Writing from Tannery Books

Rome: Il Labirinto, 2014. Third Edition. Paperback. Very good. The Keats-Shelley House: A Guide, Rome, Il Labirinto, Third Edition, February 2014. Guide to the house where John Keats briefly lived and died, plus the 18th- and 19th-century ex-pat literary community in Rome. Stiff paper covers with blue and white house designs, 8vo (21 cm), 32 pp, illustrated. Very… Read more

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1912. Revised. Hardcover. Good. Chas. A. Reinhardt, Lettering for Draftsmen, Engineers and Students - A Practical System of Freehand Lettering for Working Drawings, New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1912, thirteenth edition, copyright 1895, thirty-ninth thousand. Horizontal 8vo (19 by 27 cm), 3/4 green cloth under tan-gray paper boards with illustrated lettering… Read more

Boston: Ginn & Company, 1901. First printing. Hardcover. Good. Sara E. H. Lockwood, Mary Alice Emerson, Composition and Rhetoric for Higher Schools, Boston, Ginn & Company, 1901, First Printing. Brown textured cloth hc with gold lettering, 8vo (19 cm), x, 470 pp with index a few bw illustrations. Good/no DJ: corners and edges worn, scribbles on endpapers, pp… Read more

New York: Henry Holt and Co. , 1906. Hardcover. Good. Alphonso G. Newcomer, Elements of Rhetoric - A Course in Plain Prose Composition, New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1906, copyright 1898. Dark brown cloth hc, small 8vo (19 cm), xii, 282 pp with index [2 pp ads]. Good/no DJ: light dampstain on top front cover, edges worn… Read more

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Thomas D. Clark, The Rural Press and the New South, Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1948, apparent first edition. Red cloth hardback, crown 8vo, xii, 112 pp. G/no DJ: spine faded, light bumping, two tiny dots/soiling on back cover, red price on ffep but… Read more