Tokyo Shôwa 37 1962. 26.5 x 19.3 cm. String-bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji printed paper title label. A useful guide using facsimile reproductions of pages from Ming Dynasty illustrated short story collections in the Japanese government collections. In very fine condition in the original clasped chitsu case. unknown books
1905004978Oxford England: Holywell Press 1905. First Edition limited to 500 copies. Oxford Holywell Press 1905. Illustrated with a fine series of portraits cartoons facsimiles etc. Near Fine in original blue-grey boards paper labels side and back all edges uncut. Spine label browned and with small chip spine a bit browned as well. . Limited First Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Small 8vo. Limited Edition. Holywell Press Hardcover books
200013422Easthampton: Warwick Press 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Fine first edition in fine clear acetate wrapper. SIGNED by both Donald Hall and Jack Kelleher. 78 pp. Includes a foreword by poet Richard Wilbur. <br/><br/> Warwick Press hardcover books
196716829Los Angeles: Friends of the UCLA Library 1967. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. 67 pp. Checklist compiled by James Hartzell and Richard Zumwinkle with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Just shy of fine condition in bound printed wrappers. SIGNED by Rexroth on the front cover. Useful reference work. Friends of the UCLA Library paperback books
19225846London Longmans Green and Co. 1922. 1922. First edition. Small 4to. Color frontispiece; title vignette and 17 b/w illustrations including facsimiles. Title page printed in red and black. Bibliography. Original full tan buckram gilt stamped spine and upper cover upper cover ruled in blind. Very good. Bookplate of R. W. Cidwick on the front pastedown. 243 pages. Notable for the extensive bibliography covering both manuscript and printed herbals from the 9th through the early 19th centuries particularly in England but also including "foreign" i.e. European imprints 1470-1678. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1922. hardcover books
19362347.2Letchworth: Privately Printed 1936. 1st ed NCBEL III 782. Stiff green wrappers. Pictorial paste-down of Boz on front wrapper. VG some soiling & edgewear/faint foxing to prelims. 108 pp illustrated sm. 4to. <br/><br/>Sawyer a prominent collector from the early 20th c. Privately Printed unknown books
1913829.2New York: The Grolier Club 1913. 1st edition. Cream printed wrappers. VG minor soiling to wrappers/sp darkened/number '13' written pencil in upper left corner of front wrapper. 220 pp 8vo. <br/><br/> The Grolier Club unknown books
198321100London: Mansell Publishing Limited 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. 260 pp thorough bibliography of the poet Ted Hughes' output between 1946 and 1980. A near fine copy in dustwrapper. SIGNED by illustrator Leonard Baskin who provides the cover artwork. <br/><br/> Mansell Publishing Limited hardcover books
195141678London: Hutchinson & Co. 1951. Very good condition in dust jacket. 4to.xvii 443 pp. b/w plates. Hutchinson & Co. books
19398457.1New York: Privately Printed from Lyle Stuart 1939. 1st edition thus. Red cloth lettered in gold. Slipcase with printed pink onlay to one side. A NF copy in a VG slipcase which shows some seam wear & has a sun-tanned spine. 80 pp frontis 8vo. <br/><br/>A useful bibliography of this oft reprinted work of Twain's listing 44 different editions. Privately Printed from Lyle Stuart hardcover books
198329724No Place: McPherson & Company A Docementext Publication 1983. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Simultaneous first paperbound edition. Oblong bound wrappers. 90 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Useful bibliography of the Press started by fluxus writer Dick Higgins. Light spotting to the inside rear cover else a handsome very good copy. McPherson & Company A Docementext Publication paperback books
19771320774London: Thames and Hudson 1977. Hardcover. Quarto; pp 318; VG-/G-; sunned red spine with black text; black slipcase shows heavy tape mends to corners; slight sunfading to exterior; few chips to edges; dust jacket has chips to corners; light toning to exterior edges; cloth shows very light wear to exterior; strong boards; text block shows minimal wear to exterior edges; interior clean; pictorial endpapers; frontispiece; profusely illustrated; arts - Scandinavian; Dutch; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders;. 1320774. FP New Rockville Stock. Thames and Hudson hardcover books
198111659Georgetown CA: Talisman Literary Research 1981. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. 63 pp. Reminiscences provided by Elizabeth Brown and Harry Altshuler. Very good condition. A useful bibliographical reference for brown's mystery and science fiction output. <br/><br/> Talisman Literary Research paperback books
19127498New York: The Grolier Club 1912. Printed buff wrappers. Gd wrappers show some soiling & edgewear/top of spine has 1/4" pc msg. 103 pp 12mo. <br/><br/>Printed at the De Vinne Press. The Grolier Club unknown books
19304042Los Angeles: Los Angeles Public Library 1930. First Edition. 16pp Sextodecimo 15 cm Stapled tan printed wrappers printed in black. Very good. Rare bibliographical checklist of 100 works on California compiled by the Adult Education Department of the Los Angeles Public Library. Each entry contains the title author publisher year Dewey Decimal number and a brief synopsis. Introduction by Laura C. Cooley. Nice linocut illustration on the cover.<br/><br/>Sections on: California History; Before the Spaniards Came; Spanish Period to 1822; American Period 1846; O Pioneers!; El Camino Real; Nature's Garden; Animal Life; Houses and Gardens; California Sidelights<br/><br/>"On the shores of the Western Sea is a land called California. High mountains valleys deserts and a long coastline make this land." - from the Introduction. Los Angeles Public Library unknown books
