Volume I Books: Labor & Radical Politics Catalog Four Spring 1996
Hillsdale, MI: Volume I Books, 1996. Paperback. [2], 28, [2] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Pink card covers printed in black; stapled. In Near Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
Hillsdale, MI: Volume I Books, 1996. Paperback. [2], 28, [2] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Pink card covers printed in black; stapled. In Near Fine Condition: clean and bright. More
Montreal, Can. Helen R. Kahn, 2003. Paperback. [68] p.: 7 full-page illustrations; 21 cm. Yellow wrappers printed in black and red. Bookdealer's catalog containing 122 descriptions of works in the categories of Exploration, HIstory, War, Natural History, Biography, and Politics. In Near Fine Condition: wrapper slightly rubbed; pages are clean..... More
Philadelphia: Winchell Co., 1978. Paperback. 39, [1] p.; 28 cm. Red paper covers printed in white and black. No date of publication, but contains typeface samples from Winchell's Linotron 202, which was introduced in 1978. In Near Fine Condition: faint rubbing to cover. More
Baltimore: Schneidereith & Sons, 1940. Hardcover. 23, [1] p., frontispiece portrait of Gutenberg, [4] p. of illustrations; 21 cm. Dark brown cloth spine and red-brown paper over boards; gilt spine and cover titles. Red-brown endpapers. Printed in red and black. This is no. 51 of a limited edition of 750..... More
Duschnes Crawford, 1949. Erdoes, Richard. Hardcover. [4], 107-189, [1] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Illustrated paper over boards. With original glassine wrapper. Designed by Robert L. Dothard. One of a limited edition of 2,500 copies. Paginated continuously with Part 5. Contents: Another Man's Roses by Frederick B. Adams, Jr. [re: a...... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1985. Hardcover. With Dorothy Allen. 114, [10] p., [10] inserts: illustrations (some colored), facsimiles (some colored); 36 cm. Tan linen with a gilt-stamped spine title and the image of a printing press blind-stamped on the front board. Binder's stamp on back fixed endpaper for..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972. Hardcover. xi, [1], 376 p.; 23 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser was a newspaper published in Washington, D.C., from 1800 to 1870. The author examines the important roles played by the..... More
London: London School of Printing and Kindred Trades, 1927. Hardcover. [4], 20, [4] p.: frontispiece portrait of William Caxton; 26 cm. Stitched grey card covers with black cover title. "Monotype set and printed by students of the London School of Printing and Kindred Trades . . . Session 1926-27" --..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1931. Hardcover. [2], xxiii, [3], 126, [2] p., frontispiece portrait of William McFee and 7 leaves of plates; 25 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover illustration. Board edges are bevelled. Plain blue slipcase. Top page edges are gilt. Fore-edges are untrimmed..... More
New York: Random House, 2001. Hardcover. xii, 370, [2] p.; 22 cm. Black cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title; black paper over boards with blind-stamped author's initals on front board. Illustrated dust jacket. Stated First Edition. A detailed look at the various factors that resulted in a misplaced reliance on..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 2003. Paperback. First Perennial edition. xviii, [2], 636 p.: 32 pages of illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes bibliographical references and index. In Very Good+ Condition: remainder mark on upper page edges; edges rubbed; upper corner of a few leaves creased; clean and tight... More
Middlesex, Eng. Chiswick Polytechnic School of Art, 1935. Paperback. 40 p.; 21 cm. Brown wrapper with printed label on front wrapper. Small stamp on title page verso: "Bequeathed by Leonard L. Mackall." "Paul Beaujon" was the pseudonym sometimes used by Beatrice Warde (1900-1969), American scholar of typography. Former owner Leonard..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1965. Paperback. xxx, 98 p.; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. On Nov. 7, 1837, Elijah P. Lovejoy (1802-1837), Presbyterian minister and editor of the abolitionist newspaper, the Alton Observer, was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois. This account of the..... More
New York: J.A. Bleecker, 1880. Cards. 1 trade card with chromolithographed illustration on one side. J.A. Bleecker, at 433 8th Ave., New York, offered "All the weekly papers, libraries and monthly magazines" as well as Christmas and New Year calling cards, Harding's dime music, and "musical strings and fixings." The..... More
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2003. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 301 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket. Contents: "Written with a Hard and Ruthless Purpose:" Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber, and Middlebrow Regional Fiction by Donna Campbell -- The Cosmopolitan Regionalism of Zona Gale's Friendship..... More
Jackson, Miss. University Press of Mississippi, 2003. Paperback. xviii, 322 p.; 23 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Includes index. The author looks at mass media and the women's movement in the United States from the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique to the tennis match between Billie Jean King..... More
Philadelphia: Hopkins and Earle, 1809. Hardcover. 3 volumes, 1 leaf of a plate: engraved portrait of Mirza Aboo al Hassan, envoy of the King of Persia; 22 cm. Contemporary half calf with six spine compartments between double gilt rules. Red leather label in second compartment of each volume with gilt-tooled..... More
New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 1913. Leather_bound. [26] p., frontispiece; 16 cm. Limp green suede connected by one leather tie, with gilt-embossed cover title. Dark green moire endpapers. Frontispiece is color illustration tipped on. Each page has elaborate blue border and each selection has additional blue decoration or illustration. Although..... More
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Libraries, 1969. Pamphlet. Kent State University Libraries Occasional Papers, no. 4. 8 p.; 22 cm. Beige wrappers printed in black and turquoise. Kent State University had acquired the Raymond Chandler collection of books and manuscripts the previous year from the author, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1931-2008)..... More
den Haag: Selecta, 1950. Hardcover. [8] p., 24 leaves of bookmarkers: illustrations; 17 cm. Stiffened card cover with cover title in white on red. Title page in red and black. The 24 leaves each consist of a register in which one would note the title, to whom a book was..... More
New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1937. Hard Cover. xii, [2], 281 p.: frontispiece and 47 additional leaves of illustrations; 24 cm. Publisher's blue cloth with red and gilt spine title. No dust jacket. Front fixed endpaper stamped with former owners' names: Harold and Olive Wheeler. In Very Good+ Condition: cover..... More
San Francisco, CA: Cranium Press, 1975. Pamphlet. 11, [1] p.; 16 cm. Printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press for the American Library Association and the Friends of Books & Comics on paper from the Wookey Hole Mill. Scarce. In Fine Condition: clean and crisp. More
Jamaica, N.Y. Marion Press, 1900. Paperback. 14, [2] p.; 17 cm. Stapled brown wrappers. Wrapper title printed in dark brown within elaborate frame. Pages are unopened. A satire on Boswell's Life of Johnson, reprinted from The Casquet (Glasgow, 1835). Attributed to James Beresford on p. [2], but subsequently attributed to..... More
Portland, Me. Thomas Bird Mosher, 1899. Paperback. [10], 155-127 [sic 176], [7] p., 16 cm. Blue-grey paper wrappers printed in black and red; sewn. The Bibelot was published by Thomas Mosher from 1895 to 1914. This issue contains Songs in Absence, and Other Poems by Arthur Hugh Clough, as well..... More
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1947. Hardcover. 108 p.: color illustrations; 24 cm. Grey cloth with dark green spine and cover titles and illustration. Illustrated endpapers. Belonged to the author, who attached a mailing label with her name and address to the front free endpaper (not over the..... More