Search Results: Books about Books from Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, [1958].. 16mo. [ca 25 pp.]. Very Good+. Hard covers. Dust Jacket Very Good+. Pages fine. First edition thus, with the first appearance in English of the Prologue in which Aldus announces his plan to publish printed editions of Aristotle. cloth, paper cover label, printed clear glassine dust jacket. Designed and produced under the direction of Book Craftsmen Associates. Scarce.

Choisy le Roi: Lasnam Nekkaz, ca. 1990.. 206 pp. Double-sided photocopied pages in plastic comb binding.

New York : Harper & Row, [1957].. 8vo. 244 pp. Good. Hard Cover. Patterned paper covered boards with quarter cloth spine. Dust Jacket has significant losses on top and bottom edges. DJ clipped. Previous owner’s name handwritten on front free end paper. Spine sunned. Pages fine. B&W plates throughout.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1940. . 12mo. 133 pp. Beige cloth-covered boards with lettering on spine and pictorial dust jacket in brodart cover. Very good with chipping, tearing and creasing to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations and illustrated capitals. Early Edition. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Berlin: Kinderbuchverlag, [1979].. 4to. [344 pp.]. Very Good. Hard Covers. Dust Jacket Very Good. In protective wraps. Pages fine. Color and B&W plates throughout. Text in German.

Elizabeth: American Type Founders, ca. 1955. Brochures for the American Type Founders, displaying a variety of type faces. 4to. Some brochures with binder holes at margin, but not bound in binder.

Arlington Heights, Ill.: J. A. Nogee, 1974.. 4to. 36 pp. In this issue: Ben Abramson, Bookseller; A Complete Checklist of the Publications of Joseph Ishill and His Oriole Press; "What Is Your Old Book Worth?", etc. Very good in staple-bound paper wraps.

Chicago, Ill.: Black Archer Press, 1931.. 122 pp. One of 445 copies. Cloth.

New York: New York Public Library, [1946].. 8vo. [20 pp.]. Very Good. Soft Covers. Printed paper boards. Staple binding. Pages Fine. Reprinted from the Library’s Bulletin of November 1945. Scarce.

New York: Sol Lewis, 1981.. 8vo. Two volumes. (170, 132 pp.) Very Good+. Hard Cover. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Slipcase Very Good+. Reprint. Originally published: London : Constable ; New York : R.R. Bowker, 1935-36. "Edition of 500 numbered copies."Contents:Vol 1. 1826-1900, East to West, describing first editions of English authors whose books were published in America before their publication in England --Vol 2. West to East, 1786-1930, describing first editions of American authors whose books were published in England before their publication in America.ISBN: 0914074431 9780914074434.

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, [1961].. 8vo. [4 pp.]. Very Good. Single fold pamphlet. Minor wrinkling. Printed by Muir Dawson. June 13. 1961. Scarce.

New York: The Colophon, 1938.. 8vo. [ca 166 pp.]. Very Good. Hard Cover. Minor losses to Dust Jacket. Protected by translucent covers. Deckled pages. Pages fine. Letterpress printing. Black and white plates throughout. Contents:Binding design / by W.A. Dwiggins --Title-page design / by Rockwell Kent --Foreword / by J.T. Winterich --American Institute of Graphic Arts --University of California Press --Alfred A. Knopf --University of North Carolina Press --Rydal Press --Simon & Schuster --Riverside Press --Wolff Book Manufacturing Co. --Walpole Printing Office --Derrydale Press --Paul McPharlin --Hawthorn House --George Grady Press --Ward Ritchie Press --Yale University Press --Lanston Monotype Machine Co. --Taylor & Taylor --Press of the Woolly Whale --Haddon Craftsmen --Limited Editions Club --Overbrook Press --Lakeside Press --Mergenthaler Linotype Co. --University of Oklahoma Press --Pynson Printers

New York: The Colophon, 1938.. 4to. 350 pp. Hard Cover. Very Good+. White and blue linen cloth-covered boards with silver foil stamping. Color and B&W plates throughout. Prospectus of many printers and typographers. Includes black and white and red illustrations and photographs and illustrated capitals. 1937 Colophon prospectus laid in.From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

New York : Grolier Club, 2007.. 8vo. 93 pp. Soft Cover. Very Good. Red paper wraps with title plate laid in. Small chip on right edge of front wrap, else like new. Color plates laid in. Deckled pages.ISBN: 0910672695 9780910672696.From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, [1972].. 8vo. [176 pp.]. 1st Edition. Very Good+. Hard covers. Blue cloth, white spine lettering. All pages fine. ISBN 10: 0810805448 ISBN 13: 9780810805446.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, [1939].. 8vo. [14 pp.]. Very Good. Soft Covers. Printed paper boards. Stitch binding. Deckled Pages. Scarce. Letter from Oscar Lewis, Secretary laid in.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, [1894].. 8vo. [170 pp.]. Very Good. Hard back. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Original owner’s name in pencil, dated 1896. Deckled pages fine. B&W plates.

London: Ariel Press Limited, [1980s?].. 8vo. [16 pp.]. Very Good. Soft Covers. Printed paper boards. Staple binding. Pages Fine. Vertical fold down the middle. Scarce.

New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984.. 4to. 192 pp. Soft Covers. Very Good. Illustrated paper wraps. Minor shelf wear. B&W plates throughout; illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, fold out.ISBN: 0879230827 9780879230821.

London: Studio Publications, [1951].. 4to. [214 pp.]. Very Good. Hard covers. Dust Jacket Good, clipped with minor losses at top. In protective wraps. Pages fine. Profusely illustrated in B&W and color.