Catalog 30
Winchester, VA: Lorne Bair Rare Books, 2019. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); pictorial card wrappers; 252pp.; fully illustrated in color. New. More
Winchester, VA: Lorne Bair Rare Books, 2019. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); pictorial card wrappers; 252pp.; fully illustrated in color. New. More
[New York]: Printed for the Society by J. Seymour, 1830. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; viii,[9]-72pp. Lacking half title (or blank?), first signature starting to separate but present, else Very Good. Catalog lists more than 1100 works. More
Cape Town: University of Cape Town Libraries, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Printed pale green card wrappers; 29pp. Fine, with U.S. price (70ยข) stamped at base of front cover. An well-annotated bibliography, containing 164 items, an appendix of relevant periodicals, and index. More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (Purple cloth stamped in orange and gilt, in yellow dust jacket; [x],197,[1]pp. Pushed at spine ends, light dustiness to edges of textblock: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $7.50) faded at spine, generally Very Good. More
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1968. Quarto (26cm). Black paper over boards, backed in beige buckram, in green burlap-covered slipcase; [xvi],250pp; black and white illus. Straight and clean, pushed at head, with minor scuff to front: Near Fine. Slipcase gently rubbed with short loose threads at edges..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (25.5cm). Black cloth, titled in gilt; x,286pp; black and white illustrations. Bookplate and ownership inscription of James G. Mead. Bumped at head and tail, else Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, else Near Fine. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. "Re-examines fundamental aspects of what has been widely termed the printing revolution of the early modern period" (rear cover). Octavo (26cm). Black publisher's cloth, in yellow and blue dust jacket; [xvi],311pp; black and white illustrations. Bookplate of James Glen Mead. A straight, fresh..... More
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1942. Octavo (27cm). Blue cloth, gilt spine title, pale blue typographic dust jacket; [xiv]147,[1]pp. Inscribed by Beatrice Warde to librarian Nora Beust on front free endpaper. With bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead on front pastedown. Straight and sound, though foxed at endleaves and prelims..... More
London: Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1960. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth stamped in gilt; [viii],[56]pp; folding map at rear. Spine lightly sunned, else Near Fine. With a leaf laid in depicting de Worde's printer's devices. One of five hundred copies printed. More
Chicago: American Library Association, 1922. First Edition. A short, moving vignette in support of public libraries, recalling a chance encounter Morley had on a side-street in Philadelphia, where he came upon a young girl sitting on a stoop, reading a library book. "In the soiled little book she had shown..... More
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. First Edition. Biography of and essays on the original illustrator for Alice in Wonderland. First printing. Octavo (26cm). Plum publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt, with cream dust jacket; purple endpapers; [xvii],405,[1]pp; black and white illus. A bright, fresh copy with slight shelfwear: Near fine..... More
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (26cm). Staple-bound wrappers; 99pp. Clean, tight and unmarked - a VG copy. Finding aid to the NAACP papers at LOC. More
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1976. First Edition. Quarto (26cm). Staple-bound wrappers; 99pp. Clean, tight and unmarked - a VG copy. Finding aid to the National Urban League papers at LOC. More
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019. Quarto (29cm). Yellow cloth in pictorial dust jacket; x,[2],239,1]pp; 104 color plates. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Sound and clean, slightly bumped at lower edge: Near Fine. Jacket with a few small bumps and creases at head and tail, else Near Fine..... More
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1928. First Edition. First printing; trade issue. Octavo; blue cloth over paper-covered boards; dustjacket; [ix],[1]-410pp; illus. Engraved bookplate of Hugh Savage Clark inside front cover, with small institutional deaccession stamp (Carnegie Mellon Library) in margin of bookplate. Else a clean, Near Fine copy in..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. First, Limited Edition. No. 306 of 750 numbered copies. Quarto (32cm). Cloth-backed paper-covered boards; 222pp; illus. Mounted color frontispiece; 128 text illustrations, many full-page. An attractive, Near Fine copy, lacking the slipcase. More
Paris: Alyscamps Press, 1994. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Plain card wrappers with pictorial dustjacket; 120pp. Fine, unread copy. History of this small Paris expatriate press, established in 1930 by Michael Fraenkel to publish his own work and that of his friends including Walter Lowenfels, D.H. Lawrence, and Henry Miller. More
London: The British Library / Oak Knoll Press, 1998. Reprint. Octavo (23cm). Maroon paper wrappers; xiv,326pp; black and white illus. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Straight and tight, front wrap rippled from bookplate glue, else fresh and clean: Very Good or better. More
Boston: David R. Godine, 2016. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (26cm). Publisher's grey paper-covered boards, backed in brown cloth, stamped in gilt, in pictorial jacket; brown pictorial endpapers; 223pp; color illustrations throughout. Inscribed by the author on half-title to noted zoologist James Glen Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 2016. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (26cm). Publisher's grey paper-covered boards, backed in brown cloth, stamped in gilt, in pictorial jacket; brown pictorial endpapers; 223pp; color illustrations throughout. A fresh, clean copy, Fine in a Fine jacket. More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. 12mo (19cm). Brown cloth, titled in black and gilt; yellow coated endpapers; xii,166,26pp; 24pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Straight and sound, lightly rubbed at edges: Very Good. More
New Orleans: Faust Publishing, 1988. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm.); original green gilt-lettered cloth; xviii,115pp.; frontispiece, photographic illus. throughout; green photographically illustrated endpapers. Fine. More
Minneapolis: H.W. Wilson Company, 1905. Edition not stated. Quarto (25.5cm); brown cloth, stamped in gilt (spine); patterned endpapers, speckled textblock edges; [38]+393pp. Boards smudged and rubbed, particularly about the extremities; minor scratches. Textblock has small crease along upper corner; soiling and light foxing intermittent throughout; title page has library reception..... More
New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1983. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged. Red publisher's cloth, with tan dust jacket; [x],223pp. Bookplate of James Mead. A clean, fresh copy, slightly dusty at top edge: Near Fine. Jacket with slight discoloration at upper flap corners, else clean: Near Fine. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Tan paper over boards, backed in orange paper, in pictorial dust jacket; black and white illus. Bookplate and ownership inscription of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Straight and clean, pushed at head and tail, edges rubbed: Very Good. Jacket lightly..... More