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Patterson, L. H.
The Pageant of Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, Being a
Lively Account of that Ancient Town in Great Britain: Its Beginning and Its
Later History: In Especially Those Glorious Events that Marked the Great Siege
and Surrender, in the Year 1646, of its Noble Castle.
Newark, New Jersey: The Carteret Book Club, 1927. 1 of 200 copies. Large 8vo
(regular size). 78, [1] pages. Photographs. Illustrations. Map. Two hundred
copies of this book have been printed ... by the Harbor Press, New York.
Very good hardcover. Paper label on front cover. #17496. $25
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Payne, Roger.
Extracts from the Diary.
New York: Harbor Press, 1928. Copy 141 of 175. Small 8vo (regular size). 28
pages. Illustrations.
Very good pictorial hardcover. #15692. $22.50
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Polk, Ralph W.
The Practice of Printing.
Peoria, Illinois: Manual Arts Press, 1920. 12mo (small book). 296 pages. Index.
Illustrations. Frontispiece. Copyright 1920.
Good hardcover. #27858. $35
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Powell, Lawrence Clark.
The Southwest of the Bookman: Essays from Various Sources,
collected by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Los Angeles: University of California Library, 1959. 1st printing. i, 60 pages.
UCLA Library Occasional Paper, 11.
Contributors include Carl Hertzog, Charles F. Lummis, Patricia Paylore. Stiff
pictorial wrappers. Very good. #17521. $17.50
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Queens Borough Public Library.
Report of the Queens Borough Public Library for the Year Ending
December 31, 1929.
Jamaica, New York: Administrative Offices, 1929. 64 pages. Frontispiece
photographs.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #23222. $20
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The Realist magazine.
The Realist magazine, March-June, September-November, #77-84,
December (No number), 1968.
Edited by Paul Krassner. New York: The Realist Association, 1968. 9 issues.
Newsprint. Slightly chipped and worn. #19506. $60
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The Realist magazine.
The Realist magazine, February-June (No numbers),
November-December, #86, 1969.
Edited by Paul Krassner. New York: The Realist Association, 1969. 6 issues.
Newsprint. Slightly chipped and worn. #19507. $47.50
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Romano, Clare, and John Ross.
A Selection of Books by Clare Romano. / Books by John Ross. An
Exhibition at the Rutgers University Libraries, November 2000-February 2001.
Introductions by Judith K. Brodsky. Acknowledgments by Marianne Gaunt. New
Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Libraries, 2000. 4to (large books). 2
volumes. (32, 48 pages.) Color and black-and-white plates. Both books dated,
inscribed and signed by the authors.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). No slipcase.
ISBN 0813529549. #26448. $55
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Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel, and
Alessandro Zanella.
A Checklist of Books Printed at the Plain Wrapper Press,
1966-1980.
With a note on the press by Kenneth I. Pettitt. Verona: Printed at the
Stamperia Valdonega, 1980. 12mo (small book). 30 pages. Illustrations.
Portrait. 'Plain Wrapper Press, Hand-Printed Limited Editions, Fall 1981,' laid
in.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #15694. $17.50
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.
Philosophi. Opera Omnia Ex. Ult. L. Lipsii et M. Annae Seneca
Rhetoris.
Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Apud Ioan. Iansonium (Janson), 1634. 12mo (small book). 2 volumes.
Gilt-tooled leather. Marbled endpapers. Very good. #15660. $240
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Simon, Myron, and Harvey Gross,
editors.
Austin Warren: Teacher & Critic. Essays By and About.
'The Early Theological Writings of Austin Warren,' compiled by Mary Joan
Miller. 'The Writings of Austin Warren,' bibliography compiled by James
Kittredge. Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1976. 1 of 500 copies. xvi, 165 pages.
Warren was a professor of English at a number of distinguished universities and
published several scholarly studies.
Very good hardcover. #17524. $15
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Sotheby & Co., London.
Catalogue of the Well-Known Collection of Autograph Letters,
Historical Documents and Holograph Music, the Property of the Late W. Westley
Manning. The First Portion: A-L, Days of Sale: 11th and 12th October, 1954. The
Second Portion: M-Z, Days of Sale: 24th and 25th January, 1955. (2 Auction
Catalogues).
London: Sotheby & Co., 1954-1955. 2 volumes. Total of 502 lots. Prices and
Buyers' Names in both catalogues. Illustrations.
Good stiff wrappers (soft cover); the front covers and inside of both
catalogues are marked up in ballpoint pen or pencil. #28411. $37.50
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Sotheby & Co., London.
Catalogue of Very Important Illuminated Manuscripts and Printed
Books Selected from the Renowned Library Formed by Baron Horace de Landau
(1824-1903), Maintained and Augmented by His Niece, Madame Finaly, of Florence
(d.1938). Days of Sale: 12th and 13th July 1948. Also: Catalogue of the
Renowned Library of the late Baron Horace de Landau. The Second Portion: The
Celebrated Musical Collection. Days of Sale: October 17th and 18th, 1949. Also:
The Landau Library: The Third Portion. Catalogue of a Further Selection of
Printed Books from the Renowned Library Formed by the Baron Horace de Landau.
Day of Sale 31st October 1949. (3 Auction Catalogues).
London: Sotheby & Co., 1948-1949. 1st printing. 3 volumes. Total of 589
sequentially numbered lots. Prices and Buyers' Names in each catalogue.
Illustrations. Folding plates. Index in July auction volume. Marginal pencil
notations and some prices in July auction volume.
Good-very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #28410. $120
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Starkie, Walter, and A. Norman Jeffares.
Homage to Yeats, 1865-1965. [Starkie: 'Yeats and the Abbey
Theatre.' Jeffares: 'Women in Yeats's Poetry.']
Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Introduction by Majl Ewing. Los Angeles,
California: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1966.
vi, 78 pages. Director's compliments slip laid in. Papers read at a Clark Library
Seminar October 16, 1965.
Very good stiff printed wrappers. #17643. $17.50
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Terence.
Terentii Comoediae Sex, Accurate Sane, & Diligenter Emendata.
Haec Adiecta.
Venetiis (Venice): Apud Dominicum de Farris, 1594. 16mo (small book). 175, [1]
pages. 16 cm. Anchor & Dolphin on title page with word 'Aldvs,' the trademark
printer's device of the Aldine Press. On title page: Terentij vita ex Aelio
Donato. Argumenta in fabulas, & scenas. Annotationes in margine adscriptae.
Obseruatio variae lectionis.
Text in Latin. Good vellum binding. Upper right hand corner of title page and
lower corner of final leaf missing, not affecting text. Some foxing; dampstains
on lower edges of some pages; some ink stains. Good, tight copy. #15661.
$2,000
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Thoreau, Henry.
Life without Principle.
Illustrations by Susanne Suba. New York: Printed for William R. Scott,
Publisher, by the Powgen Press, 1936. Small 8vo. 32 pages. Four illustrations.
Designed by Ted F. Gensamer.
Very good hardcover in slightly worn, torn and rubbed dust jacket. #27332.
$35
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University of California, Los Angeles, Library.
Rare Books and Research: Addresses given at the Dedication of
the Department of Special Collections, July 28, 1950. (University of
California, Los Angeles, Library).
Los Angeles, California: University of California, 1951. 53 pages. Contributors include
Lawrence Clark Powell, Majl Ewing, Henry R. Wagner, George L. Harding, John
Walton Caughey, James T. Babb, and Neal Harlow.
Designed by Ward Ritchie. Very good stiff printed wrappers. #17651. $17.50
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Valentiner, Wilhelm R.
The Late Years of Michel Angelo.
New York: Privately Printed by Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1914. 38 pages.
Illustrations. 'Three hundred copies of this book on Dutch handmade paper
privately printed by Frederic Fairchild Sherman.' - Colophon.
Good hardcover. #15698. $30
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Venice (Republic: To 1797). Doge
(1501-1521: Loredano).
A Privilege Granted to Aldus Romanus for the Benefit of
Literary Affairs.
Text in Latin and English. Englishing by Jane Maycock. Vancouver, Washington:
Robert Frederick Lane, No Date. 16mo (small book). Unpaged.
Fine hardcover with paper label. #15783. $27.50
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Ward, Philip.
A Musical Breakfast: A One-Act Play in Two Scenes.
Illustrated by Rigby Graham. Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1968. 1 of 325 copies.
Small 4to (medium-large book). Unpaged. Illustrations.
Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #15701. $22.50
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Waters, Frank, fl. 1903-1927.
The Albatross.
Cliffdale, Alpine-on-the-Hudson, New Jersey: Printed at the Harbor Press, 1927.
12mo (small book). 8 pages. A Christmas Keepsake. From 'Eight Bells,' by Frank
Waters.
Very good hardcover in original (worn) glassine wrapper. #15882. $25
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Wheelwright, William Bond.
Essential Facts about Paper.
Boston: Privately Printed for Stone & Andrew, Inc., 1920. 38 pages.
Photographs.
Good hardcover, corners and edges rubbed. #24081. $20
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Wolf, Edwin, 2d.
Bibliothesauri: or, Jewels from the Shelves of the Library
Company of Philadelphia, Being a Catalogue of a Selection of Rare, Old,
Curious, Valuable, Important, Unusual, Beautiful, Influential, and Historic
Books in the Fields of Religion, Law, Science, Medicine, History, Travel, Art
and Literature. To Which is Prefixed A Brief Introduction.
Philadelphia: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1966. 68 pages. Illustrations.
Very good stiff pictorial wrappers. #17605. $15
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Zamorano Club. (Robert O. Schad).
Addresses at a Meeting of the Zamorano Club, May 6, 1950.
Camarillo, California: Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library, 1950. 42 pages. Printed
in Los Angeles, California, by Anderson & Ritchie: The Ward Ritchie Press.
The main address was by Robert O. Schad, 'The Estelle Doheny Collection.' Very
good stiff wrappers. #17608. $37.50
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