Edited and introduced by Nicholas Bentley. Pp. 176, frontispiece portrait by Ronald Searle, index; red cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, boards slightly flecked, the edges lightly bruised; dust wrapper, a trifle silverfished, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip browned and slightly chipped at extremities; edges of leaves..... More
Prepared by the Committee for a New England Bibliography. Pp. xxxvi+392(last blank), supplementary bibliographies and guides, index; demy 4to; green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, 2005. Third edition, with minor corrections. Bibliographies of New England History Volume Four. *Originally published by G. K. Hall in 1981..... More
Pp. xii+126+[2](colophon, verso blank), 5 plates (1 folding), text figures, addenda/errata sheet loosely inserted, appendices, indices; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, bottom fore-corners bruised, dust wrapper, slightly soiled and creased, edges a trifle rubbed and split; a few corners slightly creased, a little faint foxing and..... More
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
Contained in The Book Collector, Volume 9, No. 2, Summer 1960. Pp. 129-256(including advertisements), 12 plates, a few text illustrations; demy 8vo; printed stiff pale blue paper wrappers, a trifle soiled, the backstrip slightly faded; edges of leaves lightly foxed; The Book Collector, London, 1960. *Baughman's review of Thomas J...... 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
Pp. xxvi+364(last colophon), 16 coloured plates with lettered tissue guards (including frontispiece), plus 30 black & white plates, 4 facsimiles (3 double page, 1 folding), appendix, indices; thick cr. 4to; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & light green, with coloured oval pictorial onlay at centre of upper..... 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
Extracted, with additions, from the Bibliography Produced by Rudolf Brettschneider. Edited by W. E. Butler and J. L. Wilson. Translations from the German by W. M. Schwab. Introduction by Anthony Pincott. Pp. [ii]+64(last colophon, blank), hand-tipped frontispiece (bookplate of Heinrich Schwarz), 24 full page illustrations, bibliographic references; tall demy 4to;..... 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
Speeches and Essays by Louise Seaman Bechtel. Selected and with an Introduction by Virginia Haviland. Pp. xx+268, frontispiece portrait, text illustrations; index; med. 8vo; orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split, slight signs of sticker removal from front panel near top fore-corner, the backstrip lightly..... More
William Beckford's Letters to His Bookseller. Edited with Introduction and notes by Robert J. Gemmett. Pp. 336, frontispiece, plus 8 plates, appendices, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Michael Russell, Wilby, Norwich, 2000. First edition..... More
Writer, travellers, collector, caliph 1760-1844. A brief narrative and catalogue of an exhibition to mark the two hundredth anniversary of Beckford's birth. With the previously unpublished journal kept by William Beckford in 1794. Edited by Boyd Alexander. Preface by James T. Babb. Pp. 100+[2](blank, colophon), frontispiece portrait, plus 9 plates..... 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
Pp. xx+252, notes, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; grey textured papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2004. First edition. *Begins by examining lists through the centuries - from Sumerian account tablets and Homer's catalogue..... 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; med. 8vo; navy boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/HKB Press, New Castle, DE., 2008. First edition. *Brief biographies of 65 individual index makers, from the..... 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
Pp. 64 (including advertisements, some illustrated), some text figures, index to advertisers; demy 24mo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, stapled, very slightly soiled; NSW Branch, Printing Industry Craftsmen of Australia, Sydney, 1950. 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; demy 8vo; maroon cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and browned, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple..... 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