Paperback. None, None, N/D, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 page pamphlet in which the author narrates the History of Printing. Starting at page 29 through page 40 is a comprehensive bibliography listing hundreds of publications about printing and history thereof. A few selected sub-headings within the bibliography are: The Beginnings of the Alphabet and Writing, The First Printing Press in America, The First Printing Press in British Colonial America. 8vo. The bibliography is very impressive. Bound in plain white wrappers. Record # 809167
Softcover. London, Christies London, First Thus, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Softcover. Bright illustrated wraps published to accompany the auction bearing the same title, held on Wednesday, July 8, 1998 in London, England. Full color illustrations of early English printing throughout. Crisp, clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, B.T. Batsford, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 424 pages, blue cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Ex-library with stamp to copyright page, sticker on rear end paper and hand lettered notation on spine. Otherwise clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st thus, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 189 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, blue cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Originally appearing in 1956, this work is considered the most comprehensive illustrated guide to collectible color plate flower books ever published. This Revised & Expanded Edition includes new title entries, bringing the total to over 750 full-color illustrations, plus an appendix detailing printing techniques. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Previous owner's signature is present on the front end page in light pencil, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34181
Hardcover. Rochester NY, The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 141 pages, b&w plates, black cloth covers, spine lettering faded.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Limited to 750 hand numbered copies - this being #688. Black & white illustrations. Covers show moderate wear, with rubbing along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York, American Antiquarian Society, Second Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Softcover wraps with blue printed decoration to cover & black printed titles. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with light wear to edges.
Hardcover. NY/Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Paperback. Leicester, UK, Twelve By Eight, 1st wraps, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY JOHN MASON. Black & white illust. by Rigby Graham. 48 pages (unpaginated). Paperback.edition
New York, Crowell, 1st , 1948, Book: Good , Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. A layman's history of printing and the alphabet. 2-color illustrations. Previous owner's name (large) on front paste down. A bit dusty.
Hardcover. London , White Brothers, Ltd. , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 345 pages, fourth volume in this series-- catalogue of the sale of Countess Estelle Doheny by Christie's of London; b&w and facsimile color photographs throughout. Red cloth cover with gilded titles on cover and spine. Gilded "Ex Libris Estelle Doheny" on reverse cover. Upper fore corners of boards slightly bumped. Interior tight and clean-- all plates intact. Prices realized list laid-in.
Hardcover. East Aurora NY, Roycrofters Press, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft brown suede covers with gilt lettering, pages with deckle edges, frontispiece portrait, color text and initial decorations by Samuel Warner. Ribbon marker.
Hardcover. East Aurora NY, Roycrofters Press, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft brown suede covers with gilt lettering, pages with deckle edges, frontispiece portrait, color text and initial decorations by the Roycroft artists. Ribbon marker.
Softcover. Williamstown, Chapin Library Williams College, 1st Edition, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages. Softcover, one of 750 copies. 12 pages of plates illustrated in black & white. Red cloth covers with black printed decoration to cover & spine. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. London, UK, Scott, Greenwood & Son, Second Edition, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 171 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Green boards with black printed titles to cover & spine. Light wear to covers & to crown & heel of spine, spot of wrinkling to rear board. Light toning throughout. Marking to last page. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Totowa, NJ, Rowman and Littlefield, rep , 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 223 pages. Foreword by Walter Shewring. Blue cloth covers with gilt decoration.
Hardcover. Camden NJ, For author's Private Distribution by the Haddon Craftsmen, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Miers was Manager of Rutgers University Press. Title, copyright, Dedication page unopened. 97 pages. 8vo. Light brown boards. Black cloth spine, gilt title. Minor wear to spine and sunning to front cover, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, R.R. Donnelly & Sons Company, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. A how-to book. 16 plates, text illustrated. 4to. Black cloth. Black leather title label, gilt, laid down on front cover. Gilt patterned boards, some soiling/water marking to rear cover. Corners worn. Spine worn.
Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. English translations by Harry Joshua Leon. The scarce first printing in a good dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, tanning to edges and spine. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, slate-gray cloth w/ silver lettering on spine; maroon end papers; 246 pages. 29 articles, essays & stories; black dust jacket with some rubbing leaving a pattern. Flap unclipped with price sticker. Clean, no markings. Essays spanning nearly thirty years. One of his less common books, having been published by a university press that did a small first printing.
London, New Cavendish Books, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. 150 illustrations, 108 in color. A visual history of the paper images, lithographically printed from early 1800's to about 1900. A bibliography of all known scrap printers.
Softcover. San Francisco, Beach Books, 1st, 2nd printing., 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large folio sheet, printed recto and verso, folded to form an octavo-sized pamphlet. Printed by Vortex Printers (Charley D. and Pamela Plymell), San Francisco, and distributed by Ferlinghetti"s City Lights Bookstore. Browning and wear to folds and edges. Signed ("lawrence") and inscribed (to Roger) by Ferlinghetti in black ink on upper wrapper. This item is from the estate of Roger Shattuck (The Banquet Years, et al).
 "Great Flower Books 1700-1900: A Bibliographical Record of Two Centuries of Finely-Illustrated Flower Books by: Sitwell, Sacheverell Blunt, Wilfrid")
 "Book Decoration in America - 1890 - 1910 - A Guide to the Exhibition by Laurie W. Crichton Hammond, Wayne G./Robert L. Volz")