Books on Books
The Dwarf: A Short History of a Short Man
Santa Cruz: The Good Book Press (Peter & Donna Thomas), 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather, oblong. Slight wear to leather. Number 54 of 150 copies. ca. 3" x 1 1/2" Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 046509. More
Forty (40)
Santa Cruz: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Box with text mounted to turning wooden dowels. One of 40 copies. ca. 3" x 2" Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 046513. More
Nine Poets
Santa Cruz: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper folder, 9 pages laid in. One of 30 copies. ca. 3" x 2 1/2" Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 046510. More
Prospectus of Books, David Godine Publisher. 1970
Boston: David Godine, 1970. Softcover. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 044892. More
Sacramento Book Collectors Club Constitution, By-Laws & Articles of Incorporation With a List of Publications
1977. Softcover. Orange wraps Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 044638. More
Library: An Unquiet History
New York: norton, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author to colleague and co-founder (with the author) of the webzine Hilobrow.com. Very faint shelfwear, otherwise fine. A lovely romp through the often tumultuous history of the library. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category..... More
Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles 1660-1800
Oak Knoll, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Faint shelfwear. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 047368. More
Manual de Testar, Dividir, y Partir, y Discurso Contra la Instruccion de Escrivanos de Joseph Juan y Colom
Madrid: Francisco Xavier Garcia, 1768. Third Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full vellum, slight wear, old spine label. 60pp with a large fold out table with a small central tear. A nice copy of this writing manual. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books;..... More
A Pair on Printing: Atkyns' the Original and Growth of Printing, Reproduced in Facsimile
Paris: Bird & Bull, 1982. Hardcover. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 047362. More
Elementos De Bibliotecogia y Otros
1941. Quarter Leather. A bound volume of interesting library and book articles with some important Spanish writers on the subject including interesting bibliographic information. These are all printings from the early to mid 1900's many printed in Argentina. A full list of all the articles in the volume is: Elementso..... More
Catalogo Razonado De Una Pequena Biblioteca
Buenos Aires: Talleres Graficos Argentinos, 1933. Disbound. Chipped at edges and a bit fragile. 115pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Literature & Literary; Books on Books. Inventory No: 023722. More
Collector's Choice: An Exhibit of Representative Examples from the Collections of Members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco held in the Palace of the Legion of honor on the Occasion of the Joint Meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles & Roxburghe Club of San Francisco September 17-18, 1960
San Francisco: Grabhorn, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. Wraps with a bit of wear and bumping at corners and slight browning. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 041959. More
The Whole Benefits that Paper Brings
Denby Dale: The Fleece Press, 2002. Anthony Christmas. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Decorative paper boards, one of 285 copies. 2" x 3". Size: Miniature. Illustrator: Anthony Christmas. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 045974. More
The Divine Plan
Santa Cruz: Peter & Donna Thomas, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Beige cloth, number 40 of 200. ca. 2 3/4" x 2" Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 046500. More
A Note on Ernest Hemingway
Bradenton, FL: Opuscula, 1991. Hardcover (Original Cloth). 3' x 2 5/8" in original protective sleeve. Size: Miniature. Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 046332. More
The Philobiblon
Berkeley: California, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. A new edition of the 14th century classic on the love of books. Faint shelfwear - unclipped; a lovely copy. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 047378. More
The Library Companion: or, The Young Man's Guide, and The Old Man's Comfort, in the Choice of a Library
London: Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Finely rebound in modern polished calf over marbled paper with raised bands, some foxing. WIth the supplement at the rear. 912pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No..... More
Bibliomania; Or Book Madness; A Bibliographical Romance
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. New and Improved. Hardcover (Half Leather). The 1842 New and Improved edition, large paper issue. Bound in quarter leather over cloth. Light wear and rubbing to binding, front joint a little weak, scattered minor foxing and spotting internally, light offsetting from engravings here and there..... More
Annals of Scottish Printing: From the Introduction of the Art in 1507 to the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century
Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). 137 of 500 on small paper. Finely rebound in 1/4 black and red morocco over blue cloth. Faint soiling to cloth; largely uncut. Bright and clean internally. Size: Quarto (4to). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight..... More
Mineral King-Kern Loop
Santa Cruz: Peter & Donna Thomas, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorative boards, copy 28 of 40. Illustrated throughout, ca. 3" x 2" Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 046512. More
Collecting Steinbeck
Venice, FL: Opuscula, 1983. Hardcover. 3' x 2 1/4". One of 250 signed by the author and the publisher. Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 046337. More
Printers' Choice, A Selection of American Press Books, 1968-1978. Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Grolier Club, New York December 19, 1978- February 3, 1979
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Number 62 of 325 in full cloth with the press samples tipped in. Faint wear and bumping to corners. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 044702. More
Catalogo dei ritratti Romani del Museo Profano Lateranense.
Vatican City: Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original brown cloth, top corners a little bumped, otherwise unmarked. Inscribed from Cardinal Tisserant "following my birthday party for him in Rome on March 24, 1971" to Gilbert Denman Jr. with Tisserant's signed typed note laid down on the..... More
Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered
Chicago: Caxton Club, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Faint wear to jacket. An in depth examination of the leaf book - dispersed through the 19th and 20th centuries, much maligned but little discussed as a (book) cultural phenomenon. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books..... More