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THE WOOLLY WHALE
Soldier
Humor Illustrated
(A
Period Press Piece). Cary, Melbert B., Jr. ( ed. & pub.).
Mademoiselle from Armentières, volume two. New York: Press of the Woolly
Whale, 1935. 8vo. xlv, [9], 111, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • Publisher's quarter crimson morocco and gilt black cloth, top edge gilt; one corner bump (sans glassine wrapper) and abraded at head/foot of spine. (18011)
BIBLIO–BEDTIME READING
(Fortsas Hoax). Klinefelter, Walter. The Fortsas bibliohoax...With a reprint of the Fortsas catalogue and bibliographical notes and comment by Weber de Vore. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1942. 12mo. [3] ff., 71, [1] pp., [1] f. 
The Fortsas hoax is legendary for having fooled many renowned collectors and dealers near the mid-point of the 19th century (1840, to be precise) into travelling to the small town of Biche, Belgium for an auction of unique books that were bibliographically unknown!
• Publisher's quarter cloth and decorated boards, front cover showing one faint crescent of soil; top edge gilt, a touch soiled near spine, fore-edges untrimmed. Map endpapers. A copy not quite perfectly fresh but very nice. (28319)
GUTENBERG
— WOOLLY WHALE
Fuhrmann, Otto W.,
ed. Gutenberg and the Strasbourg documents of 1439. An interpretation
by Otto W. Fuhrmann.... New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1940. Tall 8vo
(26 cm, 10.25"). x pp., [1] f., 260 pp., [1] f. 
This basic source for the study of Gutenberg contains Fuhrmann's study, facsimiles, and transcriptions of the original Alsatian-language documents and translations of them into French, German, and English. The documents were part of a trial for breach of contract.
• Publisher's gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt; glassine dust
wrapper with small chips just at corners, in a slightly rubbed slipcase. 
A very nice copy.
The
LIST Jonah &
the Woolly whale were breakfasting. . . . New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, [ca. 1934]. 12mo. 12 pp.
• Sewn plain wrappers with pictorial cutout overlay. Fine. (24123)
Still Thoughtful — Still Thought-ProvokingLippman, Walter. The scholar in a troubled world. An address delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the commencement exercises of Columbia University May 31, 1932. New York: Press of the Wooly Whale, 1932. 8vo. [40] pp.
Click
the image to the left for an enlargement.
• Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper remarkably intact. (29077)
Cockney “Mar” Mar.
[New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, ca. 1934?]. 8vo. [8] pp.
• Sewn octavo French fold. Fine and unopened. (24124)
A
“Graphic Arts”
SouvenirRollins, Carl Purington. This house of havoc. New York: Pr. by the Press of the Woolly Whale for the American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1941. 8vo. 16 pp.
• Sewn in publisher’s printed paper wrappers; clean and all but unworn, with the lower outer corners just slightly bumped.
Quaker Life in
Dutchess County, NY — 1779Society
of Friends. To the yearly meeting. Extracts taken from
the minnets of our quarterly meeting held at the Oblong by adjournments from ye
1st of the 5 month to 3ed of the same inclusive. 1779. New York: Pr. by Melbert
B. Cary, Jr. at the Sign of the Woolly Whale, 1936. 8vo (20.2 cm, 7.9"). [12]
pp.
• Woolly Whale printing of the minutes from a Dutchess County, New York Quaker meeting, in which the construction of the Millbrook meeting house is discussed. 
Long, breathless, run-on sentences make the expected Quaker standards of behavior, in this place and time, quite clear.
• Sewn in publisher’s color-flecked paper wrappers. Faintest dust-soiling just at top edge of covers, with a touch of this also to upper outer corner of title-page — the corner also irregular in its trimming(?), fore-edges deckle.
Unattributed
& UNCUT Spring song. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, [ca. 1934?]. 8vo. 8 pp.
• Sewn octavo French fold. Fine and unopened. (18014)
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