3 508 résultats
198033597Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow 1980. First edition numbered & signed issue. 59 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and paper label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited with an introduction and note by Seamus Cooney. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Miller. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, hardcover books
195049271Paris: Obelisk Press 1950. Second edition first combined clothbound edition. 634 pp. Very near fine in full sahara brown cloth. No dust jacket no example seen by the bibliographers. Shifreen & Jackson A76c. Paris: Obelisk Press hardcover books
194448551Berkeley: Bern Porter 1944. First US edition third edition overall. 12mo. 24 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Ten words blacked-out by the publisher as a condition of publication. Shifreen & Jackson A10c. Berkeley: Bern Porter unknown books
199145179Big Sur: Peeramid Press 1991. First edition limited issue. Oblong 8vo. viii 87 pp. Fine in full leatherette with gilt stamping to spine and front cover. No dust jacket as issued. Fully-illustrated. SIGNED by Cross on the title page with the addition of a holograph colophon on the front free endpaper “Collector’s Limited Edition of 200. This is copy number 59. Robert Cross. Big Sur.†Big Sur: Peeramid Press hardcover books
1993WRCLIT72223Ann Arbor & Glen Arm: Published by the Compilers 1993. xxi510224pp. plus plates. Large thick octavo. Gilt cloth. A few light pencil notes otherwise near fine without dust jacket as issued. First edition. Brief Preface by the subject. One of 1000 copies of which this is one of 730 trade copies in the US issue. The indispensible and frequently bibliographically idiosyncratic guide to the Miller canon. A supplementary volume appeared in 1994. Published by the Compilers] hardcover books
1939041142Santurce PR: Carrefour 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. A nice bright copy of the first volume of correspondence. Paper clip mark and slight rust to rear cover and a few pages in the appendix otherwise unmarked. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 041142. <br/><br/> Carrefour paperback books
1963D14183San Francisco: Ahab Press 1963. Paperback. Very Good. Staple-bound mimeographed typescript decorative paper front cover with cut-out window showing the title; oblong 12mo 180x216mm; unpaginated approx. pp. 50 typed on the recto only. Decorative paper front cover a little wrinkled and chipped along the edges; text block a little rubbed at corners; shallow crease across the middle throughout. Presumably a very limited print run now rather scarce. <br/><br/> Ahab Press paperback books
1962123002privately printed 1962. Hardbound. Fair. Some wrinkling to a few pages. Has not been taken the best care of during it's existence. Bound into a heavy duty binder. 235 photocopied pages with some illustrations. This is a copy of the author's thesis for a Masters of Arts from the University of Delaware. privately printed hardcover books
174017775London: Pr. for T. Cooper 1740. Folio. 2 14 2 blank pp. lacking half-title. <br><br>Satire on Sir Robert Walpole. A number of issues some pirated appeared in 1740; this appears to be one of the early imprints. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â ESTC T22371; Foxon M234. Rough copy. Removed from a nonce volume. Half-title lacking. Last text page stamped by a now-defunct institution. Pages cockled and age-toned with a few early inked marginalia partially shaved. Pr. for T. Cooper unknown books
198665950Santa Barbara:: Black Sparrow Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0876856091 . First edition. Near fine in a near fine acetate dust jacket. ; 323 pages . Black Sparrow Press, hardcover books
1893WRCLIT62197Cambridge & Chicago: Stone & Kimball 1893. Small octavo. Slate cloth decorated in gilt t.e.g. others untrimmed. One leaf carelessly opened at fore-edge with old marginal mend otherwise a near fine bright copy. First edition ordinary issue. One of five hundred copies from a total edition of 550. A utopian prose-romance featuring a successful technological and religious community in the desert and another experiment near San Francisco that fails. KRAMER 6. BAL 13830. WRIGHT III:3737. LEWIS p.124. NEGLEY 789. BLEILER p.140. Stone & Kimball hardcover books
18711401Boston: Roberts Bros 1871. 1st edition Issue A sheets; binding B. BAL 13751. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt design of a bear on front cover. Nr. Fine sp ever-so-slightly darkened/sm black spot on spine cloth/gilt bright. A nice copy. 299 pp sm 8vo. <br/><br/>One of Merle Johnson's High Spots of American Literature. Roberts Bros hardcover books
192327412New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1923. 1st edition BAL 13915. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine & front board. Printed grey-paper dust jacket. A Nr Fine book in the scarce jacket with has a 1" piece lacking at the top of the spine panel affects title lettering. xii 587 pp including Index. Frontis of Miller from a pre-1890 photography. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
198887398Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1988. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. index xxx 770p. Hardcover. dj. 23cm. Jacket has just a small hint of wear. <br/><br/> University of Wisconsin Press hardcover books
2010106900Ann Arbor MI: Legacy Press 2010. cloth dust jacket. Bookbinding. 8vo. cloth dust jacket. 528 pages 374 illustrations. Books Will Speak Plain is published at a time when the historical book is at risk of being ignored put away and forgotten. This handbook combines an overview of the history of the codex with basic information about many of the materials and structures found on historical bindings. The book also includes description-survey guidelines and is supported by a variety of appendices. The book's focus on primarily non-luxury bindings adds depth to an often-neglected segment of the history of bookbinding.<BR><br /> Preservation is at the heart of Books Will Speak Plain. We have already lost too many historical bindings because their importance was not understood and appreciated. This book is a call to action to urge custodians of every kind of historical book collection public and private to assess the physical character of the historical bindings in their care and record the changes that have accrued to those bindings during their passage through time.<BR><br /> This book is a resource that can be used to recognize binding variations that have long been overlooked and to document such bindings for future scholars. All bibliophiles including book-binders curators private collectors librarians catalogers antiquarian book-sellers scholars of the book and conservators will find this an invaluable reference. Books Will Speak Plain is also a useful textbook for students enrolled in academic courses in the history of the book and book conservation and in practical bookbinding. Photography: J. Wayne Jones - Drawings: Pamela Spitzmueller. Legacy Press unknown books
2017132192Ann Arbor MI: Legacy Press 2017. cloth dust jacket. Bookbinding. 4to. cloth dust jacket. 350 pages. The six essays in this volume are:<BR><br /> <BR><br /> Ashley Cataldo: Catalog of the Finishing Tools of the Eighteenth-Century Binder Henry Bilson Legge<BR><br /> <BR><br /> Jana Dambrogio: Tricketts Tickets<BR><br /> <BR><br /> Gary Frost: Book Interventions: Books Remade by Use<BR><br /> <BR><br /> Marieka Kaye: Diamond in the Rough: A Study of Kelmscott Quarter-Holland Bindings<BR><br /> <BR><br /> Emily Martin and Alice Austin: Book Theater: The History of the Tunnel Book<BR><br /> <BR><br /> Roger Williams: Scaleboard Wood and Potential Loss Replacement. Legacy Press unknown books
2005145068New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2005. Octavo boards. First edition hardcover issue. A collection of eleven essays with bibliography and index. "Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy a necessary evil or visionary pioneers By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings BAD GIRLS OF JAPAN maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches murderers performance artists cartoonists schoolgirls and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain." -- from publisher's website. A fine copy. #145068 Palgrave Macmillan unknown books
192228927New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1922. First edition. Cloth. Small puncture on spine borders soiled edges foxed still a very good copy leaves clean and images bright. In a clear archival jacket. viii 225 pp. Illus. with 4 b/w plates. Sm. 8vo. The story of Amazon jungle inhabitants including Suma the Jaguar and her black cub Warruk. Leo E Miller was a mammologist at the American Museum of Natural History who accompanied Teddy Roosevelt to South America and author of 'In the Tiger's Lair' and 'The Hidden People.' Four illustrations by Aiden Lassell Ripley American artist 1896-1969. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1968219754Dublin: Dolmen Press 1968. Limited. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Preface by John Stallworthy. A collection of twelve papers published separately between March 1965 and April 1968. Illustrated 523 pages orange cloth d.w.board slipcase. Dublin: Dolmen Press 1968. First Edition. Near Fine.<br/><br/> One of 850 copies signed by the editor.<br/><br/> Dolmen Press unknown books
197572042Stanford:: Stanford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0804708703 . First edition. Trace foxing on edges and endpapers else very good in a very good dust jacket.; 290 pages . Stanford University Press, hardcover books
1933197523Chicago Book House for Children; New York Doubleday 1933. 1933. First edition "November 1933". Large 8vo. Over 50 b/w illustrations; endpaper map and jacket design by Mariel Wilhoite. Dust jacket unclipped; few nicks. Very good. 37 tales of growing up in the American Midwest of the 1890's spefically the town of Waubansie Illinois. F. Hardcover. Chicago, Book House for Children; New York, Doubleday, 1933. hardcover books
19295873Chicago and Toronto: Bookhouse for children 1929-1933. Very Good/Intended as graduated readings these sets have become popular texts for home schooling. The earliest editions of 'My Book History' were issued in four rather hefty volumes. In the interest of producing sturdier books that would last through several upbringings Miller changed to an 8-volume format around 1930. 4 volumes in 8. Beginnings Explorations Conquests New Nations. Each volume in two parts. Illustrated endleaves; four-color lithograph illustrations throughout. Bound in green textured cloth each volume with an illustrated plate mounted to upper board. Covers generally very good with noticeable edge wear; mounted illustrations scuffed. All volumes sound and entire. Bookhouse for children hardcover books
1979291656Campbell.: Solar Cross Foundation. 1979. 1st Edition #76 of an unspecified limitation. Color pictorial wraps. Good wear and creasing to covers contents very good. 28x21 cm. Inscribed and signed by the author on the first page. weight: 2.2 lb. Solar Cross Foundation. paperback books
1975156445Boston: Gregg Press 1975. Octavo cloth. Later edition. Text offset from that of the 1960 Lippincott edition. New introduction by Norman Spinrad. 1961 Hugo award winner. "600 years after an atomic deluge the Age of Simplification reigns supreme but a development to new civilization follows." - Gerber Utopian Fantasy 1973 p. 160. "Named by many as best SF novel of the modern period." - Anatomy of Wonder 1987 3-287. Anatomy of Wonder 1995 3-125 and 2004 II-766. Pringle Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 30. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 288-93. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #156445 Gregg Press unknown books
197840323Boston: Gregg Press 1978. Octavo cloth. First combined edition. Combines CONDITIONALLY HUMAN 1962 and THE VIEW FROM THE STARS 1965 the two collections comprising ten short stories and two short novels including "The Darfsteller" winner of the 1955 Hugo award. New introduction by David Samuelson. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-767. See Survey of Science Fiction Literature I pp. 423-27. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #40323 Gregg Press unknown books
