Books About Books from Old Saratoga Books

NY: George Braziller. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2010. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0807616028 . Red cloth decorated in gilt. Bibliography, list of artist monograms. Packed with color photos of gorgeous book designs. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages .

NY: The Grolier Club. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1952. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Gray cloth. One of 750 copies. Designed by Elmer Loemker and printed by the George Grady Press of New York. 24 reproductions of political illustrations by J. -J. Grandville, Honore Daumier and other artists, which were originally published in La Caricature from 1832-1834 in protest of… Read more about this item

Wilbraham, MA: William Frost Mobley. Very Good; Top corner of rear wraps missing, sticker ghost on front wraps.. 1980. Softcover. Orange printed wraps. 564 items described and black and white images throughout. The late antiquarian book and ephemera seller's first catalogue. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn and toned. 1970. Hardcover. 0878390049 . Green blind-stamped cloth binding. Illustrations. Author's bookplate printed in gold on black paper affixed to title page. A collection of Boutin's stories of his days as an itinerant printer. Rear jacket flap notes that Boutin won the Golden… Read more about this item

Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library. Very Good. 1991. Softcover. Number 39 in series of Friends of the Bancroft Library Keepsakes. Profiles the work of rare book librarian James D. Hart and offers photos and descriptions of the rare books and manuscripts he obtained for the library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 93 pages .

Stanford, CA: Garcia Lorca and Fundacion Pablo Neruda. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 2012. Hardcover. 0911221484 . Illustrated blue cloth. Essay by Bruce Nixon, preface by Michael Keller, forewords by Roberto G. Trujillo, Steve Woodall, and Mark Dimunation, introduction by Joseph Goldyne. xxiii, 529pp. Bilingual text in English and Spanish. Published in conjunction with an exhibition… Read more about this item

NY: The Grolier Club and Piccolo Press. Very Good. 2006. First Printing. Hardcover. 0910672679 . Gray cloth with paste-on front label housed in gray cloth slipcase, xii, 212pp. Color photographs by Tom Gril, index, and acknowledgments. A beautiful copy. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall .

NY: Thames and Hudson. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2011. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0500515689 . Illustrated hardcover. Black and white illustrations and photos, color illustrations and photos, notes, and acknowledgments. Scripts never go out of style, and the hundreds of inventive examples here - many found in obscure sources from across Europe in America - are… Read more about this item

Boston: David R. Godine. Very Good; Covers soiled, spine toned.. 1979. 1st Pb printing. Softcover. 0879232870 . xvi, 359pp. Notes, black and white and color illustrations. By happy chance Francis Meynell and Herbert Simon, two men who are associated with the original Fleuron venture and are known also for their own typographic achievements, have been available to edit this significant… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Yellow illustrated cloth, vii, 131pp. From Antediluvian to Zoological, a lovely illustrated alphabet book for inquisitive adults and language lovers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Chicago: Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, spine cracked.. 1920. Hardcover. Green cloth spine with illustrated paper-covered boards. [6], 78pp, [30]pp of color examples of modern type display by various printers. The author’s preface describes his book as one which elucidates typography as an art which melds attractiveness with legibility, with many print… Read more about this item

NY: Private Printing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1966. Hardcover. A keepsake published to commemorate The Celebration of Printing Week in New York, 1966, on the occasion of the 260th birthday of Benjamin Franklin as a printer. Typophiles Monographs number 80. Wood engravings by John De Pol. Gray boards titled in gilt with glassine jacket.… Read more about this item

East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0870133179 . Tan cloth binding. Map endpapers. Warmly inscribed by the author on the title page. 3,042 entries in this catalog of literature about navigating the Great Lakes. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 165 pages .

London: Collins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1948. Second Printing. Hardcover. Many illustrations, bibliography. Number 95 in the Britain in Picture series. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 48 pages .

Rochester, NY: Rochester Monotype Composition Co.. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Covers lightly worn.. N.D.. Softcover. Illustrated red card covers with red plastic spiral binding. Circa 1940s-50s book of monotype, linotype, and foundry type specimens in various point sizes. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 pages .

Albany, NY: Argus-Greenwood, Inc.. Good; Covers soiled and worn, waterstain along lower edge of text.. 1962. Softcover. Orange card covers with white plastic comb binding. Type specimen book from the Argus-Greenwood, Inc. Company of Albany, New York. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 141 pages .

Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards faded at edges.. 1959. First Printing. Hardcover. Blue paper quarter-bound and blue cloth, vi, 67pp. Features sections on books, chapters in books, edited works, introductions, letters to the editor, reports, and reviews. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

NY: Twayne Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket sunned, price sticker on rear . jacket panel.. 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. 0805782672 . Blue cloth binding. xvii, 175pp, black and white illustrations. Chronologies, index, bibliography, notes. A look at the life and books of Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff and their much beloved Babar the Elephant children's series.… Read more about this item

Oxford, England: Bodleian Library. Very Good. 2002. First Printing. Softcover. 1851240780 . x, 268pp. Black and white photos and illustrations, notes, and authors cited list. A wide-ranging historical survey of Oxford University's main research library and noted cultural institution. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Aalst, Brussels: Various. Very Good; Slipcase soiled and stained.. 1973. Softcover. Published by: Aalst, Dirk Martenscomité, Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I, and Brussels, Gemeentekrediet. Four softcover volumes in cardboard slipcase. Facsimile editions printed in black and red of the oldest three incunabula printed in the southern Netherlands: Speculum conversionis peccatorum by Dionysius van Rijkel; Manuale de salute sive aspiratione animae… Read more about this item