The first type cutter and caster in English America. A review ... of Abel Buell of Connecticut. Pp. [24]; med. 16mo; cloth backed patterned papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; uncut, partly unopened; privately printed, William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York, 1930. One of forty copies, printed by William... More about ABEL BUELL
Pp. [viii]+x+102(last blank); f'cap. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, faintly marked, edges a trifle rubbed; Australian Book Auction Records, Canberra, 1988. More about AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTION RECORDS. New Series, Volume 2: 1986-1987
Pp. [viii]+x+96(last blank); f'cap. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed, backstrip faintly faded; Australian Book Auction Records, Canberra, 1992. More about AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTION RECORDS. New Series, Volume 4: 1990-1991
Pp.[vi]+ x+138(last blank); f'cap. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Australian Book Auction Records, Canberra, 1996. More about AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTION RECORDS. New Series, Volume 6: 1994-1995
Pp. xii+104(last blank); f'cap. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers, lightly soiled; Australian Book Auction Records, Canberra, 1986. More about AUSTRALIAN BOOK AUCTION RECORDS. New Series, Volume I: 1983-1985
From Melbourne to Myth. [Exhibition catalogue]. Pp. [vi]+50(last blank), illustrated in colour and black & white, map, notes, exhibition list of works; square 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers with flap folds; National Library of Australia, Canberra, 2002. First edition. More about BURKE & WILLS
A survey of the first hundred and seventy-eight years of James Burn & Company. Pp. [ii]+126, coloured frontispiece plus 18 plates (2 coloured), black & white text illustrations (some full page), appendix, bibliography, index; blue cloth, spine blocked in red and lettered & decorated in gilt, fore-corners of boards faintly... More about BOOKBINDING THEN AND NOW
A bibliography of the William R. Smith Collection in the Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S. J. With a Foreword by Akram Elias, Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons, Washington, D.C. Pp. lxvi+172(last blank), frontispiece, title page vignette, numerous text illustrations, indices; demy 4to; dark green cloth, lettered..... More about BURNSIANA
Pp. viii+284, title within decorative border, decorative head & tailpieces and initials, publisher's slip (about the limited large paper edition) tipped-in at front; later (but not recent) brown cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; fore and bottom edges uncut; later endpapers, the hinges repaired with cloth tape, paper repair... More about THE BOOK HUNTER
Edited by J. Herbert Slater. Pp. viii+260, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards heavily flecked, spine faded; t.e.g.; text block faintly browned, hinges starting at a couple of points, edges of leaves slightly damp stained; GeorgeRoutledge & Sons, London, n.d.[1908?]. The London..... More about THE BOOK HUNTER
Pp. [viii]+136, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, references, index; square 4to; qr. maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dark green cloth boards; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 2002. First edition. *Virginia Lee Burton (1909-1968) wrote and illustrated several children's books, including the 1943 Caldecott... More about VIRGINIA LEE BURTON: A LIFE IN ART
With drawings by Shirley Hughes. Pp. 190, frontispiece, plus 7 full page illustrations; dust wrapper, back panel a trifle marked; The Bodley Head, London, 1980. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author (dated August 1980) on the title page. A book for parents, written by an experienced teacher and... More about BABIES NEED BOOKS
Pp. 128, 30 coloured plates, appendices, index; narrow cr. 4to; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split; Hodder & Stoughton, Auckland, 1979. First edition in book form. *With the author's signed inscription (to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin), dated 1981, on the title page. The story of the part played... More about CUSHLA AND HER BOOKS
Pp. 58(including the upper endpapers), numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers; pictorial glazed papered boards, faintly scuffed, the bottom fore-corners a trifle bruised; Silent Books, Cambridge, 1990. First edition. *With the loosely inserted errata sheet including addresses of bookplate designers and The Bookplate Society. More about MODERN BRITISH BOOKPLATES
A short history of the Society with a brief description of the more important books presented by it to The Public Library of South Australia. Pp. [viii]+46(last 3 blank), frontispiece, 3 coloured and 8 black & white plates; post 4to; stiff blue paper wrappers, upper wrapper lettered in black, with... More about THE FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
exhibited at the fourth exhibition held by The First Edition Club, January 1925. Prefatory Note by A. J. A. Symons. Pp. xviii+98(last blank), 14 full page facsimiles; small cr. 4to; black buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards quite flecked, top fore-corners bruised; t.e.g., others uncut; bookseller's sticker at..... More about BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE OF FIRST EDITIONS, PROOF COPIES & MANUSCRIPTS OF BOOKS BY LORD BYRON
'The Age' after the Gold Rush, 1854-1859. Pp. x+102, pictorial endpapers, index; boards slightly sprung, edges a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, a couple of spots of foxing; Heritage Publications, Melbourne, n.d.[1971]. First edition. *Reprints some of..... More about THE AUSTRALIAN THUNDERER
A journal of books and personalities published occasionally from Thirty Bedford Square. Pp. 32(including advertisements), text illustrations; roy. 8vo; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, slightly soiled and creased, staples rusted; corners of leaves lightly creased; Jonathan Cape, London, 1948. *Includes articles on Lilian Bowes Lyon (by C. Day Lewis); Robert Frost... More about NOW & THEN. No. 77, Autumn 1948
A journal of books and personalities published occasionally from Thirty Bedford Square. Pp. 32(including advertisements), text illustrations; roy. 8vo; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, edges lightly creased and faded; fore-edge of most leaves lightly creased; Jonathan Cape, London, 1949. *Includes Lord David Cecil's review of Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Day. More about NOW & THEN. No. 78, Spring 1949
A journal of books and personalities published occasionally from Thirty Bedford Square. Pp. 32(including advertisements), 4 plates, text illustrations; roy. 8vo; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled, edges lightly creased; staples rusted; Jonathan Cape, London, 1949. *Includes an obituary for E. H. Young, and an article by Elizabeth Bowen on writing The... More about NOW & THEN. No. 79, Autumn, 1949
Herbert Jonathan Cape; G. Wren Howard. Pp. 352(last blank), 24 plates, text illustrations, index; med. 8vo; light brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, spine blocked in black; top edges black; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly creased, edges lightly rubbed, with a couple of short closed tears, signs of sticker removal... More about JONATHAN CAPE, PUBLISHER
Pp. xii+588(last blank), frontispiece portrait, appendices, index; top fore-corner of upper board a trifle bruised; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges of leaves very slightly soiled; Burt Franklin, New York, 1968. Burt Franklin: Bibliography and Reference Series #177. *Originally published in 1928. More about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS CARLYLE'S WRITINGS AND ANA
Pp. xii+588+ [2] (colophon, blank), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, title page vignette, appendices, index; med. 8vo; boards lightly rubbed, lettering on spine quite dulled; uncut, partly unopened; top edges of leaves and endpapers slightly damp stained, bookplate on upper pastedown, a few leaves carelessly opened, a couple of inked... More about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS CARLYLE'S WRITINGS AND ANA
Here reprinted from the Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, 2nd series, v. 11 (l878). Pp. [28]; printed paper wrappers, stitched; Brandywine Press & Archive, Beecroft, N.S.W., 1988. One of 100 numbered copies for private circulation to friends and supporters. Brandywine Documents on the History... More about VERONESE TYPOGRAPHY
A history and bibliography. Pp. 136, 4 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations, bibliography, index; dust wrapper; Werner Shaw Ltd, London, 1995. *Britain in Pictures was a series of 126 books, most of them published between 1941and 1945 as part of Britain's war-time propaganda. This is the first comprehensive... More about BRITAIN IN PICTURES