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195533814The Hague: Koninklijke Bibliotheek 1955. First edition 8vo pp. xi 5 342; original light brown wrappers lettered in green on front cover and spine; soiled and creased with small portions of the spine chipped away not affecting lettering and the joints tender and cracked; still overall good and sound with a previous owner's penciled notations scattered throughout. A record of 6493 items forming one of the largest institutional collections of chess books. As the collection grew this reference was supplemented in 1974 and in 1988 it was reprinted. Koninklijke Bibliotheek unknown
196536758New York: Readex Microprint 1965. 25 leaves of fiche text reproducing 100 leaves of the original per leaf; housed in red buckram box with white pasted labels; very good. <br/><br/> Readex Microprint hardcover books
195533814The Hague: Koninklijke Bibliotheek 1955. First edition 8vo pp. xi 5 342; original light brown wrappers lettered in green on front cover and spine; soiled and creased with small portions of the spine chipped away not affecting lettering and the joints tender and cracked; still overall good and sound with a previous owner's penciled notations scattered throughout. A record of 6493 items forming one of the largest institutional collections of chess books. As the collection grew this reference was supplemented in 1974 and in 1988 it was reprinted. <br/><br/> Koninklijke Bibliotheek unknown books
198827901Monaco: Sotheby's 1988. 4to pp. 205 12; color illustrations throughout; original green cloth gilt pictorial dust-jacket; corners bumped else near fine. 392 lots with prices realized tipped-in on rear endpaper. <br/><br/> Sotheby's hardcover books
237049Paris: Pierre Beres. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Catalogue 75. No pencil or ink markings in text. Text in French. Silver colored paper binding with light edgewear to extremities; Not Ex-Libary. Very Good binding. Pierre Beres unknown books
197237853Paris: George Blaizot Claude Guérin 1972. 4 volumes of 5 folio; color photographic frontispieces to Volumes 1 3 and 4 illustrations and facsimiles many full-page and tipped in throughout 46 plates of illustrations in Volume 3; original green cloth gilt edges slightly sunned else fine; interiors fine. The first 4 auction catalogues of a 5-part auction that was held from 1972 to 1974. Volume 1: Manuscrits a peintures livres des XVe et XVI siècles. Avant-propos de Jacques Guignard. This sale largely focused on early bindings including those adorned with the coat of arms of François I Henri II Catherine de Medicis Diane de Poitiers Charles IX Henri III Henri IV J. Grolier and many others. Volume 2: Douze tableaux synoptiques sur la reliure au XVIIIe siècle. Avant-propos M. R. Esmerian. Volume 3: Livres illustrés du XVIIIe siècle. Exemplaires uniques contentant des desseins originaux.et de rarissimes suites d'eaux-fortes pures d'avant-lettre et de gravures en tirage a part. Très belles reliures aux armes et provenances célèbres. Volume 4: Livres illustrés du XIXe siècles. <br/><br/> George Blaizot, Claude Guérin hardcover books
197237853Paris: George Blaizot Claude Guérin 1972. 4 volumes of 5 folio; color photographic frontispieces to Volumes 1 3 and 4 illustrations and facsimiles many full-page and tipped in throughout 46 plates of illustrations in Volume 3; original green cloth gilt edges slightly sunned else fine; interiors fine. The first 4 auction catalogues of a 5-part auction that was held from 1972 to 1974. Volume 1: Manuscrits a peintures livres des XVe et XVI siècles. Avant-propos de Jacques Guignard. This sale largely focused on early bindings including those adorned with the coat of arms of François I Henri II Catherine de Medicis Diane de Poitiers Charles IX Henri III Henri IV J. Grolier and many others. Volume 2: Douze tableaux synoptiques sur la reliure au XVIIIe siècle. Avant-propos M. R. Esmerian. Volume 3: Livres illustrés du XVIIIe siècle. Exemplaires uniques contentant des desseins originaux.et de rarissimes suites d'eaux-fortes pures d'avant-lettre et de gravures en tirage a part. Très belles reliures aux armes et provenances célèbres. Volume 4: Livres illustrés du XIXe siècles. George Blaizot, Claude Guérin unknown
1993005759Boston: Boston Magazine 1993. Collector's Edition Program from Larry Bird Night - Bird: A Basketball Legend 4to size staplebound booklet; 32 glossy pages with color and a few black and white photographs. Front cover is a color illustration of Larry Bird done by famed sports artist LeRoy Neiman 1921-2012. The back cover is a full-page advertisement of Converse sneakers through the years. There is no table of contents but the articles include "The Ten Greatest Games Larry Bird Played In" and "The Championship Years." There are some small creases on the front cover near the staple binding a light crease on the back cover and light wear to the bottom front corner. . Stapled. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Private Press. Boston Magazine Paperback
1916003715New York: The University of the State of New York State Museum 1916. Reading copy with much wear and tear. Full page color plates by L.A. Fuertes. Marginalia lovers dream. It appears that the owner of this book used it to document in almost diary form throughout book what appears to be more than 20 years of bird watching from 1931 to 1953 with dated notes throughout: on blank pages reverso of plates etc even laid in sheets. Book has numerous flaws with serious wear and tear to cloth covers. Cloth is peeling from front boards and there is a split the length of front spine. Shaken. Multiple sheets laid in front of book were cello taped and are now loose and the cello tape has left a dark stain. There is evidence on about six pages in front of insect or rodent nibbling on bottom corner these are actually laid in lone pages not pages from the actual book. The color plates are bright but some have fingermarks or light foxed spots at least one page has ink transfer from the previous page. There are some plates with notes or marginalia on reverse. Cloth. Reading Copy/No Jacket. Illus. by Fuertes L.A. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The University of the State of New York State Museum Hardcover
187525443n.p. n.d. 1875. Large 4to album containing approx. 24 leaves of stiff card with 6 mounted or laid in watercolors on 5 sheets each measuring approx. 7 x 5" each by the same artist and of a fairly professional nature each looking to be of the French or German countryside; the binding of full vellum covers with floral gilt border enclosing a set of double rules in red gilt central fleuron on upper cover smooth spine with 6 elaborate gilt fillets all edges red; generally fine. unknown
187525442n.p. n.d. 1875. 4to consisting of approx. 100 leaves bound in full red morocco heavily gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments the covers with elaborate gilt border enclosing a second border with gilt motif in the corners and a central panel within repeating the motif and with the initials "A.C." in an inner circle of gilt; brass hasps and lock silk moiré endpapers with gilt border rolls a.e.g.; very good and sound or better. unknown
187525443n.p. n.d. 1875. Large 4to album containing approx. 24 leaves of stiff card with 6 mounted or laid in watercolors on 5 sheets each measuring approx. 7 x 5" each by the same artist and of a fairly professional nature each looking to be of the French or German countryside; the binding of full vellum covers with floral gilt border enclosing a set of double rules in red gilt central fleuron on upper cover smooth spine with 6 elaborate gilt fillets all edges red; generally fine. <br/><br/> hardcover books
187525442n.p. n.d. 1875. 4to consisting of approx. 200 leaves bound in full red morocco heavily gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments the covers with elaborate gilt border enclosing a second border with gilt motif in the corners and a central panel within repeating the motif and with the initials "A.C." in an inner circle of gilt; brass hasps and lock silk moiré endpapers with gilt border rolls a.e.g.; very good and sound or better. <br/><br/> unknown books
1852434951852. Folio unpaged over 500 pages; contemporary blind-tooled reverse calf edged in gilt-ruled calf red and black gilt morocco spine labels "Military Abstract Act 1852" marbled endpapers; edges rubbed and worn small loss to spine head; interior about fine. Printed at head of each double-page: "Monthly Abstract of locations on Public Lands 'subject to private entry' made for the month ending blank at the Land Office at blank on Military Land Warrant Certificates issued pursuant to the Act of Con0gress entitled 'An act to make Land Warrants assignable and for other purposes' approved March 22 1852." All leaves blank save two frustratingly enough somewhere in the middle of the textblock with entries dated 1856 and 1859. <br/><br/> unknown books
1756037827London 1756. Original Art Work . Single Sheet. Very Good. Pencil Drawing Dated 1756 Indecipherable Text. Part Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings And Other Art Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. <br/> <br/> unknown
1979009199Los Angeles: The Club. 1979. Book. Fine. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 6 1/2" x 5 1/4". RARE. SIGNED by distinguished UCLA librarian Lawrence Clark Powell and dated by him 4-3-79 at verso of front cover. Printed for the first dinner meeting at Les Fre`res Taix . February 6 1979.WorldCat in an unnumbered likely small edition given that the founding members listed at final page numbered only 15. 6 1/2" x 5 1/4" no publication information 8 unnumbered pages bound in beige pictorial wrappers of handmade paper. OCLC notes copies held by The Grolier Club Book Club of California and the Huntington Library. [The Club]. Paperback
197042438Heidelberg: University Library Heidelberg 1970. First edition 8vo pp. 53 2; Special exhibition on the occasion of the visit of the Grolier Club of New York; fine in original gray printed stiff wrappers backed in orange cloth. <br/><br/> University Library Heidelberg hardcover books
194310060New York Public Library 1943. Only edition 8vo xiii-xiv & 573-575pp. frontis portrait of Lydenberg; fine copy in orig. maroon cloth without a dust-jacket as issued. Contributed essays on varied aspects of books and the book trade by authors such as Lawrence Wroth Randolph G. Adams Charles Eberstat H.L. Mencken Emily Skeel Margaret Stillwell Charles Goodspeed George Parker Winship Archibald MacLeish and John Mulholland. <br/><br/> hardcover books
189511255591251895. Book. Very Good. No Binding. no publisher no date original circa 1895 engraved pictorial bookplate measuring 10.5 x 8 cm on tinted paper with black ink. A room is pictured a lit fireplace with a picture hung above it.Next to the fireplace a bookshelf filled with books. portrait of a man hanging on the wall. There's an empty chair facing the fire. The bookplate says "Ex Libris Henry C. Bernheim" This image has a calligraphic border frame. Edwin Davis French was an American bookplate engraver who produced at least 330 engravings beginning in 1893. . unknown
198422090New York: Grolier Club 1984. First edition ltd. to 1000 copies 8vo pp. ix 3 146; fine in orig. yellow cloth and glassine jacket. Papers presented at the Centennial Convocation by Mary Hyde Thomas Tanselle Frank Stella Robert Giroux & others. <br/><br/> Grolier Club hardcover books
198422883New York: Grolier Club 1984. First edition ltd. to 1000 copies 8vo pp. ix 3 146; near fine in orig. yellow cloth. Papers presented at the Centennial Convocation by Mary Hyde Thomas Tanselle Frank Stella Robert Giroux & others. <br/><br/> Grolier Club hardcover books
198550932Andoversford Gloucestershire: Whittington Press 1985. Large 8vo unpaginated; black and white illustrations throughout wood engravings linocuts; original purple pictorial wrappers printed in blue and black; fine. Titles from the Press include a reprint of "Matrix 1" as well as "Matrix 3"; and "The Wood-engravings of Gwenda Morgan." List of titles still available provided. Integral order form. <br/><br/> Whittington Press unknown books
198852013Andoversford Gloucestershire 1988. Large 8vo pp. 15 1; ; illustrations printed in tan throughout wood engravings line drawings linocuts; original coral pictorial wrappers printed in tan and black; fine. Titles from the Press include "Matrix 8" and Caroline Martin's "Lap Games and other songs for children." Integral order form bound in back. <br/><br/> unknown books
198852014Andoversford Gloucestershire 1988. Large 8vo pp. 16; illustrations throughout wood engravings tip-ins printed in red and black; original mauve pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; fine. Titles from the Press include John Bidwell's Fine Papers at the Oxford University Press and David Butcher's British Private Press Prospectuses 1890-1990. Integral order form bound in back. <br/><br/> unknown books
18019112Boaton: John Russell & James Cutler 1801. Periodical. Very Good. The original newspaper disbound from a folio. 4 pp. on laid paper vg; minimal foxing. Typeface is still using the 18th-century long 's'. Has a long editorial by 'Americanus' addressed "To the President of the United States". <br/> <br/> John Russell & James Cutler unknown
