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See More... (Marion Press) Field, Eugene THE TRIBUNE PRIMER.
New York Marion Press 1900 large 12mo. original half calf with paper-covered boards (vii), 94 pages.
Limited to 115 copies of which this is one of the 25 copies printed on Japan paper (Larremore The Marion Press p 157, 186). While managing editor of the Denver Tribune in 1881, Field printed a number of sketches under the headingThe Tribune Primer. This original collection contained ninety-three of Field's literary sketches. This volume contains 137 sketches, of which 44 are here first collected. Covers rubbed and worn on tips with part of leather covering missing.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 70912

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See More... (Marion Press) Larremore, Thomas A. and Amy Hopkins THE MARION PRESS, A SURVEY AND A CHECKLIST.
With Incidental Alarums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields. Checklist by Joseph W. Rogers. Jamaica, NY Queens Borough Public Library 1943 8vo. cloth. xx, 272, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 228 numbered copies. The Marion Press was founded by Frank Hopkins, former shop-foreman for Theodore DeVinne. A total of 197 items are described in detail in the book. A 173 page history of the press and the press movement is included which provides much information on turn of the century printing. Small spots on edge of front free endpaper and pastedown.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 103773

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See More... (Mason, John) SOME PAPERS HAND MADE BY JOHN MASON.
London Maggs 1959 8vo. parchment-backed handmade paper-covered boards with actual leafs inlaid in both covers, enclosed in cardboard box with paper cover label. 32 leaves.
First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies. Short history of this papermaker followed by actual examples of paper produced during the period 1954 to 1959. Consists of heavy stock produced in different colors some of which contain illustrations and some of which contain leaf specimens, flowers, etc. Thue author explains the history of each specimen. Very fine copy.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 118362

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See More... MATRIX 31
Risbury, Leominster, Herefordshire Whittington Press 2013 4to. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. (vi), 127, (4) pages.
Matrix 31. With articles Elizabeth Grice "Last Hurrah of Hot Metal," Bryan Maggs "Birth of the Wormsely Library," Peter Gauld "Words & Images: The New Basement Press," Patrick Randle "Vacation in Vattis," Barbara Henry "Setting Caslon for Leaves of Grass," Chris Daunt "Wood-Engraving & Book-Making," Martyn Thomas "Harry Carter on Type," John Randle "In Memoriam Dan Carr," John Grice "John Craig and the Piccolo Press," Merlin Waterson "From Bleeding Heart Yard to Whittingham," Enrico Tallone "Inkunabula," and many others.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 116600

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  (Menhart, Oldrich) MENHART 1897-1962.
4 volumes. N.P. Indiana University 1966 folio four paper wrapper fascicules, slipcase. Unpaginated French fold pages.
First edition printed letterpress on Masa and Fabriano papers in an edition limited to 144 numbered copies. One of the few works devoted to the Czech calligrapher, book artist, typographer, and type designer. Includes type specimens. Printed in various colors throughout. With an introduction by Paul Standard. This copy has a loose slip on which is inscribed "Phil, to recall our long years as colleagues & as fellow calligraphers, Paul (Standard), New York, Nov. 1966." Some wear along edges of slipcase.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 110222

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See More... (Midnight Paper Sales) Esslemont, David and Gaylord Schanilec INK ON THE ELBOW.
Conversation between David Esslemont & Gaylord Schanilec. N.P. Midnight Paper Sales and Solmentes Press 2003 4to. half cloth, with paste paper-covered boards, paper spine label, cloth slipcase 153, (3) pages
Printed in an edition of 200 copies of which this is one of 100 copies issued in the American binding. Finely illustrated with wood engravings by Schanilec, including a magnificent foldout panorama of the Welsh countryside, and color linocuts by David Esslemont. There are also tipped-in original leaves throughout from books produced by each press. A record of email correspondence between David Esslemont and Gaylord Schanilec with additional notes and illustrations. "In one way, the correspondence of Gaylord and David is a daybook chronicling the seasons of the year in Wisconsin and Wales. In another way, it is a diary, with production notes, of editing, printing, and producing some important books. It is also a log of two personal journeys, a record of the writers' struggles to manage personal lives and professional lives in the midst of children, book fairs, accolades, and calamities. Still another important story is Gaylord and David's continuing dialogue about their current printing projects and the implications of their individual printing decisions. These conversations raise a number of interesting issues," (introduction). With introductions by J. Andrew Armacost and David Chambers. Officially published at Oak Knoll Fest X.
Price: $ 480.00 other currencies Order nr. 75259

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See More... (Midnight Paper Sales) Goodman, Richard THE BICYCLE DIARIES; ONE NEW YORKER'S JOURNEY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 11TH.
Stockholm, WI Midnight Paper Sales 2011 8vo. cloth covered boards, paper cover illustration in color by Schanilec, paper label on spine 107 pages
Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator/printer. "Shortly after September 11th, 2001, I began riding my bicycle down from my apartment on Upper West Side of New York city to the World Trade Center disaster site - or as near as I could get to it. I rode down almost every day, in all weather, for about four months. When I came home, I wrote about what I saw." -Richard Goodman

The book contains five full-page colored wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec based on a bike ride with the author down toward the disaster site some ten years later. the text is printed letterpress from metal type, and the images from hand-cut end-grain maple blocks.

Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 108200

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See More... (Midnight Paper Sales) Logue, Mary A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY.
With wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Minneapolis, MN Midnight Paper Sales 1994 8vo. quarter cloth with brocaded cloth sides, paper spine label. 62, (4) pages.
Limited to 250 numbered copies and signed by the author and printer. The author, a writer by profession, buys a second home in Stockholm, Minnesota. This relates stories of the fix up and the developing fondness for her old and decrepid home. Accompanied by four spectacular full color woodcuts by Schanilec. Hand printed.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 41170

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See More... (Minature Books) Ponterini, Sheila LA FAMIGLIA.
Phoenix D'Ambrosio 2002 miniature book (8.3 x 8.7 cm) box boards in gray paper-covered, form-cut slipcase with title labels on sides xii, 9+(1) pages
Limited to 50 numbered copies signed by D'Ambrosio. Preamble by Joe D'Ambrosio. Personal reflections of the author, who expects to be dead when her reflections are published. In addition to the printed text, five boxes containing collage constructions of various types of materials, depicting the stages of a troubled life. Outer covers contain colored materials with brass wire rods along the back of the book.
Price: $ 600.00 other currencies Order nr. 116404

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See More... (Miniature Book) Minegishi, Shinsuke ARS ANATOMICA.
(Vancouver) Heavenly Monkey 2004 miniature book (7.6 x 7.0 cm) paper-covered boards, author's name stamped on front cover, slide-on case. unpaginated
Limited to 5 artist's and 50 numbered copies, signed by the author on colophon. This is one of the numbered copies. Frontispiece and black and white woodcut engravings. The engravings depict surreal mindscapes featuring parts of the human anatomy. The author discussed his background and artistic style in an opening essay. Biographical sketch of the author/artist. Boards feature a lithograph by the artist.
Price: $ 800.00 other currencies Order nr. 117224

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See More... (Miniature Books) Adomeit, Ruth Elizabeth AN ORIGINAL LEAF FROM THE NEWBERY BIBLE 1780.
Los Angeles (Dawson's Book Shop) 1980 miniature book (5.0 x 4.2 cm) half leather, marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt-stamped 18, (2) pages
Limited to 125 copies (Bradbury, Dawson's 66). Tipped-in leaf from the miniature Bible printed by E. Newbery in London, 1780 (Adomeit B26-B28; Disbound and Dispersed 168.5). Essay by the author gives a descriptive history of the printing.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 117082

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See More... (Miniature Books) ADVENTURE WITH PAPER: AN ENCOUNTER WITH A MEAT GRINDER.
(Nappanee, IN Press of the Indiana Kid 1969) miniature book (6.8 x 4.6 cm) quarter leather, paper-covered boards, title gilt-stamped on spine, all edges uncut unpaginated
Limited to 50 copies (Bradbury, Indiana Kid 4). A satirical acount of the adventures of a paper maker. Printed on the publisher's handmade paper. With specimens. With miniature bookplate of Kathryn Rickard. Endpapers tanned.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 117376

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See More... (Miniature Books) Aelian, Claudius AELIAN ON FLY FISHING.
Berkeley, CA Poole Press 1979 miniature book (6.8 x 5 cm) cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, slipcase. xx, (iii), 19, (7) pages.
First edition thus, limited to 250 numbered copies (Bradbury, Poole 1). Signed by the printer Maryline P. Adams and J.P. Adams who wrote the foreword and added the illustrations. This is an English translation of Aelian's (ca. 170-230 A.D.) Greek text: On the Characteristics of Animals, or Natural History; book 15, chapter 1. Note that Bradbury states that this book has a leather spine but all copies we have handled have had a cloth spine.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 99469

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See More... (Miniature Books) Andruskó, Károly SEVILLA, MADRID, TOLEDO, CORDOBA, GRANADA, CASTILLA-ANDALUCIA.
6 Volumes. Senta, Yugoslavia by the author 1978 miniature books (5.3 x 4.4 cm) cloth, spine and front cover gilt-stamped, in paper slipcase unpaginated
Text in Serbian. Limited to 400 copies. Woodcut illustrations by the author of various historic sites in Spain.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 117408

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See More... (Miniature Books) Arkin, Stephen VENETIAN MASKS.
(Mill Valley, CA) Figment Press 1989 oblong miniature book (6.9 x 7.5 cm) decorated paper-covered boards with inlaid miniature hand-cast metal mask unpaginated
Limited to 75 numbered copies, signed on colophon by designer Dianne Weiss (Bradbury, Figment Press 7). A story of the carnival in Venice and the masks worn for its celebration. Hand-colored and black and white illustrations.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 117151

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See More... (Miniature Books) ARKWRIGHT HIS COUNTERBLAST TO AN EFFUSION ENTITLED: PANFLET ON THE FOUR BASIC DIALECTS OF PIG-LATIN.
Tujunga (Los Angeles) (William M. Cheney) 1951 miniature book (7.7 x 5.0 cm) stiff paper wrappers, label on front wrapper xii, 13+(1) pages
(Bradbury, William M. Cheney 5). Introduction from the printer to the reader. Table of contents.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 116954

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See More... (Miniature Books) Bangs, Samuel K. OLD ST. NICHOLAS.
(New Haven) Prickly Pair Editions 1994 oblong miniature book (5 x 7.8 cm) quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, paper cover label. 18, (6) pages
Limited to 70 numbered copies, signed on colophon by the typographer, Asa Peavy, and illustrator/binder, Coriander Reisbord. (Bradbury, Prickly Pair Editions 1). A Christmas poem, first inscribed to Little Miss Ella Gardner of Louisville. Color illustrations.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 117117

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See More... (Miniature Books) Beerbohm, Max MEDITATIONS OF A REFUGEE.
Los Angeles Dawson's Book Shop 1986 miniature book (4.6 x 4.2 cm) leather, ornaments gilt-stamped on spine with raised bands, decoration and title gilt-stamped on front board, marbled endpapers unpaginated
Limited to 100 numbered copies with five numbered copies bound by Rene Patron, this copy thus bound (Bradbury, Dawson's 80). Introductory note by Wallace and Corry Nethery. Incomplete autobiographical recollections by English essayist and novelist Max Beerbohm (1872-1956). With miniature bookplate of Kathryn Rickard on front pastedown. Spine sunned.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 117019

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See More... (Miniature Books) Bewick, Thomas VIGNETTES FROM BIRDS, QUADRUPEDS AND FABLES.
Chicago Black Cat Press (1971) miniature book (6.8 x 5.5 cm) full leather, author's surname gilt-stamped on spine, full name gilt-stamped on front board unpaginated
Limited to 200 copies. (Bradbury, Black Cat Press 37). Illustrations printed from 15 original wood blocks by R. Hunter Middleton. Introduction by Norman W. Forgue. Printed French-fold. Index citing references to the five-volume Memorial Edition of the Works of Thomas Bewick (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, R. Ward and Sons). Binding by Monastery Hill Bindery.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 116911

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See More... (Miniature Books) Blumenthal, Walter Hart BOOK GLUTTONS AND BOOK GOURMETS, WITH A DIGRESSION ON HUNGRY AUTHORS.
Chicago Black Cat Press 1961 miniature book (6.7 x 5.3 cm) full leather. 84, (1) pages.
Limited to 300 copies according to the bibliography (Bradbury, Black Cat, 11) . Contains commentary on various bibliophiles and their excesses, authors and their books, books on bibliomania, great bookcollectors, and more.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 36415

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See More... (Miniature Books) Blumenthal, Walter Hart FORMATS AND FOIBLES, A FEW BOOKS WHICH MIGHT BE CALLED CURIOUS.
Worcester Achille J. St. Onge 1956 miniature book (6 x 4.9 cm.) full red morocco, all edges gilt. (iv), 105 pages.
Limited to 300 copies (Bradbury, St. Onge, 13). Printed by the Chiswick Press on Barcham Green's handmade paper and bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Discusses oddities in book format.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 28082

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See More... (Miniature Books) Bradbury, Ray LONG AFTER ECCLESIASTES: NEW BIBLICAL TEXTS.
Santa Ana, CA Gold Stein Press 1985 miniature book (7.7 x 6.5 cm) cloth, silver endpapers, all edges uncut, marbled paper covered slipcase, 19, (4) pages
Limited to 75 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon (Bradbury, Gold Stein Press 5). A modern take on ancient Biblical wisdom literature. Color illustrations throughout text. Part of front board decorated with silver Hebrew script. Printed on recto only.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 117264

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See More... (Miniature Books) Bradbury, Ray THE STARS.
Santa Ana, CA Gold Stein Press 1993 miniature book (7.5 x 6.0 cm) decorated cloth case, decorated endpapers 12, (4) pages
Limited to 95 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon (Bradbury, Gold Stein Press 6). In custom decorated case with color pop-up illustrations.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 117263

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See More... (Miniature Books) BRILLIANTS: A SETTING OF HUMOROUS POETRY IN BRILLIANT TYPES.
New York De Vinne Press 1888 miniature book (5.8 x 4.3 cm) original leather, decorative gilt stamping on spine and boards, all edges gilt xv, 96 pages
(Bradbury, De Vinne Press 1). Called by Bradbury "an example of typographic excellence," using a 4-point "brilliant" type. Table of contents. A collection of humorous late 19th century poetry, but published mainly to demonstrate the type face. Preface by Theodore L. De Vinne. Front inside hinge cracked. Scuffed at edges of spine. Previous owners' bookplates on front pastedown and free endpaper.
Price: $ 950.00 other currencies Order nr. 117115

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See More... (Miniature Books) Chandler, John Greene THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF CHICKEN LITTLE.
(Boston) A. & D. Bromer 1979 miniature book (3.1 x 2.5 cm) marbled paper covered boards, paper cover label. (24) pages.
Limited to 85 numbered copies of which 50 are for sale (See Bradbury, Bromer 4 although this calls for two volumes limited to 100 copies). Printed letterpress by Darrell Hyder with hand-colored initial letter. With the miniatue bookplate of Kalman L. Levitan on front pastedown.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 116887

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