[AMERICANA] THE CONTINENTAL TRAINING DEPOT AND GENERAL RENDEZ-VOUS AT CHESTERFIELD COURTHOUSE, VIRGINIA 1780-1781 WITH ROSTERS OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY REVOLUTIONARY WAR OFFICERS AND TROOPS 1775-1783
Bettie Woodson Weaver Signed. 56pp. Large 8vo; in printed cardstock wrappers; 56 pp. with illustrations, bibliography and index. ~~This copy signed by the late (and delightful) Bettie Woodson Weaver. Fine binding.- $60
- $60
[SIGNED] [VIRGINIA] A SKETCH OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF HANOVER COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Robert Bolling Lancaster Signed. Large 8vo.; in printed cardstock wrappers; [4], 31, [1] pages; this First Edition printing is limited to 500 copies; this copy is signed with inscription by Robert Lancaster. Very Good binding.- $65
- $65
[VIRGINIA] THE HISTORY OF HENRICO COUNTY
Louis H. Manarin; Clifford Dowdey Large 8vo.; in a special binding of red leatherette, and housed in the publisher's slipcase; xxiii, [xxiv; xxiv], [1], 2-555 pages, including the Index; with map endpapers; illustrated throughout with black and white photographic images; signed by Louis Manarin on the title page; the slipcase has a stain.~~A special copy of the First Edition. Fine binding.- $125
- $125
[ARCHITECTURE] THE SCIENTIFIC STAIR BUILDER
Robert Riddell Small folio; in the publisher's brown embossed cloth, worn and dampstained; [44] pages; [2], 38 leaves of plates; with added chromolithographic title page and frontispiece; the other plates are numbered 1-38, each explanatory text on a facing page; all the plates are signed L. N. Rosenthal and Robert Riddell; an errata slip is attached to page [44]; there are 40 plates in total including the chromolithographic title and frontispiece; a number of leaves have minor rippling, and several at the end of the book have stains to the leading edges, none affecting the printing; there are two penned previous owner names, one on the printed title page; almost all pages have a contemporary namestamp ("R. S. Beetley") on the verso.~~The two chromolithographic plates printed by L. N. Rosenthal of Philadelphia are views of elaborate stairs are noteworthy. The other plates are designs for newels, brackets, ballisters and the like. ~~This is the first edition of Robert Riddell's first book. Good binding.- $750
- $750
[ART] BRAMANTE. CATALOGO CRITICO A CURA DI STEFANO BORSI
Franco Borsi Quarto; in publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards, with an acetate wrapper, and housed in a publisher's slipcase;[8], 9-358 pages, including the Index; with both black and white illustrations as well as illustrations in color, and also floorplans; the text is in Italian; there are no prior ownership marks of any kind.~~Quite a sumptuous monograph. Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.- $150
- $150
[POETRY] [LITERATURE] THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE. THE RAVEN EDITION. 5 VOLUMES; SET
Edgar Allan Poe~ Five 8vo. bindings; in the publisher's black cloth, with printed paper spine labels; each volume with a color frontispiece by Arthur Becher, protected with a captioned tissue guard.~~An attractive copy of the Raven Edition of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe, complete in 5 volumes. A bright copy of a variant (and to our mind more attractive) version of the Raven Edition of Poe's works.~~There are no ownership marks of any kind in any of the volumes; the bindings show little wear and have sharp corners, unchipped labels, no ownership marks, etc. Near Fine binding.- $200
- $200
[SPECIAL PRESS] FROM STRIPPER TO PUBLISHER OR, HOW PRINTING CHANGED MY LIFE. TWO LECTURES BY CAROL J. BLINN
Carol J. Blinn | Robert Lyons [Photograph] 12mo.; in paste-paper covered boards, with titling lettered in gilt to the spine; [2], 30, [3]; with 1 color photograph of Ms. Blinn in her print shop tipped in; issued in an edition of one hundred and twenty-five copies, with spot illustration from drawings by Ms. Blinn.~~The text is comprised of two lectures by Carol Blinn: one delivered for The Heritage of the Graphic Arts in October of 1980; the second was given to the Honorable Company of Printers, Annual Wayzgoose, Yale University, April 1986. Fine binding.- $100
- $100
[SPECIAL PRESS] THE TAILL OF THE PADDOK AND THE MOUS
Robert Henrison [Henryson] ; Nicholas Parry; Mary Parry Limited Edition. Folio; in taupe linen boards with colored pastedown; housed in a green cloth drop-back box with a square printed parchment label to the cover and a matching spine label; [24] pages; with four hand water-colored plates.~~From the colophon: "The Taill of the Paddok and the Mous . copies 1-10 on Canterbury paper with watercolour illustrations, nos 11-100 on H.B.J. paper with lino-cut illustrations, printed & bound by Nicholas & Mary Parry, Tern Press, Market Drayton, 1986"~~This is copy 7 of 10 printed on Canterbury paper with watercolor illustrations; signed by Nicholas Parry and Mary Parry on the colophon. Very Good binding.- $400
- $400
[ARCHIVE] SPORTS CLIPPINGS. BENEDICTINE HIGH SCHOOL
A small archive of clippings from the Richmond newspaper about various sporting events in which Benedictine High School was engaged in 1945. The clippings are mounted on brown pasteboard and we surmise that the uniform pieces of pasteboard orginated at a local dry-cleaners and that shirts were delivered folded around them! ~The top sheet (which we perhaps arbitrarily made the first sheet) has a home made label on which is penned "Football B.H.S. 1945" and pasted on it is program "Honoring Benedictine High School Football Team" of 1945. ~~There are a few clippings regarding Football, but most appear to be about Basketball. Benedictine played a number of Virginia High Schools -- Thomas Jefferson, Belmont Abbey, St. Christopher's , Fork Union, and many others. There are also some college clippings, including University of Richmond and University of Virginia.~~The archive was kept by Richmonder Chris Rubis, who has a clipping with photgraph noting that he was "the lightest player in city varsity schoolboy basketball" standing 5'5" and tipping the scales at 115 pounds. Young Rubis also played football and is listed in the 1945 football awards program.~~On the back of one pasteboard are penned a number of arithmetic sums, undoubtedly by Chris Rubis.~~A really charming archive of clippings about Richmond's Benedictine High School.- $150
- $150
[SPECIAL PRESS] THE PLAYER’S SHAKESPEARE. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. PRINTED FROM THE FOLIO OF 1623
William Shakespeare | Thomas Lowinsky [Illustrator] Folio; in publisher's paper-covered boards backed in linen with titling stamped in brown to the spine, and with dustjacket; xxxviii; 97, [2] pages; the jacket has a couple of small stains; printed in black and red; with numerous in text illustrations and full page color plates.~~This edition limited to 550 copies, of which this is number 272.~~. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.- $175
- $175