Jake Zeitlin (63 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A gathering of memoirs, essays and art in honor of UCLA librarian Lawrence Clark Powell. Many vignettes of Powell found nowhere else. Includes a checklist of Powell's books. Tall 8vo, black cloth, 159 pages. A fine, clean and unmarked copy in a fine dust jacket with thick loose Mylar protective cover.…

PAPER BACK BLUE. Condition: FAIR. FIRST ED. Tight Binding. General wear. No Markings. No Bookplate. DATE PUBLISHED: 1936 FEB EDITION: FIRST ED 128.

Paperbound. Condition: In quite good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 104; 1029 lots of books; 26 maps engravings, paintings &tc. Fully illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . On February 4, 1988, The L. A. Times noted of the auction sale of books &tc. of Zeitlin & Ver Brugge: "For 40 years--until it closed Nov. 3--Josephine Ver Brugge Zeitlin welcomed visitors to the red barn on La Cienega, the home of Booksellers. This week she has been telling them, tongue in cheek, that the old building "is going to become a mini-mall." For days bibliophiles have been trickling through, sneak-previewing today's auction of books, furniture and oddities that will be the closing chapter in the story of Jacob (Jake) Zeitlin, book lover, mentor, friend of the famous, raconteur. At 10:30 a.m. today at 815 N. La Cienega, auctioneer George Lowry, president of Swann Galleries of New York, will offer to the highest bidders an eclectic collection of 273 lots that includes Zeitlin's books, antiques, scientific apparatus and even his file cabinets.".…

Paperback. Octavo, [23cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, 208 lots . Please Feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots. In exceptionally good condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket As Issued. First edition / 1st Printing. First Edition / First Printing. Very good. 14 x 23cm. soft cover. 28pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Single sheet folded twice and sewn into wrapper, 6.5 x 5 in. This reprint designed by William Cheney. Near fine; wrapper border faintly toned.

small octavo, printed wrappers. First Edition. First Edition. small octavo, printed wrappers. ii, 22 pages + 5 pp. Friends of the UCLA Library, A Retrospective Exhibition of his Work as Designer, Printer, and Publisher at the UCLA Library, Occidental College, and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Frontispiece portrait of Ritchie and several other illustrations. New.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Wraps. 165 pages. Classic bookseller catalog. 210 well-described items. Some photos. Light bumps to corners, no unwanted markings. Many fascinating items, priced from about 40 to 4000 dollars. Preface is a memorial to John Baker Lee by Zeitlin.

Hardcover. Octavo, 131 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is orange with paper title label. Boards quarter bound with orange cloth to spine and decorative paper to boards. Text block has penciled inscription on front pastedown. Illustrated: b&w. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column G. 1379528. FP New Rockville Stock.…

First Edition. Paperbound. Very good with some slight dust soiling and edge wear and some rubbing to the spine in printed wrappers. A catalogue of varied literary offerings celebrating fifty years of bookselling from Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Books.

Paperback. Condition: As New. None. First Edition. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES and issued as DeGolyer Library Keepsake Number One printed by W. Thomas Taylor of Dallas. An essay on bookbuying by the legendary Los Angeles bookseller and partner of Zeitlin & Ver Brugge, who first employed UCLA librarian and author Lawrence Clark Powell as a bookseller. 8vo, stapled pictorial wrappers, unpaginated. A pristine copy, clean and unmarked.…

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very good. Unpaginated (approx. 16p.) Wrap edges lightly worn. (9"x5-7/8").

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. NF. First softcover. Softcover, 19 pp, sewn binding, few tiny spots to front cover with light edgewear/shelfwear, otherwise a clean and tight copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. A clean, crisp hand-sewn pamphlet style limited edition (500) softcover in near fine condition; faintly rubbed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 78 Pp. Fine Catalog From The Dean Of Los Angeles Antiquarian Booksellers.

[8], 36, [2] boards. Bound in quarter cloth over decorated paper boards. Printed paper spine label. Frontispiece portrait of Dahlstrom tipped in. Title page printed in red and black. Printed by Vance Gerry at the Weatherbird Press. Copy 109 of 300.

Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Condition: Good. --ALL INVENTORY 40% OFF in Sept--Unmarked text. Sun lines on cover. Fourteenth Exhibition of books produced by Western printers sponsored by the Rounce and Coffin Club. Printed by Richard Hoffman at the Los Angeles City College Press. 44 entries. Index categories include type faces, presses, designers, binders, and illustrators. Schedules for two exhibitions. List of catalogs inside back cover. 32p. Measures 4.5x7.5 inches.…

Condition: Very Good. 12 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Book Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 5 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Book Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

folded sheet. small 8vo. folded sheet. (4) pages. Advance sample, printed February, 1952, by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Folded sheet with title page and a poem.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. thin pamphlet, signed by Zeitlin, woodblock print, minor wear and rubbing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, orig light tan wrapps, just a little hint of fading to spine area, a vg clean tight copy of this booklet. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Paper bound book. Published by DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, 1987. One of 500 copies.

Brown wrappers lettered white. C.pp36, author's name 'Ray' on spine in ink, else very good. 4th Keepsake distributed by Jake Zeitlin on behalf of the Friends of UCLA. Highly informative study detailing rare novels and the number of copies held by major libraries. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue wrappers with red lettering. 19pp. Near fine. Handsome first edition of the fifth lecture in "The Annual Public Lectures on Books and Bibliography" series, a delightful informal talk by the noted California bibliopole as well as editor, publisher, poet and man about town (1903-87). Surprisingly uncommon and a lovely copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Limited to 300 numbered copies, this being #264. Photo frontis of Dahlstrom, signed by him underneath. Short contributions from the authors. Nicely printed book bound in 1/4 cloth with paper covered boards and paper spine label. Fine condition.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for only insignificant traces of use.

Paperbound. Condition: Very Good. n.d (circa 1935),two color, printed paper wraps, 39 pages,map on rear cover, A early catalog from the shop of one of the legends in the American book trade. Designed for Zeitlin by Ward Ritchie. The catalog includes Many fine association item, books illustrated by Blake, Rowlandson and such;Rre first Editions viz., Browne's Religio Medici, Lockes Concerning Humane Understanding; Aldine, Doves and Ashendene Press Master Works and Early Mexicana and Americana. Back wrap a little dark, light soil to front wrap, lower corners of front wrap and first text page missing, Size: 8 Vo.. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. "Five Hundred copies of this book printed at the Grabhorn Press for Gelber-Lilienthal, Inc.Illustration by V. Angelo. Copy number 99." A brief collection of poetry by the young Jacob Zeitlin (introduced by Carl Sandburg, "here we have the boy the young man, Jake Zeitlin, stepping forth as a poet."), the year before he opened his first book store in Los Angeles and embarked on his distinguished career as a bookseller, publisher and supporter of fine printing. Yellow paper covered boards, slightly faded spine. Offsetting from endpapers, occasional small spots of foxing. [x], 20, [2]pp.…

Poster. Single sheet, 26.2 x 18.5 inches, folded once to create 4 leaves, 18.5 x 13.1 inches. Printed in red, blue and black on cream. Facsimile edition originally printed in 1799. Contains a facsimilie of the decree side-by-side with an English translation. First edition thus. A fine copy.