Private library (33 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 48 pages. Cliff Parfit "A Private Library In Japan" / David C Miller "Owen Jones: Ancient Spanish Ballads" / Frank Broomhead "Early American Bookbinding".

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 48 pages. Illustrated. George Jefferson "The Children's Library" / David Chambers "Kickshaws, Paris" / Thorsten Sjolin "The Thoreau Society" / Recent Private Press Books.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 80 pages.

Wraps. Etat : Good. No d/w. First Edition. pp. 65-116; With illustrations. With articles by STOLS, A.A.M.(The Halycon Press); LEE, BRIAN NORTH, (Bookplate Collecting); STRACHAN, W.J.,(The World's End Press); PRANCE, CLAUDE A., (Cricket Books); Covers slightly worn else a bright copy; Size: 8vo. Journal. …

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 64 pages. Illustarted. Robin Myers "Bibliographica Papers on Books, their History and Art 1895-1897" / Abe Lerner "Form And Content The Books of the American Private Presses Today" / Denis Thomas "Bernard Barton And His Friends" / Robin Myers "The Library Of Waddesdon Manor".…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 24 pages. Illustrated. Geoffrey Wakeman "Dr Bentley's Proposal For Building A Royal Library" / Juliet Standing "The Private Press Today" / M F Thwaite "John Newberry - publisher and bookseller, 1713-1767".

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 50 pages. Adagio: the Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr [with a selected checklist], by Gerald Lundeen; Coole Library, by Colin Smythe; Tracking Down the Beats: A Preliminary Survey, by Jim Burns; Reviews and Private Press Books.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 40 pages. Cliff Parfit "An Exlibris Library In Japan". Graham Moss "Staples"/ Recent Private Press Books.

Etat : Very Good. 4 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: The Private Library; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 20 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13.5 x 22 cms. Category: The Private Library; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Etat : Very Good. 24 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 13.5 x 22 cms. Category: The Private Library; Japanese Interest; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Softcover. Etat : Fine. 3 complete issues, with printed card covers. Original printed card covers. Size: 15 x 22 cms. Category: Booklets & Pamphlets; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. Hard Cover. No Jacket. HB NO DJ issued,1916, OP, Green Cloth Decorated cover with Gold Gilt decorations ,Cvr has minor rub & corner bump,bookplate, 192 pgs, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good+. Limited edition of 250 copies signed by Lawrence Lande, this being copy 132. String-tied in blue wrappers with an illustrated front. Deckled edges. Slightly faded along spine; spot of soiling in bottom corner of front cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. Frontispiece and five full-page illustrations showing items from the checklist. 32 pages, plus addenda (pp 33-36) laid-in. 28 x 22 cm. A checklist of manuscripts and printed material from 1715 to 1967, relating principally to the work of the Moravian Church's Missions for the Eskimo of Labrador. It includes a goodly portion of items that were formerly in the Hopedale Archives of Labrador.…

Illustrated wrappers. C.pp32, a very good copy.Includes particularly a 17pp essay by Dreyfus on the series of illustrated British Poets which he had designed for the Limited Editions Club. 'As practically all the Club's members live on the other side of the Atlantic, British readers have rarely been given a chance to see these books . [I therefore] compiled this short account'. Also includes an Editorial by John Cotton : and Reviews of private press books &c by Iain Bain, David Chambers, and John Cotton. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

Softcover. Etat : Fine. 6 complete issues, with printed card covers. Original printed card covers. Size: 15 x 22 cms. Category: Booklets & Pamphlets; New Arrivals; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Soft cover. Etat : New. 1st Edition. Arlington Arts Council, 1992. 1st edition. X+176 pages. New Soft cover. 8.5x10.9x0.5 inches. be5. Photographs from the Arlington Historical Society, Robins Library, and private collections (illustrateur).

Softcover. Etat : Fine. 4 complete issues, with printed card covers. Original printed card covers. Size: 15 x 22 cms. Category: Booklets & Pamphlets; New Arrivals; Cosmo Books : 28 years selling on ABE; 28 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 28 pages. Kim Taylor "The Ark Press" / James Parkes "The Parkes Library" / Sidney Blackmore "Illuminated Manuscripts on Film" / C A Prance "The Farringdon Road Bookstalls" / Recent Private Press Books.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. 20 issue run of this quarterly. 5 annual Volumes. Bright, tight, unmarked and almost unread-looking. In-depth illustrated, and timeless articles for the serious book collector. Please consider patronizing a dealer who knows the difference between a volume and an issue. This seems to be a problem in some quarters.…

First Edition. THE PRIVATE LIBRARY, The Private Library Association, 1968 to 1972, first editions, being Second Series VOLUME 1 NUMBERS 2, 3, 4; VOLUME 2 NUMBERS 2, 3, 4; VOLUME 3 NUMBERS 1, 2, 3, 4; VOLUME 4 NUMBERS 1, 2, 3; VOLUME 5 NUMBER 3, 13 issues, all fine in wraps save one which is vg+ in wraps. From the library of the former premier Walt Whitman collector, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg. Indeed, Volume 1, Number 2 included above contains a 15 page essay on Feinberg by William White with select photos from his collection.…

Hard Cover. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. First Edition. HBDJ, POOR DJ, Has 90% of the dust jackEt, 1904, 1ST EdItion, Book VG- Condition,DJ Large Corner chip but entire Illustration Present & only part R in Pyramid Missing, DJ light Soil, Rub Wear Tiny Chips Tears Extremities, Light Blue & Red Pictorial Cloth Duplicates DJ Illustration, Embosssed Cover Sun Edges, Rub, Wear Extremities, Interior Nice tight Clean light Scuff FOX, Wear, 114 pgs + ADS in Back, . A child's semi-educational (for the time), fantastic voyage to far-away lands in a magic flying car , Charming Story for girls in which 2 little Maidens who lived on large Farm, Take a Trip into Egypt to madeira Islands & Constantinople with a fairy in her magic auto.…

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Thus. HARDBACK NODustJacket, 1920, First Printing THUS. BUT Its Not the Original first edition but a Later Edition published by the author himself in 1920 ,8vo. 277 pages with Crease & Tiny Chips edges Last page .VG/VG- , AS-IS , NOJACKET,Green Cloth Boards with Gold Gilthave faded Extremities Front & Back Cvr & , spine covering is worn at head and foot. Spine Has Darkened , Interior Nice Tight Clean light FOX, WEAR, Rubbed at head and foot of spine. Some discoloration to the cloth. WITH Attached EX-Libris BookPlate Sticker of Felix Mendelsohn his Private Library # 151, This Was Authors 1st Book, ,AUTHOR was Born 1856 in Galway, Ireland & 1869 he immigrated to the United States, In January of 1924 Aleister Crowley came to stay with him for a while. According to one source, they both shared similar 'money troubles" and were 'equal hypochondriacs'. Signed by Author.…

Cloth. Etat : Very good. First Edition. Octavo, xv, [17]-555pp, [3]; xiv, [2], 544pp. Brown pebbled cloth, title stamped in copper on the spine. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover in both volumes, one plate in each volume. Wear to tips of the spine, cloth worn along hinges, foxing to both frontispiece portraits. Internally clean, solid blocks. (Field 1511) (Howes S1039) From the library of Lincoln's Private Secretary, John Hay, signed in both volumes. Volume II is signed and dated "John Hay / 1865." Sir William Johnson (1715-1774) was a British Army officer and Superintendent of Indiana Affairs in the American colonies. From Field: "By far the most valuable contributions to it are contained in the Appendix, in which are printed for the first time, and from the original MSS., two Journals, kept by Sir William, of expeditions to Niagara, Oswego, and Detroit, through the cantonments of the Six Nations, and the Ottawa Confederacy. An Account of the Language and Customs of the Six Nations, and, An Account of the Location and Numbers of Indian Tribes, both written by the Baronet, in the same volume." John Hay (1838-1905) served as the private secretary to President Abraham Lincoln until 1865. Along with John Nicolay, Hay would author a ten-volume biography of President Lincoln called Abraham Lincoln: A History. During the McKinley Administration, Hay returned to government as the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, then later served as Secretary of State. The first edition of The Life And Times Of Sir William Johnson, Bart by William L. Stone, from the library of Lincoln's private secretary and Secretary of State, John Hay. (illustrateur). Signed.…

Cloth. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : very good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 355pp. Maroon cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine and front cover. First edition, with the Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Rubbing to spine with some loss to gilt. Solid text block, clean text. Complete with 24 illustrations. In the publisher's dust jacket, wear to edges, $3.00 on front flap, shelf wear, free of restoration, a scarce jacket which was paired with this copy. Bookplate of Margaret Sanger on front pastedown. Inscribed on the front free endpaper in pencil: "Nov. 1933 / Margaret Sanger / 3501 Newark St / Wash DC." Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) was the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. She was married to Nicholas Longworth III, 38th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, until his death in 1931. Alice would spend the remainder of her life in Washington DC, working through political circles and supporting causes she believed in. She died in 1980 at the age of 96. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was a lifelong advocate for birth control, a term she popularized. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and laid the foundation for organizations such as Planned Parenthood. First edition of Crowded Hours by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from the private library of American activist Margaret Sanger. (illustrateur). Signed. …

Original limp scarlet cloth covered thin boards, gilt title lettering to the front cover. Quarto 10½'' x 8''. Contains 17 full-page representative characters of the play in colour, hand drawn by crafts director, artist? Costume parts not visible on front are drawn separately on verso or opposite page for the benefit of cutters or customer makers. Burnet's craft atelier extended across the first floor of No. 22 Garrick Street and to various other locations in London, including 198 Regent Street. B. Burnet was a top-flight supplier of scenery and costumes, amateur theatricals, tableaux, court suits and uniforms etc. to all the main Theatres. They trace back to the 1850's when Richard Burnet, a draper and engineer (founder of Devonport Mechanics Institute) moved to Covent Garden - initially as Boyd Burnet, Drapers. Their most recent mention at No. 22 Garrick Street dates to the mid 1960's. They went into liquidation in 1969 just before the 1970's economic slump. This unique item carries their in-house library number 22. Member of the P.B.F.A. STAGE & THEATRE.…

Second edition hard back binding in publisher's original powder blue cloth covers, gilt title lettering to the front cover, spine shows title in original paper strip from B. Burnet's in-house library. Quarto 11'' x 8½''. Contains 141 [v illustrated advertisements] printed pages of text with many full page monochrome plates of Fancy Dress Costumes throughout. The Frontispiece is a three part pull out of eight ladies on stage in Fancy Ball Costumes, exquisitely drawn and hand coloured. The First Edition of 112 pages was published in 1881. This undated [1884] extended edition is held only by Devon Library Services per W. Cat. - narrative does not refer to the frontispiece. Rubbing to the spine ends and corners, contents in clean bright condition. Burnet's craft atelier extended across the first floor of No. 22 Garrick Street and to various other locations in London, including 198 Regent Street. B. Burnet was a top-flight supplier of scenery and costumes, amateur theatricals, tableaux, court suits and uniforms etc. to all the main Theatres. They trace back to the 1850's when Richard Burnet, a draper and engineer (founder of Devonport Mechanics Institute) moved to Covent Garden - initially as Boyd Burnet, Drapers. Their most recent mention at No. 22 Garrick Street dates to the mid 1960's. They went into liquidation in 1969 just before the 1970's economic slump. This unique item carries their in-house library number 41. Member of the P.B.F.A. STAGE & THEATRE.…

LeatherBound. Etat : New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1885 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 46 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English. …

First edition in publisher's original ivory card covers, black lettering to spine and upper panel. 8vo 8½" x 5¼" 142, xxii [pp] advertisement for 'The Great Illusion'. Soiling to pale ivory card covers, spine age darkened, foxing to page edges and end papers, shallow edge wear to first two pages. Member of the P.B.F.A. BALKANS. …

London, Private Library Association, 1971-2000. 15 vols. Text & ills. Bound in 15 uniform cloth bindings.Complete run.