Search Results: Books on Books from The Owl at the Bridge

Vicenza, Neri Pozza Editore, 1975. Soft Cover. 147 p., illus., 21.5 cm. On the beginning of printing in Vicenza, Italy, in 1474. This is the proceedings of a conference and the text of an exhibition to celebrate the 500th anniversary. Stock#31, 114. Vg/ wrappers.

Boston, Merrymount Press, 1944. 1 sheet, [4] p.; 14 x 19.5 cm. Decorated with calligraphic figures from the Press's fonts. Pages [2] and [3] blank. Cf. Updike / Smith, Bibliography, p. 350. Stock#OB984a. VG.

New York, MLA [c1972]. Soft Cover. xxiv, 212 p., 26.5 cm. Categories are: General, English, American, Medieval and Neo-Latin, Celtic Literatures; and Folklore. Stock#40889. Vg/ paper.

New York, MLA, [c1978]. Soft Cover. xliii, 290 p., 26.5 cm. General, English, American, Medieval and Neo-Latin, Celtic Literatures; and Folklore. Stock# 40,890. Vg/ paper.

New York, MLA, [c1983].. Soft Cover. xxxix, 253, A1-A420- p., 26.5 cm. Vol. 1 of five. British, American, Australian, English-Canadian, New Zealand, and English-Caribbean Literatures.. Stock# 40,973. Vg/ paper.

New York, MLA, [c1983].. Soft Cover. xl, 246, A1-A418 p., 26.5 cm. Vol. 1 of five. British, American, Australian, English-Canadian, New Zealand, and English-Caribbean Literatures. Stock# 40,974. Vg/ paper.

New York, Dover Publications [c1964]. Soft Cover. [vii], 203, [2], p, 200 illus., (facsims.), 28.5 cm. "The 203 full-page plates are arranged within three historical periods" 1.) The woodcut title beginning in 1475, 1-69) 2.) The etched or engraqved title (70-137), 3.) The nineteenth century and beyond (138-203). Stock# 44,771. Good+ / soft cover.

Marshfiels, WI, W. Bruce Fye, [1992]. Periodical. 17 p., 250 items, 22.5 cm. "Our firm was founded ... in New York City [in 1972] ...our only previous sale was in 1978 when we moved from Baltimore to Marshfield." IAB. Stock# 44,205. Vg, catalog.

Munchen, K.G. Saur, 1999.. Soft Cover. xxxi, 183 p.; 29.5 cm. Bibliography by Andreas Brandmair and Konrad Kratsch. The first fifty years of this Munich publisher have been ones of growth and of big and significant projects. Stock#101,233. Fine/stiff wrappers. Publishing Germany

(Hamburg: Maximilian-Ges. [1971].). Soft Cover. 20 p. 8 plates, 24 cm. A celebration of 60 years of the Hamburg publisher of fine books, Maximilian-Gesellschaft. Stock# 37,688. Vg/ paper.

Bookseller catalogue listing 80 items by and about Daniel Defoe and his times. Stapled in pictorial wraps; Good with ink marks on cover. Stock#ofc0273.

Boston: Merrymount Press [1938]. First Edition. Soft Cover. [2], 9, [1] p.; 18 cm. Title continues: Books on Printing at the Providence Public Library: Providence, Rhode Island, December sixteenth, 1937. Cover title: The Updike Collection of Books on Printing. Remarks by Mr. Updike at the official opening of its new installation..." The first part of the title is given in the form of the collection bookplate. Imprint from colophon: One hundred and seventy-five copies printed. The Merrymount Press. Boston; date from Bianchi, D. B. Suppl. bib. ...1934-1949. Smith, Merrymount Press (pp. 61-268), 849. With inserted slip, "With the compliments of the Providence Public Library". Pamphlet; very good. Stock#OB887x.

Boston: Merrymount Press, 1902. Hard Cover. 3 leaves, 3-51 pages, 2 portraits; 19 cm. Cover title: Two Addresses by Col. H. L. Higginson. Higginson, a Civil War veteran, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and proud Harvard alumnus, donated the land for Soldier's Field to his University. Smith, Merrymount 116. Stock#OB873.

Catalogue of an exhibition in honor of the meeting of the Walpole Society. 65 entries. Softcover. 44 pages, facsimiles; 24 cm. Good in blue-gray wrappers, edges sunned. Stock#28147/h.

NY, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1966. Periodical. 4 p.l., 164 p., illus., 765 lots, 26 cm. Title continues: following the Accession of the Western Americana Collection of the late Everett D. Graff. Stock#43588. Vg / paper cover.

San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library, 1966. Hard Cover. xix, 683 p., index, 24 cm. The contribution consists of 6175 short title entries with imprints, notes and location of copies. Stock# 44,690. Vg / no dj.

Charlottesville, Va. UP for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia [1967].. Hard Cover. 189 p., index, plates; 26 cm. This continues the story of Lawrence Wroth's Colonial Printer, but as Mr. Wroth is not mentioned, there may have been bad feelings. Stock# 37,509. Vg/ no dj. printing history

Washington, CT, Bancroft-Parkman, 1989. Hard Cover. xxvii, 1024 p., 22.5 cm. Stock# 40,971. Vg, stamps, but unused of a public library/ no dj.

Articles on the transfer of Icelandic manuscripts from Denmark to Iceland (page 5); "Western Book Roundup" (pages 6, 34-37) by "The Old Bookaroos"; "Des Esseinte's Library", an imagined fiction of a Huysman novel (pages 7-11); "Edmund Gorey, an American Gothic," by Thomas McDade (pages 12-17). McDade on Gorey is rare and desirable; includes bibliography and illustrations.40 pages, illustrated, 28 cm. Stapled; Good+. Stock#48209.

NY, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1967. [4], 27 p., illus., 143 lots; 26 cm. Title continues: from the stock of Edward Eberstadt & Sons, sold by order of Lindley and Charles Eberstadt. Stock#43500. Vg / soft cover.