Monastery Hill Bindery Leather, Used (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair-poor. No Jacket. Chicago: Monastery Hill Bindery, 1933. Book. Fair/Poor condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Small, 34 deckled pages. Original green leather spine with Heavy shelf wear, and decorative green marbled paper boards with minor shelf wear. Price reduction, front cover came off - fell off of shelf during earthquake December 2022.

Hardcover. Condition: no markings. Rebound in 3/4 red leather by Monastery HILL BINDERY.Corners a little rubbed,but a handsome copy.We are a small, independent bookseller dedicated to providing fine used books.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition (unstated). Green octavo, leather spine and border, gilt to spine and boards, deckled edges, marbled boards and edges, 34 pages; 17 cm. Scarce. Fiction, mystery. Very mild wear to spine foot, extremely minor wear to spine head, sunned spine, gently bumped and frayed corners, else Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+ condition. First Edition. [iv], 34 pages of text. Original green leather spine with minor shelfwear, and decorative green marbled paper boards with minor shelfwear. Number 492 of 500 copies printed by the Broadside Press near Barrington, Illinois, this one signed by Edward Hertzberg. The text is clean and unmarked. The previous owner's bookplate is neatly on the insided rear cover. First edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 6.25 x 4.5", leather backed patterned boards; teg, 34pp, covers rubbed, extremities worn, spine sunned to brown, contents nice. LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #101).

Three-quarter leather. Condition: Very Good+. Sixth Edition. Two vols. 16mo. Pp. 194; 195- 564. Edited, with an introduction, notes, glossary, & copious index by Homer Wilbur. Notes, glossary, index. Marbled endpapers. Bound in three-quarter leather over marbled boards and gilt lettering and detail stamped on spine. Top edges gilt. Very Good+ , some fading to spines, light wear to edges and corners. Bookplate of 20th century Oregon politician Henry Ladd Corbett to front pastedowns. Binding stamped Ernst Hertzberg & Sons of Monastery Hill Bindery fame.

Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). Three-quarter polished calf over marbled boards, five raised bands, gitl title and decorated spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, (7.25 x 5 inches). xxxiv, 305 pages; illustrations by Hugh Thomson; preface by Austin Dobson. SIGNED BINDING (stamped "Monastery Hill Bindery on lower front endpage). A handsome leather bound edition of Oliver Goldsmith's popular eighteenth century novel. A clean tight copy with a strong shelf presence.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Singed and Numbered Limited Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Singed and Numbered Limited Edition. Privately Printed Signed. Inscribed By Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 pp., Sepia tone photo llustrations of books made by the author. Signed and limited to 1,000 copies by the author this being copy no. 42. The author has added this inscription on the limitation page- " To Mr. Howard Hesey I present my book with pleasure and with the hope that he will be pleased with it". Corners bumped. Bit of leather scrape on front upper right corner. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed By Author.

Philip Reed (illustrator). First edition illustrated by Philip Reed. Leather-bound; hardcover with slipcase; small octavo (17 x 12 x 1.5 cm); pp. [10], 145. English text. Numerous coloured illustrations. Beautifully bound in full red morocco by the Monastery Hill Bindery, Chicago, boards decoratively ruled in gilt with two double fillet borders and with gilt holly leaves as corner devices. Front board with leather inlay of Mr. Fezziwig dancing in tan, green, brown, and black morocco. Spine tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Top edge gilt. Condition: NEAR FINE. A beautiful tight and clean copy, without previous ownership markings. The original slipcase with some fading and shelf wear. Scarce.

Full Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Later Printing. Thirty-first printing, 1971, of the English version of this venerable cooking encyclopedia, rebound by Chicago's also-venerable Monastery Hill bindery (today they make luxury restaurant & hotel accessories) in full red leather. As pictured; light wear, minor scuffs. Text clean; 1101 pages; French index, brief bibliography, b/w & color photos & illustrations, maps. A surcharge for expedited or international shipping of this oversize book may be required; please inquire for an accurate quote. Size: Quarto.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. MOIRE SILK END PAGES AND FIVE SPINE BANDS.THE REAR COVER IS PARTIALLY DETACHED AND THERE IS WEAR ALONG THE BOOKS EDGES. THE BOOK ESSENTIALLY IS A PUBLICATION OF THE SPEECHES PRESENTED AT A DEDICATORY BANQUET FOR THE HARRIS BANK'S NEW QUARTERS. NORMAN W. HARRIS PRESENTS A BRIEF HISTORY OF BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES AND CHICAGO AND HIS INVOLVELMENT IN THE CREATION OF THE HARRIS TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK. OTHER SPEECHES INCLUDE THAT BY ALLEN G. FARR, REMINISCING ON THE CHICAGO OFFICE, BY EVERETT B. SWEEZY, ON THE BANK'S RELATIONS WITH THE INVESTING PUBLIC, BY EVERETT P. MARSHALL, ON LIFE INSURANCE AS A FOUNDATION FOR INVESTMENT BANKING, BY ISAAC SPRAGUE, REMINISCING ON THE BOSTON OFFICE, BY NATHAN C. KINGSBERG, ON THE RELATIONS OF PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS TO THE PUBLIC, BY ARTHUR M. HARRIS, REMINISCING ON THE NEW YORK OFFICE, BY JAMES B. FORGAN, ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INVESTMENT BANKING IN CHICAGO, BY ANDREW COOKE, ON THE BANK'S SERVICES TO CORPORATIONS AND THE PUBLIC, BY JOHN R. MACOMBER, ON THE GROWTH OF THE ORGANIZATION AND ALBERT W. HARRIS, ON THE BANK'S POLICY AND FUTURE PROSPECTS. WITH 5 B/W PHOTOGRAPHS OFTHE NEW BUILDING QUARTERS FOR THE BANK WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BANK PERSONNEL. INCLUDING A TWO PAGE SPREAD OF SOMBER LOOKING TUXEDOED ATTENDEES AT THE DEDICATORY BANQUET WITH NO VISABLE WOMEN PRESENT. IN ADDITION, THERE ARE ETCHINGS OF THE BANK BUILDINGS USED BY THE HARRIS GROUP OVER THE YEARS SINCE ITS INCEPTION. THE BOOK IS BOLDLY SIGNED BY NORMAN W. HARRIS WITH CHRISTMAS GREETINGS IN 1913 AND PRESENTED TO H. L. HARKER WHOSE NAMES IS GOLD STAMPED ON THE PEBBLED LEATHER COVERS. THE BOOK WAS BOUND BY THE FAMOUS MONASTERY HILL BINDRERY IN CHICAGO. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

64p, 1/2 leather, top edge gilt, illustrated, wear to cover edges, good. #51 of 1000 copies, signed by author and inscribed to William J. Hamilton.

Hardcover. Condition: good. Limited edition. 16mo. (6 1/2" x 5") 1/4 leather spine over marble papered boards.Gilt lettering to spine. 23pp.This is copy #48 of 200 copies. Rubbing to edges of spine and to front cover. Corners bumped.

Large-paper edition of 150 copies printed on Dutch handmade paper. Full navy morocco, gilt spine-titles, gilt filet on board edges, elaborate leather doublures with silk flyleaves, top edge gilt, (bound by the Monastery Hill Bindery), 8vo, 22 cm, xv, 188 pp, viii leaves of plates. Contents: I. Introductory; II. Materials for writing, and forms of books; III. The history of writing; IV. Scribes and their ways; V. Illuminations; VI. The blunders of scribes and their correction; VII. Famous libraries; VIII. Famous manuscripts; IX. Literary forgeries; X. Treatment and cataloguing of manuscripts; XI. Public and private records; Appendices: A. Public libraries which contain more than four thousand manuscripts. B. List of printed catalogues of manuscripts in European languages in the British Museum, Bodleian Library at Oxford, the Cambridge University Library, etc. C. Some books useful for the study of manuscripts. Copy No.89. Leather booklabel on inside front board of Carl Adolph Kroch, sometime head of Kroch's and Brentano's, for a long time the largest bookstore in Chicago, and at one time the largest privately owned bookstore chain in the USA. Front joint worn and slightly tender, rear joint slightly rubbed, contents Very Good.

Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. A handsome little book, #75 of 200 copies printed by the Broadside Press, Barrington; for the Century of Progress Exposition, presumably as a promotion for the bindery, which is still in business making fancy restaurant & hotel kit. Quarter turquoise morocco over turquoise paste-paper boards, gilt titling. Edges worn, corners frayed, spine hubs rubbed, couple of little nicks, pen mark inside back cover. Text clean, printed in black with red title page elements; [6], 24 pages. 4½" by 6½".

Rebound Leather. Condition: Very Good Plus or Better. Dust Jacket Condition: none. Lovely book in handsome binding, detailed treatise of the business and philosophy of Life Insurance. Privately printed, 1903. 222 pages, amazing calligraphy pre frontispiece in color, Fine binding by Monastery Hill Bindery of Chicago. bound in half brown Moroccan leather, spine in gilt window pane with 5 raised bands. Very clean marbled endpapers. No previous owner bookplate pr writing. Top edge gilt. Very Good Plus or Better. Light wear to corners and bottom edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Undated facsimile reprint of 1922 document, bound in decorated leather by the Monastery Hill Bindery, slipcased. Quarto. 58 pp. Noticeable shelf wear to slipcase. Slight wear to boards.

Full Leather. Condition: Near Fine binding. 12mo. [6], 12, [2] pp. Limited edition, number 16 of 200 copies. An elegant scarlet morocco binding with simple filleted border and to arrows that terminate into leaves on both covers; turn-ins gilded with a decorative roll; top edge gilt. Not all were bound the same. It appears a small portion of the edition was bound thus, while the balance was bound in quarter morocco with paper sides. This copy is a trifle sunned at the spine else fine. An exquisite book.

Hardcover. Tissue guarded frontis. (illustrator). 8th edition. VG book. TEG. FINE text. 3/4 tan morroco, marbled paper boards. 5 raised ribs, gilt lettered black leather author/title labels. Each with bkplt of Frank Edward Sincere and Jesse Belle Wood Sincere. Wikipedia has them both born in 1878 and her dying in 1973 in Herkimer NY. All four FLAWLESS inside. Hinges like new. No aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. TEG, all edges clean as new. Books stay closed when stood on their spines. Flaws solely in the covers, that being minor scuffing. All with binder's info on fep lower edge: "bound by Ringer & Hertzberg, for A.C. McClurg & Co". Hertzberg founded Monastery Hill bindery in 1902. Each book available separately. VG, Hertzberg binding. FINE inside. 8th ed. 7"x5", about 200pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7 volume set, in full leather. Darkest green, with raised cords, top edge gilt, gold borders and lettering. A very handsome binding - each volume signed on the inside back cover "The Monastery Hill Bindery" stamped in gold. All 7 volumes dated 1833. Each has 20-25 full page engraved portraits. Memoirs accompany each, about 200 pages per volume. Each measures 7.5 x 11 inches. Front free endpaper of the first volume is detached but present, but other than that there are in excellent condition. As handsome as can be. The Monastery Hill Bindery is located in Chicago. It was founded in 1868 and is still up and running -- this set was likely bound in the final decades of the 19th century. I have another set in a matching binding, done at the same time as this one - a 12 volume set of Lodge's Portraits. Please email with shipping. Some extra shipping will be required; it's a heavy set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 12 volume set, oversized, bound in an exquisite full leather binding (dark green with gold lettering) by the Monastery Hill Bindery. Books measure 7.5 x 11.25 inches. Raised cords, top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Each binding signed on the inside back cover, stamped in gold The Monastery Hill Bindery. 240 full page engravings, with guard-pages. Well printed and attractive inside and out. Unpaginated (they were issued in groups of 3 or 4 originally & then collected and bound up into sets. This is as nice a one as you are likely to see. A few very minor scuffs on the spine. Volume 1 has a 1" tear in the front endpaper where a paperclip was roughly removed. The set sits on 15 inches of shelf. Please email with questions or to request photos. I have a companion set "Gallery of Portraits" in another listing, but with the same binding. The Monastery Hill Bindery is in Chicago; it was founded in 1868 and is still in business. This binding is almost certainly from within a decade or two of their opening. Extra shipping will be required.

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. From the collection of Monastery Hill Bindery. A one Volume, thick 8vo., 277pp. Extra suite of b//w plates and illustrated with seventy-two colored aquarelles by Guy De Montabel. Card laid in from Monastery Hill "Number 42 of 83 copies printed on Japan imperial 18 to 100 with and extra suite on chine; with hand colored initials at each chapter heading." "Bound in full burgundy crushed levant morocco. Front & back covers inlaid with blue Morocco frame outlined in gilt, art deco green geometric corner inlaid at corners". Spine in five compartments. High, wide gilt raised bands with ornamental lines along the bands; handsome gilt centers in first and last panels. Top edge gilt. Tasteful bookplate laid in. Cloth slipcase. (See Pict's).

Full Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Color Illustrations By Arthur Rackham (illustrator). First Edition. #359 of a limited edition of 500 copies signed by artist Arthur Rackham. Professionally re-bound by The Monastery Hill Bindery in full deep blue leather spine strip preserved with gilt spine titling, 5 raised bands; gilt border to boards, stamped in gilt "The Monastery Hill Bindery" at foot of inside upper board, blue silk endpapers, 4to, 341pp. (slight darkening to spine strip, minor light surface wear to boards). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Artist. Book.

Full leather. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Full brown morocco, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in one compartment, blind-stamped decoration on covers, a.e.g., moire silk doublures with gilt borders, moire silk endpapers. [4 plates], xviii, 201, [1], [151 leaves of plates] pp. nd (c. 1880). Profusely illustrated with 150 extremely fine steel engravings. Quite a magnificent volume. Covers very lightly rubbed, text block unmarked, tight, square and clean. This book has been professionally refurbished and is in excellent condition in its contemporary binding by The Monastery Hill Bindery. NEAR FINE. . Steel engravings. 4to 11" - 13" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Number 199 of 305 copies. [Limitation Statement]: "305 copies printed on this fine deckle-edge royal 8vo paper for England and America. The portraits are in duplicate, one on Japanese paper in brown ink before the letters, the other on plate paper as India paper after letters. Each copy is numbered, and the type distributed. No. 199." Two volumes; tall octavos; 6 ¾ inches x 10 ½ in. x 2 in. (thick); Volume 1: half-title/limitation page; frontispiece portrait of Cibber in two forms, with tissue guards; title-page printed in black & red; prefaces; contents; lists of mezzotint portraits and chapter headings, reproduction of an early title-page; Preface, Historical Account of the English Stage; reproduction of a title-page; lxxi, [1]-337 pp. + Chiswick Press device on reverse; Volume 2: frontispiece & prelims., [8]pp., [1]-416 pp., including index + Chiswick Press device leaf. Illustrated with 26 portraits in two forms, with tissue guards, and 18 etched chapter headings. Most pages seem to be unopened. Bound in full, dark green morocco leather by The Monastery Hill Bindery [Chicago], with their stamps in the lower margins of the back leather turn-ins. The spines show five raised bands, with gilt-lettered titles, and a design of masks with laurel wreaths, crossed horns, in compartments, with gilt borders and flourishes on the covers; the inner covers feature leather doublures with a central rose leather inlay which repeats some of the flourishes and with a linked design of inlaid dark green leather diamond & spearhead forms, linked and crossed by curving gilt double lines. Facing dark green silk covered endpapers, headbands, top-edges gilt. The spine ends, outer cover hinges, and cover corners show light rubbing to the leather surface. Tissue guards show offsetting of the portrait images. A finely bound set from The Monastery Hill Bindery, the inlaid knotwork borders on the doublures, have a slightly "Celtic", or "Anglo-Saxon" art look. The Monastery Hill Bindery was opened in Chicago in 1906. "Publisher's Preface: The twenty-six portraits in this new edition of Colley Cibber's 'Apology' are all newly engraved. The portraits are copperplate mezzotints, engraved by R[obert] B[owyer] Parkes from the best and most authentic originals, in the selection of which great care has been taken. Where more than one portrait exists, the least hackneyed likeness has been chosen, and pains have been taken to secure those pictures which are likely to be esteemed as rarities. The chapter headings are etched by Adolphe Lalauze, and the subjects represent scenes from plays illustrating the costumes, manner, and appearance of the actors of Cibber's period, from contemporary authorities." Weight: 8 1/2 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item.