January SALE: books in our Books about books, Transportation (Aviation, Automotive, and Railroad), and Political Science sections priced at $100 or less are 30% off!
This sale excludes artists' books, private press, and items sold on consignment. Additional items are available for sale in our open shop.
Detroit: Research Company, 1979. Hardcover. First edition. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English; volume 17. Includes unpublished plays by published dramatists, as well. Bound in blue cloth boards with black spine titled in gilt. Fine, without dust jacket as issued. 493 pages. BOB/111516. Fine. More
Austin: Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 1969. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. Tan paper wrappers with white title to front panel and no title to spine. Slight wear to edges and corners. Interior is very clean with bright text. Tight binding. 68 pages. BOB/042005. Very Good+. More
New York: George H. Doran, 1923-24. Paperback. Three issues G+ in green wraps/wear to wrapper edges on all three volumes/buyer gets the August and September 1923 issues and the February, 1924 issue. Books on Books. BOB111011. Good +. More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, (1986). Paper Wrappers. 8vo. Illustrated paper wrappers with white title to red spine. Clean, tight interior. Index, 125 pages. BOB/091404. Near Fine. More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1987). Austen, John. Paperback. 8vo. White paper wrappers with gold title to spine and front panel. Pristine interior. Tight binding. 264 pages. BOB/091004. Fine. More
Belluno, Italia: Proposte d'Arte Colophon, 1999. Paperback. Near mint white thick-stock paper wrappers, tiny bit of smudging to rear wrapper, else bright and clean. Quarto. Interior is like new: crisp, tight and clean. Illustrated in b/w. In Italian. 45 pp. Books on Books. BOB/11183. Near Fine. More
Belluno, Italia: Proposte d'Arte Colophon, 2000. Paperback. Near mint white thick-stock paper wrappers, a few small smudge marks to front wrapper, else bright and clean. Quarto. Interior is like new: crisp, tight and clean. Illustrated in b/w. In Italian. 45 pp. Books on Books. BOB/11183. Near Fine. More
Belluno, Italia: Proposte d'Arte Colophon, 2000. Paperback. Near mint white thick-stock paper wrappers, tiny bit of smudging to rear wrapper, else bright and clean. Quarto. Interior is like new: crisp, tight and clean. Illustrated in b/w. In Italian. Publisher's ephemera laid-in. 45 pp. Books on Books. BOB/11183. Near Fine. More
Belluno, Italia: Proposte d'Arte Colophon, 2000. Paperback. Near mint white thick-stock paper wrappers, tiny bit of smudging to rear wrapper, else bright and clean. Quarto. Interior is like new: crisp, tight and clean. Illustrated in b/w. In Italian. 45 pp. Books on Books. BOB/11183. Near Fine. More
Bloomfield Hills, MI and Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark, 1976. Hardcover. Thin folio. A reproduction of Fitzgerald's humorous touring serial about his first car (a used Marmon) and his adventures in it with his wife, Zelda - who destroyed it several months after it was purchased in the summer of 1920. The story was first printed in Hearst's Motor magazine in three installments, March - May 1924 and this book reproduces the magazine article in facsimilie. Tan cloth boards with brown title to front cover. Crease to front free endpaper. Clean interior. In tan dust jacket with black title to front cover. Minor wear to edges of jacket including a few short closed tears. Unpaginated. AUTO/041718. Near Fine / Very Good. More
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, (1980). Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth covered boards with black title to spine. Pristine interior. Orange dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Minor rubbing to dust jacket. Index, 274 pages. Political Science. POL/010809. Near Fine. More
New York, London, Toronto, Melbourne: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1976). Hardcover. Very good in brown cloth boards wtih gilt title to spine. Very good white dust jacket with black title to spine. Minor wear to edges of boards and jacket. Index, 505 pages. BOB/102209. Very good in very good jacket. More
Edinburgh: Bibliographical Society, 1924. Hardcover. 8vo. White cloth backed blue paper covered boards with black titles to spines. Wear/bumping to corners. Gentle bump to spine ends. Browning to endpages of vol. I and stamp from previous bookdealer to front pastedown of vol. I. Interiors of both books are very clean with bright text. Pages of both vols. are unopened. Tight bindings. 324 pp., 313 pp. BOB/040605. Very Good Plus. More
New York: Burt Franklin, (1970). Hardcover. 8vo. Fine blue cloth coverd boards with bright gilt stamping to spine. Interior is like new: crisp, clean pages, tightly bound. Frontis, illustrations. Index, 390 pages. Books on Books. BOB/01054. Fine. More
London: For the Bibliographical Society by Humphrey Milford, 1940. Hardcover. Very good+ in maroon leatherette covered boards with gilt title to spine. Very faint ex-libris stamp to bottom of title page. Else is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. Index, 446 pages. BOB/100114. Very Good+. More
Albuquerque, NM: The University of New Mexico Press, (1968). Hardcover. Very good blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt title to spine (partially rubbed at foot of spine). Corners sharp. Endpapers faded at edges. Interior is quite clean with bright text, tightly bound. Index, 482 pages. Books on Books. BOB/12223. Very Good. More
2000. Paperback. Exhibition catalog published on the occasion of Fritz Kredel's centennial and exhibitions at The Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University; The Grolier Club; and the Odenwald Museum (Germany). Fine in blue paper wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Includes many full page color illustrations. Designed by Jerry Kelly. 135 pages. Quarto. BOB/051314. Fine. More
New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2001. Paperback. A bookseller's catalog. Red paper wrappers with white title to spine. Front wrapper slightly creased, otherwise fine. First edition. Illustrated. 88 items described. Price list laid in. Prepared by Sarah Funke Designed by Jerry Kelly. 96 pages. BOB/111416. Fine. More
Oxford and New York: 1998. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in black paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior with many illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with peach colored title to front panel and to maroon spine panel. 189 pages. Books about books. BOB/061113. Fine / Fine. More
Rebound by Plymouth Public Library. 1883. Hardcover. Thin 12mo. Library bound in brown boards with brown cloth spine. White title label to front board. 18 pages. A copy of pgs. 295-313 of another tome. BOB1108301. Very Good. More
New York: Carroll & Graff Publishers, (2004). Hardcover. 12mo. Fine in near fine illustrated dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Pristine interior. 240 pages. BOB/082216. Fine / Near Fine. More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1964. Hardcover. Very good in light-blue cloth covered boards with gilt-lettering to spine and front cover. 8vo. 233 pages. Literature. BOB2/5022. Very Good. More
Dekalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois University Press, 1970. Hardcover. First edition. Red cloth with black title to spine. Fine in very good red jacket titled in white on the spine and front panels. Rubbed dust jacket with wear to edges. 274 pages. BOB/111116. Fine / Very Good. More
London: Allison & Busby, (1986). Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior with bright text. Tight binding. White illustrated dj is very clean. 232 pages. BOB/111104. Fine / Fine. More
Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1982. Paperback. First edition. Illustrated. 64 items described and annotated. Compiled by James E. Walsh and Eugene M. Weber. Blue stiff side-stapled wrappers with silver title to front cover. Size quarto. Fine. 55 pages. BOB/111516. Fine. More