Puffer Nathaniel (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 92pp; illustrations from title-pages, etc. Unused bidding form laid in. Bound in pictorial beige wrappers, 9" x 6". Preceded by an edition limited to 135 copies in cloth. Contains a seven-page essay on the Library Associates, and descriptions of 247 lots sold at auction.

cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 205, (3), 51+(1) pages. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. Issued to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of this book-collecting Club (Leaf Book - Chalmers 226). The first part of the book contains a note on John DePol who has contributed a wood-cut to the book, an article on Benjamin Franklin who printed the first Delaware currency (accompanied by a tipped-in leaf from an early Franklin imprint,) a history of the Club, a chronology of the meetings and publications; the second part of the book is a history of the city of New Castle issued to celebrate its 350th Anniversary; the third part of the book contains an article by Herb Pratt on "The Chemistry Collection of The New Castle Library Company of 1840: A Meeting of Minds", a reprint of Ralph Newman's section on Delaware colonial currency from his book on American currency and an expansion by Nathaniel Puffer of Rink's bibliography of Delaware imprints before 1801.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Delaware Bibliophiles, 1987. 8vo, 31 p., bound in dark blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt, with original pieces of ephemera, includes cigar labels, and a Cuala Press bookplate, pasted in. One of 200 copies, this being No. 26. Fine in a NF jacket with discoloration to rear panel.

First Edition. A history & anthology. Pp. xx+54+[ii]+viii+208(last blank)+52(last colophon), frontispiece, text illustrations (some full page, including a wood engraving by John De Pol), title page decoration, patterned endpapers, bibliography; navy cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; The Delaware Bibliophiles, New Castle, 2002. First edition thus, limited to 250 numbered copies. *Tipped-in to each copy of this edition is an original leaf from A Collection of the Works of Thomas Chalkey, published in Philadelphia in 1749 by Benjamin Franklin & David Hall. The leaf in this copy (which is browned and lightly foxed) comprises pp. 277/278.Part Two of the text, 350 Years of New Castle, Delaware, was originally published by Cedar Tree Books and The New Castle Historical Society.