Search Results: Authors starting with U from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

Hilversum (The Netherlands): The Paper Publications Society, 1962     ¶ ONLY EDITION, published -- happily -- in English at the behest of E. J. Labarre. VERY SCARCE: The subscribers' list accounts for 247 copies, which were taken mostly by institutional libraries.   ||| Collation: In 8s (310 x 230 mm): 361 leaves, paginated [i-ii blank] [iii-vi] vii-xxix [xxx], [1-2] 3-196, (chi)[1-388], 197-297 [298] [299 addenda] [300-304 blank]. Title printed in red and black. Pages (chi)[3-383] are paginated as 'plates' 1-381.  Illustration: Ten halftone plates (fifteen figures on five leaves printed recto and verso), five inserted maps (on three leaves printed recto and verso), folding color map, integral frontispiece (facsimile), nine text illustrations (watermarks), and 815 reproductions of watermarks (on 'plates' 1-381).  Binding: Publisher's blue buckram lettered and decorated in gilt, pale-yellow laid endpapers, blue-and-white headbands, all… Read More

New York, 1942     ¶ A short-lived 'house organ' devoted to stoking morale in the civilian women's Auxiliary Aircraft Warning Service in New York. Scarce; not in the Library of Congress.   ||| Collation: 241 x 174 mm: Two leaves, paginated [1] 2-4. Text printed in three columns.  Illustration: Portrait, facsimile (reproduction of recruiting-poster), two cartoons.  Binding: A bifolium unbound as issued.  Condition: Very good, one lateral fold..

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard university library, 1971 ¶ ONLY EDITION, now out of print. An essential tool for Russian and Slavonic bibliography; being the shelflist of the most important academic collection of Slavica in North America--including the celebrated Kilgour collection in the Houghton Library--, together with indexes by author, title, and date. (Series: Harvard university. Library. Widener library shelflist, 28-31.) ||| Collation: Four volumes in 16s (281 x 211 mm). Binding: Publisher's red cloth gilt. Condition: A fine set..