Philadelphia, PA: Library Company of Philadelphia, 1984. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 23+(1) pages. Introductory comments by Sarah Whiteley Ferguson. Features first American editions in the Library Company's collections. Portrait of William Shakespeare on title page. Wrappers lightly faded at edges. READ MORE about FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 119104
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
Forest Hills, NY: Herman Jaffe, 1963. 12mo. self paper wrappers. 15+(1) pages. An American Credo Profile booklet, published in conjunction with a series of postage stamps on that theme. Presentation by the publisher to Ben Lieberman on back wrapper. Folded. READ MORE about BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 119157
New York: Privately printed, 1965. small 8vo. self paper wrappers. Unpaginated. A keepsake celebrating the dedication of the Robert Frost Library at Amherst College. Includes a facsimile of the poem "Departmental" in the poet's hand. READ MORE about ROBERT FROST SPEAKS DEPARTMENTALLY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 48475
N.P. The Composing Room, n.d. square 12mo. self paper wrappers. 17, (3) pages. A prose meditation on letters, typography, and printing. Text in English. READ MORE about CÉLÉBRATION DE LA LETTRE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 51018
(Madison, NJ): The Golden Hind Press, 1955. 12mo. self paper wrappers printed French-fold. (4) pages. Presentation by publisher Edna Rushmore on back wrapper. Christmas greeting with Psalm 23 from the Bay Psalm Book and the Scottish Psalter. Lightly soiled. READ MORE about CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 1955
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 118957
Madison: The Golden Hind Press, 1953. tall 8vo. marbled paper wrappers. (x), 12, (2) pages. Limited to 150 copies. With a frontispiece portrait of Lincoln and a tipped-in photograph of Dr. A.V.T. Gilbert. READ MORE about WHISTLE STOP, OCTOBER 11, 1858 POLITICAL NEWS REPORTING OF A CENTURY AGO
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 18187
Madison: Golden Hind Press, 1939. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper covered boards, paper spine label. (viii), 23+(1) pages. Limited to 245 numbered copies. Signed by Arthur Rushmore on the colophon page. Reprint of the first edition of the Faerie Queen from 1590. Tipped in black-and-white frontispiece. Rubbing to the boards. Christmas bookmark from Rushmore laid in. READ MORE about OF THE BROOD OF ANGLES
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 106095
Preface by Frank Stanton.
New York: George Braziller, 1962. oblong 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 156 pages. Preface by Frank Stanton. First edition. Introduction by Will Burtin. Illustrated with numerous examples of books advertisement and brochures illustrated and designed by Golden. Jacket chipped and rubbed along edges. READ MORE about THE VISUAL CRAFT OF WILLIAM GOLDEN
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 22468
(New York: Press of the Whooly Whale, 1938). 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Facsimile printed in black and red of a type specimen circular, the first piece of printing issued by The Village Press. Prepared for participants in the Pilgrimage to Deepdene, July 23, 1938, in celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the press. "This is the first showing of a new type designed by Mr. Goudy for the exclusive use of the Village..... READ MORE about VILLAGE PRESS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 63881
(Mount Vernon, NY: The Press of A. Colish, n.d.). 4to. bi-fold sheet, original mailing envelope. Limited to 925 copies. Printed in Frederic Goudy's 18-point Newstyle, which was first cut in 1945 for use by A. Colish in printing the Bruce Rogers World Bible. Text in black, introductory material, front ornament and initial in brick red. READ MORE about DESIDERATA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 48589
N.P., but New York, NY: (The Village Press, 1938). folio. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. First appeared in the July 1932 edition of The Composing Room. Commemorates the 31st anniversary of The Village Press. READ MORE about ALAC! POOR FREDERIC
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 118981
N.P. n.p., 1947. 12mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. An illustrated saying taken from the Chinese of Wun Ti Po. READ MORE about FOR THE BIRTHDAY OF FREDERIC WILLIAM GOUDY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 18582
New York: n.p., 1966. 4to. stiff paper folder with 15 articles and broadsides about Goudy produced especially for this dinner by various pressmen loosely inserted. Includes contributions by Earl Emmons, Roland Baughman, Earnest Calkins, Frances Perkins and others. Some of the tributes have been hand-set. A fine collection of material about one of America's finest type designers. Covers faded. READ MORE about KEEPSAKE TRIBUTE TO FREDERIC W. GOUDY TO COMMEMORATE THE GOUDY CENTENN IAL DINNER, MARCH 8, 1966
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 22058
New York: New York School of Printing, 1949. 4to. paper wrappers, cord-tied. (8) pages. Printed at The School of Printing. With a tipped-in photograph of the plaque. READ MORE about ON THE OCCASION OF THE UNVEILING OF A PLAQUE IN MEMORY OF FREDERIC W. GOUDY
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 18571
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Graphic Arts Forum, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (4) pages printed French fold. Limited to 75 copies. Produced on the occasion of a visit by the group to Goudy's shop. Some offset from flaps of cover on title page. READ MORE about PHILADELPHIA TO DEEPDENE, OR A TRIP ACROSS THE TYPOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 4203
N.P. (Designed and composed by Florence Horn Lush, 1939). small 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Agenda for a meeting held in Goudy's honor. Printed by Robert Goldstein of the Kingsland Press. Crease in covers from folding. READ MORE about TESTIMONIAL MEETING TO GOUDY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 18584
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
(Lexington, KY: Gravesend Press, 1957). 32mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. An advertising technique for retailers of clothing and related items designed by this private press. Illustrated. French-folded. READ MORE about A SYMBOL OF EXCELLENCE FOR YOUR APPEARANCE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 119026
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
Oakland, CA: Hartmus Handpress, 1957. 16mo. cloth, label on spine. (14), 75+(1) pages. Limited to 517 numbered copies, signed by author on front free endpaper. Frontispiece, preface, table of contents. Poetry based on the author's adolescence between the two world wars. Spine sunned, small stain at top of front cover. Endpapers tanned. READ MORE about THE BERKELEY LOVE AND WAR SONGS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 119195
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
(Menlo Park: The Herity Press, 1957). small 8vo. paper wrappers. (8) pages. Limited to 500 copies. An attempt to raise interest in the establishment of printer's chappels. READ MORE about THE MODERN CHAPPEL MOVEMENT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 19740
N.P. (Herity Press, 1978). 12mo. self paper wrappers. 8 pages. Revised from the 1974 first edition, limited to 200 copies. Produced for Charles Antin's Private Press Keepsake. READ MORE about THE PURPOSES OF THE HERITY PRESS OF ELIZABETH AND BEN LIEBERMAN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 116280
