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[Norman Kane]

GROLIER CLUB. A CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF RENAISSANCE BOOKBINDINGS HELD AT THE GROLIER CLUB FROM DECEMBER 17, 1936 TO JANUARY 17, 1937. WITH AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY LUCIUS WILMERDING. N.Y. Grolier Club. 1937. First edition, one of 200 copies. Original printed wraps. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches; 68 pages. Minor soiling to wraps, still vg+. A catalogue of 107 items, illustrated with a number of full-page photographs. ($15) 



HOWE, E., Editor. THE LONDON COMPOSITOR. Documents Relating to Wages, Working Conditions and Customs of the London Printing Trade, 1785-1900. London. The Bibliographical Society. 1947. Octavo, approx 8.75 x 6 inches. 1st edition. Orig cloth-backed boards. An important work, based on a thorough study of contemporary records. Of interest to historians of the book & printing trades as well as to those interested in the economics of wages & the employment of labor in 19th Century England. ($10) 



1946 ANNUAL VOLUME OF PRIVATE BOOKPLATES. Bookplate Collectors Club. London. 12mo. in illustrated stiff wraps with spiral spine. Attractively printed bookplate designs each printed on colored paper stock. ($15)



MENDELSSOHN, Peter de. S. FISCHER UND SEIN VERLAG. S. Fischer Verlag. 1970. 8vo. (8-1/2 x 5-1/4 inches). 1487 pages including a bibliography of sources; a list of authors and their works, etc., and a detailed index. Nice copy in dust wrapper (slight edgewear). Photo-frontis of Fisher. Text in German. (Definitive account of this important German publisher whose authors include Mann, Hesse, Hauptmann, et al). ($20)



WIESE, Fritz. SONDERARBEITEN DES BUCHBINDERS. EIN WERKBUCH FUR UNTERRICHT UND WERKSTATT. [Hannover:] Schlutersche, [1984]. Third edition, enlarged. Original mauve cloth. Approx. 10 x 7 inches; 192 pages. Numerous drawings in the text. Index. ($10)



KEBLE, John. EVENING. E.P. Dutton. NY. 1884. Second American edition, following the first American edition of the previous year, which was the first edition with these illustrations. Original publisher's flexible white boards with title and author's name, in an attractive script, cast in a chrome-like metal and affixed to the front board. Approx. 8 x 6 inches; [16] leaves, printed rectos only, including engraved half-title. Tear to base of spine, some soiling to boards; good plus. Illustrations throughout the text engraved by George T. Andrew after Frank T. Merrill, J.D. Woodward, and F. Childe Hassam. This poem was first published in book form as "Keble's Evening Hymn" in 1865, but with different illustrations. ($10)



HARRINGTON, Frank G. PRAISE PAST DUE. A Memoir of Richard Ellis. Designer and Printer, 1894-1982. Typographeum. Francestown, New Hampshire. 1991. 175 copies only. Large octavo, approx 9.75 x 6.25 inches. 65, [ix] pages. Tipped in portrait frontispiece. Facsimiles of title pages. Original red cloth, printed paper spine label. [Includes a short-title check list of 136 books designed and/or printed by Richard Ellis, one of the master printers of the 20th Century.] TWO COPIES  ($15 for both)



MIDDLETON, Bernard C. A HISTORY OF ENGLISH CRAFT BOOKBINDING TECHNIQUE. New York and London: Hafner Publishing Company, [1963]. First edition. Original blue boards with good price-clipped dust wrapper (sunned spine, slight foxing, small tear to lower front corner). Near fine interior. Approx. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; xv, 307 pages. Color frontispiece. Illustrated in black and white throughout and with 11 black-and-white plates following the text. Foreword by Howard M. Nixon. Publisher's presentation stamp on front free endpaper and review slip tipped in at rear. ($15) 

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