BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

[New Orleans?]: Privately Printed, 1936. . Tall 8vo, navy-blue cloth; title in gilt on front cover; free endpapers discolored probably caused by glue under the opposing pastedowns OCLC records two holdings.One of an unknown limitation which includes 15 on hand-made paper.. 

Hattiesburg, Miss.: [The Author] The Book Farm, January, 1939. . 8vo, self-wrappers, front printed Heartman (1883-1953), a German emigr was a pivotal figure in the Americana, African-American Studies and bibliographical fields. He authored one of the first catalogued on African Americans and made important contributes to many of the major collections iof the period. His Book Farm was… Read more about this item

Rochester, Kent: [The School], 1940. . 8vo, tan cloth-covered boards, spine orange cloth; printed paper spine label (somewhat soiled) COPAC and OCLC showing only one holding with this imprint--Cambridge University Library.Interesting piece, produced by the students of the school. The whole was produced "in the clawses of the Typography Department of the Medway School...during the session 1939-40. Layout and… Read more about this item

Greenwich, Connecticut: CondŽ Nast Press, 1921. . 8vo, pale green wrappers, front printed A previous owner has made some pencil corrections of verb tenses and pronouns, whether for the later printing,we cannot tell, not having the later reprint

London ,1933.. Numbers 1-4. Complete in 7 parts. Number 4, part 1 is in the first issue (printed wrappers)

Chicago: Invention of Printing Anniversary Committee International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, 1940. . 4to, pink stapled wrappers, front printed A mimeographed press release

London: Elliot Stock, 1907. . 8vo, blue cloth, worn. Volumes for the years1913-1928; plus index volume 1907-1916. Price includes shipping by book rate with the contiguous USA

London: Published for...by The Cambridge University Press, 1947. . Slim 8vo, quarter red crushed levant; t.e.g. ;Cockerell paper-covered boards and endpapers, slight wear to front board, by Leighton-Straker

London: various, 1964. . Large 4to, Volumes 1-24, Price includes shipping by book rate within the contiguous USA

London: Eyre & Spottiswood, 1950. . 8vo, maroon cloth; front inner hinge cracked, but sound. First Edition

Chicago: International Association of Printing House Craftsmen. Invention of Printing Anniversary Committee, 1940. . 4to, purple stapled wrappers, front printed

Worcester, Massachusetts: Achille J. St. Onge, 1961. . Marbled paper-covered boards; parachment spine. ONE OF 500 COPIES

Boston:: [The Compay]: 232 Summer Street, . . 16mo, buff patterned wrappers, printed in black; stapled through the center leaves with two staples which have rusted causing some staining in the gutters--otherwise in remarkably fine condition NOT IN BIANCHI.The Summer Street address (1903-1931) was the fourth location of the Merrymount Press. The Times of London article appeared in September… Read more about this item

Bangkok: Bangkok Times Press, 1924. . 8vo, buff wrappers, front printed with overall Siamese decorative pattern Brief history of printing in Siam, organization of the library, a fascinating insight into an Asian library

New York: De Vinne Press, 1913. . 8vo, gray paper-covered boards, paper label on front cover; small abrasion on spine; small scotch tape repair over spine, extending one inch on either side; entire volume slightly soiled. Bookplate on front pastedown ONE OF FIFTY COPIES authored by the second Librarian of the Grolier Club.The subject of the volume is… Read more about this item

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press in Association with the Haddon Craftsmen, 1942. . Tall 8vo, blue buckram; light parallel scratching to front cover, visible in raking light ONE OF 1500 COPIES. "Being a Collection of Essays by: Beatrice Warde, Richard Ellis, Carl Purington Rollins, Bennett A. Cerf, George Stevens, Philip Van Doren Stern, Earl Schenck Miers, Lewis Gannett, Lawrance… Read more about this item

Boston,1902.. Numbers I-XVI, lacking No. X. Large 8vo, various bindings; the final two volume have only the inner chemise, one defective; other volumes have the two-part protective covering, slipcase and chemise. ONE OF 500 SETS

London: [The Company], York Street, Covent Garden, 1841. . Very thick (5 inches) 8vo, original marbled boards, red leather spine and tips, worn; front cover and front free endpaper detached The famous Guinea catalogue with the price of "One Guinea" at the foot of spine.One of the largest catalogues ever put out, and certainly the largest when published

Boston:: [The Compay], . . 4to, sage-green heavy laid paper, front printed; text paper laid with undated watermarked paper See Bianchi p. 200 under "Minor Printing".

London : Printed by Charles Whittingham & Co. at the Chiswick Press, 1890. . Illustrated. Tall 8vo, terracotta cloth, tan leather spine--slight wear to extremities; t.e.g., others uncut. ONE OF 350 COPIES of which 100 were retained by the Rowfant Club, the actual publisher