What a surprise find this morning! Nine years ago I bought several full years of the newsletters of the Beatrix Potter Society and four booklets like this one filled with papers presented at the Society's Beatrix Potter Lake District Study Conference. All of it is long gone, but somehow this little straggler landed with a bunch of unrelated items. The booklet's articles re these: Lake District Natural History and Beatrix Potter; The Beatrix Potter Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia; Collecting Beatrix Potter; Beatrix Potter Piracies and Sequels; and Bertram Potter and the Scottish... View More...
Collectors of Bessie Pease Gutmann will find this clean, attractive catalogue (no names or writing) very helpful for identifying her work and where it appeared. This includes her entire ouvre -- published prints, illustrated books, post cards, magazine illustrations, commercial (advertising) art, Christmas cards, and the "Gutmann Colonials." There's also biographical info, a collectors' checklist and more. Measures 5-1/2"x8-1/2" and has 74 pages including eleven illustrations in black and white. View More...
Crisp, clean beautiful booklet which serves as both an honor to James Shearer II who donated the books to the university library and a catalog of the books which had been placed on exhibition. Each is given ample space and accompanied by notes prepared by Albert T. Klyberg. Thirty-two volumes and 25 high quality cream colored pages. Measures 6"x9-1/4" Fine augmentation to a collection of books on Western Americana. View More...
This is a very attractive personalized bookplate showing what appears to be a photograph of Mary Foster Nassau and her husband, Robert Hamill Nassau, who was both an ordained Presbyterian minister and medical doctor. Mary was his second wife who accompanied him to central Africa near the Ogowe River where they, along with Robert Nassau's sister, Isabelle, served as missionaries. Mary died in 1884. Her husband retired in Pennsylvania and in 1909 wrote a book titled "The Path She Trod: A Memorial of Mary Foster Nassau." Bookplate is clean and unused and measures 3-1/2" x 4-1/2". Very nice for a ... View More...
Very handsome bookplate printed in 1900 with the name of the United Engineering Society of New York City. There is no name in the space at the bottom which was to have been that of the donor of a book to the society. Plate not used and shows no sign of having been pasted anywhere, but there is minor rippling to margins. the plate measures 3-3/4" x 5-3/4". The banner at the top reads "Scientia et Ars" and the shield beneath it says "American Society of Civil engineers Founded 1852."Very clean and nice. View More...
Beautiful exhibition catalog produced by the Chicago Hand Book Binders in association with an exhibit held at the Newberry Library from January 28 to March 8, 2003. This is a very handsome presentation -- a full color catalog nestled in a dark mauve portfolio which closes with string. The list of book artists who exhibited are: Laura Berenger, Suzanne Canby, Lesa Dowd, Karen Hanmer, Robert Hanmer, Jill Jarom, Renee Mandel, Barbara Lazarus Metz, Julie Naggs, Kitz Rickert, Lisa Beth Robinson, Margaret Suchland, and Nancy Vachon. In its portfolio the catalog measures 8" square. Lovely collectibl... View More...
This is very much a bibliophile's booklet, so if you are a collector of books about books this one's for you! It's amazingly clean and nice and has 15 dense pages. The booklet is a guide to an exhibition of selected items from private collections formed by "certain members" of the Clement Library Associates. Collections hailed from Michigan, Ohio, Chicago, Connecticut, Seattle, and New York. Only one collector was a woman. Their topics covered Mackinac Island, American Indians, the Great Lakes, the far Northwest, medicine, the American Revolution, the Civil War, Winston Churchill, Lake Super... View More...
These three items came together, including the mat for the faksimile illuminated papers. That item measures 8-1/2" x 12-1/2" outside the "frame" and 10-1/2" x 14" inside it. The illuminations include six pages which show the actual age spots and marks. The main item is perhaps the exhibition catalog showing treasured books from the Saxton State Library which opened in Dresden in 1556. During WWII many rare books and incunabula were hidden in 18 castles. The catalog measures 5-1/2" x9" and has 20 pages in ENGLISH. The Belser booklet is written in GERMAN. It's clean and nice and measures 8-1/4" ... View More...
This was, and is, a sumptuous magazine and an issue which would appeal to both art lovers and book collectors, as a considerable number of pages are devoted to the art of the book. The magazine is clean and tightly bound with pristine pages. Faults are exterior and include some light foxing to upper front corner near spine and a crease at lower corner, both on front cover, plus a small bit of sunning to back cover. Articles cover Egyptian bookbinding of the 9th and 10th centuries, the art of book covers, printing fine books, the art of French prints, the last great historic French furniture ... View More...
I like this little booklet very much, but was thrilled when I got it home and saw the back cover which contains a lengthy note from the previous owner. I love how she/he read Jasper Johns and came away with ideas for creating original art too. The note reads, "Maybe 14"x21. Start a book a la Jasper Johns -- in place of a journal. Draw, paint what I feel as a means of getting myself back again -- call it reclamation. Consult Julia re size of paper for binding later. Keep it very SIMPLE -- use symbols! Get down inside deep. Could use scanner, copier, computer etc. -- collage!" How fabulous that ... View More...
This is a surprisingly hard-to-find little booklet printed entirely in shades of blue, including illustrations by the subject. The booklet measures 6"x9" and is clean as a whistle inside and out. Flat crease to lower front corner is the only fault. Nice edition to any Jessie Wilcox Smith Wilcox collection, as it offers biographical and other material, including a bibliography and the Good Housekeeping covers. View More...
Very nice clean manual printed on coated paper and beautifully illustrated with technical drawings, but most especially, with big, saturated photographs in black and white. Topics cover the story of linotype, the care and maintenance of matrices, lubrication and check-ups, assembling, casting, distribution, driving, adjustments, and more. Measures 5-3/4"x8-1/2" with 171 pages. Former owner's name written neatly at top of first page, otherwise no markings. View More...
Very handsome journal of interest to book lovers with extra ephemera laid-in. There's lots to read here, but I think the hands-down most interesting article is the one about moving The Library Company of Philadelphia, a 235 year-old establishment which contained 235,000 volumes! How they did it is fascinating and there are wonderful photos (see pictures). Some of the other stories of note are The Identification of Type Faces in Bibliographical Description and Shirley Jackson: A Chronology and Supplementary Checklist. Inside the front cover you will find a leaflet about the Society's Autumn Mee... View More...
Crisp, as new booklet with very handsome card laid-in which says, "With Compliments, Robert H. Jackson. Measures 6"x9" and has 42 pages. The Grolier Society, which published it, is an organization of book collectors, so this exhibit is all about books, specifically books which first were published in magazines in installments. This was a popular occurrence -- Louisa May Alcott did it, Dickens did it, and do did many others. The excitement of it was the wait and the fact that the author had not yet written the entire thing yet. An essay discusses this at the front of the booklet followed by com... View More...
Now THIS is a book catalogue -- one of the most beautiful I've ever seen.This English bookseller is noted for his rare tomes, but also his talent as a cataloguer. It's totally top drawer with beautiful smooth paper, lots of color illustrations and an amazing amount of description for each. It's so interesting it actually can be read as a book. The catalog measures 8-1.2" x 10-3/4" with 138 exquisite pages. View More...
This is a charming ephemeral item consisting of six small booklets inside a folder with two interior pockets. The folder shows some light spotting to top left corner, but is otherwise clean and functioning. The booklets are absolutely pristine and crisp. Titles are Old Mother Mitten, The Picture Book, The Funny Book, The Two Sisters, The Adventures of Mr. Tom Plump and Story of the Little Drummer. If you collect children's books, or books about books this one's a gem. Each small booklet measures 4-1/4" x 6-1/2". The folder measures 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". View More...
Except for a small bit on toning around the edges of the white cover, this book is crisp and clean with no spine crease. If you're a performance storyteller, or just want to entertain the kids, this little booklet is very handy, as it has isolated stories that work well when told as well as read. Categories include the following kinds of stories: animal; Bible; Christmas; Easter; Fun and Nonsense; Ghost and Witch; Giant, Demon and Devil; Hero and Indian; Magic and Enchantment; Princess; Seasonal and Thanksgiving. Each selection states title, author, date, publisher or anthology and a short syn... View More...
Very nice clean magazine with only some small tears to the yapped edges. The interior is very clean too with just one page showing browning in two spots. Many ads for booksellers of the day. Articles include "A Consensus of First Editions and Source Materials By Or Relating To Edgar Alan Poe in American Public and Private Collections"; "No Second Printing Can Be A First Edition"; "A Rare Shelley Pamphlet" (written by a name bookseller of the day, Arthur Swann); and "A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets by Douglas C. McMurtrie on Typography and The History of Printing" as well as many mall fea... View More...
In its day this was a very popular magazine. It's still popular with me, but I never seem to find many issues. This one covers the department stores of the day, a travel piece on taking a European vacation, replete with lots of full color illustrations and, --the best of all -- a long article about women novelists, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and George Sands. All of them have stood the test of time and Jane is practically a rock star!The ads in this magazine are even fun to read, and not all of them are about books. There's wonderful ads about player pianos and phonographs --technology galo... View More...
I love this magazine, but I have only ever had a few of them, which is odd because it was quite popular in its day. There are great ads throughout and it's always fun to see old books we know be new again. But the articles are the thing -- they're diverse and wonderful in each issue. This issue has a story by Edgar Allan Poe titled "William Wilson." Articles focus on on women and work with an article about women's colleges and their female executives, plus a story about women telehone operators, a job created by new technology. Another article is about the split personality and literature and ... View More...
