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(Miniature Books) THE WORLD'S TEENIEST TINIEST BOOK.
(Spartanburg, SC Kitemaug Press 1988) oblong miniature book (3.9 x 5.0 cm) self paper wrappers unpaginated
(Bradbury, Kitemaug Press 59). A "spoof" published as a keepsake for Conclave VI of the Miniature Book Society.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 118754

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(Miniature Books) Yarnell, Jim GUACAMOLE ACCORDING TO LUKE.
(Wichita, KS) Oak Park Press (1983) miniature book (7.6 x 6.1 cm) two-toned cloth, title gilt-stamped on front cover, decorated endpapers (iv), 28, (6) pages
Limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by publisher Jim Yarnell on colophon (Bradbury, Oak Park 2). Some illustrations from old engravings, others based on designs by the author. Endpapers adapted from a Mexican tile design.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 118461

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(Miniature Books) Yeomans, Donald K. COMET HALLEY, FACT OR FOLLY.
Santa Ana, CA Gold Stein Press 1985 miniature book (6.9 x 4.8 cm) decorated cloth (viii), 46, (4) pages
Limited to 350 numbered copies and 26 lettered with hand coloring by Carnen Voss (Bradbury, Gold Stein Press 3). This is a numbered copy. Cover decorated with a representation of the depiction of the comet in the Eadwine Psalter, circa 1145, about the time of the comet's appearance. Endpapers and title decorated with representation from the Nurmeberg Chronicles, 1493. Small label of private collector in corner of back inside pastedown.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 118470

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(Miniature Books) Young, Bob JUST LA MEMORIES IN LINE.
(Phoenix, AZ Bob Young 1985) miniature book (7.0 x 5.0 cm) cloth unpaginated
(Bradbury, Bob Young 1). Color illustrations by the author. Text accordion folded. The author's recollections of life in Los Angeles. Bound by Bela Blau.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 118703

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(Miniature Books) Young, Bob JUST LA MEMORIES IN LINE.
(Phoenix, AZ Bob Young 1985) miniature book (7.0 x 5.0 cm) cloth unpaginated
(Bradbury, Bob Young 1). Color illustrations by the author. Text accordion folded. The author's recollections of life in Los Angeles. Bound by Bela Blau. With the miniature bookplate of Kathryn Rickard on front pastedown.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 118764

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(Miniature Books) YOUR BIBLE COMPANION: INSPIRING SELECTIONS FROM THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.
Cincinnati, OH for the American Greetings Corporationi n.d. miniature book (5.5 x 4.5 cm) paper-covered boards 62 pages
Table of contents. A selection of verses selected from each book of the Bible. Front board stained. Back board worn at edge.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 118748

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(Miniature Books) Zolkoski, Edwin NATIVE CALIFORNIANS.
Morro Bay, CA Tabula Rasa Press 1987 miniature book (6.5 x 6.1 cm) wrap around style cloth, label on spine, marbled endpapers 65+(1) pages
Limited to 400 numbered copies (Bradbury, Tabula Rasa Press 57). Illustrations by Carollynn Stalder. Preface. A guide to bird life in California.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 118488

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(Miniature Book) WORDS OF WISDOM: PASSAGES SELECTED FROM THE PROSE WRITINGS AND CONVERSATIONS OF GOETHE.
London, England Hill & Co. n.d. miniature book (7.0 x 5.5 cm) paper-covered boards, spine gilt-stamped, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers unpaginated
Preface presents a biographical sketch of Goethe. A collection of Goethe's notable sayings. Boards scuffed at edges and along spine. Front hinge cracked. Gift presentation on front free endpaper.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 118743

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(Minitaure Books) Maor, Eli PI: THE STORY OF A NUMBER.
Seattle, WA Tabula Rasa Press 1992 oblong miniature book (6.9 x 7.1 cm) cloth, marbled endpapers 61+(1) pages
Limited to 300 numbered copies (Bradbury, Tabula Rasa Press 72). Preface by the author. Frontispiece and illustrations by Phyllis Ededstein. List of references. Biographical sketches of the author and artist.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 118569

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Müller, Sándor (editor) GRAFIKUS MÜVEZETOK EVKONYVE (YEARBOOK OF GRAPHIC TYPESETTERS).
Budepest Magyarországi Magántisztviselök Országos Szövetsége Grafikus Muvezetök Szakosztályanak 1932 8vo. cloth, decorated pastedowns and free endpapers 144 pages
Text in Hungarian. The 1932 volume of the Yearbook of the Hungarian Association of Graphic Typesetters. Set in Art Deco style with pages ornamentally ruled. Label on front board. Contains a calendar, articles about Hungarian graphic design and numerous color advertisements throughout. Listing of officers and members of the Association at end of each volume. Black and white illustrations accompany some articles. Three plates (with three inset advertisements and three printed card of commendation) laid in. Very scarce with only two sets located by Worldcat (Library of Congress & Newberry Library).
Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 118705

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(Papermaking) Hunter, Dard BEFORE LIFE BEGAN, 1883-1923.
Cleveland The Rowfant Club 1941 8vo. vellum spine, hand-deocrated paper-covered boards, slipcase with paper label on spine. (viii), 216 pages.
Limited to 219 numbered copies signed by the designer, Bruce Rogers. Printed by A. Colish on handmade paper by Dard Hunter and including two watermarked sheets which serve as a quasi frontispiece, one with his name and the other with his portrait. Has handmade paper covers decorated by Vernoica Ruzicka. The text consists of autobiographical sketches by Hunter. Small owner's label in corner of back pastedown. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 28478

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(Papermaking) Kopylov, Christiane F. PAPIERS DORÉS D'ALLEMAGNE AU SIÈCLE DES LUMIÈRES SUIVIS DE QUELQUES AUTRES PAPIERS DÉCORÉS (BILDERBOGEN, KATTUNPAPIERE & HERRENHUTPAPIERE) 1680-1830.
(Verona La Maison Bortolazzi 2012) square 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards 434, (12) pages
Text in French. Limited to 999 copies. The art of paper making for books and brochures in Germany between 1680 and 1830. Table of contents. Introduction by the author. Acknowledgments. Sections on gilt paper (including varnished, embossed and plates), and papers colored by the patron. Full color illustrations. Bibliography and photographic credits. A major new book on this subject. Prospectus laid in.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 115804

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(Papermaking) Kopylov, Marc PAPIERS DOMINOTÉS FRANÇAIS OU L'ART DE REVÊTIR D'ÉPHÉMÈRES COUVERTURES COLORÉES LIVRES & BROCHURES ENTRE 1750 ET 1820.
(Verona La Maison Bortolazzi 2012) square 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards 404, (4) pages
Text in French. Limited to 999 copies. The art of paper making for books and brochures in France between 1750 and 1820. Table of contents. Foreword by André Jammes. Introduction by the author. Acknowledgments. Organized alphabetically by center of production with a brief description of paper making in that location. Includes Aix, Chartres, Lyon, Paris, Rouen, and others. Full color illustrations. Also includes examples not identified by location. Bibliography and index of names and places. A major new book on this subject.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 115801

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(Papermaking) Kopylov, Marc PAPIERS DOMINOTÉS ITALIENS UN UNIVERS DE COLEURS, DE FANTAISIE ET DE L'INVENTION 1750-1850.
(Verona La Maison Bortolazzi 2012) square 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards 396, (10) pages
Text in French. Limited to 999 copies. The art of paper making for books and brochures in Italy between 1750 and 1850. Table of contents. Introduction by the author. Acknowledgments. Organized alphabetically. Notes on dating. Detailed information on place and time of production given when known. Full color illustrations. Bibliography and photographic credits. A major new book on this subject. Prospectus laid in.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 115803

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(Papermaking) THE NATURE AND MAKING OF PAPYRUS.
Barkston Ash The Elmete Press 1973 tall 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. xvi, 72 pages.
First edition, limited to 495 numbered copies and signed by papermaker, Ian O'Casey and hand-printer, A.S. Maney. With nine hand-made paper specimens tipped-in. Chapters on the papyrus plant, papyrus rolls and codices, scribes and papyri, making papyrus sheets, practical sheet-making and the nature of papyrus. Prospectus loosely inserted. Small booklabel of former owner in corner of back pastedown.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 5401

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(Perishable Press) Hamady, Walter HAND PAPERMAKING: PAPERMAKING BY HAND, BEING A BOOK OF QUALIFIED SUSPICIONS GATHERED UNWITTINGLY AS AFTEREFFECTS OF THOSE YEARS SO SWIFTLY ELAPSED BETWEEN 1964 & 1981....
Perry, WI The Perishable Press 1982 small 4to. cloth. (x), 43, (2) pages and 9 leaves of paper samples.
Limited to 200 numbered copies. The text simply tells the complex way that handmade paper is produced. It is attractively illustrated with woodcut drawings by Jim Lee, and some borrowed plates from Diderot. The paper used is of various shades and textures and the type used was the Stempel Palatino of Herman Zapf. Zapf also designed the title page for the book.
Price: $ 2,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 20076

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(Phillipps, Sir Thomas) Munby, A.N.L. PHILLIPPS STUDIES
5 volumes, complete. Cambridge University Press 1951-1960 8vo. cloth, dust jackets. (viii),39+(1); xiii+(i), 119; xi+(i),177; xv+(i),227; xi,203+(1) pages.
This set comprises the best study done of Sir Thomas Phillipps, probably the world's best known collector. Comprising the following titles:
1. THE CATALOGUES OF MANUSCRIPTS & PRINTED BOOKS OF SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS; THEIR COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION. 1951.
2. THE FAMILY AFFAIRS OF SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS. 1952.
3. THE FORMATION OF THE PHILLIPPS LIBRARY UP TO THE YEAR 1840. 1954.
4. THE FORMATION OF THE PHILLIPPS LIBRARY FROM 1841 TO 1872. 1956.
5. THE DISPERSAL OF THE PHILLIPPS LIBRARY. 1960.
The set has proven to be very difficult to assemble in its entirety, especially in dust jackets. Jacket of volume two is age darkened. Small owner's booklabel in corner of back pastedown.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 2856

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(Plough Press) Wakeman, Geoffrey ENGLISH MARBLED PAPERS, A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
Loughborough The Plough Press n.d. (1978) small 4to. quarter morocco over cloth. 27 pages of text followed by 26 actual specimens of marbled papers done in different patterns.
Limited to 112 copies. (Bibliography p.27). Besides the historical review of the art of marbling, the book contains a bibliography. Beautifully produced by Wakeman at his Plough Press. With 26 mounted specimens of marbled paper, two from the 19th century, and the rest modern papers recreating historical patterns and executed by such 20th century marblers as Cockerell, Mitchell, Wolfe, Stone and others. Four page prospectus loosely inserted. This copy has had insect damage along outer edge of both covers and is priced accordingly. Fine internally.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 118574

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(Poetry) Barnes, Djuna COLLECTED POEMS: WITH NOTES TOWARD THE MEMOIRS.
Madison, WI University of Wisconsin Press 2005 8vo stiff paper wrappers 285 pages
First edition. Ex-library markings on front free end paper, title page and top edge of the text block.
Price: $ 61.95 other currencies Order nr. 118616

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Pomeroy, Jane R. ALEXANDER ANDERSON'S NEW YORK DIARY, 1793 TO 1799.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and American Antiquarian Society 2013 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover 680 pages in two volumes
This work for the first time presents the complete transcription of the diary of Alexander Anderson (1775-1870), the father of wood engraving in America. It starts at the beginning of his career and covers almost six years of daily entries. Comprehensive footnotes identify the books he illustrated during those years (included in a checklist), literature he sought to help him in engraving techniques, his earnings from commissions, and more. Ten chapters from author Jane R. Pomeroy explore themes apparent in the Diary: the places and persons he mentioned and the social climate and urban history that he experienced. An Appendix lists some 300 books that he mentioned reading.

As might be expected, during the almost six years he kept the Diary, Anderson changed and matured. He was eighteen years old the first year and twenty-four at the last entry in June, 1799. His life during those six years shaped his work. By the end of the Diary, he had married, lived through the deaths of his wife and infant son and of all his family, and two of the city's yellow fever epidemics. It took these life changing events and his success in being hired by printers and publishers to make him abandon the career in medicine that had been chosen for him by his parents and turn to his first love and passion, engraving.

The engravings mentioned in his Diary are from the beginning of his work, only a few of the over 9,000 images he produced in his ninety-five-years. He mostly devised his skills for himself, initially inspired by the great English wood engraver, Thomas Bewick. Anderson is often named as the first American illustrator who cut on the end grain of boxwood, which both allowed a resilient commercially practical woodblock and one with a wide artistic range.

His diary is a record of daily occurrences, of patients that he did his best to help, of friends and walks in the city and time spent reading and playing his violin, and it allows us to better understand his history and temperament by showing his surroundings and friends, how they influenced the choices he made in his work and its character.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 114714

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(Rawdon, Ralph) AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES, BE IT KNOWN THAT (BLANK) ... IS ADMITTED A MEMBER OF THE (BLANK) SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES ...
Albany Ralph Rawdon n.d. (circa 1816) 9" x 11.25" Single sheet
Stauffer no.2640. A certificate of membership with a large engraving in line with vignette showing "Ceres with child by side and woman seated in arbor to right. Outside oval, an eagle, plow, agricultureal impliments, etc." Rawdon moved to Albany in 1816 where he "engraved stipple portraits over his own name, and with his brother and with A. Willard he was in the bank-note and general engraving business. Foxed.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 25414

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(Rogers, Bruce) Blumenthal, Joseph BRUCE ROGERS, A LIFE IN LETTERS 1870-1957.
With a foreword by John Dreyfus. Austin W. Thomas Taylor (1989) small 4to. quarter black leather with patterned paper-covered boards, red leather spine label xvii, 215 pages.
First edition, limited to 2125 copies, of which this is one the 125 specially bound copies signed by the author. A biography of Rogers by an acknowledged expert in the field. Designed and printed at the press of W. Thomas Taylor with plates produced at The Press of A. Colish. Has 57 plates printed with a number in two colors. Prospectus loosely inserted as is the invitation to subscribers for the special edition and a letter of apology from the printer.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 54494

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Romaine, Lawrence B.1 THE WEATHERCOCK CROWS.
North Middleboro Weathercock House 1955 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 102 pages.
First edition. Poems written by a bookseller on his field of bookselling. Sketches by Emily Monsarrat. Presentation from author on front free endpaper. Some chipping of jacket with small piece missing along bottom of back cover.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 10182

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Rota, Anthony. APART FROM THE TEXT.
New Castle, Delaware and Pinner, Middlesex, England Oak Knoll Press & Private Libraries Association 1998 small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 253 pages.
First edition. This book is an exploration of what the physical appearance of 19th- and 20th-century books can teach us, not only about the history of publishing but also about economic and social history and the career of authorship. It examines changes in binding styles from boards through cloth to paperbacks, noting trends in design, and studying the inception and subsequent virtual extinction of pictorial cloth bindings. It follows the evolution of the dust-jacket from simple protective wrapping to elaborate artifact. Changes in publishing practice come under review, as do the effects of two world wars on book production. Comparisons are drawn between English and American treatment of specific titles.
The intention of this book is to give insight into bibliographical matters, which will not only be of help in textual, critical, and biographical study, but above all, it will give them added pleasure as they take a book from the shelf and open it - even before they begin to read. In short, this work is about what books offer "apart from the text."
The author goes back to earlier works and as far back as the cradle of printing. He shows how economic factors influenced practice, and especially how 19th-century industrial changes and the advent of steam-power affected the natural order of composing, printing and binding of books. In actual practice, mechanization first came to presswork, binding, and then lastly to composing type. However, one will want to recognize that despite these changes, hand-printing was the most efficient technique for producing considerable quantities of books, so efficient that little of truly revolutionary change occurred between 1455 and 1955, when publishing saw the advent of filmsetting and other related wonders. Illustrated.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 63657

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Skeen, William EARLY TYPOGRAPHY
Colombo, Ceylon n.p. 1872 8vo. half red calf with marbled paper covered boards, top edge gilt. (ii), 424, v pages.
Revised edition. (See Bigmore & Wyman II, 364 where they note the 48 page first printing and also state that this 1872 edition is usually found with a London imprint but mention the presence of this Ceylon imprint). Skeen was the government printer for Ceylon and used his knowledge of printing practice to "originate several new arguments" on the beginning of printing. B & W call this book "a most creditable specimen of typography." Illustrated. Covers rubbed with wear along edges and hinges. Some pages show an old water stain at top. Old bookplate partially removed.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 118366

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