New York, NY: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1942. 4to. cloth, fore-edge uncut. (xviii), 201+(1) pages. A travel narrative with illustrations from photographs and drawings by the author. Prefatory note, table of contents, list of illustrarions. Prospectus laid in. Covers soiled and spotted. READ MORE about VANISHING EDEN: WANDERINGS IN THE TROPICS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119203
Jersey City: American Type Founders Co., 1904. 12mo. printed paper-covered boards, paper cover label. 16 pages. Contains "Eighteenth-Century Chap-Books and Broadsides" by Bradley. (Huntington Exhibition no.36). Bradley was hired by the ATF to design ornaments and figures. He did a total of 12 issues of the American Chap-Book. Lacks the separately issued supplement. The hardbound version of these chapbooks were sold at a premium. Cracked along back hinge and wear at spine ends. READ MORE about AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I,1
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 116223
Jersey City: American Type Founders Co., October 1904. 12mo. printed paper-covered boards, paper cover label. 16 pages. Accompanied by a large foldout broadside printed on both sides with Bradley designs. Accompanied by an 8 page self-paper-wrappered brochure entitled "Cheltenham Borders" and also issued in October 1904. Contains "Directness and Simplicity" by Bradley with many illustrations. With both supplementary pieces present. Wear at spine ends. READ MORE about AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I,2
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 874
Jersey City: American Type Founders Co., Christmas 1904. 12mo. decorative paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (32) pages. Contains "Appropriateness" by Bradley with many illustrations. The hardbound version of these chapbooks are more difficult to find than the paperbound. Only minor wear. READ MORE about AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I,4
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 35589
(New York: H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Co., 1936). 8vo. cloth. 17, (3) pages. First edition. An address given by Bryson at the National Arts Club of New York. 52nd Keepsake of the A.I.G.A. READ MORE about THE TEXTBOOK OF THE FUTURE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 945
Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1962. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 37, (3) pages. An examination of some of the famous book collections in America. With a number of plates. Kleiner Druck nr. 71. READ MORE about NEUE KUNST UND NEUE WELT: DER BUCHDRUCK UND AMERIKA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 26064
Illustrations by John W. Alexander.
Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1924. 8vo. half cloth over boards, paper spine and cover labels. 30 pages. Illustrations by John W. Alexander. First edition, limited to 300 copies. Part of The Little Bookfellow Series. Long poem on the beginning of printing. The illustrations are reproductions of the murals that Alexander did for the Library of Congress. Printed by the Torch Press. Presentation from George Steele Seymour, the husband of the publisher, dated 1924 on free endpaper..... READ MORE about THE LEGEND OF THE BOOK
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 116328
(North Harrow, Middlesex, England): Private Libraries Association, 1961. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 14, (2) pages. An overview of the papers deposited by Lord Grey in the archive at Prior's Kitchen, Durham. Details on the contents and arrangement of the collection. READ MORE about EARL GREY'S PAPERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 118917
N.P. n.p., n.d. 12mo. paper wrappers. 13+(1) pages. A small booklet which tells the story of the growth of the Linotype Company. READ MORE about LIKE JOYOUS TRUMPETERS IN A BELFRY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 57330
New York, NY: George H. Doran Company, 1918. 8vo. paper-covered boards, labels on spine and front cover. xiv, 15-90 pages. Addresses at a dinner in honor of the Earl of Reading at the Lotos Club in New York, March 27, 1918. Includes addresses by Frank R. Lawrence (president of the club), The Earl of Reading, Governor Charles S. Whitman of New York, Charles Evans Hughes, and Col. George Harvey. Held to support American participation in..... READ MORE about " ACROSS THE FLOOD"
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 120743
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1960. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. First printing. A collection of 43 word pictures. Interesting use of graphic design. Wrappers lightly worn at edges. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Tanning throughout text. READ MORE about WORLDLES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 119208
New York, NY: privately printed, 1966. 12mo. cloth, glassine dust jacket. vi, 7-30, (4) pages. Typophiles Monographs No. 80. A keepsake published in connection with The Celebration of Printing Week, New York, commemorating the 260th anniversary of Franklin's birth. Foreword by Charles V. Morris. List of contributors includes John Depol. Illustrated. READ MORE about ARTICLES OF BELIEF
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119128
New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, Inc, (1971). square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 63 pages. Illustrated. READ MORE about THE ART OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 105105
New York: Privately printed, 1955. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers enclosed in outer wrapper and slipcase. (4), 10 pages. First separate edition, reprinted from Bouillabaise for Bibliophiles. Limited to 568 numbered and signed copies. Story of the restoration of the famous Diaz manuscript. Designed by John DePol. Presentation from Grauer to Ben Lieberman on a separately enclosed card. Slipcase faded. READ MORE about HOW BERNAL DIAZ'S "TRUE HISTORY" WAS REBORN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 13445
N.P. n.p., n.d. small 4to. four broadsides loosely inserted in a paper folder with a paper cover label and pasted in description of the four plates on the inside of the flap. Must have been meant as an addendum to Green's THE IRON HAND PRESS IN AMERICA, issued in 1948 in 160 copies. The four plates, 10.25 x 8 inches, are larger versions of the four illustrations in the book of Clymer's Columbian, the Press..... READ MORE about ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE IRON HAND PRESS IN AMERICA
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 11845
N.P. n.p., (1950). oblong 12mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Song reprinted from the California Star of January 8, 1848. READ MORE about OH! IF THERE WERE NO PRINTERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4539
New York: Diamant Typographic Series, 1947. 16mo. boards. 42, (4) pages. The Fifth item of the "Diamant Classics" series on printing. Limited to 650 copies. Cracked along hinges with tape repair. READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, THEIR ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 116320
N.P. n.p., 1957. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (10) pages. Limited to 500 copies. Hunt's musings as he apporached the age of ninety. Illustrated. Printed for Hunt by Harvey E. Scudder. READ MORE about AT THE APPROACH OF NINETY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 119167
New York, NY: (The Hispanic Society of America), 1955. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, label on front cover. xii, 100, (2) pages. A collection of poetry. Frontispiece illustration of The Torch Bearers by Anna Hyatt Huntington. Dedication and table of contents. Covers lightly soiled. Marks on endpapers. READ MORE about THE TORCH BEARERS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 119198
Mit Zeichnungen und Knittelversen von Fritz Kredel
(Offenbach a.M.): (Chemigraphische Anstalt Gebr. Klingspor), n.d. large 12mo. printed pattern paper-covered boards with paper spine and cover labels. Unpaginated. Mit Zeichnungen und Knittelversen von Fritz Kredel. This ABC features paired figures from different periods (each dated, from 1700 B.C. to 1956), dressed in a variety of clothing, with doggerel text appropriate to the multicolor images and featured letter. An appendix indicates the author's sources for the clothing designs. Published as a gift to friends..... READ MORE about EIN LUSTIGES ABC: DER MODEN, TRACHTEN UND KOSTÜME
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 90817
Evanston, IL: Borderland, 1976. large 8vo. stiff paper folder. (viii), 416 loose leaves. A collection of thousands of borders, ornaments, corners, embellishments, combination borders, frames, and grounds; some classically inspired, most delightfully rococo. Originally published with 400 pages and intended to add more plates from time to time. This copy has the first 400 pages still shrinkwrapped, plus pages 401-416 laid in along with fold-out preface, acknowledgements page, homage page, and copyright page. All loosely..... READ MORE about HERITAGE OF BORDERS, THE TYPE COLLECTION OF WENDELL KRIEG
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 48246
Jameston: John C. Kunzog, 1917. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Discussion of how to print stamped stationery. Includes 5 examples printed in color. READ MORE about STAMPED STATIONERY, A BOOK OF VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS POINTING THE WAY TO BETTER PROFITS FROM THE...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4392
San Franscisco: L'Esperance, Sivertson & Beran, 1948. 12mo. paper-covered boards. 8 leaves. A brief essay. Designed by Richard Lemen. READ MORE about DESIGN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 51785
San Mateo, CA: Wilmac Press, 1966. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 64, (2) pages. Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 1966. A guide to points of interest in California. Subscription information laid in. Wrappers very lightly tanned. READ MORE about OUT WEST
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 119265
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. 8vo. boards. (iv), 30 pages. First edition, limited to 300 copies. (Lee no. 72). Covers age yellowed along edges and spine. READ MORE about REALLY, MY DEAR...A PLAY IN ONE ACT And With Drawings by Johan Bull
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 116299
