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First book of the King Library Press

(High Noon Press) THE MARRIAGE OF COCK ROBIN AND JENNY WREN.
Lexington High Noon Press 1956 Small 12mo. marbled paper-covered boards, paper cover label (20) pages
Published in a limited edition of 140 numbered copies. Imprinted from an early and unidentified edition in the Margaret I. King Library at the University of Kentucky. Set in 18 point Caslon Oldstyle (Stephenson & Blake). Seven line cuts reproduced from old engravings printed with the text. Hosho paper. Cased in boards covered with marbled paper, linen spine with printed label (binding of edition varies). This is considered to be the first work of the King Library Press and is the only time the High Noon Press imprint was used. Victor Hammer does not appear to have been involved with this particular endeavor.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 76239

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  (Hill & Dale) Mahr, Karl PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
N.P. Privately Printed 2000 folio stiff paper wrappers, mailing envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages
Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text is set on the first ten pages and is accompanied by eight illustrations. The German text is on last three of the final unnumbered pages. In original mailing envelope addressed to a customer in India.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 104929

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  (Hill & Dale) Mahr, Karl PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
N.P. Privately Printed 2000 folio stiff paper wrappers, plain paper envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages
Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text is set on the first ten pages and is accompanied by eight illustrations. The German text is on last three of the final unnumbered pages.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 105320

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  (Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry) Hopkins, Richard L. POST-MORTEM TRIBUTE: GEORGE L. HARDING
Devoted Patron and Student of the History of the Printing Craft Terra Alta, WV Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry 1978 8vo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Limited to an edition of 200. Narrative on the life of Harding printed for family and friends. Set in Caslon 337 type and printed on white Beckett Text paper bound in Strathmore Beau Brilliant Brighton Beige wrappers. Staples removed so leaves and wrappers loose, rust stains from staples at center.
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 95369

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  (Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry) Hopkins, Richard L. YESTERDAY'S "SWIFT"
A Keepsake Edition of Typographic Curiosities Number 12, May, 1980 "Baltimore Curiosities" Terra Alta, WV Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry 1980 12mo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated (16 pages)
Amusing text about contests to test the speed (or lack thereof) of composing type. From the Colophon: "This edition of Typographic Curiosities was produced in part while the author was displaying a working letterpress printshop a the Chesapeake Graphic Arts Exposition at Baltimore in May, 1980." Contains one illustration printed across the fold. Staples removed so leaves and wrappers loose.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 95368

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  (Hill & Dale Press) Hopkins, Richard AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A METAL FLOWER BY ... AS TOLD BY ITS CLEARFACE COMPANIONS.
N.P. The Hill and Dale Press 1965 16mo. cloth. (36) pages.
Limited to 175 numbered copies. With manuscript, art, composition, presswork and binding done by Rich Hopkins. The first book issued by this press.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 36812

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  (Hill & Dale Press) Hopkins, Richard L. AMERICAN TYPECASTING FELLOWSHIP COMMEMORATIVE CASTING: CONTINUING THE TRADITION
Story Behind the Engraved Matrix (Terra Alta) Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry 1994 miniature stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Keepsake from the American Typecasting Fellowship.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 105443

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  (Hill & Dale Press) Hopkins, Richard L. IN QUEST OF TYPOGRAPHIC TREASURES AT THE ARCHABBEY
A Monotype Fanatic's Escapade Terra Alta Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry 1984 16mo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Limited to 300 copies. Illustrations by Jim Willis. Typographic adventure at the St. Vincent Archabbey Press.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 105500

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  (Hill & Dale Press) Hopkins, Richard. RECORD TITLE, A FORGOTTEN GOUDY TYPE.
N.P. The Hill & Dale Press 1964 12mo. self paper wrapper. Unpaginated.
Fourth in the series "Typographic Curiosities" from this press. Discusses and presents a specimen and alphabet of Record Title, a type face by Frederic W. Goudy which does not appear in lists of his designs. Bibliography.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 48154

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  (Hill & Dale Press) MATRIX COLLECTION.
Terra Alta, WV Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry (1978) oblong 12mo. stiff paper covers, plastic spiral binding at top. (ii), 7 pages.
Listing of the matrix collection held by Richard L. Hopkins
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 105623

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  (Hill & Dale Private Press) Hopkins, Richard L. THE STORY OF CHARLES T. MOORE: HIS IDEAS GOT MERGANTHALER STARTED.
Terra Alta, WV Hill & Dale Private Press & Typefoundry 1991 12mo. stiff paper wrappers (vi), 12, (2) pages
No. 13 in the series Typographic Curiosities. Commemorates the 20th anniversary of Monotype typecasting at Hill & Dale. Dicusses the role of Moore and the National Typographic Company of West Virginia in the emergence of the Mergenthaler business. Includes list of references. Typographic borders surround each page.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109613

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  (Hill and Dale) Bateman, George W. FOND MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS PLUM PUDDING
Terra Alta, West Virginia Hill and Dale Private Press 1977 16mo. stiff paper wrapper unpaginated
A story of Christmases in Bateman's past, some gloriously with plum pudding and others sadly without it. Published originally in The Superior Printer magazine in 1888, for which Bateman was an editor. Reprinted by Rich Hopkins of Hill and Dale Press as a Christmas greeting for his family. Disbound.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 94050

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  (Hill and Dale Press) A CORINTHIAN REVIVAL.
Announcing the re-issuance of an historic typeface. Terra Alta, West Virginia Hill and Dale Private Press and Typefoundry 1994 square 12mo. stiff paper wrapper. unpaginated.
The history of and an advertisement for Corinthian type, recently acquired and replicated by Hill and Dale. Set in Scotch Roman.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 94178

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  (Hill and Dale Press) Giles, Carl H. WHAT DO PRESIDENTS EAT?
Evolution of White House Menus: Food Fare for the First Family. N.P. Hill and Dale Press 1965 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages.
Privately printed at this press. Seven pages of text followed by recipes.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 105627

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  (Hill and Dale Press) Hopkins, Richard L. PONDERING MUNDER: THE NAME GAME
Terra Alta, West Virginia The Hill and Dale Press 1975 large 12mo. stiff paper wrapper. unpaginated.
Number 9 in "Typographic Curiosities." The interwoven history of Verona and Munder types. Set in Goudy Light/Oldstyle No.38/Gimbel.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 94177

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  (Hill, Edwin Bliss) Muir, Gertrude Hill " EDWIN BLISS HILL."
1967 4to. self paper wrappers. pp.19-27.
An article in American Book Collector, Vol. XVIII, No.2, October 1967. Also contains Adrian Goldstone's "The Search for Edwin B. Hill" which lists all of Hill's output as a private press.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 100144

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  (Hill Press) A LETTER FROM ROBERT E. LEE TO HIS WIFE, MARY.
Baltimore The Hill Press n.d. Broadside (14 3/4 by 11 inches)
Reprint of a letter from from Gen. Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to his wife from Savannah, dated 8 February 1862. Describes preparations for the defense of that city and personal sentiments, within a decorative border. Slightly bent at corners.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 109956

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  Hirschman, Jack YOD
London Trigram Press (1966) small 4to. cloth-backed gold foil paper-covered boards covers with original stiff paper wrappered book (in glassine wrapper) loosely inserted in cardboard slipcase Not paginated
First edition, limited to 200 copies of which this is one of the first 60 copies that were also signed by Hirschman. Printed silk-screen and letterpress on Evensyde white offset paper. Ink calligraphy and drawings throughout.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 78045

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  (Hoffman, Richard J.) CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF RICHARD J. HOFFMAN, A BOOKMAN'S BOOKMAN, THE PRINTER, A PRACTICAL PRINTER, A BRIEF HISTORY.
N.P. n.p. n.d. 8vo. cloth. (iv), 57, (3) pages.
Limited to 400 copies printed letterpress. With contributions by Reverend Richard J. Bower, Ethan B. Lipton, Doyce B. Nunis, Ward Ritchie, Richard Docter and Clifford G. Dobson. A memorial to this noted printer and private pressman.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 43685

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  Hoffman, Richard J. A DECORATIVE DIVERTISSEMENT.
Van Nuys, CA Richard J. Hoffman 1980 8vo. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards. 103, (3) pages.
Limited to 150 copies. A book of typographic ornaments, some printed in color, with a supplement to an earlier printed book owned by Hoffman demonstrating type specimens. Each ornament and specimen is identified. Also contains a six page introduction by this excellent California pressman.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 20867

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  Hoffman, Richard J. FLORILEGIUM TYPOGRAPHIA, A CULLING OF MATRIX FONTS FOR LINE-CASTING MACHINE SETTING: A PRINTER'S BOUQUET OF TYPES FROM THE PRINTING OFFICE OF RICHARD HOFFMAN.
Van Nuys, CA Richard Hoffman 1985 8vo. cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards. 154, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 250 copies. Explanatory text followed by sections of Matrix Fonts Arranged in Alphabetical Order, Fonts Arranged by Width of Alphabets, One-Line Showings, Fonts Arranged According to Type Sizes and One-Letter Display Matrices. With occasional use of color.
Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 20868

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  (Hoffman, Richard J.) Petko, Edward AT SEVENTY: RICHARD J. HOFFMAN
Los Angeles Columbian Press 1982 oblong 8vo. linen, paper spine and cover label (ii), 35, (3) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 50 copies. Issued to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Richard J. Hoffman, printer, and author of " A Gathering of Types" and its sequel "A Decorative Divertissement." On Urabec-Hoffman all-rag handmade paper, from the Brooks. Bros. Shirts and old linens of his friend, Dr. John Urabec. Designed and printed by Ethan B. Lipton, typesetting by Jack M. Conway, and signed by them. Illustrated with tipped-in photographs of Hoffman at work in his shop. With laid-in invitations to Hoffman's seventieth birthday in 1982.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 62215

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  (Hoffman, Richard J.) Petko, Edward AT SEVENTY: RICHARD J. HOFFMAN
Los Angeles Columbian Press 1982 oblong 8vo. linen, paper spine and cover label (ii), 35, (3) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 100 copies. Issued to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Richard J. Hoffman, printer, and author of "A Gathering of Types" and its sequel "A Decorative Divertissement." Designed and printed by Ethan B. Lipton with typesetting by Jack M. Conway. Illustrated with photographs of Hoffman at work in his shop.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 62442

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  (Hoffman, Richard J.) Powell, Gertrude Eliza Clark LOOKING BACK AND REMEMBERING.
Tucson Privately Printed 1987 small 8vo. cloth 85+(1) pages
Printed by Richard J. Hoffman, Van Nuys, California, and bound by Roswell Bookbinding, Phoenix, Arizona. An Autobiographical Sketch by the author (1870-1957) with a Prologue and an Epilogue by Lawrence Clark Powell. Photographs.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 63072

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  (Hoffman, Richard J.) Powell, Lawrence Clark SUSANNA'S SECRET OR THE LOST MOZART LETTERS.
Tucson Press of the Mesquite Harpsichord 1981 8vo. two-toned cloth-covered boards 53+(1) pages
First edition. Intended as a chamber production with period sets, costumes and music by Mozart and Hayden, this imaginative work is one man's view of the relationships between Mozart, his father, the composer, Franz Josef Hayden, and the soprano, Anna Selina Storace. Title page is printed in red and black with a decorative green border that is repeated at the beginning of each scene. Printed by Richard J. Hoffman. Presentation from Powell on half-title.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 63586

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