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Benton, Megan L. BEAUTY AND THE BOOK, FINE EDITIONS AND CULTURAL DISTINCTION IN AMERICA.
New Haven, CT Yale University Press (2000) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket xii, 323+(1) pages
First edition. In post-World War I America, a world teeming with magazines, newspapers, radio broadcasts, and movies, many feared that the survival of traditional, serious books was in peril. This concern led to a publishing boom in fine editions--books valued primarily for their beauty, craftsmanship, extravagance, or scarcity. Beauty and the Book is a lively cultural history of the explosion in demand for these deluxe books during the 1920s and 1930s. The author combines new archival research with a close examination of 300 fine editions of the period, showing the interplay between the ideal and real nature of fine publishing, as well as the complex nature of American cultural ambitions during this pivotal era. Illustrated. Ownership stamp on free endpaper.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 72967

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(Berliner, Harold) THE PRIVATE PRESS OF HAROLD BERLINER:BOOKS AND BROADSIDES: 1988.
Nevada City, CA The Private Press of Harold Berliner 1988 4to stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Catalogue of the press's publications available in 1988. Includes brief article "News of the Press." Sample illustrations with hand-colored woodcut illustrations. Order form laid in. Inscribed on inside front wrapper by noted woodcut artist John DePol, who is mentioned in the news article.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 108750

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(Between-Hours Press) White, Lewis F A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE BETWEEN-HOURS PRESS, BEN GRAUER PROPRIETOR.
Engravings by John De Pol. New York The Privy Council Press 1952 small 8vo. paper wrappers. (18) pages.
First edition, limited to 1200 copies of which this is one of the 350 numbered copies printed for the Typophiles.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 8424

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(Between-Hours Press) White, Lewis F A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE BETWEEN-HOURS PRESS, BEN GRAUER PROPRIETOR.
Engravings by John De Pol. New York The Privy Council Press 1952 small 8vo. paper wrappers, cord-tied. (18) pages.
First edition, limited to 1200 copies of which this is one of the 350 numbered copies printed for the Typophiles. Presentation from Ben Grauer to Dick Dickman on half-title.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 116514

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BEYOND THE BOOK, CONTEMPORARY DIRECTIONS.
N.P. Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College 1993 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (28) pages.
Preface by Marjorie L. Harth. Introductory remarks by Phyllis McGibbon and Kitty Maryatt.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 94949

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(Bieler Press) Smith, Tracy E. THE BIELER PRESS: A CHECKLIST OF THE FIRST TEN YEARS, 1975-1985.
Minneapolis The Campbell-Logan Bindery 1985 8vo. stiff paper wrappers not paginated
Limited to 300 copies. Contains a checklist of 43 texts published by Bieler Press within a ten-year span. Some little creases and bumps at the extremities.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 97308

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Bigus, Richard ECHO FROM WATER, ETCHINGS OF SKY
(Santa Cruz, California) (Cowell Press) (1974) 4to. self paper wrappers not paginated
Edition limited to 78 copies. "This book is handset in Bembo Roman & Italic Type and printed on Strathmore Artlaid. Designed and printed by the poet with M. Carey on the Cowell Press, University of California at Santa Cruz, Spring of 1974. Much appreciation to our professors, Jack Werner Stauffacher and William Everson, whose efforts preserve a home of beauty for the word." This copy shows minor wear at the edges, and the lower fore-edge corner of the back wrapper is bent slightly. The center fore-edge of each leaf is also creased a bit. The upper fore-edge corners of the two pages containing the poem "Wolf Village" are lightly soiled. Inside the back wrapper are security tags indicating that this was formerly part of a university library collection.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 90520

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(Binnacle Press) Levy, Robert E. LOG: FIVE DAYS ABOARD THE SCHOONER "STEPHEN TABER."
Oyster Bay, NY Binnacle Press 1962 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label (ii), 18, (4) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies printed for friends of the Binnacle Press. Designed and illustrated by John DePol. The text type is Linotype Times Roman with Bulmer display on Strathmore Text and Ivory Wove Paper. With centerfold chart of the route of the schooner "Stephen Taber" 10 to 15 July, 1961.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 63708

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(Binnacle Press) Levy, Robert E. LOG: FIVE DAYS ABOARD THE SCHOONER "STEPHEN TABER."
Oyster Bay, NY Binnacle Press 1962 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label (ii), 18, (4) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies printed for friends of the Binnacle Press. Designed and illustrated by John DePol. The text type is Linotype Times Roman with Bulmer display on Strathmore Text and Ivory Wove Paper. With centerfold chart of the route of the schooner "Stephen Taber" 10 to 15 July, 1961. Spine label is glue stained in places.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 116281

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(Bird & Bull Press) Abercrombie, Lascelles A TOWER IN ITALY A LEGEND, BEING A ROMANTIC PLAY IN ONE ACT.
Toronto Basilike 1976 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 31 pages.
First edition, one of 175 numbered copies. (Taylor B5). Designed and printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 467

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(Bird & Bull Press) Adelman, Seymour CHANGING PATTERNS IN THE FUNCTION OF TRAVEL AGENCIES.
Philadelphia Taylor & Hessey 1981 8vo. paper wrappers. 31 pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 400 numbered copies. Printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. Text is based on a speech by the noted collector, Seymour Adelman, about an imaginary trip to London in 1817 when it would have been possible to meet William Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Shelley, Keats and Edgar Allan Poe. Mr. Morris has illustrated the book with his own typographical whimsey including a "to let" classified ad for Keat's apartment printed on type hammered dull by Mr. Morris to add to its realism.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 452

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(Bird & Bull Press) Adelman, Seymour CHANGING PATTERNS IN THE FUNCTION OF TRAVEL AGENCIES
Philadelphia Taylor & Hessey (1977) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 23, (3) pages.
Limited to 400 numbered copies printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. A humorous trip to England where the author meets many of the famous authors of the 19th century. Presentation from the author on the first blank page.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 3564

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(Bird & Bull Press) Adelman, Seymour HELP FROM HEAVEN
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 1984 long scroll inserted in plastic container
Autobiographical sketches of some of the most interesting book collecting "miracles" experienced by this well known collector. Limited to 325 copies and printed by the Bird & Bull Press. Personally glued together in this long scroll form by the wife of the owner of Oak Knoll Books over a long, hot summer.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 14

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(Bird & Bull Press) Adelman, Seymour HELP FROM HEAVEN
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 1984 long scroll inserted in plastic container
Autobiographical sketches of some of the most interesting book collecting "miracles" experienced by this well known collector. Limited to 325 copies and printed by the Bird & Bull Press. Personally glued together in this long scroll form by the wife of the owner of Oak Knoll Books over a long, hot summer. This copy was mailed to Jake Chernofsky who was the editor of AB (Antiquarian Bookman) as a review copy. The mailing label is still attached to the plastic container.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 109951

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(Bird & Bull Press) A BABYLONIAN ANTHOLOGY.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1966 small 4to. quarter blue niger goatskin, tan cloth sides. 83 pages.
Limited to 200 numbered copies. (Taylor A6). Printed by hand and produced on "paper made at the press, with watermarks of Babylonian designs." The text consists of translations of various Semitic texts with each portion of text described with an historical introduction. Illustrated in color throughout. Includes a five page "Note from the Printer," Henry Morris. With prospectus loosely inserted as is an envelope with a printed note from Morris meant to accompany two examples of Babylonian text which could be pasted on the binding if desired. Very minor fading to spine.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 95911

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(Bird & Bull Press) Bachaus, Theodore THE BOOKSELLERS OF SAN SERRIFFE.
Port Clarendon San Serriffe Publishing Company 2001 8vo. quarter leather with green leather spine label, slipcase. 89, (10) pages with various leaves with tipped-in plates.
First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies. Those of you who were impressed by Dr. Bachaus's earlier book on the Private Presses of San Serriffe will be absolutely shattered by this in-depth survey of the booksellers of San Serriffe. The book has an historical introduction by Dr. Bachaus, which is followed by chapters on Hobart Flock of Hoki-Nol Books (hmm!), Ki-flongian Booksellers, Ltd., Grandiloquent Bookshop, Cloacina Books, St. Luke's Paper Mill and Bookshop, Contre Kook Mail Order Books, and Exterminator Books. Contains tipped-in photographs, a fold-out broadside, and three woodcuts by Wesley Bates (including one showing Robert and Mildred Flederbach in front of Hoki-Nol Press Books). The book is accompanied by a prospectus, and a letter from Dr. Bachaus to the purchaser of the book talking about the book, and enclosing four commemorative stamps from the Republic of San Serriffe inserted in an envelope with a canceled stamp.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 62199

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(Bird & Bull Press) Baronio, Giuseppe ON GRAFTING IN ANIMALS (DEGLI INNESTI ANIMALI).
Translated by Joan Bond Sax. Boston The Boston Medical Library 1985 tall 8vo. quarter green morocco with decorated paper-covered boards, leather spine label. 87, (5) pages.
Limited to 325 numbered copies, this work was printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press (Taylor B32) and features an historical introduction by Robert M. Goldwyn. The first edition of On Crafting Animals (Degli Innesti Animali) was printed in 1804 and was the first book on skin transplant.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 103778

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(Bird & Bull Press) THE BIRD & BULL COMMONPLACE BOOK.
North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1971 4to. cloth spine, marbled paper over boards, slipcase. 65, (6) pages and with envelope on inside rear cover with brass token inserted.
Taylor A11. One of 255 numbered copies. Designed as a collection of "various short pieces which were almost all connected in some way to papermaking or printing, and generally written in a humorous or informal manner." It contains an article on Schaeffer's wasp nest paper, a leaf made from recycling junk mail, and a reprint of the first poem written on the subject of collecting books on papermaking. It is also the only Bird & Bull book to contain a brass token used for services in a house of ill repute. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 5504

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(Bird & Bull Press) BIRD & BULL PRESS, S.S.
Republic of San Serriffe 1977 9" x 10.5" Single sheet
A stock certificate printed by Henry Morris for 1000 shares in the Bird & Bull Press incorporated under the laws of his mythical kingdom, San Serriffe. Printed by hand at the press in two colors.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 36342

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(Bird & Bull Press) Block, Lawrence MR. RHODENBARR, BOOKSELLER ADVISES A YOUNG CUSTOMER ON SEEKING A VOCATION.
New Castle Oak Knoll Books 1980 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 13 pages.
One of 250 copies. Being Oak Knoll's Christmas book for 1980. Containing an introduction by the firm and a chapter from Mr. Block's THE BURGLAR WHO LIKED TO QUOTE KIPLING about the nabbing of a book thief in an antiquarian bookshop.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 1342

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(Bird & Bull Press) DELAWARE BIBLIOPHILES, TENTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER AT THE RODNEY SQUARE CLUB, MARCH 20, 1987. MR. HOWELL HEANEY WILL SPEAK ON "DICKENS AS A LETTER WRITER."
N.P. The Delaware Bibliophiles 1987 tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (4) pages with printing on two pages only.
"Printed at the Bird & Bull Press in an edition so small as to not be worthy of mention." Beautifully printed menu with some Henry Morris humor concerning the "legendary wines of the Republic of San Serriffe." Held in conjunction with an exhibition of ephemera from members' collections. The menu has an actual first edition of Christopher Morley entitled "Even thinking about God is no excuse for keeping Other people Out of the Bathroom" printed by William Rudge in 1941 which is tipped-into each copy of this menu.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 31457

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(Bird & Bull Press) EXHIBITION OF BOOKS ON PAPERMAKING, A SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER.
Philadelphia The Free Library of Philadelphia 1968 large 8vo. double salmon colored paper wrappers. 24 pages.
Taylor B1. One of 300 copies. This was the first commissioned work done for another institution by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. The printed cover design is repeated on a second sheet of salmon colored paper as a watermark. The catalogue describes 75 landmark books on papermaking and is an excellent "high spot" bibliography of the field. Signed by Henry Morris and presentation from Leonard Schlosser to Ellen Shaffer, librarian of the Free Library.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 39894

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(Bird & Bull Press) AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS ON PAPERMAKING, A SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF LEONARD B. SCHLOSSER.
Philadelphia The Free Library of Philadelphia 1968 large 8vo. double salmon colored paper wrappers. 24 pages.
Taylor B1. One of 300 copies. This was the first commissioned work done for another institution by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. The printed cover design is repeated on a second sheet of salmon colored paper as a watermark. The catalogue describes 75 landmark books on papermaking and is an excellent "high spot" bibliography of the field. Loosely inserted in this copy is a section of a book printed by Henry Morris showing "Old Watermark Designs." Scarce.
Price: $ 90.00 other currencies Order nr. 6133

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(Bird & Bull Press) Feather, John ENGLISH BOOK PROSPECTUSES, AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
Newtown Bird & Bull Press and Minneapolis: Daedalus Press 1984 8vo. quarter morocco with tips, Dutch Gilt sides reproduced from an 18th century German decorated paper, plus 14 larger facsimiles in a separate accompanying portfolio. 109 pages.
Limited to 325 copies. The history of this important piece of publishing ephemera from its beginning in 1610 up through the 19th century and accompanied by 24 facsimile prospectuses from 2 to 10 pages in length. As the exact size was maintained, it was necessary to place 4 of the facsimiles in a separate portfolio. All but one of the prospectuses done in facsimile come from the Bodleian Library. This book is the kind of private press book that Oak Knoll likes to handle; an important new text presented in a superb format. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 2685

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(Bird & Bull Press) FOLIO OF PRIVATE PRESSES
N.P. Serendipity Press 1978 thirty six booklets inserted in a slipcase with a paper spine label and with a 4 page title and contribution pamphlet.
Collection of thirty-six booklets printed by thirty-six private presses in Canada, the United States and England. Each booklet is limited to 200 copies. Included are the Bird & Bull Press of Henry Morris, the Adagio Press, Rather Press and the Sumac Press. Excellent view of a broad range of typographic skills. Insert from Serendipity Press.
Price: $ 375.00 other currencies Order nr. 455

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