Category: Books on Books

Image for Importants livres illustres et oeuvres originales d'artistes modernes, gouaches, dessins, gravures. Barbier, Bissiere, Bonnard, Denis, Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Ernst, Laboureur, Laurens, Leger, Lepere, Maillol, Matisse, Picasso, Redon, Rops, Rouault, Stael, Teinlen, Ubac, Vieira da Silva, Villon, etc. Reliures Mosaiquees de P. Boney, P. Legrain, P.L. Martin, etc. - Reliures Decorees 1900

Importants livres illustres et oeuvres originales d'artistes modernes, gouaches, dessins, gravures. Barbier, Bissiere, Bonnard, Denis, Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Ernst, Laboureur, Laurens, Leger, Lepere, Maillol, Matisse, Picasso, Redon, Rops, Rouault, Stael, Teinlen, Ubac, Vieira da Silva, Villon, etc. Reliures Mosaiquees de P. Boney, P. Legrain, P.L. Martin, etc. - Reliures Decorees 1900

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Paris, Collections Fontaine, Leclercq, et. X : 1978

Seller ID: 001256

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Unpaginated French auction 4to catalogue highlighting modernist, twentieth century book art, referring to both innovative designs for covers and to illustrations within. Inked on wrap cover in smallish print is "Modern Bindings". Otherwise, clean throughout. Some trivial wear.
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Image for Stories from Old-Fashioned Children's Books Brought Together and Introduced to the Reader by Andrew W. Tuer, F.S.A. Adorned with 250 Amusing Cuts

Stories from Old-Fashioned Children's Books Brought Together and Introduced to the Reader by Andrew W. Tuer, F.S.A. Adorned with 250 Amusing Cuts

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, The Leadenhall Press, Ltd. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. : 1899-1900

Seller ID: 003657

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 20 by 13 cm. xvi, 440, 22 pp. Moderate wear to cloth ( a few minor blisters, corner wear, trivial closed tears at spine extremities). Clean within.
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Das Ex Libris der Dame

By: Braungart, Richard

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Munchen, Franz Hanfstaengl : 1923

Seller ID: 002943

Binding: Half Vellum, Decorative Paper pasted onto boards

Condition: Very Good

No. 116 of 1,000 limitation. 4to. 40 pp. Followed by 96 plates, each with a numbered and name captioned tissue guard, and three page index plus limitation page. The plates depict a wide variety of bookplates, a few in color or tinted, almost all depicting women, often in glorified or highly stylized form, or bookplates of or designed by women, as consistent with the theme implied by the title. Text in German, but the main part of the book is accessible to any collector or lover of bookplates as well as those interested in artistic representations of the female form. Tissue guards are age...
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[Broadside] "Auca" de la Vida y Adventuras de un libro Viejo [Story and Adventures of an Old Book]

By: Eroles, Emilio. Illustrator: Antonio Roca

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Barcelona, Gremio de Libreros de Barcelona : 1956

Seller ID: 004251

Binding: NA

Condition: Fine

A most unusual promotion for an antiquarian book fair! 43.5 by 31.5 cm. 30 cells with cartoon drawings recounting the life of an 100 year old book -- the actual physical object -- from its first sale to its appearance at an antiquarian book fair! The story is in the tradition of "Black Beauty", "The Memoirs of an Umbrella", or "The Yellow Rolls Royce", all concerning the ups and downs incident to different owners, and in the case of the latter two, there is the commonality of the personification of an inanimate thing. Here, the book starts in Barcelona and in its ci...
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Image for Della Eloquenza Italiana; Libri Tre: Nel Primo Si Spiega L'origine, e Il Processo dell'Italiana Favella, Nel Secondo, Si Tratta Del Suo Ingrandimento Per Le Opere Scritte, Nel Terzo, Si Dispone Una Biblioteca Ordinata D'autori Singolari Nelle Materie .

Della Eloquenza Italiana; Libri Tre: Nel Primo Si Spiega L'origine, e Il Processo dell'Italiana Favella, Nel Secondo, Si Tratta Del Suo Ingrandimento Per Le Opere Scritte, Nel Terzo, Si Dispone Una Biblioteca Ordinata D'autori Singolari Nelle Materie .

By: Fontanini, Giusto

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Venezia (Venice), Appresso Cristoforo Zane : 1737

Seller ID: 000429

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Fine

4to. xxxii + 752 pp., with frontis portrait of Fontanini engraved by Sorello and a second plate of Lorenzo Tiepolo, to whom the work was dedicated (this engraved by A.A. d'Urbino). Also stately headpiece atop first dedication page, smaller decoration at beginning of each of three books and "La Biblioteca". Hybrid work of Italian belle lettres and literature which provides an early history of the Italian language, and an invaluable early summary of the important works of Italian literature up to that time. Fontanini in this included works from all parts of the Italian peninsula, and...
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Wine into Words. A History and Bibliography of Wine Books in the English Language

By: Gabler, James M., with a forward by Maynard A. Amerine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: 1985, Bacchus Press Ltd. : Baltimore

Seller ID: 001880

Condition: Like New

High Spots of American Literature A Practical Bibliography and Brief Literary Estimate of Outstanding American Books

By: Johnson, Merle

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Bennett Book Studios, Inc. : 1929

Seller ID: 002892

Binding: Half Morocco, Marbled Boards

Condition: Very Good Plus

No. 267 of 750 bound in three quarter Turkey Morocco. 8vo. 114 pp. Light wear to the binding. Tight and clean otherwise.
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Image for Bibliographie des Principales Éditions Originales d’Écrivains Français du XVe au XVIIIe Siècle. Ouvrage contenant environ 300 fac-similés de titres des livres décrits

Bibliographie des Principales Éditions Originales d’Écrivains Français du XVe au XVIIIe Siècle. Ouvrage contenant environ 300 fac-similés de titres des livres décrits

By: Le Petit, Jules

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Paris, Maison Quantin : 1888

Seller ID: 005879

Binding: Half Morocco. Marbled Pastedown on Boards.

Condition: Near Fine

4to. 27 by 19 cm. vii, [1], 583, [1] pp. Original faux-leather burgundy wraps bound in. A very attractive and decorative copy of an important French bibliographic work.
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Image for Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes Paris 1925. Rapport General Presente au Nom de M. Fernand David. Section Artistique et Technique. Classe 15. Livre.

Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes Paris 1925. Rapport General Presente au Nom de M. Fernand David. Section Artistique et Technique. Classe 15. Livre.

By: Leon, Paul. Ministere du Commerce, De L'Industrie, Des Postes et Des Telegraphes.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie Larousse : 1929

Seller ID: 001228

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 106, [1] pp. + 96 plates showing book art of period (Art Nouveau or Jugendstil, Art Deco, Modernist, Cubist, and assortment of other styles). Some plates in full color, others three or four toned, yet others b&w. Outstanding review, appreciation and study of early twentieth century art book aesthetics as developed internationally, with French trends and practice emphasized but some discussion and representation of what was going on elsewhere in Europe. Also a truly rare exposition book. Pages clean except for small stamp of Museum of French Art New York on all ...
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Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing

By: McLean, Ruari

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1972

Seller ID: 001590

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

4to. xii, 241 pp. Revised and enlarged edition. With sixteen color plates and numerous black and white plates. A deservedly standard work on 19th Century book design and printing. Both a splendid book production itself and a go-to source for information on book production. Scholarly yet entertaining, and it can be profitably read through or plumbed now and then for small bits.
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English Children's Books 1600 to 1900

By: Muir, Percy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, B. T. Batsford LTD : 1985

Seller ID: 000753

ISBN-13: 9780713407198

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

8vo. 256 pp. Highly useful bibliographic source on subject as well as a fine history of the subject. Minor chipping and wear/soilage to DJ.
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Gli Adornatori del Libro in Italia (Volumes 1 to 3)

By: Petri, Stanislao; Ratta, Cesare; Sapori, Francesco

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Bologna, Impreso coil Tipi della Scuola D'Arte Tipografica del Comune del Bologna : 1923-1926

Seller ID: 001258

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Survey of then modern book and bookplate illustration in Italy. This is a continuous, but not complete, run of 9 volume series that ran into the early 1930s, but each issue does standalone and generally speaking can only be found individually. Offered here as a set of three. Folio sized, 14 by 10 inches, or 36 by 26 cm. Vol I has 112 plates, with 328 designs, and was one of a limited edition of 850 copies. Vol II, issued two years later, has 220 plates with 420 designs and was a limited edition of 500. Volume III, issued in 1925 to 1926, with 240 plates (plates 114 to 117 not present but...
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Cermaic Literature: An Analytical Index to the Works Published in All Languages on the History and the Technology of the Ceramic Art; Also to the Catalogues of Public Museums, Private Collections, and of Auction Sales in which the Description of Ceramic Objects Occupy an Important Place; and to the Most Important Price-Lists of the ancient and Modern Manufacturies of Pottery and Porcelain

By: Solon, M. L.

Price: $115.00

Publisher: London, Charles Griffin & Company : 1910

Seller ID: 002740

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

Important bibliography on ceramics by greatest authority on topic. 4to. xviii, [2], 660 pp. Rebacked, with original spine label preserved. Newer endpapers. Otherwise, clean and tight.
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Nos Amis les Livres Causeries sur la Littérature Curieuse et la Librairie

By: Uzanne, Octave

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Paris, Maison Quantin : 1886

Seller ID: 005249

Binding: Half Morocco. Marbled boards. Slipcase with moro

Condition: Near Fine

12mo. 18 by 12.5 cm. iv, 318 pp. Lovely drypoint etched frontis by H. Manesse. One of 1,000 copies on Holland paper. Beautifully bound by Pagnant, with a custom leather trimmed slipcase. Original green wraps bound in. Spine sunned. Otherwise, fine in all respects.
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