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See More... (Adagio Press) Bahr, Leonard F. MISCELLANEA TYPOGRAPHICA, NOTES ON BOOKS AND PRINTING, NUMBER THREE.
(Grosse Pointe, MI The Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr) 1957 large 12mo. stapled booklet in envelope 15+(1) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 475 copies by Leonard F. Bahr at his Adagio Press, for distribution among members of the National Amateur Press Association (Tanner, no. 1). With the essay Some Trends in Recent Trade Book Design. Printed in Weiss roman and italic on white Eagle A Text paper.
Price: $ 30.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 24.00] other currencies Order nr. 63781

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See More... Adams, Frederick B. PRINTERS' MARKS IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY.
N.P. n.p. n.d. (circa 1959) 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (6) pages and a spread page broadside.
The story of the printers' marks on display in Princeton's library. Printed at the Spiral Press.
Price: $ 8.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 6.40] other currencies Order nr. 23058

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See More... Annenberg, Maurice TYPE FOUNDRIES OF AMERICA AND THEIR CATALOGS
Baltimore Maran Printing Services 1975 4to. cloth. (xiv), 245 pages.
First edition, limited to 500 copies. The definitive bibliography to-date of American type specimen books. Includes historical accounts of each company, a list of their specimen books with size and number of pages and illustrations. Lacks jacket.
Price: $ 40.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 32.00] other currencies Order nr. 11232

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See More... ARS TYPOGRAPHICA
New York Douglas C. McMurtrie 1925 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 98, (22) pages.
Volume II, no.1. The first issue edited by Douglas C. McMurtrie and appearing 5 years after the part published by Goudy. Articles on Chinese Origins of Movable Types by Thomas Carter, Early Sea Presses by Howard Chapin and various other features. Well printed. Corner of cover stained. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 45.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 36.00] other currencies Order nr. 281

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New York Douglas C. McMurtrie 1925 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 99-182, (20) pages.
Volume II, no.2. Articles by Gustav Mori on Gutenberg, McMurtrie on Script Types and other features. Stain along top edge of front cover.
Price: $ 45.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 36.00] other currencies Order nr. 18624

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See More... ARS TYPOGRAPHICA
New York Douglas C. McMurtrie 1926 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 183-270, (24) pages.
Volume II, no.3. Articles by Goudy on The Roman Alphabet, McMurtrie on The First Printing in South America and other features. Spine shows spotting.
Price: $ 45.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 36.00] other currencies Order nr. 18625

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See More... Avis, F.C. THE EARLY PRINTERS' CHAPEL IN ENGLAND.
London F.C. Avis 1971 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 100 pages.
First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies. An excellent study of the printers' chapel - a predecessor of the modern trade union. Avis writes about the origin and objectives of the Chapel, its organization and membership, meetings, chapel rules, chapel verse and a list of references. Minor jacket chipping.
Price: $ 25.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 20.00] other currencies Order nr. 11631

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See More... Baughman, Roland and Robert O. Schad GREAT BOOKS IN GREAT EDITIONS
San Marino The Huntington Library 1954 8vo. paper wrappers. 66 pages.
First edition. Describes 28 works in the Huntington Library chosen for their content and monumental form given to them by their printers. Chipped along edges. Corner bumped.
Price: $ 10.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 8.00] other currencies Order nr. 373

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See More... (Bayberry Hill Press) Johnson, Ruth & Foster KELMSCOTT REVISITED.
Meriden, CT Bayberry Hill Press 1966 4to. quarter leather with patterned paper-covered boards, paper cover label, slipcase. viii, 25, (3) pages.
Limited to 125 numbered copies. A monograph written and printed primarily as a keepsake for the Columbiad Club of Connecticut. Tells of a trip to England by the authors to visit the sites of Doves Press, Kelmscott Press, Ashendene Press, William Morris' home and other important places in the history of fine printing. Examples of printing using Doves, Kelmscott Golden and Troy types and the Ashendene Ptolemy type are shown. Printed using Bookman type on Arches paper, deckle edges. Initial letters reproduced from the great Kelmscott Chaucher. The "Acorn" pattern wallpaper used in binding was designed by William Morris. Top edge of slipcase cracked.
Price: $ 125.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 100.00] other currencies Order nr. 47521

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See More... (Beilenson, Peter) Bennett, Paul A. (editor) RECALLING PETER: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PETER BEILENSON AND HIS PETER PAUPER PRESS.
New York The Typophiles 1964 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 88 pages.
First edition, limited to 700 copies. Chapbook XXXX. Recollections by Behn, Bennett, Ceff, Thompson, Winterich and others and with decorations by Angelo, Eichenberg and a checklist by David M. Glixon.
Price: $ 65.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 52.00] other currencies Order nr. 21529

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See More... Bennett, Paul A. DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN BOOK DESIGNERS AND PRINTERS
A separate from The Penrose Annual. Volume 55, 1961, small 4to., wrap-around portfolio containing the article. pp.20-42.
Covers the period 1955-1959. Minor wear along edges.
Price: $ 25.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 20.00] other currencies Order nr. 39964

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See More... (Bennett, Paul A.) PAUL A. BENNETT PRIVATE PRESS KEEPSAKE (1897-1966), GATHERED TOGETHER BY FRIENDS AND TYPOPHILES.
New York The Typophiles n.d. (circa 1967) 62 pamphlets loosely inserted in a box with a wrap-around paper label.
Limited to about 200 copies. With contributions by 60 different private presses including Valenti Angelo, Leonard Bahr, Edna Beilenson, Joe Blumenthal, Jane Grabhorn, the Grovers, Emerson Wulling and Ward Ritchie. Contains the title section and the section listing all 60 participants.
Price: $ 200.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 160.00] other currencies Order nr. 116224

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See More... Birrell, Augustine THREE ESSAYS I. BOOK-BUYING, II. BOOK-BINDING, III. THE OFFICE OF LITERATURE.
New York The Grolier Club 1924 4to. cloth spine, paper over boards, paper label. (iv), 26 pages.
One of 300 copies. Printed by Frederic and Bertha Goudy at the Village Press on the Albion hand-press formerly owned and used by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. This is the sixth of the "Printers Series" of books commissioned by The Grolier Club. Loosely inserted is the small notice from The Grolier Club concerning this book. Bookplates of Maurice Slevin and Lester Douglas. Beautifully preserved copy in a plain paper dust jacket with a small label with the initials "F.W.G." on it (Goudy) and hand-lettering on spine of this jacket.
Price: $ 100.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 80.00] other currencies Order nr. 477

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  Blumenthal, Joseph. NOTES ON BOOK DESIGN AND PRINTING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
New York Joseph Blumenthal 1965 small 8vo. paper wrappers. 19+(1) pages.
Privately printed and limited to 400 copies at the Spiral Press. Unable to meet his obligation in person to deliver a lecture on book design and printing, Joseph Blumenthal had this booklet printed for the students who would have attended the lecture.
Price: $ 35.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 28.00] other currencies Order nr. 57151

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  Bouchot, Henri THE BOOK: ITS PRINTERS, ILLUSTRATORS, AND BINDERS, FROM GUTENBERG TO THE PRESENT TIME.
With a Treatise on the Art of Collecting and Describing Early Printed Books, and a Latin- English and English-Latin Topographical Index of the Earliest Printing Places. Edited by H. Grevel. New York Scribner and Welford 1890 small 4to. original cloth decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. xv, 383 pages.
Extensively revised edition containing 65 new illustrations thus making a total of 172. Ugly tape repair to spine to keep partially defective spine covering attached. New endpapers. Former owner has mounted appropriate images to some of the blank pages.
Price: $ 45.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 36.00] other currencies Order nr. 116289

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See More... Bradley, Will AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I,1
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. 1904 12mo. printed paper-covered boards, paper cover label. 16 pages.
Contains "Eighteenth-Century Chap-Books and Broadsides" by Bradley. (Huntington Exhibition no.36). Bradley was hired by the ATF to design ornaments and figures. He did a total of 12 issues of the American Chap-Book. Lacks the separately issued supplement. The hardbound version of these chapbooks were sold at a premium. Cracked along back hinge and wear at spine ends.
Price: $ 125.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 100.00] other currencies Order nr. 116223

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See More... Bradley, Will AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I,2
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. October 1904 12mo. printed paper-covered boards, paper cover label. 16 pages. Accompanied by a large foldout braodside printed on both sides with Bradley designs. Accompanied by an 8 page self paper wrappered brochure entitled "Cheltenham Borders" and also issued in October 1904.
Contains "Directness and Simplicity" by Bradley with many illustrations. With both supplementary pieces present. Wear at spine ends.
Price: $ 250.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 200.00] other currencies Order nr. 874

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See More... Bradley, Will AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I, 3
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. 1904 12mo. decorated paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (32) pages.
Issued in November 1904. Contains "The Use of Borders & Ornaments" by Bradley with many illustrations. Minor wear along bottom of front cover.
Price: $ 100.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 80.00] other currencies Order nr. 55926

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See More... Bradley, Will AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I,4
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. Christmas 1904 12mo. decorative paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (32) pages.
Contains "Appropriateness" by Bradley with many illustrations. The hardbound version of these chapbooks are more difficult to find than the paperbound. Only minor wear.
Price: $ 125.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 100.00] other currencies Order nr. 35589

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See More... Bradley, Will AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, MARCH 1905
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. 1905 12mo. boards, paper spine label. (32) pages.
Contains "Cover Designs" by Bradley with many illustrations. One of the most interesting of these Chapbooks. Scarcer hardbound edition. Wear at spine ends.
Price: $ 100.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 80.00] other currencies Order nr. 16090

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See More... Bryson, Lyman THE TEXTBOOK OF THE FUTURE.
(New York H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Co. 1936) 8vo. cloth. 17, (3) pages.
First edition. An address given by Bryson at the National Arts Club of New York. 52nd Keepsake of the A.I.G.A.
Price: $ 10.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 8.00] other currencies Order nr. 945

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See More... (Bullen, Henry Lewis) Watts, Stevens Lewis A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF HENRY LEWIS BULLEN AND HIS WORK.
Front Royal The Privateer Press 1966 12mo. self paper wrappers. (16) pages.
Speech given to The Heritage of the Graphic Arts.
Price: $ 12.50 [SALE PRICE: $ 10.00] other currencies Order nr. 116575

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See More... Burke, Jackson PRELUM TO ALBION, A HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HAND PRESS FROM GUTENBERG TO MORRIS.
San Francisco Privately printed 1940 small 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. (iv), 24, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 250 copies printed by hand at the press of Marie Louise and Jackson Burke. With a number of illustrations of old printing presses. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 100.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 80.00] other currencies Order nr. 19669

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See More... (Cary Jr., Melbert B.) THE MELBERT B. CARY, JR. GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION.
Rochester, NY Rochester institute of Technology School of Printing n.d. thin 8vo. paper wrappers. 15+(1) pages.
A brief description of the important holdings of the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection in the graphic arts complex of the Rochester Institute of Technology. In addition to works of historical interest, many important private presses are represented, including the Press of the Woolly Whale, which Mr. Cary founded.
Price: $ 10.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 8.00] other currencies Order nr. 45822

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See More... (Composing Room) Pearse, Ruth and Hans Moller. THE COMPOSING ROOM PRIMER.
New York The Composing Room (1945) 8vo. paper wrappers. (16) pages.
Advertising brochure describing good printing done in the format of a primer for children.
Price: $ 20.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 16.00] other currencies Order nr. 25795

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