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250th ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN PAPERMAKING, 1690-1940, PAPER PROMTES ECONOMY AND CULTURE.
1940
A block of 25 commorative stamps issued by Pennsylvania celebrating this event.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 107476

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(Adelman, Seymour) THE ADELMAN COLLECTION.
Bryn Mawr Bryn Mawr College Library 1976 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 48 pages.
Introduction by Adelman followed by descriptions of some of the collections of this book-collector. Presentation from Seymour Adelman on half-title.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 12947

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Allen, George R. HISTORY OF WILLIAM H. ALLEN, BOOKSELLER, 1918-1997.
Bethlelem Special Collections, Lehigh University Information Resources 1997 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 34, (2) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Three page introduction by Steven Rothman. With six illustrations. To speak of Allen's is to speak of wit, integrity and devotion to the craft of bookselling. This booklet tells its history.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 49711

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AMERICAN CLAY ARTISTS 1989.
(Philadelphia) Port of History Museum 1989 4to. stiff paper wrappers 75+(1) pages
Exhibition sponsored by the Clay Studio in cooperation with the Port of History Museum. Introduction, catalogue listing, acknowledgments. Black and white illustrations throughout. Postal card laid in.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 116052

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(Apprentices Library) FINDING LIST OF THE APPRENTICES LIBRARY.
New York Press of J. J. Little & Co. 1888 large 8vo. cloth. Variously paginated.
A complete, but condensed, list of all the separate works in the library up to the time of publication. It is a subject analysis of the books arranged in alphabetical and sub-alphabetical order of topics, broken up into as minute divisions as the amount of material on hand seemed to render necessary, with a copious alphabetical index for ready reference to any desired topic. A Mercantile Library Co. bookplate is on the front pastedown and a library stamp is on the title page and page 3 and 5. A two inch portion of the top of the spine is lacking and chipped at the bottom. Corners bumped and very yellowed with age.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 59419

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(Aralia Press) INTELLIGENCE WITH PASSION
West Chester, PA Aralia Press 1998 Small 8vo. full silk, paper spine label, deckled edges (32) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 230 copies. A Festschrift in honor of Frederick Morgan's fiftieth anniversary at the Hudson Review. Collection of poetry with contributions by 20 contemporary American poets. Spectrum and Romulus Open Types on Rives Heavy Paper. Spine faded.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 75879

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(Aralia Press) Kees, Weldon TWO PROSE SKETCHES
West Chester Aralia Press 1984 tall 8vo. paper wrappers. Unpaginated.
Printed in an edition limited to 280 numbered copies on Mohawk Letterpress Text. This copy is not numbered and has "Printer's Proof" written in place of a number. With a portrait wood engraving by Michael McCurdy. Spot on front cover.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 114847

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(Aralia Press) Krisak, Len FUGITIVE CHILD
N.P. (West Chester, PA) Aralia Press 1999 small 8vo. stiff paper wrapper, cord tied (12) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 100 copies. Collection of four poems. Van Dijck type on Letterpress Text paper.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 75870

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(Aralia Press) McDowell, Robert THE PACT.
West Chester Aralia Press 1994 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. not paginated.
Printed in an edition limited to 160 copies printed in two colors using Van Dijck and Weiss I types on Johannot paper. This is the first separate appearance of this poem which had originally appeared in "The Hudson Review." Bound in black slubbed fabric.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 46316

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(Aralia Press) Murphy, Timothy BEDROCK
N.P. (West Chester, PA) Aralia Press 1998 small 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. (24) pages
Printed in edition limited to 160 copies. Collection contains 18 pieces of contemporary American poetry. Weiss Types on Johannot Press.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 75883

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Baldwin, William C. (editor) HISTORIC BRANDYWINE GUIDE BOOK.
West Chester The Bradford Village Press (1960) small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 72 pages.
First edition. With contributions by Henry Pleasants, Jr., William M. Scheffey, Roy R. Fuller, and Norman B. Wilkinson (information on paper mills). Contains an advertisement for "Book & Things", the Wilmington bookstore owned by Arthur and Jean T. Dobbs.
Price: $ 6.00 other currencies Order nr. 67712

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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) Atkyns, Richards and William Caslon A PAIR ON PRINTING.
Introductions by Carey S. Bliss. North Hills Bird & Bull Press 1982 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. 141 pages.
One of 500 copies. This is the first reprinting in facsimile of two important first books on printing in English. The first is Atkyns' The Original and Growth of Printing(1664) which is the first book devoted to the subject of printing; the second is William Caslon's first type specimen book, also the first English type specimen book. Carey Bliss, the curator of rare books at the Huntington Library, has written introductions for both books.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 1353

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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) Bates, Wesley W. IN BLACK & WHITE
A wood engraver's odyssey Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2005 8vo. Japanese cloth, cloth-covered slipcase (iv),74, (4)
Limited to an edition on 140 copies, the book is printed on Zerkall moldmade paper. It records in words and art Bates' journey from neophyte to master wood engraver. In addition to wood, Bates' work includes the medium of scraperboards, which produces an image that can appear to be a wood engraving. The process is explained and a comparative example is included. Also included is a fold-out 4-color woodcut print which was made for a book Bird & Bull published in 2001.
The wood engravings of Wesley Bates have reached an international audience. His works are held in collections in his native Canada, the US, Great Britan, Ireland, Australia, Spain and Japan. In 1999, nine of his works were presented to China by the province of Ontario. Beyond his numerous solo and group exhibitions, his pieces have illustrated books for several major publishing houses and fine press publishers.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 79830

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(Bird & Bull Press) Bidwell, John (editor) EARLY AMERICAN PAPERMAKING: TWO TREATISES ON MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES REPRINTED FROM JAMES CUTBUSH'S AMERICAN ARTIST'S MANUAL (1814).
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 1990 8vo. quarter leather with marbled paper covered boards, leather spine label. 90, (2) pages.
This first edition work is limited to 180 copies of which this is one of the trade copies bound thus. Editor John Bidwell has located the first known account of hand papermaking to define American practice in relation to its European heritage. This text first appeared in James Cutbush's The American Artist's Manual (Philadelphia: 1814) and has been reprinted, including an original sample of Gilpin machine-made paper. A lengthy and well-researched introduction, written by John Bidwell, examines the early history of papermaking in America, the English and French sources used by Cutbush, and the specific American papermaking techniques. The introduction has been printed by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press on Frankfurt paper. The facsimile reprint has been printed by lithography and the book has been bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 104220

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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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