Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. Pp. [vi]+298, printed endpapers, literary works cited; demy 8vo; pictorial papered boards, the spine extremities slightly rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper; Sort of Books, London, 2004. First U.K. edition. More
Eine Chronik des Buchdruckgewerbes von der Erfindung der beweglichen Letter bis zur Gegenwart. [Text in German]. Pp. 440(printed in red & black, last colophon), 7 folding plates (4 coloured), numerous text illustrations (many full page, some coloured or printed in red & black), index; super roy. 4to; light brown papered..... 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
Contained in The Huntington Library Bulletin, Number 9, April 1936. Pp. [vi]+168(last blank), one plate; small cr. 4to; brown paper wrappers, lettered and decorated in black, edges a trifle rubbed; inked correction to one word of text page 93 and small ink stain to top edge of several leaves; Harvard..... 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
With an Introduction by Anthony Hobson. Photographs by Julie Ainsworth. Pp. 272(last colophon), illustrated throughout in colour and (mainly)black & white, appendix, glossary, bibliography, indices; med. 4to; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper board patterned in blind, bottom fore-corner of upper board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, foxed on reverse;..... 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; 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; 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
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