Search Results: Watches and Clocks from Downtown Brown Books, ABAA

Furtwangen: Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, 2010. Trade paperback. Near fine. 189 pages. 8 by 11-1/4 inches. Furtwanger Beiträge zur Uhrengeschichte, neue Folge, Band 3. Exhibition catalog of rare German clock books. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs of title pages and representative plates. With bibliographic information and one or two paragraphs of description. Text in German. Uncommon. First edition (first printing). Near fine in wrappers (paperback).

Luzern: Sammlung Joseph Fremersdorf, 1966. Hardcover. Fine. 87 pages. 8-1/4 by 12 inches. Illustrated with 50 black-and-white and two color photographs. A detailed monograph on a single clock on a very decorative base. Limited to 300 copies. A fine copy in red cloth, no dust jacket. While the limitation is stated as 300 copies, this example has the number 465. It is possible that this is an unstated second printing of 300 copies.

Stamford: Rare Book Society, 1980. Leather bound. Very good. A facsimile of a much sought-after clock book, illustrated with 50 black-and-white plates. Limited to 100 copies. 89 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. Fine binding, in blue leatherette. Preliminaries foxed. This is copy 3 of 100. It is inscribed, "To my very good friend Paul who introduced me to A.H.S. With warm regards, George." Something about the inscription suggests that George was the publisher, but your cataloguer does not know for certain.

Ditchling, England: St. Dominics Press, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. 9 by 11-1/2 inches. "With over fifty plates taken from photographs of the finest specimens." Privately printed in an edition of 300 copies on handmade paper, with most of the illustrations printed separately and tipped in. A classic English clockbook, printed by Hilary Pepler at Ditchling, an intentional Roman Catholic artistic community that produced Arts and Crafts handwork. While supposedly limited to 300 copies, it appears that there were extra copies bound up outside of the normal print run. These extra copies are not numbered, are seen in quarter-cloth and plain boards, and in dust jackets. The regular run of 300 were cloth and leather and were presumably issued without jacket (at least your cataloguer has been unable to locate record of a numbered copy in a jacket). A very good copy; wear to spine ends and some spotting to the cloth. In a jacket missing most of its spine and reinforced with tape at the… Read More

London: N.A.G. Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxxii, 252, [4] pages. with 3,000 definitions and 1,100 illustrations by E. A. Ayres. A useful reference, with more than thirty pages of ads for 1950s watch and clock makers and dealers. First edition (first printing). Very good in a very good dust jacket.