Search Results: Authors starting with D from Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press

Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1905. stiff paper wrappers. Dickens, Charles. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 52, (2) pages. Limited to 150 copies. Front cover detached along front hinge. Wrappers chipped along edges. Else a well-preserved copy.

Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1971. quarter leather, paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, slipcase. Officina Bodoni. small 4to. quarter leather, paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, slipcase. xxxviii, 104, (2) pages. Limited to 160 numbered copies and printed by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni. (Schmoller no.170). Fine in fine publisher's slipcase. Prospectus loosely inserted. Protected by accetate jacket. An English translation of Torniello's text by Betty Radice with an introduction in English by Mardersteig. The text discusses Torniello, Guillaume Le Signerre who cut "the portrait of the calligrapher, the decorative initials, and probably the wood-blocks for the letters and themselves," and the printer, Gotardo da Ponte. Also contains information on other alphabets developed during this period. Fine in near fine slipcase with a copy of the original prospectus.

México, DF: Editorial Jus, 1967. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 427, (3); (vi), 429-837+(1); (vi), 839-1149, (3) pages. 3 volumes. Part of the "Independent Mexico in Documents: Independence, Empire, and Republic" series. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Contain documents, in the Latin American Library at the University of Texas, generated by Don Mariano Riva Palacio (1803-80), a leading political figure in 19th century Mexico. Frontispiece. Introduction. 10,199 entries. Notes and index. Wrappers tanned around edges and bent at corners.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. paperback. 8vo. paperback. 381 pages. Illustrated. Near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

London: The Nether Press, 1971. stiff paper wrappers. Jones, Leroi. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 196 pages. Nether Press Bibliographies, Miscellaneous Series CI. A bibliography of the work of American poet and black power advocate Leroi Jones, who changed his name to Imamu Amiri Baraka. Introduction and acknowledgments. List of abbreviations. Includes both Jones's works and works about him. Index. Stamped pattern obliterates text on copyright page.

Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. two-toned cloth, dust jacket. small 8vo. two-toned cloth, dust jacket. x, 100, (2) pages. First edition. Dust jacket with faded spine.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiii, 277 pages. First edition. This book concerns more than just the editing of this medieval Spanish work as his "remarks on the process of editing a medieval text, and what a medieval text is, are going to occasion very serious reflection on both subjects.

(Ottawa): Public Archives Canada, 1982. wrappers. Maps. 4to. wrappers. unpaginated. Facsimile of an exhibition catalogue of 100 original maps, atlases, globes and architectural plans, 1490-1982. Wrappers slightly soiled and wrinkled at the edges.

London: The Bibliographical Society, 1952. cloth-backed boards. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 283 pages with 16 figures. First edition. Foxing of preliminary pages, else near fine.

Copenhaven: Povl Branner, 1920. paper-covered boards, slipcase. small 8vo. paper-covered boards, slipcase. 243 pages, with 8 additional pages of plates. Limited to 650 numbered copies. Eight articles, with such titles as "a medieval bibliophile," "old German libraries," "the art of the vignette in 18th-century Denmark" (with many illustrations), etc., followed by a report on Danish book auctions in 1919 and library news 1919-1920 (i.e. acquisitions of incunabula and the like). Bookplate, inside front cover. Slipcase rubbed as are hinges.

Købnhavn (Copenhagen), Denmark: P. Haase & Søns Forlag, n.d.. cloth. 8vo. cloth. 308, (4) pages. Text in Danish. Second revised and enlarged edition. Foreword by the author, table of contents, bibliography, list of illustrations, index. Black and white illustrations. Corrigenda tipped in. A history of the book from antiquity into the 20th century.

(Stockholm): Forum, 1961. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 287+(1) pages. Text in Swedish. Second revised edition. Translated into Swedish from Danish by Henning Wieslander. A general history of the book from ancient times to the 20th century. Foreward by the translator, table of contents, bibliography, and index. Black and white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket worn at edges with spine faded.

København: Bogtrykfagets Organisationer, 1940. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 61, (3) pages. First edition. Dahl and Dossing's study of printing history takes the reader from Gutenberg through twentieth-century printing presses. Published by the Bogtrykfagets Organisationer in celebration of 500 years of printing. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. In Danish.

Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, 1958. cloth. 8vo. cloth. 279 pages. First edition in English. Illustrated. Reproduced from typescript. An excellent one volume guide to the book. Two postage stamps on front pastedown. Covers soiled. Textblock marked throughout in red. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books.

København: Bogtrykfagets Organisationer, 1940. quarter leather with marbled paper-covered boards. 8vo. quarter leather with marbled paper-covered boards. 61, (3) pages. First edition. Dahl and Dossing's study of printing history takes the reader from Gutenberg through twentieth-century printing presses. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. In Danish. Original publisher's stiff paper wrappers bound in.

Amsterdam: Meridian Publishing Company, 1977. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 65 pages. Text in French. Reprint of the 1911 edition. With eight black-and-white map plates.

Uppsala och Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksells and Stockholm: Hugo Gebers, 1924. later cloth. 8vo. later cloth. 576, (2) pages. A handbook for the student of the book in Sweden. Covers all aspects of book history but emphasizes the libraries of Sweden.

Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1975. paper wrappers. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 28 pages. Two essays, one on the question of an open vs. a closed society, the other on the contribution of book clubs to society.

(San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 2009. paper portfolio with 4 page history and 14 broadsides inserte. Book Club of California. 4to. paper portfolio with 4 page history and 14 broadsides inserte. The annual keepsake produced by the Club. A fine copy.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.

Amsterdam: Scheltema & Holkema's Boekhandel, n.d.. cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine, decoration gilt-stamped on front boards. 4to. cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine, decoration gilt-stamped on front boards. 383, (3); 461, (3) pages. 2 volumes. Text in Dutch. First two volumes of a six-volume set. Volume 1 covers the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, Volume 2 the 17th century. Chapters written by various scholars. Black and white illustrations, maps, and building floor plans throughout. Foldout map and a color map (loosely inserted) in Volume 1. Color portrait of poet and playwright Joost van den Vondel tipped in Volume 2. Boards worn at edges and along spine. Stamping on spine chipped.