E. miriam lone (17 résultats)

cloth. small 8vo. cloth. xiv, 73 pages. Reprint of the first edition. A near fine copy. Lists first books: countries, types, colophons, illustrations, medicine, law, arts and science.

Hardcover. Etat : Good.

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Owner's name and city written inside the front cover. Each cover has a couple tiny rust spots on the lower margin. ; "With a chronology 1821-1875." Last digit was printed as something else, hand corrected to a 5.; 16 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Not Issued. 1st Edition. Imitation vellum over cardstock boards, yapped fore-edges, deckled text block edges, slipcased. No. 95 in an edition limited to 425 copies. Mildly tanned spine panel, otherwise about as issued. Slipcase VG with rubbing at various points. A study of the various "firsts" in the history of printing and bookbinding in 15th-century Europe. xiv,75 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Flexible creme cloth printed in black, 8vo., xiv, 72, (3) pages, 31 mostly facsimile illustrations. One of 425 numbered copies printed at the Southworth Press and signed by the author. Label of the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Typefounders Company, mild bump the head of spine, mild soiling but a very good copy nonetheless. Signed by Author(s).…

cloth. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 73 pages. First edition, limited to 450 numbered copies. Lacking the slipcase. Near fine. Lists first books: countries, types, colophons, illustrations, medicine, law, arts and science. Bookplate indicates that this copy came from the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Limited Edition. SIGNED, Limited Edition (this is No. 211 of 425 copies printed by Fred Anthoensen at the Southworth Press in Portland, Maine), in original slipcase. Clean beige-yellow cloth flexible boards with yapped (extended) edges. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. All pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated. 75 pages. Black paper-covered slipcase has some small edge chips, no cracking, is clean and unfaded. Signed by Author(s).…

flex back. Etat : Like New. cream colored boards are slightly faded slipcase in fine shape 112/450.

Etat : Good. Good condition. Slipcase Good. (books, incunabula, printing) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Cream cloth boards with yapped fore edges, black titles to spine, 220 x 140 mm approx. uncut fore and bottom edges, xiv + 74 pp + limitation page and blanks. Frontis, decorative title and 30 other illustrations all as called for. Nos. 78 of a limited edition of 425. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good / Poor slip case (Book - some general shelf soiling and wear to spine, book plates of two bibliophiles to front paste down - Francis Kettaneh and Johnathan Wrobel, that of Kettaneh has mirrored to front free end paper. No notable defects. Significant rubbing to slip case with cellotape repairs).…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 425 copies printed in black (with type ornaments in reddish-brown) on rag paper at The Southworth Press and signed by the author. Inserted plates. Cream linen with black spine titling and yapped edges. Boards just slightly soiled. Black paper-covered slipcase. A very good copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Wraps. Etat : Fine. One of 425 copies signed by the author. With illusttations. Bound in publisher's original stiff ivory wraps with yap edges. Spine lettered in black. Illustrations include a page of the first book printed with moveable type, by Donatus, c. 1448; various specimens of type, including Gothic, Greek, and Hebrew; colophons, wood and metal cuts, and other elements of period printing. Slipcase in very good condition. …

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 1st. Publisher's original cream cloth covered boards with yapped fore edges, black titles printed on spine. Black paper covered slip case. Some minor wear to corners of slip case. Number 91 of 425 copies printed by Fred Anthoensen at Southworth Press. Signed by author on colophon. Signed.…

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. Moderate soil / tanning to wrapers; Biography with 1" closed tear to joint at foot of spine, light crease to leading lower edge. Check-List with area of foxing to verso of half-title and recto of frontis. ; Printed gray wrappers; Check-List with portrait frontis of Browne. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80; 16 pages; John Ross Browne was born in Ireland, 1821 and brought to Kentucky at the age of 11. Browne explored the American West and wrote about his experiences, providing valuable insights into the region during a time of rapid expansion. His works include "Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk" and "Adventures in the Apache Country." Browne's colorful descriptions and illustrations captured the spirit of the frontier during the mid-1800s.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Stiff boards covered with velum pattern cloth. Yap foredges. 5 _ x 8 _ (22 cm). Title and author printed in black at head of spine, publisher and date printed in black at tail of spine. Bookplate on front pastedown with historic seal of Portland, Maine "Resurgam Sigillum Civitatis Portlandiae Ex Libris Philip Greely Brown" with reproduced autograph. Brown was a lawyer and prominent Mainer, public library benefactor, and book collector. First flyleaf with penciled description from a previous seller, and tipped-in clipped description from catalog in which this book was offered. Also penciled on this leaf is the inscription ñfor Nancy from C + V Christmas 1961î. C and V are Carolyn and Victor Hammer, well-known letterpress printers based at the University of Kentucky. Nancy is Nancy Chambers Lair, a letterpress printer in her own right and a friend of the Hammers. Textblock head trimmed and colored brown, foredges and tail deckled. Unnumbered pages 78-79, rear flyleaves, remain uncut. Colophon reads: ñOf this book 425 copies have been printed by Fred Anthoensen The Southworth Press Portland Maine Of which Nos. 26-425 are for saleî (This copy is unnumbered.) An association copy of a scarce Southworth Press volume, in excellent condition. book.…

Octavo, original stiff vellum boards, uncut, number 314 of only 425 copies printed by Fred Anthoensen at The Southworth Press; and signed by the author on the colophon leaf; very fine and in the original, now worn, board slip case. Miss Lone was brought from England by Lathrop Harper as a cataloger; her area of great expertise was incunabula, a field in which Harper excelled, and Miss Lone was the driving intelligence behind the great Harper catalogue of incunabula published in five parts in 1930, and containing over one thousand incunabula. Miss Lone in turn brought her 16 year old nephew, Douglas Parsonage, to work for Harper, where he remained for virtually the remainder of his life. The contents of this handy reference work deal with, inter alia, countries, languages, various types and type fonts, illustrations medicine, science, the arts, components of the book and its make up, etc. First edition. …

LONE, E. Miriam. SOME NOTEWORTHY FIRSTS IN EUROPE DURING THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. New York: Lathrop C. Harper, 1930. 8vo. Cloth. xiv, 75 pages, 5 plates. One of 425 numbered copies. Printed by Fred Anthoensen, with many illustrations in the text.