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(Bird & Bull Press) Voorn, Henk HENK VOORN TO HENRY MORRIS, SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE, JUNE 1967--JULY 1981.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2003 small 4to. cloth, slipcase 56, (4) pages
Printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Composed in Garamond types by Michael and Winifred Bixler, bound by the Campbell-Logan bindery in Japanese cloth and enclosed in a cloth covered slipcase. Sixteen colored illustrations are tipped-in throughout. Henk Voorn (b. 1921), publisher and editor of De Papierwereld (The Paper World) since 1949, is well known to all those interested in papermaking history, and considered by Leonard Schlosser to be the leading paper historian of his time. The earlier letters include personal details and information concerning the planning and publication of Old Ream Wrappers (1969), the Voorns' first trip to the U.S. and the Morris' first trip to Holland and England in 1967. Subsequent letters are concerned with trips to IPH Congresses, books published Bird & Bull, and related matters of papermaking history. Scholars of paper history and the private press will find these letters informative and enjoyable. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 73386

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(Bird & Bull Press) Voorn, Henk OLD REAM WRAPPERS, AN ESSAY ON EARLY REAM WRAPPERS OF ANTIQUARIAN INTEREST.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1969 small 4to. leather spine, marbled paper over boards. 111 pages.
Taylor A8. One of 375 numbered copies. This was by far the largest Bird & Bull edition to date. It took Mr. Morris 30 weeks to make the paper used for it. The book was the result of a trip the Morris's took to Europe in 1967. With prospectusThe separately issued envelope containing two reproductions of a ream wrapper is not present.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 461

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(Bird & Bull Press) Voorn, Henk OLD REAM WRAPPERS, AN ESSAY ON EARLY REAM WRAPPERS OF ANTIQUARIAN INTEREST.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1969 small 4to. leather spine, marbled paper over boards. 111 pages.
Taylor A8. One of 375 numbered copies. This was by far the largest Bird & Bull edition to date. It took Mr. Morris thirty weeks just to make the paper used for it. The book was the result of a trip the Morrises took to Europe in 1967. The separately issued envelope containing two reproductions of a ream wrapper is not present.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 95993

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(Bird & Bull Press) Voorn, Henk OLD REAM WRAPPERS, AN ESSAY ON EARLY REAM WRAPPERS OF ANTIQUARIAN INTEREST.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1969 small 4to. leather spine, marbled paper over boards. 111 pages.
Taylor A8. One of 375 numbered copies; this copy has "printer's copy" written in place of a number on the colophon. This was by far the largest Bird & Bull edition to date. It took Mr. Morris 30 weeks to make the paper used for it. The book was the result of a trip the Morris's took to Europe in 1967.With the separately issued envelope containing two reproductions of a ream wrapper present. This is often missing as it is much larger than the book. In a variant binding.
Price: $ 315.00 other currencies Order nr. 102492

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wilson, Alexander THE FORESTERS.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2000 8vo. xx, 112, (3) pages.
Limited to 150 numbered copies. Printed on Arches Mouldmade paper by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. This book contains Alexander Wilson's long poem "The Foresters" describing his first "pedestrian journey" with two companions to the Falls of Niagara in the Autumn of 1804. Wilson's work is a wonderfully descriptive account of the spectacular sights of the American wilderness. With engravings by Wesley W. Bates, one of the top-rated wood engravers in North America. Bates works in the classic British style and has produced thirteen full-page engravings plus the title page cartouche for this book. Composed in Dante types by Michael and Winifred Bixler. Includes a foreword by Henry Morris, a synopsis of the poem by Robert Cantwell, and notes on the text.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 60487

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. and Paul McKenna LOUIS HERMAN KINDER AND FINE BOOKBINDING IN AMERICA, A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROYCROFT SHOP.
Newtown Bird & Bull Press 1985 small 4to. quarter morocco with tips and leather spine-label, gold-decorated paper sides. 161 pages.
S-K 7047. Limited to 325 copies. A history of this German born binder that worked for the Roycrofters from 1897 to 1911. The authors have included much unpublished material relating to Kinder and Hubbard, a rather complete Catalogue of impressions of Kinder's bookbinding hand tools and illustrated 14 bindings in full color. Another excellent Bird & Bull production.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 7113

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. and Paul McKenna LOUIS HERMAN KINDER AND FINE BOOKBINDING IN AMERICA, A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE ROYCROFT SHOP.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1985 small 4to. quarter morocco with tips and leather spine-label, gold-decorated paper sides. 161 pages.
S-K 7047. Limited to 325 copies. A history of this German born binder who worked for the Roycrofters from 1897 to 1911. The authors have included much unpublished material relating to Kinder and Hubbard, a rather complete catalogue of impressions of Kinder's bookbinding hand tools and illustrated fourteen bindings in full color. Another excellent Bird & Bull production. With prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 60469

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FIRST U.S. COLOR PLATE BOOK

(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821, AN EXAMINATION OF THE ORIGIN, PRINTING, BINDING AND DISTRIBUTION OF AMERICA'S FIRST COLOR PLATE BOOK. WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE MANNER OF MAKING AND PRINTING ITS COLORED PLATES.
North Hills, PA Bird & Bull Press 1979 tall 8vo. quarter leather over decorated paper-covered boards. 123 pages.
Limited to 300 numbered copies, this work (Taylor A21) is an excellent, scholarly study, finely printed by Henry Morris. With two original plates intended for Bigelow's book, Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany shows a plate that Bigelow had meant to use in his work but didn't. "The two illustrations mounted into this study comprise original, engraved plates--one hand-colored and one left uncolored--which Jacob Bigelow had made up when he initially intended to illustrate his edition in the usual, hand-colored way. As this study shows, the burdensome aspects of this method led him and his cohorts to invent a mechanical method of printing the plates and coloring them concurrently. This resulted in the abandonment of these initial plates, some of which had been colored by artists and some left untouched. These surplus plates, amounting to several thousand, came into the Boston Medical Library in 1927 through the bequest of Jacob Bigelow's grandson, Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow, and it was deemed desirable to mount two of them--a colored and an uncolored specimen--into each copy of this edition, in this way enhancing it with an air of originality and added interest."
Price: $ 600.00 other currencies Order nr. 23016

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. ON IMPROVEMENTS IN MARBLING THE EDGES OF BOOKS AND PAPER, A NINETEENTH CENTURY MARBLING ACCOUNT EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH FOURTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES.
Newtown Bird & Bull Press 1983 oblong 12mo. quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards, leather tips. 64 pages followed by the tipped-in samples.
First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies. Reprints the first American Treatise on Marbling, an account which appears in the April 1829 issue of the Journal of the Franklin Institute with additional text by Wolfe. Beautifully printed on handmade paper. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 462

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. THREE EARLY FRENCH ESSAYS ON PAPER MARBLING, 1642-1765
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND THIRTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES. Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1987 8vo. quarter bound by E.G. Parrot in morocco and tips with leather spine label, and "snail" pattern marbled paper sides made by Wolfe especially for this edition. 106 pages.
Limited to 310 numbered copies and hand-printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press on Umbria handmade paper. Wolfe has translated an unpublished manuscript from Lyon circa 1642, containing the earliest known French marbling recipe, an article from Journal Oeconomique,1758, and an article from the Diderot-D'Alembert Encyclopedie of 1765 into English. The Diderot article is especially interesting as it comments on the practical side of marbling, i.e., how much money could be made. The samples were produced by Wolfe using the instructions in the translated manuals. Included is a four-color sequence showing the various steps taken by Wolfe in producing the Placard pattern.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 17530

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(Black Sparrow Press) Oates, Joyce Carol TRIUMPH OF THE SPIDER MONKEY
Santa Barbara Black Sparrow Press 1976 8vo. cloth-backed, paper-covered boards, paper spine label, slipcase 89, (5) pages
Limited to 350 copies for sale, this being one of the 50 signed copies hand-bound in black-and-white patterned cloth by Earle Gray and with a black paper slipcase. (Morrow and Cooney 239). A captivating story about a maniac by Joyce Carol Oates. Designed by Barbara Martin. In fine condition.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 97757

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Blake, William ILLUSTRATIONS TO YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS DONE IN WATER-COLOUR BY WILLIAM BLAKE.
Cambridge, MA Fogg Museum of Art 1927 folio cloth portfolio with fold-in flaps and ties. (20) pages + 30 plates.
Printed for the Fogg Art Museum by the Harvard University Press in an edition limited to 500 numbered copies (Bentley 395). Prefatory Note by Chester N. Greenough. Introductory Essay by Geoffrey Keynes. Thirty plates, five in color, selected from the 537 original water-colors in the library of William Augustus White. An excellent job of color facsimile, showing the glory of the original water-colors. Portfolio is faded.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 70129

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(Bookbinding) Docker, Frances JOHN PAAS & JAMES COOK, PROVINCIAL BOOKBINDING IN THE EIGHTEEN THIRTIES.
Leicestershire The Plough Press 1978 square 8vo. half leather over marbled boards, top edge gilt. 26 pages and 10 plates.
First edition, one of the 25 special copies in leather of the total of 200 numbered copies. Relates the story of the murder of the binding tool producer, John Paas, by the bookbinder, James Cook. Because of the notoriety of the case, the newspaper and some pamphlets were given out showing plates of the binding premise, etc. Some of these illustrations are reproduced in this book thus giving us an excellent idea of what an English 19th century bindery looked like. Another nice effort by the Plough Press of Geoffrey Wakeman.
Price: $ 280.00 other currencies Order nr. 5753

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(Book Club of California) McClintock, Elizabeth CALIFORNIA FLORA
San Francisco Book Club of California 1995 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers which is loosely inserted in a pocket in the left side of the portfolio and with the separate suite of plates inserted in a paper wrapper portfolio which is in turn inserted in the right side of the cloth portfolio, paper spine l (34) pages
One of 40 copies inserted in this specially made portfolio and containing a separate suite of the 13 DePol plates which often have a penciled "D" under the image. The "floral portraits" were printed from John DePol's original wood engravings by the Feathered Serpent Press. In a fashion similar to earlier publications for the Book Club of California, this volume contains twelve sections. Each pair of facing pages contains text on the left describing the properties of the flower illustrated on the right. John DePol's illustrations are typical of his style and show off his ability to balance blackness with movement within each composition. Patterned endpapers. Cover printed in olive, orange and black.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 93797

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(Book Club of California) Muir, P.H. CATNACHERY
San Francisco The Book Club of California 1955 4to. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, plain paper dust jacket. (iv), 27, (2) pages and 5 foldout plates.
Limited to 325 copies. Printed at the Greenwood Press in black and orange. The text is Muir's excellent article on the history of the Catnach Press. The five foldout plates reproduce five rare Catnach broadsides. Four page prospectus loosely inserted along with mailing envelope and order card. Very fine.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 9765

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(Book Club of California) Smith, Buckingham (translator) AN DISCOVERY OF FLORIDA BEING A TRUE RELATION OF THE VICISSITUDES THAT ATTENDED THE GOVERNOR OF DON HERNANDO DE SOTO AND SOME NOBLES OF PORTUGAL IN THE DISCOVERY OF FLORIDA.
(San Francisco) The Grabhorn Press (1946) folio. decorated cloth, label on spine viii, 105, (3) pages
Magee 432 (p. 38). Limited to 280 copies. A 16th century account by Fernando da Silveria of DeSoto's role in the Spanish conquest of Florida. Published on handmade paper from France in Franciscan type set by Robert and Jane Grabhorn. Dresswork by Edwin Grabhorn and Sherwood Grover. Initials and decoration designed and cut by Mallette Dean. Table of contents. Introduction by George P. Hammond of the Bancroft Library, University of California. Boards lightly soiled. Previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 114822

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BOOKS AT IOWA
Iowa City University of Iowa Libraries 1964-1988 8vo. stiff paper wrappers variously paginated
Numbers 1- 48. Including the separate indexes. There was one issued in 1964 and two each year after that. Number 48 is the first of two for 1988. An unbroken run of the first 24 years. (It ceased publication in 1996.) Sent to Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, the issues described collections and acquisitions on a wide range of subjects. Most of the issues are lightly shelf worn, all are in nice shape.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 94509

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(Boss Dog Press) A CATALOG OF BOOKBINDING TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FORMERLY BELONGING TO DR. LOYD HABERLY.
N.P. Boss Dog Press 2012 4to. quarter leather, decorated paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut, slipcase. unpaginated
Limited to 70 copies signed by designer, printer and binder Dan Rash; this is one of the 20 lettered copies bound thus and printed on handmade paper. A "small bit of book arts history" designed to provide a "resource for collectors and scholars of Loyd Haberly's bindings." Tipped-in color illustrations throughout include equipment, finishing tools, hand tools and supplies. Text includes descriptions of the tools in the illustrations. Includes a center fold-out reproduced from an original page of finishing tool smoke proofs.
Price: $ 235.00 other currencies Order nr. 114255

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(Bowne & Co.) Poe, Edgar Allan THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM.
New York South Street Seaport Museum 1991 8vo. cloth, wrap around paper spine and cover label. (vi), 22, (4) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 150 copies signed by the illustrator John DePol. Illustrated with eight wood engravings and patterned paper endpapers by DePol. Signed by DePol on the colophon page.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 61628

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(Bradley, Will H.) Bambace, Tony WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE.
Accompanied by an original copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK. New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books 1995 8vo. quarter leather with paste paper over boards, leather spine label. Booklet is stiff paper wrappers held in porfolio. Both inserted in a cloth-covered clamshell box. xxiii, 216 pages.
First edition. One of 44 special signed and numbered copies. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of design during the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts periods. His typographic and illustrative work pushed the boundaries of these fields into new directions. In addition, his re-introduction and use of Caslon type brought it back into popularity. The guide includes 261 illustrations, including his designer's marks to help identify his pieces. The guide includes a Book Work section containing three parts: one of 81 definite books of Bradley's own execution, one listing those exhibiting the Bradley stamp but with no confirming documentation, and one listing those using his designs but were probably not produced by him. The remaining sections document magazine covers, advertisements, illustrations, posters, and other works.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 41679

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Brautigan, Richard THE TOKYO-MONTANA EXPRESS.
New York, NY Targ Editions (1979) 4to. cloth, glassine wrapper 37, (3) pages
Limited to an edition of 350 signed copies. The first edition of a collection of Richard Brautigan's short stories written in Tokyo and Montana between 1977 and 1978. In his own words, he describes this collection as "another way of looking at things." The book was designed by Leonard Seastone using Garamond type on dampened Gutenberg Laid and printed at his Tideline Press. Color and blind-stamped decoration on upper title page. Spine and upper edge of front board faded.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 96777

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(Brooding Heron Press) Kooser, Ted OUT OF THAT MOMENT: TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF VALENTINES 1986-2006.
Waldron Island, WA Brooding Heron Press 2006 8vo. half cloth, paper-covered boards, label on spine, top edge cut, other edges uncut unpaginated
Limited to 500 numbered copies in paper wrappers and 50 in half cloth, paper-covered boards. This is a hardbound version with "artist's copy" in place of a number. Frontispiece by Michael McCurdy. Printed by Sally Green, bound by Sam Green. Signed by the printer and binder on colophon. Signed by the author on title page. A collection of poetry. Handwritten note from the printer to the artist laid in.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 114918

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(Brooding Heron Press) Sternlieb, Barry THOREAU'S HAT.
Waldron Island, WA Brooding Heron Press 1994 8vo. half cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, title label on spine, top edge cut, other edges uncut unpaginated
Limited to 300 numbered or lettered copies. This is the artist's copy. Title page illustration by Michael McCurdy. Bound by Sam Green, printed by Sally Green. Signed by the author on title page. Signed by the artist, binder, and printer on the colophon page. A collection of poetry. Letter from the binder to McCurdy laid in.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 114917

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(Catfish Press) Catich, Edward M. LETTERS REDRAWN FROM THE TRAJAN INSCRIPTION IN ROME
Davenport Catfish Press (1961) 8vo. cloth. xi, 244 pages. With 93 4to. broadside plates, the two sections enclosed in a cloth bound case specially constructed to hold the two different sized parts.
With a three page introduction by W.A. Dwiggins followed by the text in the calligraphic handwriting of Catich. Catich has based his work on the original Trajan columns in Rome and included short critiques of the sources of these letters. Dwiggins, in his introduction, states that this work "will be a good tool in art schools - and elsewhere - for renovating standards that have become a trifle frayed in these revolutionary years. It will stimulate a return to an understanding of the true function of letters ..." His words still hold true 40 years later. First plate age yellowed as usual from cloth in case. Signed by Catich on first blank page and he has also added a presentation "to John Michael, E.M. Catich." In addition, the preface has been signed and dated by Dwiggins.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 41601

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(Catfish Press) Catich, Edward M. REED, PEN, & BRUSH ALPHABETS FOR WRITING AND LETTERING
2 volumes. Davenport, Iowa Catfish Press (1972) 8vo. and 4to. half cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, paper cover labels. 32 pages in book and 28 heavy leaves printed on both sides loosely inserted in 4to. portfolio.
Beautifully printed in red, blue and black. The portfolio contains reproductions of alphabets while the book describes the art of calligraphy and explains the plates. Presentation on first blank page "To Dr. Robt. Leslie with warmest regards, E.M. Catich" and with Leslie's bookplate on verso of free endpaper.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 114279

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