Books About Books from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

New York: Privately Printed, [The De Vinne Press], 1908. Limited edition, number 396 of 425 copies on handmade Italian paper, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink by Ira Hutchinson Brainard to artist Wilford Seymour Conrow at the ffep & additionally signed by Mary Brainard French on a following leaf. Tall octavo (9.75" x 7"), xiii & 95 pages… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Library, 1980. First edition. Octavo (9.75" x 6.25"), xxiii & 570 pages, with frontis. Publisher's green cloth with a printed paper spine label, with a duplicate label mounted to the last leaf. A fine copy. A splendid reference, the collection includes books, manuscripts, letters, clippings, original drawings by Dickens's illustrators, & Dickensiana.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1944). First edition. Tall octavo (9.5" x 6.75"), xiv, 591, & xvi pp. plus 15 plates, & 4 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, in printed & decorated dust jacket. Red top stain. Modest toning mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise near fine in good only dust jacket, browned at the spine, moderately soiled,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Heritage Bookshop, 1982 & 1983. First editions, complete in two quarto volumes (11" x 8.5"), xvi, 120; xvi, 95 pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's olive cloth lettered in gilt on the spines, in pictorial dust jackets. Modest sunning at the spine & upper margins, otherwise near fine in very good or better dust jackets, a bit toned, with minor… Read more about this item

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Rulon-Miller Books, 2011 First trade edition, one of 400 unnumbered copies from a total print run of 450 (which includes 50 "special" copies), this copy inscribed, signed & dated by Rulon-Miller & signed by Schanilec & Kelly. 8vo, [7], 134, & [1] pp, illustrated. Publisher's midnight blue cloth with printed paper label on the spine. Laid in,… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987. "Revised Edition," first thus, this a review copy with slip laid in Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), xix, 479, & [1] pp, generously illustrated Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth. Cloth lightly soiled, edges of the text block slightly foxed & briefly soiled, otherwise Very Good. Originally published in 1972, this edition adds over 100 pages & includes:… Read more about this item

Richmond: Davis Bottom, Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, volume xi, numbers 3 - 4, July, October, 1919. 8vo, [3], 41 - 144 pp. (as issued). Original printed, stapled paper wraps. Wraps soiled, with edge wear including tears, corner chipped away at rear wrap, covers nearly detached, spine partially perished, about good & still quite useful. Wealthy planter, substantive contributor to agricultural… Read more about this item

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library/ Bibliographical Society of America; London: British Library; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. First edition. Small folio, xiv, 318 pp, illustrated (some in color) Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket A fine copy in like dust jacket "The child as the audience for books in the English language… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, (1982) 4to, xv, 260 pp, illustrated (some in color) Publisher's decorated paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered brick cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Slight edge wear, otherwise near fine in like dust jacket "The splendid gift from Lessing J Rosenwald to the Library of Congress is one of the greatest collections of illustrated books to… Read more about this item

New York: Columbia University Press, 1937 First edition 8vo, 109 unnumbered pages, with occasional illustrations in text. Publisher's light brown paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered dark brown paper. Spine a bit faded, otherwise near fine Epstean donated his library to Columbia in 1934. The collection included acquisitions from Stephen H. Horgan, William Gamble, Josef Maria Eder, and Gabriel Cromer.

London and New York: George Redway, 1897 First edition, complete in two volumes. 8vo, xlvi, 294, [2]; 379 pp, with 5 portraits Publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth. Moderately soiled, brief wear mostly at spine extremities, internally toned & occasionally foxed, still very good. "Among literary people, it seldom, I think, occurs that such a continuity of association and sympathy is found,… Read more about this item

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. First edition. Small 4to, xii, 141 pp, illustrated. Brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with a hint of wear at the top of the spine "The author, Edward R Lhotka, shares the leather bookbinding techniques he learned and perfected… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Gerard Th. van Heusden, 1969. 4to, xxvii & 463 pp, plus illustrations. Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth. Lightly soiled, brief wear at bottom corners, text modestly toned, otherwise very good. Originally published in 1891.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1895 First edition, limited to 500 copies, this number 244. Large folio (1525" x 12"), xvii pages followed by 66 color plates with descriptive text & tissue guards interleaved, the plates printed by William Griggs "chromo-lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen." Publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth Top edge gilt, the others uncut, decorated endpapers. … Read more about this item

Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library, 1975. Complete in two volumes. First editions. Small folios, [10], 598, 57; [8], 630 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, the upper covers decorated with the Seal of Virginia. Brief wear at spine extremities (including a couple of nicks), lightly rubbed & spotted, otherwise very good. Volume one provides holdings by… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1992). First edition, first printing. 8vo, xiv, 321 pp. Publisher's blue paper over boards backed in dark blue cloth lettered in lighter blue on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. "Readers will delight in Janeway's journey of discovery as they share an insider's glimpse of the world of old… Read more about this item