Search Results: Books on Books from R & A Petrilla

New York: The Typophiles, 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. (4)pp, printed in black and orange. 7.25" x 4.75". The occasion featured Paul A. Bennett as Master of Ceremonies, an address by Carl Purington Rollins, a quiz by Ben Grauer, and a menu of Goudy's favorite foods.

Worcester: Printed by William Manning, 1819. First Edition. Removed. Very Good. 38pp. Removed from a bound volume of pamphlets, spine reinforced with archival paper, tiny repair to top of first leaf. 9.25" x 5.75" [American Bibliography 46972].

Boston: G.K. Hall & Co, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: xvii, 739 with index. Bound in red buckram over heavy boards, gilt lettering on spine. 10.25" x 7". Deaccessioned from a southern collegiate library: stamp on upper and lower edges, shadow of pocket removed from rear pastedown, slight trace of shelf label, otherwise clean and sound. Contains 5,040 entries.

Princeton: Princeton U Press, 1940. First Separate Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. Unpaginated: 6pp text, 14 plates of captioned wood engravings after Alexander Anderson. Bound in gray wrappers, cover decoration; small chip from top of spine. 8.75" x 5.75" This is one of 200 copies printed from the original wood blocks in the possession of Helen M. Knubel.

Charlottesville: Univ Press of Virginia, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: xii, 189 with index, colophon; 24 black-and-white plates. Bound in black boards and gray cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt printers' marks on cover. 10.25" x 6.75" Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Laid in is the author's business card with a handwritten presentation message, signed Rollo. On the pastedown is the recipient's miniature bookplate.

Philadelphia: Library Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: vii, 205 with index; 15pp illus from photographs, showing several hundred song sheets. Bound in brown buckram, gilt spine lettering. 11.25" x 8.5" Standard reference on the topic.

Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: xiv, 383 with index. Bound in red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 9.5" x 6" Many of the entries are annotated by Matthews.

Chicago: Black Archer Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 333pp; frontispiece and other plates reproducing title-pages. Bound in blue cloth, gilt spine lettering on red block. 7.25" x 4.5" Limited edition of 500 copies. This is #26, signed by the author.

Norman: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. pp: xl, 360, index; 12 illustrations from covers of pamphlets. Bound in black cloth, spine stamped in silver and red. 9.5" x 6.25" Contains 1,126 annotated entries.

New York: Argosy-Antiquarian, Ltd, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Four thick volumes. Bound in red buckram, gilt lettering on spines. 9.25" x 6" Especially strong in Western Americana. Limited to 750 copies.

London: Bibliographical Society, 1900. First Edition. Morocco & Cloth. Fine. pp: xxxi, 143 with addenda and index; frontispiece and 79 illustrations from old woodcuts. A biography of Verard and an introduction to his methods precede an annotated, illustrated census of 286 books printed under his name from 1485 through about 1525. Bound in red morocco and tan cloth boards, gray endpapers, two edges untrimmed. 11" x 8.5" Illustrated Monographs No. VII. Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press, "September 1900 for 1899.

Washington DC: Department of Defense, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes, thick octavo. 4,478pp; large, folding map in color at the back of each volume. Bound in blue buckram, gilt lettering on spines. 9.25" x 6" Best single bibliography on the subject. Volumes 1 and 2 contain 20,003 annotated entries. Volume 3 is a thorough index by sub-topic.

Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: viii, 618 with author, title, and subject indices. Bound in blue buckram, gilt lettering on spine and cover. 11.25" x 8.25

Chicago: Privately Printed, 1932. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 39pp; frontispiece from the first book printed west of the Mississippi River. Printed on octavo signatures and laid into orange wrappers with lettering and decoration on cover. 9.75" x 6.25" One of only 200 copies; this one not numbered.

Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. pp: xxv, 601. Bound in brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, printed dust wrapper. 10.5" x 7.5" Contains 3,089 annotated entries and an index.

Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 196pp w/index. Bound in printed blue wrappers. 9.75" x 6.75" Contains 4,778 entries. Edition limited to 500 copies. Laid into this copy is Vol. 1, No. 1 of "Collecting Delaware Books," February, 1992, 8pp.

Harrisburg: PA Historical & Museum Commission, 1957. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: xxix, 826. Bound in blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine and cover. 9.25" x 6" This greatly expanded second edition has 9,198 entries and a detailed index.

Chicago: Wright Howes, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 112pp; illustrations depict 17 broadsides and title-pages. Bound in red cloth, gilt lettering on spine; title-page and headpieces printed in blue. 9.75" x 6.5" Contains 227 entries. "Of this edition, there have been printed in June, 1944, two hundred copies only.

NY / Cambridge: Edgar H. Wells / Harvard U Press, 1938. First Editions. Original Cloth. Very Good. Two volumes. pp: xviii, 523; xv, 333. Facsimiles of Kipling title-pages; index in each volume. Bound in brown cloth, gilt spine titles. 8.5" x 5.75" Prior owner's address label and name in both volumes.

Cambridge: Harvard Univ Press, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Two volumes. pp: xlii, 278; (ii), 281-677 with index. Bound in blue cloth, gilt lettering on spines, heavily chipped dust wrappers. 10.25" x 7" One of 600 copies printed.