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(Gregynog Press) FABLES OF ESOPE.
Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by: William Caxton. With engravings on wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Newtown, Montogomeryshire Gregynog Press 1931 4to. Welsh natural sheepskin, spine titled in black, a signed binding by the Gregynog Press Bindery, later clamshell cloth box. (viii), 146, (2) pages.
Limited to 250 numbered copies (Harrop 20). Printed in Bembo type on Barcham Green hand-made paper. Contains an engraved title page illustration, 36 wood-engravings in the text by Agnes Miller Parker and wood-engraved initial letters by William MacCance. Some fading of covers along top edge and scuffing of leather at head of spine. Corner bumped. One of the landmark books from this press and the illustrator.
Price: $ 5,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 107211

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(Gregynog Press) THE REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE.
(Wales) Gregynog Press 1932 4to. full hermitage calf, blocked in blind on front cover, top edge sprinkled, slipcase. (60) pages.
Limited to 250 numbered copies (Harrop 24). Printed in Bembo with Perpetua titling on Japanese vellum. Printing in black and red. With the first three words of the title wood-engraved along with 41 wood-engravings in the text by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Some rubbing of covers. Spine shows fading. Slipcase is broken but present and has part of backstrip missing.
Price: $ 3,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 107209

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(Gregynog Press) Xenophon CYRUPAEDIA: THE INSTITUTION AND LIFE OF CYRUS, THE FIRST OF THAT NAME, KING OF PERSIANS.
Eight Bookes Treating of Noble Education, or Princely Exercises, Military Discipline, Warlike Stratagems, Preparations & Expeditions. Translated out of the Greek into English, and Conferred with the Latine and French Translations, by Philemon Holland. Newton, Mont. Gregynog Press 1936 4to. original green oasis decorated with center-and cornerpieces onlaid in red and light green, outlined in gilt and blocked in gilt decorations of Persian character, five raised bands, gilt paneled spine, top edge gilt. xvii, 321, (3) pages.
Limited to 150 numbered copies. This is one of the 135 bound thus by the Gregynog Bindery and signed at the bottom of the back cover on the turn-in. (Harrop 34). Printed under the direction of Loyd Haberly who provided floriated wood engraved initials. Well preserved copy inserted in clamshell box with matching green quarter leather.
Price: $ 4,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 107189

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(Greyweathers Press) Thompson, L. F. (foreword) GRAVEN IMAGES: A PORTFOLIO OF NINETEENTH CENTURY WOOD ENGRAVINGS PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL BLOCKS
With a Foreword by L.F. Thompson. Merrickville Greyweathers Press 2010 4to cloth-backed paper covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. 6, 13 wood cuts, (2) pages
First edition. One of 100 numbered copies. Wood engravers toiling away at their trade during the last quarter of the nineteenth century could be forgiven for feeling a touch of despair. Since the early 1800s, they had practiced a viable trade, with graver in hand over an endgrain block, cutting illustrations for a healthy proportion of books, newspapers and periodicals. In the 1880s, they witnessed the advent of photomechanical printing plates and, in direct competition, felt the ominous rising tide of obsolescence. As this new technology became more efficient, less expensive and generally accepted over the next twenty years, commercial wood engravers would begin to pack up their blocks, wrap up their tools and seek other employment. It could well be this very occurrence that lay behind the discovery, 130 years on, of a collection of nineteenth century engraved boxwood blocks and, ultimately, the creation of this portfolio.
Beautiful privately printed book featuring thirteen wood engravings from Samuel Smith Kilburn, Boston, George Matthews, Boston & Montreal F. Archibald.
Price: $ 160.00 other currencies Order nr. 105925

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GUILD OF BOOK WORKERS JOURNAL.
New York Guild of Book Workers 1967-2009 variously paginated
Filled with articles of interest to binders, papermakers, marblers, printers, etc. Includes the following:
Volume I, No.1(Fall 1962), 2, 3;
Volume VI, No.1 (Fall 1967)- 2009, a partial run of this journal being 66 separate issues;
Newsletter, Guild of Book Workers. 20 issues;
Index to the Journal: Volumes 1-VIII (1972); IX-XVII (1928); XVIII-XXVII (1991); XXVIII-XXXIII (1999);
By-Laws. 1966 revision;
List of Books in the Guild of Book Workers Library (1967).

Price is for the group
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 42255

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Haberly, Loyd JOHN APOSTATE AN IDYL OF THE QUAYS
Long Crendon Seven Acres Press 1927 8vo. modern quarter calf, decorated paper-covered boards (ii), 10, (2) pages
Limited to 125 copies of which this one is out of series. First two words of text in red, rest in black. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Some capitals are woodcuts made to look like illuminated letters although in black only. Author is also illustrator and printer.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 78529

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(Halcyon Press) Keats, John ODES
(Bussum, Holland A.A.M. Stols 1927) 8vo. vellum 21, (3) pages
Limited to 125 copies (Ransom p. 103). A collection of odes by the nineteenth-century British poet John Keats. Title and initials in red and blue by J. van Krimpen. Printed in Lutetia roman type designed by J. van Krimpen on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Unopened. The vellum is slightly warped and has small dark scuff marks along the spine.
Price: $ 475.00 other currencies Order nr. 98412

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(Hammer Creek Press) Burke, Jackson and Eugene M. Ettenberg JOHN S. FASS & THE HAMMER CREEK PRESS.
(Rochester, NY) Rochester Institute of Technology 1998 small 8vo. quarter cloth with marbled paper boards 36, (4) pages
Limited to 100 copies, printed from Fournier and Perpetua types at The Stinehour Press. Binding by Judi Conant. Typography by Jerry Kelly. John De Pol's original Hammer Creek woodcuts printed by David Pankow at the Cary Library Press. Foreword by Aveve Cohen. John Fass was a gifted printer, freelance book designer, and typographer who began the Hammer Creek Press in 1950 in his off-hours at home, printing on a small iron Hughes & Kimber press and a wood press that he himself constructed. "John Fass avowedly prints for pleasure. There are mighty few who, upon seeing his books, booklets, bookplates, and other printed pieces, do not in turn get a sense of pleasure from his work." The book includes a checklist of the Hammer Creek Press from 1950-61, as well as tipped-in reprints of Fass's work. Special cord-tied booklet of color illustrations inserted at back. With the bookplate of John DePol.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 73487

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(Har-Ma Press) Smith, Harold and Alma MESSAGES IN WOOD
N.P. Har-Ma Press (1979) 8vo. cloth 54 pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 103 numbered copies, this being a presentation copy to an unidentified printer with the ink signature of Harold and Alma Smith. Text includes wood engravings by Harold Smith that are accompanied by prose descriptions of the origin of each piece. Ephemera loosely inserted.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 75910

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(Harsimus Press) Henry, Barbara WALT WHITMAN'S FACES: A TYPOGRAPHIC READING.
Jersey City, NJ Harsimus Press 2012 4to. stiff paper wrappers 17, (23) pages
Limited, numbered edition on 80, signed by the author on the colophon page. Introductory essay by Karen Karbeiner. Frontispiece linoleum-cut illustration of Whitman. Set by hand in foundry type and illustrated with images of the poet cut in linoleum. Fifty copies hand-bound stiff paper wrappers and thirty in quarter-leather and printed paper-over-boards, with additional prints. Includes an 1865 photograph of Lower Hudson Street from the collections of the New-York Historical Society and a contemporarty photograph of Bleeker Street by the author. Samples of type sizes.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 110012

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(Haybarn Editions) VOICES TO SHARE
2011 small 4to cloth portfolio binding, loose sheets 32 pages
First edition and limited to 100 copies. In a companion piece, following Gathering, the 50th anniversary edition with poetry in 2010, Voices to Share is a portfolio of works of nine texts from French, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Yiddish, and Native American poets. Works by Char, Celan, Gaspar, Jabes, Neruda, Pane, Hyon-Jong, Sutzkever, and Wintu. This piece is offered as an expression of esteem and appreciation for the international poets and the artist's writer friends who have inspired the journey of a half-century. Four loose illustrations inserted.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 106755

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Henry, Barbara WALT WHITMAN'S FACES A TYPOGRAPHIC READING.
Jersey City Harsimus Press 2012 4to. quarter leather, paper-over-boards; top edge cut, other edges uncut 17, (23) pages
Limited, numbered edition of 80, signed by the author on the colophon page. This is one of the 30 bound thus with additioinal prints, including a signed print of the Whitman frontispiece portrait, laid in. Introductory essay by Karen Karbeiner. Frontispiece linoleum-cut illustration of Whitman. Set by hand in foundry type and illustrated with images of the poet cut in linoleum. Fifty copies hand-bound stiff paper wrappers and thrity in quarter-leather and printed paper-over-boards, Includes an 1865 photograph of Lower Hudson Street from the collections of the New-York Historical Society and a contemporary photograph of Bleeker Street by the author. Samples of type faces, some in color.
Price: $ 600.00 other currencies Order nr. 110191

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(Hesterberg Press) FINDING ONE'S WAY 1975 - 2001.
Evanston, IL Hesterberg Press 4to stiff paper wrappers, broadsides laid in, cloth-covered clamshell box unpaginated
One of ten copies. This is an important collection of early works from the Hesterberg Press. Each clamshell box contains twenty-three original works in seven folders along with a sewn booklet printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, which gives a history of the Hesterberg Press and a full descirption of each work. Eleven Thomas Bewick engravings, printed from wood, are featured in typocrafters' keepsakes, broadsides and sewn booklets. Also are several folio signatures from three of the early books.

The works are presented in secure folders in chronological order and represent the major works of the press during this period. The clamshell box is covered in cloth with a blind stamped cover and gold stamped label by the Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 114200

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(Hesterberg Press) THOMAS BEWICK: THE BLOCKS REVISITED & REDISCOVERED
Evanston, IL Hesterberg Press 2008 large 8vo cloth (i), 69 pages, ii, (iii)
The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered documents the fascinating story of Thomas Bewick's personal blocks and their historic journey to Chicago in 1942. Many of these blocks found new homes quickly in the Midwest and across America, while others became well-travelled, eventually making their way back to England. The whereabouts of these blocks and their movements over the years have raised questions and a desire to document them for their safe keeping. It is hoped this five-year investigation will begin to provide answers, as over 700 of the 1,350 blocks that came to Chicago are documented here in 35 collections.

The Blocks Revisited & Rediscovered measures 6.5 x 10 inches and contains eighty pages which include fourteen original blocks printed on dampened Rives Heavy-weight paper using a Washington Hand Press. The remaining thirty-five Bewick illustrations were printed using a Vandercook Press from metal engravings reproduced from the Memorial Edition. The text, set in a digital version of Bulmer, was also printed from metal engravings. Color photographs of Bewick's portrait and his toolbox are included as tip-ins, along with a photograph of a group of blocks at the Hesterberg Press.

A numbered edition of ninety copies was bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery, Minneapolis, in a dark green cloth with contrasting green end papers. The spine is gold stamped and the front cover features an inset of a vignette printed from one of Bewick's blocks at the press.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 101433

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(Heyeck Press) Rich, Adrienne SOURCES
Woodside, CA The Heyeck Press 1983 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards. 35, (5) pages.
One of an edition of 300 copies, numbered and signed by the author. A fine first edition of an important work by a major American author, in which she discusses, for the first time, her Jewish heritage and her husband's suicide. Designed and printed by Robin Heyeck, using handmade Fabriano paper with fore and foot edges uncut, and Centaur and Arrighi type. The frontispiece was created by Carole Romans, the book bound by The Schuberth Bookbindery, with quarter cloth in navy blue, and paper hand marbled by Robin Heyeck in cream and navy blue on a background of dark tan.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 45856

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(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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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.) 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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(Hogarth Press) Woolf, Virginia KEW GARDENS
(London) Hogarth Press (1927) 4to rebacked in matching brown cloth, illustrated paper covered boards, top edge cut, others uncut unpaginated
Third English edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (Woolmer 155; Kirkpatrick A3c). Published November 1927; the British Museum copy is dated 17 November 1927 (Kirkpatrick). Illustrated by Vanessa Bell. Brief novel set in the luxuriant flora of Kew Gardens. Front board decorated azure blue, lime-green and milk-chocolate brown. Title page also milk-chocolate brown. Text, on recto of leaf only, is surrounded by black and white illustrations by Bell. Printed and engraved by Herbert Reiach, Limited. Spine rebacked. Boards soiled and stained, slightly worn at edges. Pencil notations on back pastedown. Slight tanning.
Price: $ 850.00 other currencies Order nr. 107075

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Homer (as translated by Alexander Pope) THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY OF HOMER AS TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, IN GREEK AND ENGLISH. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEVEN SHANKMAN AND 52 ORIGINAL COLOR DRAWINGS BY AVERY LAWRENCE .
2 volumes. Chestertown Chester River Press 2009 12.5 x 14.5 inches cloth, dust jackets, slipcase 550; 434 pages
Acclaimed by Samuel Johnson as "a performance which no age or nation could hope to equal," Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad and Odyssey stands as one of the glories of English Literature.

The Chester River Press edition of the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer has been designed and printed to reflect the epic proportions of this famous translation and offers both the Greek and English translations for the general reader and scholar alike. More than 50 color drawings in Greek vase styles by Avery Lawrence were commissioned by the Press. Each drawing portrays a specific scene from each of the 48 books making up the Iliad and Odyssey with smaller medallions adorning pages throughout.

An original two-part Introduction by the esteemed Pope scholar, Steven Shankman, reflects on and investigates Pope's majestic poems through a scholarly lens focused on the timless Homeric themes of war and peace. Professor Shankman also elaborates on "How To Read Homer," an aid to understanding the philosophical and historical context of the Homeric epics.

The Iliad and Odyssey are presented as a companion, slipcased set and bound in black Dutch cloth with dust jackets.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 104249

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(Imprimerie Zollikofer) APHORISMES DU PROFESSEUR.
Saint Gall, (Switzerland) Zollikofer & Co. 1948 8vo. half vellum, with printed paper-covered boards. (12) pages.
Printed in a limited edition of numbered copies, this copy is out of series. A collection of twenty aphorisms set in "Civilité," an extremely elaborate calligraphic type, followed by type specimens. Bookplate on front pastedown. Dealer label of Philip C. Duschnes on back pastedown. An unusual book with magnificent type.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 42669

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(Incline Press) Cinamon, Gerald E.R. WEISS: THE TYPOGRAPHY OF AN ARTIST
Oldham Incline Press 2011 4to slipcase
First edition and one of 300 numbered copies. Lovers of beautiful books, elegant design, and clear typography will be thrilled with this new volume about the book artist, Emil Rudolf Weiss.

Weiss stands high in the pantheon of great book artists that includes William Morris, Bruce Rogers and Francis Meynell, among others, but because his work was mostly in Germany, he tends to be less well known in the English speaking world; certainly not much has been written about him or his work in English since the 1930s. Yet he was sufficiently regarded by Stanley Morison to be a guest designer for an issue of The Fleuron; another issue of which included an essay by Morison about Weiss ornaments. His Weiss-Antiqua typeface was particularly popular in the USA, mainly due to the availability for slug casting through Intertype matrices, and the publicity work of the Bauer Type Foundry office in New York. Today, most of us have, perhaps unknowingly, seen the digital version of Weiss roman, if not the original metal version. It remains a popular typeface, particularly in book work where one of its recent outings was on the dust-jacket of the US edition of The Da Vinci Code, and the UK edition of Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen.

Jerry Cinamon studied graphic design at the Yale School of Art & Architecture, and first came across Weiss Initials while working in New York in the early 1960s. He had a long and successful career working at Penguin books, learning German after his retirement to produce his excellent biography of Rudolf Koch (Oak Knoll, 2000). Included are numerious pieces of ephemera and the prospectus.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 106295

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(Inky Parrot Press) Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de CANDIDE
Oxford The Inky Parrot Press 1985 small 4to. patterned paper-covered boards, slipcase (x), 141+(1) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 360 numbered copies. Translated by Richard Aldington. Signed by the illustrator, Wilton Priestner. Profusely illustrated with slightly disturbing, almost surreal line drawings that push the satirical tone of the story itself to a new level. The modern, edgy drawings are evidence of the relevancy and adaptability of the work of the eighteenth-century French writer, Voltaire. The imagery does not exactly match up with the moment of the story it illustrates, but rather offers a highly interpretive version of the events as told by Voltaire. For example, whereas the text reads "...she observed Doctor Pangloss in the bushes, giving a lesson in experimental physics to her mother's waiting maid, a very pretty and docile brunette," the illustration shows a couple copulating in the garden. Paper covered boards and the slipcase also with drawings by Priestner. With shoulder notes.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 79477

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