THE PRINTING UNWINS. A SHORT HISTORY OF UNWIN BROTHERS AND THE GRESHAM PRESS 1826-1975 by [Printing History]: Unwin, Philip - 1975

New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1940.. Large octavo. Gilt cloth, gilt spine label, t.e.g. Sketches by Fritz Kredel. First edition. One of 660 copies printed. As new in glassine and slipcase. LAWSON & PANKOW 96.

John Lane The Bodley Head.London.,1936. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. THE DEDICATION COPY. Inscribed by Crankshaw to his wife, Clare, on the half title. ---- For Clare. The first copy of the first of all our books. April 17th 1936. Teddy. ----- Pages affected by small damp stain to the fore edge at the bottom 1.5 inches, but not spreading onto the page surface. Some foxing, mostly to the first and last few pages. Overall a near to very good copy in a poor dustwrapper with loss to both the top and bottom of spine and with several chips to the panel edges. ---- Bought, by me, direct from the estate of Crankshaw's widow, Clare.:

A Bibliographical Catalogue. Volume 1: World, Europe, Africa. xiii+299 pp.+20 plates h.t. Volume 2: Asia, Oceania, Antarctica, America. xiv+301-675 pp.+36 plates h.t. 33x23 cm. Reprinted Dawsons of Pall Mall, Folkestone & London, 1972.
--- Cloth-bound (publishers cloth), gilt lettering on spine. B&W illustratrions. No wear. Pages bright and clean. Unmarked.

Volume 1 only of 2 volumes.
Half title, volume 1 title-page, 379 pages, [1], errata, [4], list of subscribers. Leather covered boards with buckram spine (presumably for repair or strengthening), inner joints strengthened with tape, joints of rear end-papers also strengthened with paper repair tape. Neat repair to small tear on title-page. End-papers browned. Considerable wear to covers – rubbing, splitting and some marks, corners heavily worn with loss of leather and board. Binding firm however. Ink and pencil annotations to front and rear end-papers, Internally very clean, with minor staining to pages 28-33.
Ex-library book with library sticker to inside front cover. Library stamp to title-page and library markings on spine.
Dibdin wrote a good portion of this weekly which lasted only 24 numbers. The philanthropist Thomas Bernard and Dibdin were associated together on this publication. Dibdin said that he wrote two thirds of the magazine. This volume contains issues no. 1, January 24th 1807 to 12,… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good+. 9 3/8" × 6 1/8" × 1" (23.8 × 15.6 × 2.5 cm) . First Printing. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh. Tall 8vo. Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. Uncut, deckled edges. [ix], [1], 176, [4] pp. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of Morris engraved by Emery Walker from a photograph by Sparling, with tissue guard present. Includes 16 plates and examples of types and illustrations from the Kelmscott Press. Henry Halliday Sparling (1860–1924) provides an informative history of William Morris's Press. Sparling was a former Kelmscott Press employee and as the husband of Morris's daughter, May Morris, from 1890–1898, was keenly familiar with Morris and his Press. Sparling provides a clear account of the day-to-day workings of the Press, as well as a close examination of Morris's intentions and printing achievements.… Read More

New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1940.. Large octavo. Gilt cloth, gilt spine label, t.e.g. Sketches by Fritz Kredel. First edition. One of 660 copies printed. As new in glassine and slipcase. LAWSON & PANKOW 96.

Middle Hill: Typis Medio Montanis, excudit Eduinus Offer - Edwyn Offer Middle Hill Press, 1828 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. [ii], 16, [4] pages. The final four page section is loosely inserted and titled Manuscript codices Abbatiae Sancti Eligii Circa Ann 1778. Spotting, particularly to the final section. Some creasing. Loosely held in drak blue paper wrappers. Holzenberg 37.

Peiping China: Library Association of China, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Yellow cloth covers slightly soild at edges and spine, name inked on free front endpage (this book appears to be a library rebinding of this 1935, 132-page booklet). "Papers Prepared on the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the Library Association of China" "This booklet contains 9 articles on Chinese library conditions, with special reference to the changes that have been brought about within the last decade. While it is true that library facilities in China are far from being perfect..." 132 pages; 7 x 10

This book is aimed at collectors of Lionel Davidson and Dick Francis books. It was developed with Davidson and Francis - is a tribute book involving two major thriller writers with an introduction by Len Deighton. It comprises interviews with the subjects, a critical look at the development of the adventure/thriller form by Michael Johnson (owner of Scorpion Press and contributor to books on crime writers), and an annotated bibliographies, book summaries, including print run sizes.The book is signed by Francis and Davidson and is numbered 1/250.. crime

Potts Point NSW: Hordern House, 2004. First Edition. Fine/Fine. [11.25x8.5in]; xi [introduction], 690 pp.,732 articles with 4000 names of persons and ships, index of persons, index of ships; Gray green cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, all edges trimmed, three gold page mark ribbons, light gray illustration of explorers looking at map on a promontory overlooking land on front and back end papers; Pictorial color illustration on dust jacket of Gill painting of Australian "Desert Interior" circa 1846 [also on end papers], black lettering on front and spine; Publisher prospectus tipped in. Raymond Howgego (1946- ) is an independent researcher, scholar and traveler. He has been researching the history of travel and exploration for much of his adult life. His first book in this series, Encyclopedia of Exploration To 1800, was issued in 2003 was the distillation of that research that took some fifteen years to complete. This book is the second in the series and cites more than 10,000… Read More