John S Van E Kohn (5 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. The date and an "X" written on front cover.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Two catalogues from a legendary bookshop of New York's fabled Book Row giving bibliographical descriptions of its holdings of first books by important American authors with ahistorical foreword by Roger Butterfield. Profusely illustrated with full-page photographs of the first editions. A valuable resource to collectors and historians. Tall 8vos, perfect bound printed wrappers. A clean, unmarked set. Uncommon.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Seven Gables catalogs 30 & 34: 106 & 83 pp.; printed, illustrated wrappers. Both printed by The Stinehour Press. Catalog 30 in fine condition, catalog 34 a little faded at extremities and chipped at the top of the spine, and with penned note on the cover by the owner, bookseller Bernard M. Rosenthal: "An outstanding catalog! Descriptions have authority and complete lack of pretention . ." The third item is 16 pp.; stapled, printed gold wrappers. 750 copies printed by the McClelland Press. Forward by Robert A. Volz of the Chapin Library about Mr. Kohn, a leading midtown Manhattan antiquarian bookseller, who went on to found the well known Seven Gables Bookshop, followed by Kohn's forward to his catalog three. With pencil note by Rosenthal inside front cover, noting it as a gift from Chapin Library, Bob Volz, May 1980, thanked 7/21/80.

New York: Seven Gables Bookshop, 1965 and 1972, respectively. Catalogues 30 and 34. Two volumes, uniformly bound in blue buckram, gilt, original pictorial wrappers bound in. Printed by the Stinehour Press. Fine copies.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. Washington D.C. no date (but 1930s). Light cover soil to original printed wraps. No underlining. No margin notes. This is the first catalogue issued by John S. Van E. Kohn. It was printed at the Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine. A total of 302 rare books are described. Michael Papantonio later joined Van E. Kohn to form Seven Gables Bookshop, a firm famous for their catalogs of First Books by American Authors. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition.