Decherd Turner (32 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX. 1964. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light surface soiling; small closed tear on rear wrap fore edge. No DJ. Printed card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 101 pp (301-402) 8vo. This issue contains; Speechwriting: British and American, Guitarreros (poem), The Broken Line of Truth, No Sinister Wreath (poem), Ernest Hemingway's Shotgun Wedding: July 1961 (poem), Nurse Novels, Uncle Sim's Trading Post, Sunset Rock (poem), Woman's Place (poem), Bride and Groom (poem), Death of the Vicarious, The North Tower, Alton, Jay Loves You, Death and Mashed Potatoes, The Editor's Notebook, Reviews of Books, Index to Volume XLIX. A clean very presentable copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in original wrappers.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 193 pp., 8.5 x 10", illustrated; stiff printed wrappers. A catalogue of the 1,413 items from the collection, briefly described. A near fine copy.

Wrapper. Condition: Fine Condition. Slim volume, 40 pages 6 illustrations in color. Illustrated wraps. Introduction by Decherd Turner, Director. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, Texas 15 March-15 April 1988. Scarce. Book.

PB. p97-p196 Small bump top corner. good, wraps (softcover) - bump top corner.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SC - LIMITED ED. #9E of One hundred and SIGNED by Author on c.p. Brown wraps, Illust. One tiny water mark on front wrap, otherwise MINT/MINT. Clean Interior. No markings. 8vo. 93pp. --B.R. Box 97. Signed by Author.

Condition: Very Good. Stapled paper wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Sewn grey wrappers, matching printed DW, small slender 8vo., (ii), 15, (1) pages. Convocation address to the16th Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America. One of 200 copies very attractively printed by W. Thomas Taylor. A fine copy in archival mylar.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Original grey printed wrappers. 16p Limited to 200 copies printed by W. Thomas Taylor for the author. This convocation address by Decherd Turner, a noted bibliophile, at a conference of the Art Libraries Society in 1988. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff cream wraps with color front cover illus., lettered in black. Slight mended tear at head of front joint, slight corner wear. Square, uncreased binding, clean interior. 193 pp. 1,413 catalogued entries, illus. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. limited to 300 copies. stapled format, 20 pages. a clean copy, much presentable and intact. near fine copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated wraps; small 4to; pp. 193, with b/w illustrations in text. Covers faintly rubbed, otherwise fine. Catalogues more than 1400 items, including Gill's engravings, carvings, books, illustrated books, manuscripts, albums, and other art work.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Signed (not inscribed) by author as follows, "I am so glad you came to my party. Blessings & Affection. Decherd 9/6/97". Perfect condition. Only 300 copies printed on Zerkall Hand Laid paper by Digital Letterpress in Austin, Texas. Hand sewn into Hahnemuhle wrappers by Jace Graf. Gift worthy. Does have some ever so slight (barely noticeable) tape residue on front cover. (BR) Box 52. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: As new. First edition. 74 pp., including 8 pp. color plates; quarto, original printed wrappers. Complete descriptions of the 42 products of the press. Edition of 300 copies.

stiff paper wrappers. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Exhibition catalogue. Minor soiling to covers, else a fine copy. With an actual sample of vellum mounted on title page as issued. Loosely inserted is an invitation to the exhibition. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Bound in patterned stiff wraps, printed in four color. The rather hard to find 193 pp. that lists all of the holding in the Gill Collection. Some minor soiling to back panel, but overall a tight, clean copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Edition limited to 395 copies. Includes a tipped-in leaf from the original edition. In Near Fine condition, with original plain paper wrapper, which has accumulated some scuff marks and tanning. Rear board partly faded towards edges and lower rear corner bumped.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Gill, Eric (illustrator). First Edition. Austin, Texas: Humanities Research Center / University of Texas at Austin, 1982. Very Good condition. This entire issue is a 193-page descriptive catalogue of the Humanities Research Center's impressive Eric Gill collection. Foreword by Decherd Turner. Introduction by John Dreyfus. Illustrated with numerous examples of Gill's art, a few in color. Arranged as follows: Engravings; Carvings; Other Art Work; Books by Eric Gill; Books Illustrated by Eric Gill; Manuscripts; Albums. Key to Titles. Index. Bound in the original white pictorial wraps, with a Gill-illustrated cover stamped in red, green, blue and black. 8.75" wide by 10" tall. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by Gill, Eric. 195pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Offprint from Texas librarian and bibliophile, Decherd Turner (1922-2002) discussing a few of his adventures in the rare books world. Nice association copy, Inscribed to the English bookbinder, Deborah Evetts, longtime conservator at the Morgan Library in New York. 22x14cm, 113-128pp. Two vignette facsimiles. Inscribed by Turner to Deborah [Evetts] and dated in 2000 on the first page. Some light soiling to stapled, printed wraps, else nearly fine First separate edition, an offprint from the Gazette of the Grolier Club, New Series Number 51.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited edition. [3] leaves, 37 pp., 2 full-page illustrations, original leaf mounted at rear, octavo, half red morocco and gray boards, publisher prospectus laid in. Original leaf is page 359/360 (misnumbered 380) from the Acts of the Apostles, Chapter XXIII. Limited edition of 395 copies.

Condition: Good. Two Typed Letters Signed, 8.5" x 11" 2 pp. on Harry Ransom Center letterhead. Good with marginal tear, creasing. Provenance: Peter Howard, Serendipity Books, Berkeley.

Condition: Good. 4 pp. 8.5" x 11" Inked notes on International Hopkins Association & Harry Ransom Center press releases. Very Good.

Condition: Very Good. Limited. Book Club of California, 1990. one of 395 copies. 37 pages "accompanied by a leaf from the original edition." cover very barely sunned; a very nice copy. binding tight, interior clean and intact, edges clean, cover clean, corners crisp. Limited. hardcover. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited to 395 copies. Published in 1990 by the Book Club of California, Hardcover Leaf Book Fine APPEARS UNREAD - BOOK LIKE NEW, white protective paper wrapper has a small tear The Rhemes New Testament, Being a full and particular Account of the Origins, Printing, and subsequent Influences of the First Roman Catholic New Testament Includes a leaf from the original 1582 edition Ships with Priority mail, not slow Media mail. (Back of L).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover in gray papered boards and gilt-stamped red cloth shelfback, edition of 395 copies in publisher's original plain white wrapper, a Fine unmarked copy in Fine jacket with original leaf from the Rhemes New Testamnet tipped in to rear page; tall 8vo; (viii) 37pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited edition. [3] leaves, 37 pp., 2 full-page illustrations, original leaf mounted at rear, octavo, half red morocco and gray boards, publisher prospectus laid in. Original leaf is page 405/406 from the Book of Romans, Chapter XI. Limited edition of 395 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine copy of this excellent leaf book. Printed letterpress in Bembo on Lana, a French mouldmade paper, bound in 1/4 goatskin with Fabriano paper boards. Really a lovely production. The leaf in this copy is important -- it is from the preliminary "to the reader" prologue, in which the publisher bemoans the publication of bible in English and explains the present book as essentially a necessary evil. The author explains that, back in the good old days of St. Jerome's Vulgate, "the scholar taught not his master, the sheep controlled not the pastor," and so on. A significant leaf regarding the history of the translation of the Catholic bible into English. Hamel and Silver, Disbound and Dispersed 192.

First edition. 37 pp. Illus. with 2 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. No. 193. One of 395 copies. A leaf taken from an imperfect copy of the first edition of the Rhemes New Testament (1582) is tipped in. Publisher's prospectus laid in loose. Provenance: From the library of Kenneth E. Hill, with his bookplate. Small bookplate else a fine copy in an original plain white, lightly rubbed dust jacket. Quarter goatskin over paper covered boards.