The Key to Serendipity: How to Buy Books from Peter Howard. Volume One
Ian Jackson, 1999. Trade Paperback. 23 pages plus 1 page 'The Serendipity Price Code.' Second edition. A fine copy in stapled red printed wrappers.
Books About Books
Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator and Historian
Routledge, 2000. Hardcover. 402 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches. Extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs. A major resource on ephemera. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Light edge wear. The joy of finding an old box in the attic filled with postcards, invitations, theater programs, laundry lists, and pay.....
The Book on the Bookshelf
Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Origins of a Story: 202 True Inspirations Behind the World's Greatest Literature
Cider Mill Press, October 2017. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. For readers and writers alike, Origins of a Story is the inspiring collection of 202 amazing true stories behind the inspiration for the world's greatest literature! Did you know Lennie from Of Mice and.....
A Bibliographical Introduction To Seventy-Five Modern American Authors
Serendipity Books, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 428 pages. Designed and composed by Alastair Johnson at Poltroon Press. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I (Discovering (Wildside))
Wildside Press, 1992. Trade Paperback. 192 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the editor.
Lines Written by George Stewart, Carved over the Fireplace in the Historical Library in the School of Medicine at Yale University, MCMXLI
Arthur E. Lyons; Sandor G. Burnstein and Meyer Friedman. Printed at Arion Press, 1982. First Edition. Broadside. Broadside, oblong format, 11.5 x 8.5 inches. Tipped-in on yellow sheet. Presented to the Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs at the joint meeting 1982. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.
Letterbox: The Art & History of Letters
Walker, January 1995. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy.
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Ballads of a Book-Worm: Being a Rythmic [sic] Record of Thoughts, Fancies, & Adventures a-Collecting
Roycrofters, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. 120 pages. 5-1/2 by 8-3/8 inches. Poems for book collectors. One of 850 copies, illuminated by hand and signed by the author. First edition (first printing). Paper covered boards with paper labels on cover and spine. Small stain to top corner on front cover. Tears.....
The Library at Night
Vintage Canada, October 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. The Library at Night is the captivating story of the critical role that libraries have played in our civilization. In the tradition of his national bestseller A History of Reading, and inspired by the process of creating a library at.....
The Penguin Companion to World Literature: English Literatue / European Literature / American Literature Classical, Oriental and African Literature (4 Volume set)
McGraw-Hill, 1971. Hardcover. 575, 907, 384, 359 pages. Text printed in two columns with author entries arranged alphabetically, 'to enable the reader to find out quickly exactly what the significance of a writer is, the kind of interest his work possesses, the main facts of his career, and where further.....
James Hanley: A Bibliography
William Hovver, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 230 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy; no dust jacket. Inscribed by Hanley to the author (?). With author's notes in pencil on the rear endpapers(?) This copy from Peter B. Howard of Serendipity Books, Berkeley, CA, who is named in the.....
A Selection of Oriental Literature (4 calalogues)
Kegan Paul, Trench, Truber & Co., Ltd., 1927-8. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 4 Cataloguea: New Series, No. X, Summer, 1927; New Series, No. XI, Jan., 1928; New Series, No. XII, April, 1928; New Series, No. XIII, August, 1928 38-48 pp. First edition (first printing). Very good copies in wrappers (paperback).....
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's Dictionary
Picador, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of the Year In 1746, Samuel Johnson undertook the Herculean task of writing the first comprehensive English dictionary. Imagining he could complete the job in three years, Johnson in fact took more than eight.....
The Plains and Rockies: A Critical Bibliography of Exploration, Adventure and Travel in the American West
John Howell Books, 1982. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth with gold lettering to spine. The fourth edition of the classic work. 4th Edition. Near fine copy in red cloth covers. No dust jacket.
The Truth About an Author
George H. Doran Comany, 1911. Hardcover. 154 pages. Very good in a good dust jacket that is missing the bottom third of the spine and is chipped along the edges. Book and jacket show water stains.
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard
Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1927. Hardcover. 208, i-vi pages. Printed in black and orange ink. A very good copy in flexable blue boards; no dust jacket.
San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1884
Printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, 1958. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 10 pages. Contains 2 poems: San Francisco and Los Angeles by Weeden. 'This keepsake, edited by W. W. Robinson for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs through the courtesy of George E. Fuleton and Donald.....
Logbooks and Leviathans: An Account of the Nicholson Whaling Collection
Dartmouth College, ca. 1958. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 8 pages. reprinted from Polar Notes, occasional publication of the Stefanson Collection, Dartmouth College. Paper read at meeting of the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, 1958. First edition thus. A near fine copy in blue wrappers (paperback). Slight tanning to.....
The Saga of BRnacle Bruce, the Sailor
Maverick Press, 1936. Broadside. Broadside, 20 x 9.5 inches, printed in black on off-white. Limited to 100 copies. A tribute to Bruce Rogers. Two illustrations, one of Rogers dancing, the second of Rogers relaxing with his pipe on sailboat. Item Number Six of the Maverick Press. Written and decorated by.....
Garamond Keepsake
Zellerbach Paper Company. Printed by John Henry Nash, 1926. First Edition. Broadside. Single sheet, folded twice, 19.4 x 12.74 inches when folded. Large folio. 8pp, of which two are unopened, printed on one side only in orange, light green and black with a full color frontispiece (tipped-in) portrait of Claude.....
Catalogue of English Pamphlets in the Sutro Library. Part I: pages 1-100
Works Projects Adminstration. Spnsored by California State Library, 1941. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 100 pages. Printed recto only. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Tanning to covers. Uncommon.
Ezra Pound's 'A Lume Spento': A Preliminary Census
Bibliographical Society of America, 1989. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. pages 17-41, offprint from The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Volume 83, March, 1989. Inscribed by the author on front cover in pencil: 'With warm regards from the author, TAG'. First edition thus. A near fine copy in.....
On Wine: A Letter to the Abbe Morellet
Alan Dietch and Kenneth M. Johnson. Printed at Arion Press, 1982. Trade Paperback. Single sheet folded to create 4 leaves, 9 x 14 inches when folded. Letter on leaves 2 and 3. Note to the Letter on leaf 4. 'Printed at the Arion Press for Alan Dietch and Kenneth M......
The Colophon, a Quarterly for Bookmen, Autumn, Volume III, New Series, Number 4. 'Towards a Bibliography of John Steinbeck'
The Colophon. Printed by Pynson Printers, Inc, 1938. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. pp 483-632. Lawrence Clark Powell article pp. 558-568. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in original glassine wrapper. Wrapper is tanned with small edge chips.