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
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
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
N.P. n.p., 1963. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, label on front wrapper, top edge cut, other edges uncut. unpaginated. Collected by members of the Westchester Chappel to celebrate the birth of Roy Bradford Callender, November 1, 1963. Contributions by a number of member presses. READ MORE about ROY'S BOOK OF LULLABIES
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 119291
New York: The Goudy Chapel, 1976. 12mo. cloth, paper cover label. Not paginated. No limitation given, but about 200 copies. Short history of the Goudy Chapel followed by eight separately printed contributions by members of the Chapel. Includes The Artichoke Press, The Private Press of the Haywoods, Herity Press, Press of the Iron Horse, Powers Private Press, the Pre-Columbian Press, Ron Press and Under the Cellar Steps Press. READ MORE about GREAT PRESSES OF THE GOUDY CHAPEL, BEING AN INADVERTENT BICENTENNIAL OBSERVANCE
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 33570
New York: The Goudy Chapel, 1976. 12mo. cloth, paper cover label. Not paginated. No limitation given, but about 200 copies.This copy has been signe by 13 of the participants. Short history of the Goudy Chapel followed by eight separately printed contributions by members of the Chapel. Includes The Artichoke Press, The Private Press of the Haywoods, Herity Press, Press of the Iron Horse, Powers Private Press, the Pre-Columbian Press, Ron Press and Under the Cellar..... READ MORE about GREAT PRESSES OF THE GOUDY CHAPEL, BEING AN INADVERTENT BICENTENNIAL OBSERVANCE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 116274
9 volumes complete.
White Plains, NY: Herity Press, 1960-1982. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 9 volumes complete. A complete run of these guides to private presses. Includes the following years in the series: 1. 1960 20 pages; 2. 1961 20 pages; 3. 1962 24 pages; 4. 1963 24 pages; 5. 1964 24 pages; 6. 1966 pages; 7. 1967 24 pages; 8. 1976 24 pages; 9. 1982 32 pages. The 9th volume was the last one done. A register..... READ MORE about THE CHECK-LOG OF PRIVATE PRESS NAMES
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 116528
Mainz: Gutenberg- Museum, 1954. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Exhibition of private press books and illustrators from England and America. Even has a section on the Roycroft Press. READ MORE about MORRIS - DRUCKE UND ANDERE MEISTERWERKE ENGLISCHER UND AMERIKANISCHER PRIVATPRESSEN
Price: $19.00 Order nr. 17964
Front Royal, VA: The Privateer Press, 1958-1969. 8vo. Miscellaneous papers enclosed in cardboard box. variously paginated. A collection of newsletters and other material by the Privateer Press. Mostly copies of the Press's newsletter, the Pasttime Printer, 1957-61. Also includes three copies of Skyline Bend Scuttlebutt. and two envelopes addressed to J. Ben Lieberman. READ MORE about Printed material of the Privateer Press
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 118998
(New York: Red Ozier Press, 1983). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 150 copies (Peich, 50). Robert Phillips and William Goyen collaborated on a number of projects, including the compilation of The Collected Stories of William Goyen. Wood engraving on cover by John DePol. Cover and initial letter printed in blue. READ MORE about SPEECH DELIVERED AT A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR WILLIAM GOYEN
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 79373
Westport: The Redcoat Press, 1965. 12mo. cord-tied wrappers. (ii), 10+(1) pages. A Christmas greeting printed by the Redcoat Press. Wrappers faded. Head and tail of spine bumped. Crease to the wrappers and text. Small ink star on last page. READ MORE about LOOK AT THE WORLD!
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 105180
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
Rochester, NY: (Rochester Typographic Service), n.d. 32mo. paper-covered boards, front cover gilt-stamped. unpaginated. The account of the nativity of Christ as recorded in St. Luke's gospel. Frontispiece. Decorated initial. READ MORE about CHAPTER II OF THE BIBLE: THE BIRTH OF CHRIST AS RECORDED BY ST. LUKE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 118912
New York: Bruce Rogers & The Press of A. Colish, 1954. 8vo. paper wrappers. (8) pages. Prospectus for this folio edition of Dante with Bruce Roger's illustrations from Botticelli's original drawings. The folio was to be limited to 300 copies. The translation was done by Charles Eliot Norton. READ MORE about THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 20008
N.P. Privately printed for Duschnes at the Stinehour Press, 1965. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 25 pages. Limited to 750 copies. Printed in two colors and containing a tipped-in facsimile invitation. READ MORE about BRUCE ROGERS, A GENTLE MAN FROM INDIANA
Price: $17.00 Order nr. 17269
