With a chapter on the economic background by Guy Chapman. Pp. xx+360, bibliographies, index; bottom fore-corner of upper board faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, a trifle soiled, small surface graze near top fore-corner of front panel, small mark from sticker removal on front flap; The Cresset Press, London, 1962. Third..... More
Pp. xvi+234+[2](erratum, verso blank), floral patterned endpapers; f'cap. 8vo; green cloth over bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, faintly scuffed, edges a trifle rubbed; uncut and partly unopened; hinges starting at a couple of points, a little light foxing and occasional faint soiling; Elliot Stock, London, 1890. The Book..... More
A concise bibliographical checklist of the Oz books by L. Frank Baum and his successors. Founded on and continuing the Baum Bugle Checklist by Dick Martin, James E. Haff and David L. Greene. Pp. 146, frontispiece portrait, plus 32 plates, appendices; pictorial paper wrappers; The International Wizard of Oz Club..... More
Pp. [iii]-xxxvi (lacking limitation page or preliminary blank?)+608, 80 plates (16 coloured, with tissue guards), indices, Corrigenda slip tipped-in; thick cr. 4to; maroon cloth, the gilt lettered spine faintly faded, upper board marked; dust wrapper, soiled and worn, the edges (which are reinforced with paper and tape on reverse) split..... More
Supplement to "George Baxter the Picture Printer" (1924). Pp. 62, plus a few interspersed unpaginated advertisements, endpaper advertisements; maroon buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, slightly flecked, edges a trifle rubbed; free endpapers faintly offset, short closed tear to fore-edge pp. 43/4, a couple of spots of foxing, Sampson Low..... More
Introduction by Oliver Robinson. Pp. xii+156, coloured frontispiece, plus coloured and black & white text illustrations (some full page), tinted pictorial endpapers, bibliography, appendices, index; med. 8vo; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards slightly sprung and a trifle silverfished, fore-corners faintly bruised; dust wrapper; Werner Shaw..... More
A complete guide to self-publishing in Australia and New Zealand. Pp. vi+90, glossary, index; printed glazed paper wrappers, a trifle rubbed; top edges of leaves slightly soiled; Orlando Press, Sydney, 1985. Second edition. More
Life in the Middle Ages. The calendar pictures in the Duc de Berry's Tres Riches Heures. Pp. [30], including the pastedowns, illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, faintly scuffed, with publicity sticker on upper board; Prestel-Verlag, New York, 1997. Adventures in Art series. *Reproduces the twelve..... More
A hemispheric look at the writing of natural history. With cataloguing records for selected titles prepared by Burton Van Name Edwards. Pp. xxvi+184+[4](last colophon, verso blank), coloured frontispiece, plus coloured and black & white text illustrations, the title page printed in red & black, patterned endpapers, notes, bibliographies; narrow demy..... More
Bibliographical Notes. Pp. xiv+122(last blank), title page vignette, 10 full page illustrations, errata, index; med. 8vo; gilt lettered navy cloth, slightly flecked and marked, the top fore-corners bumped; dust wrapper, silverfished (very heavily on back panel) and slightly soiled, edges and backstrip faded; a little light foxing; Harvard University Press..... More
The book in culture & commerce. Pp. x+160, index; med. 8vo; pictorial glazed papered boards; St Paul's Bibliographies/Oak Knoll Press, Winchester & New Castle, 2000. First U.S. edition. *Includes Orality Lost: Text and Voice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, by Roger Chartier; and Crusoe's Books: The Scottish Emigrant Reader..... More
A history and handbook of current practice. Pp. 128(last blank), 8 plates, index; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; Andre Deutsch, London, 1966. First edition. More
A history of index-makers. Preface by David Crystal. Pp. xiv+334(last blank), text illustrations (including numerous full page portraits), chronology, references, index; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/HKB Press, New Castle, DE., 2008. First edition. *Brief biographies of 65 individual index makers, from the 15th to the 20th century, including consideration of..... More
Magazines and newspapers in Australian Literature. Pp. xii+270(last blank), illustrations, indices; med. 8vo; dust wrapper; bookplate on upper pastedown;Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1981. First edition. *A study of the contribution of magazines and newspapers to Australian literature. More
Being a study in the history of the book trade from Caxton to the incorporation of the Stationers' Company. Pp. xiv+338(last blank), appendices, bibliography, indices; price-clipped dust wrapper, small split at foot of backstrip, which is slightly soiled, and at head of front flap fold; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1969..... More
Pp. 176, illustrated in colour throughout, notes, appendix, index; med. 4to; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, brown papered boards; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle/London, 2004. First edition. More
[Facsimile edition]. Pp. xxii+140(including the 8 page Supplement at end), 1 portrait plate, addenda, chronological index; Maurizio Martino, Staten Island, New York, n.d.[1997]. Edition limited to 150 copies. *Originally published by the Bennett Book Studios, New York, 1949. More
Pp. xii+418(last blank), bibliography, indices; med. 4to; dust wrapper; Arco Publications, New York, 1971. *Catalogue of auction prices paid for more than 3,000 works by 282 painters at sales from 1961 to 1969. More
A Companion for Booksellers, Librarians and Collectors. Compiled and edited by Philippa Bernard with Leon Bernard and Angus O'Neill. Pp. xiv+462(last blank), illustrated throughout, bibliographies, appendices, index; cr. 4to; dust wrapper; Scolar Press, Aldershot, Hants., 1994. First edition. *'Provides in a single volume the essential information required by those who..... More
[Text in German, French and English]. Pp. 80(including wrappers), numerous typographic specimens; tall post 4to; printed paper wrappers, stapled, edges slightly rubbed; H. Berthold, AG, Berlin, 1982. More
[Text in German and English]. Pp. 32(including wrappers), numerous typographic specimens; tall post 4to; printed paper wrappers, stapled, edges a trifle rubbed; H. Berthold, AG, Berlin, 1984. More
T ext. in German, French and English; each 16 pages (including wrappers), printed in colour and black & white, text illustrations and typographic specimens; tall post 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, edges a trifle rubbed; H. Berthold, AG, Berlin, n.d. *Issue numbers 007, 009, 010, 011, 012 and 014. More
Text in German, French and English; each 12 pages, printed in colour and black & white, text illustrations and typographic specimens; tall post 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, edges a trifle rubbed; H. Berthold, AG, Berlin, n.d. More
Pp. 36, illustrated; med. 8vo; printed stiff cream paper wrappers, stapled, lightly soiled, tiny hole near backstrip fold upper wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, offset, last page and inside lower wrapper lightly soiled; Municipal Council of Sydney, Sydney, 1923. More
A bibliography of bibliographies. Pp. [xiv]+458(last blank); gilt lettered grey cloth; text block faintly browned; Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa, N.J., 1971. First edition thus. The Besterman World Bibliographies series. *The entries have been culled from the fourth edition (1965-6) of Besterman's A World Bibliography of Bibliographies. More