James Gould Cozzens, an annotated checklist
Kent State University Press, [1971]. Hardcover. First edition. Blue cloth titled in silver on spine. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. 123 pages. BOB/111416. Fine. More
Kent State University Press, [1971]. Hardcover. First edition. Blue cloth titled in silver on spine. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. 123 pages. BOB/111416. Fine. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966. Softcover. The sixth printing issued in 1969 of this "important and overdue contribution to the understanding of American race relations" (foreword). Most of the works included in the bibliography concentrate on works appearing between 1954 with the Supreme Court's decision that school segregation was unconstitutional, and the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Some older sources are included if they appeared useful. The bibliography is arranged by background, social institutions, health, literature, intergroup relations, rural and urban problems, education, civil rights and many more. With an index of authors. Softcover with cream paper covers with titling in black. Small stain to top edge of pages and slight signs of handling but in very good condition. 190 pages. BOB/111320. Very Good. More
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Company, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. Second (revised) edition. "This volume presents a wide historical survey, including many printers whose merits have not been hitherto recognized" (jacket). With 272 plates. Blue cloth boards with silver title to spine. Slight roll to spine. Bookseller sticker to front pastedown. Clean and bright with many plates. In light blue jacket that has faded to grey with black title to front and spine panels. Scuffing and soiling to jacket along with several tears along the edges and between panels. Jacket price has been inked over. Jacket is protected with a removeable plastic cover. A good reference. 342 pages. BOB/020323. Very Good / Very Good. More
The Monotype Corporation Limited, 1968. Paperback. Size: 4to. Bound in sewn mustard yellow paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Includes reproductions of: a portrait of Morison by Sir William Rothenstein, a handwriting sample, several photographs, and specimens. Crease to corners, else clean and bright. 32 pages. BOB/062717. Very Good. More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. Hardcover. Ex libris. 8vo. Very good in very good off-white dust jacket with orange title to front panel and black title to spine. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Faint library stamp to front free end page. Else is clean and bright. Index, 373 pages. Books on Books BOB209191. Very Good / Very Good. More
[Kent]: Kent State University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Serif series, Number 37. First edition. Library of Congress surplus duplicate copy with stamps on front endpaper of copyright page. Green cloth boards with black title to spine. Lower corners lightly bumped, spine sunned, without dust jacket, as issued. 203 pages. BOB/111716. Very Good. More
Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1976. Hardcover. First edition. American Literature, English Literature, and World Literatures in English Information Guide Series, Vol. 6. Blue cloth boards with black spine titled in gilt. Very good, without dust jacket, as issued. 346 pages. BOB/111516. Fine. More
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Hardcover. First American edition of this important reference work by noted English antiquarian bookseller and scholar Percy Muir. Bound in orange cloth with gilt titling and decoration to spine. In orange illustrated price-clipped dust jacket with title to spine and front cover. A few small nicks and light soiling but still nice. Very good condition. 287 pages including index. BOB/053019. Very Good. More
Book Club of California, 1963. Hardcover. 1 of 450 copies. "Chaucer is the only major English writer whose publication spans the whole history of English printing. Professor Muscatine's account of the making of Chaucer's writing into books begins in the age of the illuminated manuscript and culminates with the superb Kelmscott edition printed by William Morris in 1896. It treats the great early English printers Caxton, Pynson, and Wynkyn de Worde; the obscure but prolific commercial publishers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Tonson and Lintot in the eighteenth; and the Whittingtons, Pickering, and Morris in the nineteenth ... In an authoritative but lively text, Professor Muscatine describes the books themselves, the changing conventions of typography, the book trade, the relations between printers and publishers, the contributions of successive editors, ant the problem of providing an accurate text. He also gives the first complete account of the woodcut illustrations in the early editions" (prospectus). Includes an original leaf from the 1561 edition of Chaucer's 'Works.' Prospectus laid in. Red cloth boards with gilt title to spine and gilt illustration to front board. White paint markings to front board. Lengthy penned gift inscription to front free endpaper with book plate of Paul Vincent Balassone. Color frontispiece. Includes many facsimile illustrations. 64 pages. Size: Thin folio. BOB/021323. Very Good. More
Lunenburg, Vermont: Stinehour Press, 1960. Hardcover. Annual publication of the Stinehour Press between 1953-1965. Contributors to this edition include F. Allen Burt, Sinclair Hitchings, Richard Holman, and Ray Nash. In green patterned paper boards. with black cloth spine. Original glassine wrapper. In near fine condition. Housed in a stiff paper box with some tears and bumping. Pristine interior. 128 pages. BOB/060112. Fine. More
Cincinnati: Published by the Author, 1868. Hardcover. First edition of this uncommon and interesting book by a woman who was an itinerant bookseller in the United States in the 19th century. The book last appeared at auction in 1993. Annie Nelles Dumond (1837 – 1903) traveled the Midwest going house to house selling books by subscription. Some scholars consider this autobiography to be part-fiction as many details varied from this edition in later editions of the book (see the 'Unbelievable' Odyssey of Annie Nelles Dumond”James L. Murphy, OGS Quarterly, vol. 50, issue 4, 2010 for a discussion of Annie's life and writings). Another scholar, Jolie Braun, the curator of Modern Literature and Manuscripts at The Ohio State University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, published a fascinating article titled "There is no respectable woman…that sells books!’ The Memoirs of Nineteenth-Century Woman Book Canvassers." It appeared in "Textual Cultures," Vol. 14 No. 1 Spring 2021 and examines the memoirs of women book canvassers: : Annie Nelles, or, The Life of a Book Agent by Annie Nelles Dumond (1868); Six Years Experience as a Book Agent by Mrs. J. W. Likins (1874); and Facts by Harriet Wasson Styer (1881). "These works record the physical, intellectual, and emotional labor of canvassing, offering a window into the otherwise little-documented experiences of women’s experiences working in a field that both recruited and presented numerous challenges for them." Bound in original green pebbled cloth with gilt titling and ornament to spine. Covers are rubbed, bumped and lightly soiled. There is a small gouge at the top of the spine revealing the board underneath. The gilt titling is somewhat rubbed. The front hinge is cracked but the text block is quite firm. Brown endpapers. Text pages are generally clean and bright, with light foxing and spotting to front and rear free pages. Faint ownership signature in pencil on free endpaper. The last two pages of the text containing a poem written by the author to Frank C. Nelles, her first husband also have light foxing. With frontispiece portrait of Annie Nelles and three full-page black and white text illustrations. Very good condition. Measures 5 x 8 inches. 385 pages. AMERBIO/041024. Very Good. More
New York: Russell Maret, 2022. Hardcover. Number 37 of 102 copies, signed by the authors and craftspeople involved in making the book. This is one of the 77 numbered copies that includes tip-ins of original material. This magnificent production documents the life and work of Carolee Campbell, founder of Ninja Press and one of the country's most noted book artists. The foreword and afterword beautifully describe Campbell's ethos as an artist and bookmaker that has informed her work since she began making books in 1984. Russell Maret writes of her: "It takes a special kind of person to know that what one is working on is not ready to be discussed. It takes someone...who unhurriedly allows her books to germinate in her lizard brain until they are ready to be dispatched into the world. With each new book Carolee teaches the rest of us how it should be done - not how to make books like hers , but like her, to make books the way the books want to be made." The extensive annotated bibliography of the works produced by the press includes books, broadsides, commissions and collaborations, ephemera, and writing, reviews, criticism. The annotations include comments by Carolee on the making of each book or broadside. There is also a section describing the Ninja Press type collection and an index. There are beautiful vintage paper tip-ins throughout of papers used, and pages from some of the books and broadsides. Accompanied by a booklet reprinting two essays by Carolee. Dispatches from the Lizard Brain was designed and edited by Russell Maret, and printed by him and Sarah Moody. The primary text face, Carolee, was designed by Maret and printed from photopolymer plates on Twinrocker Handmade Paper. The titles are set by Felix Titling. The cover design was design was adapted from an ornament by Campbell. The blue green binding with a leather spine was designed and executed by Amy Borezo at Shelter Bookworks. The book is housed in a handsome brownish orange cloth covered portfolio with a white title label. In fine condition. Folio measuring 15 x 9 inches. 128 pages. PRI/060222. Fine. More
Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press. 1937. Hardcover. A bibliographical list of the original illustrations to the works of Charles Dickens being those made under his supervision now compiled for the first time by Thomas Hatton. Includes the prospectus issued by the press for their complete set of Dickens's works. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and front cover. Slight fading and bumping. Interior pages clean and bright. Very good condition. 128 pages. BOB/053019. Very Good. More
Bloomsbury, The Nonesuch Press. 1937. Hardcover. A bibliographical list of the original illustrations to the works of Charles Dickens being those made under his supervision now compiled for the first time by Thomas Hatton. Includes the prospectus issued by the press for their complete set of Dickens's works. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and front cover. Foxing to endpapers and previous owner's signature in pen, else interior pages are clean and bright. Very good condition. 128 pages. BOB/011623. Very Good. More
[Toronto]: ECW Press, 1998. An exhaustive and thorough bibliography of this Canadian novelist and poet with extensive annotations for every entry. Bound in grey wrappers with photo of Blais to cover. In near fine condition. 159 pages. BOB/111616. More
Houston, Texas: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 1980. Softcover. This is the catalog for an exhibition "Bookbinding: A Living Art" held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 1980. Includes 26 pages of black and white plates of the works in the exhibition. With introduction that describes the parts of the book related to bookbinding techniques. Tan paper wrappers with title and illustration to front panel. Edges of wrappers are slightly turned. Pages are slightly browned, but otherwise bright and clean. 48 pages. BOB/013124. Very Good. More
Maastricht, The Netherlands: Boosten & Stols, 1925. Softcover. [IN DUTCH] According to Pannekoek, Dutch printing was experiencing a renaissance in the early 1900s. This early publication (1925) contains multiple lists of prospectuses and catalogs of recent works of fine printing up to that time. This limited edition is set in the Erasmus Mediaeval type by S.H. de Roos and printed under the direction of A.A.M. Stols. The edition is 380 copies, of which 1 was printed on Japanese paper for the author, 29 on handmade Dutch paper, (#2-30) and 350 printed on English paper (#31-380). This is copy #197. Small octavo. Tan/blue paper wrappers with title in black to front wrapper and spine. Wrappers show sunning to edges and spine, with some foxing on front wrapper. Pages are bright and clean. 51 pages, plus colophon. DUTCHLANG/030424. Very Good. More
Toronto: ECW Press, 1992. Hardcover. First edition. Red cloth boards with black title to spine and front cover. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. 130 pages. BOB/111616. Fine. More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1955. Paperback. Very good in blue wraps with "The Hubert S. Smith Collection" to front wrapper with white illustration. 24 pages. Books on Books. BOB409051. Very Good. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1921. Hardcover. Compilation of lectures given by Pennell in 1920 on the print-making methods and techniques used by artists of the day. Very good in light brown cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Minor wear to spine ends, edges, and corners. Spine slightly rolled. Interior is very clean with many illustrations throughout. Index, 315 pages. BOB/0422110. Very Good. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. This book "reconstructs the first 150 years of the world of print, exploring the complex web of religious, economic and cultural concerns surrounding the printed word." (DJ) The author was Head of the School of History at St. Andrews and Director of its Reformation Studies Institute. Octavo. Bound in green cloth-covered boards with title in gold to spine. Black and green dust jacket with Renaissance portrait on front panel; white title to spine panel. Text is clean and bright. 421 pages, including index. BOB/122823. Very Good / Very Good. More
La Grange: The Colophon Bookshop, 1979. Softcover. One of 1000 copies, Inscribed by the author whose Faulkner collection now resides at the University of Mississippi. Describes works added to the author's collection since the publication of his catalog in 1975. In orange wrappers in near fine condition. BOB/110816. Near Fine. More
Library Quarterly, 1941. Paperback. Reprinted from the Library Quarterly, Volume XI, Number 2, April 1941. Clean with minor wear to edges in white side-stapled wraps with black title to first page. Pages 186 to 199. BOB/090815. Very Good. More
Chicago: 1895. Hardcover. Beige paper covered boards with gilt title to front board. Minor dampstain to foot of spine and edge of front board. Clean interior with frontis and purple decoration to title page. Original glassine jacket. Dampstain and a few chips to glassine. 34 pages. BOB/080508. Very Good. More
[Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. Hardcover. First edition of this compilation of interesting essays and articles written by Powell, an acclaimed writer, librarian, and book collector. Bound in green cloth with black titling to spine. With light orange pictorial dust jacket with titling in black to front cover and spine. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. Measures 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 246 pages. BOB/122823. Fine. More