Catalogue with descriptive and bibliographical annotations. Pp. viii+196(last colophon, blank), frontispiece portrait plus 8 plates, index; med. 8vo; bound in dark brown half leather, blue cloth boards, corners a trifle rubbed; top and bottom edges red; the original printed stiff paper wrappers bound in, and folding prices realised sheet tipped-in... More
A broken run of 98 issues from Volume 9 to Volume 43, comprising: Numbers 108-118, 125, 126, 128-131, 133-155, 158, 161, 162, 168-182, 192, 200, 206, 250, 268, 276, 359, 360, 477-507, 516. Totalling over 3000 pages (averaging 24 pages in earlier issues, later issues usually 32 pages including wrappers... More
The career of John Payne Collier. Pp. xiv+454, 4 plates, text figures, appendix, notes, index; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, the backstrip and part of front panel faded;Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1982. First edition. *In 1850, John Payne Collier was among the foremost scholars of his generation: the pre-eminent editor... More
With a complete list of his works, and an account of such Shakespeare documents as are believed to be spurious. Pp. 67; printed paper wrappers, plus vegetable parchment wrapper, edges slightly chipped; uncut; occasional pencilled marginalia, a very little slight soiling, long inked annotation on last leaf; Elliot Stock, London... More
A guide for authors, editors, printers, correctors of the press, compositors, and typists. With full list of abbreviations. An attempt to codify the best typographical practices of the present day. With the assisance of many authors, editors, printers, & correctors of the press. Pp. xvi+408(last colophon, verso blank), mostly printed..... More
The story of a Scottish family of publishers from 1789 to the present day. Pp. 304(last blank), frontispiece portrait plus 11 plates, bibliography, index; boards a trifle marked; Collins, London, 1952. First edition. *The Glasgow firm of Collins started publishing at the turn of the eighteenth century. More
Lost in a town of books. Pp. [vi]+250(last blank), endpaper map; dust wrapper; top edges of leaves faintly foxed; Bloomsbury, New York, 2003. First U.S. edition. *'Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh country-side - to move, in fact, to the..... More
Roundsman of the Lord. Pp. 306+[2](advertisement, verso blank), 28 plates, bibliography, index; bottom edges uncut; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split, backstrip browned, neat signature in green ink on front panel; bookplate on upper pastedown, a little light offsetting; Wishart & Company, London, 1928. First U.K. edition... More
Chosen by Cyril Connolly. Pp. 160, bibliography, index; tiny bruise near bottom edge centre of both boards; dust wrapper, edges a trifle creased, the front flap slightly soiled; text block lightly browned; Allison & Busby, London, 1986. New edition, with an updated Bibliography. More
One Hundred Key Books from England, France and America, 1880-1950. Chosen by Cyril Connolly. Bibliography of English and French editions by D. D. E. Soar. Pp. [viii]+148; boards faintly scratched and a trifle sprung; dust wrapper, the laminate lifting slightly soiled at edges; Andre Deutsch/Hamish Hamilton, London, 1965. First edition... More
Their value to collectors. Pp. 336, 32 plates (8 coloured), indices (author and illustrators); dust wrapper, slightly scuffed; text block lightly browned; Macdonald Orbis, London, 1988. First edition. *With the Code of Values Bookmarker loosely inserted. More
Pp. iv+xii+176(last blank), 32 plates within pagination (8 coloured); cr. 4to; bottom fore-corner of upper board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, back panel faintly scuffed; Studio Vista, London, 1977. First edition. More
Their Value to Collectors. Pp. 318, 32 plates (8 coloured); med. 8vo; dust wrapper, the back panel a trifle scuffed; text block faintly browned, a little light foxing; Orbis, London, 1985. Second printing. *With loosely inserted bookmarker with scale of values. More
Pp. [iv]+xlii+302(last colophon, blank), frontispiece, text illustrations, appendices, bibliography, addenda & corrigenda, indices; demy 4to; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; Oak Knoll Press/The Plough Press, New Castle, DE., 2002. First edition. *Lists hundreds of toolcutters and toolcutting firms, with brief biographies, from 1780 to 1965. More
, Circumnavigator. Pp. xvi+894, bibliography, errata, addenda, index; med. 8vo; boards lightly flecked, the bottom fore-corner of upper board bumped; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, backstrip slightly faded, edges a trifle rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, corners of a few leaves faintly creased, a little light... More
Contexts & Collaborations. Pp. 228, 4 coloured plates, black & white title page vignette and numerous text illustrations (some full page), appendices, select bibliography, index; impl. 8vo; dust wrapper; Private Libraries Association/The British Library/Oak Knoll Press, Pinner, Middlesex, 2010. First edition. *Study of the interrelationships between the various parties involved... More
General: British and American. Pp. 126, indices; dust wrapper, a trifle rubbed; free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; James Bennett, Sydney, 1967. First edition. Readers Guide series. More
Pp. xiv+250(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, further reading list, index; small med. 4to; pictorial glazed paper wrappers with flap folds, edges a trifle rubbed; Miegunyah Press/State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 2009. First paperback edition. *First published in 2007. More
A sketch of the book-binding art. [Facsimile edition]. Edited with an introduction by Paul S. Koda. Pp. 88, frontispiece plus 4 full page illustrations, index; Oak Knoll Books, New Castle, Delaware, 1986. Oak Knoll Series on the History of the Book. *Facsimile of the original edition published in Chicago in... More
Including voyages, geographical descriptions, adventures, shipwrecks and expeditions. In three volumes. [Facsimile edition]. Pp. [viii]+404+[vi]+592(last blank)+[xii]+732, errata et corrigenda, indices; small cr. 4to; Martino Publishing,Mansfield Centre, CT, 2002. *Originally published between 1935-49, as part of the University of Washington Publications in Language & Literature series, Volumes 9 to 12. The..... More
A pictorial anthology of Australian crafts. Edited by Joy Warren, designed by John Reid & Douglas Annand. Pp. 80, illustrated in colour and black & white, plus map of Australia, and a loosely inserted letter To the Reader from the President of the Crafts Council of Australia; demy 4to; hand-made... More
A pictorial anthology of Australian crafts. Edited by Joy Warren, designed by John Reid & Douglas Annand. Pp. 80, illustrated in colour and black & white, plus map of Australia, and a loosely inserted letter To the Reader from the President of the Crafts Council of Australia; demy 4to; hand-made... More
A study of the conception of literary obscenity. Pp. 244(last colophon, including upper endpapers), notes, bibliography, index; yellow cloth, blocked in black and lettered in gilt; top edges yellow; price-clipped dust wrapper, the back panel slightly soiled, edges a trifle browned; bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown; George Allen & Unwin... More
Pp. 244, 11 plates, pictorial title page, numerous text illustrations (several full page), index; dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; text block browned, fore-edges faintly soiled; Bracken Books, London, 1984. *Originally published in 1896. More
With a Preface by Heywood Sumner and a frontispiece after G. F. Watts. Pp. 62(last colophon), frontispiece portrait, patterned endpapers printed in yellow, indices; qr. brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, grey/brown papered boards, upper board lettered in black, slightly marked, bottom fore-corners lightly bruised; uncut; dust wrapper, edges a...... More
