[Rarebooks] For Sale: 4 books on bookplates

[Norman Kane]

LABOUCHERE, NORNA.   LADIES' BOOK-PLATES. AN ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK FOR 
COLLECTORS AND BOOK-LOVERS.   London & N. Y.: Bell, 1895.  First 
trade edition.  Original cloth, spine edge wear.  Plates (one a color 
lithograph, one missing) & many other illus.  $55.00

EMICH, KARL, COUNT ZU LEININGEN-WESTERBURG.   GERMAN BOOK-PLATES. AN 
ILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK OF GERMAN & AUSTRIAN EXLIBRIS.  TRANSLATED BY G. 
RAVENSCROFT DENNIS.  London & N. Y.: Bell, 1901.  First edition, #41 
of 75 tall copies on Japanese vellum.  Original parchment wrappers, 
some spine wear & rubbing, fully uncut.  5 plates (3 in color) & many 
illus.  Scarce in this format.  $250.00

DIXSON, ZELLA ALLEN.   CONCERNING BOOK-PLATES. A HANDBOOK FOR 
COLLECTORS.  FIRST EDITION WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND PLATES.  Chicago: 
Wisteria Cottage Press, 1903.  Original pictorial cloth decorated in 
color with wisteria vines and flowers.  The scarce "Author's Edition" 
(most copies seem to be in wrappers.)  A nice copy, with frontispiece 
& 30 plates, as listed.  CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS' COPY, with his 1905 
bookplate and an Autograph Letter Inserted to him, mentioning the 
John Adams bookplate & Mr. Terry's bookplate collection. Small 
author's ticket at rear, and an advt. for her "Subject Index to 
Fiction" laid in.  $125.00

HAMILTON, WALTER.   FRENCH BOOK-PLATES. A HANDBOOK FOR EX-LIBRIS 
COLLECTORS.   London & N. Y.: Bell, 1892.  Original cloth, some spine 
edge wear. One of 464 copies (whole edition, 500.)   Many illus.  $50.00

All the above subject to 10% trade discount.


THE AMERICANIST (ABAA),
113 Creeks Edge, Chapel Hill, NC USA 27516-8962
Telephone: 919-967-9287 email: nkane at kanebooks.com.
Proprietor: Norman Kane (50 years as an antiquarian bookseller.)