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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. First edition. Small 4to, xii, 141 pp, illustrated. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with a hint of wear at the top of the spine "The author, Edward R Lhotka, shares the leather bookbinding techniques he learned and perfected during his forty-eight years at the RR Donnelley and Sons Company's "Extra Bindery" in Chicago For twelve of these years (1924-1935) Lhotka was an apprentice and journeyman under the tutelage of the master bookbinder, Alfred de Sauty." ~Abstract courtesy OCLC

Richmond: Davis Bottom, Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, volume xi, numbers 3 - 4, July, October, 1919. 8vo, [3], 41 - 144 pp. (as issued). Original printed, stapled paper wraps.Wraps soiled, with edge wear including tears, corner chipped away at rear wrap, covers nearly detached, spine partially perished, about good & still quite useful.Wealthy planter, substantive contributor to agricultural studies, & vociferous advocate of slavery, Edmund Ruffin, proclaiming his "unmitigated hatred to Yankee rule—to all political, social and business connections with Yankees, & to the perfidious, malignant, & vile Yankee race," wrapped himself in a Confederate flag & blew his brains out after the surrender of Robert E. Lee.

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library/ Bibliographical Society of America; London: British Library; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. First edition. Small folio, xiv, 318 pp, illustrated (some in color) Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket
A fine copy in like dust jacket"The child as the audience for books in the English language is the subject of this bibliographical study, which had its origins in an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York From this beginning, Felix de Marez Oyens and Brian Alderson have compiled Be Merry and Wise and shown how certain creative talents, driven by a sense of purpose, or a wish to make some money, attempted to appeal directly to children, and how the publishing industry came to realise that this audience might prove to constitute a profitable market " ~Excerpted from the dust jacket

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1992). First edition, first printing. 8vo, xiv, 321 pp. Publisher's blue paper over boards backed in dark blue cloth lettered in lighter blue on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in fine dust jacket.
"Readers will delight in Janeway's journey of discovery as they share an insider's glimpse of the world of old and not-so-old rare books Booked to Die is a finely crafted, fast-moving, multilayerd novel from a writer at the peak of his powers." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1937 First edition 8vo, 109 unnumbered pages, with occasional illustrations in text. Publisher's light brown paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered dark brown paper. Spine a bit faded, otherwise near fineEpstean donated his library to Columbia in 1934. The collection included acquisitions from Stephen H. Horgan, William Gamble, Josef Maria Eder, and Gabriel Cromer.

Los Angeles: Heritage Bookshop, 1982 & 1983. First editions, complete in two quarto volumes (11" x 8.5"), xvi, 120; xvi, 95 pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's olive cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, in pictorial dust jackets.
Modest sunning at the spine & upper margins, otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jackets, a bit toned, with minor edge wear.
An indispensible reference for the book collector, dealer or librarian.

New Haven: Yale University Library, 1980. First edition. Octavo (9.75" x 6.25"), xxiii & 570 pages, with frontis. Publisher's green cloth with a printed paper spine label, with a duplicate label mounted to the last leaf.
A fine copy.
A splendid reference, the collection includes books, manuscripts, letters, clippings, original drawings by Dickens's illustrators, & Dickensiana.

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, (1982) 4to, xv, 260 pp, illustrated (some in color) Publisher's decorated paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered brick cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Slight edge wear, otherwise near fine in like dust jacket "The splendid gift from Lessing J Rosenwald to the Library of Congress is one of the greatest collections of illustrated books to be found anywhere in the world." ~from the dust jacket

New York: Privately Printed, [The De Vinne Press], 1908. Limited edition, number 396 of 425 copies on handmade Italian paper, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink by Ira Hutchinson Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow at the ffep & additionally signed by Mary Brainard French on a following leaf. Tall octavo (9.75" x 7"), xiii & 95 pages plus 13 plates. Publisher's light gray paper over boards backed in dark gray cloth, with a printed paper spine label. Publisher's prospectus dated 1907 laid-in. Edges uncut.
Binding soiled & moderately rubbed, text block beginning to crack in a couple of places (still secure), previous owner's bookplate at the front pastedown, sporadic minor foxing, otherwise good or better. Prospectus soiled & folded.
An important association copy from author Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow, whose bookplate is applied to the front pastedown. Noted for portrait painting, Conrow's art can be found at the National Portrait Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the… Read More

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1895 First edition, limited to 500 copies, this number 244. Large folio (1525" x 12"), xvii pages followed by 66 color plates with descriptive text & tissue guards interleaved, the plates printed by William Griggs "chromo-lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen." Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth Top edge gilt, the others uncut, decorated endpapers. Binding rubbed, soiled, & faded at the spine & margins, fraying at spine extremities & corners, upper joint partially split, corners bruised, text block cracked in a couple of places, modest internal toning, Good or so & still quite serviceable. This copy from the library of noted collector Otto Orren Fisher with his bookplate at the front pastedown. In 1949, Fisher donated the most significant books of his 80,000 volume collection, including four Shakespeare Folios, to his alma mater, Miami University. Please note, international shipping for this volume is by quote only

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987. "Revised Edition," first thus, this a review copy with slip laid in Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), xix, 479, & [1] pp, generously illustrated Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth.Cloth lightly soiled, edges of the text block slightly foxed & briefly soiled, otherwise Very Good.Originally published in 1972, this edition adds over 100 pages & includes: Separate publications, First-appearance contributions to books and pamphlets, First appearances in magazines and newspapers, Keepsakes, Interviews, Articles that include Fitzgerald material, Blurbs, English-language editions of story collections published in Japan, Published plays based on Fitzgerald stories, & Movie work.

London and New York: George Redway, 1897 First edition, complete in two volumes. 8vo, xlvi, 294, [2]; 379 pp, with 5 portraits Publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth. Moderately soiled, brief wear mostly at spine extremities, internally toned & occasionally foxed, still very good. "Among literary people, it seldom, I think, occurs that such a continuity of association and sympathy is found, as renders one family the storehouse and guardian of facts about individuals, and about places identified with them, during a space of years extending back from the present day to the second quarter of the eighteenth century" ~William Carew Hazlitt, from the preface.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1944). First edition. Tall octavo (9.5" x 6.75"), xiv, 591, & xvi pp. plus 15 plates, & 4 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in printed & decorated dust jacket. Red top stain.
Modest toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise near fine in good only dust jacket, browned at the spine, moderately soiled, with edge wear including tears, small losses, & old tape repairs on the verso.
"Miss Ratchford, Librarian of the Rare Books Collections of the University of Texas, after years of research, has now edited the the letters of Wise to his American friend Wrenn, proving further forgeries and involving in the guilt H. Bruxton Forman and Sir Edmund Gosse, distinguished menof letters." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Rulon-Miller Books, 2011 First trade edition, one of 400 unnumbered copies from a total print run of 450 (which includes 50 "special" copies), this copy inscribed, signed & dated by Rulon-Miller & signed by Schanilec & Kelly. 8vo, [7], 134, & [1] pp, illustrated. Publisher's midnight blue cloth with printed paper label on the spine. Laid in, although not called for, is an octavo wood engraving in color depicting New York's White Horse Tavern, number 184 of 200 signed by Schanilec (Rulon-Miller/ Quarter to Midnight C-41 K)
A fine & apparently unread copy

Amsterdam: Gerard Th. van Heusden, 1969. 4to, xxvii & 463 pp, plus illustrations. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth.Lightly soiled, brief wear at bottom corners, text modestly toned, otherwise very good.Originally published in 1891.

Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library, 1975. Complete in two volumes. First editions. Small folios, [10], 598, 57; [8], 630 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, the upper covers decorated with the Seal of Virginia.
Brief wear at spine extremities (including a couple of nicks), lightly rubbed & spotted, otherwise very good.
Volume one provides holdings by author & title, volume two by subject.