Private Library (39 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Cliff Parfit "A Private Library In Japan" / David C Miller "Owen Jones: Ancient Spanish Ballads" / Frank Broomhead "Early American Bookbinding".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. George Jefferson "The Children's Library" / David Chambers "Kickshaws, Paris" / Thorsten Sjolin "The Thoreau Society" / Recent Private Press Books.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 80 pages.

Wraps. Condition: Good. No d/w. First Edition. pp. 65-116; With illustrations. With articles by STOLS, A.A.M.(The Halycon Press); LEE, BRIAN NORTH, (Bookplate Collecting); STRACHAN, W.J.,(The World's End Press); PRANCE, CLAUDE A., (Cricket Books); Covers slightly worn else a bright copy; Size: 8vo. Journal. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Illustarted. Robin Myers "Bibliographica Papers on Books, their History and Art 1895-1897" / Abe Lerner "Form And Content The Books of the American Private Presses Today" / Denis Thomas "Bernard Barton And His Friends" / Robin Myers "The Library Of Waddesdon Manor".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 24 pages. Illustrated. Geoffrey Wakeman "Dr Bentley's Proposal For Building A Royal Library" / Juliet Standing "The Private Press Today" / M F Thwaite "John Newberry - publisher and bookseller, 1713-1767".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 50 pages. Adagio: the Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr [with a selected checklist], by Gerald Lundeen; Coole Library, by Colin Smythe; Tracking Down the Beats: A Preliminary Survey, by Jim Burns; Reviews and Private Press Books.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 40 pages. Cliff Parfit "An Exlibris Library In Japan". Graham Moss "Staples"/ Recent Private Press Books.

Condition: Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: The Private Library; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 20 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13.5 x 22 cms. Category: The Private Library; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 24 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13.5 x 22 cms. Category: The Private Library; Japanese Interest; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. 3 complete issues, with printed card covers. Original printed card covers. Size: 15 x 22 cms. Category: Booklets & Pamphlets; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

8vo. Publishers grey paper wraps.pp.193 - 240; facsimiles and B&W photographs in text.Pp.197 - 228 describe the career and life of Philip Ward, whose extraordinary erudition is well known in the Hispanic world as the author of "The Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature" (1978) selected as the best reference book of the year by the Library Association.…

Hard Cover. No Jacket. Hard Cover. No Jacket. HB NO DJ issued,1916, OP, Green Cloth Decorated cover with Gold Gilt decorations ,Cvr has minor rub & corner bump,bookplate, 192 pgs, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited edition of 250 copies signed by Lawrence Lande, this being copy 132. String-tied in blue wrappers with an illustrated front. Deckled edges. Slightly faded along spine; spot of soiling in bottom corner of front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Frontispiece and five full-page illustrations showing items from the checklist. 32 pages, plus addenda (pp 33-36) laid-in. 28 x 22 cm. A checklist of manuscripts and printed material from 1715 to 1967, relating principally to the work of the Moravian Church's Missions for the Eskimo of Labrador. It includes a goodly portion of items that were formerly in the Hopedale Archives of Labrador. …

8vo. Publishers'wraps.pp.145 - 192; facsimiles and B&W reproductions of prints in text.Paul W. NASH: Pinxit, Sculpsit, Excudit, Etcetera. Some notes on the lettering which appears on prints. Explanations the Latin terminology used; followed by examples of printing techniques.

8vo. Publishers'wraps.48 pp; facsimiles and B&W photographs in text.John COLLINS: Almost a bibliography a partial account of Peter Fleming in print. (pp.3 - 26) A detailed bibliography of the works of Peter Fleming, brother of Ian, including his Brazilian Adventure , an account of the expedition to trace Colonel Fawcett in the South American jungle.…

8vo. Publishers yellow paper wraps.pp.105 - 152; colour and B&W facsimiles in text.Excellent introduction to the subject by Jim Maslen. Together with a list of available Back Numbers of the Journal 1968 - 1989.

8vo. Publishers' red paper wraps with golden cockerel symbol on upper cover.pp.145 - 192; facsimiles and B&W reproductions of prints in text.David Chambers - Bohn's Illustrated Library. (pp.149 - 173).

Illustrated wrappers. C.pp32, a very good copy.Includes particularly a 17pp essay by Dreyfus on the series of illustrated British Poets which he had designed for the Limited Editions Club. 'As practically all the Club's members live on the other side of the Atlantic, British readers have rarely been given a chance to see these books . [I therefore] compiled this short account'. Also includes an Editorial by John Cotton : and Reviews of private press books &c by Iain Bain, David Chambers, and John Cotton. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. 6 complete issues, with printed card covers. Original printed card covers. Size: 15 x 22 cms. Category: Booklets & Pamphlets; New Arrivals; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

8vo. Publishers grey paper wraps.pp.129 - 192; colour illustrations in text.The whole issue is dedicated to a study of the Limited Editions published by the Folio Society. Folio Society publications were aimed at producing 'editions of the world's literature, in a format worthy of the contents, at a price within the reach of everyman' and quickly become synonymous with good production at modest prices. This monograph studies the Society's productions of a more ambitious nature.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Arlington Arts Council, 1992. 1st edition. X+176 pages. New Soft cover. 8.5x10.9x0.5 inches. be5. Photographs from the Arlington Historical Society, Robins Library, and private collections (illustrator).

Softcover. Condition: Fine. 4 complete issues, with printed card covers. Original printed card covers. Size: 15 x 22 cms. Category: Booklets & Pamphlets; New Arrivals; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 28 pages. Kim Taylor "The Ark Press" / James Parkes "The Parkes Library" / Sidney Blackmore "Illuminated Manuscripts on Film" / C A Prance "The Farringdon Road Bookstalls" / Recent Private Press Books.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 20 issue run of this quarterly. 5 annual Volumes. Bright, tight, unmarked and almost unread-looking. In-depth illustrated, and timeless articles for the serious book collector. Please consider patronizing a dealer who knows the difference between a volume and an issue. This seems to be a problem in some quarters.…

First Edition. THE PRIVATE LIBRARY, The Private Library Association, 1968 to 1972, first editions, being Second Series VOLUME 1 NUMBERS 2, 3, 4; VOLUME 2 NUMBERS 2, 3, 4; VOLUME 3 NUMBERS 1, 2, 3, 4; VOLUME 4 NUMBERS 1, 2, 3; VOLUME 5 NUMBER 3, 13 issues, all fine in wraps save one which is vg+ in wraps. From the library of the former premier Walt Whitman collector, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg. Indeed, Volume 1, Number 2 included above contains a 15 page essay on Feinberg by William White with select photos from his collection.…

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. HBDJ, POOR DJ, Has 90% of the dust jackEt, 1904, 1ST EdItion, Book VG- Condition,DJ Large Corner chip but entire Illustration Present & only part R in Pyramid Missing, DJ light Soil, Rub Wear Tiny Chips Tears Extremities, Light Blue & Red Pictorial Cloth Duplicates DJ Illustration, Embosssed Cover Sun Edges, Rub, Wear Extremities, Interior Nice tight Clean light Scuff FOX, Wear, 114 pgs + ADS in Back, . A child's semi-educational (for the time), fantastic voyage to far-away lands in a magic flying car , Charming Story for girls in which 2 little Maidens who lived on large Farm, Take a Trip into Egypt to madeira Islands & Constantinople with a fairy in her magic auto.…

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Thus. HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1920, First Printing THUS. BUT Its Not the Original first edition but a Later Edition published by the author himself in 1920 ,8vo. 277 pages with Crease & Tiny Chips edges Last page .VG/VG- , AS-IS , NOJACKET,Green Cloth Boards with Gold Gilthave faded Extremities Front & Back Cvr & , spine covering is worn at head and foot. Spine Has Darkened , Interior Nice Tight Clean light FOX, WEAR, Rubbed at head and foot of spine. Some discoloration to the cloth. WITH Attached EX-Libris BookPlate Sticker of Felix Mendelsohn his Private Library # 151, This Was Authors 1st Book, ,AUTHOR was Born 1856 in Galway, Ireland & 1869 he immigrated to the United States, In January of 1924 Aleister Crowley came to stay with him for a while. According to one source, they both shared similar 'money troubles" and were 'equal hypochondriacs'. Signed by Author.…

Cloth. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo, xv, [17]-555pp, [3]; xiv, [2], 544pp. Brown pebbled cloth, title stamped in copper on the spine. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover in both volumes, one plate in each volume. Wear to tips of the spine, cloth worn along hinges, foxing to both frontispiece portraits. Internally clean, solid blocks. (Field 1511) (Howes S1039) From the library of Lincoln's Private Secretary, John Hay, signed in both volumes. Volume II is signed and dated "John Hay / 1865." Sir William Johnson (1715-1774) was a British Army officer and Superintendent of Indiana Affairs in the American colonies. From Field: "By far the most valuable contributions to it are contained in the Appendix, in which are printed for the first time, and from the original MSS., two Journals, kept by Sir William, of expeditions to Niagara, Oswego, and Detroit, through the cantonments of the Six Nations, and the Ottawa Confederacy. An Account of the Language and Customs of the Six Nations, and, An Account of the Location and Numbers of Indian Tribes, both written by the Baronet, in the same volume." John Hay (1838-1905) served as the private secretary to President Abraham Lincoln until 1865. Along with John Nicolay, Hay would author a ten-volume biography of President Lincoln called Abraham Lincoln: A History. During the McKinley Administration, Hay returned to government as the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, then later served as Secretary of State. The first edition of The Life And Times Of Sir William Johnson, Bart by William L. Stone, from the library of Lincoln's private secretary and Secretary of State, John Hay. (illustrator). Signed.…