357 pp. catalogue from the venerable firm, fully describing over two hundred items for sale, including illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, letters from notable people (John Boswell, Robert and Elizabeth Browning among others), and manuscripts, illustrated on plates throughout. Lg. 4to. Wrpps., covers slightly discolored, ex-library copy with bookplate inside front cover..... More

Unpaginated volume containing 8 cardstock leaves depicting members of the circus to be cut out and assembled with small paper fasteners such as brads, one side of the cardstock page in chromolithograph, the reverse in black and white with indications as to where to fold and attach the various pieces..... More

Moscow: Fizkultura i Sport, 1928. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed boards with decorative covers affixed to front and back; [86] leaves of texts and photo-montage to rectos and versos. Album published in conjunction with the first Winter and Summer Spartakiads held in Oslo and Moscow in February and August, 1928, with..... More

26 pp. introd. text and descriptions (first 14 pp. misbound), 152 fine collotype plates. Folio. Cloth, upper corner sl. bumped, bottom edge sl. rubbed. London (Victor Gollancz) 1928. One of 398 copies of the English edition within a total edition of 553 copies. More

Moscow: Izdatel'stvo MGSPS “Trud i Kniga”, 1925. Octavo (22 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 125, [3] pp. Light wear and soil to wrappers; a few nicks to spine; still good or better. The aim of this handbook is to convey the importance of reading within the Soviet education system..... More

24 pp. foreword and catalogue of works, 100 plates displaying samples of Danish printers' works, including typefaces, initial letters, illustrations, title pages, colophons and other distinctive creations, some in red ink. Folio. Half vellum and boards, small stains on boards. Copenhagen (Nordisk Forlag) 1934. A finely printed work on Danish..... More

3 vols.: I. Livres anciens, Editions originales et Livres illustrés des XVe, XVIe et XVIIe Siècles, Très beaux Livres à figures du XVIIIe siècle. II. Livres de la Période Romantique, ...Très Riches Reliures Mosaiquées... III. Editions Originales... Très Beaux Livres Illustrés Modernes... 98, 203, 247 pp. descriptive auction catalogue of..... More

2 vols. in 1, 365 pp. commentary on ten works from late 15th century France, including translations of some, bibliographies, index, text illustrations; 309 pp. facsimiles of the ten works, including Molinet, Temple de Mars, Pfettisheim, Guerres de Bourgogne, Traité d'Arras and De La Marche, Le Chevalier Délibéré, illustrations from..... More

XV, 250 pp. list, arranged by location, of many hundreds of bookbinders active during the first part of the 19th century, references, introd. text, 16 nice plates. Sm. 4to. Cloth. London (The Author) 1954. One of 500 copies. More

Kampf. (IV) pp. introductory text and biographical material on the German artist who headed the School of Visual Arts in Berlin from 1915 to 1924, list of plates, and 20 fine etched plates showing scenes from Shakespeare plays. Large folio. 3/4 cloth and boards portfolio. Berlin (Wegweiser) n.d. (ca. 1925)..... More

Tbilisi, 1923. Quarto (29.5 × 22.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Kirill Zdanevich, a lithograph printed in black and red; 32 pp. Numerous illustrations throughout. About very good; tiny hole to upper right edge; rust to staples. Final issue of this rare and important Georgian avant-garde journal of literature and..... More

4 vols., catalogue by Isak Collijn of the incunabulae in the Royal Library, Stockholm, including 1122 entries, an essay on Johann Snell and a supplement covering 360 additions from 1915-1939, 150 plates of facsimiles of pages of the works. Texts: Sm. 4to. (vol.1, boards; vol. 2 and suppl. wrpps.); Plates..... More

Warsaw: nakł. Związku Zawodowego Pracowników Kolejowych Rzplitej Polsk., 1937. Octavo (20.5 × 14.7 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 32 pp. Very good. First and only edition of this volume of poems based on the life of Polish railwaymen, by the Polish proletarian socialist writer and political activist Edward Szymanski (1907–1943)..... More