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By: N/A
Price: $1,500.00
Publisher: Netherlands,
Seller ID: 2285
A wonderful collection of bookseller labels from the Netherlands, primarily from the early- to mid-1900s, with a few marks from the late 19th Century, and a few modern examples. Arranged alphabetically by city (Aalsmeer, Aalten, Almelo, Amersfoort, Amstelveen, Amsterdam … Zeist, Zutphen, Zwolle), then by shop or surname (Felix P. Abrahamson, Abrahamson & Van Straaten, J.M. Alles, Boekhandel Ambon, Apollo Boekhandel, De Arbeiderspers, Barends’ Boekhandel…). After ... View more info
By: Adelman, Seymour; Kathleen T. Hunt
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum & Library: 1983
Edition: First printing
Seller ID: 1318
[A.S.W. Rosenbach] Adelman, Seymour; Kathleen T. Hunt. Rosenwald and Rosenbach: Two Philadelphia Bookmen. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum & Library, 1983, first printing. Card wraps, 15.3 by 22.7 cm, xxxii 40 pp. Very good with some very faint creases and marks on the front cover. An exhibition catalogue featuring highlights from the museum’s Rosenwald collections. First Edition. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, The Colophon (Pynson Printers, Inc.): 1931
Seller ID: 1993
Part Seven, 1931. Illustrated paper over boards, 21.9 by 27.2 cm, not paginated. Wear at the extremities, with rubbing and light scratches to the boards. Includes “Sunday in Marblehead,” a beautiful wood engraving by Thomas Nason. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, The Colophon (Pynson Printers, Inc.): 1932
Seller ID: 1994
Part Ten, 1932. Illustrated paper over boards, 21.9 by 27.2 cm, not paginated. Very good with light bumping to the extremities and light rubbing to the boards. Includes the first issue of The Colophon Crier (single sheet, printed recto only). We ship our books in boxes or cardboard wraps, never in bags. Bay Leaf Books (Member ABAA, ILAB, IOBA) is an open shop dedicated to offering fine books for discriminating readers. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, The Colophon (Pynson Printers, Inc.): 1932
Seller ID: 1995
Part Eleven, 1932. Illustrated paper over boards, 21.9 by 27.2 cm, not paginated. Very good with light bumping to the extremities and light rubbing to the boards. Includes the second issue of The Colophon Crier (single sheet, printed recto only). View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Pynson Printers, Inc.: 1939
Seller ID: 1996
New Graphic Series - Vol. 1, No. 1, 1939. Illustrated paper over boards, 21.8 by 27.2 cm, not paginated. Very good with light wear to the extremities, light rubbing to the boards, and a 2 by 4 cm stain with a smear of green paint (possibly a printing error). The interior has a few light spots of foxing, but the linoleum cut by Hans Alexander Mueller is clean. View more info
By: Anderson, James; Edward Grant, eds.
Price: $145.00
Publisher: Wilmington, DE, Hercules Powder Company Inc. (Paper makers Chemical Department): 1957-1963
Seller ID: 1803
Wilmington, DE: Hercules Powder Company Inc. (Paper makers Chemical Department), 1957-1963. Very Good. Thirteen bi-yearly journals, 1957-1963. Card wraps with plastic comb bindings, 21.8 by 27.8 cm, 36 to 68 pp. ea. Included are: Vol. 26 No. 2, 1957 (dampstains along the fore edge); Vol. 27 No. 1, 1958 (very good with cracks in the comb binding); Vol. 27 No. 2, 1958 (dampstains along the fore edge of the second half of the journal); Vol. 28 No. 1, 1959 (very good); ... View more info
By: Anderton, Basil
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Freeport, NY, Books for Libraroes Press: 1967
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 1304
Anderton, Basil. Fragrance Among Old Volumes: Essays and Idylls of a Book Lover. Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., 1967, reprint edition of the original 1910 Keegan Paul edition. Blue buckram with very faded gilt spine titles, 15 by 21.8 cm, xi 110 pp., illus. Faint cover wear and a small nick on the top edge of the back cover. Ten essays, including “Magliabecchi: The Great Florentine Bookman,” “Concerning the Book-Plates of Thomas Bewick,... View more info
By: Asaf, Allen; Lynda Wornom, compilers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Grolier: 1986
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 1295
Asaf, Allen; Lynda Wornom, compilers. Members of The Grolier Club 1884-1984. New York: The Grolier Club, 1986. Brown cloth with gilt spine titles and cover decorations, 12 by 21.5 cm, 189 pp. Fine. Includes an alphabetical list of members and chronological lists of officers, council members, and committees. First Edition. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Grolier: 1963
Edition: First printing
Seller ID: 1292
[Grolier Club] Austin, Gabriel, ed. The Grolier Club: Iter Italicum. New York: The Grolier Club, 1963, limited printing of 750 copies. Light brown cloth with gilt spine titles and Grolier emblem blindstamped on front cover, dust jacket, 17 by 24.3 cm, xxi [2] 298 pp., illus. Near fine with the exception of the writing (read on). The jacket is very good with a few edge tears, a chip out of the font flap crease, and sun fading on the spine. A commemorative volume ... View more info
By: Barclay, Julius, editor; Wallace Stegner
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Stanford, The Leland Stanford, Jr. University: 1960
Seller ID: 1874
2000 copies printed. Sew wraps with card covers, 15.5 by 23 cm, 62 pp. Near fine with only faint signs of wear to the wraps. No writing, highlighting, names, or other markings. We ship our books in boxes or cardboard wraps, never in bags. Bay Leaf Books (Member ABAA, ILAB, IOBA) is an open shop dedicated to offering fine books for discriminating readers. First Edition. View more info
By: Bibliographica
Price: $2,500.00
Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company, Limited: 1895—1897
Seller ID: 1931
Three volumes complete, in new three-quarter leather binding. Black cloth over boards with green goat spine and corners, black leather spine labels with gilt spine titles and gilt spine and cover accents, five raised spine bands, top edges gilt, 21 by 29.8 cm, viii 511 (1), viii 502 (1) plus tipped-in errata sheet, viii 511 pp. plus tipped-in errata sheet, 65 plates total. Bindings are fine; contents near fine with only the faintest signs of use. Originally issued in ... View more info
By: Blau, Mariana
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Privately Printed: 1993
Edition: Limited ed
Seller ID: 1347
[Miniature Book] Blau, Mariana. Béla Blau: Bookbinder, 1914-1993. Los Angeles: Privately Printed for Mariana Blau, and bound by her, 1993 limited edition of 150. Black leather with gilt spine and cover titles, 4 by 5.1 cm, viii 26 pp. Fine, as new. Created and distributed at the 1993 Grand Conclave as a memorial for the internationally-known miniature bookbinder Béla Blau. A beautiful and scarce volume. (case) First Edition. View more info
By: Boss, Thomas G.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Boston, Thomas G. Boss Fine Books: 2004
Edition: Limited ed
Seller ID: 1929
Boston: Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 2004. Limited ed. Very Good. 550 copies printed. Blue cloth with gilt titles and decorations, 23 by 31.2 cm, 137 pp. plus colophon, illus. Very good with some light scuff marks on the covers and minor bumping to the upper corner of the front cover. A stunning and scarce exhibition catalog, featuring examples from the bindery of Smith and Mansell, the Club Bindery, the Rowfant Bindery, the Booklover’s Shop, and the French binders... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1959
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 1950
Navy cloth with gilt spine titles, lacks dust jacket, 16 by 24 cm, vii 588 (2) with fold-out “Family Tree” of the Union. Light bumping to the extremities and a few small scratch marks; foxing and yellowing on the endpapers. Signed on the ffep: “With best wishes / Clement J. Bundock.” Much information on the day-to-day activities of book workers in England from the mid-19th Century through the first half of the 20th. Divided into five sections: “With the Boo... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Pasadena, Ampersand: 1947
Seller ID: 1321
Carpenter, Edwin H. Jr. Some Libraries We Have Not Visited: A Paper Read at the Rounce & Coffin Club, August 26, 1947. Pasadena, California: Ampersand Press, 1947. Staple-bound wraps in marbled overwrap with paper cover label, two tipped-in facsimiles of title pages, 8 pp. Light edge wear. Printed for members of the Zamorano Club, this essay looks at the history of imaginary and fictional libraries. First Edition. View more info
By: Chambre Syndicale des D’Art; Various
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Paris, Chambre Syndicale des Éditeurs du Livres D’Art: 1925-27
Seller ID: 1922
Première Année 1925, Deuxième Année 1926-1927, Troisième Année 1928-1929, the first volume is no. 1863 of a limited printing of 2000 and the third volume is no. 225 of 1800 printed; the second volume has no such designation. Plain sewn wraps in printed dust jackets, 25.5 by 32.7 cm, not paginated (624 pp. total), illus., 1 tipped-in plate. Chipping at the head and tails of the spine (especially the first volume). The binding of the second volume is shaken with t... View more info
By: Curwen, Henry; Leslie Shephard, intro.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Detroit, Gale: 1968
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 1335
Curwen, Henry; Leslie Shephard, intro. A History of Booksellers, The Old and the New. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1968. Grey cloth with dull gilt spine titles on blue panel, no jacket, 14.5 by 22 cm, 483 pp. Light wear to the boards and foxing on the edges of the textblock. Originally published by Chatto and Windus in 1873, this volume, in additional to chapters on “booksellers of olden times” and provincial booksellers, includes the Longman family, Constable, C... View more info
By: Davis, William
Price: $500.00
Publisher: London, W. Davis: 1821/1825
Seller ID: 1357
Davis, William. A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac: or Cento of Notes and Reminiscences Concerning Rare, Curious, and Valuable Books bound together with A Second Journey Round the Library. London: Printed for W. Davis, Bookseller, at the Bedford Library, Southampton Row, Russell Square; Marshall, Printer, Kenton-st. Brunswick-sq., 1821 (first volume), 1825 (second volume). Leather-bound, Octavo, 4 7/8 by 7 1/2-inches, vii 96 pp. 120 pp. Brown calf with wor... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York/London, Garland Publishing, Inc.: 1980
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 1948
Brown cloth with gilt spine titles, 13.5 by 18.4 cm, xvi 459 pp. plus 17 pages of ads at the rear and 3 pages of titles in the Garland series. Near fine with a previous owner’s name and date on the ffep (none other than the beloved Terry Belanger, 1980). Originally published in 1871, this reprint is part of Garland’s series of “Nineteenth-Century Book Arts and Printing History.” Includes a new introduction by Irene Tichenor. View more info