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A9781167763786New. unknown
B9781167763786New. unknown
1167763785.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1900419528Vicenza : R. Tipografia - G. Burato 1900. 1st edition. Softcover. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 25 unnumbered pages 26 cm. Notes: ""Statuto degli Osti della Citta de Vicenza"" and other texts commemorating the nuptials of Segato and Zambini. Subjects: Vicenza Italy; Weddings; Nuptial Ceremonies Italy; Local History. Vicenza : R. Tipografia - G. Burato paperback
0484158155.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1347427171.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1992DEMO012900ISherman Oaks CA: D'Ambrosio 1992. First Limited edition. hardcover. Fine. Josephp D'AMBROSIO's serigraphs. Octavo 24pp. crenellated spine paper label aqua spine floral boards. <br/><br/>A Livre d'Artiste by D'Ambrosio. Introd. by Patrick Magarick. Limited to 85 copies on handmade papers by Madeleine Pestiaux. Villiers de L'Isle Adam a French contemporary to de Maupassant and Huysmans is best known for his CONTES CRUELS. D'Ambrosio designed hand-set printed and bound this work. "D'Ambrosio is a book artist of individual books. As his aim is not to break tradition in and of itself heis not avant-garde. His goal is to make beautiful books and there is never any doubt that the object he creates is just that. His work is so outstanding that I have never seen anything like it in a lifetime of book collecting -Magarick." In this work he has set most of the text pages into three-dimensional framed borders in a self-boxed format. D'Ambrosio hardcover
1960045034New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Xiii Xiv. Brown Cloth Spine Tan Cloth Covered Boards Gilt. First Edition Stated. First Printing. Berenson 1865-1959 Was Best Known As An Art Expert But "His Magnificent Assemblage Of Books Some Forty Thousand Volumes Chosen Over The Decades Remains His Ultimate Monument. This Great Collection One Of The World's Finest Private Libraries He Bequeathed - Along With I Tatti His Estate Itself- To Harvard University." See Dj. A Short Or Long Paragraph About 365 Books What We Are Never Assigned To Read But Would Read If We Knew Enough To Be Fully Aware Of Them Although Some Would Be Difficult To Obtain In English Translation. <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1670<p><strong>Lovely "oriental" type samples from one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions.</strong></p><p><strong>Very rare: WorldCat traces only one copy</strong> in Uni. California Santa Barbara. No copy traced in the Italian Union catalogue OPAC SBN.</p><p>In 1611 Galileo Galilei became a member of the Italian "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed" founded just a few years before in 1603 with a focus on natural sciences and mathematics.<br />In the late 19th c. the Accademia dei Lincei became "Reale" growing into a famous centre of studies which would soon host the greatest scholars such as Pasteur Einstein Mommsen and others. As its programme was expanded with many humanitarian disciplines including Oriental studies the Reale Accademia published this elegant booklet with relatively new samples of Sanskrit Armenian Syriac Samaritan Arabic Turkish and Persian Aramaic Hieroglyphic Coptic Chinese Greek and Russian types in two sizes.<br />As the introduction states the Academy's press was in reality the Tipografia Salviucci founded in 1747 and renamed in 1885.</p><p>Description<br />Small 4to 25.5 x 17.5 cm. First blank leaf title printed in red and black and within ornamental framed and 29 pp. printed on recto only text within decorative frames.<br />Binding<br />Original light grey wrappers printed in reddish brown bound in contemporary marbled boards flat spine with red label with gilt lettering.<br />Condition<br />Covers lightly rubbed at extremities spine a bit faded and worn with old paper repair to upper half wrappers a bit spotted; except some minimal light browning at the very edge of pages a fresh copy internally.</p> R. Accademia dei Lincei, Roma, 1889. hardcover
1948051894Alfred A. Knopf 1948. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 235 Pp. Tan Cloth Stamped In Brown. First Edition Stated. Very Near Fine. Dust Jacket Price Clipped With Publisher's Stamped $2.75 Net Price Light Wear A Few Short Tears At Edges Some Fading To Spine Panel. <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1868BB0846Eton / London: Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin Marshall 1868. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Edition of apparently the first field guide to birds to use photographs as illustrations. 8vo: xiv2232pp with four hand-colored and varnished albumen photographs of stuffed birds mounted on heavy card stock. "It was impossible at the time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely sensitive plates that would permit short exposures." Goldschmidt & Naef Publisher's forest-green pebble-grained cloth spine and upper cover with bird vignettes in gilt spine lettered and ruled in gilt chocolate coated end papers. A Fine tight square copy clean crisp text the photographs vibrant with deep rich colors. Provenance: Book plate of Henry Neville Gladstone third son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Binder's ticket of James Burn & Co. Kirby St. to rear paste-down. Gernsheim 436. Truthful Lens 96. Margolis & Moss 24. The author was only age 16 when he published this "contribution to the natural history of two counties" in which Kennedy identified no less than 225 species of birds. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin, Marshall unknown
18930006882London & Boston: Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo decorated boards October 1893 Elkin Mathews catalogue at rear tips of spine chipped rebacked with original spine laid down top board bumped front endpaper reattached with archival tape. Ex libris Francis Wilson famed actor and bibliophile. Scarce <br/><br/>One of only 500 copies of the first printing of Thompson's first book. Kraus 5 . " Robert Frost took a book off the shelf in the front sitting room and said 'You should have this.' It was the copy of Francis Thompson's POEMS to which Robert made frequent reference over the years in his readings and lectures - Jack Hagstrom in the Dartmouth College Library Bulletin April l1996." Thompson was a lauded poet clearly with the distinction too of being a nominee as Jack The Ripper ! Co-published by Copeland & Day in its first year of operation. Frontispiece and cover design by Laurence Housman. Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day hardcover
1960006534New York Crown Publishers 1960 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 238 p. illus. part col. fold. maps plans. 28 cm. ; LCCN: 60-15395 ; LC: DG70.P7; N5769; Dewey: 913.377 ; OCLC: 1221384 ; beige with grey lettering ; no dustjacket ; ex-lib stamps label ; Contents : History of Pompeii -- The volcano roused -- The dead cities revived -- Pompeii formerly and today -- Business work and recreation -- The life of the people -- The Pompeiians at home -- The necropolis -- Art at Pompeii and Herculaneum -- Conclusion ; "The object of this book is to represent in as complete and precise a way as possible the form and aspect of Pompeii and Herculaneum and the life led by their inhabitants at the period when that existence was brutally cut short by the eruption of Vesuvius wiping out these two cities in AD 79." ; 132 illustrations some in monochrome and color ; VG <br/> <br/> New York, Crown Publishers, 1960 hardcover
19980006071International Paper Co. post 1998. Loose_leaf. Very Good. Theo Van Doesburg & 73 others. 8vo 78 loose leaves in alphabetical sequence - including Unknown and ending with Hermann Zapf in a paper chemise in a die-cut paper slipcase; Note: one leaf stained on verso; also this set has 3 duplicate plates. VERY SCARCE. <br/><br/>An international collection of 74 twentieth century typographers callligraphers artists designers contributed this series of works which is now in the permanent collection of the Guttenberg Museum after being exhibited in Europe Latin America and finally the U.S.A. International Paper Co. unknown
18594841Cincinnati OH : Cincinnati Type-Foundry 1859. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo contemporary clothy <br/><br/>X-library Mt. St. Mary's Seminary with perforated title-page some water-stains. Bigmore & Wyman I 448; St. Bridge p.576; ATF Library p.1508. De Vinne owned a copy of this. Cincinnati Type-Foundry hardcover
19901571San Francisco: The Wodehouse Society. Fine. 1990. Softcover. Printed by Doug and Margaret Stow at The Paper Crane Press. 8 pp.; 12mo; stapled wrappers. With autograph presentation note on both sides of a printed card from printer Doug Stow to two colleagues laid in. . The Wodehouse Society paperback
19866969Los Angeles: The Chappel. Fine. 1986. Limited Edition. Softcover. Six printed items enclosed in printed folded 'Table of Contents' without box. Including: THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS PRINTERS 12 woodcuts by Herschel Logan reprinted by Jack Conway on 4 3/8" x 4 6/8" cards with text on verso in original envelope. WHAT IS TYPE by O. A. Owen reprinted by Richard Hoffman in a booklet; 12mo; green card wraps. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO YES PLEASE by Ernest Linder on a printed card. A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR by Edgar Guest reprinted by Ethan Lipton in a small booklet. TOM PARKER'S HOT METAL FONTS 25" x 4.5" printed sheet laminated and folded into 4 parts. WELL PRINTED BOOKS by George Bernard Shaw reprinted on a card by Clyde Stoneman. . The Chappel paperback
19846968Los Angeles: The Chappel. Fine. 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 152 pp. in various paging sections; 8vo; red cloth; illustrations portraits. Limited to 125 copies. Group publishing venture including: Daniel Berkeley Updike advises Henry Watson Kent on machine composition / Daniel Berkeley Updike ; printed for John Bidwell and Andrea Immel by Patrick Reagh Printers -- America's first civilized man Benjamin Franklin / by Richard J. Hoffman ; printed by Jack M. Conway -- Lahaina's historic House of Printing / by Tom Horton ; printed by Jack M. Leibel -- Stoneman's raid / by Bill Moore ; printed by Clyde Lee Stoneman -- Two stories / by Laura Remson Mitchell ; printed by Gary Marc Remson -- A reprint of a reprint / by William Morris ; reprinted by Tom Parker -- On being found out by William Makepeace Thackerey ; printed by John Urabec . The Chappel hardcover
0666390436.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
028231122X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19770008484Boston: David R. Godine 1977. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio 406 pages half red morocco cloth raised bands of spine scuffed in matching publisher's slipcase in near-fine condition. <br/><br/>Copy no. 378 of only 400 in the Collector's Edition each with an original lithograph by Lansdowne signed commissioned only for this issue. Printed by Martino Mardersteig on Magnani of Pescia for this edition. Colophon signed by Ripley and Lansdowne. David R. Godine hardcover
0282115013.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0656946733.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0666574820.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1997008269New York : Monacelli Press 1997 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 261 pages : color illustrations color maps ; 32 cm ; ISBN: 1885254571; 9781885254573 LCCN: 97-18503 ; LC: NA7755; Dewey: 728.8/2/094562 ; OCLC: 222392275 ; red cloth with gold lettering in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Roman villas and gardens: The Campagna of Lazio -- Hadrian's Villa: Tivoli -- Villa d'Este: Tivoli -- Palazzo Farnese: Caprarola -- Villa Lante: Bagnaia -- Villa Orsini: Bomarzo -- Fonte Papacqua: Soriano nel Cimino -- Castello Ruspoli: Vignanello -- Palazzo Odescalchi: Bassano Romano -- Villa Aldobrandini: Frascati -- Villa Grazioli: Frascati -- Giardino Caetani: Ninfa -- Giardino Portoghesi: Calcata ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Monacelli Press, 1997 hardcover