New York, NY: New Art Center Gallery, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 76 pages. Catalogue 1958. 1025 prints offered for sale by the Gallery. Supplement offering 95 additional items laid in. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers lightly soiled and bent at edges. READ MORE about GRAPHIC ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 119155
(New York, NY: New York Chappel), n.d. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 75 copies. Contributions from the member presses of the Chappel. Illustrated and printed in multiple colors by the various presses. READ MORE about A NEW YORK CHAPPEL ABC
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 119182
Swarthmore, PA: The Offhand Press, 1959-62. 8vo. loose papers. variously paginated. A collection of publications by the Offhand Press of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Includes correspondence from publisher Charles B. Shaw and Ben Liebermann of the Herity Press of White Plains, New York. Included in this collection are: Alphabetic Arrangements I-XII--I and VIII missing, 2 of VII British Americana Series I, II, and III The Cass-Washburn Papers, I-VI Orthographic Oddments I-VI Ripost Series I-IV Typographic Series I-XXV..... READ MORE about Collection of assorted printed works
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 119330
A Facsimile Issued on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Archives of the Houghton Mifflin Co. to the Houghton Library.
N.P. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 1991. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. A Facsimile Issued on the Occasion of the Presentation of the Archives of the Houghton Mifflin Co. to the Houghton Library. With a foreword by Rodney G. Dennis, and a short history by Michael Winship, with the facsimile. READ MORE about A PLATE INVENTORY OF 1878 VALUING THE ASSETS OF JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. AT THE TIME OF THAT...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 101023
New York, NY: Out of Sorts Press, 1977. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, label on front cover, bottom edge uncut. (vi), 16, (2) pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies. Recollections of a trip to England after service in the A.E.F. during World War I. READ MORE about A TEN-DAY INVASION OF ENGLAND
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 118991
Cambridge, MA: The Pease Press, 1961. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 100 copies, signed by the author on front free endpaper. Biographical sketch of the poet. READ MORE about DEATH OF A WAR DOG AND OTHER POEMS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 119179
New York: The Piper's Press, (1953). small 4to. paper-covered boards, plastic spiral bound, fore-edge uncut. (18) pages. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by authors on colophon. Illustrations throughout text. Two hand-inserted corrections, one in text, on in colophon. Boards lightly soiled. READ MORE about THE MAN WHO STOOD ON HIS HANDS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 119197
New York: Powers Private Press, (1963). 32mo. stiff paper wrappers, marbled dust jacket. (ii), 5, (3) pages. From an article by the author in Punch and Reader's Digest.. Edges of wrappers lightly rubbed. READ MORE about LOOK AND LEARN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 118869
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1961. 13.5" x 9" Single sheet folded twice with printing on the front cover. Designed, hand set and printed at this private press. Reprints Updike's statement on typography. Unfolds to show a broadside printed in three colors. READ MORE about THE PRACTICE OF TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 22918
Brooklyn: Pratt Adlib Press, 1962. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Unpaginated. Printed in an edition limited to 550 numbered copies signed by author and artist; this copy is unnumbered but is signed by each. Auto-lithographs by John Rose. READ MORE about THE IMAGED WORD
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 49065
Manhattan: Pratt Institute, 1962. large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (22) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 500 copies. This book was printed as a special keepsake for the guests invited to the opening of Pratt Graphic Talent in 1962. A short poem with engravings which were printed from the original woodblocks, by James Lanier. Covers age yellowed. READ MORE about THE PTERODACTYL & THE LAMB
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 58406
(New York, NY: Pre-Columbian Press, 1958-75. 4to. various paper works housed in later box. variously paginated. A collection of items published by the press, including greeting cards, invitations, broadsides, and programs. Two addressed to Ben Lieberman. READ MORE about Collection of 17 pieces of Pre-Columbian Press ephemera
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 119368
New York: Privately printed, (1969). small 8vo. marbled paper-covered boards. vi, 29, (3) pages. Limited to 200 copies, a few thus bound for members of the Goudy Chappel. Excerpts from the 1920 diary of a housewife. Designed and printed by Jack Rau, bound in blue, gray and white marbled paper covered boards, with white paper spine and title labels, by Craftsman Bookbindery. Illustrated with photographs and facsimile diary pages. READ MORE about DIARY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 47303
New York, NY: Jack Rau, 1959. 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Type faces offered by the press, its first publication. READ MORE about THE PRE-COLUMBIAN PRESS PRESENTS ITS FIRST PUBLICATION, BEING A LIST OF TYPES IN STOCK
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 119362
(Pontiac, MI): Goudy Chappel, 1973. 16mo. self paper wrappers. (12) pages. A brief history of the press. Illustration on title page. Prospectus laid in. READ MORE about THE PRE-COLUMBIAN PRESS STORY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119360
N.P. The Press of the Good Mountain, n.d. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers, fore-edge uncut. unpaginated. Limited to 75 copies. Written to commemorate Frederic W. Goudy's 70th birthday. Original manuscript provided by May Bidwell of the Goudy Wildlife Society. Pages French-folded. READ MORE about THE CHAPEAU IMMORTEL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 118879
New York, NY: Press of the Woolly Whale. 1932. 32mo. paper-covered boards, label on front cover, glassine dust jacket, fore-edge uncut, original mailing envelope. (20) pages. Reprinted by permission of the New York Herald-Tribune.. An address by a noted journalist at the height of the Gread Depression. Glassine dust jacket torn at edges. READ MORE about POVERTY AND PLENTY: AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE 4,500 DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 119346
N.P. n.p., 1970. 16mo. self paper wrappers. 122 pages. Contract between the New York Typographical Union No. 6 and the Printing Industries of Metropolitian New York, Inc., including shop rules and wage scales, signed October 5, 1970. Wrappers soiled. Some pages in text lightly soiled. READ MORE about CONTRACT FOR BOOK AND JOB WORK BETWEEN PRINTERS LEAGUE SECTION PRINTING INDUSTRIES OF...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 118903
London, England: Anglo-American Council on Productivity, 1952. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 85+(1) pages. Report of a productivity team representing the British Provincial Press which visited the U.S.A. in 1951. Table of contents, list of illustrations, list of team members, introduction, and list of previous and forthcoming reports. Black and white illustrations throughout. Wrappers lightly soiled. Small tear at bottom of spine. READ MORE about PRODUCTIVITY TEAM REPORT: THE PROVINCIAL PRESS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 118910
New York: Press on Washington Street, 1972. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Limited to 500 copies. READ MORE about RIGHT THOUGHTS ON PRINTING IN AN AGE WHEN THE PRINTERS NEED CORRECTING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 116335
(Bristol, PA: The Private Press of Harold Segal, 1961). 12mo. cloth. 68, (2) pages. Limited to 120 numbered copies. The author's memories of World War II in England and Germany. READ MORE about WHICH WAY'S THE WAR
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 118931
Nappanee, IN: James Lamar Weygand, (1944). 16mo. gray leatherette. (iv), 4 pages. Limited to 73 copies according to the bibliography (Bibliography, Private Press of the Indiana Kid, 1). Printed with Tarkington's permission. Assumed to be first separate printing of Tarkington's "$4 Dog Letter." See "Bibliography of Booth Tarkington" (Indianapolis, 1949), 144-5. Publisher's notation. Accompanied by two pamphlets issued by the Nappanee Civic Theater which were apparently designed by Weygand. READ MORE about BOOTH TARKINGTON ON DOGS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 116246
Westchester County, NY: Westchester Chappel, 1961. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 8 pages. Published on the occasion of the births of two children to Chappel members. Contributioins by the Herity Press, Underground Press, The Private Press of Donald M. (and Kay) Brown, the Peppercorn Press, and the Village Green Press. Engraved illustrations. Printed on recto only. READ MORE about BABY IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 121854
N.P. n.p., 1962. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, label on front wrapper. (24) pages. A congratulatory volume in honor of the London Chappel from the Westchester Chappel of New York, USA. READ MORE about CHEERS, PEERS!
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 119293
(Raynham, MA: The Victorian Press), 1962. 4to. portfolio. unpaginated. Keepsakes assembled for the 2nd meeting of the New York area chappels, 1962. Some contributions limited editions. Light soiling on portfolio cover. READ MORE about COLLECTION OF KEEPSAKES FOR THE SECOND OPEN MEETING OF THE CHAPPELS OF THE NEW YORK AREA
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 121858
