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Ann Arbor: Motte & Bailey Booksellers. This allows you to purchase a gift certificate for Motte & Bailey Booksellers, which can be used in our shop or online at our website. After you purchase the gift certificate, we will mail you a hardcopy , or, if you prefer we will keep a record on file here at our shop and notify the receiver of the certificate by email that we have a gift certificate for them on file at the shop (please include their email if you choose this option). Each gift certificate will be assigned a unique number. You may order multiple certificates if you wish. NOTE: 1. Available for purchase only though our own website, in store or by phone. 2. Shipping will not be charged on gift certificate orders. 3. Gift certificates DO NOT EXPIRE.

Ann Arbor: Motte & Bailey Booksellers. This allows you to purchase a gift certificate for Motte & Bailey Booksellers, which can be used in our shop or online at our website. After you purchase the gift certificate, we will mail you a hardcopy , or, if you prefer we will keep a record on file here at our shop and notify the receiver of the certificate by email that we have a gift certificate for them on file at the shop (please include their email if you choose this option). Each gift certificate will be assigned a unique number. You may order multiple certificates if you wish. NOTE: 1. Available for purchase only though our own website, in store or by phone. 2. Shipping will not be charged on gift certificate orders. 3. Gift certificates DO NOT EXPIRE.

Ann Arbor: Motte & Bailey Booksellers. This allows you to purchase a gift certificate for Motte & Bailey Booksellers, which can be used in our shop or online at our website. After you purchase the gift certificate, we will mail you a hardcopy , or, if you prefer we will keep a record on file here at our shop and notify the receiver of the certificate by email that we have a gift certificate for them on file at the shop (please include their email if you choose this option). Each gift certificate will be assigned a unique number. You may order multiple certificates if you wish. NOTE: 1. Available for purchase only though our own website, in store or by phone. 2. Shipping will not be charged on gift certificate orders. 3. Gift certificates DO NOT EXPIRE.

London: The British Library, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. Slight wear along edges. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 223 pages with illustrations, notes after each essay, bibliography of published works of Anna Simoni, and index. An intersesting collection of essays on the intellectual and bibliographic relations between Britain and the Netherlands since the late fifteenth century.

Baltimore: American Jewish Society, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Corners of boards bumped. Some spotting to front cover. Spine lettering faded but legible. Very slight tear to head of spine. Soiling to edges of textblock. Slight foxing to endpapers. 500 p. w/index, list of members, reproductions of pages, and an extra 11 pages of publications from the Society. #30 of the Publications of the Society. 689 entries with 2 additional books on the Jewish Sabbath noted. Rosenbach added brief annotations ot a good number of the more major works A standard work on early Jewish American bibliography by one of the greatest American antiquarian booksellers.

New York, NY: The New York Public Library, 1937. First edition. Oversized softcover with additional paper dust wrapper. . Very Good. Thick quarto (slightly oversized). in blue paper dustwrapper. Head of dustwrapper spine missing a 2 inch by 1.5 inch piece. Faded slightly, more so at edges and spine. Very small tear in head of spine of book, which is faded a bit where exposed. Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Some yellowing at edges of text block. 539 p. w/4 illustrations, principal works consulted, list of catalogues, Anglo-american book auctions, index of owners and more. OF particular note is the essay (not really an introduction) on the History of Book Auctions in America by Clarence Brigham. Reprinted with additions from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library 1935-6. The standard reference on American auctions, and a major accomplishment in American bibliography its own right.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1898. First edition. Hardcover in green-blue cloth. Very Good without dust jacket. Quarto-sized. Light wear to edges of boards with minor scuffing to covers. Pages are lightly browned and a little stiff but not brittle. Jagged fore-edges of pages with some minor tears. 615 pages with illustrations and index.

New York, NY: Haskell House Publishers, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover in green cloth binding. Very Good without dust jacket. Octavo. Both books have lightwear to edges of boards. Bumping to heel of spine of volume 1. Some scuffing to covers of both books with slight bubbling to front cover of volume 2. Page eges of both boxed have foxing. Minor damage to upper corner of rear pastedown endpaper of volume 2. 605 pages total with illustrations, footnotes, and index. Reprint of 1914 edition.

Providence, R. I. : John Carter Brown Library, 1973. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. 2 quartos (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight bumping to head and heel of spines. Section B

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Landscape quarto (over size) Slight wear to edges of boards and dust jacket. xxvii, 453 p. w/ b&w and some color illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. A very detailed study of the art and techniques of Blake in creating his Illuminated Books, using facsmilies created in the autor's own studio.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. x, 236 p. w/illus, endnotes, bibliography, index. A rollicking biography of bookman on the edge, a specialist in rare Americana, and a high flyer at the gambling tables who's death is still a mystery.

London: British Library, 1984. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Quarto (slightly oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and slipcase. xii, 407 p. w/b&w illus (1 fold out), bibliography, apoendices on non-book items and tools, 4 indexes. A broad and detailed survey of his binding work drawn from public and private collections.

London: Henry Sotheran, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Octavo in case (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and jacket. Case has slight wear except for two bumped corners at top front and rear near the foredge. Limited edition 184/250 copiesin a hinged case with a felt covered board inside. Book designed by Leo Maggs. 446 p. w/ notes, illus, index, and illustrated endpapers, including a geneaology chart of the Sotherns. An attractive and detailed history of his long-lived print and bookselling firm in the heart of London, noting its famous collections, clients and discoveries. A great addition to any library on books or the book trade.

New York, NY: Burt Franklin, 1972. Reprint edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. xii, 198 p. w/footnotes, index, and 13 appendices of various types of book produced in early Boston. A detailed history of the book trade in this important early colonial city in British New England.

Santa Fe, NM / San Francisco, CA: Press of the Palace of the Governors, Museum of New Mexico, 1990. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Tall octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges of boards. No dust jacket issued. Limited edition, #71/165, SIGNED by the author and his wife, founders of the press. Letterpress printed in San Francisco by Pamela Smith. 61 p. w/frontis, ilus. from the books, bibliography of selected ephemera, glossary. A survey of the Seton Village letterpress press, active 1938 - 1943, and its fine press work in Santa Fe.

London: Butterworths, 1980.. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1st edition. Very good hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of the boards. Dj is scuffed and worn on edges with heavier scuffing on corners and edges of dj. Spotting and scratches on back dj cover. "Review Copy" stamped in red ink on title page. 285 pages with illustrations, 4 appendices (1. Butterworths' financial structure, 2. accomodation, 3. Butterworths and the book trade, 4. Butterworth Colophons), and an index. A study of the growth of Butterworths Publishing House from its foundation in 1818 until its acquistion by International Publishing Corporation in 1967.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2015. First edition. softcover. Very good. Thin, tall octavo (over size) Slight wear to edges of covers. Thirteen unbound printed sheets folded just once, enclosed in a printed paper portfolio. Type specimens, statements and short biographies of six California designers of typefaces. 1,000 copy unnumbered limited edition printed by Peter Koch, Printers. The latter twelve of the sheets look at digital typefaces created in California, while the first is a survey of California types by Bringhurts, and includes a laid in example of 1835 typography by Agustin Zamorano. Uncommon.

London: The Holland Press, 1962. Facsimile of an original 1913 work. . Hardcover. Very Good. Two large quarto (oversized) volumes in red cloth, with gilt lettering to a creme colored spine. Limited to 250 copies. Larger in size than other reprints. Light wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight soiling to spine edges of textblock. Vol. 1 xvii (6) 462 p. (281 entries). Vol. 2 463-818 (214 entries) with additional notes, and an index of 62 pgs (lxii). Both volumes include numerous illustrations of title pages, incipits, interior plates, and bindings in b&w. An attractive, larger sized reprint of this important and thorough catalog. Murray (1849 - 1919) was an English art connoiseur, consultant and dealer, as well as being a respected portraitist. His friends included Rosetti, Burne-Jones, William Morris, and Ruskin. His book collection and manuscript collection, put together in just 7 years, began when he retired from art and sold most of the paintings. His collection was sold over a period of… Read More

New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo in blue cloth library binding, though NOT ex-library. Slight wear and scuffing to covers. Slight soiling as well. Pages a bit browned but not fragile. Water stain to lower corner of frontis., but no where else. 317 p., 1115 lots. Frontis of the collection's Gutenberg Bible, "Mentz, 1455". Some entries have printed rubrication. An important catalog of a major American collection. Ives (1840-1914) was a Civil War general of Volunteers, president of the NY Stock Exchange and president of the Northern Pacific, and this sale of his collection was hailed as the greatest in American history. A number of the best books were bought by other famous collectors like Hoe and Scheide. The printer of this work, the De Vinne Press under Theodore Low De Vinne, was a leading press in the revival of printing arts in the US at the end of the 19th century , and this catalog is an excellent example of the quality of their work. Section B

Eugene OR: Pickwick Press, 2011. First edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. 250 p. w/ bibliography, indices.