Limited edition of 500 copies. Brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 10-1/4" x 7-1/4", 50 books described with facsimiles of title pages, leaf from "Life As It Is" tipped in. Minor soil to front cover. Price low only because we're not anywhere close to Tennessee. View More...
Green cloth binding with gilt decorations and lettering, 8-1/2" tall, 92 pp. Minor fading to spine panel, minor dustiness to top edge of pages. Ruari McLean discovered this memoir, edited it, and made a select bibliography of Evans' works. Edward Evans worked with, and comments on, such people as Ralph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Birket Foster, and Ebenezer Landells. Color frontis & 1 plate, b/w illustrations throughout. View More...
Full green cloth boards under grey illustrated dust jacket, 10" x 6.5", 350 pp. Limited, numbered edition of 500 copies, this is #217. A great bibliography. Additional postage required for international or priority shipping. View More...
A set of 16 different postcards with images from our 2023 catalog of publishers bindings. (This price is post-paid; we will not charge postage even if it shows up on your order confirmation.) View More...
Our catalog of publishers bindings with over 300 books photographed and described; separate sections on Sarah Wyman Whitman and Margaret Armstrong. The catalog is accompanied by 16 different postcards featuring bindings from the selections. (This price is post-paid; we will not charge postage even if it shows up on your order confirmation.) View More...
Signed by author (name only) to front endpaper. Flexible red leather covers with gilt lettering to spine, gilt initials to front cover, top edge gilt, title page ruled in red & black with red central device, 7-1/4" tall, 190 pp. Minor slant, light wear to edges of covers and tips. One of the most beloved of all bookish novels, it is as fun to read today as when it was written. A lovely leather-bound edition, uncommon signed. View More...
First edition, black cloth with gilt titles and decorations, 8vo, 591 pages plus index; A clean, square copy; price clipped dust jacket has a few small closed tears to extremities, spine dust soiled, now protected in mylar cover. Fannie E. Ratchford, Librarian of the Rare Books Collections of the University of Texas, after years of research, has now edited the letters of Wise to his American friend Wrenn, proving further forgeries and involving the guilt H. Buxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse, distinguished men of letters. View More...
Paper wraps printed with red, grey, and brown lettering and designs, Japanese sewn binding, 12-1/2" x 8-1/4", contains 54 tipped-in samples. Goto wrote a three-volume survey of Japanese paper; this is a fourth book specifically about Wagami Inden paper. "Wagami-inden is a mixture of wagami (Japanese hand-made paper) and lacquer, and is a counterpart of iromon tengucho whose making is now under way. In addition to samples of patterned paper, there are larger samples which are actually illustrations of the process of making the paper. An extraordinary production. Housed in original case with rib... View More...
Purple cloth with publisher's blind stamp on front board, 12mo, 381,[1],16 pages. Small faded spot at tail of dust jacket, front hinge starting but fast, clean and sound; purple dust jacket is toned and tattered along top edge with loss at head of spine, now in protective mylar cover. An alphabetical catalogue of the contents of volumes 1 to 950 in the Everyman's Library. View More...
Red cloth with gilt titles on spine, 8vo, 430 pages, illustrated; bookplate removed on front paste down, foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. A handsome book on the practice of an industrial craft. View More...
