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Potter, Marie Warren.

THE WINGED SOUL: A FESTIVAL FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE.

N.P. (Wellesley College, 1925). 12mo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, glassine dust jacket. 64 pages. Decorations by Dugald Stewart Potter. Tipped-in color frrontispiece. A dramatic work to commemorate the college's 50th anniversary. Dust jacket slightly torn near edges. READ MORE about THE WINGED SOUL: A FESTIVAL FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 120497

Preston, Lyman.

PRESTON'S COMPLETE TABLE OF INTEREST SHOWING THE NUMBER OF DAYS FROM ANY DATE IN ANY GIVEN MONTH TO ANY DATE IN ANY OTHER MONTH; EMBRACING UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED AND THRITY THOUSAND COMBINATIONS OF DATES.

New York, NY: R. & G.S. Wood, 1834. 4to. original quarter calf with paper-covered boards. iii, 24, 206 pages. Interest tables for bankers and accountants. Explanatory note. List of recommendations pasted to front pastedown. Boards soiled, scuffed and rubbed. Hinges cracked. Previous owners' names on front free endpaper and title page. Foxing throughout does not obscure text. READ MORE about PRESTON'S COMPLETE TABLE OF INTEREST SHOWING THE NUMBER OF DAYS FROM ANY DATE IN ANY GIVEN MONTH...

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 119126

Reynolds, Graham.

GASTRONOMIC PLEASURES: A LITERARY RETROSPECT OF A FEW NOTABLE FEASTS.

N.P. (Shenval Press), 1948. 32mo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 45+(1) pages. Frontispiece. Identified as a "Shenval keepsake." Acknowledgments and postscript. Dinner invitation to honor publisher James Shand laid in. Dust jacket tanned at edges. READ MORE about GASTRONOMIC PLEASURES: A LITERARY RETROSPECT OF A FEW NOTABLE FEASTS

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119261

Schmid, Carlo.

ANSPRACHE, GEHALTEN AM 3 FEBRUAR 1968 ZUR FEIERLICHEN ERÖFFNUNG DER AUSSTELLUNG "WAS WISSEN WIR VON GUTENBERG" IM GUTENBERG-MUSEUM ZU MAINZ.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Verlag Ars Librorum, 1968. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 9, (3) pages. Text in German. Address by Schmid on the opening of an exhibition on Gutenberg at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. READ MORE about ANSPRACHE, GEHALTEN AM 3 FEBRUAR 1968 ZUR FEIERLICHEN ERÖFFNUNG DER AUSSTELLUNG "WAS WISSEN...

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 119138

Volk, Kurt H.

A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH A TYPOGRAPHIC JUNGLE.

(New York): Kurt H. Volk, Typographer, n.d. tall 12mo. printed brochure with 16 broadsides loosely inserted along with a four page folder listing type faces available from Volk. A folder containing displays of his typographic skills printed in different colors. Inserted is a four page list of type faces and sizes available. Small tear at spine ends of brochure. READ MORE about A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH A TYPOGRAPHIC JUNGLE

Price: $65.00 Order nr. 91398

(Adagio Press). Ruskin, John.

THE TEXT OF JOHN RUSKIN'S LETTER TO 'MY DEAR TINIE ' WRITTEN FROM THE BRIDGE OF ALLAN ON 31 AUGUST 1857. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY NORMAN H. STROUSE AND FIVE PEN-AND-INK ILLUSTRATIONS BY ADELE BICHAN. CONTEMPTIBLE HORSE.

Harper Woods, MI: Adagio: the Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr, 1962. 8vo. quarter cloth with marbled paper-covered boards. xix, 23-43, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 365 copies. (Tanner and Alstrom 7.) Second production of this private press. The text of John Ruskin's letter to "My Dear Tinie." Sharp satire on British industrialization. READ MORE about THE TEXT OF JOHN RUSKIN'S LETTER TO 'MY DEAR TINIE ' WRITTEN FROM THE BRIDGE OF ALLAN ON 31...

Price: $50.00 Order nr. 63479

(American Newspapers Publishers Association).

TO STRENGTHEN A FREE PRESS IN AMERICA.

(New York, NY: American Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation), n.d, (but circa 1970). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 20, (2) pages. Booklet to promote increased confidence and trust in the American press and freedom of the press, especially among youth. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about TO STRENGTHEN A FREE PRESS IN AMERICA

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 119083

(At the Sign of the Gargoyle). Templeton, Richard H.

THE QUICK BROWN FOX, A CHAP BOOK With an Introduction by R. Hunter Middleton. Cover Engraved on Wood by Philip Reed.

Chicago: At the Sign of the Gargoyle, 1945. tall 12mo. cloth-backed boards. (46) pages printed French fold. Limited to 450 copies. Being the second Chap Book issued by this press. Robert Middleton engraved the decorations. Cloth spine rubbed at spine extremities. With the small private ownership stamp of Elizabeth and Ben Lieberman in corner of front pastedown. READ MORE about THE QUICK BROWN FOX, A CHAP BOOK With an Introduction by R. Hunter Middleton. Cover Engraved on...

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 13036

(Attic Press).

ARS TYPOGRAPHICA.

(Omaha, NE): The Attic Press, 1963-5. 32mo. self paper wrappers. (4), (4), (4) pages. Three issues of the press's brief newsletter. READ MORE about ARS TYPOGRAPHICA

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 119002

(Bean Creek Press).

MINUTES OF MOXON ON THE HILLTOP.

N.P. Bean Creek Press, (1981). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Folder broadside. Foldout broadside tipped in wrappers. READ MORE about MINUTES OF MOXON ON THE HILLTOP

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 119090

(Bennett, Paul A.).

PAUL A. BENNETT MEMORIAL LECTURES.

N.P. House of Graphic Arts, 1967. oblong 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Prefatory note by Robert A. Leslie. Biographical sketches with photograph of the lecturers in a series held in the fall of 1967. READ MORE about PAUL A. BENNETT MEMORIAL LECTURES

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 118894

(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. READ MORE about LOG: FIVE DAYS ABOARD THE SCHOONER "STEPHEN TABER."

Price: $12.50 Order nr. 63708

(Blackwood Press).

A COLLECTION OF PITHY, ERUDITE, AND INSPIRATIONAL MAXIMS AND APHORISMS AND OTHER SIMILAR STUFF SUITABLE FOR LEISURELY OR RAPID EXAMINATION AS SUITS THE FANCY OF THE READER.

N.P. The Blackwood Press, (1958). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 50 copies. Introductory note by printer Edmund E. Simpson. Wrappers show some curling along spine, and lightly soiled. READ MORE about A COLLECTION OF PITHY, ERUDITE, AND INSPIRATIONAL MAXIMS AND APHORISMS AND OTHER SIMILAR STUFF...

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 120994

Boesebeck, Ernst.

DER WEIN IN DER BIBEL.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Collegium Vini, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 21, (3) pages. Text in German. Black and white illustrations. Biblical references to wine. READ MORE about DER WEIN IN DER BIBEL

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 119097

(Book Design).

THE TRIAL OF 6 DESIGNERS, DESIGNS FOR KAFKA'S THE TRIAL BY GEORGE SALTER P.J. CONKWRIGHT, MERLE ARMITAGE, CARL ZAHN, JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL, AND MARSHALL LEE.

Lock Haven: Hammermill Paper Co., 1968. 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 216 pages. Limited to 2500 numbered copies. Illustrated. Edited by Lee and with an essay by Kenneth Rexroth. READ MORE about THE TRIAL OF 6 DESIGNERS, DESIGNS FOR KAFKA'S THE TRIAL BY GEORGE SALTER P.J. CONKWRIGHT, MERLE...

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 13829

(Cave, Roderick).

FROM A QUIET EVENING AT THE HERITY PRESS.

N.P. The Herity Press, 1962. 4to. portfolio with various sized broadsides loosely inserted. unpaginated. Keepsake announcing a joint meeting of the six chappels of the New York area, the first American meeting of the Private Libraries Association, and the annual meeting of the William Morris Society. An array of thirty broadsides, pamphlets, and keepsakes printed by members of the chappels. Observed the anniversary of the publication of the Kelmscott Chaucer. Engraved illustration. READ MORE about FROM A QUIET EVENING AT THE HERITY PRESS

Price: $95.00 Order nr. 121775

(Chambers, Bert C.).

A EXHIBITION OF ADVERSITING MATERIAL CREATED BY BERT C. CHAMBERS FOR THE STRATHMORE PAPER COMPANY, WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

West Springfield, MA: Strathmore Paper Company, n.d. (circa 1957). oblong 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Biographical sketch followed by illustrations of his design work with facing text page. READ MORE about A EXHIBITION OF ADVERSITING MATERIAL CREATED BY BERT C. CHAMBERS FOR THE STRATHMORE PAPER...

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 118969

(Children's Books).

MY OWN SELF! AN EXHIBITION OF SELF PORTRAITS BY CHILDREN IN NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

(New York, NY): The Center for Design and Typography of The Cooper Union School of Art, 1980. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Introductory comments by Mary Ann Tighe, Deputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts. Includes illustrations and some comments by the children. Closing remarks by George Sadek of the Center for Design and Typography. READ MORE about MY OWN SELF! AN EXHIBITION OF SELF PORTRAITS BY CHILDREN IN NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 119164

(Christmas Books).

THERE NO STRANGERS AT CHRISTMAS, SOME THOUGHTS ON ENJOYING THE WORLD'S WIDENESS.

(New York): Frohlich/Intercon International, Christmas 1971. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. With full color illustrations by David Kingham. Printed French-fold. READ MORE about THERE NO STRANGERS AT CHRISTMAS, SOME THOUGHTS ON ENJOYING THE WORLD'S WIDENESS

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 118936

(Christmas Books). Van Sinderen Jr, Adrian.

MOSI OA TUNYA.

N.P. Privately printed, 1940. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. A Christmas keepsake printed for the author by William E. Rudge's Sons. Illustration. READ MORE about MOSI OA TUNYA

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119243

(Christmas Books). Van Sinderen, Adrian.

MOSI OA TUNYA.

N.P. Privately printed for the friends of the author (by William E. Rudge's Sons)`, 1940. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 7, (3) pages. Beautifully printed Christmas greeting issued by this book-collector. Printed by Rudge in black and green with one color illustration of the falls. The author's reminiscening about his trip to the Victoria Falls in Africa. READ MORE about MOSI OA TUNYA

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 118030

(Christmas Books). Dickman, O.A.

A BOOK OF WERSE, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HAUNTED CASTLE, THE BOOK OF THE TWELEVE LETTERS, GRAPHICA A LA MODE, ILLUSTRATED COLOR FORMULAS, AND MANY OTHER WORKS.

(Pittsburgh, PA): privately printed, (1922). 16mo. woven silk covered boards. (12) pages. Inscribed by the author / printer at the end of the text. Printed in black with red and green decorated borders. Silk covers detached from boards. READ MORE about A BOOK OF WERSE, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HAUNTED CASTLE, THE BOOK OF THE TWELEVE LETTERS, GRAPHICA A...

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 118888

(Composing Room). Pearse, Ruth and Hans Moller.

THE COMPOSING ROOM PRIMER.

New York: The Composing Room, (1945). 8vo. paper wrappers. (16) pages. Advertising brochure describing good printing done in the format of a primer for children. READ MORE about THE COMPOSING ROOM PRIMER

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 25795

(Curtis Paper Company).

Complete set of 17 booklets.

Newark, DE: Friends of the Curtis Paper Company, 1954-1970. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. A complete set of 17 booklets published annually by the Friends of the Curtis Paper Company commemorating historical persons, places, and events. Printed by the Spiral Press. Subjects include Washington's Farewell Address, the Fundamental Creed of Abraham Lincoln, the Declaration of Independence, the Jamestown colony, the Fundamental Creed of Robert E. Lee, a tribute to parents, the statehood of Alaska..... READ MORE about Complete set of 17 booklets

Price: $275.00 Order nr. 118520

(Cycling Frog Press).

SAM: HOW CAN I LEARN TO SPELL MY NAME.

N.P. The Cycling Frog Press, n.d. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. (10) pages. An alphabet book dedicated to "Stephen." Rubbed on lower front wrapper. READ MORE about SAM: HOW CAN I LEARN TO SPELL MY NAME

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 118901

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